Mailman 3 March 2008 - Mailman-Users

converting an ezmlm archive
by Brandon Sussman 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A 15 minute attempt to find doc on how to convert an ezmlm archive to mailman is not showing much promise. Without me personally writing a converter, is there any recent wisdom on doing this? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBR8n0hdN2DJl/zagkAQJzjgf9FmFz956SOgxNeCkOMVlsFcJu8agjK1Zt 4Nls/n1bIr16MgUnU1IVFgffqMLZXqTU+/ZI1GnVtXDQGltHjPomtme17A7R/xBy hI6Joh4gGjkQf2YARnqsF4B02z1EImWL+zR1HcGlO3faeQZnBQC8NNkqFoQtThf5 dl/DCfW08cfJ5Vd+77SygolJ7Mu0pW0YRoUX9D3gp61m+gNa+btsAmXU+2lcpDEM nOjPmWaLh6sGo0qXJ9wK4o1VefCmHwpAR3WsZ58OphSQNbANsdeFTDOjfnhCqe67 kH4HUJmoJYsJtrgdV0vpDOq3s2CYhbsAwpzZmJwwS2z7/iAGAQifBg== =TX7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Whitelisting members of sublists?
by Kelly Jones 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

I have a list X that contains two sub-lists: Y and Z. The members of Y can post to Y w/o being held, and the members of Z can post to Z w/o being held. However, if a Y member posts to X, his message is held, since he's not directly on X (he's on Y, which is on X, so he's only indirectly on X). Is there an easy fix for this? Does Mailman understand the concept of "sublists", or does it treat sublists as just regular email addresses? Can I make Mailman think "hey, this email address on this list is coming to my domain and it's the name of another list I manage-- I'll treat it special"? I realize I can whitelist on a one-off basis or even script something to run in cron, but that's ugly for a general solution. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.

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In need of help. Trying to recover from a serious buffer overflow
by Perry M Lynch 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

I'm list admin/moderator of a 450+ member list that ran into trouble yesterday. First, we're running Mailman 2.1.8 on a current release of OpenBSD. And it's been running for 2+ years with no issues, until this past Friday morning when the user db became corrupt. Content filtering is set to remove all attachments and graphics, and we'd determined that more than 15 CCs would hold an inbound post to moderate. No message of more than 60 kb will be accepted. 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. 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, 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. but the ones on the server are some sort of binary config file. 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, at which point the gui became functional again, and we cleared the outbound 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: 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) Feb 29 22:16:44 colo2 amavis[28675]: (28675-20) ESMTP::10024 /var/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20080229T193117-28675: <pmlynch(a)magellanhealth.com> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net> Received: SIZE=1846 from mx1.dixongroup.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.dixongroup.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28675-20 for <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:16:44 -0500 (EST) Feb 29 22:16:45 colo2 amavis[28675]: (28675-20) Checking: efIbYYLyUd73 <pmlynch(a)magellanhealth.com> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net> Feb 29 22:16:46 colo2 amavis[28675]: (28675-20) FWD via SMTP: <pmlynch(a)magellanhealth.com> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, 250 2.6.0 Ok, id=28675-20, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 09BAE91EC2 Feb 29 22:16:46 colo2 amavis[28675]: (28675-20) Passed CLEAN, [204.193.93.43] <pmlynch(a)magellanhealth.com> -> <cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, Message-ID: <3F84D5A4D6A79946B4A3A9A00529883B06447C2E(a)colmdex5.mbh.mhs.magellanhealth.com>, mail_id: efIbYYLyUd73, Hits: -2.417, 1324 ms Feb 29 22:16:46 colo2 postfix/smtp[11051]: DB1A691EC1: 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=1.5, delays=0.13/0/0.01/1.3, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 Ok, id=28675-20, from MTA([127.0.0.1]:10025): 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 09BAE91EC2) Feb 29 22:16:46 colo2 postfix/local[406]: 09BAE91EC2: to=<cyberscots.cluebringer.com(a)localhost.dixongroup.net>, relay=local, delay=0.8, delays=0.2/0/0/0.6, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post cyberscots) 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. Any ideas? Please help! Thank you, Perry ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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Web Interface for creating lists
by Robert Everson 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

I would like a web interface for users to create lists, without giving them access to the master mailman password. Is there anything that would work for this? I know I've seen it before, but it may have been a custom web application. Thanks, Robert Everson

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