Mailman 3 October 2008 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Command output: local: fatal: execvp/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )
by b19141＠anl.gov 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

jewel.brueggeman-makda(a)washburn.edu wrote, in reply: >/etc/aliases is the location of my aliases file and that's where postfix >is pointing. I cannot change the owner to the aliases and aliases.db or >else I can't run newaliases. > >I ran ./configure --with-mail-god=nobody >and I have default_privs = nobody > >Any other suggestions? There should be two aliases files - one supplied by the OS (and/or Postfix), and one created by Mailman. You need to define both to Postfix in main.cf in the alias_maps = hash:aliasfile1 hash:aliasfile2 line. Keep the permissions on the system file as they are, so that the "newaliases" command will work. The permissions on the Mailman-generated aliases file need to match the --with-mail-gid= parameter on the ./configure statement. I just noticed that on my Ubuntu system there is no system aliases file, so I do not have a definition for postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON, and the other common userids. And I do not want to include those definitions in the Mailman-generated aliases file, as a re-generation of that file would proably omit my manual additions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Command output: local: fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

When I create a new list and put my email address, I do receive a confirmation. I can deliver mail as root also from my server. Once I try and post to the list is when nothing happens, just a bounce back saying the "Connection is refused." The only clue I can see if the following in my maillog: Command output: local: fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied I read the above error means postfix does not have permissions to access the mailman wrappers. Before I post this question to a postfix listserv, I wanted to confirm my permissions were correct. Here is what I have for /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: -rwxrwsr-x 1 mailman mailman 16887 Oct 15 09:10 mailman My aliases.db file is owned by root. I am running... Red Hat 5.1 Postfix 2.3.3 Mailman 2.1.11 Also, when I run check_perms - f as root it says "no problems found" Jewel

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clue to moderation
by Michael Welch 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hi friends. With Mailman, is there any clue in a received message header that the original message went through moderation and was approved -- as opposed to being sent unmoderated? Also, I sent this previously through my From address' smtp server, but python.org tagged it as spam, which seems pretty aggressive considering that I am enrolled on the list server. >Could not deliver message to the following recipient(s): > >Failed Recipient: mailman-users(a)python.org >Reason: Remote host said: 553 rejected, message looks like spam. > > -- The header and top 20 lines of the message follows -- > >Received: from adsl-75-45-6-67.dsl.scrm01.sbcglobal.net [75.45.6.67] by homepower.com with SMTP; > Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:49:35 -0700 >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 >Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:47:25 -0700 >To: mailman-users(a)python.org >From: Michael Welch <mwelch(a)redwoodalliance.org> >Subject: clue to moderation >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Hi friends. > >With Mailman, is there any clue in a received message header that the original message went through moderation and was approved -- as opposed to being sent unmoderated?

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problem with mailman and postfix
by William Lebel 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hi all! I have a problem. When i send a email to my mailing list, i always got this error: *Oct 27 22:48:13 kim postfix/smtpd[10355]: connect from col0-omc2-s9.col0.hotmail.com[65.55.34.83] Oct 27 22:48:14 kim postfix/smtpd[10355]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from col0-omc2-s9.col0.hotmail.com[65.55.34.83]: 554 5.7.1 <v-info-annonce(a)virtual-info.eu>: Relay access denied; from=< myemail(a)hotmail.com> to=<v-info-annonce(a)virtual-info.eu> proto=ESMTP helo=< col0-omc2-s9.col0.hotmail.com> *How i can repair this? Here is my postfix config: # # ispCP Ï‰ (OMEGA) a Virtual Hosting Control System # # @copyright 2001-2006 by moleSoftware GmbH # @copyright 2006-2008 by ispCP | http://isp-control.net # @version SVN: $ID$ # @link http://isp-control.net # @author ispCP Team # # @license # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under # the terms of the MPL General Public License as published by the Free Software # Foundation; either version 1.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later # version. # You should have received a copy of the MPL Mozilla Public License along with # this program; if not, write to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) # http://opensource.org | osi(a)opensource.org # ################################################################################ # Postfix directory settings; These are critical for normal Postfix MTA functionallity command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix # Some common configuration parameters mynetworks_style = host myhostname = kim.v-info.info mydomain = $myhostname smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP ispCP 1.0.0 RC6 OMEGA Managed setgid_group = postdrop # Receiving messages parameters mydestination = $myhostname, $mydomain append_dot_mydomain = no append_at_myorigin = yes local_transport = local virtual_transport = virtual transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/ispcp/transport alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases # Delivering local messages parameters mail_spool_directory = /var/mail # Mailboxquota # => 0 for unlimited # => 104857600 for 100 MB mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" # Message size limit # => 0 for unlimited # => 104857600 for 100 MB message_size_limit = 0 biff = no recipient_delimiter = + local_destination_recipient_limit = 1 local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps # ispCP Autoresponder parameters ispcp-arpl_destination_recipient_limit = 1 # Delivering virtual messages parameters virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/virtual virtual_mailbox_limit = 0 virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/ispcp/domains virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/ispcp/mailboxes virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/ispcp/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman virtual_minimum_uid = 1004 virtual_uid_maps = static:1004 virtual_gid_maps = static:8 # SASL paramters smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_local_domain = broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_invalid_helo_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_unknown_sender_domain, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, reject_unlisted_recipient, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:12525, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:60000, permit smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_multi_recipient_bounce, reject_unauth_pipelining # TLS parameters; activate, if avaible/used #smtpd_use_tls = yes #smtpd_tls_loglevel = 2 #smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/cert.pem #smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/privkey.pem #smtpd_tls_auth_only = no #smtpd_tls_received_header = yes # AMaViS parameters; activate, if available/used #content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 # Quota support; activate, if available/used #virtual_create_maildirsize = yes #virtual_mailbox_extended = yes #virtual_mailbox_limit_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/ mysql_virtual_mailbox_limit_maps.cf #virtual_mailbox_limit_override = yes #virtual_maildir_limit_message = "The user you're trying to reach is over mailbox quota." #virtual_overquota_bounce = yes # Mailman parameters unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 owner_request_special = no mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1

