Mailman 3 December 2007 - Mailman-Users

Eliminating Duplicate Postings
by Barry Finkel Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

A few days ago in one of my Mailman 2.1.9 lists, a posting at 7AM was distributed to the members without problem. The mail is addressed to two lists, and both lists received, archived, and distributed the mail. At 5PM one of the recipients must have forwarded the mail back to the lists. The RFC 822/2822 mail headers have the same Return-Path: From: To: lines as the original mail, and in addition there is a header line X-BeenThere: ... for one of the lists (i.e., the … [View More]

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Too many Bounce action notifications
by Vikram Goyal Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

Hello, I maintain a medium sized mailing list (over 40000) to which a newsletter is sent out every few weeks. Till recently, I had no issues with this list, but after the last newsletter was sent out, I have started receiving "Bounce action notifications" by the truckload. Each of these is unique and the attached message contains the list of addresses whose subscription has been disabled because of excessive or fatal bounces. But there are a few problems: 1. This is first time I am … [View More]

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Postfix won't recognise lists built by Mailman.
by Rod＠freeserve Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

Hi I have had an installation of Mailman on RedHat with Sendmail for some year. It's worked really well - installed out of the box and made to work with very little pain. Worked so well I've never needed to post a message here before, although I've often browsed the archives from time to time. Now the installation has had to be moved to a fine new server with Postfix on Linux RHEL 5. It seems to work well for standard mail purposes. But I have been trying for several days to get it working … [View More]with Mailman. Originally the problem was with my setup of Mailman - Apache didn't like the Mailman installation at /usr/local/mailman so I moved it to /var/www/html/mailman , fiddled with file and folder permissions and eventually settled on using the cgi-gid user and the mailman group, and at last Apache was happy. I can set lists up, configure them through the web, and receive notifications about new lists. But I cannot get a message through to the lists. Each list address returns "invalid user". The problem in summary is that Postfix does not appear to recognise the Mailman list. Can anyone help or suggest areas where I should look? Here's the detail. I build a Mailman list called test, add an address to the mailing list, and manually add the relevant alias to /etc/postfix/aliases (and then run postalias), and finally send a message to the list address. The error response "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" comes in by email, and the Postfix mail log says: ---------- Dec 5 15:27:04 localhost postfix/pipe[3185]: 15373754FE: to=<test(a)AAAAAA.net>, relay=maildrop, delay=0.07, delays=0.04/0/0/0.02, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (user unknown. Command output: Invalid user specified. ) ---------- The Mailman logs show no activity, i.e. the message has not been handled by Mailman. What seems to be happening is that Postfix is trying to deliver the message to a mailbox, instead of to the command in the aliases file. There is no mailbox 'test' on this server. Aliases contains this line: ---------- test: "|/var/www/html/mailman/mail/mailman post test" ---------- I've 'set allow_mail_to_commands = alias' in Postfix's main.cf. The question for Mailman experts who also know Postfix is - is this clearly a problem with my Postfix setup, or could the problem be that I have the wrong --with-mail-gid ?? If I had the mail-gid wrong, would this show up in the Mailman logs? After painfully trying lots of systematic changes to the Postfix setup without success, all I can think of now is either I'm using the wrong --with-mail-gid or I need to move the Mailman aliases into a separate mm.aliases file (then run postalias and amend the Postfix main.cf to recognise this) and change the permissions on that. If neither of those work I really have no idea where to go next. It's late here and I'm finishing for the day now. But if anyone has any input to point me in the right direction tomorrow I'd really appreciate it. Rod [View Less]

