Mailman 3 May 2006 - Mailman-Users

Mailman and Sendmail debugging questions
by Daniel, Barry K. 25 May '06

25 May '06

Some background: Machine A has Sun JES Messenger 6.2 running as the main mail server that points to the outside world. I have installed the mailmanWrapper.pl program to interface Messenger with Mailman. Machine B has the Mailman 2.1.8 installation, the JES Web Server, and Sendmail. I have two problems. First, if I create a new list via command line I cannot edit it via the web interface. I execute the command line as the "mailman" user and the web is executed as the "webservd" user. I have placed the webservd user in the mailman group in my /etc/group file but I still can not add users to the list via the web interface. The lists/testlist/config.pck file changes date but the information does not change. Second problem. If I send an email to testlist(a)domain.com from the Sun JES Messenger it traverses to the Mailman machine but an email addressed to testlist(a)domain.com is sent back to the Messenger machine. (This is from looking at the Sendmail logs.) Shouldn't it be sending back several emails, one addressed to each member of the list? How do I debug this? Thanks for any help.

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Install issues
by Defryn, Guy 24 May '06

24 May '06

Hi there, I am new to mailman/postfix and this is my first post. We are looking at replacing majordomo/sendmail. I don't know anything about that either :-) I managed to install postfix on a FreeBSD box and replace sendmail. I was able to send mail on the local server and everywhere else. So far so good. I installed mailman and got the web interface to work. I managed to create some lists, subscribed some users etc. Originally they received the message to confirm etc. Everything seemed fine until I posted to the list. The main issue was that it could not find the user locally (550 error). I assume that something is going wrong with the alias sync. I am going to start over again, fresh install and use Fedora Core 5. Reason for this is that we use FC as a distro and they will not let me use FreeBSD in production. If someone can tell me what could possibly have caused the issues above that would be great. We have a complicated mail setup here at work. We have a mixture of exchange and pop3. Everything gets relayed through one server running sendmail (we'd like to replace that too eventually). I specified a relayhost originally pointing to our smtp server and that seemed to work. Cheers Guy

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How do I make 'username' appear in the 'from' field instead of email addy?
by Teresa＠MiCleft.org 24 May '06

24 May '06

I'm fairly new to Mailman. I know that I can have the subscribers email addresses appear in the 'from' field AND I know how to make it completely unknown to other members by having it 1 'from' name across the board. I'm having a problem with subscribers sending messages without any signature. I've reminded them to sign their name. They don't like the idea of everyone knowing their email addresses. How do I make the global change to display the USERNAME in the 'from' field of messages, instead of one standard name or the full email address of the sender? e.g.) instead of From: Mail Member / From: teresa(a)micleft.org I'd like it to display From: Teresa I've looked thru tons of archives and cannot find past threads. Am I the only one that would like this feature? Thanks! Teresa

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What does the following Mailman Error Suggest?
by Odhiambo Washington 24 May '06

24 May '06

This is probably a stupid question to ask, but after looking at the doco for too long today playing with Mailman-2.1.8, I just cannot see clearly anymore. My MTA is already configured on the test box. However, when I create a new list, the mail to listadmin does not get there, and does not show on my MTA's log file. I have tracked the possible cause to log/smtp-error for Mailman: <cut> May 23 23:32:07 2006 (15435) delivery to wash(a)wananchi.com failed with code -1: (8, 'hostname nor servname provided, or not known') May 23 23:32:08 2006 (15435) Low level smtp error: (8, 'hostname nor servname provided, or not known'), msgid: <mailman.0.1148415149.15 292.warta_01(a)warta.wananchi.com> </cut> What does it suggest I do? cheers - wash +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Odhiambo Washington . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) | wash () WANANCHI ! com . 1ere Etage, Loita Hse, Loita St., | GSM: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI | GSM: (+254) 733 744 121 . (+254) 020 313 985 - 9 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post

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changing hostname
by Anne Ramey 23 May '06

