Mailman-Users September 2006

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134 participants
187 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?

by Mal

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

8 months

Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers

by Steve Reiter

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

10 years, 2 months

Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem

by Douglas G. Phillips

OK, I've got another problem with Qmail/Plesk/Mailman (same customer, rebuilt server). Plesk is 7.5.4 reloaded. Mail delivered fails with "need GID 110 got 101" error. I set up the brute-force wrapper to deliver with GID 110, and set the permissions correctly for it to work. Now, I'm getting the following (broken up into multiple lines for courtesy): qmail: 1157518628.995172 delivery 726: success: group_mismatch_error._Mailman_expected_the_mail_wrapper_script_to_be/ executed_as_one_of_the_following_groups:/[mail,_nobody,_mailman],/ but_the_system's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as_group:_"popuser"./ Try_tweaking_the_mail_server_to_run_the_script_as_one_of_these_groups:/ [mail,_nobody,_mailman],/or_re-run_configure_providing_the_ command_line_option:/'--with-mail-gid=popuser'./Failed_to_start_ /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman./did_0+0+1/ I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I even added the popuser user to the mailman group in /etc/passwd. So, that being said, are there any ideas out there? I have been messing with this for a week, and have not come up with anything else to do. -- Douglas G. Phillips Simple Business Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

12 years, 2 months

MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages

by fshagan

Recently, my Mailman list users who use either a HotMail or MSN.COM email address have not received any messages. Mailman does not record a "bounce" from these email addresses, but they do not receive any of the list traffic. When trying to send a message to a Mailman list, the user gets the following error message: "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed." And it lists the Mailman list email address. However, Mailman does not receive a bounce message. (My server is not listed with SpamHaus.org, or any of the other blacklists, so it should not be a spam filter sort of thing). One user requested help from MSN, and they responded with: "You are experiencing this issue because your .Net Passport <user's email address here> Profile (which is extensively used for authentication purposes) is corrupted (not updated). In order to resolve this issue, I would suggest you to Update your .NET passport profile." They follow that with instructions to go to their MSN .NET Passport profile and re-type all the information by hand (not by cut and paste). Then a 15-step procedure is given to delete all cookies, history and temporary internet files and re-set the disk cache (space for files) to 10MB. They believe that will solve the problem but alas, it has not for the 4 users I have with MSN or HotMail email addresses. Anyone else run into this and resolved it? I didn't see anything in the archives. If any of you have users with MSN or HotMail addresses, be advised they probably will not be able to receive emails, but you will not get "bounce" messages. They only way they will know is if they try to post to a Mailman list.

14 years, 4 months

Web admin slow

by Jon Harris

Hi List I have a (bit aged) Redhat 9 box (Pentium II/512Mb RAM) running Mailman 2.1.6 with Postfix. Its only has to run a single moderated mailing list sending out one email every day to around 20,000 subscribers. Sending out the emails is not problem - it works great. The major problem is logging in to approve the email. It (Apache/2.0.40) is so slow that it usually times out with a 500 error after you try and login. Is there a way of speeding up the web interface? Can I approve postings from the command line? There is a large archive as they have been running this for around 3 years. Will it speed up if we trash part of the archive. If so how can I trash archived data that is (say) over a year old? There was a thread on this problem, but it was not really resolved, and that user had 450,000 subscribers. Any help appreciated. Jon Harris

14 years, 10 months

Different URL PATTERNS per virtual host?

by Benjamin Donnachie

I am using Mailman v2.1.6 and I was wondering whether it is possible to have a different DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN per virtual host? For my main site, example.com, I would like it to use https://%s/mailman for the web interface, but for other sites I host, say example.net, to use http://%s/mailman. Take care, Ben

15 years

Mailman and Postfix on different hosts?

by Anders Norrbring

Simple question, would it be possible to run mailman on one host, and the Postfix MTA on another host? The reason is that I'm configuring a new in/outgoing server that eventually should take over the "old" one, the old should keep the web server functionality, so I'd like to split things up. If it can be done, any hints on how? -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

15 years

Can Google be used to search archives?

