Mailman 3 March 2008 - Mailman-Users

Archives for a single list mysteriously stopped
by Chris Waltham 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

I have a list which is still passing messages correctly (the list is moderated) but messages are not appearing in the archives since March 19, 2008. And, no, I don't think I changed anything on that day. :-) A simple "check_perms" reports no issues at all, and archives for other lists are functioning correctly. I can view the archives of the list I'm having problems with -- so I don't think it's an Apache problem -- but messages sent to the list since March 19 don't appear in the archive. FWIW, here is the size of the archive: [root@list private]# du -ksh ams-* 18M ams-announce 4.2M ams-announce.mbox Here are the archive settings for the list: # List traffic archival policies. archive = 1 # Is archive file source for public or private archival? archive_private = 0 # How often should a new archive volume be started? archive_volume_frequency = 1 I just ran a "arch --wipe ams-announce", and that seems to have fixed the problem as a test message I sent this morning now appears in the archives; as does other mail that was sent after March 19th and before today. Just out of interest, what kind of things could stop an archive from suddenly stopping? Bad HTML/MIME in a message? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Waltham Systems Engineer Bowdoin College Tel: (207) 798-7029 Cel: (207) 607-1939 cwaltham(a)bowdoin.edu

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Cant Log into List admin
by Spyro Polymiadis 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi there, We're having an issue here, where I cant log into the admin page for a list, nor can the list accept mail to it.. it seems as though the mail gets queued.. but never flushed .. Any ideas anyone? Cheers Spyro ________________________________ This message and its attachments may contain legally privileged or confidential information. This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you may not copy or deliver this message or its attachments to anyone. Rather, you should permanently delete this message and its attachments and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. Any content of this message and its attachments, which does not relate to the official business of the sending company must be taken not to have been sent or endorsed by the sending company or any of its related entities. No warranty is made that the e-mail or attachment(s) are free from computer virus or other defect.

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Questions about the use of MailMan
by Handlebarcorral＠aol.com 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi, I have two questions. 1-How do I change the recipients email address to not say the email list name? I'd rather it state their unique email address instead. 2-Is there anything I can do so that the emails I send out are not caught by spam? I have recently added all of my email addresses to mailman and I've noticed that the responses to my emails and hits to my website have dramatically increased since using mailman. I'm afraid that my emails are going into spam folders. Any suggestions? I'd like to continue using mailman but I can't if my emails don't go through. Thanks, Lori Nix **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom0…)

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Where's my mail going?
by Jon Slater 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi, I just set up a new Mailman server (Fedora Core 8) and followed the instructions I found in the FAQs to move my lists. It seemed pretty straight forward, but I have a hitch. If I send e-mail from a member's e-mail address, to the membership list, I get a record in my "/var/log/mailman/post" file that reads: Mar 30 12:08:10 2008 (3770) post to board from jon.slater(a)mesanetworks.net, size=4564, message-id=<005e01c89291$0f1e0d00$2d5a2700$@slater@mesanetworks.net>, success So that part looks encouraging, but I never receive the e-mail to the list members. I see the e-mail posted in the list archive, but no list member receives it. I *do* see a record in /var/log/mailman/smtp that reads: Mar 30 13:08:17 2008 (3770) <007601c89299$7582d820$60888860$@slater@mesanetworks.net> smtp to board for 1 recips, completed in 0.129 seconds So, it looks like it was sent out. But I never received it. The way my lists are configured, I auto-reject any mail not posted by a list member. So, I tried posting from a non-member e-mail address, and I got the nasty "you're not allowed" e-mail. So my server is able to send e-mail, and apparently recognizes the 'good' e-mail address as a member. It's also recognizes the 'bad' e-mail address and sends the "you're not allowed". How can I figure out where my e-mail is going? Thanks in advance! Jon

