Mailman 3 January 2009 - Mailman-Users

Moderator access to subscription list?
by Rich Winkel Jan. 12, 2009

Jan. 12, 2009

Is there a way to grant access to a list moderator to edit the subscription list without granting full administrative access? Thanks, Rich

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Can the auto-discard notification be changed?
by Roger Erens Jan. 10, 2009

Jan. 10, 2009

Hi, Sorry if what I'm asking for is already possible, but I couldn't find it in the archives. There's a setting that messages sent to a mailing-list by non-members are auto-discarded. In addition, these auto-discarded messages can still be sent to the mailing-list administrator. However, the message is only preceded by a simple "The attached message has been automatically discarded." line. It took me quite some time to figure out which application/system did the discarding (is it my anti-virus software on my PC, anti-spam software on my ISP's mail server, or ...?). Can the line that precedes the message be changed to something like "The attached message has been automatically discarded by the mailman instance that manages the mailing list <mailing list name>. The reason it is auto-discarded is: 'Post by non-member to a members-only list'" (much more like the message when a post is being held for moderation). Maybe a nice-to-have would be the ability for a list administrator to edit such lines him/herself. Cheers, Roger

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stripping attachments and sending the URL
by Thijs Braem Jan. 10, 2009

Jan. 10, 2009

Hello everybody, On http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3844 (May 1st, 2000) I read the following: "For example, there is a project contributor who has implemented a MIME attachment scanner module which can be dropped into the pipeline. This module can strip attachments from the message, post the attachments to an external archive (either the file system or a WebDAV server) and then rewrite the outgoing message to include a URL to the attachment instead of the attachment text." This is exactly the functionality I'm looking for! Does anyone have an idea where to find this module, or how this can be done otherwise? Thanks in advance, -- Thijs Braem Onderwijstechnoloog Onderwijsvernieuwing & OnderwijsServiceCentrum Vrije Universiteit Brussel Tel : +32.2629.1249 E-mail: tbraem(a)vub.ac.be http://osc.vub.ac.be/ -- "If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." -- Noam Chomsky

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Email subscription not working
by Dan Mahoney, System Admin Jan. 9, 2009

Jan. 9, 2009

Hey all, I'm hitting a little snag. Email subscribe isn't doing anything. Postfix delivers the email to mailman, but then as far as I can tell, nothing more happens with it. Where would be the best place to debug this from a mailman perspective? Jan 7 21:05:34 lister postfix/qmgr[97071]: DDFD010E528: from=<ionlyhavethisfortesting(a)gmail.com>, size=2716, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 7 21:05:35 lister postfix/local[38795]: DDFD010E528: to=<testing-join(a)lister.isc.org>, relay=local, delay=0.18, delays=0.01/0/0/0.17, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join testing) Jan 7 21:05:35 lister postfix/qmgr[97071]: DDFD010E528: removed And that's where it stops. The address doesn't show in any logs or anything from that point forward. Anything obvious I should be checking? Perhaps the possibility that the "to" address is getting altered in transit? Does mailman log discarded subscription messages? Is there a debug option? -Dan -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------

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Unknown encoding error
by Khosrow Ebrahimpour Jan. 8, 2009

Jan. 8, 2009

Hello list, A week or so ago I ran across this problem on one of our mailing lists: A user had sent an email with an apparently bad subject line. This has caused mailman to stop delivering emails for that specific mailning list. Here's the error from the logfile: --- Jan 05 21:25:10 2009 (23055) Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding: Re: DDS 26073 : Imap - installation d Jan 05 21:25:10 2009 (23055) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 240, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 373, in save_attachment fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1] File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Message.py", line 731, in get_filename return unicode(newvalue[2], newvalue[0] or 'us-ascii') LookupError: unknown encoding: Re: DDS 26073 : Imap - installation d Jan 05 21:25:10 2009 (23055) SHUNTING: 1231190705.198385+f75914e7ce7a9daf6e70914e0ed49923a47d2dd1 --- The full subject line should be: RE: DDS 26073 : Imap - installation d'application 'vacation' so I think the apostrophe is causing havoc here... I have searched mailing list and the search engines, and it looks like this error was a problem for people but has been solved in subsequent versions of mailman (we are running 2.1.5 on Debian Sarge). What I haven't been able to find out is how to purge out the offending email, and continue life as normal until we upgrade to Etch! I should say that I have tried removing the offending file from $MAILMANDIR/qfiles/shunt and running "unshunt", but nothing changed. Any suggestions are most appreciated. /Khosrow

