Mailman 3 October 2009 - Mailman-Users

Mailman error
by Clovis Tristao 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi, Since yesterday the mailman stopped sending messages to the lists. The message: /var/log/mailman/post: Oct 06 10:27:50 2009 (2335) post to listname-l from username(a)foo.com, size=2633, message-id=<4ACA34FA.8030407(a)foo.com>, 322 failures /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure: Oct 06 10:35:50 2009 (2335) delivery to username(a)foo.com failed with code -1: Server not connected How do I track and / or resolve the problem? We removed the accounts of users of the machines and they were not removed from the listname-l list. How do I fix this problem? I thank you, Clóvis -- Clovis Tristao - UNICAMP/Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola Administrador de Redes - Secao de Informatica (SINFO) E-mail: clovis(a)feagri.unicamp.br http://www.feagri.unicamp.br Fone(0xx19) 35211031-35211038-91173116 ou FAX(55xx19) 35211005/35211010

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Genaliases Command Help
by Carlos Williams 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

When installing MailMan, the guide explains that I need to run the /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases to "to initialize your aliases file". I do so as instructed and get the following response: [root@mail bin]# ./genaliases [root@mail bin]# As you can see I am issued no errors or anything to that nature however nothing ever generates an aliases file unless it's somewhere I can't find. What am I doing wrong? I don't think this matters but the permissions are listed below: drwxrwsr-x 13 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 mailman [root@mail lib]# cd mailman/ [root@mail mailman]# ls -l total 44 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 cgi-bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 icons drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 mail drwxrwsr-x 11 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:38 Mailman drwxrwsr-x 34 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 messages drwxrwsr-x 6 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 pythonlib drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 scripts drwxrwsr-x 35 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 templates drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 4096 Oct 9 12:15 tests Please help me understand what is going wrong. Thanks!

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Apache Configuration for Mailman
by Carlos Williams 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

I am trying to install / configure MailMan on my mail server which is running Postfix 2.6 & Apache 2 on CentOS 5 x64. I am following the guide on the MailMan page labeled "5 Set up your web server". I am confused here because it advises me to do the following: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ When I add that line into my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, I get this error when I restart Apache: [root@mail conf]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [OK] Starting httpd: [Tue Oct 06 14:51:49 2009] [warn] The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf at line 565 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias. [ OK ] So now I am wondering if this means I placed it in the wrong section of my httpd.conf file. I really don't know so I am asking you guys what I am doing wrong? In my httpd.conf file in CentOS, I placed it on line 565 in the section that looked appropriate: # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client. # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to # Alias. # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/" # # "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. # <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

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Archive is not showing messages
by Adam Nichols 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

When I go to the archive page, I get the "No messages have been posted to this list yet, so the archives are currently empty. You can get more information about this list." This is a newly created list. I have the archive option set to yes. I can see the emails in "/var/lib/mailman/lists/<groupname>/digest.mbox". I have also set the option to archive daily, and have the cron job: 27 3 * * * mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip. Where else do I need to look to check on the archiving? My other groups are successfully archiving. Thanks

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mailmanctl fails to start runners
by Ian Kaufman 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi all, I am having trouble getting my mailman instance to run. It was working for sometime, but I had to move some files around and add a new disk to the system, and now it refuses to start. The error I see is: Starting mailman: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 607, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 449, in main lock = acquire_lock(force) File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 263, in acquire_lock lock = acquire_lock_1(force) File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 248, in acquire_lock_1 lock.lock(0.1) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lock/mailman/master-qrunner.calit2-web05.ucsd.edu.5359.1' Exception exceptions.OSError: <exceptions.OSError instance at 0xb7b01eec> in Exception exceptions.OSError: <exceptions.OSError instance at 0xb7b01ecc> in [FAILED] It appears that mailmanctl tries to create the lockfile, but does not, as there is nothing in /var/lock/mailman. I have run check_perms and there were no errors. Any thoughts? Thanks, Ian -- Ian Kaufman Research Systems Administrator UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu

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Mailman archives
by Krishnadas Kossery 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

When messages are archived in mailman, they are losing their original format. Tables appear as text and are not readable. I would like to retain the original format as is. Please suggest. Regards, Krishna

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expost user list as csv
by Svante Tidholm 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi all, I've been using a shell script to compile a list of all subscribers on a list for our intranet at a site I'm taking care of. This is done with the mailman-subscribers.py script and some smart commands that parse the csv file in different ways. I run this as a cron script hourly on the server so that the subscriber list is updated. Then suddenly I realized this is weird way to do it, it must be smarter to use the list_member command in bin/, but I can't get a nicely formatted CSV file as with mailman- subscribers.py. Has anyone a smart idea on how to fix this? Or maybe I should add it as a feature request somewhere for the list_members script? See these pages for more info what I'm talking about: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030569 http://www.msapiro.net/mailman-subscribers.py Thanks, Svante

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How do I export contact information from mailmain
by Jason Touw 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

I have a list of names that I would like to export from all my lists and cannot seem to find a way how to do this? Does anyone know?? Regards, Jason Touw 5630 W. Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach, FL. 33484 eMail: touwjason(a)gmail.com<mailto:touwjason@gmail.com> Mobile: 561.302.4599

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Why are old messages appearing all of a sudden all the time?
by Tanstaafl 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

This is a bit annoying. -- Best regards, Charles

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Re: [Mailman-Users] expost user list as csv
by b19141＠anl.gov 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Svante Tidholm <svante(a)tidholm.se> wrote: >Hi all, >I've been using a shell script to compile a list of all subscribers on >a list for our intranet at a site I'm taking care of. This is done >with the mailman-subscribers.py script and some smart commands that >parse the csv file in different ways. > >I run this as a cron script hourly on the server so that the >subscriber list is updated. Then suddenly I realized this is weird way >to do it, it must be smarter to use the list_member command in bin/, >but I can't get a nicely formatted CSV file as with mailman- >subscribers.py. Has anyone a smart idea on how to fix this? Or maybe I >should add it as a feature request somewhere for the list_members >script? > >See these pages for more info what I'm talking about: >http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030569 >http://www.msapiro.net/mailman-subscribers.py I am not sure what fields you are extracting via the bin/list_members command. I produce an hourly list of all of the subscriptions to all of my Mailman lists; I extract only the list name and e-mail address. For what you want to do, I suggest an awk script to post-process the output of bin/list_members. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 240, Room 5.B.8 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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