Mailman 3 September 2009 - Mailman-Users

help
by stayinspired＠flipafrica.org 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

am having problems in using the mailing list after it has been created.pls wat do i do

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Extra space in mime encoded headers
by Oliver Betz 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Hello All, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=299032 describes a bug I'm suffering from: MIME encoded headers are re- encoded by mailman and spaces are added around each encoded character. The affected mailman installation is 2.1.5 and maintained by a hoster, not myself. Therefore I would like to know what to tell the hoster. I couldn't find the bug in the mailman (Launchpad) bug tracker so I wonder whether this bug is known to the developers and whether it's fixed now. TIA, Oliver -- Oliver Betz, Muenchen

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Strangely mailman stopped sending outgoing email
by Patricia A Moss 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

Last week, Friday, mailman stopped sending out and receiving email. I started troubleshooting and found that there were firewall rules that had been changed that appeared to be causing the problem. Those changes were reverted and mailman began receiving email. However it was still not sending out email. I had the Sendmail people check all of the servers to confirm that the servers were sending and receiving. Then, from the mailman server, I ran a manual test against the SMTP server. That resulted in an email to my mailbox: # telnet relay.csc.com 25 Trying 20.137.2.88... Connected to relay.csc.com (20.137.2.88). Escape character is '^]'. 220 amer-mta102.csc.com; ESMTP Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:36:36 -0400 helo fcg.com 250 amer-mta102.csc.com Hello [20.8.232.105], pleased to meet you mail from: documentumdevelopers(a)palinux04.fcg.com 250 2.1.0 documentumdevelopers(a)palinux04.fcg.com... Sender ok rcpt to: pmoss4(a)csc.com 250 2.1.5 pmoss4(a)csc.com... Recipient ok data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself testing lin04 . . 250 2.0.0 n8TIaa2X027909 Message accepted for delivery quit 221 2.0.0 amer-mta102.csc.com closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. Here is the email that I received from the test. This would lead me to believe that there is something, within mailman, that is awry. I'm not sure how because it was working prior to Friday, but this is where I am right now. I need to troubleshoot that mailman is still configured correctly. Can someone assist me with this? Thank you PATI MOSS System Engineer Sr. Professional CSC

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Traceback Error
by Dr. Scott S. Jones 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

I am experiencing traceback errors, as outlined in the following from /usr/local/mailman/logs/error: admin(17030): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(17030): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main admin(17030): main() admin(17030): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 165, in main admin(17030): process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata) admin(17030): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 716, in process_form admin(17030): forward, forwardaddr) admin(17030): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 167, in HandleRequest admin(17030): forward, addr) admin(17030): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 254, in __handlepost admin(17030): g(msg, 1) admin(17030): AttributeError: Generator instance has no __call__ method admin(17030): [----- Python Information ----- Please advise. Scott

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Weird subject_prefix issue
by Tammy George 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

We're running Mailman version 2.1.9. We have a subject_prefix setup on list abc(a)xyz.com. The subject_prefix shows up in all messages from all senders EXCEPT one sender. The list is archived & the subject_prefix is on the message in the archive. I can't find anything indicating this can be configured on the user level - just @ the list level. Has anyone seen this? Thanks.

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question about members on several lists
by Sandi Gruver 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Members on List A and on List B only receive one copy of a message posted to both lists. They want to know why. Somewhere, awhile ago I found that this is a Microsoft Outlook 'feature' owing to the lack of message numbering in Mailman, but I searched the Mailman archives this afternoon without success in finding any documentation on the reason this happens. Any ideas where this is? (We happily run Mailman 2.1.5.1 on RedHat Linux) Thank you, S Gruver Unix System Administrator SBCTC-IT

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List serv
by Susan Wilson 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

I want to set up a listserv for my 268 business education teacher members in my organization. How do I do that? Can you help? Susan Wilson

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Automatic newlist integration with Postfix's relay_recipient_maps
by Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hello, I'd like to know if the following (known) problem is solved... The question is simple: how to integrate mailman with postfix in a secure way (no backscattering!!!) so that I could create a new list via mailman's UI *without* having to manually re-create (& refresh) a relay_recipient_maps (hash) file? AFAIK, genaliases output is not valid for this task since relay_recipient_maps expects something like: user(a)domain.tld user2(a)domain2.tld (i.e. it should contain full email addresses, while genaliases generates only usernames without the domain part). Any optimal solution for this? I think some people has his/her own script to build the recipient_maps by processing genaliases output, but it seems a bit "dirty" for me... Moreover, I'm using mailman's virtualhosts so it should calculate the right (virtual) domain for all existant lists. If that's the only solution I'd also like to have a look to your scripts. But sincerely, this being a common&known problem, I think it should have been solved long time ago and thus have a propper solution... Thanks in advance. -- Saludos, -Roman PGP Fingerprint: 09BB EFCD 21ED 4E79 25FB 29E1 E47F 8A7D EAD5 6742 [Key ID: 0xEAD56742. Available at KeyServ]

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how to fix in the config file?
by Sandi Gruver 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Skipped content of type multipart/alternative

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FW: Uncaught bounce notification
by Vicki Berenson 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

I wondered if you were interested in pursuing this in case the bounce format is a new one. She has been unable to post to this discussion list for a couple of weeks although her membership is active and email address is correct. She is receiving messages from the list. The only member options checked are nodupes and plain (same as most of the other list members). Could it have something to do with her ISP? Or should I remove her from the list & re-add her? I'll be happy to send you more information if you need it. Thanks for your help, Vicki Berenson Technology Coordinator Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence Phone: (608) 255-0539, TTY/Fax: (608) 255-3560 vickib(a)wcadv.org www.wcadv.org ------------ Original Message----- From: mailman-bounces(a)wcadvlists.org [mailto:mailman-bounces@wcadvlists.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:39 AM To: directors-owner(a)wcadvlists.org Subject: Uncaught bounce notification The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). For more information see: http://lists.wcadvlists.org/admin.cgi/directors-wcadvlists.org/bounce

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