Mailman 3 June 2009 - Mailman-Users

Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem
by Douglas G. Phillips 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

OK, I've got another problem with Qmail/Plesk/Mailman (same customer, rebuilt server). Plesk is 7.5.4 reloaded. Mail delivered fails with "need GID 110 got 101" error. I set up the brute-force wrapper to deliver with GID 110, and set the permissions correctly for it to work. Now, I'm getting the following (broken up into multiple lines for courtesy): qmail: 1157518628.995172 delivery 726: success: group_mismatch_error._Mailman_expected_the_mail_wrapper_script_to_be/ executed_as_one_of_the_following_groups:/[mail,_nobody,_mailman],/ but_the_system's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as_group:_"popuser"./ Try_tweaking_the_mail_server_to_run_the_script_as_one_of_these_groups:/ [mail,_nobody,_mailman],/or_re-run_configure_providing_the_ command_line_option:/'--with-mail-gid=popuser'./Failed_to_start_ /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman./did_0+0+1/ I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I even added the popuser user to the mailman group in /etc/passwd. So, that being said, are there any ideas out there? I have been messing with this for a week, and have not come up with anything else to do. -- Douglas G. Phillips Simple Business Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Mailman 2.1.9 incorrectly holding messages for "Reason: Message has implicit destination"
by Schmitt, Gordon A. 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

We had been using mailman 2.1.5 installed on Redhat Enterprise v3.n for several years . A few months ago, we installed a new Redhat system for our mailing list server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) which has Mailman 2.1.9 installed. I followed various instructions on migrating the mailing lists and everything seemed to be working just fine. However, within the past few weeks we noticed that some users sending to their favorite lists are having a lot of trouble with their messages being held as: "Reason: Message has implicit destination" . Many users do not have this happen. I have been investigating and testing and I can not figure out why. Our main campus mail system is Exchange 2007. They have put the address in the correct place, i.e. The To: or CC: fields. We create exchange contacts for each mailing list that forwards the message to the mailing list server, e.g. listname(a)stcloudstate.edu forwards to listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu and there was never any problems for the past several years before our upgrade. Below is the header info from a message that is being held that should have passed through. Can anyone think of what is causing this behavior for certain messages? One person mentioned that it happenes when he did a reply-all to a message and it worked after creatomg a new message. I do not know if this could be related because I tried doing this and all my messages went through fine. I may have to experiment more with what email client software the messages are being sent from, I mostly use Entourage on a Mac. The majority of campus use Outlook on some version of Windows. Thanks for any help Gordon Schmitt St. Cloud State University Return-Path: <joesmoe(a)stcloudstate.edu> X-Original-To: listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu Delivered-To: listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu Received: from excserver1.campus.stcloudstate.edu (excserver1.campus.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.15.89]) by lists.stcloudstate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C9E97745 for <listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu>; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:55:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.15.82]) by excserver1.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.15.89]) with mapi; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:55:26 -0500 From: "Smoe, Joe A." <joesmoe(a)stcloudstate.edu> To: "Olagunju, Am O." <alguein(a)stcloudstate.edu>, "listname(a)stcloudstate.edu" <IMCEAEX-_O=SCSU_OU=First+20Administrative+20Group_cn=Recipients_cn=listname(a)stcloudstate.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:55:25 -0500 Subject: RE: Remedial education requires joint partnerships Thread-Topic: Remedial education requires joint partnerships Thread-Index: Acnulm1RBSQvD3MvQeSh+5ZrkDCZkgA6JTO3 Message-ID: <3D401A37AB144C40AF0D9BE440596A7F12EA6C84EF(a)excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu> References: <16EEB76BD19BC343A7E6E591A3A4B82712E41B3061(a)excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <16EEB76BD19BC343A7E6E591A3A4B82712E41B3061(a)excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_004_3D401A37AB144C40AF0D9BE440596A7F12EA6C84EFSCSU80campuss_"; type="multipart/alternative" MIME-Version: 1.0

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Spam Filters ..
by Khalil Abbas 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

if I want all messages to my list to be discarded and not shown in the pending moderator requests except for only one email address which I'm using to send to the list .. how can I do that thru spam filters ?? Thanks .. _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx

