Mailman-Users July 2007

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Re: [Mailman-Users] No access to private archives
by Jon Loose 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Mark, Your understanding from afar is better than the evidence of my own eyes! I had checked the public/private setting, and so when I read your message, I thought that it was probably incorrect. However, going back, I see it is in fact set 'public' and changing the setting fixes it. Thanks so much for such a rapid and helpful response! Jon ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> To: Jon Loose <jjloose(a)yahoo.co.uk>; mailman-users(a)python.org Sent: Monday, 23 July, 2007 9:22:50 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] No access to private archives Jon Loose wrote: >A problem that seems strange at the moment: I have two lists, each set up in the same way to use private archives. Mail has been sent to both lists, and these messages are archived (as evidenced by checking the files from the shell) In one case, however, I can access the archives through the web interface, whilst in the other case I get the message: > >Forbidden >You don't have permission to access /pipermail/listname/ on this server. >--- >Apache Server at www.domainname.org Port 443 Mailman seems to think that this list has a public archive. At least it is generating (somewhere) a public archive URL for this list, and there is an archives/public/listname symlink or you'd be getting a "not found" error. It is unclear what the problem is, but I am guessing it is a combination of the list's Archiving Options->archive_private being set to 'public', and the archives/private directory not being 'world searchable' or owned by the web server. I expect you can access this list's archives via a private URL of the form <http://www.example.com/mailman/private/listname>, and I also suspect that changing the list's Archiving Options->archive_private to 'private' will fix the problem by using private archive URLs of the above form in archive links. Whether you need to adjust ownership and/or permissions of archives/private depends on whether you ever want to have any public archives. See <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node9.html>. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

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No access to private archives
by Jon Loose 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

A problem that seems strange at the moment: I have two lists, each set up in the same way to use private archives. Mail has been sent to both lists, and these messages are archived (as evidenced by checking the files from the shell) In one case, however, I can access the archives through the web interface, whilst in the other case I get the message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pipermail/listname/ on this server. --- Apache Server at www.domainname.org Port 443 This problematic list is newly created, but as I say, it is performing fine and messages are being sent/received/stored. This system has worked so well for the last 12 months that I've not done any mailman administration for that long - so apologies now if it's a basic error. Any ideas on what I can do to get web based archive access on this other list? Thanks, Jon ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.ht…

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Performance Issue?
by Trevor Dodds 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi, I have a list of 5000 users, this is a newsletter only list and is currently the only list on our server the server has lots of free memory and cpu does not run high. The problem I'm faced is that when an email is sent to the list it takes a while before mailman starts sending the email to sendmail. This process took over 2 hours. Is It normal for mailman to send bunches of around 300 users per mail shot? Is there anything I can do to speed up email between mailman / sendmail? Jul 23 15:20:36 lists sendmail[8142]: [ID 801593 mail.info] l6NDKYj3008142: from=<summit_highlights-bounces(a)lists.johncom.co.za>, size=7530, class=-30, nrcp ts=4, msgid=<200707231315.l6NDF1vb006983(a)zeus.johncom.co.za>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Jul 23 15:34:29 lists sendmail[8274]: [ID 801593 mail.info] l6NDYSpB008274: from=<summit_highlights-bounces(a)lists.johncom.co.za>, size=7530, class=-30, nrcp ts=4, msgid=<200707231315.l6NDF1vb006983(a)zeus.johncom.co.za>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] Thanks Trevor

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which / getmylists command
by chris burgess 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

One of our Mailman users wanted to get a list of the lists he was subscribed to. He read "somewhere on the internet" that this was available by posting GETMYLISTS to Mailman. I can't find this documented anywhere, but I did find this page which mentions a 'which' command that does the same thing. http://www.mcmaster.ca/uts/help/mailman/commands.htm That page's header says "Mailman - Listserv Distribution Lists", which confused me momentarily, but they do seem to be using Mailman (2.0.8). Is this functionality available via a plugin? (Do plugins for Mailman exist?) I know it can be done with find_member, but I'm interested in whether this is available for regular list members to do. Thanks

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Subscriber question
by Dave Foran 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I got this question today Is it possible as a subscriber to receive messages to the listserv both as individual emails AND as a daily digest? I'd like to keep current with the discussion, but archive the daily digest for my reference, which I used to do with the old list. Can't seem to figure out how to make that happen now. I assume the only way is to subscribe with a second address Regards Dave -- Dave Foran Internet ONLY: dave(a)hamnet.org Cruise Missile Coordinates 41.36.46N 81.25.53W

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Reg expressions question
by Jason L 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

I don't know much about regex but in my subjects I need to match say BLAHBLAHBLAH and anything after it I tried BLAHBLAHBLAH* but it doesn't seem to work. -------------------------------------------- http://listserver.weatherserver.net Weather Alerts, Traffic Alerts, Toronto Fire CAD Alerts All to your email, 24/7/365 *****Visit us today*****

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Can't connect to MTA Exim4
by Daniel D Jones 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Setting up a new server with Mailman and Exim4. Exim is sending and receiving mail and the mailing list is created and accepts mail. It's failing on trying to send it out. In the smtp_failure log, I get this: Jul 22 10:23:26 2007 (2382) delivery to foo(a)bar.net failed with code -1: please run connect() first Jul 22 10:23:26 2007 (2382) delivery to john.doe(a)gmail.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') Jul 22 10:23:26 2007 (2382) delivery to user(a)comcast.net failed with code -1: please run connect() first I set debugging in SMTPDirect.py to 1 and in the error log I get this for every attempted message: Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(648): SyntaxError : invalid syntax Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): Traceback (most recent call last): Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 278, in ? Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): main() Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 225, in main Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): qrunner = make_qrunner(*runners[0]) Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 125, in make_qrunner Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): qrunner = qrclass(slice, range) Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 56, in __init__ Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): mod = __import__(modname) Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): File " /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py ", line 65 Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): self.__conn.connect(mm_cfg.SMTPHOST, mm_cfg.SMTPPORT) Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): ^ Jul 22 10:25:20 2007 qrunner(649): SyntaxError : invalid syntax I assume there's a variable that isn't properly set somewhere but I'm not familiar enough with Python or mailman to know which one. Neither SMTPHOST or SMTPPORT appears to be a directly set variable.

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Prerequesits for mailman and a mta
by Helmut Schneider 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hi, what part(s) of e.g. postfix do I need to run mailman? I have installed mailman in a chrooted environment. What does mailman need to run properly? Is mailman able to use a mta via IP and a sendmail/mailwrapper binary provided in the chroot is enough? I'm not talking about inbout mails/requests, just outbound, mails generated by mailman. Thanks, Helmut

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run an external command on archive update
by Jim Popovitch 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hi all, I need to run an external command (rss update) when someone posts to a list and the archive is updated. Any ideas on the best way to achieve this? Tia, -Jim P

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AOL's "Client TOS Notification"
by Rick Pasotto 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

I have recently been getting some of these from one of my mailing lists. There is nothing in it (that I've been able to see) that would tell me who the user is that is rejecting the email. There are several AOL addresses subscribed but only one rejection each time a mailing goes out. 1) Have I overlooked something that would identify the user? 2) Why would AOL send such a useless email? -- "The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules." --- H. L. Mencken Rick Pasotto rick(a)niof.net http://www.niof.net

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