Mailman 3 February 2008 - Mailman-Users

Mailman Cron question
by Marvin Raab Feb. 5, 2008

Feb. 5, 2008

Hi all, I've setup ver. 2.1.9 on Fedora 8. I used yum to install (can't find 'configure' but that's not really my question) and configured it using the docs on the website including the cron section: % cd $prefix/cron % crontab -u mailman crontab.in I repeatedly receive the following email in mailman's mailbox: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: root(a)mydomain.com (Cron Daemon) To: mailman(a)mydomain.com Subject: Cron <mailman@mail> mailman /… [View More]

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managing pending subscriptions and confirmations
by Jan Steinman Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

I seem to be gathering a fair number of unrequited pending subscriptions on several mailing lists. I see them by grepping for "pending" in /var/log/mailman/subscribe, and then checking for corresponding "new" entries. I did this after one of my hosting clients complained that people were subscribing to her newsletter, but weren't actually getting added to the mailing list. These are "real" subscription requests -- not spammers or other trash. They are primarily people who have … [View More]

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Mailman + STARTTLS = lost messages?
by Charles Marcus Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Hello, Ok, I googled and FAQ'd but didn't find the answer - if I missed it, a rtfa reference will be appreciate... We outsource our anti-spam service, and I decided to lock it down by requiring TLS encrypted sessions to my postfix server. I did this on Saturday. This morning, I discovered that messages to our lists weren't being delivered, and found the following errors in the smtp-failyre log: Feb 04 08:00:05 2008 (7453) SMTP session failure: 530, 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command … [View More]

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Mailman + STARTTLS
by Charles Marcus Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Hello, Ok, I googled and FAQ'd but didn't find the answer - if I missed it, a rtfa reference will be appreciate... We outsource our anti-spam service, and I'd to lock down my postfix server by requiring TLS encrypted sessions. I discovered that mailman doesn't like this... How do I tell mailman to use TLS? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission problems
by Mark Sapiro Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Melinda Gilmore wrote: >All permissions are the same as the others and have rws. I guess I should >mention that along with that error I get 4 other emails. These are just >the last error line as in the other one. > > >OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >'/usr/local/mailman/lists/sis_directors/digest.mbox > >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >'/usr/local/mailman/lists/sis_directors/config.pck.tmp.lists.3935 > >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission … [View More]

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Mailman issues during migration (test to production)
by Darren G Pifer Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Hello, I am having an issue where I am migrating lists/archives/data from one machine to another machine. The machine I am migrating from is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 machine running mailman 2.1.6b4. Mailman was built from source code. The machine I am migrating to is a Red Hat Linux 5 machine running mailman 2.1.9. I am using the mailman version from the RHEL 5 DVDs. I set up a test list server on the machine (where eventually would become the production list server) and added a DNS A … [View More]record for test.list.odu.edu for the machine it is running on. I used the following document (even though it was for Debian it appears to work for other flavors of Linux) for my information for migrating the lists/archives/data: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/567 I was successful in testing mailman on the machine. One change I needed to make was the URL (because the lists contained list.odu.edu), so I ran: ./withlist -l -r fix_url LIST_NAME -u test.list.odu.edu to update the URL for each list. On Sunday, I attempted to change the test list server to a production list server, so prior to migrating the lists/archives/data, I removed all files those directories. Also, prior to starting mailman and sendmail, I made changes to mm_cfg.py (when I set up the test listserve) from: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'test.list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '.test.list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'test.list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://test.list.odu.edu/' to: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://list.odu.edu/' I also made sure the sendmail.cf file on the new machine had: C{mailman} list.odu.edu When I started sendmail and mailman, I started to see a lot of messages in /var/spool/mqueue. The sendmail (qf) queue files had these lines: ... H??MIME-Version: 1.0 H??Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" H??Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H??Subject: test.list.odu.edu mailing list memberships reminder H??From: mailman-owner(a)test.list.odu.edu H??To: spawn1882(a)yahoo.com H??X-No-Archive: yes H??Message-ID: <mailman.4590.1201860028.4212.mailman(a)test.list.odu.edu> H??Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:00:28 -0500 H??Precedence: bulk H??X-BeenThere: mailman(a)test.list.odu.edu H??X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 H??List-Id: Mailman site list <mailman.test.list.odu.edu> ... So, it appears that mailman was trying to send out password reminders even though it should not have run. The system is configured to execute the monthly password reminders only on the first on the month. Since the day of the install was Sunday, Feb. 3rd, it should not have run. Also, to make it more interesting, there are references to "Subject: test.list.odu.edu mailing list memberships reminder" when there should not have been. I searched the entire file system for test.list.odu.edu but could not find where it was configured. I even ran `strings' on the binaries but could not find it. My questions are: 1) Why did mailman send out the password reminders, when they shouldn't have? As a FYI, I did not add a mailman crontab as the mailman crontab on Red Hat runs out of /etc/cron.d. 2) Why did the messages contain any reference to test.list.odu.edu? Where could this information be define? You answers are appreciated. Darren Old Dominion University [View Less]

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Permission problems
by Melinda Gilmore Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

No matter what permission I set and copy from other lists that are ok, I keep getting this error message. I must have something to do with the .tmp part fo the request.pck, But can't figure out why I am still getting it. Also, when I got to check that list, that file is not there. Any directions would be greately appreciated. Your "cron" job on lists /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/… [View More]

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A small problem when migrating a mailman list
by AlxFrag Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Hi, I have a problem regarding the migration of a list call test_list(a)domain.soc.uoc.gr from an old mail server to a new one. I've copied /mailman/lists to the new mail server. I've also edited the aliases,virtual_mailman and mm_cfg.py files. List works ok in the new mail server. The problem is that i cant see it in http://mydomain/mailman/admin. But i can edit it through http://mydomain/mailman/admindb/test_list. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Alex

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Confirming Subscription Requests by Email
by Dylan Jenkinson Feb. 4, 2008

Feb. 4, 2008

Hi, I am currently working on a website, which has an attached mailing list. I have little experience with running mailing lists, but it has fallen to me to get the participant verification system up and running, and part of that includes auto-confirming subscriptions to the mailing list. So, what I would like to know is: is there a way to confirm a subscription request by email, assuming that I will know the users email and password? Thank you, Dylan Jenkinson

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Digests for bounces and mail list stats?
by Dan Brown Feb. 3, 2008

Feb. 3, 2008

We run two different mailing list software programs on our servers, one of these is mailman 2.1.9 (only been in operation a couple of months), the other is LetterRip 4.0.7. Mailman is far faster than LetterRip and we'd like to replace LetterRip fully (most likely with mailman on Apple Mac OS X Server). One of the things people here like with LetterRip (which don't appear to exist with mailman by itself) however are the Bounce Digests and Daily Statistics. On an announcement list recently … [View More]

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