Mailman 3 August 2008 - Mailman-Users

mailman and unknown e-mail address
by Marco De Rossi Aug. 7, 2008

Aug. 7, 2008

Hello, we have installed "Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager" version 2.1.5 Is it possible to know if mailing list's members e-mail addresses are correct? Sending e-mail to a mailing list with wrong e-mail address of some member, no error notification is sent to mailing list administrator or to sender. Thanks. Marco De Rossi

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compile problems with mailman-2.1.10/11
by b-vol Aug. 7, 2008

Aug. 7, 2008

Greetings, I am new to this list. i have been trying to compile mailman-2.1.10 and mailman-2.1.11 (I have compiled mailman successfully a couple of years ago ). The computer is an athlon-based PC with LFS (linuxfromscratch) -kernel 2.6.25.8, gcc-4.2.2, openssl-0.98 is in /usr/local and python-2.5.2 is in /usr/. The compiler spews the following in both instances (i.e.for mailman-2.1.10 and mailman-2.1.11):- File "bin/update", line 37, in <module> import md5 File "/… [View More]

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Question re: creating new lists from the GUI
by Simon Aug. 6, 2008

Aug. 6, 2008

Hi, I'm in the process of cleaning up an older mailman install I inherited, and am having a few issues, but I'll deal with them one at a time... I'm still learning linux/postfix/mailman (and everything else), so please be gentle. :) Environment: Gentoo / kernel 2.6.23 postfix 2.5.2 mailman 2.1.11 I have just upgraded mailman from 2.1.9 to 2.1.11 and everything is working fine as far as existing lists is concerned. This issue has to do with creating new lists from the GUI. I created a … [View More]

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i can not open http://localhost/mailman/admin
by hanfei4567 Aug. 6, 2008

Aug. 6, 2008

I am a new to mailman.I have installed mailman-2.1.11 twice, as the following steps,but i can not open http://localhost/mailman/admin In http.conf, i have already added: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"> AddDefaultCharset Off </Directory> when i open http://localhost/mailman/admin, it shows Internal Server Error. So I get open error_log of … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers suddenly "disappear"
by b19141＠anl.gov Aug. 6, 2008

