Mailman 3 December 2008 - Mailman-Users

A lot of unsubscribes
by Allan Hansen Dec. 16, 2008

Dec. 16, 2008

Hi all, I recently updated my server from Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.5, with the attendant upgrade of Mailman. Following that, the server suddenly unsubscribed some 300 subscribers from various lists. Is that to be expected or should I resubscribe them? Thanks, Allan -- Allan Hansen P.O Box 2423 Cypress, CA 90630 U.S.A. hansen(a)rc.org +1-714-875-8870

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Remove from list quick link
by Blaine Lang Dec. 16, 2008

Dec. 16, 2008

I was reading that v2.11 has the ability to support a quick link that could be included in the list footer. I want to add a link to the list footer so that list members upon receiving a list submission can always remove themselves from the list easily by using the 'remove from list' link in the message footer. I can edit the footer but what is the format to create such a link in the message footer? Thanks!

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Sender Rejected Emails
by Michael Curtis Dec. 15, 2008

Dec. 15, 2008

Hi, I have an announce only mailing list setup up on Leopard Server 10.5.5. It works fine except I want to send moderated users an email to say they can't send to this list. In the sender filters I have all new users are moderated set to yes. Moderated posts are set to reject and I have some reject text in the box. That email is never sent back to the user. If I change the reject to hold, I do get the email sent to the moderator asking for the email to be released. Also, if I send … [View More]

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Different IPs for each list?
by J.A. Terranson Dec. 15, 2008

Dec. 15, 2008

First, let me say that I'm not certain this is going to transslate the way I intend... That said: I have a machine with a half dozen lists on it, running on 1 IP. Id like to keep the same "info" page that lists all the various lists, but have each one (at smtp level, I dont care where the archives and user pages are) communicating on a different IP for traffic engineering purposes (rather than using separate instantiations on separate IPS). Is this possible? Thanks! BTW: Whatever my … [View More]

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Filter for exact domain names
by Cyndi Norwitz Dec. 14, 2008

Dec. 14, 2008

I am getting a lot of spam post attempts from a domain tom.com. I would like to do an automatic discard in discard_these_nonmembers for this domain. I can add this line of code: ^[^@]+@(.*\.)?tom\.com$ But I am concerned that this will discard all .com domain names that end with tom, which may be some legit ones. I do not understand the code as it's different from anything I've worked with and the above recipe (which I mucked up several times on my own despite some trips to the … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] How to export googlegroup mail to mailman
by haha Dec. 13, 2008

Dec. 13, 2008

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:24 AM, haha <mgtuiw(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks !! > > I find a script in http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/, it cat download mail > of my gmail, but it alway appear error : > """ > 11e2d6c674f24487 5 <b>crypto(9) choose another driver if we cannot open a > session on it</b> > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "archive.py", line 79, in <module> > for msg in thread: > File "/home/minix/software/… [View More]

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How to export googlegroup mail to mailman
by haha Dec. 13, 2008

Dec. 13, 2008

Hi I have a trouble: How to export googlegroup mail to mailman ??? thanks!!!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Subscription Confirmations
by James Weingarten Dec. 12, 2008

