Mailman 3 May 2006 - Mailman-Users

Archive search
by Jim Popovitch 28 May '06

28 May '06

I keep revisiting this issue. ;-) What works great these days wrt archive searching and Mailman 2.1.x? Is there anything as simple as a tested patch? What about private archives, and can the search interface be integrated into Mailman's pages? Tia, -Jim P.

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Some beginner questions
by Defryn, Guy 28 May '06

28 May '06

Hi guys, I have mailman running in a basic configuration now and all seems to work. I'd like to change the way the email address appears. We have a naming standard for our computers as follows e.g. IT012345.mydomain.com I have created an alias in the DNS called lists.mydomain.com I post my message to mailman(a)lists.mydomain.com and it arrives fine. The sender appears to be mailman-bounces(a)it012345.mydomain.com and the recipient appears to be mailman(a)it012345.mydomain.com Question is how can I change IT012345 with lists? My mm_cfg.py file and postfix main.cf file point to lists.mydomain.com Also why does the sender appears to be mailman-bounces and not just mailman? Can this be changed too? Cheers

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cron - address errors
by Con Wieland 28 May '06

28 May '06

I get the following cron errors. Your "cron" job on maillists.nac.uci.edu /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled", line 219, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled", line 162, in main if mlist.getDeliveryStatus(member) <> MemberAdaptor.ENABLED: File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 139, in getDeliveryStatus self.__assertIsMember(member) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 113, in __assertIsMember raise Errors.NotAMemberError, member Mailman.Errors.NotAMemberError: ahref="mailto:bfinkel@uci.edu" Does anyone know a way to figure out what list this is from? Thanks in advance Con Wieland Network and Academic Computing Services University of California at Irvine

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Mailman CGI error
by Neil Scorah 28 May '06

28 May '06

When trying to access the group 'cae aviation lists' i am getting this error message......what can i do? Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Permission deniedThanksNeil

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Re: [Mailman-Users] list stop sending - no changes to server or mailman in months
by John Adamski 28 May '06

28 May '06

An update on this problem: (recap: lists stop working after turning on/off Exchange filtering) Thursday night did a Live Meeting with a Microsoft tech and got the SMTP connector to work again between out Exchange front-end and the server hosting mailman. That's the good news. The bad news is some people on a list will get a email and other will not. Example: I have a test list I use has me and 3 co-workers on it. I get the email, the others don't. We have the main campus email list that has a few hundred people on it, most people did not get a test message. The post & SMTP logs seem to indicate it got the email and sent it ok, but its not getting there. Exchange logs seem to indicate it got the email from mailman and is sending it. Where can I go to verify who,what,when mailman sent a email. I don't know mailman's internals so not sure if it generates a email per memeber on a list or sends a email with all member on one email. So not sure what I should be looking for to resolve this issue. The short recap of what is happening now Exchange sends email to list on out mailman server, mailman is doing something with it and then it seems to be sending it back to Exchange to deliver but not everyone is getting the email. Any help or ideas of what to look at/for, let me know John

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shunting
by Imre Gergely 27 May '06

27 May '06

hi mailman just started to behave strangely. i have a couple (20-30) lists, and one or two started to 'now work' all of a sudden. mail sent to that list disappears. i looked in /var/log/mailman/error, and there i found these errors: May 27 12:02:42 2006 (10050) Uncaught runner exception: unpack list of wrong size May 27 12:02:42 2006 (10050) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 240, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 359, in save_attachment fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1] File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 725, in get_filename File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 608, in get_param File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 555, in _get_params_preserve File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 337, in decode_params File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 284, in decode_rfc2231 ValueError: unpack list of wrong size May 27 12:02:42 2006 (10050) SHUNTING: 1148720560.9632571+35d167125b7f3e005510df99b4728c1c6452c257 i have no idea what this means. i sent a couple of emails to this list, and to others lists on the same mailman, from the same email client (firefox), through the same server (postfix), and this particular list always gives this error. somebody got a hint to what to do? until yesterday, everything was ok. i don't see any strange updates, or modifications in the packages. [root@mail mailman]# rpm -qa | grep mailman mailman-2.1.5-10.fc2 [root@mail mailman]# rpm -qa |grep ^python python-devel-2.3.3-6 python-2.3.3-6

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Automatic deletion of posts by non-members of a list
by Fred Atkinson 27 May '06

27 May '06

Is there any option that can be set in Mailman so that a message by a non-member is automatically deleted, rather that pestering the list manager about appoving/deleting it? I've just moved to a new site. I had Mailman on both sites. Since I've gotten onto the new one, I am getting these quite frequently. I rarely got these before. It's getting to be quite annoying. Regards, Fred

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Newbie questions
by David Anderson 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, My hosting company provides mailman for mailing lists. I am happy with the functionality, but I have two questions 1. What is the format for the upload file in mass subscription 2. Is it possible to get the reverse - i.e. a listing from one list that can then be massaged and used as the upload for a new list? -- Best regards, David mailto:dma@pern.co.uk

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Archived Messages Not Saved
by Charles J. Hargrove 26 May '06

26 May '06

I am using the FC5 Mailman package. The archive files since the new build are being kept in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/..... However, the /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf file shows it as: Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ Where can I find where it is being forced to save it into private? > Are you using the FC5 mailman package or did you build it from source? > The locations of the directories are changed in the FC package. Is it > possible that your apache setup is looking in the wrong place for the > archives? > > Are the archive mboxes getting created? On a standard source install > they should be at: > > $prefix/archives/private/$listname.mbox/$listname.mbox > > The FC5 package has them at: > > /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/$listname.mbox/$listname.mbox > > - -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ====================================================================== -- Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV NYC ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord. US Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 5-10 Comms Officer NYC-ARECS/RACES Net Mon. @ 8:30PM 147.360/107.2 PL http://www.nyc-arecs.org and http://www.nyc-races.org NYDXA SWL & Scanner Net Wed. @ 9PM 147.360/107.2 PL http://www.n2nov.net "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan

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How to test SpamAssassin with mailman?
by Jana Nguyen 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hi there, I've integrated SpamAssassin with Mailman following the instructions at http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin/ How do I test SpamAssassin with mail so that I know that mail is being filter? Below is the spamassassin config I've added to mm_cfg.py: # Adding the SpamAssassin Filter to Mailman GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin') SPAMASSASSIN_HOST = birn-holly.ucsd.edu # how to contact SA SPAMASSASSIN_DISCARD_SCORE = 7.5 SPAMASSASSIN_HOLD_SCORE = 5 SPAMASSASSIN_MEMBER_BONUS = 2 Thanks!

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