Mailman 3 June 2007 - Mailman-Users

People are dropping off several of our listservs and we don't know why
by Joellen Leavelle June 19, 2007

June 19, 2007

Hi. My subject line basically says it all. We run several listservs (both internal and external) and all of a sudden several people just stopped receiving the messages we sent. At first we thought it was a problem with our internal e-mail set up, but a few months later other people started telling us that they hadn't received any listserv messages for 2 months. Have any of you ever experienced this problem? If so, how do you fix it? I've gone in to look at the subscription list and the … [View More]

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Cron gate news Illegal Command
by Michael Ballard June 17, 2007

June 17, 2007

I recently installed mailman 2.1.9-2 via RPM on Fedora Core 6. Everything seems to be working fine except every 5 minutes I receive the following error via my mailman list: "Illegal command: /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news" root is sending it. /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news/ has the same permissions as the other cron jobs in //usr/lib/mailman/cron/ I edited /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in/, commenting out what I thought the offending line was: "0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * … [View More]

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List
by letb24＠aol.com June 16, 2007

June 16, 2007

Hey everyone! Really new to all this, I know I can search the FAQ, and I did, but was hoping someone wasn't busy this morning and could give me a step by step at how to extract my email list so I can have a hard copy. Lately, I have been getting a lot of bounces and notices have been sent out that their account will be deleted. Any idea why this is happening? From about 980 people, almost 120 people don't get the email. I realize some might be from old emails but I know others used to get it … [View More]

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Assertion error in senddigests
by Dan Lowe June 15, 2007

June 15, 2007

I know a bit of Python, but this traceback is way over my head. I'm getting this every day when the senddigests cron job runs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/pkg/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in <module> main() File "/usr/local/pkg/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main mlist.send_digest_now() File "/usr/local/pkg/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in send_digest_now ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/… [View More]

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Problems with virtual domains on postfix...
by Roberto Leibman June 15, 2007

June 15, 2007

Help! I can't get my list to work. For some reason postfix keeps redirecting email sent to the list to the non-list domain. Thanks for you help... Roberto ---------------------------- Details: The List: lug-nuts(a)saclug.org The "Real" Domain: leibmanland.com The message from a bounced back message sent to lug-nuts(a)saclug.org: <lug-nuts(a)leibmanland.com>: data format error. Command output: lug-nuts: Mailbox does not exist The postfix message (from mail.log) 6ADC07040E6: to=… [View More]<lug-nuts(a)leibmanland.com>, orig_to=<lug-nuts(a)saclug.org>, relay=spamassassin, delay=2.4, delays=0.12/0.01/0/2.3, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via spamassassin service) --------------------------- The configuration: Environment: Ubuntu feisty running on an AMD64. Postfix version: 2.3.8. Mailman (2.1.9... I think) Excerpts from /etc/postfix/main.cf alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases mydestination = localhost, localhost.localdomain, localhost, mail, mail.leibmanland.com, [69.62.235.30] virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman virtual_mailbox_domains=leibmanland.com list.saclug.org placerliberty.org freezlets.com leibman.net mail.leibman.net byrongalvez.com mail.freezlets.com mail.byrongalvez.com lpsacramento.com mail.lpsacramento.com lpsacramento.org mail.lpsacramento.org saclug.org owner_request_special=no allow_mail_to_commands = alias mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1 Excerpts from /etc/postfix/master.cf mailman unix - n n - - pipe flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py Excerpts from /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'leibmanland.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.leibmanland.com' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, 'saclug.org') MTA='Postfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS=['placerliberty.org', 'saclug.org'] Excerpts from /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman # STANZA START: lug-nuts # CREATED: Tue Jun 12 17:04:53 2007 lug-nuts(a)saclug.org lug-nuts lug-nuts-admin(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-admin lug-nuts-bounces(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-bounces lug-nuts-confirm(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-confirm lug-nuts-join(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-join lug-nuts-leave(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-leave lug-nuts-owner(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-owner lug-nuts-request(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-request lug-nuts-subscribe(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-subscribe lug-nuts-unsubscribe(a)saclug.org lug-nuts-unsubscribe # STANZA END: lug-nuts Excerpts from /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases # STANZA START: lug-nuts # CREATED: Tue Jun 12 17:04:53 2007 lug-nuts: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post lug-nuts" lug-nuts-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin lug-nuts" lug-nuts-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces lug-nuts" lug-nuts-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm lug-nuts" lug-nuts-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join lug-nuts" lug-nuts-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave lug-nuts" lug-nuts-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner lug-nuts" lug-nuts-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request lug-nuts" lug-nuts-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe lug-nuts" lug-nuts-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe lug-nuts" # STANZA END: lug-nuts [View Less]

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Server Migration (and archive repair)
by Brian Hechinger June 15, 2007

June 15, 2007

I need to build a new mailman server. What is the best/easiest way to migrate lists (and their archives) to the new machine? Something that used rsync would be nice so I could keep things as up to date as possible and then do a final rsync right before the migration. This is definitely something that needs to be done slowly and kept up with, our archives are currently 26GB in size. ;) The other thing is, a previous admin tried to clear out the archives for a couple of lists, and now the new … [View More]

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mailman clustering?
by Pat Riehecky June 15, 2007

June 15, 2007

I am trying to build a nice failover system for random parts of our infrastructure. Does anyone know how to force mailman to replicate changes over to another identically configured system? I thought about using rsync for this but I am trying to keep the sync triggered by updates on the primary server rather than just seeing if in the last few minutes any files have changed. Ideally I would like to round robin the primary and the secondary to split the load up, but I cannot do that without … [View More]

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Member only list?
by L. H. June 15, 2007

June 15, 2007

Hi, I am currently running 2.1.9, and am trying to setup a member only list function using config_list. I've found a few instructions, but they seem to be for older versions of which the commands are no longer recognized. What I want to do is have 3 setups: 1) Everyone, members or no members, can post 2) Only members can post, no moderation required for them. Drop all non-member submissions. 3) All emails sent to the list (member + non member) must be approved by the admin. Which … [View More]

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Member only list?
by L. H. June 14, 2007

June 14, 2007

Hi, I am currently running 2.1.9, and am trying to setup a member only list function using config_list. I've found a few instructions, but they seem to be for older versions of which the commands are no longer recognized. What I want to do is have 3 setups: 1) Everyone, members or no members, can post 2) Only members can post, no moderation required for them. Drop all non- member submissions. 3) All emails sent to the list (member + non member) must be approved by the admin. Which … [View More]

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List archive and config problem
by Jo'Asia June 14, 2007

June 14, 2007

OK, the stroy is long, but there may be a lot of reasons for the problems, so here it goes. Last week the server running mailman had been upgraded (meaning a completly new machine with all the data migrated from the old one). At this time also mailman has been upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.1.9 Some minor problems appeared, like rights to archives, but they have been fixed. Unfortunately, one of the lists set for public archive is creating a private archive. The WWW admin interface still showed … [View More]

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