Mailman 3 December 2010 - Mailman-Users

Permission problems with /etc/mailman/*.db
by Robert Moskowitz Dec. 7, 2010

Dec. 7, 2010

This is a clean install on Fedora 12, which provides Mailman 2.1.12 This time my cookbook seemed to be all in order. Everything was going great. Mailman list created and user added, message sent, then I locked up the Mailman list so it would not be available to viewers once I moved this box to a public network. Then I went to create my first list via /mailman/create. I got a bug. On checking the error_log, I see that create does not have permissions to /etc/mailman/aliases.db I go … [View More]over to /etc/mailman, and I see that both aliases and virtual-mailman were updated, but NOT the .db files. The permissions on the .db files is 640, not 660! How come? So I ran check_perm -f as Mark recommended for the last permission problem (that I caused, but this time it was straight install stuff), and it fixed a number of errors: # /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/lib/mailman/cron (fixing) /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman (fixing) /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) 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. /etc/mailman/aliases.db owned by root (must be owned by mailman (fixing) /etc/mailman/aliases.db permissions must be 066x (got 0100640) (fixing) /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman.db owned by root (must be owned by mailman (fixing) /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman.db permissions must be 066x (got 0100640) (fixing) Problems found: 9 Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix That is a LOT of errors for just installing with yum and running the mailman mmsitepass and newlist scripts! Now this is Fedora 12 with is eol, so we IF the problem is Fedora's packaging, we probably won't get it fixed here. But what about Fedora 13 & 14? I won't be working with 13 for mailman. I will be working on a Fedora 14 migration probably around February, so I can't check this out there for a while. I hope I won't encounter this little supprise then... But other than this little speed bump, I GOT IT UP AND RUNNING!!!! THANK YOU for your help. I know have to configure all the users in the SQL database (not really that hard), then rsync to mail from the old server to the new (after stopping mail on the old), then switch the servers out. I could be in production tonight. [View Less]

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Help in understanding Mailman setup
by Robert Moskowitz Dec. 6, 2010

Dec. 6, 2010

I have been plowing through the Mailman documentation and trying some things on a test system and need lots of help. First my system is Fedora 12 with Postfix and an SQL database for the users, virtual domains, forwarders, and transport. See: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squir… So I installed Mailman, ran the script to set its password, then the modified the config file to support virtual host (http:/mailman.domain.com/mailman) and postfix. … [View More]

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how to configure in rhel inbuilt sendmail with mailman
by M.Vadivel Kumar Dec. 6, 2010

Dec. 6, 2010

Dear Friends how to configure in rhel inbuilt sendmail with mailman i install sendmail with mailman it's working i create lists but i cant send mail from sendmail please tell me the steps -- Regards M.Vadivel Kumar Mobile : 9894448512

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query moderation bit in a list
by D G Teed Dec. 6, 2010

Dec. 6, 2010

Hello, We need to lookup who is not moderated in a list with a large membership. Is there a simple command line query to handle that? I have a feeling we looked this up before, but can't find any notes on it nor previous questions in this support list. --Donald

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Self Subscription Failing
by Troy Knabe Dec. 3, 2010

Dec. 3, 2010

We use mailman primarily for internal mail lists, but recently I had a request for an external lists that users could subscribe/unsubscribe to via email listname-join, etc. When I send to listname-join I see an entry in the subscribe log for listname: pending emailaddress, but the user never receives the confirmation email. Dec 3 07:57:42 mx2 sendmail[22248]: oB3Fve9T022246: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join foo", ctladdr=<foo-join(a)domain.com> (47/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=… [View More]

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Subscription messages don't send out
by Hung Phan Dec. 3, 2010

Dec. 3, 2010

Hello, We found that our Mailman doesn't send out the subscription confirmation messages for some lists but not all lists. The subscribe and smtp logs have the correspondence entries reflect the subscription and the confirmation message send out. In the exim log, we found this: 2010-12-02 12:26:12 1POFjI-0000ff-J2 <= listserv_test-bounces(a)mailman.domain H=localhost (localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=2059 id=mailman.0.1291321571.2582.listserv_test(a)mailman.domain 2010-12-02 12:… [View More]

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admin help
by Christian Lefler Dec. 3, 2010

Dec. 3, 2010

I just started a new mailing list and its great. I would like to know how to keep subscribers from getting to any screen where they can manage their settings or post to the list. Basically I want to manage the list entirely myself where subscribers simply receive emails and cannot respond. Thanks for any help, Christian

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Setting an Address Enclosed in Apostrophes
by b19141＠anl.gov Dec. 2, 2010

Dec. 2, 2010

I have a script that I use to add an address to accept_these_nonmembers It uses "mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('$1')" Is there a way I can invoke this C-shell script so that the address is surrounded by apostrophes? I want the resulting address to be 'user(a)example.com' I tried invoking my script ..... 'user(a)example.com' but that did not preserve the apostrophes. I am not sure if this is a C-shell question, or a Mailman-python question, or both. Thanks. -… [View More]

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pending request email unreadable
by Guillaume Chartrand Dec. 2, 2010

