Mailman 3 February 2010 - Mailman-Users

New Logo Contest for 2010
by Barry Warsaw 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hello everybody! Our current GNU Mailman logos were designed by the Dragon De Monsyne many years ago. They have served us exceedingly well, but with the coming of Mailman 3, we've decided it's time our logos got a face lift. So we're opening up a new logo contest to the Mailman and GNU communities. We invite your creative and inspiring designs! Details of the contest and submission guidelines are available here: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/NewLogo Submissions will be open until February 28, 2010, and is open to everyone, so feel free to forward this announcement. Please contact the Mailman Steering Committee at mailman-cabal(a)python.org with any questions. Enjoy, -Barry

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digest mode links
by John Griessen 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Why do digest mode links rename a .jpg file? A Mac OS X user can't see attachments. URL: <http://lists.metalartists.org/mailman/private/sandbox/attachments/20100219/…>

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Private archive nightmare with vhosts
by Brian Wilson 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

> The bottom line for me now is I can take a 2.1.13 base distribution, > patch it with the patch at http://www.msapiro.net/mm/2.1.13_vhost.patch > and patch that with the vhost_extra_patch.txt patch attached to this post, > and I think that list creation and the web interface work. I haven't tested posting > because my testbed uses Exim, but I think it should work. ... > The current patch is http://www.msapiro.net/mm/2.1.13-1_vhost.patch First off, thanks for you and Igor for putting together and doing the legwork on getting the vhost patch working on 2.1.13. I've been wanting to migrate my lists away from my hosting provider and roll my own mailman install again, but was waiting on 3.0. Glad this will keep me happy in the interim. There are a few things I noticed on my install today (Debian w/ Postfix). 1) rmlist doesnt work properly: # rmlist -a test(a)lists.example.com test(a)lists.example.com list info not found as /var/lib/mailman/lists/test(a)lists.example.com test(a)lists.example.com private archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test(a)lists.example.com test(a)lists.example.com private archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/test(a)lists.example.com.mbox test(a)lists.example.com public archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/test(a)lists.example.com test(a)lists.example.com public archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/test(a)lists.example.com.mbox # rmlist test(a)lists.example.com Not removing archives. Reinvoke with -a to remove them. test(a)lists.example.com list info not found as /var/lib/mailman/lists/test(a)lists.example.com 2) Web locations are off... If i go to archives for a list: http://lists.example.com/pipermail/lists.example.com/test/, the html link that links to listinfo uses DEFAULT_URL_HOST instead of the urlhost for the list I'm on (link goes to http://DEFAULT_URL_HOST/mailman/listinfo/test). I tried adjusting the templates (in templates/en/emptyarchive.html) to remedy this, but couldn't tell that the pages were changing when I adjusted the templates as the info didn't change on the website. I'm using this as my Apache config which should handle all "lists.domain.tld" type domains. I don't think this is what is causing the web locations to be off, but I'm not sure. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName lists.example.com ServerAlias lists.* RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ /mailman/listinfo RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pipermail/lists\.(.*)?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/pipermail/(.*)$ /pipermail/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/private/(.*)(a)(.*)?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/private/(.*)/$ /private/$1@%{server_name} [R=301,L] RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/mailman(/.*)?$ /cgi-bin/mailman$1 [PT,L] </VirtualHost> I don't have any live lists on my system, so I'll be glad to test whatever suggestions you might have. I did confirm that delivery works as it should with postfix by only adding the aliases map, virtual-mailman map and adding each "lists.domain.tld" to virtual_alias_domains. Thanks again for putting this together. Brian

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Filtering out duplicate emails
by Chiang Wu 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hi. I was wondering if anyone knows a way to filter out, yet still archieve new e-mails that have the same content as an already archived e-mail. An example would be that I have e-mails coming in from a server that notifies me of certain bugs/exceptions. Everytime this exception occurs, and e-mail is sent to an address that is using mailman. Since the same exception can occur, it'll send the same content as the previous exception, but since its already in my inbox, I don't want another copy of it, yet I still want to archive it. I just want to know about new exceptions. Is there anyway to do this? -Chiang

