Mailman 3 April 2007 - Mailman-Users

mailing to list problems
by Andy Goldzweig April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

I have a brand new box that I am using to setup mailman. I've got solaris 10 and sendmail. Mailman is installed and apache is configured. I can create lists with newlist and then I add the lines to /etc/aliases. View the admin pages for the list works. When the list is created the owner is emailed correctly. When a member is added they are emailed correctly. When I send a message to the list the only place I get the message is locally on the box and not to names listed as … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing archives again
by Mark Sapiro April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

Ivan Van Laningham wrote: >Hi All-- >This is very helpful. What I have are basically three sets of archives. > >1) Archives from the current list, fairly small and created about two >months ago after a disastrous ISP debacle (the yo-yos got themselves >_evicted_, for heaven's sake); > >2) Archives from the previous host and list incarnation and a much >earlier version--but still > 2.0--of Mailman; > >3) Archives from the previous host, same list, but a … [View More]version of >Mailman that might have started with the digit one. ;-) The person >who upgraded Mailman in Feb 2002 didn't bother to import the existing >archives, so now is the first time I've tried to import such old >archives. > >I have successfully dealt with 1 and 2. Appending the two mboxes >works well, probably because there is a two-week gap between the two >latest incarnations of the list. > >However, 3 is a problem. I don't have an mbox for the earliest >archives; instead, I have the text files--2002-February.txt, >etc.--which appear to me to be in mbox format. The .txt files are similar to .mbox files, but there are various differences. Many headers have been removed and, most importantly, email addresses may have been obscured by changing user(a)example.com to user at example.com. >If I run cleanarch on these text files before running arch on them, >they do not appear in the archives. Probably because cleanarch escapes all the "From " separators because the email address has " at " instead of "@". >If I skip cleanarch, then I get >bad addresses in the posts in the archives (and yes, I did use the >--wipe option). The bad addresses look like the following in the >index page: > >[Sangha] Anger and its expression Ryunyokingryunyo at earthlink.net > >The address is supposed to be "ryunyo at earthlink.net". No, it is supposed to be "ryunyo(a)earthlink.net". >How can I preprocess the text files to fix the problem addresses? I >assume it's because the old text files have something like From: >Ryunyo King<"ryunyo at earthlink.com"> in the from line. Is there a >secret option to cleanarch I didn't see? cleanarch won't do this. You need to process the .txt files your self with your own script or by hand to replace " at " with "@" in email addresses before using cleanarch. Obviously, you can't just globally replace " at " with "@" as there will be many occurrences of " at " outside email addresses. You might limit your self to "From " lines and From: headers. That will probably work. You could also try to use some regexp that only matches " at " if it looks like it's in an email address. >(I also ended up with a slew of duplicates when the upgrade happened >in Feb 2002; half the messages are right, the other half of the >duplicate messages have addresses similar to the above. But I'm >pretty sure I can deal with those.) > >Thanks for all the help. > >Metta, >Ivan -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan [View Less]

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Mailman receiving mail, but mail not going out.
by Richard Healy April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

I'm running mailman 2.1.5 on RH FC3. Okay, I've searched the list and have read through many posts. I've read the FAQ about what to check (http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp). Checked everyone and made sure all was working: crons, mailmanctl, etc. Qrunner is running, all 8 processes. Sendmail is using smrsh, but mailman is in /etc/smrsh linking correctly. Mail is being received and passed to mailman and placed in the mailman queue - where it sits. … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing archives again
by Ivan Van Laningham April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

Hi All-- On 4/20/07, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > At 2:05 PM -0600 4/20/07, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > > The .txt files are the text version of the "cooked" archives. They > are not in "raw" mbox format. The format is close to that of a "raw" > mbox, and it wouldn't take too much work to turn them back into a > "raw" mbox format file. However, a lot of headers and other > information will have been thrown away. > I realize that. However, … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman List Address as Part of Another MailmanList on Same Server?
by americasroof.49613477＠bloglines.com April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