Aug. 6, 2008

Max Lanfranconi <Max.Lanfranconi(a)Sun.COM> wrote: >Mailman 2.1.11 >Python 2.4.4 >OS Solaris 2.11 > > >Hi, > >I have been able to reproduce this bug consistently by running the >replicate_bug script: > > >replicate _bug is the following: > >#!/bin/sh >/usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist1 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist2 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist3 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist4 >/usr/local/mailman/… [View More]bin/rmlist testlist5 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist6 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist1 >list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd >/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist2 >list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd >/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist3 >list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd >/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist4 >list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd >/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist5 >list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd >/usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist6 >list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd > > >echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist1 >echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist2 >echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist3 >echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist4 >echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist5 >echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist6 >echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist1 >echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist2 >echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist3 >echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist4 >echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist5 >echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist6 > >After a short wait the following output is received: > >Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com >Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com >Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com >Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com >Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com >Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com >Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com >Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com >Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com >Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com >Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com >Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com > >foo(a)bar.com receives 6 confirmation emails, as boo(a)foo.com does. S >o far so >good. > >At this point testlist1-6 each should contain 2 subscribers: foo(a)bar.com >and boo(a)foo.com > >BUT > >/usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist1 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist2 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist3 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist4 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist5 >/usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist6 > >invariably produce some random combination in which one or more of the >subscribers are missing: >for example: >boo(a)foo.com >foo(a)bar.com >foo(a)bar.com >boo(a)foo.com >foo(a)bar.com >foo(a)bar.com >foo(a)bar.com >boo(a)foo.com >foo(a)bar.com > >in which three instances of boo(a)foo.com are missing... > >No Errors in any Mailman log. > > >Thanks in advance for your help. Please let me know if you need additional >details. >Regards, >Max I ran the script (after some minor modifications) on Ubuntu Dapper Mailman 2.1.11 (self-built package) Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct 6 2006, 07:49:22) and I get similar results: Script started on Tue 05 Aug 2008 09:45:31 AM CDT # set prompt="mailman11-test# " mailman11-test# ./replicate_bug.exec Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity - beware! This removes (almost) all traces of a mailing list. By default, the lists archives are not removed, which is very handy for retiring old lists. Usage: rmlist [-a] [-h] listname Where: --archives -a Remove the list's archives too, or if the list has already been deleted, remove any residual archives. --help -h Print this help message and exit. No such list (or list already deleted): testlist1 Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity - beware! This removes (almost) all traces of a mailing list. By default, the lists archives are not removed, which is very handy for retiring old lists. Usage: rmlist [-a] [-h] listname Where: --archives -a Remove the list's archives too, or if the list has already been deleted, remove any residual archives. --help -h Print this help message and exit. No such list (or list already deleted): testlist2 Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity - beware! This removes (almost) all traces of a mailing list. By default, the lists archives are not removed, which is very handy for retiring old lists. Usage: rmlist [-a] [-h] listname Where: --archives -a Remove the list's archives too, or if the list has already been deleted, remove any residual archives. --help -h Print this help message and exit. No such list (or list already deleted): testlist3 Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity - beware! This removes (almost) all traces of a mailing list. By default, the lists archives are not removed, which is very handy for retiring old lists. Usage: rmlist [-a] [-h] listname Where: --archives -a Remove the list's archives too, or if the list has already been deleted, remove any residual archives. --help -h Print this help message and exit. No such list (or list already deleted): testlist4 Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity - beware! This removes (almost) all traces of a mailing list. By default, the lists archives are not removed, which is very handy for retiring old lists. Usage: rmlist [-a] [-h] listname Where: --archives -a Remove the list's archives too, or if the list has already been deleted, remove any residual archives. --help -h Print this help message and exit. No such list (or list already deleted): testlist5 Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity - beware! This removes (almost) all traces of a mailing list. By default, the lists archives are not removed, which is very handy for retiring old lists. Usage: rmlist [-a] [-h] listname Where: --archives -a Remove the list's archives too, or if the list has already been deleted, remove any residual archives. --help -h Print this help message and exit. No such list (or list already deleted): testlist6 Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com mailman11-test# foreach list (1 2 3 4 5 6) ? echo $list ? list_members testlist$list ? end 1 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 2 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 3 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 4 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 5 foo(a)bar.com 6 foo(a)bar.com mailman11-test# ======================================================= mailman11-test# ./replicate_bug.exec Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com mailman11-test# foreach list (1 2 3 4 5 6) ? echo $list ? list_members testlist$list ? end 1 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 2 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 3 foo(a)bar.com 4 foo(a)bar.com 5 foo(a)bar.com 6 foo(a)bar.com mailman11-test# ======================================================= mailman11-test# ./replicate_bug.exec Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. Removing list info Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com mailman11-test# foreach list (1 2 3 4 5 6) ? echo $list ? list_members testlist$list ? end 1 foo(a)bar.com 2 boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com 3 foo(a)bar.com 4 foo(a)bar.com 5 foo(a)bar.com 6 foo(a)bar.com mailman11-test# exit Script done on Tue 05 Aug 2008 09:50:48 AM CDT I then added sleep 5 after each "add_members" line, and the output looked fine. I changed the sleep interval from 5 down to 1 in successive runs, and each output looks fine; each list has the proper two subscribers. Is there a timing issue here? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 [View Less]

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How do I list all members of a list via command line?
by Matt Smith Aug. 5, 2008

Aug. 5, 2008

Hello all, I am fairly new to working with Mailman. We have several lists and I want to list all of the members of a few of the lists. How would I accomplish this? Thanks, Matthew Smith Tampa Bay Library Consortium 813-622-8252 X229 smithmm(a)tblc.org

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Periods in user email addresses rejected
by b19141＠anl.gov Aug. 5, 2008

