Mailman 3 April 2006 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing a user repeatedly.
by Mark Sapiro April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

P.I.Julius wrote: >On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:28 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> This may say that Mailman is actually trying to send just to >> cva34.internetdsl.tpnet.pl or p43n152.172.63.ruraltel.net. This may be >> some loop involved in rejecting messages or some kind of 'denial of >> service' attack on your server. You never mentioned messages incomming >> to Mailman. Are there any? > >Yes they are, more than a lot. > >> >> If you look at the list's Privacy options generic_nonmember_action and >> header_filter_rules actions if any, are these set to Reject? If so, >> try changing them to Hold or Discard and see what happens (Hold will >> give more information if this is the problem). >> > >generic_nonmember_action is set to Discard, but I cant find any >header_filter_rules. If you mean you can't find where header_filter_rules is, it's under Privacy options->Spam filters. If you mean there aren't any rules specified, then that's not part of the problem. >Anyway: i just got an email from one of my friend and he said the only >way to stop this is to stop mailman and after that delete the specified >messages from the qfiles directory. Could this be a bug? Maybe. I can't say what the problem is without knowing more about the incoming messages. I suggest 'bin/mailmanctl stop', then 'ls -lR qfiles/' to see what is in what queues. Normally, I would suggest bin/show_qfiles to look at the individual files, but pre-2.1.8a1 show_qfiles has a bug. There is a patch at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1444447&group_id=1…>, or you can use bin/dumpdb. If you find unwanted messages in qfiles/in, qfiles/out, qfiles/command and/or qfiles/virgin (I think those are the only places they would be), move the .pck files out of those directories, but save them for analysis. We would want to see what the various messages look like. Then do 'bin/mailmanctl start' to start Mailman. Note that even when Mailman is stopped, new posts and requests will be added to the in/ and command/ queues as messages arrive, so you can't just blindly empty the queues as some of the entries will be wanted. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Please Advise...
by Mark Schlaudraff April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

Hello, First MailMan is a great system and I have just now after a very long time using the system ran until an issue. Setup a new list and when we sent out a message on it, it was repeated to the members upwards of 15 times. Please advise what you think could have made this happen as for I have never had this happen before. Mark Schlaudraff

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UnicodeError in admindb interface
by ts North April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

I run several mailing lists under Mailman 2.1.6. Recently one of my mailing lists received 2 spam messages, I was able to delete one of them using the moderator admindb interface, but when I tried to delete the second message, I got the "hit a bug" page (traceback is listed below). At that point I: ran check_db and check_perms, restarted the daemon, cleared out the locks. No luck. I found the heldmsg in data/ and deleted the message manually, which seems to have made matters worse. Now when I access the admindb web page for the mailing list, it throws the error right away before displaying the admindb page (same traceback as before). I suspect I may have not deleted everything I need to delete. I have considered upgrading to 2.1.7, but thought I should resolve this issue first. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks, -Tom admin(24303): [----- Traceback ------] admin(24303): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6//scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(24303): main() admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 2 34, in main admin(24303): num += show_helds_overview(mlist, form) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 4 85, in show_helds_overview admin(24303): mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 167 , in HandleRequest admin(24303): forward, addr) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 353 , in __handlepost admin(24303): syslog('vette', note) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", lin e 40, in write admin(24303): self.write_ex(kind, msg, args, kws) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", lin e 58, in write_ex admin(24303): logf.write(msg + '\n') admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.p y", line 73, in write admin(24303): Logger.write(self, "%s %s" % (prefix, msg)) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", lin e 91, in write admin(24303): f.write(msg) admin(24303): UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) admin(24303): [----- Python Information -----] admin(24303): sys.version = 2.2.3 (#1, Mar 9 2006, 18:16:14) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)] admin(24303): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(24303): sys.prefix = /usr admin(24303): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(24303): sys.path = /usr admin(24303): sys.platform = linux2 admin(24303): [----- Environment Variables -----] --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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Turn off wraping a line
by DongInn Kim April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

Hi, Is there a simple configuration to turn off the functionality of wrapping a line in a mail? I have mailman-2.1.6 installed on RHEL 4. I apprecate your help in advance. Regards, -- DongInn

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Re: [Mailman-Users] [Solved] Importing Archives Not Working
by Kaja P. Christiansen April 2, 2006

April 2, 2006

Karl Zander wrote: > The python code from Mark below worked nicley to convert > the date formats. My imported archives are visiable in > Mailman. I've followed this thread, as Mailman site administrator at two different sites (and continents :) and will try to see whether it may help me to integrate Mailman and HtDig for the last two releases of Mailman (that is, 2.1.7 & 2.1.81b). This said, I'd like to express many thanks and much appreciation to Richard Barret in UK for providing the Mailman/HtDig integration patches up to and including Mailman v. 2.1.6. The patches worked 'out of the box' and the quality of the searchable archives they produced was superior to what we see on this list (imho). Does anyone on this list has a working email address for Richard Barrett? Regards Kaja

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing Eudora email box into archives
by Mark Sapiro April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

BG Mahesh wrote: > >Cool, I will try it out. How to preserve the attachments? This is a problem. I looked more closely at a Eudora .mbx file and I see that the MIME structure of the messages is not preserved. The messages are 'flattened' - the outer Content-Type: header is preserved, but all boundaries and part headers are removed and non-text attachments are stored aside with a pointer left in the message. Thus, the messages in the Eudora .mbx file are vaguely similar to messages that have been scrubbed by Mailman's Scrubber.py module, except the Content-Type: of the Eudora message is no longer correct which will probably confuse the Mailman bin/arch process. Thus, converting the Eudora .mbx will probably require a fairly involved script. I'm not aware of an existing one. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Importing Eudora email box into archives
by BG Mahesh April 1, 2006

April 1, 2006

hi I have the archives of a mailing list in my Eudora mailbox [with attachments]. Is there anyway I could import it into Mailman archives? -- -- B.G. Mahesh

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