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Mailman suddendly stops sending any emails
by Andy Smith 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hi, I have a mailman server thats been up without modification for about a year, suddendly it has stopped sending emails. As Ive never had many problems with mailman I dont have a lot of experience troubleshooting it. Can anyone give me some pointers? What I can tell you, lists are still working normally with the exception of not sending emails. In the logs directory the following logs all have last modified time of 8am this morning: bounce post smtp smtp-failur After that point, no log entries and no emails sent. What should I check next? thanks for any help! Andy.

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How to get back my mailing list?
by terra tz 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hello sir or miss, I'm sorry to bother you! I have tried many ways to try to regain my mailing list, but failed, I had to contact you, I hope you can give me a hand. Thanks for your assistance! The following is my problem: I had to move my site to another server in these days, however, I can not got my mailing list from the old server. When I try to click "Go to the general list information page" - "Visit subsriber list", I always got following error message: "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12.cp3 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. " I can not list the member in htm page. I try to find the member information from "config.pck" file, however, the file can not be read in Windows. Is there any way I can get my mailing list? The mailing list included more than 500,000 subscribers. Thanks in advance! Terry,

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lock error: lifetime has expired, breaking problem
by Brian Carpenter 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi All: I am getting the following line written to the locks log over and over and over: info_list.domain.it.lock lifetime has expired, breaking Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 278, in ? Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) main() Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 238, in main Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) qrunner.run() Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 75, in run Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) self._doperiodic() Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 145, in _doperiodic Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) self._register_bounces() Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 122, in _register_bounces Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) mlist.Lock() Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 161, in Lock Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) self.__lock.lock(timeout) Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 306, in lock Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) important=True) Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 416, in __writelog Feb 25 11:43:26 2010 (3924) traceback.print_stack(file=logf) There are no stale lock files. I have restarted mailman and apache several times and still the above problem persists. I can log into the mailman list administrator panel with no problem. Any advice? Regards, Brian Carpenter EMWD.com -------------------------------------------------------- http://blog.emwd.com/ Curious comments from a web hosting techie

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not really an umbrella?
by Gruver, Sandi 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat Linux - How can I set up a new list that sends to multiple existing lists - but only sends one message to each person - even if the person is a member of multiple lists? a. LSOFT calls this a "superlist" b. Can "Mailman" do this? c. In this case, we have a system newsletter that will be sent to multiple lists. I'd like people to receive the message only once, even if they are on more than one of the lists included in the mailing. Thank you, Sandi Gruver Unix system administrator Center for Information Services Bellevue, WA 98004 phone 425.803.9753 fax 425.803.9652

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Please don't make me go to FAQ or lsit serv!!!
by Gail Nunziata 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

I hope someone can work with me directly, thank you. I need to set a control so no one can reply to an entire list. My lists are served by Bluehost, but they tell me I have to deal with Mailman because you handle my basic mailing lists. Yesterday I sent out an email to one of my lists, and someone replied, thinking it would just go to me, but it went to the whole group. The whole group then got embroiled in replies, comments, more replies, etc. All of this paralyzed my email, and I wasn't able to tell them to just stop. There are 622 on the list and when I tried to write to even one person, I rec'd an error message that I had exceeded the 750 per hour. Now a certain amount of them want to be unsubscribed, which is fine, but I need to make sure this doesn't happen again. Please advise. Thank you. Gail Gail Nunziata, Managing Director 802.254.1109 Brattleboro Arts Initiative & Latchis Corporation 50 Main Street Brattleboro VT 05301 <http://www.brattleboroarts.org> www.brattleboroarts.org <http://www.latchis.com> www.latchis.com Preserving the Latchis - Promoting the Arts

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(no subject)
by mary.lanhai 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Dear friend, I can recieve many emails from mailman-users(a)python.org but I can not post one to it. Why is full of my mind. Could you help me to find out why. I really appreciate your help. Thank you. Mary

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