Mailman-Users August 2008

mailman-users@python.org

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103 discussions

Mailman not recognizing some bounces?
by skip＠pobox.com 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

I've been working on the SpamBayes filtering on mail.python.org for a couple weeks. Now that the training database has matured a bit for the most part the unsures I see now seem to be bounce messages for a handful of mailing list subscribers which Mailman doesn't handle automatically. The most problematic domains are rediffmail.com, big.or.jp, 163.com, ospaz.ru and 126.com. The bounce messages from 163.com and 126.com (and I think big.or.jp) are written in the native character sets (Chinese or Japanese), so I can understand if Mailman doesn't recognize them. I'm not sure what the problem is with the others. Is this a known issue with Mailman? Are there workarounds? We're running 2.1.10. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - skip(a)pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ ------ ELON MUSK: If fuel cells were good, don't think you'd see them somewhere, like maybe in a laptop or a cell phone or a $200 million military satellite maybe? And yet, where do you see them? SPENCER MICHELS: You don't. ELON MUSK: Exactly.

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Delete a subscriber
by Meenal Pant 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hello all, I work on the SELS project (http://sels.ncsa.uiuc.edu) We store the GnuPG keyring of list members in the list folder (ex. /var/lib/mailman/list/testlist/SELS) During " delete " a subscriber I want to perform an additional action on my lists folder , which is delete the keys from the keyring for that subscriber. I am trying to figure out all the scripts I need to modify to add this feature to mailman. Also where is the source code located for executables generated in ~/mailman/bin ? I referred to the developers wiki but could not find what I was looking for. Thanks Meenal

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Demo import of bugs/patches/rfes to Launchpad
by Barry Warsaw 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce a demo import from SourceForge's bug tracker, patches tracker, and feature request tracker into Launchpad, and I invite you to play with the new issue tracker so that we can decide whether or not to complete this step of project hosting migration. The url is <https://bugs.demo.launchpad.net/mailman/+bugs> Things to note: This is a /demo/ import meaning that you can play with it all you want and it will not affect the eventual production import of the issues. This is a live demo though, so you should be able to try out all the features you would have access to in the main Launchpad site. Just remember that at the end of the demo, all these changes will be lost. All three SF trackers have been collapsed into one tracker on LP. With only 632 open issues, hopefully this will not be a problem, but if it is we can at least just import the bug tracker when/if we switch. If we wanted to import all three trackers but keep them separate, we'd have to figure something out. I don't have a timeframe for converting, or deciding to convert. Much depends on your feedback (and especially Mark's) and the readiness of the LP administrators to do the production import. I think if we like it, we could make the switch fairly quickly. Please send your feedback to me and I will communicate it back to the Launchpad developers working on this. My thanks go to Graham Binns and Tom Haddon. Enjoy, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkil/MwACgkQ2YZpQepbvXE0YgCdEdgPHKbXjd/JIlxenrlQmdUi fEoAn2QuaTwi/H1Ks9AYVEnFeFQLi7lZ =OHCC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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admin web access
by Karen R McArthur 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

I have applied the "site_hide_list_options.patch" in order to limit owner access to the list configurations via the web interface - however, a side effect of this is that our mailman admin cannot access those options either. (true, I can export the config, modify the text file and re-apply the config to the list, but that is very labor intensive...) How can I limit the list owners - yet still allow the mailman admin access to ALL the options via the web? -- Karen R. McArthur <kmcarthu(a)bates.edu> Systems Administrator Information and Library Services, Bates College Lewiston, Maine 04240 USA ph:(207)786-8236 fax:(207)786-6057 If you find that everybody else is right and you're wrong, it might just be that you're thinking outside the box. The world is yet to catch up.

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mails stuck in qfiles folder
by Darragh Gammell 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi I have lots of mails stuck in my qfiles/out folder. How do I resend these? Thanks Darragh

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Preventing accidental resubscription
by Darrell Burkey 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

I've had a client ask me how they can keep track of who unsubscribes from their lists so that they don't accidentally resubscribe the same address at some later point. Seems like just keeping a list of addresses of the unsubscribe notices that come in would be reasonable but they made the point that they would have to go through all the bounce notices as well to indentify addresses that were unsubscribed due to excessive bounces as well. I've done a fair amount of searching around and haven't seen the topic raised although it seems likely that it would have been. Unless anyone has any better advice I'm consider writinging a hack to copy unsubscribe addresses to a file that can be checked before subscribing someone. How do others handle this? Thanks in advance from downunder.

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Approve all waiting request for add-in as member
by Hung Phan 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

Hello, folks Is there a command to approve all waiting requests for add-in as member? Since it is the beginning of school year, parents begin to signup for mailing list. I understand there is the submit & confirm option so the parents can auto subscribe themselves. Thanks,

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Truncated aliases file
by Andy Cravens 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

We are running mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. This afternoon we had a strange problem that we have never seen before. The mailman aliases file located at /opt/mailman/data/aliases was somehow truncated and contained only a dozen of our 173 lists. Almost all of our list traffic was rejected with "User unknown in local recipient table" as a result. The problem was easily remedied by running the genaliases script. I can find no reason for this one-time occurrence (I hope it was a one-time occurrence). I have checked the server and found no hardware or system errors. I have checked all the mailman logs and have found nothing that correlates to the date/time of when the problem started. I have also spent some time googling this problem without finding much. Just wanted to run it by the list to see if anybody else has seen this. If it happens again I guess I could write a script to detect the problem and automatically run genaliases but I'd rather locate the source of the problem. Maybe it won't happen again. -- Andy

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changing the subject line when rejected
by Mark Heer 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hello, When a message is rejected it keeps the same subject line as what was sent. If the user dows not read the message saying the post was rejected, the user assumes it went out to the list. How do I change a rejected email subject to what I see in the ListAdmin.py # add in original message, but not wrap/filled if origmsg: text = NL.join( [text, '---------- ' + _('Original Message') + ' ----------', str(origmsg) ]) subject = _('Request to mailing list %(realname)s rejected') I expected that the above would be the subject of a rejected notice but it is not. Thank you, Mark

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mailman 2.1.11 install problem
by CJ Keist 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

One more thing, I just tried to link cc to gcc but then get the following when I try to install: cc: language arch=v8 not recognized cc: src/_japanese_codecs.c: linker input file unused because linking not done cc: build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.5/src/_japanese_codecs.o: No such file or directory error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-packages' Current working directory /space/src/mailman-2.1.11/misc *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: for d in bin cron misc Mailman scripts src templates messages tests; \ do \ (cd $d; make DESTDIR= install); \ done make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `doinstall' --------------------------- Hello, I'm upgrading from mailman 2.1.8 to 2.1.11. Running into a install problem, here is what I'm doing: ./configure --prefix=/userM/mail-services/mailman2 --with-python=/opt/csw/bin/python --with-cgi-gid=15 make I'm using gcc 3.4.3 on solaris 10 sparc platform This is the error I'm getting when I do make install unable to execute cc: No such file or directory error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-packages' Current working directory /space/src/mailman-2.1.11/misc *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: for d in bin cron misc Mailman scripts src templates messages tests; \ do \ (cd $d; make DESTDIR= install); \ done make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `doinstall' Had something similar when installing 2.1.8 and back then I just renamed /usr/ucb/cc to /usr/ucb/cc.otw But now it looks like it wants cc for some reason??? -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist(a)colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness'

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