Mailman 3 November 2007 - Mailman-Users

Delayed deliveries and diagnostics
by Todd Reed Nov. 28, 2007

Nov. 28, 2007

I am having major delays when sending messages out. I have several lists with 20k-30k users. I just discovered that a message that was sent out on October 25 is still being delivered. Other than the logs in the /var/log/mailman directory, is there a diagnostics program or some sort of reporting with mailman? I can't find anything in the docs. System OS: CentOS 5 x64 SMTP: Postfix 2.3.3 Listserv: Mailman 2.1.9 Perl: Perl 5.8.8 Python: 2.4.3

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Password addon
by Melinda Gilmore Nov. 28, 2007

Nov. 28, 2007

Does anyone know of a mailman addon that will disable user passwords. Does anyone know if this issues was resolved in 2.1 Can anyone just explain the new password for users and administrators. I am looking on the website, but could use a knowledgeable persons explanation. Thanks

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Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmation subject line/VERP
by Christopher Adams Nov. 27, 2007

Nov. 27, 2007

Geez, now I don't know who to listen to. :>). Anyway, my assumption was wrong and I based it on the invitation confirmation not completely working. Now it does and I thank you both. One concern - Charles mentioned how 'expensive' it was to use VERP with Postfix. I am wondering what kind of hit on the responsiveness of my Mailman server will be. I have over 500 lists and 250,000 subscribers. If VERP being used for Mailman causes more mail activity, could this result in slowness of list message delivery? On Nov 27, 2007 4:19 PM, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > On 11/27/07, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > Quoting from <http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html>, aka 'man 5 > > postconf' > > > > recipient_delimiter (default: empty) > > That man page may or may not describe the current state of affairs, > and of course even if it does then you might be dealing with an older > installation that may not implement the same default status. > > If you want to find out what your current postfix defaults are, you > use the command "postconf -d". If you want to see what you've got > configured that is different from the built-in defaults, use the > command "postconf -n". A plain "postconf" will tell you what is > configured, but you won't know whether that setting comes from the > default or is being over-ridden by the configuration file. > > -- > Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> > LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/adamsca%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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another question about invitation confirmation subject line/VERP
by Christopher Adams Nov. 27, 2007

Nov. 27, 2007

I have read the FAQ about modifying the mm_cfg.py file to create a more "user friendly" subject for confirmations. I implemented this with my Mailman/Postfix setup. I mainly wanted it for Invitation confirmations, but I understand that for newer versions of Mailman, it works for other confirmations as well. One question- Since the subject line is changed and replaces the confirmation ID code with other text, does that mean that simple replying to the message to confirmm will no work? I have tested this and found that I can confirm by clicking on the link and going to the web page or by composing a new message with the confirm code in the body, sent to the list-request address. By default, Postfix allows VERP to rewrite the subject, but is other configuration necessary to make the Reply to the confirmation message work, or is that feature lost when VERPing? -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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Our Mailing List Disappeared
by Pam McKenna Nov. 27, 2007

Nov. 27, 2007

Our Mailing List, list.nesae.org, has disappeared - Mailman says no such list exists, our sign in info. isn't working. Anyone know what caused this? How do i get it back? thank you. Pam

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Mailman does not like german umlaute
by Andre Tann Nov. 27, 2007

Nov. 27, 2007

Hello everyone, I'm running a # rpm -q mailman mailman-2.1.6-4.2 on a # cat /etc/SuSE-release SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) OSS VERSION = 10.0 machine. Now everything works fine, except one thing: sending a mail with a german umlaut in the subject line looks sometimes normal, but sometimes it looks like this: Jemand erhÃ¤lt Zuschlag fÃ¼r Einkauf The sender is an Entourage on a Mac OS X. If the Mac-User sends his mail to me and in copy to the mailman list, then the mail sent directly to me looks OK, and the one running through mailman looks garbled. Where is the problem? -- Andre Tann

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Looking for an experienced installer
by Tony Fyler Nov. 27, 2007

Nov. 27, 2007

Hi folks, My name's Tony, and I'm the editor at the Royal Institute of Navigation here in London. We used to run a couple of listservs for specific groups of our members, but recently changed both our website and mail server, making these listservs defunct. It turns out that our new mail server package comes with Mailman as a 3rd party application. Neither our web developers, nor our mail server hosts, are able to install Mailman for us, though as none of us in the Institute are developers ourselves, we're advised to get someone to install it for us. I mailed Barry Warsaw and he gave me the list address. I've read the FAQs, but as my query is essentially a plea for help, thought I'd go ahead and post it anyway. I'm just looking for anyone with experience of installing Mailman to get in touch with me to discuss the possibility of this job. Cheers Tony

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Template with Mailman?
by Hans Reil Nov. 26, 2007

Nov. 26, 2007

Hi, can I make a template for one or all my lists? You know with company logo and nice background. So the emails oft the lists gets a nice coporate style. Thanks for you help. Hans

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Saving a copy of a ML
by Rubén C. Díaz Alonso \"outime\" Nov. 26, 2007

Nov. 26, 2007

I'd like to remove one of the mailing list created several months ago in mailman. That mailing list have some documentation about some projects, and I think that is not a good idea to delete it without saving a copy for use it in a future. How can I done this? Thanks! -- Rubén C. Díaz Alonso "outime" http://120linux.com (blog) GPG 2354DA5F

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman errors
by zbigniew szalbot Nov. 26, 2007

Nov. 26, 2007

Hello, > >I get a lot of below errors and worse some of the lists that have been > >created no longer send out emails. Can you help me troubleshoot it? > > > >Thank you! > > > >Nov 23 15:06:12 2007 (70462) SHUNTING: > >1195826769.306325+db3247f3fd9baf0ca519cd58e37b4c1875fc76b3 > >Nov 23 15:06:32 2007 (70462) Uncaught runner exception: unsupported > >operand type(s) for -=: 'str' and 'int' > >Nov 23 15:06:32 2007 (70462) Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 112, in _oneloop > > self._onefile(msg, msgdata) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 170, in _onefile > > keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 73, in > >_dispose > > self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 159, in > >process > > deliveryfunc(mlist, msg, msgdata, envsender, refused, conn) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 345, in > >verpdeliver > > bulkdeliver(mlist, msgcopy, msgdata, envsender, failures, conn) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 369, in > >bulkdeliver > > refused = conn.sendmail(envsender, recips, msgtext) > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 78, in > >sendmail > > self.__numsessions -= 1 > >TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'str' and 'int' > > > Have you set SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION in mm_cfg.py? > > In particular, have you set it to a string instead of a number? > > I.e., it needs to be something like > > SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION = 10 > > (or whatever number you want) not > > SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION = '10' > The content of mm_cfg.py currently looks like this: OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.lc-words.com' SMTPHOST = 'localhost' VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.lc-words.com' SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION = '25' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) Thanks! Zbigniew Szalbot Thanks!

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