Mailman 3 April 2007 - Mailman-Users

mailman+drupal+apache+modsuexec+sendmail
by Michael Grant 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

My goal is to set up mailman to work with drupal so that registered drupal users can sign up certain lists. However, I can't seem to get mailman alone in my environment which is freebsd and apache 2 and sendmail. I'm using mod_suexec in apache. And it's all under a virtual host, there could be several vhosts. I have mailman more or less working with apache and suexec, though I suspect I may have problems here. Suexec does not like group write or setgid on the cgi files nor the cgi-bin dir, so I turned that off. I can get to the admin and create pages. On permissions, I'm running the mailman web page as user=mailman and group=mailman using this suexec line in the virtual host: SuexecUserGroup mailman mailman which should do away with needing to setgid the cgi files. Mailman itself (the qrunner) is running as userid=mailman and groupid=mailman as well. The doc says that this is not good because it gives access to my private archives (if I ever have any private archives). I'm not sure quite what to do about this. On the sendmail side, I have smrsh configured and when I send mail to my test mailman list, I see in the maillog the message going to mailman and I get a message back from mailman telling me I can't post to my list because I'm not on it. So it is at least getting into the mailman program. I created my initial 'mailman' list using bin/newlist mailman without errors. However and here is where my problems seem to start, when I go to listinfo web page, I don't see any lists at all. I don't see how to add myself to that list. When I try to create a list from the web interface and I get the following error: Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists I've tried both the site password and the list creator's password, same. There is nothing in logs/error. The first step seems to be to be able to add myself to the 'mailman' list on my server. By the way, is this list necessary? If I have multiple vhosts, what is this list for? I don't really want mailman messages coming from mailman@myserver, I want it coming from mailman@vhost, for each vhost. Any help appreciated! Thanks! Michael Grant

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Hi new to the list - ADA question with Mailman
by Strange, Lainie 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Hi - the state of Missouri started using Mailman this past year (currently using 2.1.9) I searched the archives and couldn't find an answer - the admin and subscriber mailman Web interfaces - are there plans to make the code ADA compliant (Section 508)? For example, using label for tagging to identify labels with form fields. We are required to be compliant with Section 508. Any help greatly appreciated! ````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Lainie Strange, Web Developer Office of Admin./ITSD-DESE Support http://dese.mo.gov <http://dese.mo.gov/> `````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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Re: [Mailman-Users] group mismatch error with postfix
by Mark Sapiro 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Neven Luetic wrote: > >Meanwhile I noticed that I get the same error, even if I move the >mailman file away. The group mismatch error is coming from some Mailman mail/mailman wrapper, so if you move yours aside and still get the error, Postfix is piping to a different wrapper. Look at your Postfix configuration and find every alias file it references and look in all those files. There is some aliases* file somewhere referenced by Postfix and probably owned by root which is piping mail for this list to some other wrapper. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Mailman Traceback
by No One 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

I'm struggling with a host of issues trying to install Mandriva 2007.0. One of the problems I'm having is getting mailman configured from a working config on Mandrake 10.1. I copied what I thought I needed but get a trace back when I try to start mailman. Here is the trace back: Starting mailman: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/mailmanctl", line 548, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/mailmanctl", line 367, in main check_for_site_list() File "/usr/sbin/mailmanctl", line 277, in check_for_site_list sitelist = MailList(sitelistname, lock=0) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 665, in Load self.CheckVersion(dict) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 707, in CheckVersion self.InitVars() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 413, in InitVars if Utils.GetCharSet(self.preferred_language) == 'us-ascii': File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 675, in GetCharSet return mm_cfg.LC_DESCRIPTIONS[lang][1] KeyError: 'en_US' Can someone help me with this? TIA. --------------------------------- 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut.

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mailman on a different port
by Michael Grant 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

I installed mailman on a vhost on a different port number other than port 80 and I noticed that when I went to the admin page, the links on that page did not include the :portnumber in them, hence, they didn't work. That shouldn't be too hard to fix. Is there some way to configure that in the meantime? Michael Grant

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Getting users to confirm
by Jeffrey Goldberg 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

I run list for some very non-technical users, with my site being their only experience with any MLM system for many of them. The single biggest problem that I have is that users fail to recognize that they need to act on confirmation requests. As far as I can tell, they treat the confirmation request as an actual confirmation that everything is done. Where would I go about changing the subject line of the confirmation requests, and what would people recommend. Am I the only experiencing this? I believe that I've made things clear to users on my static pages http://lists.shepard-families.org/ and in all of the administrative messages I send to the list. But this just doesn't seem to be enough. Also is there a way to get a listing of all things pending confirmation (not just subscriptions, but address changes as well)? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

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group mismatch error with postfix
by Neven Luetic 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Hello, when I send mail a mailinglist using mailman 2.1.5 and postfix 2.1.5 on a debian sarge system I get: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "list", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "root". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "list", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=root'. I read the FAQ, and the hints about file ownership of the mailman aliases file in combination with postfix. It is set correctly to user and owner "list" and 660: -rw-rw---- 1 list list 6,7K 2006-09-18 16:37 aliases -rw-rw---- 1 list list 12K 2006-09-18 16:37 aliases.db Then I tried to install mailman from source giving --with-mail-gid=list in case some other file is involved, but that didn't help either. The wrapper-script has ownership root:list and guid bit set: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root list 6,5K 2006-09-20 14:19 mailman I just started using mailman, but I believe to have configured everything as required by the documentation. What else could be the problem? Greetings Neven

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(no subject)
by Con Wieland 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

I have found the following bad address using ./find_member -l sscm-l "[^\w\-+@.%]": constance.frei^M constance.frei(a)lettres.unige.ch found in: sscm-l On the web page the address appears as: constance.frei constance.frei(a)lettres.unige.ch when using list_members <listname> I get constance.frei constance.frei(a)lettres.unige.ch have tried using the examples in the FAQ "3.13. How do I remove a user name or email address with an illegal character in it?" to remove: constance.fre constance.frei^M constance.frei constance.frei(a)lettres.unige.ch constance.frei^Mconstance.frei(a)lettres.unige.ch All produced errors. Any help would be appreciated Con Wieland Network and Academic Computing Services University of California at Irvine

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"Connection Refused" errors in smtp-failure
by Dov Zamir 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hi all, After trying everything in the Wiki, i got to the bottom where it says, if all else fails, ask the list, so here goes: I have compiled mailman 2.1.9 from source on Fedora Core 6, using sendmail ver. 8.13.8. Sendmail is working ccorrectly sending and receiving mail, and the aliases file has been updated with the aliases received through mailman. Mailman accepts mail sent to it, and does everything it is supposed to, except sending mail. All mail gets errors similar to the follwing (all related to the same mail): in post: Apr 02 09:48:51 2007 (2950) post to mailman from mailman-owner(a)mail.deezed.com, size=2462, message-id=<mailman.1.1175392801.8059.mailman(a)mail.deezed.com>, 1 failures in smtp: Apr 02 09:48:51 2007 (2950) <mailman.1.1175392801.8059.mailman(a)mail.deezed.com> smtp to mailman for 1 recips, completed in 0.005 seconds in smtp-failure: Apr 02 09:48:51 2007 (2950) delivery to dov(a)zamirfamily.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') There are no entries in error or in sendmail's log or in the system error log. Any suggestions? _________________________________________________________________________ This message has been scanned by Kibbutz Beit Kama's Anti Virus software, and is believed to be clean of any viruses. _________________________________________________________________________

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