Mailman 3 February 2008 - Mailman-Users

Needs help during tranisition
by Visvanath Ratnaweera 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Hi all I did a whacky transistion form an old installation to a new one. The old installation is only available as files (no running Mailman), since a hard dist crashed and we were left with bare data. I did a straightforward transition roughly as described in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055208.html Now when I visit http://OURHOST/mailman/admin/OURLIST and enter password, I get --- 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, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. --- This is the error log (the listname and host name were replaced manually by OURLIST and OURHOST): --- Feb 02 23:15:27 2008 (12889) Failed config.pck write, retaining old state. [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/OURLIST/config.pck.tmp.OURHOST.12889' Feb 02 23:15:27 2008 admin(12889): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(12889): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -----] admin(12889): [----- Traceback ------] admin(12889): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(12889): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(12889): main() admin(12889): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 199, in mai n admin(12889): mlist.Save() admin(12889): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 561, in Save admin(12889): self.__save(dict) admin(12889): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 516, in __sa ve admin(12889): fp = open(fname_tmp, 'w') admin(12889): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/OURLIST/config.pck.tmp.dskt6990.12889' admin(12889): [----- Python Information -----] admin(12889): sys.version = 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 4 2007, 16:52:23) [GCC 4.1.2] admin(12889): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(12889): sys.prefix = /usr admin(12889): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(12889): sys.path = /usr admin(12889): sys.platform = linux2 --- Any help appreciated. Visvanath

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Signing up for a list
by Jeff McCauley 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

Is there a way to send a link out for individuals to use to sign up for a list. In other words, in a different email (or on a web site) can I have a link they can click that will allow them to be added to the mailing list? Thanks --

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Fw: Signing up for a list
by AD-ML 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

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Temporary ban on lists?
by Dennis Carr 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

One of the rules on the FFML were for temporary bans; I think that Ecartis (the former list software) had such a facility, but after I took time to RTFM I haven't seen anything as such in the Mailman set. Is there an easy way to do this, or will I need to hack out an at(1) job for the time being when this comes up? -Dennis Carr

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Temporary ban on lists?
by Gabriel Millerd 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

On Feb 9, 2008 12:20 PM, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > > Was there something else specific that you wanted? > I believe he wants to reject (or similar action) upon a violation of a policy for a period of time. So setting the moderation bit per use for the next 7 days, or some sort of tarpitting. -- Gabriel Millerd

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can't get self post after enabling "Receive your own posts to the list"
by Forrest Sheng Bao 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

Hi, I am just beginning to use Mailman and found a strange problem. I haven enabled "*Receive your own posts to the list*" in my personal options. Since I am also the admin, I also unchecked the "not metoo" box of myself at membership administration section. But I found that I still couldn't get the posts I sent. Can someone tell me why? Thanks, Forrest -- Forrest Sheng Bao Ph.D. student, Dept. of Computer Science M.Sc. student, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering Texas Tech University, USA http://fsbao.net 1-806-577-4592 You are encouraged to use the language you prefer. I can understand Mandarin and English. I can read both traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as English.

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Confirmation "Cookie" Content
by Webb, Steven 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, I'm trying to determine how the "cookie" value used for invite confirmations is generated and/or where it is stored. We are looking into using another system outside of Mailman, such as Lyris, to send broadcast emails to invite users to our mailman lists. We'd like to include the URL to confirm their subscription in our emails, but I can't find any information about how the confirmation value is generated. We'd need to be able either to generate the value ourselves outside of Mailman, or figure out a way to dump a list of email addresses needing confirmation with the confirmation value. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Steven R. Webb Software Engineer

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cron/senddigests - error
by Con Wieland 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Any ideas why I get the this? /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main mlist.send_digest_now() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in send_digest_now ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 240, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 361, in save_attachment fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1] File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 708, in get_filename filename = self.get_param('filename', missing, 'content- disposition') File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 591, in get_param for k, v in self._get_params_preserve(failobj, header): File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 538, in _get_params_preserve params = Utils.decode_params(params) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 337, in decode_params charset, language, value = decode_rfc2231(EMPTYSTRING.join(value)) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 284, in decode_rfc2231 charset, language, s = parts ValueError: unpack list of wrong size

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New List Creation Hangs
by Trevor Antczak 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello all, I recently installed and configured Mailman to work with Sendmail. This installation is designed as an internal list server where essentially all users will be able to create lists as they need in order to serve specific needs. In order to avoid a massive administrative overhead creating and installing alias files for every new list, I used the excellent instructions here: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg47309.html to allow Mailman to do it's own alias creation in Sendmail. This has been partially successful, and I can now create lists with the newlist command, and aliasing is handled automatically. When I try to create lists with the web interface though, something goes wrong. Upon hitting submit, the little firefox wheel starts spinning, but the list creation never returns. The list is at least partially created ( I can see it on the main page), but the aliasing isn't done, so I assume that somewhere between creating the list and running the aliasing stuff, there is some kind of hang up. Absolutely nothing nothing appears in any of the logs that seems helpful (The most obvious log, the error log, is actually completely empty). I'm not really sure what to include what additional info might be helpful. I am fairly sure that I followed all of the instructions correctly, but of course this is not a "supported" configuration. Essentially, anything that anyone can suggest I'll try, and I'll post any configs that people think might be helpful for troubleshooting. The thing that seems strange to me is that "newlist" works, but the web site doesn't. Thanks, Trevor Antczak Senior Systems Administrator Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise 337-735-1351 trevor(a)lite3d.com

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Need some fortware to run website
by Michael James Wright 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

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