Mailman 3 October 2008 - Mailman-Users

Mailman on multiple domains
by Scott Race 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I have Postfix and Mailman running on a RHLE server. Mailman and Postfix work fine for a single domain setup. I have now setup my postfix configuration setup to accept mail for multiple domains. I did so editing main.cf to include the new domain I want to receive mail for, created a local user account for the user, and created a virtual_alias_maps file which tells the email to the second domain to forward to the new user account I setup. So I have mailman running on a new VirtualHost, I can create a list from the web interface, I can join lists and all emails from the system look ok (having the second domain name). When posting, I get the following: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: Test Post Sent: 10/28/2008 1:11 PM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: Scott-test-request(a)second-domain.org on 10/28/2008 1:11 PM You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For assistance, contact your system administrator. MSEXCH:MSExchangeIS:/DC=local/DC=jda:SERVER This must have something to do with my virtual_alias_maps file, which currently has nothing in it except a map from the second domain to a local user (which I just did as a test). I'm sure I'm missing something here? Thanks Scott

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membership disabled message
by Ricardo Kleemann 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi, One of my lists is the newsletter type, where one person is in charge of doing subs and unsubs. For this list in particular I don't really care, at all, about sending this disabled message to the users. In the list config, I set bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings to 0 yet I still see mailman sending out these messages. how can I completely disable this feature? Thanks Ricardo

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Re: [Mailman-Users] help diagnosing problem
by Mark Sapiro 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Ricardo Kleemann wrote: >Ok, I do see that there are a few errors for malformed remote addresses, but >would this cause mailman to stop processing? Looking through smtp-failure I >see only a couple of these errors in an hour timeframe, nothing that would >cause mailman to get stuck. The errors you see are symtoms of problems between Mailman and the MTA. You won't actually see anything in the smtp-failure log about the hang itself. >It seems very slow in handling the large outqueue, even though I have a high >power server and very fast internet connection. I don't see python taking up >much of the cpu, it is processing the out queue, but it would seem to me, >very slowly. Because most of the time is Mailman just waiting for an SMTP response. If you have Python 2.4 or later, see the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/-IA9> for a way to get copious debugging info from the Python smtplib. Also search the FAQ for 'performance'. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Correct Syntax For SUBSCRIBE Email Command
by Steve Lund 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello, Sorry for the stupid question but the documentation shows no examples and I am getting tired of playing 20 guesses with Mailman and always loosing. How do I make the following work? - subscribe address= "John Q Public" <jqp123(a)pobox.com> YIELDS: The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your original message. - Results: Bad digest specifier: "John - Done. According to the Help password and digest are optional yet it seems to want digest. Are commands case sensitive? Are extra spaces a problem and if so where? I want to include a name to go along with the email address. The web interface seems to be content with the above address format. Unfortunately, the user doing the subscribing will not be an administrator and will not have access to the web interface. Thanks, Steve

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Ubuntu version number
by Bob Lydiate 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

How can I tell what actual version of Mailman I have. I am using mailman on an Ubuntu server and the Ubuntu version number is not in the same general format as the mailman version numbers. <>< Bob Lydiate ><>

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu version number
by b19141＠anl.gov 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

"Bob Lydiate" <blydiate(a)gmail.com> wrote: >How can I tell what actual version of Mailman I have. I am using >mailman on an Ubuntu server and the Ubuntu version number is not in the >same general format as the mailman version numbers. Did you install the Ubuntu/Debian package? If so, then you have a mixture of versions. When I looked at 2.1.9, I reviewed all of the Debian patches. Most were undocumented, so I had no idea what they did. And I could not determine the base version number. IIRC, one patch seemed to be based on 2.1.4 code. Of three security patches, two matched the SourceForge source, and one did not. There is also a patch that erroneously deletes a library that is sometimes needed. It was at this time that I decided that I had no idea what source I was running, and I was not assured of getting assistance from this Mailman-users group. So I decided to build my own Ubuntu package from the SourceForge source. The only patch I kept was one that placed libraries in the "proper" directories for Ubuntu. Short answer - look at the changes file or the patch directory. My test Mailman virtual machine is down now for patching, so I cannot give you the exact directories and paths. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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Web link configurations?
by David Lane 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

I have modified the mm_cfg.py file with the correct DEFAULT_URL_HOST, but the web links keep defaulting to the hostname of the server instead of the CNAME (alias) of the site as defined in the mm_cfg. Where else might mailman be getting the settings from that I haven't checked yet? Thanks, DAVID -- David A. Lane, KG4GIY EC/RO Prince William County ARES(R)/RACES +1.703.628.3868 http://www.pwcares.org/ IM/Skype: kg4giy

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Moving Lists
by Jeff Bernier 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello All, I am a newbie to the Mailman ListServer, so go easy... I have a new server running our new Mailman Lists. I also have an older system containing Mailman lists that I want to migrate to the new server. Is this possible? If so... how is it done? Any help is appreciated. -Jeff "It does not require many words to speak the truth." - Chief Joseph, Great Nez Perce Indian Chief

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help diagnosing problem
by Ricardo Kleemann 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi, I'm running mailman 2.1.9 under Ubuntu, and for some reason it seems to somehow be getting stuck once in a while. Almost every day I have to "kick it" to get it going by restarting the process. Although it seems all the qrunner processes are still there, the qfiles seem stuck and until I restart mailman, the queue does not get processed. I have a couple large lists, to the point that when the queue gets stuck, I can come in the morning and see there are almost 20,000 messages in the qfiles/out directory. I've been running these lists for a few years now, and they were running fine under mailman in another server, but now I've moved them to a new server, and somehow this is happening. I see that in logs/error there are a lot of errors related to unparseable message, for example: Oct 29 07:46:00 2008 (4208) Uncaught runner exception: multipart message with no defined boundary Oct 29 07:46:00 2008 (4208) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 100, in _oneloop msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 164, in dequeue msg = email.message_from_string(msg, Message.Message) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/__init__.py", line 51, in message_from_string return Parser(_class, strict=strict).parsestr(s) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 240, in _parsebody msgobj = self.parsestr(part) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 265, in _parsebody msg = self.parse(fp) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 247, in _parsebody 'multipart message with no defined boundary') BoundaryError: multipart message with no defined boundary Oct 29 07:46:00 2008 (4208) Ignoring unparseable message: 1225156297.669034+58c184ed96a18e9fdad8c658fde5815c31440c01 But anyway, these lists ran without a hitch in the other server with an older version of mailman. Is there something I can look at to help debug this problem? Right now it looks like I have to resort to a cron entry to restart mailman once a day, probably.. :-( Thanks for any help Ricardo

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Messages shunted with "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported"
by Josh Clark 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi, I'm having trouble sending a message from one of my lists using Mailman 2.1.11. The message itself is entirely ascii and sent with the US-ASCII charset, but it's failing with a "unicode is not supported" error. My (extremely unsophisticated) reading of the error log leads me to believe that the problem ise happening when the footer is applied to the message, but the footer text is also ascii. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated! From the error log: Oct 27 05:15:16 2008 (2734) Uncaught runner exception: decoding Unicode is not supported Oct 27 05:15:16 2008 (2734) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 74, in _dispose self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 159, in process deliveryfunc(mlist, msg, msgdata, envsender, refused, conn) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 292, in verpdeliver Decorate.process(mlist, msgcopy, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 102, in process ufooter = unicode(footer, lcset, 'ignore') TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported Oct 27 05:15:16 2008 (2734) SHUNTING: 1225102514.5674801+43301f942e02e78abe431e7148223e1c0165fe58 Many thanks for your help. All best, Josh

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