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What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running?
by TGPlatt, WebMaster 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Okay, so now that I've got finally mailman moved and running on the new server and working with postfix and apache2 and sending and receiving emails and all that basic "stuff", I still have one question I haven't been able to answer. I seem to be missing two full months worth of archives. From what I can tell looking at my backups, it appears that the last time the archive process actually ran on our old server was in early August. Then for some reason it stopped funning and thee have been no archive updates since then. I suspect those "lost messages" aren't really lost at all but are merely caught in some sort of internal blockage in mailman. What I'm trying to figure out here is how to clear the clogged drain pipe and get the archive working again. When I first installed the backup from the old server to the new one and then checked the list's configuration parameters, I saw some parameters on the Archiving options page that provided for "rebuilding" the archive. But now those options seem to have disappeared now too. Can Mark or someone else tell me how I go about figuring out where my missing messages have gone and get the archive working again as it should be? Thanks.

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Mailman installation with more then 16000 lists
by Thijs Braem 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hello everyone, It appears we hit the 32k-inodes-per-directory limit in ext2fs today, so mailman can't create any new lists. We could of course move the lists to an XFS filesystem, but I was wondering if there is a way to not have mailman create 2 entries in the lists directory for every mailing list (maybe by grouping them in subdirectories or so). Does anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance! -- Thijs Braem Onderwijstechnoloog Onderwijsvernieuwing & OnderwijsServiceCentrum Vrije Universiteit Brussel Tel : +32.2629.1249 E-mail: tbraem(a)vub.ac.be http://osc.vub.ac.be/ -- "If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." -- Noam Chomsky

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Feature reqeust for wiki.list.org - short URLs
by Stefan Förster 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hello world, first of all, the Mailman wiki at http://wiki.list.org/ is really very helpful. I've come to find it's structure very clean and easy to understand. Especially the FAQ part is very, very helpful and saved me lots of time when trying to troubleshoot a problem. But - there is one thing about the length of URLs. Let's consider for example (long line incoming): http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.16+How+do+I+prevent+duplicate+copies+of+… If I click on Tools -> Info, the wiki presents me the shorter URL: http://wiki.list.org/x/eoA9 Do you think it's possible to modify the wiki code as to present this shorter URL on every page so that one could copy the short link without having to call Tools -> Info? Cheers Stefan

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msg_footer and standard message signature question
by Daniel Novotny 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

hello, we have stumbled upon a problem, that in msg_footer, Mailman discards the space at the end of the signature delimiter "-- ", which should be two dashes and space, according to http://www.guckes.net/mail/sig.etiquette.html#sigdashes the code (Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py) says text = re.sub(r' *\r?\n', r'\n', template % d) so all the spaces before newline are eaten by the regex: is there any specific reason to strip the spaces? The previous version of mailman just changed \r\n to \n ... We want to correct the signature problem, but we don't want any regression... thanks and regards, Daniel Novotny

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Mailman doesn't post messages anymore
by Andre Tann 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hello everyone, there is a mailman problem on my machine which i cannot really locate. I can send a mail to one of the lists. The mail is delivered to mailman. But then as I see in the postfix logs, the mail never returns back to the postfix system. Instead, mailman produces errors like these: # cat /var/lib/mailman/logs/post | tail -1 Oct 27 11:03:33 2008 (5104) post to testliste from mail@xxx, size=2150, message-id=<200810270909.31448@inter>, 4 failures The list "testliste" has 4 recipients, that's why the 4 failures, I think. In the smtp-failure-log I see things like this: # cat /var/lib/mailman/logs/smtp-failure Oct 26 21:03:02 2008 (5104) delivery to <one-adress> failed with code -1: please run connect() first Oct 26 21:03:02 2008 (5104) delivery to <another-adress> failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') Oct 26 21:03:02 2008 (5104) delivery to <again-another-adress> failed with code -1: please run connect() first Can anybody tell me what's going on here? Where can I start my search? The postfix mail system seems to be working fine. Mail are going in and out, as usual. -- Andre Tann

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Giving Non-Administrator Access To Simple Admin Functions
by Steve Lund 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hello, I am currently administering a small Mailman 2.11 list for our volunteer organization. Another individual needs the basic ability to subscribe, unsubscribe and possibly list members. This person thinks that they are a lot more computer literate than they are and I don't want to give them the password to the web configuration interface for fear that they will mess something up that will take me hours to figure out and fix. I am an embedded hardware engineer and not a programmer but I am careful enough not to change settings or list parameters without thoroughly testing the changes. So far I have managed to stay out of trouble! :-) Is it possible to do these rudimentary functions via the e-mail interface? If so can you point me to some documentation on how to do this? The only information I have found on the email interface seems to be directed to an individual user changing their own parameters and not to admin functions. Would I then have to add this person as an administrator and then just not tell them about the other email commands or the existence of the web interface? Any other suggestions? Thanks, Steve P.S. These admins and users are all on Windows boxes so any solution cannot be Linux specific.

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