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Customizing the admin login page...
by Grant Taylor Jan. 8, 2009

Jan. 8, 2009

What file(s) would I need to edit if I wanted to customize the admin login page? I'm wanting to add an onLoad value to the BODY tag (and related name tag to the form) to the web page that is generated to automatically focus the password box so that I can go to the web page and enter the password with out touching the mouse (or tabbing). Grant. . . .

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Listserv error
by ljanofsk＠umd.edu Jan. 8, 2009

Jan. 8, 2009

To whom this may concern, My fraternity is having a problem accessing our listserv membership online. I am the administrator for the group and when I go to the website to add/drop e-mail addresses, it tells me it doesn't exist. This is the first time this issue has come up and if you have any suggestions to fix this,I would greatly appreciate your help. Here is the URL that I go to: http://mail.zetapsiumd.com/mailman/admin/brothers_zetapsiumd.com Thank you for your assistance. Sincerely, Lee Janofsky

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Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam
by Jan Steinman Jan. 6, 2009

Jan. 6, 2009

> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk(a)gsp.org> > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:52:21PM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote: >> No, it is based upon the idea that a system could be implemented >> whereby >> it would be impossible to avoid the payment. > > This idiotic idea... the wishful thinking of clueless newbies... one > of the very stupidest anti-spam ideas... debunking of this nonsense... Is it really necessary to take this arrogant and abusive tone? If you are trying to convince others of your position, I fear the only thing you're convincing me of is your close-mindedness and utter unwillingness to consider different ways of thinking, and I'm afraid I tend to write off everything such people say. If you don't really care about convincing others of your position, why not just sit on your hands and let us "clueless newbies" (at least one of whom has been doing UNIX sysadmin and SMTP and TCP/IP programming for 30 years) make fools of ourselves? You haven't really explained anything -- just called people names. :::: Freedom of the commons brings ruin to all. -- Garrett Hardin :::: :::: Jan Steinman (a fossil-fuel free zone!) <http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com > ::::

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Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List
by b19141＠anl.gov Jan. 5, 2009

Jan. 5, 2009

Barry Finkel wrote: >>I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives >>explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the >> >> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) >> >>file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. >>Should this be added to the FAQ? And Mark Sapiro replied: >The FAQ currently says: > > Finally, if your MTA uses aliases for mailman lists rather than > some process that automatically understands list names from the > contents of the lists/ directory, you will have to update your > aliases. If you do this manually, edit your aliases to change > 'oldlist' to 'newlist' (a total of 2 changes per alias for 10 > aliases), and then run 'newaliases' or whatever command rebuilds > your alias database. It you have Postfix/Mailman integration, > just run bin/genaliases. > >If you think this is somehow inadequate or not prominent enough, it's a >wiki. Feel free to edit it. I do not know how I missed that piece. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?
by Dan Mahoney, System Admin Jan. 5, 2009

Jan. 5, 2009

Here at work, we've found that mailman's "-request" alias has stomped another already-existing function (under our previous list, we used that for administrative requests, and on this particular list, that's not negotiable -- it needs to duplicate the function of xxx-owner). However, we're using automatic aliases. Is there some way to quell or suppress the creation (or re-creation) of that particular alias (for one list only), without having to go to manual aliases? That is to say, if I hand-edited both $mailman/data/aliases and aliases.db (by rebuilding it from the new aliases file) -- would mailman revert it on me the next time I created a list? -Dan Mahoney -- "Let me tell you something about regrowing your dead wife Lucy, Harry. It's probably illegal, potentially dangerous, and definitely crazy." -Harry nods- Vincent Spano, as Boris in "Creator". --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------

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