Mailman 3 March 2006 - Mailman-Users

Misdirected probe messages?
by James Davis March 8, 2006

March 8, 2006

First time I've run into trouble with mailman after running several lists using it. I added a new list to my install yesterday which is an order of magnitude larger than any I've run before with 3,600 users. I set the list up as I would normally, adding the following aliases to my exim virtual hosts setup. ## wil-mailing mailing list wil-mailing: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post wil-mailing" wil-mailing-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin wil-mailing" wil-mailing-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces wil-mailing" wil-mailing-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm wil-mailing" wil-mailing-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join wil-mailing" wil-mailing-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave wil-mailing" wil-mailing-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner wil-mailing" wil-mailing-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request wil-mailing" wil-mailing-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe wil-mailing" wil-mailing-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe wil-mailing" About 300 addresses bounced on the first mailing and mailman sent probes to those addresses. The probes seem to be bouncing back to addresses that don't exist and ending up in my 'Catch all' mailbox. An example of one of the mails that ends up in my mailbox follows. Any idea what I've done wrong? I presume that bounce should end up going to mailman instead of me. Many thanks, James >From - Wed Mar 08 09:43:27 2006 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-path: <> Envelope-to: james@localhost Delivery-date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:37:27 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by freecharity.org.uk with spam-scanned (Exim 4.50) id 1FGtA9-0003cQ-TQ for james@localhost; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:37:23 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by freecharity.org.uk with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FGtA7-0003cE-PX for wil-mailing-bounces+a37afb682adc1df029af9c3b91bdb51bf105cae6(a)freecharity.org.uk; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:32:48 +0000 X-Failed-Recipients: kj(a)teapot.org.uk Auto-Submitted: auto-generated From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon(a)freecharity.org.uk> To: wil-mailing-bounces+a37afb682adc1df029af9c3b91bdb51bf105cae6(a)freecharity.org.uk Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: <E1FGtA7-0003cE-PX(a)freecharity.org.uk> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:32:47 +0000 Status: O X-UID: 2908 Content-Length: 36394 X-Keywords: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: kj(a)teapot.org.uk Unrouteable address ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <wil-mailing-bounces+a37afb682adc1df029af9c3b91bdb51bf105cae6(a)freecharity.org.uk> Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=freecharity.org.uk) by freecharity.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1FGtA5-0003c0-UM for kj(a)teapot.org.uk; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:32:46 +0000 Subject: WIL-mailing mailing list probe message From: wil-mailing-bounces+a37afb682adc1df029af9c3b91bdb51bf105cae6(a)freecharity.org.uk To: kj(a)teapot.org.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1232351077==" Message-ID: <mailman.683.1141778786.539.wil-mailing(a)freecharity.org.uk> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:46:26 +0000 Precedence: bulk X-BeenThere: wil-mailing(a)freecharity.org.uk X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 List-Id: WIL website alerts <wil-mailing.freecharity.org.uk> X-List-Administrivia: yes Sender: wil-mailing-bounces+a37afb682adc1df029af9c3b91bdb51bf105cae6(a)freecharity.org.uk Errors-To: wil-mailing-bounces+a37afb682adc1df029af9c3b91bdb51bf105cae6(a)freecharity.org.uk --===============1232351077== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a probe message. You can ignore this message. The WIL-mailing mailing list has received a number of bounces from you, indicating that there may be a problem delivering messages to kj(a)teapot.org.uk. A bounce sample is attached below. Please examine this message to make sure there are no problems with your email address. You may want to check with your mail administrator for more help. If you are reading this, you don't need to do anything to remain an enabled member of the mailing list. If this message had bounced, you would not be reading it, and your membership would have been disabled. Normally when you are disabled, you receive occasional messages asking you to re-enable your subscription. You can also visit your membership page at http://freecharity.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/options/wil-mailing/kj%40teapot.o… On your membership page, you can change various delivery options such as your email address and whether you get digests or not. As a reminder, your membership password is xxxxxxxx If you have any questions or problems, you can contact the list owner at wil-mailing-owner(a)freecharity.org.uk --===============1232351077== Content-Type: message/rfc822 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from Debian-exim by freecharity.org.uk with local (Exim 4.50) id 1FGlT2-0000yV-Rv for wil-mailing-bounces(a)freecharity.org.uk; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:19:49 +0000 X-Failed-Recipients: <long list of addresses here> -- http://www.freecharity.org.uk/ - Free hosting for charities http://jamesd.ukgeeks.co.uk/

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news-gate
by Patrick Siglin March 8, 2006

March 8, 2006

Where do you tell mailman to poll for news? I had to rebuild everything do to me causing the drive to reformat. 8-( Almost got my whole system back up.