Aug. 5, 2008

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: | Jay Deiman writes: | | > I just got mailman up and running with Postfix and everything has been | > working perfectly except when someone tries to subscribe to the list | > that has a period in the "user" portion of the address. For example: | > fname.lname(a)domain.org. It gets rejected as an invalid email address by | > the web interface. | | I've never heard of this before. Just checking, but are you sure that | these mailboxes don't have … [View More]periods in their display names rather than | (or as well as) their addresses? That is, although | | Stephen Turnbull <stephen.turnbull(a)invalid.com> | | is a valid mailbox according to RFC 2822, | | Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen.turnbull(a)invalid.com> | | is not, and must be quoted | | "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen.turnbull(a)invalid.com> | | (I don't think Mailman checks for this, but given that AFAICT from the | source, Mailman should not behave the way you describe, it's a guess.) | | > First, is this a setting somewhere that can be changed? | | No. I would assume that the design is to allow anything that RFC 2822 | does. As far as I can tell, what you are seeing is a MMHostileAddress | as defined in Mailman/Errors.py, and the characters checked for are in | _badchars and _specials in Mailman/Utils.py. However, '.' isn't in | there AFAICS, in a recently updated bzr checkout of 2.1. | | What version of Mailman are you using? | And Jay replied: >I'm using version 2.1.10 (FreeBSD port) with Postfix 2.4.1 (FreeBSD >port). I just tried this again through the web interface (not as an >admin, but as someone attempting to subscribe) and I got the same >results. I used the address "jay.deiman(a)gmail.com" (without quotes) and >no name in the name field. Verbatim, I get this response: > >You must supply a valid email address. > >That is it. I've tested with other email addresses, not containing a >period, and they all work fine. I just ran a test on my Mailman 2.1.11 test system (with Postfix), and I was able, through the web interface, to subscribe Barry.Finkel(a)anl.gov to one of my test lists. I did not enter anything in the Your name (optional): box. I received the confirmation mail at that address, and I went to the URL in that e-mail to confirm my subscription. I then had to approve my subscription, as this test list requires list owner approval for subscriptions. Postfix is involved only in sending the confirmation mail to Barry.Finkel(a)anl.gov. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 [View Less]

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Subscribers suddenly "disappear"
by Max Lanfranconi Aug. 5, 2008

Aug. 5, 2008

Mailman 2.1.11 Python 2.4.4 OS Solaris 2.11 Hi, I have been able to reproduce this bug consistently by running the replicate_bug script: replicate _bug is the following: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist1 /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist2 /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist3 /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist4 /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist5 /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist6 /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist1 list-admin(… [View More]a)domain.com testpwd /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist2 list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist3 list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist4 list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist5 list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist -q -e url.domain.com testlist6 list-admin(a)domain.com testpwd echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist1 echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist2 echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist3 echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist4 echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist5 echo "foo(a)bar.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist6 echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist1 echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist2 echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist3 echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist4 echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist5 echo "boo(a)foo.com" | /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r - testlist6 After a short wait the following output is received: Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: foo(a)bar.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com Subscribed: boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com receives 6 confirmation emails, as boo(a)foo.com does. S o far so good. At this point testlist1-6 each should contain 2 subscribers: foo(a)bar.com and boo(a)foo.com BUT /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist1 /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist2 /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist3 /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist4 /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist5 /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_members testlist6 invariably produce some random combination in which one or more of the subscribers are missing: for example: boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com foo(a)bar.com boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com foo(a)bar.com foo(a)bar.com boo(a)foo.com foo(a)bar.com in which three instances of boo(a)foo.com are missing... No Errors in any Mailman log. Thanks in advance for your help. Please let me know if you need additional details. Regards, Max [View Less]

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Web Interface tags in email
by Knabe, Troy Aug. 5, 2008

Aug. 5, 2008

We have written a custom web application that authenticates against our ldap directory so staff can manage their own lists, without all of the robustness of the mailman web interface. By default both list and administrative emails have links to the web interface. Where do I need to go about changing that to include the link to our other web server. As a side note, I still have and want the full mailman for my administration, so I don't want to just change the web host setting as I believe … [View More]

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question about recurring gate_news command
by Christopher Adams Aug. 5, 2008

Aug. 5, 2008

I looked through the list archives and didn't see where this issue was resolved. My cron log show a recurring (every 5 minutes) entry like this: Aug 4 11:20:00 swiki CROND[21998]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news) Can someone suggest a fix? -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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