by Bob Bergey

Can Google Free Search be set up to use for searches of my Mailman archives? How would I go about it? I searched the list archives here but didn't find anything on the topic. Also, the list in question is a list where archives are set up to be viewable only by current list members. Bob

15 years

Re: [Mailman-Users] fix_url error

by Mark Sapiro

Please include the list in your replies. Catherine Maxwell wrote: >At 10:21 PM 9/29/2006, you wrote: >>Sorry for being cryptic. By "command line?" I meant what was the >>command line you typed? > >Oh. > >bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname -u hostname.com > >But that isn't the most of it. All attempts for the list are stating >that no list by that name. Error logs are stating this (from the same >timestamp): > >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 (778) couldn't load config file >/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.pck > >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 (778) couldn't load config file >/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.pck.last > >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 (778) couldn't load config file >/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.db >[Errno 2] No such file or directory: >'/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.db' >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 (778) couldn't load config file >/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.db.last >[Errno 2] No such file or directory: >'/usr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.db.last' >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 (778) All listname fallbacks were corrupt, giving up >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): Traceback (most recent call last): >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): File >"/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in ? >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): main() >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): File >"/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 264, in main >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): process_lists(lock) >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): File >"/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 199, in process_lists >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): mlist = >MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): File >"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 129, in __init__ >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): self.Load() >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): File >"/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 640, in Load >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): raise >Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError, e >Sep 30 03:21:01 2006 gate_news(778): Mailman.Errors . >MMCorruptListDatabaseError : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/u >sr/local/mailman/lists/listname/config.db.last' > >> >These are the files that are on the server: >> > >> >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 216198 Sep 29 00:41 config.pck >> >-rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 93225 Oct 3 2005 config.pck.bak >> >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 216192 Sep 29 00:41 config.pck.last >> >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 27421 Sep 28 20:04 digest.mbox >> >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 11615 Sep 29 00:41 pending.pck >> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 6430 Sep 29 00:41 request.pck >> >> >>And did you run the withlist -r fix_url command as the mailman user? > >I normally just run it as the vroot user. > >>In what context? I.e. what URL or command is reporting no list? > >For example: > bin/list_members latinteach > > No such list: latinteach > >>You could try >> >>mv config.pck config.pck.2.bak >>mv config.pck.last config.pck > >I tried that. It didn't make any difference. > >We had a power outage last night and today we had issues with the >lists distributing mail and digesting. I think that I have fixed all >the other lists but this list seems to be the only one with this >latent problem. I can't figure it out. The messages in the archive >seem to be in place (at least I can read them with pine). I created a >new list to work around this but when I try to get the members list, >it states no such list. So I'm stuck. What does bin/list_lists report? What does bin/check_perms run as root report? What are the permissions on the lists/listname directory itself? What does bin/dumpdb lists/listname/config.pck report? (You can elide all the membership info. In fact, if you get a reasonable looking report, you can just compare it to that of another list to verify that it looks good.) -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

15 years

can't access /admin or /admindb/ for one of my lists, other lists work fine

by wallace winfrey

Hi Folks I've googled the archives and poked around as much as I could, but cannot find the answer to my problem, so I figured I'd post to the list to see if anyone had any ideas. We had a very large number of moderation messages for one of our lists (33,000+) so I went to mailman/data and manually rm'ed them (them being heldmsg-listname-*.pck). I've done this in the past without any problems but for some reason this time it seems to have possibly screwed up my list config such that I can no longer access the admin or admindb URLs. The request is sent but the browser times out waiting for a response. We're running maybe a dozen other lists on the same machine, and there's absolutely no problems accessing those lists' /admin and /admindb URLs. I've tried restarting mailman (it's worth mentioning that mailmanctl stop doesnt actually stop mailman and it has to be manually killed and restarted with the -s option) and apache, but nothing helps. It's also worth mentioning that there don't seem to be any problems with /options/listname. I've run check_perm and check_db on the list specifically, but there's no reported problems. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong here, or of any other diagnostics I could avail myself of? tia, w

15 years

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