Mailman 3 March 2008 - Mailman-Users

mass subscribe by email
by Julian Bradfield March 7, 2008

March 7, 2008

This appears to be a moderately FAQ, but I haven't yet found an answer in the archives, and I can't immediately extract one from the source. As a list owner, how do I *by email* subscribe a number of users, without requiring either their or my separate approval? (The normal list setting is to require admin approval.)

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2008 Pizzigati Prize
by Barry Warsaw March 7, 2008

March 7, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I realize that I've been remiss in announcing this. My apologies. I have been awarded the 2008 Pizzigati Prize for Public Interest Computing for GNU Mailman. http://www.pizzigatiprize.org/ I am deeply honored to win this prize because I believe very strongly in Mailman's role in helping people communicate and organize. I want to thank all of you who have supported me and Mailman over the years, and I want to let you know that I am as … [View More]

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Weekly reminder
by Prashanth March 7, 2008

March 7, 2008

Hi, I want to mailman to send weekly mails, as of mailman sends mails Montly to the users in the list with their password I want to replace the data and ask mailman to send mails weekly. To say in simple words i want mailman to send the data that i give weekly. So, how to do that? -- regards, Prashanth http://munichlinux.blogspot.com

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any way to batch unsubscribe notifications?
by Matt Morgan March 7, 2008

March 7, 2008

I'm working for a friend who asked me to set up mailman (2.1.9 on Fedora Core 7) to replace a home-grown list server for one of his clients. It's a small non-profit that has a little web-based membership admin tool. For various reasons, they update the mailman list with an export from the membership db. I have that working with sync_members on a nightly basis. They then send out messages once a week or so (the list is not a discussion, just for announcements). They need a way to know when an … [View More]

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howto
by Guilherme Funchal March 6, 2008

March 6, 2008

Hi! How to run a two or more daemons mailman and howto configure with postfix? is This possible? regards -- "Um homem de honra é aquele que vive segundo as regras e, se for necessário, morre por elas. " ============================== Guilherme Funchal da Silva .`. LPI Level 2 Certification

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Problems after changing server network setup
by Aaron Crosman March 4, 2008

March 4, 2008

Earlier today, for various reasons, we had to move our Mailman server to a different segment of our network. This changed the internal IP, and several other network details (although I don't think any others that impact mailman). Starting just after I made the move, I am not getting a large number of error messages in the error log that look like this: Mar 03 12:40:53 2008 (2881) Uncaught runner exception: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line Mar 03 12:40:53 2008 (2881) … [View More]Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 100, in _oneloop msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 164, in dequeue msg = email.message_from_string(msg, Message.Message) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/__init__.py", line 51, in message_from_string return Parser(_class, strict=strict).parsestr(s) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 240, in _parsebody msgobj = self.parsestr(part) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 265, in _parsebody msg = self.parse(fp) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 206, in _parsebody raise Errors.BoundaryError( BoundaryError: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line Mar 03 12:40:53 2008 (2881) Ignoring unparseable message: 1178048805.0749691+0654fbb7bc97eff421d692fe6978466fca6d68c1 Mail appears to be going through, but since these messages are new, they make me nervous that I missed something in the move. I reconfigured exim and Mailman and replaced all references to the old IP with the new. All the other functions appear to be working. Any suggestions about what's going on, and if a I need to be worried? Thanks Aaron Crosman American Friends Service Committee Information Technology Department [View Less]

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images in a feedback page
by Michael James Wright March 4, 2008

March 4, 2008

Hi Guys i'm creating a php contact page i have a submit image and a clear image but don't seam to work here the code <input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg"> <input type="image" src="images/submit.jpg"> both of the images keep going to http://www.stormsearchers.com/sendeail.php the clear image dose not clear the contact page Mike _________________________________________________________________ Overpaid or Underpaid? Check our comprehensive Salary Centre http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent%2Emycareer%2Ecom%2E…

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Thank you! And a suggestion/feature request?
by Perry M Lynch March 3, 2008