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Delayed delivery
by Márcio Luciano Donada Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Now I have the mail server using debian etch with postfix. This same server have installed mailman and I have noticed that many times the mailman take long to deliver messages, sometimes even more than an hour. I wonder what you have when using the same e-mail server has the mailman to manage mailing lists. # postconf -n alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap/ldap-aliases.cf, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases … [View More]anvil_rate_time_unit = 60s biff = no body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/maps/body_checks.cf bounce_queue_lifetime = 1d broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix default_destination_concurrency_limit = 25 default_destination_recipient_limit = 25 disable_vrfy_command = yes empty_address_recipient = MAILER-DAEMON header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/maps/header_checks.cf home_mailbox = Maildir/ inet_protocols = all local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname, ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap/ldap.cf, $alias_maps mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -p -t -m /etc/procmailrc mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq maximal_queue_lifetime = 1d message_size_limit = 20240000 mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain, frigorifico-aurora.com.br mydomain = domian.com.br myhostname = mx.domian.com.br mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases owner_request_special = no recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/monitoramento/recebimento_bcc_email.cf recipient_delimiter = + relay_domains = $mydestination sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/monitoramento/envio_bcc_email.cf sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtp_use_tls = yes smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP smtpd_client_connection_count_limit = 25 smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit = 25 smtpd_client_restrictions = check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/maps/access smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining smtpd_etrn_restrictions = reject smtpd_hard_error_limit = 100 smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_recipient_limit = 10 smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, reject_sender_login_mismatch, permit smtpd_restriction_classes = check_greylist smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_sender_login_mismatch, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination, hash:/etc/postfix/maps/access smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.cert smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s smtpd_use_tls = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 some ideias thnx!!! - -- Márcio Luciano Donada <mdonada at auroraalimentos dot com dot br> Aurora Alimentos - Cooperativa Central Oeste Catarinense Departamento de T.I. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHVo8jbjyCr4Ixg0wRAviIAKCFPM3IuB9QSEzJ+yQvrSb4eENpCwCdE4YS +P/M0o/sWV6XMPsQJ1gk4kE= =AHzO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [View Less]

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password monthly reminder
by Mohamed CHAARI Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

Hello, In Mailman, there are 2 places where to configure the password monthly reminder: - the first one is List Administration page, 'General Options' section, relative to the list as a whole - the second one is in 'Subscription Options' page, relative to each list member I would like to know what is the exact behavior of this option: for example, as a list admin I have the 'reminder list flag' set to 'On' , then a member X set the 'reminder user flag' to Off ==> what are the … [View More]

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Removing admin email addresses
by Spyro Polymiadis Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

Hi All, Im using mailman 2.1.9, and ive got close to 100 mail lists on it. We just have had one of our IT guys leave our company, and I was wondering if there was an easy (bulk, cli) way to remove/change the email address from the "List of Administrators" (2nd text box in General Options) Otherwise, its very a very cumbersome job to log in to each list and remove the address manually. Cheers Spyro This message and its attachments may contain legally privileged or confidential … [View More]

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Shared non-member filters
by Charles Marcus Dec. 5, 2007

Dec. 5, 2007

Hello, I'm almost sure I saw mention of something like this somewhere, but googling isn't finding it... Is there a patch available for Mailman that will let multiple lists share another lists non-member (and maybe other) filters? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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Vexing withlist and possibly rewrite rule problem?
by Ignacio Valdes Dec. 4, 2007

Dec. 4, 2007

Hello again all, I am attempting to get the following URL to work: http://www.linuxmednews.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxmednews-announce on a server that is serving linuxmednews.com. If I use the withlist fix_url command for linuxmednews-announce and put it to the fully-qualified path that is desired as above, I cannot get to any of the web interface pages. I get a resource not found message. If I use withlist and set it to the numeric IP address, it halfway works in that I can get to everything, … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] httpd.conf Rewrite rules with ZOPE to usemailman.
by Ignacio Valdes Dec. 4, 2007

Dec. 4, 2007

What ended up happening was that I followed the Mailman list moving FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.004.htp and the tar'ed symlinks to my old lists were not valid on the new server. So the symlinks needed to be deleted and re-created such as: ln -s /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/linuxmednews Then I needed to 'chmod 755 private' in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private and now it seems to work! The hopefully last step now is how to figure out how to get it to … [View More]

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Received mail not always going to list
by Jeffrey Hugo Dec. 4, 2007

Dec. 4, 2007

Hello, I noticed a few days ago that incomming mail to a list would not always get sent out. After trying to trace down the problem, i noticed the following in the /var/log/mailman/error file corresponding to each missing message. I've been unable to determine why the majority of messages go out to the list bit some do not. The machine is running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), Mailman 2.1.5 installed with apt-get, and Postfix. Any help would be appreciated. -Jeff Dec 03 18:09:53 2007 (4532) … [View More]

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