Mailman 3 August 2009 - Mailman-Users

Custom handler applied to digest to filter excessive quoted text?
by John Williams 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Hi all, Is it possible to create a custom handler for digests only? I want a mail list that automatically strips out duplicated quoted text in digests, so the same quoted text doesn't appear over and over. Such a thing doesn't appear to exist in any mailing list software, so I'm looking for the second-best thing, which is currently software that easily allows such a filter to be inserted. Any other ways people handle this problem, aside from telling users to not quote excessively? Thanks -- John Williams john.d.williams(a)live.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] set up mailman, but no email notification
by b19141＠anl.gov 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

Scott Jones <sanchiro(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I finally got mailman working to the point I created 'mailman' list >successfully. Everything has worked correctly, but despite it showing >that mailman has sent a notice to the administrator email account, >that email has never made it into my email inbox. > >What would cause that email not to correctly send out the message? > >Scott You have not told us what your Mail Transport Agent is (sendmail, Postfix, ...). You need to look at the MTA logs to see if the mail from Mailman is reaching the MTA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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set up mailman, but no email notification
by Scott Jones 03 Aug '09

03 Aug '09

I finally got mailman working to the point I created 'mailman' list successfully. Everything has worked correctly, but despite it showing that mailman has sent a notice to the administrator email account, that email has never made it into my email inbox. What would cause that email not to correctly send out the message? Scott

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Disable attachment scrubbing?
by Edward Harvey 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Sometimes people post messages with attachments. They get archived with the message “attachment was scrubbed...” and renamed simply “attachment” and if the mime type wasn’t recognized, also the file extension is changed. Is there some way to completely disable scrubbing? Just allow the attachments to come through as-is? No renaming. For my group, this feature is causing more harm than good. All the people who are allowed to subscribe or post are trusted not to send corrupt or malicious attachments.

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Detecting Autoresponders
by Karl Zander 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Is there something specific Mailman is looking for to detect autoreponders, like Out of Office messages? We had an incident this weekend with an autoresponder sending an out of office message over and over and over....to a list. This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken. Its worked well in the past with Mailman. I note the header of the message from the autoresponder contains X-Autogenerated: Reply But I am not sure what Mailman looks at when trying to determine what is an out of office or other automatic message. --Karl

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Missing confirmation requests and held messages
by Gregory Skelton 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

Hi All, I'm kinda new to the administrating mailman lists, and I've recently run into a problem with our current setup. We have multiple list, all the data is mounted over nfs, and we're seeing missing emails. For instance, we've had some users try to subscribe to a list but don't get a confirmation email, other times we're seeing "held" messages no show up in the qeue for the administrator to authorize them. This is starting to become a real problem for our scientific colaboration, and I need to get it fixed soon. We're running mailman 2.1.9, and sendmail sendmail-8.13.8-2 on a Centos 5.2 system. Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? Thanks, Gregory I've ran check_perms script, and it gave me this output: Warning: Private archive directory is other-executable (o+x). This could allow other users on your system to read private archives. If you're on a shared multiuser system, you should consult the installation manual on how to fix this. No problems found And running check_db -a -v I noticed most of mailing list are ok, but found a few list that have this problem. List: lalsuite-commits /var/mailman/lists/lalsuite-commits/config.pck: okay /var/mailman/lists/lalsuite-commits/config.pck.last: okay [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/mailman/lists/lalsuite-commits/config.db' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/mailman/lists/lalsuite-commits/config.db.last'

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Trivial prob in migrating
by viz＠lug.zhaw.ch 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hi all This must be triavial. Our mailman installation worked too good, too long. So we forgot its details. Now we are mirgrating to a new (virtual) server and I'm faced this problem. Old box: slackware 12.0, mailman installed from sources New box: Ubuntu Server 2009.4, mailman got with apt-get, the standard exim was replaced by postfix, also through apt. This is roughly what I did: - copied old:/usr/local/mailman/{lists|archives|data} to new:/var/lib/mailman/ - chown -R list /var/lib/mailman/{lists|archives|data} - /etc/init.d/mailman start and I get "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck" checking the privileges -rw-rw---- 1 root klog 3660 2009-07-27 17:18 config.pck its odd pending.pck and request.pck are owned by list:klog and have timestamps 2008-10-21. Deleting config.pck didn't help, it was recreated with the identical permissions. What is missing? Second question: How do I create all the special strings needed by postfix? best regards Viz

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Membership Management Question
by Boes, RaeLynn 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I can't seem to find where to add a new member to an existing list. Can you help? RaeLynn ----------------------------------------------------------- RaeLynn Boes UGRL Operations Coordinator Purdue University Libraries (49)4-2842 rboes(a)purdue.edu

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sitewide mailman list
by Melinda Humphrey-Gilmore 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I feel like this is a silly question, but I have search all of the setting files on my mailman server. When users send a message to mailman@, a copy of the message is going to another email address. This was done by another tech no longer with us. I cannot find where he made that change. I want to remove this address he assigned to receive a copy of any message that goes to mailman@. Just need pointed in the right direction. Thank you, Melinda Humphrey-Gilmore Enterprise Messaging The Ohio State University Enterprise Messaging/Operations System Engineer 614-292-4953

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Error Running bin/genaliases
by anirudh nair 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hii Guys I get the following error while running bin/genaliases anirudh@ani-lap:/usr/local/mailman/bin$ ./genaliases postalias: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = Traceback (most recent call last): File "./genaliases", line 116, in <module> main() File "./genaliases", line 102, in main MTA.create(None, nolock=True, quiet=quiet) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) running the script as 'sudo' also gives the same error Mailman version : 2.1.12 Mail server: Postfix OS- Debian Lenny The Cheers Anirudh

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