Mailman 3 January 2007 - Mailman-Users

Group Mismatch Error
by Jay Chandler 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Time for this old chestnut again, but with a bit of a twist. Postfix (latest stable), FreeBSD 6.2, latest version of Mailman. Attempted to send a test message to my list. ommand died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post netoplist". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. Yet... mybox# ll total 38 -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Jan 26 13:33 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 1995 Jan 26 13:36 aliases -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 16384 Jan 26 13:36 aliases.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 10 Jan 8 10:32 last_mailman_version -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6 Jan 26 11:13 master-qrunner.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 14114 Jan 8 10:32 sitelist.cfg Is there something blindingly obvious that I'm missing? -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler(a)chapman.edu Today's Excuse: Just pick up the phone and give modem connect sounds. "Well you said we should get more lines so we don't have voice lines."

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List security: approved line got mailed out to list users
by Jacob Sam-La Rose 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Hi. I've got my list configured as an announcement-only list, and the first few mailings I've sent have gone through exactly as planned. I use "Approved: password" as the first line to approve mailings. I inadvertently sent email to the list from one of my other email addresses, and when the message went out, the Approved: line was there, intact. There was a space above it, if that means anything (the sent email doesn't have that space...) I changed the password - easily done, no security problems there. But I'd still like to know what could have allowed this to happen. Since then, I've set up a test list and tried to replicate the behaviour - thus far no success. Anyone have any suggestions as to what might have happened? Thanks, Jacob Sam-La Rose Executive Editor "FYI" / Metaroar.com

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Duplicate Subscribe/Unsubscribe Notifications
by Ki Song 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Every subscription/unsubscription notification is sent twice to the admin's email address. How can I make sure only 1 notification is sent?

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Problem with explicit destination
by Julia Frizzell 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

We have a few lists configured to accept all mail addressed to them, mainly as they are email addresses on our website set for people to make inquiries at. We have the lists configured to use explicit destination, and reject anything that is not explicity sent to the list address. However, some mail still gets through. For example, this came in: > To: <info(a)alliancecoatings.com> But we're not alliancecoatings.com Are the spammers forging list headers to allow the message to go through? If so, is there a way around this? We're running Mailman 2.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.4 server. --- Julia Frizzell Systems Administrator/Help Desk Manager The Education Alliance 222 Richmond Street, Suite 300 Providence, Rhode Island 02903-4226 julia_frizzell(a)brown.edu 401.274.9548 x311 or 800.521.9550 x311 401.421.7650 (fax) http://www.alliance.brown.edu

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List name stripped from subject header - how to prevent/workaround this?
by Jacob Sam-La Rose 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

(just realised my last message didn't have a subject... Doh!) Hi there, I've recently configured a mailman mailing list. Among other things, I've been thrown by the fact that any time I mention the name of the list in the "subject:" of an email, it gets stripped. The public name for the list is FYI, the prefix for the subject line is FYI - and if I write FYI anywhere in the subject line, it's automatically removed. I don't often mention the name of the list, but it'd be good to know what to do if I need to. Thanks, Jacob.//

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apache22 DocumenRoot
by wo_shi_big_stomach 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Greetings. I'm relatively new to Apache2 and even newer to Mailman. On FreeBSD 6.1, I installed Apache 2.2 and Mailman from ports. By default, Apache's DocumentRoot is: /usr/local/www/apache22/data Mailman installs into: /usr/local/mailman My question: In the Apache httpd.conf file, what's the appropriate <Directory> path so users see Mailman? I thought of symlinking /usr/local/mailman under the DocumentRoot, but I'm concerned about security implications of that. What's the best way to set this up? thanks! /wsbs

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Expiration on moderated requests
by Rob Jackson 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

I am looking into a way to expire any moderated requests that are older than 2 weeks. Has this been discussed before? -Rob

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Problems Exim: Child process of mailman_transport transport returned 2
by sascha.kaempf＠arcor.de 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi list, I have just installed Mailman and run into a problem i can not understand: 2007-01-25 15:47:41 1HA5t7-0005Xc-Gb ** listname@myserver R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport: Child process of mailman_transport transport returned 2 from command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman Mails can not be delivery to Mailman. I´m using Mailman 2.1.9 in combination with Exim 4.63. The problem has been, that the mail-gid was different, than what Mailman expected: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "root". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mail", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=root'. So I did a make clean followed by: ./configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=root i also tried ./configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=0 followed by make install. Both should work, no ? h1055564:/tmp/mailman-2.1.9# cat /etc/group | grep root root:x:0: Once done I stopped Exim & mailmanctl and started both applications again. Still, I receive the error mentioned above but I can not find any mistake: h1055564:/tmp/mailman-2.1.9# /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f Keine Probleme aufgetreten h1055564:/tmp/mailman-2.1.9# /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post post script got no listname. Any idea? Perhaps it is a stupid error I´ve just overlooked but I run out of ideas -;( Regards Sascha

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Duplicate Subscribe/Unsubscribe Notifications
by Ki Song 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Every subscription/unsubscription notification is sent twice to the admin's email address. How can I make sure only 1 notification is sent?

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Mailman log rotation
by Hank van Cleef 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

I want to put the Mailman logs into the Solaris logadm.conf file for automatic cron rotation. This moves the old logfiles to logfiles.0 and touches new logfiles. I'm assuming that the qrunners have to be restarted. Anything else? Hank -- Hank van Cleef (vancleef(a)lostwells.net, hvanclee(a)nyx.net) 1986 420SEL "A stranger in paradise" (Fremont Co. Wyoming) 1986 GMC 1500 6.2 diesel pickup "Seen one, seen them all"

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