March 3, 2008

I want to thank you for pointing us in the right direction, and also for taking the time to answer my plea for help. To answer your questions: 1. No, I don't have proof positive that a buffer overrun was the cause of my troubles, but it seems to fit the situation too well to not be. What I didn't realize when I originally posted my call for help is that it also had a fairly large image attached as well. Between the formatting, the file, and the CC's I'm relatively sure that it was sufficient … [View More]to force the overrun. I will ask the admin for the logs, and forward them on to you privately, if that's OK. If we've uncovered a bug, I definitely want to help improve things! 2. I'm not aware of any custom config-work in this implementation. It's a standard mailman running on BSD, with just a few lists - the other lists were untouched by this, fortunately! It may have been the admin's attempt to 'dumb it down' for me that makes this confusing after the fact. Your suggestion to review the postfix settings got me looking in the right place. Long and short of it: I was able to use postfixadmin to delete and the re-create the aliases in postfix, at which point, everything started running as normal. Now for the suggestion/feature request(s): 1 - would it be possible to add a "show all list members" view, and sort them by their status in each column? Actually, just being able to sort any given letter by their various status settings would be tremendous - all no mails, all no duplicates, etc in a row. 2 - What would be an incredibly powerful tool to the non-technical list admin would be the ability to download a text file of listmembers and their status settings. just a simple txt file, showing name, email address, and their basic digest/no mail/ moderated/plain text settings would be a wonderful thing. I'd be thrilled if just the name and email address would be available this way! Thanks, Perry ----- Perry M Lynch, CISSP CISA JNCIA-FWV, RSA CSE (SecurID), CCNA "why yes, I am certifiable..." ----- ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> To: Perry M Lynch <perrylynch(a)yahoo.com>; mailman-users(a)python.org Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2008 11:18:45 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] In need of help. Trying to recover from a seriousbuffer overflow Perry M Lynch wrote: > >On Wednesday, a member submitted a large email with poor formatting to the list. And it had enough CCs attached to it that it caused a buffer overflow, which resulted in the message being self-approved for the list. Do you have evidence that this is what happened, or is this just conjecture? >Suddenly the server began repeating itself as it tried to process this huge message over and over again. It became a vicious cycle - as the one message finally repeated out, other messages that were caught in the queue became ammunition for the server to repeat. Prior to the system crash, more than 6100 duplicate messages were sent to 450 members, at an estimated peak rate of about 20,000 outbound messages per half hour. > >The user db became corrupt, and my server admin and I have worked to get things operational again. At this point, the list is supposedly behaving itself, yet no messages are actually being sent from the server. I don't have access to the raw logs, Which is unfortunate, because that's what we need to see to determine what happened. I would like to see Mailman's error, post, qrunner, smtp, smtp-failure and vette logs from the time of the original failure to try to see what happened and if there is a Mailman bug of some kind that allowed it. Can you get these logs from the server admin? >but here is the snippet of discussion about the restoration of the user database. > >Jason: here's what I see on the server. > > # pwd > /var/spool/mailman/lists/cyberscots > # file * > config.pck: data > config.pck.last: data > digest.mbox: UTF-8 Unicode mail text > en: setgid directory > pending.pck: ASCII text > request.pck: data > >and the restore at home... > > /backups/spool/mailman/lists/cyberscots > # file * > config.pck: smtp mail text > config.pck.last: smtp mail text > digest.mbox: ISO-8859 mail text > en: directory > pending.pck: smtp mail text > request.pck: data > >the *.pck files from the restore all look like regular mbox files. Which is totally wrong, because they should be Python pickles. >but the ones on the server are some sort of binary config file. Which is what they should be. >I checked against a different list, same thing. >on the server... > /var/spool/mailman/lists/lynches > # file * > config.pck: data > config.pck.last: data > >we got a user db restored, What user db? In standard Mailman, the user db, list config, etc. is all part of the list object saved in the config.pck. Do you have a custom MemberAdaptor that uses a different, separate user db? or are you just referring to the config.pck? >at which point the gui became functional again, and we cleared the outbound queue, Mailman's out queue or the Postfix queue? >which had 1400+ messages that were blocked by a provider who'd had enough. And now, although I can send emails to the list, they do not seem to make it all the way through the process: Is Mailman running? See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.078.htp>. >Feb 29 22:15:10 colo2 amavis[27834]: (27834-18) ESMTP::10024 /var/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20080229T194128-27834: <pmlynch(a)lbd.org> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net> Received: SIZE=3425 from mx1.dixongroup.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.dixongroup.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27834-18 for <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:15:10 -0500 (EST) >Feb 29 22:15:10 colo2 amavis[27834]: (27834-18) Checking: f8-BzF9WBjIQ <pmlynch(a)lbd.org> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net> >Feb 29 22:15:11 colo2 amavis[27834]: (27834-18) FWD via SMTP: <pmlynch(a)lbd.org> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, 250 2.6.0 Ok, id=27834-18, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 2177591EC2 >Feb 29 22:15:11 colo2 amavis[27834]: (27834-18) Passed CLEAN, [71.178.250.158] <pmlynch(a)lbd.org> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, Message-ID: <6F891DB1-E3FE-4EC1-8945-76CDC41D9236(a)lbd.org>, mail_id: f8-BzF9WBjIQ, Hits: -, 671 ms >Feb 29 22:15:11 colo2 postfix/smtp[11051]: 7D8FD91EC1: to=<cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, orig_to=<Cyberscots(a)cluebringer.com>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, delay=0.97, delays=0.28/0/0.01/0.68, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 Ok, id=27834-18, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 2177591EC2) >Feb 29 22:15:11 colo2 postfix/local[406]: 2177591EC2: to=<cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, relay=local, delay=0.71, delays=0.21/0.1/0/0.4, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post cyberscots) OK. The post was delivered to the Mailman wrapper. <snip> > >In short, it looks as if messages are being received, and they are being delivered to the outbound queue, but nothing is happening beyond that point. Actually, they are being delivered to Mailman's mail wrapper which terminates normally. This means they have been queued in Mailman's incoming queue. See the FAQ linked above for the next steps (you can skip steps 2 and 3 because this is Postfix, and we know delivery to Mailman is working). -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping [View Less]

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Yahoo/Mailman
by Ivan Van Laningham March 3, 2008

March 3, 2008

Hi All-- One of my lists is moving to Yahoo, and I'm wondering if there is a way to integrate the Mailman archives with the Yahoo archives. I can always post the zip files in the files section, but it would make the transition easier for the listmembers if the archives could be integrated. Since this isn't very on-topic, please reply offlist. Thanks! Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/… [View More]

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Regular expressions in list config files?
by bernholdtde＠ornl.gov March 3, 2008

March 3, 2008

Our corporate mail gateway adds a header to flag things it believes are spam. I'd like to be able to take advantage of this in my Mailman lists. I'm having some problems setting the header_filter_rules properly. If I use a simple regex, like '^x-spam-flag: *yes' it seems to show up properly in the configuration. But if I use a more precise regex that accounts for all forms of whitespace with the "\s" sequence, like this '^\s*x-spam-flag:\s*yes\s*$' then what appears in the … [View More]

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