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Encrypted mailing lists
by Alster 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I have been repeatedly tempted to sum up options of setting up encrypted mailing lists, with or without using GNU Mailman. I had previously summed up what I found at http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/listwork/2006-February/0203-uh.html This is about two years ago, and a couple things have changed since, so here's a little update, and a few additions. Of the options listed on my previous summary, the following appear to be no longer mantained: B. NAH6 Secure List (Mailman bug #646989) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=646989&group_id=1… The NAH6 company appears to be no longer existing and the patch semms to be no longer mantained. C. Ben Laurie's 'PGP Support for Mailman' (Mailman bug #645297) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=645297&group_id=1… D. RedIRIS Encrypted mail list aliases with GnuPG The informational page has since moved to http://www.rediris.es/pgp/app/pgplist/ but this script appears to be no longer maintained. As such, only these options listed in my previous summary remain: * mailman-ssls, a Mailman-Patch which has recently been updated for Mailman 2.1.9 compatibility: http://non-gnu.uvt.nl/mailman-ssls/ * firma, a standalone encrypted mailinglist server (written in bash): http://codecoop.org/projects/firma/ Additionally, there are these options which had not been part of the last overview: * MMReencrypt, another Mailman patch https://sourceforge.net/projects/mmreencrypt/ no longer maintained * Schleuder, a standalone 'crypto mailinglist' http://codecoop.org/projects/schleuder/ still maintained (according to their versioning system), but last release dates back to 2006 Apart from these, there surely must be other options, some standalone, some extending specific MTA's functionality, both of which I didn't examine. I believe there is at least one such solution for courier, and at least one for qmail. There may also be some for postfix. Not being aware of other scripts, I would appreciate your notice on openly licensed implementations and extensions providing the functionality of encrypted mailing lists. Alster - -- GPG key http://keys2.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/lookup?op=get&search=05059C17 Fingerprint 1B8B 128F 8435 541C B3A5 1B7E CF5A 9D55 0505 9C17 All other https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Main/AlsteR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH795Iz1qdVQUFnBcRCsE8AJwI7VZIdUzwJmbXpkr/LVB1Fk9KPQCgsihw rlxgMhAg7RgenX5/K6elpkA= =uNwb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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details to finish up
by billc 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I've got just one hopefully minor thing to finish up: Public archives aren't visible. I'm getting a permssions error. I currently have: drwxrwx--x 9 billc mailman 306 27 Mar 15:26 private drwxrwxr-x 9 root mailman 306 27 Mar 03:27 discussion drwxrwxr-x 3 root mailman 102 27 Mar 02:08 discussion.mbox drwxrwsr-x 3 root mailman 102 23 Mar 12:07 mailman drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 68 23 Mar 12:07 mailman.mbox drwxrwsr-x 9 billc mailman 306 24 Mar 03:27 testlist drwxrwsr-x 3 billc mailman 102 24 Mar 01:51 testlist.mbox drwxrwsr-x 5 billc mailman 170 27 Mar 15:26 public lrwxr-xr-x 1 billc mailman 46 27 Mar 15:13 discussion -> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/discussion lrwxr-xr-x 1 billc mailman 44 23 Mar 12:59 testlist -> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/testlist I"m also getting: Warning: Private archive directory is other-executable (o+x). This could allow other users on your system to read private archives. If you're on a shared multiuser system, you should consult the installation manual on how to fix this. when running check_perms. What *should* they be? All else is working great. Thanks. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/>

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by Mike Rosile 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

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PCLinuxOS Newbie
by Induction Services 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hello everyone, I've searched the archives for a solution but came up against a wall. PCLinuxOS has Mailman listed in its repository, but on installation it gives the error about en-US. The archives here suggest that the solution is to config and make from scratch, as apparently wherever the binaries came from there is an issue with an errant entry in one of the files. OK, so I went to the manual, and hit a wall trying to create the user. The instructions give exact characters to type in to useradd. Unfortunately, on opening a console, switching to su, and entering the command, I get, "cannot create directory /no/home". I tried reading the man pages on useradd, and could find no explanation on why that is. Sorry to be so clueless. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I very badly want to get away from running my little list off a Windows box. I'm willing to put up with considerable pain to do it. (And I'd prefer not to go distro-hopping again if I can avoid it, unless there is a really good reason why I shouldn't use PCLinuxOS.) Thanks, --John--

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setting up mailman on fc6
by Dave 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hello, I'm trying to set up mailman and postfix on an fc6 vps box. The fqdns they use are not mine for this domain, which i'm wondering if that's an issue. I have edited mm_cfg.py url_hosts set it to www.domain.com and email_hosts option to domain.com, i won't be using any virtual domains, at least not right away. I've deleted the five lines for automatic fqdn acquiring above the url_host line and went to run /usr/lib/mailman/update i get a traceback www is not defined. Where do i go from here? Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] creating new virtual lists
by billc 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

At 3:12 PM -0400 3/27/08, Charles Marcus wrote: >On 3/27/2008, billc (billc_lists(a)greenbuilder.com) wrote: >> Reason: Message has implicit destination >> >>What does that mean? > >The list address needs to be in either the To or CC field - its >probably BCC'd... No, the mail is delivered to a Gmail account and pulled down from there using Fetchmail and dropped into Mailman. No CCs or BCCs. I *did* have to do some extra backflips with Gmail, as I currently have to wait 5 days before I can recreate the correct account name - I have discusion@ set up as an email list which forwards to discussion2@ until Gmail lets me out of the penalty box for having just deleted an account named discussion@. Perhaps that's where the problem lies. Hopefully I'll be able to get that one to go away in 5 days. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/>

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