Mailman 3 January 2007 - Mailman-Users

Shunting problem
by NFN Smith 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I'm running Mailman 2.1.5 on a Debian 3.1 box. In the last few days, I'm getting an increasing number of messages shunted, with error logs that look like: > Jan 30 23:10:53 2007 (3315) Uncaught runner exception: decoding Unicode is not supported > Jan 30 23:10:53 2007 (3315) Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop > self._onefile(msg, msgdata) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile > keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose > more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline > sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process > send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests > send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests > msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 318, in process > partcharset = part.get_content_charset() > File "email/Message.py", line 800, in get_content_charset > TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported > > Jan 30 23:10:53 2007 (3315) SHUNTING: 1170193244.4528749+524dabeddb1737e4b548d3ad0d7c3d9bd2c7c1a0 I have no idea why messages might have unicode in them. This machine has the following python modules: python-central 0.5.12 python-minimal 2.4.4-1 python2.3 2.3.5-16 python2.4 2.4.4-1 python2.4-minimal 2.4.4-1 I'm not aware of any config changes that have been made to this machine recently. Two questions: 1) How do I get the shunted messages cleared? What has to happen before I run unshunt? 2) What do I need to do to clear the problem that is causing shunting? Smith Composed by sacbeemail. Get Your Free E-mail at http://www.sacbeemail.com . Or visit Northern Californias premiere news and information website at http://www.sacbee.com .

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Moved list, archiving
by G. Armour Van Horn 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

After moving the list to it's new home and running the script to update the archive, I ended up with a raft of messages in the January 2007 archive that are probably ancient. They show no subject, and all of them are dated this afternoon, probably at the time that I ran the script. Is there any safe way to clear those out? Van -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! mailto:twisted@whidbey.com?subject=Subscribe_QOTD For photography, web design, hosting, and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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mailing lists
by Dan Good 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello, I am writing because I'm having some difficulty with a group within my mailing lists. I am unable to access the web interfaces for this group. All others work fine. This I get a login prompt but noting else. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks Dan

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Can't create a new list
by vancleef＠lostwells.net 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

I'm trying to create a new list on a Mailman 2.1.9 installation. The list is set up at www.mydomain.net with virtual hosting of otherdomain.com. When I use either www.mydomain.net or www.otherdomain.com to get to mailman/create, and try to create the new list, every try returns me Error: Unknown virtual host <www.domain.ext> for attempts to create under either domain. How can I create a new list successfully? I need to create lists in both domains. Hank

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Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix
by Paul Fox 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

[ cc'ing the list on reply ] orlando wrote: > I think he still has to issue the genaliases command. oh, yes. in addition, all of the hash maps need to have postmap run on them. paul > > the virtual_alias_map is the one that should have a mysql entry: > > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman, > mysql:/usr/local/etc/postfix/mysql/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf > > > alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases, > hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases > > Orlando > =--------------------- paul fox, pgf(a)foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 26.4 degrees)

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Moving lists
by G. Armour Van Horn 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

My old Mailman host died a while back, and I'm finally getting around to getting the new one running again. Before I shut off the old host I tarred up the old files and have them on the new server. I just moved the components from the old archives and lists directories into the new locations, and when I go to http://<new><domain>.com/mailman/admin/<listname> I get the front page, but all the links are to the old server. At that point I moved /usr/local/mailman/lists/<listname> to /usr/local/mailman/lists/<listname>.bak and created the list fresh with the newlist command. But when I went in to the admin page I discovered that there were no members of the list, and when I went to the archive the messages were all there, but the "more information about this list" link was back to the old server again. So, where do I dig up the membership list, and how do I deal with all the old URLs? Van -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! mailto:twisted@whidbey.com?subject=Subscribe_QOTD For photography, web design, hosting, and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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performance differences between limited and full personalization
by Zbigniew Szalbot 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Dear friends, I have a question about possible performance differences between limited and full personalization in mailman 2.1.9. That is, I set up full personalization for two lists that I have (they are more like for sending newsletters than for discussion). Anyway, I wonder whether I would have any gain in terms of performance if I switched from full to limited personalization. I read the description but it does not say anything about this issue. There's only comparison between personalization as such and no personalization at all. In other words, do I gain anything from changing from full to limited personalization? I like when people recieving our newsletters do not have to guess the email they were subscribed with but if it should help, I would switch from full to limited and place their emails in the email footer. Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot

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Moving lists between virtual domains.
by Orlando Reis 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi all, athough this question as been posted in the past and I have searched and searched the mailing list I haven't found a simple a and clear solution to the problem. I have my default mailman URL at www.mainhost.com And have several other vhosts added POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['vhost1.org', vhost1.eu' ,'vhost2.org', ' vhost2.eu','vhost3.eu'] #add virtual hosts VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost('www.vhost1.org', 'vhost1.org') add_virtualhost('www.vhost1.eu','vhost1.eu') add_virtualhost('www.vhost2.org', 'vhost2.org') add_virtualhost('www.vhost2.eu','vhost2.eu') add_virtualhost('www.vhost3.eu','vhost3.eu') add_virtualhost('www.mainhost.com','mainhost.com') I have lists on all domains What I wan't to do is move a list from vhost1.org to vhost1.eu. Is there any howto on how to do this. http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.029.htp Is not very excplicit on how to do this, hence I don't think it is the same thing. image that i have the following lists: list_all, list_member, list_workproj1, list_workproj2 If I issue the fix_url command bin/withlist -l -r fix_url list_all --urlhost=http://www.vhost1.eu That will change the url for the list configuration, but I will also have to rebuild the archives? Thanks in advance Orlando

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questions related to batch creation and management of several lists
by Mario Filipe 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi I'm using mailman 2.1.9-4 on a Debian Sarge server. I need to create a batch of lists for the management of each of our institutional units (departments, services, etc.) Apart from the members and the name, the setup is very similar for all of them so I looked at the FAQ and I'm wondering if I can use the answer number 4.38 (quoted below) as a solution ? <quote> Q: I am the site administrator and I'd like to change the configuration of ALL existing lists. How to do that? A: Use /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list Here's an example: 1. Login your shell 2. Create a file (/path/to/configfile) and add your configuration *) 3. Change the configuration using this shell script: for i in $(/usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists -b) ; do /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i /path/to/configfile $i ; done If you only want to change some lists but not all, replace the for i in $(/usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists -b) in the above script with for example for i in list1 list2 list3 To check for errors before doing the changes, you can simulate your changes using the -c flag. see: config_list --help <end quote> My other question is related to the way these lists are to be used: - they are to be directly addressable, meaning that anyone (not everyone we don't need more SPAM) can send a message to them - they are also to be used under umbrella lists and here is my problem because some people are in more than one of those lists and under the umbrella lists they are going to get multiple copies of the messages, right? Is there a way to prevent this? Thanks -- Mario Filipe Serviço de Computação da Universidade de Évora mjnf(a)uevora.pt http://home.uevora.pt/~mjnf/

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Finding the recipients for a given archived email
by Kelly Jones 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I have a mailing list whose membership changes frequently. I want to find out who received a two-month-old email in the archives. In other words, I want to know the list membership at the time that message was sent. How can I do this? I realize I could look at sendmail logs (if they went back that far), but is there an "pure Mailman" way to do this? I believe (not sure) that the vette(?) log keeps track of subscribes/unsubscribes, so I could theoretically reconstruct the list, starting with the current membership and working backward. Is this possible? Is there an easier way? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

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