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Close a list
by Maria Gordon 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hi, Mailman Contact. Please could you tell me how to close a list. Thanks. Maria Gordon Office Manager Program on Governance for Sustainable Development Bren Hall 4526 Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131 USA Hours: Mon 9:30am - 1:30pm; Tues 9am - 5pm; Thurs 9am - 5pm Ph: +(805)893-8437 Fax: +(805)893-7064 http://www.gsdprogram.org/ http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/

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new listserv
by Whipple, Michelle M 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

Hello, How do I go about setting up a new listserv for Purdue Group Exercise participants? Thank you, Michelle M. Whipple Coordinator, Fitness & Wellness Programming Purdue University Recreational Sports Center 355 N. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2030 Office: 765.496.6234 Fax: 765.496.1163 mwhipple(a)purdue.edu <mailto:mwhipple@purdue.edu> www.purdue.edu/recsports <http://www.purdue.edu/recsports/index.html>

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some commands does´t works
by Sérgio Marques 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

hi, when i send an email with set delivery off or set delivery on the mailman send me a bound email please say me how can i solve de trouble? Sérgio Marques

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Question
by Amanda Widom 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

Hi, The organization I work for has a mailman account and I have encountered a problem. We have a list called "RG List" of all of our members and I have been unsubscribing people that request to be taken off. The problem is when an en email is sent to rglist(a)nystla.org those unsubscribed people are still being sent emails. How can I fix this? Thanks! Amanda Widom Membership Coordinator New York State Trial Lawyers Association 132 Nassau Street New York, NY 10038 Phone: 212-349-5890 ext.319 Fax: 212-608-2310 www.NYSTLA.org

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Sender address domain expanded - posts rejected by privacy options
by Drew Tenenholz 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Dear fountain of Mailman knowledge -- Something strange is happening on a Mailman 2.1.9 installation that is being run for me. I wonder if it makes sense to any of you out there. We are running a closed list, which severely restricts who is allowed to post and subscribe. This is mostly for an internal discussion about a post before it is sent to the announce-only (parallel) list. One newly added user is having trouble posting. I believe Mailman may be doing something I didn't expect, and we've been able to compensate for it, but I'd like to know if I'm going crazy or not. I've set up the poster with a series of email account settings as follows: user(a)subsidiary.org is an alias on the subsidiary.org mail server that simply points to userfirst.userlast(a)isid.org. There is no mailbox for this user on the subsidiary.org server. They have a real email account on the mail server "isid.org" which they can access via both POP and webmail. When they send mail from the webmail system, their account settings for the 'From:' and 'Reply-To:' addresses are user(a)subsidiary.org. If I send a message directly to myself from their account, the From and Reply-To addresses are correct. When the message arrives at Mailman 2.1.9, the From address has dramatically changed into user(a)fullMX.record.expanded.edu What gives! To be complete, there really is a server at fullMX.record.expanded.edu which handles mail (not for this user), but I don't know where/why Mailman should be doing some sort of lookup and replace the "@subsidiary.org" with the full MX name. So, we updated the Privacy>Sender Filters (and General>Moderators) had to include this address and everything is working. The real question is why did this happen? Is it expected? Has it been changed in later versions? If there is a FAQ or something to tell me how this works, I'd love to read it. Thanks in Advance, Drew Tenenholz

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changing message number
by Mustafa Akgul 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hello, I will move a few lists to mailman, from ecartis. I want to retain message numbers, and continue current sequence. So I need to start message number from a non-zero number. How can I do that ? I am new to mailman. I can undump, config.pck, I can chnage post-id. I do not know, how to put that fiile in pck format. Secondly, I manage to change post-id, will it break anything else ? Regards Mustafa Akgul

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sender filter-hold and reject nonmember problem
by Burcu İnci 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hi , I have hold_these_nonmembers set for some domains for example from .edu addresses and also i have addresses in discard_these_nonmembers list. my problem is when an address in discard list with .edu post an email it is hold for moderation so my hold filter overrides the discard filter. is it normal or is there a way to change its order Thanks, Burcu İnci

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