Dec. 12, 2008

Thank you, Mark. I think you're right. I don't see the problem often enough to merit implementing a fix. I do have one additional pair of questions, if you please. I had a problem with permissions that prevented the Mailman GUI from successfully creating list. The GUI returned the following error: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9 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, … [View More]but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. and the error log shows: Dec 12 11:35:27 2008 (3669) command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /etc/mailman/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Dec 12 11:35:27 2008 admin(3669): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(3669): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -----] admin(3669): [----- Traceback ------] admin(3669): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(3669): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(3669): main() admin(3669): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 56, in main admin(3669): process_request(doc, cgidata) admin(3669): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 238, in process_request admin(3669): sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) admin(3669): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create admin(3669): _update_maps() admin(3669): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps admin(3669): raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) admin(3669): RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /etc/mailman/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) admin(3669): [----- Python Information -----] admin(3669): sys.version = 2.4.3 (#1, May 24 2008, 13:47:28) [GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)] admin(3669): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(3669): sys.prefix = /usr admin(3669): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(3669): sys.path = /usr admin(3669): sys.platform = linux2 admin(3669): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(3669): HTTP_COOKIE: campaignions+admin=280200000069b64b4149732800000030666530653230363239653337353438316264303639656238333931376436376433323766386362 admin(3669): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) admin(3669): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/create admin(3669): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at hostname.com Port 80</address> admin(3669): admin(3669): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(3669): HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300 admin(3669): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(3669): QUERY_STRING: admin(3669): CONTENT_LENGTH: 153 admin(3669): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 admin(3669): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 admin(3669): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(3669): HTTP_REFERER: http://hostname.com/mailman/create admin(3669): SERVER_NAME: hostname.com admin(3669): REMOTE_ADDR: X.X.X.X admin(3669): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(3669): SERVER_ADDR: X.X.X.X admin(3669): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html admin(3669): PYTHONPATH: /usr/lib/mailman admin(3669): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create admin(3669): SERVER_ADMIN: root@localhost admin(3669): HTTP_HOST: hostname.com admin(3669): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/create admin(3669): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 admin(3669): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(3669): REMOTE_PORT: 3314 admin(3669): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5 admin(3669): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(3669): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate The problem was alleged to be caused by thefact that the web server process owner "apache" was calling this process. Apparently, this user did not have permissions to execute the command. After fiddling with ownerships and permissions, I was never able to resolve the problem and had to resort to command line "newlist" to create all lists. Do you have any idea what is causing this problem? Also, (and this may be related), I am seeing the following error in the Mailman error log: Dec 11 15:51:24 2008 (2107) SHUNTING: 1229039483.4080291+18102d31f7e1d52f9d4ca593ddb48d23f9e7d00e Dec 11 15:51:24 2008 (2104) Archive file access failure: /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox' Dec 11 15:51:24 2008 (2104) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox' Dec 11 15:51:24 2008 (2104) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 112, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 170, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose mlist.ArchiveMail(msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 200, in ArchiveMail self.__archive_to_mbox(msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 169, in __archive_to_mbox mbox = self.__archive_file(afn) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 157, in __archive_file return Mailbox.Mailbox(open(afn, 'a+')) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox' The "check_perms" command reports no problems. What should the owner be for the archive directories and files? What should the permissions be? Do you think these issues are related? Thanks, Jim ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> To: santaclarajim(a)yahoo.com; mailman-users(a)python.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:52:41 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Subscription Confirmations Jim wrote: > >I have confirmed that one user who received the duplicate confirmation did, indeed, have a "subscribe" in the subject and the body. > >Is there a way to protect against that behavior by the -request process? I would expect that process to detect that the requests were within the same email message and send only one response. Is there a reason it doesn't behave in that manner today? It could be done, but it is tricky. As it is, CommandRunner just processes the subject and up to DEFAULT_MAIL_COMMANDS_MAX_LINES (default 25) body lines one at a time until it gets a non-command or error except non-commands or errors in the subject are OK. If it gets a subscribe command for a member, it's an error, but if subscribe requires confirmation or approval, the subscribed address won't be a member when the second request is processed. Note that it is perfectly valid to have multiple subscribe commands in one message as each command can request subscription of a different address. So, in order to avoid accepting a second subscribe request for the same address, we could look at all the pending subscriptions and see if we have one for this address, but even then we can't just ignore this request as it might be intentional (say the confirmation email from the prior request was lost) so we'd have to make a decision based on how recent the prior request was. It seems like a lot of effort for something that occurs infrequently and does no real harm. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan [View Less]

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Impact of hostname change?
by Rich Winkel Dec. 12, 2008

Dec. 12, 2008

I currently have mailman set up on a test server but will be going to production, when the hostname will change, so all the list addresses will change too. Will mailman handle this cleanly or do I need to reconfigure something? I'm using postfix. This is a very very nice package btw, kudos to the developers!!! Thanks!! Rich

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automatically remove uncaught bounces
by faisal anif Dec. 12, 2008

Dec. 12, 2008

Hi, I recieve hundreds of messages everyday as uncaught bounce notifications and most of them are spam ADs of pills and stuff sent to my list.. and some of them are actually uncaught bounces by mailman. I can't keep opening the messages everyday to filter them, on the other hand I can't afford to ignore the actual uncaught spams in order not to be blocked by their corresponding mail servers! is there a way to let mailman unsubscribe the addresses of uncaught spams automatically from my … [View More]

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