Mailman 3 November 2008 - Mailman-Users

Attachment URL in the archive is mangled.
by Mark Dale 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Hi All In the archives, the URL to attachments is getting mangled. Somehow an "=" gets inserted into the URL (see snippet below), and the links returns "Private archive file not found". If I remove the "=" from the URL, all is well. Can anyone shed any light on this, and how I might correct things so the URL appears correctly (without the "=") in the archive? BTW. The attachments are travelling okay with the messages. It's just in the archive that there is a problem. cheers Mark Dale

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Question about ban_list Regular Expression
by b19141＠anl.gov 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

I have a question about the ban_list regex. In a reply on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:59:28 Mark Sapiro wrote > So set Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action > to Accept so anyone can post and set Privacy options...->Subscription > rules->ban_list to a regex that matches all addresses not in your > domain. E.g., > > ^.*(a)(?!example\.com)$ > > or if you want to allow sub-domains within your domain > > ^.*(a)(.*\.)?(?!example\.com)$ If I want subdomains of example.com and anl.gov to be able to subscribe (and to ban other domains), is this the correct regex for ban_list? ^(regex|regex) i.e., ^(.*@(.*\.)?(?!example\.com)$|.*@(.*\.)?(?!anl\.gov)$) Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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so how can I test a modified gate_news?
by skip＠pobox.com 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

I've got this gate_news script modified to run SpamBayes but I'm unsure how I can test it. I'm fairly confident that I got most things right, but the only news-to-mail gateway I have access to is for comp.lang.python, not one I'd care to hose up too badly. It occurs to me that maybe I could set up a one-way gateway from some arbitrary low-traffic newsgroup to a one-off mailing list. I haven't any experience setting up gate_news. Can someone here suggest a recipe for testing this beast which doesn't require too much scaffolding? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - skip(a)pobox.com - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Issues with sending messages to list
by Mark Sapiro 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Vikram Goyal wrote: > >Since I sent this email, I have been able to send emails to the test list, >but not to the others. The test list has only 4 members. > >Further, the test list doesn't have any mapping in the alias settings for >sendmail. Very weird. So you're saying that lists with aliases don't work, but a list without aliases does work? Yet you said before >>I checked the mail logs (/var/log/maillog), and the following entry was >>found for a test message send to the test list: >> >> >> >>"Nov 18 01:29:51 ip-XXXXX sendmail[13901]: mAI8ToHD013890: >>to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test", ctladdr=<test(a)****.com> >>(8/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=33119, dsn=2.0.0, >>stat=Sent" Where did the "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test" pipe come from if not an alias? Without further relevant information, I can't add anything to my previous reply. -- 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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The Mysterious Disappearing Disk Space (fwd)
by J.A. Terranson 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Greetings, I have looked through the archives for something similar to my issue, and I noticed that by searching on "disk full", I get similar reports beginning in roughly July of 08. As with these other reports, I have noticed *tremendous* disappearing space. When I tried to find the actual files, I was unsuccessful. Interestingly, if I stop mailman and then restart it, the "missing" space miraculously reappears! So, now that the background is over with, here's where I find myself (besides just looking stupid): (1) Yesterday I enabled VERP, and it appeared to be working well, At the time I turned on VERP, I had around 5gb of free space (which would take about two weeks to "disappear" before VERP). (2) Around 2pm today, the disk was full, and mailman died. (3) My inkling of something being wrong was this on the web interface: "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.11rc2 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. " (4) Upon looking at the system in response to the above missive, I checked and saw the system ws out of space again. I did what I always do - shut down mailman (which usually drops ~5gb of "missing" space, and then restart it. Everything before today has come up roses doing this. (5) There is nothing in any of the logs that indicate why this message is continuing to poke fun at me. (6) I have looked through the various manuals, pdfs, etc, and cannot find anything about explicitly enabling logging so that I can get a better handle on this. Oddly, as a mailman user since around 2001, this is the first real problem Ive had: Great platform!!! Mediocre admin though, and one begging for help as well. All the best, //Alif -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin_at_mfn.org 0xpgp_key_mgmt_is_broken-dont_bother

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Moving lists without shell access
by Scott Race 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Is there a way to move lists from one server to another without shell access? I am able to download the archives from the admin interface, but don't have ssh access.... Thanks!

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Duplicate posts to earthlink.com
by BROOKS WILLIAMS 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Hi, We have subscribers on earthlink.com who receive multiple copies of postings. Has anyone else had this problem? I saw a posting about it from 2003 but there was no solution given. Thanks, Brooks

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spam gatewayed from Usenet to mail bypasses our spam filters
by skip＠pobox.com 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

With the help of the python.org postmasters I figured something out about spam on the python-list(a)python.org mailing list over the weekend. I was confused that some seemingly obvious spams made it through to the mailing list subscribers. Then I noticed that it didn't appear these spams had even seen the spam filter. The headers the filter adds were missing and I could never find their Message-Id's in the spam filter's logs. Mailman operates the bidirectional gateway between the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.python and the python-list(a)python.org mailing list. When it sees a Usenet message on the one side it distributes the posting directly to its subscribers, and vice versa. Because Usenet postings don't arrive by email the spam filtering we have in place (which occurs before Mailman sees a mail message) is not done. Mailman happily passes such unfiltered mail on to the list. I still haven't figured out quite how to solve the problem. In theory we could use some other tool to perform the gateway operation. Instead of passing Usenet postings directly to Mailman it would mail them to python-list(a)python.org where they would get the spam filter treatment before Mailman sees them. I'm still thinking about the full ramifications of that. It might be easier to get Mailman's news-to-mail gateway to mail incoming Usenet messages to the list address instead of directly distributing them to the subscribers though. I don't believe Mailman does that out of the box (but I would love to be wrong here). Has anyone tried implementing that? If so, got a patch or a recipe for how to configure Mailman to operate this way? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - skip(a)pobox.com - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/

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Using an AUP with Mailman?
by Johnny Stork 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Other than placing a link on the mailing list signup page to an "Acceptable Use Policy" is there any way to "force" the use of such a policy before people can sign up for a mailing list in mailman? What I mean by "force" is something where they need to at least scroll down to the bottom of an AUP and check a box that they have read it before they can submit their signup request. -- Johnny Stork Open Enterprise Solutions "Empowering Business With Open Solutions" http://www.openenterprise.ca

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mail delivery not consistent and very slow
by Jewel 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

I recently upgraded my Mailman onto a new machine. It appeared everything was running smoothly except now I have users saying they are posting and not seeing it come through. All messages are successfully posting to the archives and I am seeing most messages get delivered but not 100%. I have read the FAQ's and followed all of the suggestions without any errors: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030722 http://tinyurl.com/6xrrju* *My smtp-failure and error logs are not helping me determine what's wrong. Whenever I post a test to any list so far it always gets delivered. But I have a few users who said they have tried several times and don't see anything. I had one woman try again this morning and can see it on the archive but not in my email -but other postings have been successful!! Please help me. I have several members upset about the delay or lack of delivery and I can't find out what's going on. Jewel

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