Dec. 2, 2010

Hi, I receive some pending request for a list who I'm the administrator and moderator and in the message body on the web interface is unreadable, it's just something like that Sm9saSBib25uZXQgZGUgbGFpbmUgbGFpc3PDqSBwb3VyIG1vcnQgYXUgZGVybmllciBJbnRlckNB Q0Ugw6AgQ2hpY291dGltaS4gSWwgZXN0IGJydW4gZXQgYmVpZ2UgYXZlYyBkZXMgb3JlaWxsZXMg ZXQgZGVzIGxhbmnDqHJlcyBwb3VyIGF0dGFjaGVyIGF1IGNvdeKApi4NClF1ZWxxdeKAmXVuIGEg Z2Vsw6kgZGVzIG9yZWlsbGVzIGxlIHdlZWstZW5kIGRlcm5pZXI/Pz8/DQoNCk1hbm9uIExhcGll … [View More]

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Removing Illegal address from config.db?
by Scott Thomson Dec. 1, 2010

Dec. 1, 2010

Hey Folks, Somehow an address is present in my config.db file for one of my lists that is two email addresses mated into the same entry (ie "user1(a)domain1.comuser2 @domain2.com"). The entry doesn't show up in the membership list nor does it show up if you list_members for the list. I only know its there because one of my cron jobs turns it up, I was only able to manually find it by greping some of the config files till I turned up a match. I can't remove it from the command line as the … [View More]

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Phrase count
by David Doria Dec. 1, 2010

Dec. 1, 2010

I am interested in counting the number of times a phrase has occurred on a mailing list in a given time period. For example, I want to know how many times the word "example" occurred from 2008 - 2009. Is it possible to do this? Thanks, David

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Mailman - trouble creating a second list at an existing virtual host
by Dean Suhr Nov. 30, 2010

Nov. 30, 2010

I have a Virtual Alias error problem on my Mac running OSX Server 10.4.6. I realize that is not a completely typical Mailman install, but I think the problem is Postfix to Mailman related more on the Postfix side. I have a Mailman list working (for months) ... discuss at lists.MLDfamily.org. I've just created a new list ... discuss-adults at lists.MLDfamily.org. The web interface works fine for the new list and it shows lists.MLDfamily.org as its host_name. http://lists.mldfamily.org/… [View More]mailman/admin/discuss-adults Both lists show up when I run the following command: /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists -V lists.MLDfamily.org But deliveries to the Postfix mail server nets me this error on my local server (i.e. the email is making it fine to my server): Nov 28 11:44:11 darcee postfix/smtpd11450 <http://discussions.apple.com/> : NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-pv0-f170.google.comhttp://74.125.83.170: 550 5.1.1 <discuss-adults(a)lists.mldfamily.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table; from=<deansuhr(a)deansuhr.us> to=<discuss-adults(a)lists.mldfamily.org> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-pv0-f170.google.com> Deliveries to the initial discuss list at this virtual domain continue to work but discuss-adults give the virtual alias table error. What do I need to do to get this new list into the virtual domain table? I am thinking I am overlooking the obvious - your help is appreciated. I will respond with more config info if it¹s necessary. Thanks in advance, Dean -- FWIW, this is the process I used to create the list: (did not need to create the virtual domain since it already existed) Stopped the mail server using server admin sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/rmlist -a discuss-adults (to remove all residual old list stuff) sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/newlist discuss-adults sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists new list showed up sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists -V lists.MLDfamily.org new list did not show up sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url discuss-adults -u lists.MLDfamily.org sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists -V lists.MLDfamily.org new list now shows up at the proper virtual domain sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases sudo postfix reload failed since mail server was stopped started mail server using server admin To confirm the updates of the virtual alias table I did the following: ls -l /var/mailman/data aliases, aliases.db, virtual-mailman, & virtual-mailman.db all were time stamped the last few minutes Looking inside aliases and virtual-mailman conformed the proper entries. Aliases and virtual-mailman both contained the following stanzas (in addition to others): ~~ # STANZA START: discuss # CREATED: Sun Nov 28 11:39:09 2010 discuss: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post discuss" discuss-admin: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman admin discuss" discuss-bounces: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman bounces discuss" discuss-confirm: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman confirm discuss" discuss-join: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman join discuss" discuss-leave: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman leave discuss" discuss-owner: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman owner discuss" discuss-request: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman request discuss" discuss-subscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe discuss" discuss-unsubscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe discuss" # STANZA END: discuss ~~ # STANZA START: discuss-adults # CREATED: Sun Nov 28 11:39:10 2010 discuss-adults: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post discuss-adults" discuss-adults-admin: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman admin discuss-adults" discuss-adults-bounces: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman bounces discuss-adults" discuss-adults-confirm: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman confirm discuss-adults" discuss-adults-join: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman join discuss-adults" discuss-adults-leave: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman leave discuss-adults" discuss-adults-owner: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman owner discuss-adults" discuss-adults-request: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman request discuss-adults" discuss-adults-subscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe discuss-adults" discuss-adults-unsubscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe discuss-adults" # STANZA END: discuss-adults [View Less]

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