Mailman 3 April 2008 - Mailman-Users

Spikes in mailman queue
by Fletcher Cocquyt April 4, 2008

April 4, 2008

In the last 3-4 weeks I have observed 4-5 occasions were the mailman qfiles/in dir suddenly gets bottlenecked (by mostly spam) seemingly waiting on spamassassin. I look at the syslog and it shows its processing 1 email every 10-20 seconds I¹ve done some tuning already (local DNS caching server, Razor timeouts lowered etc) - can anyone offer some advice on how to prevent this? The workaround currently is to stop/start SA (but then all the spam ends up in the moderator's queue) - thanks for any tips god@smtp-02:~ 3:01pm 52 # ps -ef | grep spam root 22276 22109 0 15:02:52 pts/1 0:00 grep spam root 7243 1 0 Apr 01 ? 0:26 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/bin/perl -T /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -u spamass -x -P spamass 18745 7243 0 14:41:01 ? 0:02 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/bin/perl -T /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -u spamass -x -P spamass 370 7243 0 13:03:20 ? 0:23 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/bin/perl -T /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -u spamass -x -P god@smtp-02:~ 3:01pm 51 # sa-update -D [22133] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [22133] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [22133] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 [22133] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen. [22133] dbg: dns: no ipv6 [22133] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes [22133] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.61 [22133] dbg: generic: sa-update version svn540384 [22133] dbg: generic: using update directory: /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/var/spamassassin/3.002003 [22133] dbg: diag: perl platform: 5.008005 solaris [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Digest::SHA1, version 2.11 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: HTML::Parser, version 3.56 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::DNS, version 0.61 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: MIME::Base64, version 3.07 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: DB_File, version 1.809 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::SMTP, version 2.29 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::SPF, version v2.005 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::SPF::Query, version 1.999001 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: IP::Country::Fast, version 604.001 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Razor2::Client::Agent, version 2.84 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Net::Ident, version 1.20 [22133] dbg: diag: module not installed: IO::Socket::INET6 ('require' failed) [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Socket::SSL, version 1.09 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Compress::Zlib, version 2.007 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Time::HiRes, version 1.59 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::DomainKeys, version 1.0 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Mail::DKIM, version 0.28 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: DBI, version 1.48 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Getopt::Long, version 2.34 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: LWP::UserAgent, version 2.001 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: HTTP::Date, version 1.43 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Archive::Tar, version 1.36 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Zlib, version 1.07 [22133] dbg: diag: module installed: Encode::Detect, version 1.00 [22133] dbg: gpg: Searching for 'gpg' [22133] dbg: util: current PATH is: /bin:/etc:/lib:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/demo/SOUND:/usr/games:/usr/lib:/us r/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lo cal/etc:/usr/local/etc:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/u sr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/proc/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/lib/nis [22133] dbg: util: executable for gpg was found at /usr/local/bin/gpg [22133] dbg: gpg: found /usr/local/bin/gpg [22133] dbg: gpg: release trusted key id list: 5E541DC959CB8BAC7C78DFDC4056A61A5244EC45 26C900A46DD40CD5AD24F6D7DEE01987265FA05B 0C2B1D7175B852C64B3CDC716C55397824F434CE [22133] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org [22133] dbg: channel: update directory /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/var/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_or g [22133] dbg: channel: channel cf file /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/var/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_or g.cf [22133] dbg: channel: channel pre file /usr/local/stow/perl-5.8.5/var/spamassassin/3.002003/updates_spamassassin_or g.pre [22133] dbg: channel: metadata version = 611820 [22133] dbg: dns: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org => 611820, parsed as 611820 [22133] dbg: channel: current version is 611820, new version is 611820, skipping channel [22133] dbg: diag: updates complete, exiting with code 1 -- Fletcher Cocquyt Senior Systems Administrator Information Resources and Technology (IRT) Stanford University School of Medicine Email: fcocquyt(a)stanford.edu Phone: (650) 724-7485

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Moving list
by stumpie1＠sbcglobal.net April 4, 2008

April 4, 2008

Hi, A couple of mail lists that I manage are being moved in the next day or two. Is there a way I can download a file with all the subscriber settings? This is a quick thing and I don't have the time to dig through all the documentation. TIA for any help. cheers! Paul

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list address in From: line post message to closed list
by Steve Lindemann April 4, 2008

