Mailman 3 June 2007 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Configuration
by Dragon 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

David Epstein wrote: >I have been trying to get mailman to work on my box but unfortunately it >refuses to work properly. While users can subscribe, when they send >mail to the posting email address, they don't receive confirmation of >the posting and the email isn't posted or sent to an administrator for >confirmation. I'm probably missing or not understanding some random >setting to get it to work properly. > > > >Any help would be appreciated! ---------------- End original message. --------------------- We are going to need more detail than that. Are the Qrunners running? (Do "ps aux | grep mailman" as root to find out) What is your MTA? Have you set up the aliases for the list(s) so your MTA knows how to route list traffic? What is in the mailman error, smtp and vette logs? Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Hosting multiple domains on the same mailman installation
by BG Mahesh 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

hi Currently we are hosting lists.xyz.com using Mailman. Can I use the same installation to host lists.abc.com ? I don't want the mailing lists of lists.abc.com to have a return id of lists.xyz.com. i.e. I want to host the following mailing list on the only server I have which hosts mailman, users(a)lists.xyz.com members(a)lists.xyz.com charter(a)lists.abc.com etc(a)lists.abc.com Any help is appreciated -- -- B.G. Mahesh http://www.greynium.com/ http://www.oneindia.in/ http://www.click.in/ - Free Indian Classifieds

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Problem with Configuration
by David Epstein 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

I have been trying to get mailman to work on my box but unfortunately it refuses to work properly. While users can subscribe, when they send mail to the posting email address, they don't receive confirmation of the posting and the email isn't posted or sent to an administrator for confirmation. I'm probably missing or not understanding some random setting to get it to work properly. Any help would be appreciated!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] moved lists and now they don't work
by Mark Sapiro 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

carconni wrote: > >Thank you, moving public out of the /var/mailman/archives/public >directory helped, now I can see my lists but I've lost my archives >and it doesn't seem to matter how many times or where I run /usr/ >share/mailman/bin/check_perms -f, I'm still getting these crazy >errors on various tasks: > <snip> >IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/var/mailman/ >archives/private/ui.mbox/ui.mbox' So there is no '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/ui.mbox/ui.mbox' file. Did you move it? It should exist. <snip> >IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/var/mailman/ >archives/private/blogsafety-requests.mbox/blogsafety-requests.mbox' Likewise '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/blogsafety-requests.mbox/blogsafety-requests.mbox'. <snip> >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/private/var/mailman/archives/ >private/tvguide-requests/index.html' What are the permissions on this path? They should be similar to [msapiro@sb7 var]$ ls -ld mailman drwxrwsr-x 19 root mailman 4096 Mar 3 21:02 mailman/ [msapiro@sb7 var]$ ls -ld mailman/archives drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 4096 Mar 21 2005 mailman/archives/ [msapiro@sb7 var]$ ls -ld mailman/archives/private drwxrws--x 74 root mailman 4096 May 4 09:30 mailman/archives/private/ [msapiro@sb7 var]$ ls -ld mailman/archives/private/gpc-test drwxrwsr-x 14 msapiro mailman 4096 Apr 4 03:27 mailman/archives/private/gpc-test/ [msapiro@sb7 var]$ ls -l mailman/archives/private/gpc-test/index.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 msapiro mailman 4899 Apr 3 08:56 mailman/archives/private/gpc-test/index.html The owner (root, msapiro) is not important, but the group should be mailman in every case. <snip> > File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 55, >in breaklink > os.unlink(link) >OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/var/mailman/ >archives/public/engineering' Is '/private/var/mailman/archives/public/engineering' a symlink to '/private/var/mailman/archives/private/engineering'? That's what it should be. What are the permissions on /private/var/mailman/archives/public? They should be similar to [msapiro@sb7 var]$ ls -ld mailman/archives/public drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 May 4 09:30 mailman/archives/public/ -- 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changed Firewall and Now Mailman is not working
by Mark Sapiro 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

brianmaull(a)yahoo.com wrote: > >Posts get to the mailman server, but don't make it to the archives, bounce, or go out to the list. It is not clear to me why posts are not getting to the archive. If everything worked before and the firewall is the only change and the posts reach Mailman, the should get to the archive even if they can't get sent out. Is there anything in Mailman's error log? >There is nothing in the smtp failure log, but there are errors in another log that say (Name service error for yahoo.ca: Host not found, try again). Which other log? See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.014.htp> for some hints on this one. >I can ping yahoo.ca no problem from the server Can you connect to port 25 at yahoo.ca (something that your firewall may well be blocking). -- 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 for windows
by mattias jonsson 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hm exist mailman for windows??

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Changed Firewall and Now Mailman is not working
by Brian Maull 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Hello, We changed the firewall in our network and now our mailman installation is no longer working. From the server mailman is installed on I can access the internet just fine, so DNS and the default gateway are functioning. Is there anything in the mailman setup or in Red Hat 9 that I should check to see if it is pointing at my old firewall? Thanks, Brian

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stat=unknown mailer error 2
by Aaron Schubert 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

When sending an email message to a test list on our mailman list server I receive the following error in the sendmail maillog. Here is the maillog entry. Jun 21 13:55:50 listserv1 sendmail[4764]: l5LItoG2004763: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post unixtest", ctladdr=<unixtest@internallistserv> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30989, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer error 2 I am not sure what is happening but it looks like the error is when it tries to post. Does anyone know what the stat=unknown mailer error 2 means and how to correct it? Any help would be appreciated.

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Custom verify.txt has Wrong Content-Type
by Bryan Carbonnell 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

I have created a custom verify.txt for one of my lists, that is bilingual, English & Chinese. It is in $PREFIX/lists/<list-name>/en It goes out just fine, but the MIME Content-Type is wrong for this file to be read properly. It has a charset of us-ascii. Is there anyway to change it to utf-8 easily or do I need to change the source code somewhere? -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb(a)gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"

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Feature comparison chart?
by Steven Clift 21 Jun '07

21 Jun '07

Does anyone know of a feature comparison chart that compares Mailman to tools like: Sympa (open source) GroupServer (open source, zope-based) Listserv (commercial) YahooGroups (ad supported) GoogleGroups (ad supported) Thanks, Steven Clift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steven Clift - clift(a)publicus.net Web: http://publicus.net Blog: http://dowire.org/notes NGO: http://e-democracy.org Replies to slc@ may be missed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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