Mailman 3 August 2009 - Mailman-Users

reseting mailman password
by Martin Barr-David 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

I am an administrator of an email list and lost the password to the admin interface what can I do please help ANYONE, HURRY E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.1.0.447) Database version: 6.13090 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor/

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Mailman download.
by KMO Solutions.be 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Dear, I can download the Milman zip, but i can't open it? Can you make an new zip file and send it to me? Regards, David. -

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Problem with members subscribing using the web interface
by Bill Hayles 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hi, I'm setting up Mailman using the package (2.1.11) supplied with OpenSuSE 11.1, using Apache as the web server (and exim as MTA, but I don't think that's relevant). I have a group of volunteers testing various things. On the e-mail side, everything is fine - they can subscribe or unsubscribe by e-mail, and send and receive messages. I, as administrator, can use the web interface without problem. However, when somebody tries to subscribe on the web, when they click "Subscribe" they get the "We're sorry, we hit a bug!" screen. I have looked at the error log, but I don't really understand it. I've changed nothing in the configs except enter my hosts etc. Here is the relevant entry from the log; I have substituted "mydomain" for my true domain name: Aug 21 15:56:17 2009 admin(12480): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(12480): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.11 -----] admin(12480): [----- Traceback ------] admin(12480): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(12480): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(12480): main() admin(12480): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 96, in main admin(12480): process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language) admin(12480): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 176, in process_form admin(12480): mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote) admin(12480): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 916, in AddMember admin(12480): raise Errors.MMSubscribeNeedsConfirmation admin(12480): TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances, not str admin(12480): [----- Python Information -----] admin(12480): sys.version = 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 3 2009, 20:52:03) [GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] admin(12480): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(12480): sys.prefix = /usr admin(12480): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(12480): sys.path = /usr admin(12480): sys.platform = linux2 admin(12480): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(12480): HTTP_COOKIE: testlist+admin=280200000069b66f8e4a732800000038623062656464353335353830383562313766643866633239343434666562373830363631353937 admin(12480): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.10 (Linux/SUSE) admin(12480): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/subscribe admin(12480): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.2.10 (Linux/SUSE) Server at mydomain.com Port 80</address> admin(12480): admin(12480): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(12480): HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300 admin(12480): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(12480): QUERY_STRING: admin(12480): CONTENT_LENGTH: 105 admin(12480): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 admin(12480): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 admin(12480): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(12480): HTTP_REFERER: http://mydomain.com/mailman/listinfo/testlist/ admin(12480): SERVER_NAME: mydomain.com admin(12480): REMOTE_ADDR: 80.35.22.107 admin(12480): PATH_TRANSLATED: /srv/www/htdocs/testlist admin(12480): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(12480): SERVER_ADDR: 172.26.0.14 admin(12480): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /srv/www/htdocs admin(12480): PYTHONPATH: /usr/lib/mailman admin(12480): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe admin(12480): SERVER_ADMIN: groups(a)billnot.com admin(12480): HTTP_HOST: mydomain.com admin(12480): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/subscribe/testlist admin(12480): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 admin(12480): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(12480): REMOTE_PORT: 50440 admin(12480): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-gb,en;q=0.5 admin(12480): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(12480): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate admin(12480): PATH_INFO: /testlist -- 'Tis far better to have snipped too much than to never have snipped at all. -- (author unknown) Bill Hayles groups(a)billnot.com

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RELEASED GNU Mailman 3.0 alpha 3 (Working Man)
by Barry Warsaw 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

I am happy to announce the release of the third alpha version of Mailman 3, code named "Working Man". This is primarily a preview release so that developers and other interested people can download the code and participate in Mailman 3's further development. I believe we are on track for a final release by the end of the year, and your contributions of code, feedback, documentation, etc. will be welcome and appreciated! Please note that this is an alpha release and as such is not ready for production use. You can get the code from the Cheeseshop: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0a3 Mailman 3 is buildout based and requires Python 2.6. To build it, run this after unpacking the tarball and cd'ing into it % python bootstrap.py % bin/buildout From there you can run the tests % bin/test and build the documentation % bin/docs Highlights in this release include the start of a REST admin server for integrating Mailman with external web sites, a combined bin/ mailman uber-command, configuration now done through ini-files using lazr.config, and better LMTP support. Enjoy, -Barry

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/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests error
by Hal Huntley 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