April 4, 2008

I'm sorry, I'm just not sure what the best subject line would be for this... 8^( I'm sure this has been going on for ages, but it's only just recently been brought to my attention. The problem - when the list email address is (spoofed) in the From: line (as well as being on the To: line) the message posts to the list. The ability to post to the list is supposed to be restricted to only list members. The list address is not in the list of list members. Is this normal? I checked the config and there did see anything to allow this behavior there. Is the list email address automatically considered to be a member of the list? I can always block it in "privacy options->sender filters", but should that even be necessary? Help! I checked what documentation I can find and couldn't find any mention of this behaviour. I didn't have a clue how to look for it in the FAQ so I settled for reading the index and didn't see anything resembling this there either. -- Steve Lindemann __ Network Administrator //\\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network, Inc. \\// against HTML/RTF email, url: http://www.marmot.org //\\ vCards & M$ attachments email: mailto:steve@marmot.org voice: +1.970.242.3331 ext 116 fax: +1.970.245.7854

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problem solved, list up and running...
by Dov Oxenberg April 4, 2008

April 4, 2008

Hi! Just a quick note to say thank you once again to Mark and everyone else. I sincerely appreciate the support, guidance, and advice and have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for you gurus. Most of the time we tend to post to this list with our problems and I thought it would be refreshing to report a successful outcome, something positive instead. With persistence, a great deal of online research, and the help and advice from this list I was ultimately able to overcome the obstacles in my way and now have a mailing list up and running. Granted I still need to pretty it up, as far as the web interface and default text, but the important thing was it be functional. Thanks again to everyone for your help! Dov

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almost there...now mail loops :-(
by Dov Oxenberg April 3, 2008

April 3, 2008

Hi,I would again like to extend my thanks to Mark and everyone for your help and guidance as I have been struggling with getting my mailing list working.I am close...finally got things working by editing some values in the main.cf file.Which leads me to my question - now that I have mail working, I mean I am actually receiving responses from the mail Server, albeit failure notifications, and can now see administrative requests in the console. In fact, the self-subscription works as well...or at least it was.Anyway, now I am receiving the below messages from the mail Sever:This is the mail system at host mail.domain.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could notbe delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You candelete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system <subject-discuss(a)domain.com>: mail for domain.com loops back to myself --Forwarded Message Attachment--From: boxenberg(a)hotmail.comTo: subject-discuss(a)domain.comSubject: Another test message...Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 00:13:34 -0400 Please help, And thank you again!

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Block spam from "-owner"?
by Jon Slater April 3, 2008

April 3, 2008

I am getting a great deal of spam to almost all of my lists. Well, not the lists per se, but to the owner's of the lists. Like: members-owner(a)server.org volunteers-owner(a)server.org board-owner(a)server.org I'm using SpamAssassin but these are coming in with spam score like "-0.6" Is there some other mechanism for eliminating this spam? Thanks! Jon

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Adding extra information to subscription requests.
by Jaldhar H. Vyas April 3, 2008

April 3, 2008

[I originally sent this to -developers but that was probably the wrong place. If you see it there, please respond here instead.] This is a project I've been noodling about with for a bit but now is the time to ask how to do it properly. For a mailing list I run using 2.1.9 I would like to new subscribers to provide an explanation of why they would like to join the list and acknowledge their acceptance of the list code of conduct. Now adding a textarea and checkbox to the subscription form is easy but how do you make that extra information get sent to the list owners? Do I have to hack cgi-bin/subscribe or is there some simpler way? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar(a)braincells.com>

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Preventing Attachments
by Aaron Gray April 2, 2008

April 2, 2008

Hi, a mailman newbie here :) Before installing MailMan I want to know if there is an admin option for either disallowing attachments, ie removing them or bouncing messages if they have an attachment. Many thanks in advance, Aaron

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customized digest pages
by JT Koffenberger April 2, 2008

April 2, 2008

Has anyone out there ever developed a customized digest page? If so.. is there any place for templates or examples of such emails? Thanks! --JTK JT Koffenberger Founder and General Manager Delmarva Group, LLC phone: 302.559.8711 fax: 707.281.4628 mailto:jt.koffenberger@delmarvagroup.com http://www.delmarvagroup.com

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Problem With Mailman Migration
by Michael J Wise April 2, 2008

April 2, 2008

I've recently moved our mailman service to a different server. It appears to be working well in all regards but one. When I attempt to manage a list from the webpage interface on the correct server it sends me to the admin password authorization page on the old server. All lists constantly refer back to the old server for admin tasks. I have set the mm_cfg.py file properly with our new servers address (xxxxx.domain.tld), and have run withlist -l -r fix_url both in "-a" mode and individually on the various lists with no results. I also would like to know how to shutdown the old mailman admin web page. I have edited out the reference to mailman in httpd.conf and restarted the daemon with no success; there are no aliases to mailman in the httpd.conf file aside from what I edited. The server platform is Mac Server 10.4.11. Thank you for your help. -- Michael J Wise Technology Coordinator Thomas Jefferson School 4100 S. Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63127 (314)843-4152 x171

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