23 May '06

I changed my hostname from the time I first installed mailman. For the most part, the transition went smoothly, but we still have a few traces I'd like to get rid of. The host name this list prefers for email has taken care of most of it, just not the web interface: To see the list of lists, the lists made on the old hostname are at http://oldhost.name/mailman/admin/ and the new ones are at http://newhost.name/mailman/admin/ Now, the individual lists can all be reached at http://newhost.name/mailman/admin/listname ...it's just the admin listing and the server's main http://oldhost.name/mailman/listinfo that I can't seem to get to switch over. Is there a way to do this? Anne

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DKIM/DK-milter with Mailman
by SM 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, I tested Mailman 2.1.8 with dkim-milter 0.4.1 and dk-milter 0.3.4. The server running Mailman signs all outgoing mail and inserts DKIM-Signature and DomainKey-Signature headers. Incoming mail verifies successfully. Mail sent by Mailman fails DomainKeys/DKIM verification at the subscriber's end because of the Authentication-Results: header inserted when the subscriber's posting is DKIM/DomainKeys signed. The workaround is to configure Mailman as follows: Change the Mailman/Handlers/CleanseDKIM.py lines from: def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): del msg['domainkey-signature'] del msg['dkim-signature'] to def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): del msg['domainkey-signature'] del msg['dkim-signature'] del msg['authentication-results'] Thanks to Jim Popovitch for working on the fix. Regards, -sm

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Running a script.
by Nerses Ohanyan 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, I want to find out how to run a script every time one of my mailing lists is sent an e-mail. I need to parse the message end put it in a database to be viewed on my site. Thanks, Nerses

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time accounting otrs 2.0.4
by Johan Bijlsma 23 May '06

23 May '06

When I use time accounting i get after some minutes a Internal Server Error. This problem occurs from month 3. Month 1 en 2 generates reports without a problem. I find de following errors in the apache error_log. [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] ERROR: OTRS-CGI-34 Perl: 5.8.0 OS: linux Time: Tue May 23 09:33:50 2006, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] , referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Message: Need UserLogin!, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] , referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Traceback (10895): , referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Module: Kernel::System::CustomerUser::DB::CustomerName (v1.36) Line: 77, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Module: Kernel::System::CustomerUser::CustomerName (v1.22) Line: 199, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Module: Kernel::System::Stats::AccountedTime::Run (v1.4 ) Line: 128, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Module: Kernel::Modules::SystemStats::Run (v1.26 ) Line: 164, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Module: Kernel::System::Web::InterfaceAgent::Run (v1.8) Line: 651, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] Module: /opt/otrsprod/bin/cgi-bin/index.pl (v1.80) Line: 47, referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats [Tue May 23 09:43:49 2006] [error] [client 192.168.42.104] , referer: http://yogi/otrs/cgi-bin/index.pl?Action=SystemStats Some help will be really helpful. Thanks for your time, Best Regards, Johan Bijlsma. Rotaform. Lelystad, Netherlands.

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Batch member attributes
by Benjamin Roger 22 May '06

22 May '06

Hello everyone, I am somewhat desperate - I need a few people to be able to post on about 80 lists (cascaded) here, without moderation (moderation being the default setting for members). I think that to achieve this, I need to add them as members - and then change their attributes, so they're not moderated, and do *not* receive mails (80 times...). Adding them shouldn't be that much of a problem, with the add_members script. But I wonder about changing the attributes. Is there a way, via withlist or anything else, to batch this kind of task? I would greatly appreciate any help. Best regards, Benjamin Roger

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Mail not being delivered
by Shannon Broyles 22 May '06

22 May '06

We've been using Mailman for quite a while, but have had problems recently with mail not going through. Sometimes it will make it to the archives but will never actually get delivered to member's in-boxes. Other times it does not even make it to the archives. It's difficult to know how often this problem is occurring, but in the last 24 hours we appear to have had problems with 1 message getting to the archives, but not being delivered to the members and 2 messages being sent but not making it to the archives or to them members. All 3 messages were sent by different members. Last month we were having a lot of these same problems and we were on a different server at that time. We are running version 2.1.7 My questions are: * Is there a way to take a message that made it to the archives, but not to the members, and re-send it myself, but so that it appears to come from the original sender? * Any suggestions on how to fix the problem with messages that make it to the archives, but not to the members? * Any suggestions on how to fix the problem with messages being sent to the list but not making it to either the archives or to the members? Thank you!

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Mailman-Users May 2006