Mailman 3 October 2008 - Mailman-Users

moderating issue
by Manon Lamontagne Oct. 20, 2008

Oct. 20, 2008

I have mailman 2.1.11.cp2, under the member list, all the members have a clear mod flag but when they post, we still need to approve their postings. Where do I go to correct this problem? (Even as the owner and moderator I have to approve my own posting) Thanks, Manon

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deleting a big message queue
by Manlio Perillo Oct. 20, 2008

Oct. 20, 2008

Hi. I have a very big message queue for a mailing list. The queue is so big that the web page http://lists.xxx/mailman/admindb/yyy takes to long that the server times out. How can I delete the message queue using mailman internal API? Thanks Manlio Perillo

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Help - Mailman programs all do "Memory Fault' on Linux, here's what I tried to fix it
by Don Steiny Oct. 19, 2008

Oct. 19, 2008

Hi, I am on Debian 2.6.8. I used apt-get to update Python to 2-4 and the latest version of mailman. I used one archive in sources.list; deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free When I attempt to start it I get this message: # # /etc/init.d/mailman start * Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing. * Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start. Searching around the web I found I needed to create a list mailman (though I have not figured out why it was not seeing my existing lists, that is for later) I got this; # newlist mailman Memory fault I thought the problem might be with the debian mailmail I went to sourceforge and downloaded and installed 2.1.11 and nothing changed. I though the problem might be with Python, I downlaoded and installed Python 2.6 and there were changes in that when I tried to install mailman I got this: Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ... Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... bin/update:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5 /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 51, in <module> from Mailman import MailList File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 51, in <module> from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in <module> from Archiver import * File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 32, in <module> from Mailman import Mailbox File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 21, in <module> import mailbox File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/mailbox.py", line 19, in <module> import email.message ImportError: No module named message make: *** [update] Error 1 I copied over the 2.4 mailbox.py file to 2.6 and then I could compile everything with the sha and md5 warnings, which are supposedly no big deal, and I got one tiny change: /usr/sbin/newlist:96: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha Memory fault What should I do next? Help! -Don

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adding users to MailWatch
by Dave Filchak Oct. 19, 2008

Oct. 19, 2008

Why is it that when you add a domain administrator for a particular domain, you get the following error when they try to look at or add to the white or black lists: Username is not in the correct format to use this utility. For instance, I gave him the username of: domainuser with a password (not his actual email password). This allows him to log into MailWatch and see the mail and quarantines for his domain. However, he gets the error noted above when he tries to access the lists. If I change his username to domainuser(a)hisdomain.com, it allows him to access the lists but retrieves no rows from the database, even though there is mail quarantined. The other weird thing is that, even though he can access the lists, the format is wrong i.e. @domainuser@hisdomain.com rather than @hisdomain.com. What am I missing? Dave

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/bin/sh: mailman: command not found
by Fahad Saeed Oct. 19, 2008

Oct. 19, 2008

Hello All, I am trying to install mailman on my server.I followed this tutorial: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...alMailman.html After following all the steps, mailman seeems to be working as well as the webpage for the list. If I subscribe to the list, I get an email in my email inbox(hotmail, yahoo etc) for confirmation of the membership etc. But there are two problems that I would like to discuss and your input would be appreciable 1)If I email from one of my email box(subscribed to the list), the email is not forwarded to any of the members. 2) I keep getting the following email in my administrator email box: Code: As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: Mailman@mydomain From: root@mydomain Subject: Cron <mailman@mia> mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list At your convenience, visit: http://mydomain/mailman/admindb/mailman to approve or deny the request. If I allow, "root" to be subscibed to the list, I get the email to all the recipients of the list, with the message: Code: [Mailman] Cron <mailman@mia> mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news‏ From: mailman-bounces@mydomain on behalf of Cron Daemon (root@mydomain) /bin/sh: mailman: command not found Any pointers would be appreciable.If any logs are required to get a clearer picture please let me know _________________________________________________________________ Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydriv…

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Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server
by Dennis Putnam Oct. 19, 2008

Oct. 19, 2008

I am installing a replacement server and am having trouble migrating Mailman. The installation works but none of my lists show up when I use the browser interface. However, when I run 'list_lists' from the command line they are there. Is this a config issue with just the HTML interface or is there something else fundamentally wrong? I thought I just needed to do a simple copy of the /var/lib/mailman directory to the new server but perhaps there is more to it then that. TIA.

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Help - Mailman programs all do "Memory Fault' on Linux, here's what I tried to fix it
by Don Steiny Oct. 18, 2008

Oct. 18, 2008

Hi, I am on Debian 2.6.8. I used apt-get to update Python to 2-4 and the latest version of mailman. I used one archive in sources.list; deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free When I attempt to start it I get this message: # # /etc/init.d/mailman start * Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing. * Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start. Searching around the web I found I needed to create a list mailman (though I have not figured out why it was not seeing my existing lists, that is for later) I got this; # newlist mailman Memory fault I thought the problem might be with the debian mailmail I went to sourceforge and downloaded and installed 2.1.11 and nothing changed. I though the problem might be with Python, I downlaoded and installed Python 2.6 and there were changes in that when I tried to install mailman I got this: Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py ... Compiling /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... bin/update:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5 /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py:32: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 51, in <module> from Mailman import MailList File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 51, in <module> from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in <module> from Archiver import * File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 32, in <module> from Mailman import Mailbox File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 21, in <module> import mailbox File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/mailbox.py", line 19, in <module> import email.message ImportError: No module named message make: *** [update] Error 1 I copied over the 2.4 mailbox.py file to 2.6 and then I could compile everything with the sha and md5 warnings, which are supposedly no big deal, and I got one tiny change: /usr/sbin/newlist:96: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha Memory fault What should I do next? Help! -Don

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Re: [Mailman-Users] /etc/aliases vs. /etc/mailman/aliases
by Scott Race Oct. 18, 2008

Oct. 18, 2008

Worked perfect. Thank you!! scott -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 10:52 AM To: Scott Race <scott(a)jda-networks.com>; mailman-users(a)python.org <mailman-users(a)python.org> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] /etc/aliases vs. /etc/mailman/aliases Scott Race wrote: > >How can I tell Postfix to also check the /etc/mailman/aliases file, or >is it better to tell mailman to write to the /etc/aliases file? Seems >like I'd rather keep my malman aliases in /etc/mailman/aliases. This is really a RedHat package question (i.e. why doesn't RedHat's package update Postfix main.cf?), but ... It is better to keep your Mailman aliases separate. Otherwise, you will run into permissions issues and also, Mailman doesn't really know about 'other' aliases in /etc/aliases and various Mailman events can lose some or all of them. You probably have something like alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases in your Postfix main.cf. Possibly other files are listed too. You need to add "hash:/etc/mailman/aliases" to the list, e.g. alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases and reload postfix. -- 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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Can't create new mail list
by HSU NORML Oct. 18, 2008

Oct. 18, 2008

Running latest version of mailman with the mailman/joomla bridge on a joomla server. at /mailman/admin/ i click on the link to create a new mail list and i receive a page: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster(a)hsunorml.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. How do I get beyond this?

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Howto add footers
by Pete%20Choppin Oct. 17, 2008

Oct. 17, 2008

Hi I am running a mailman list server at our company and for legal reasons we need a footer or disclaimer to be automatically appended to any message going out from the server. I looked on the documentation and in the FAQs and did not see any method to add footers to messages. Is this possible and if so, can you point me in the direction where I might find the instructions to do this? Thank you for your time, -- Pete

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