I get this mailman message about digests a few times a week based on the senddigests cron job. Since we don't do digests on any of our mailing lists, I've ignored it and no one has complained about not receiving messages on any of our lists. But in the interest of learning something and reducing the amount of email I may get, I'd like to figure out how to make it go away. I've deleted most of the headers. The text of the traceback is in its entirety. It's probably a pretty easy fix, I'd guess. I _could_ comment out the cronjob entry for the senddigests, and I'm willing to do that, but it would be more beneficial to learn a bit more of the depths of things. It's mailman 2.1.5. Hal Huntley SRI International ----- [Maybe pertinent headers:] X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/usr/lib/mailman> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman> X-Cron-Env: <USER=mailman> Subject: [Mailman] Cron <mailman@host> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list [body of message:] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main mlist.send_digest_now() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in send_digest_now ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 225, in send_i18n_digests addresses = getaddresses([oneline(msg.get('from', ''), lcset)]) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 389, in oneline h = make_header(decode_header(s)) File "/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 113, in decode_header raise HeaderParseError email.Errors.HeaderParseError _______________________________________________ Mailman mailing list

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to configure the confirmations inspanish?
by Jose Antonio Villarreal 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Thank you, but finally i decided, to moderate the subscriptions, and i would like to change the subjects of the emails written in Spanish. For example: "Bienvenido a la lista de distribución de...". I would like to have "difusión" instead of "distribución", I found the file /var/lib/mailman/messages/es/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po in my server and I change the msgstr value, but i don't kow how to build the mailman.mo #: Mailman/Deliverer.py:77 msgid "Welcome to the \"%(realname)s\" mailing list%(digmode)s" msgstr "Bienvenido a la lista de difusión %(realname)s%(digmode)s" How can i do it? --- El jue 20-ago-09, Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> escribió: De:: Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> Asunto: Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to configure the confirmations inspanish? A: "Jose Antonio Villarreal" <nauyaca_1910(a)yahoo.com.mx> Fecha: jueves 20 de agosto de 2009, 21:21 Jose Antonio Villarreal wrote: >Thank you!, well I changed the preferred language to Spanish, and i can change some things to Spanish: >1. Welcome message (editing the template i can have the content in Spanish, the subject is in Spanish: "Bienvenido a las lista...") >2. The notification when someone has been deleted from the list, the subject is in Spanish also("Se ha dado de baja..."), and I can edit the content >etc... >But the confirm messages received after sending a mail to >mylist-iie-join(a)bla.com, or mylist-iie-leave@bla,com, their content are still in English. In my tests, If the list's preferred_language is Spanish and I mail list-join@..., I receive a confirmation message in Spanish, and when I confirm and confirm my language is Spanish, I receive the welcome message in Spanish. If I am a list member and my member preferred language is Spanish and I mail list-leave@... I receive a confirmation message in Spanish, and when I confirm, I receive the goodbye message in Spanish. I don't know why this wouldn't work the same way for you. >I don't know if its a problem in my installation, in Debian unstable version, the default installation was in English the first time. Anyway I'll be working on. I did all the above testing on an English language installation, and all I did was change the test list's preferred_language to Spanish. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan Encuentra las mejores recetas en Yahoo! Cocina. http://mx.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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Is there a way to configure the confirmations in spanish?
by Jose Antonio Villarreal 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

I read that is not possible to set your subscribe confirmation in Spanish when the request is made by mail, but i have seen also, is not possible to set the unsubscribe's confirmation in Spanish even when the language's user is selected in Spanish from the Mailman administration interface. If it is code genereted, is it difficult to change this to Spanish? Tanks in advance. Encuentra las mejores recetas en Yahoo! Cocina. http://mx.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

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host vs alias (CNAME) and listinfo
by Marek Kozlowski 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

:-) If you compare: http://alpha.mini.pw.edu.pl/mailman/listinfo http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/mailman/listinfo you will see different public lists. The "www" is a CNAME od "alpha" so this is the same host. When creating a new list there is no hostname choice (AFAIK). In the administration panel I can't see this option too. What is the source of this difference? Best ragards, MArek

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mailman + postfix = strange behaviour
by Marek Kozlowski 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

:-) I have Gentoo, Postfix and Mailman I've configured according to http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node13.html The bahaviour is very strange: - mail do my mailing list goes to ML archive -- OK - if there are wrong adddressess (cause I have deleted some users) I got the error in logs: " User unknown in local recipient table; from=<somelist-bounces@mydomain> to=<someuser@mydomain> " -- OK - I can see in logs: " myserver postfix/local[7449]: 2DC4B2A2052: to=<somelist@mydomain>, relay=local, delay=0.2, delays=0.08/0/0/0.12, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib64/mailman/mail/mailman post somelist)" -- OK Everything seems OK but no mail sent to mailing list is delivered to no user's mailbox. What's wrong?? BEst regards, MArek

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Template Question
by Jeff Grossman 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

I am moving my Mailman 2.1.12 installation from an old Mac OS X box to a freshly installed Debian stable machine. I am running Mailman 2.1.12 from testing. I copied over my lists directory and seem to have a problem with the templates. I have some customized templates in the en directory of each mailing list in the lists directory. Mailman does not seem to be using those customized templates, but using the generic ones. I thought the ones in each mailing list directory was always the first used? Or is it something with the way Debian setups up Mailman? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff

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