Mailman 3 July 2009 - Mailman-Users

Reply to
by Wayne July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

I don't understand the whole reply to stuff. I don't want to allow users to hit reply and it to reply to the group. I have it set to strip the header and the reply to is set to poster. Please help. Thanks so much. Wayne Sent from my iPhone

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Inquiry from Saigon
by Claudio Schuftan July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

Dear friends, I moderate a listserver called phm-exchange using mailman. Can you give me precise instructions on what to do to change the settings so my own postings to the list do not have to be moderated (by me...) . Cordially, Claudio Schuftan MD

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permission denied error
by LuKreme July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/ mailman/config.pck' all the config.pck files have the same permissions though: 10 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 8556 Jul 21 12:00 list1/config.pck 8 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 7825 Mar 11 12:00 list1/ config.pck.corrupt 10 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 8556 Jul 21 09:00 list1/ config.pck.last 8 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 7825 Mar 11 12:10 list1/ config.pck.safety 10 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 9678 Jul 21 12:00 list2/config.pck 10 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 9678 Jul 21 09:00 list2/ config.pck.last 4 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3640 Jul 21 12:00 mailman/config.pck 4 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3640 Mar 11 12:00 mailman/ config.pck.corrupt 4 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3640 Jul 21 09:00 mailman/ config.pck.last 4 -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3640 Mar 11 12:07 mailman/ config.pck.safety $ bin/check_perms -f No problems found -- I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

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Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem
by Douglas G. Phillips July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounces and templates
by Mark Sapiro July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

Oliver Glueck wrote in an HTML only post: > >I get an email-bounce message, because my email was to big. >This is ok it was a test, but in this bounce-email I can read the URL >to the mailman-/mailserver to cancel my email. > >But if I'm an external list user, I don't have to see this >internal link. (No forwarding) > >How can I remove this URL permanently for all? >I can't find some words in the templates folder Your post did not reach the Mailman-Users list because it was a text/html message and the list's content filtering removed the text/html part and there was nothing left to post. Set your mail client to compose/send plain text only or at least to send both plain text and HTML. As to your questions, Mailman is designed to do a lot of things via the web and it intends that the web interface be exposed to all list members. If however you don't want to provide the user with this link in this message, you can make an edited version of the postheld.txt template as discussed in the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/jYA9>. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Batch send?
by Webmaster July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

Maybe I'm missing this but my server only lets me send 200 per hour. I need to send a message once per week to a club of 600. I can't find a batch processing timer, is there one?

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bug error when subscribing through web after Mailman 2.1.12 upgrade
by Christopher Adams July 23, 2009

July 23, 2009

Since upgrading to version 2.1.12, I have experienced a number of errors that have resulted in a "You've Hit a Bug". So far, I have been able to patch things up. The latest occurs when a user attempts to subscribe from the web. Here is the error log information: admin(9559): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.12 -----] admin(9559): [----- Traceback ------] admin(9559): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(9559): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main admin(9559): main() admin(9559): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 97, in main admin(9559): process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language) admin(9559): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 177, in process_form admin(9559): mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote) admin(9559): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 894, in AddMember admin(9559): listinfo_url = self.getScriptUrl('listinfo', absolute=1) admin(9559): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 146, in __getattr__ admin(9559): raise AttributeError, name admin(9559): AttributeError: getScriptUrl admin(9559): [----- Python Information -----] admin(9559): sys.version = 2.5 (r25:51908, Jul 17 2007, 11:25:13) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20)] admin(9559): sys.executable = /usr/local/bin/python admin(9559): sys.prefix = /usr/local admin(9559): sys.exec_prefix = /usr/local admin(9559): sys.path = /usr/local admin(9559): sys.platform = linux2 admin(9559): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(9559): HTTP_COOKIE: orcollabproj+admin=2802000000693832674a732800000065396231343338353461343335393035633531633966663335636564306366643338663533326234; ei-news+admin=280200000069243a674a732800000062313735653035626465346563393937346135303333616437643337656231663631393734306233; ola2010+admin=280200000069953a674a732800000064373236653737626132383038653838313930646234616662643139343531383334653536353764; orshots+admin=2802000000694e3c674a732800000035383661646366366230653064346432666536643064353263386631366366336665666164613539; test7+admin=280200000069c83f674a732800000037663466353036643030353334346437643332316233636430393266326534633038373935306661 admin(9559): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.4 (Unix) admin(9559): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/subscribe admin(9559): SERVER_SIGNATURE: admin(9559): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(9559): HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300 admin(9559): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(9559): QUERY_STRING: admin(9559): CONTENT_LENGTH: 101 admin(9559): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 admin(9559): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 admin(9559): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(9559): HTTP_REFERER: http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/test7 admin(9559): SERVER_NAME: listsmart.osl.state.or.us admin(9559): REMOTE_ADDR: 159.121.122.135 admin(9559): PATH_TRANSLATED: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/test7 admin(9559): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(9559): SERVER_ADDR: 159.121.122.233 admin(9559): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs admin(9559): PYTHONPATH: /usr/local/mailman admin(9559): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe admin(9559): SERVER_ADMIN: root(a)swiki.osl.state.or.us admin(9559): HTTP_HOST: listsmart.osl.state.or.us admin(9559): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/subscribe/test7 admin(9559): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 admin(9559): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(9559): REMOTE_PORT: 1638 admin(9559): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5 admin(9559): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(9559): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate admin(9559): PATH_INFO: /test7 -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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List exclude feature across several domains on same server in a shared hosting environment
by Cris McConkey July 23, 2009

July 23, 2009

Thanks to a Dreamhost technical support person writing a patch for Mailman running in a shared hosting environment, I can now use the list exclude feature to avoid duplicate messages when an address is subscribed to more than one list on the same domain. Since I have more than one domain with mailman lists, I am wondering if it is in the works to to have list exclusion that would work across domains on the sme server. Is this doable? --Cris -- Visit *Tompkins County Against War & Occupation*, Weblog for Tompkins County War Resisters:* **tompkinsagainstwar.org* <http://tompkinsagainstwar.org/>*.* *Subscribe* <webcal://tompkinsagainstwar.org/?ec3_ical> to community event calendar with iCal, Lightning or Sunbird.

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"We hit a bug" page
by Remco Poelstra July 22, 2009

July 22, 2009

Hi, I'm trying to install Mailman 2.1.12. It compiled fine, with the following flags: ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=list \ --with-groupname=list \ --with-mail-gid=daemon --with-cgi-gid=w-lists \ --without-permcheck --with-mailhost=localhost \ --with-urlhost=localhost Then I copied the cgi-bin scripts to the /var/www/w-lists directory. This step is necessary to get the scripts inside the suexec environment. When I go to <URL>/mailman/listinfo, I get the following page text: ----------------- Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. --------------- The mailman/error.log file is completely empty. How can I find out what's going wrong here? Kind regards, Remco Poelstra

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Help!! Spam Flood!
by Donald J. Organ IV July 21, 2009

July 21, 2009

So I seem to be getting flooded with spam being send to liphp-dev-owner(a)lists.liphp.org , and it seems to have the on behalf of .... in there. Is there a way to stop this. I get a couple hundred if not maybe a couple of 1,000 spam messages a day. Now I am the owner of the list so I guess email sent to that address should come to me but isnt there a way to stop the spam?

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