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email test
by Patrick Siglin March 8, 2006

March 8, 2006

Test.sorry. Had some bouncing going on.

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Adding a customised Footer & Header to mailman.
by Steven Jones March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

Hi All, I have a request from management to find out if I can add a footer and possibly a header to all outgoing list messages. (Might be easiest to do this via sendmail, but anyway). I can see mailman adds some text onto each email, can this be set to do something more comprehensive? Like fancy company logos and such got from another location (database, mount point or something)? Before you all flame me with retorts about html, bloat etc don't bother, I don't want it myself but the business wants it, so it happens or I have to replace Mailman with Exchange, and I really, really don't want that..... Regards Steven

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Trouble integrating Mailman 2.1.5 with ht://DiG - runaway "htnotify"
by Greg Earle March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

Hi folks, I've just recently upgraded my Mailman 2.1.5 setup to include the ht://DiG integration patches et al., and after getting it going and sending the test e-mail through all of my lists to get the .conf files set up etc., I tried a test run of "nightly_htdig" to get things rolling. This resulted in "rundig" running, and while "htdig" and "htmerge" seem to run OK, it's hanging on the "htnotify" stage. "htnotify" opens the first of the "db.docdb" files (which isn't very large, since all the lists were just recently set up) for the first of the lists, and it then proceeds to start doing mmap2()'s (this is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 in case it matters, btw) of ever-increasing sizes (by powers of 2) until it requests a 1 GB (why?!?) mapping, then it just sits there in "Run" state for good, apparently doing nothing (there's no more strace output after the 1 GB mmap2() - at least, not until I eventually kill it off in frustration). Any ideas? Thanks, - Greg

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newb q about look and feel: redefine loginpage(mlist, doc, user, lang) doable?
by Kucera, Rich March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

Hello, In options.py, I'd like to be able to redefine loginpage(mlist, doc, user, lang) and load it non-intrusively as a patch later. How do I do this? I would like it to behave like options_page(mlist, doc, user, cpuser, userlang, message='') This is so I can customize the look and feel. It doesn't have to behave with an external template, just would like to be able to change it and load it so it redefines the existing function. The problem is right now it looks inconsistent, with the look and feel I've been able to put in looking OK, but then the login screen and some of the response screens show the plain mailman look and feel. There is another poster to this list who just asked about SSI's well I'm doing that by pulling the SSI templates remotely for SSI into the local templates/en directory. I can help there, but I just joined so I can't respond to that thread directly. Thanks for any help. -Rich

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Need help on new mailing list
by Kim Moodley March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

How do I start creating a mailing list? I have a mailing list and is it possible to duplicate the mailing list and put somebody else as the administrator of the duplicated mailing list. Kind Regards Kim Moodley PCB Technologies (Pty) Ltd Phone: +27 (11) 880-9999 Fax: +27 (11) 880-2555 E-Mail: kim(a)pcb.co.za Web : http://www.pcb.co.za

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Removing original mail as attachment
by erhans March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

Hi all, When I send an e-mail (like who,lists etc.) command to Mailman 2.1.2 to mylist-request(a)foo.bar.com , it attaches my original mail in addition to the response to my command. Is there a way to say Mailman not to attach my original mail. Thanks in advance... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Removing-original-mail-as-attachment-t1240302.html#a3… Sent from the Mailman - Users forum at Nabble.com.

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Building an announce list
by Matthew Clarkson March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

We are currently transitioning from majordomo to mailman. Anyways, we create announce lists in majordomo by a custom script which will take all the lists and concatenate them into one file, order them by alphabetical order, and then run unique to remove duplicates. I was wondering if there is anyway that mailman can do something similar by a built in function (I can't find one). If not, is there any way that I can by command line, extract all the address' associated with a list and then run our same script on it, and then inject the address' into another list (the announce list in this case)? Thanks in advance -- Matthew Clarkson

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using .shtml on mailman generated pages
by Jason Pruim March 7, 2006

March 7, 2006

I sent this question awhile ago, and never heard anything but I had issues with my computer as well... So if you responded please forward that to me as I have no received it. If you didn't and there is anyway to do this I would be very excited to learn how! One thing that I am wondering is if there is away to set mailman to use .shtml files so I can incorporate my ssi files for navigation in it and still maintain the one ssi file? I've looked and haven't found away to do it yet. Hoping someone out there might be able to help me! Thanks in Advance for any help or info you can provide! Jason Pruim japruim(a)raoset.com Production & Technology Manager MQC Specialist (2005 certified) 3251 132nd Ave Holland MI 49424 616.399.2355 www.raoset.com

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