Thanks for the amazingingly fast response. I was kind of hoping I could do it through the online interface as running code is probably beyond me. Thanks again. --- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net wrote: > See > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.069.htp> > and > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-February/055687.html> > for more information.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman GID problem
by Jeffrey Goldberg April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

On Apr 20, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > *If* what you say is true [...] which I am increasingly doubtful of. > then this should fix it: > > --- pkg-install.orig Fri Apr 20 13:42:17 2007 > +++ pkg-install Fri Apr 20 13:42:47 2007 > @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ > (umask 002 && /bin/mkdir -p "%%MAILMANDIR%%") || exit 1 > /usr/sbin/chown -R "%%USER%%:%%GROUP%%" "%%MAILMANDIR%%" || exit 1 > /bin/chmod g+s "%%MAILMANDIR%%" || exit 1 > + /usr/… [View More]

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Server Error When Using admindb Web Page
by Catherine Rey April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

I have a list set to hold all incoming messages. I am getting 100+ spam messages per day. When using the web page to update the database to remove them from the queue, I get back (after a long delay) an Internal Server Error 500 from Apache instead of the web page telling me the database has been updated. After getting the Server Error and requesting the admindb page again, it shows that all messages have been deleted, so they are being removed from the queue. This doesn't happen when … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman GID problem
by Jeffrey Goldberg April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:42 AM, David Southwell wrote: > Extract from /var/maillog > Apr 20 08:24:58 dns1 Mailman mail-wrapper: 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=… [View More]

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Mailman gid problem
by David Southwell April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

/usr/local/share/doc/mailman/mailman-install.txt 6.1.1 Integrating Postfix and Mailman . . * When you configure Mailman, use the --with-mail-gid=mailman switch; this will be the default if you configured Mailman after adding the mailman owner. Because the owner of the aliases.db file is mailman, Postfix will execute Mailman's wrapper program as uid and gid mailman. _______________________________ Extract from my mm_cfg.py add_virtualhost('www.vizion2000.net', '… [View More]vizion2000.net') add_virtualhost('www.atf4.com', 'atf4.com') add_virtualhost('www.methuselaproject.org', 'methuselaproject.org') add_virtualhost('www.methuselaproject.com', 'methuselaproject.com') add_virtualhost('www.ispyforum.com', 'ispyforum.com') add_virtualhost('www.workplacemassage.co.uk', 'workplacemassage.co.uk') POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['atf4.com', 'vizion2000.net', 'methuselaproject.org', 'methuselaproject.com', 'ispyforum.com', 'workplacemassage.co.uk', ] MTA ='Postfix' SMTPHOST = 'dns1.vizion2000.net' ___________________________________ Extract from /var/maillog Apr 20 08:24:58 dns1 Mailman mail-wrapper: 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'. Apr 20 08:24:58 dns1 postfix/local[23091]: A271B1CC47: to=<hanhamphoto(a)vizion2000.net>, orig_to=<hanhamphoto(a)atf4.com>, relay=local, delay=526, delays=526/0.02/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.0, status=SOFTBOUNCE (Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post hanhamphoto". 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'. ) Apr 20 08:26:23 dns1 postfix/anvil[23079]: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtp:168.100.1.7) at Apr 20 08:23:03 __________________________________________________ I have tried to rebuild mailman BUT the configuration option screen does not appear. I have tried # make with-mail-gid=mailman but still get the same results #./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman is not available There seems that mailman does not keep a record of relevant configuration setting and the command to extract current settings for mailman bin/config_list does not report this setting either. What should I be doing here? Thanks in advance david [View Less]

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Mailman List Address as Part of Another Mailman List on Same Server?
by americasroof.49613477＠bloglines.com April 20, 2007

April 20, 2007

Is it possible to include a mailman list address as part of another mailman address? I am trying to maintain a discussion list for a board of directors and would like to send the email to another board that would not have posting capabilties. Thanks

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