Mailman 3 April 2012 - Mailman-Users

confused by group mismatch
by Chad Rebuck April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012

I've had a list running fine for months, but after I restored my complete disk from backup I am getting this message when posting to the list: <a2-16v-list(a)mail.a2-16v.com>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post a2-16v-list". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "80", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "80", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. I've checked the faq here - http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Understanding+group+mismatch+errors+-+how+… I've also searched around and I'm not really understanding why the group "80" isn't translated to mailman? Ideas? mailman exists in /etc/group mailman:x:80: mailman exist in /etc/passwd mailman:x:80:80:GNU Mailing List Manager:/usr/lib/mailman:/sbin/nologin I don't understand what the problem is. I didn't want to just re configure mailman without first asking what else to check. After all this was working for many months prior to the hard drive restore. Thank you.

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subscribe
by Chad Rebuck April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012

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can't approve held messages
by dhanushka ranasinghe April 30, 2012

April 30, 2012

Hi...guys i have set of mails held for moderator approval , even though i Click approve and submit the mail, mail is still in the modarator list and its not send , is there any reason for that .. Thank You Dhanushka

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Global Font Change
by David April 29, 2012

April 29, 2012

I changed WEB_HEADER_COLOR to a dark blue and I need the font to white now. How would I do that? This question from 2004 (without an answer) is the only related thing I have found so far. Hello LIst > > I have read the Readme's and I have done about a thousand internet > searches and I cannot find the code for changing the Font globally for > my entire Mailman Web Interface. Obviously I am able to change some > global settings in Defaults.py but not global font. Anybody know how > to do this? I have tried many different combos of FONT_FACE = > ['arial'] and WEB_FONT = ['arial'] in both Defaults.py as well as > mm_cfg.py with no luck. Same question for the Font color. > > Thanks very much for the ongoing support. I really appreciate it. > > -Evan Miller > > Also, what does this mean? # Note that in general, the template colors are not included here since it > is > # easy enough to override the default template colors via site-wide, > # vdomain-wide, or list-wide specializations. > My goal is to change background and font colors list-wide (and/or site-wide).

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stop working...help! (Progress?)
by Seun Ojedeji April 29, 2012

April 29, 2012

Hi, Perhaps i should provide my details maybe i could get help here....i really wish to keek the vpostmaster frontend(because of the ease of account//domain creation) and still needs my mailman. below is the url to my /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py and /etc/postfix/main.cf . Kindly help! http://pastebin.ca/2139462 Regards On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Dennis Carr <dennisthetiger(a)chez-vrolet.net > wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Seun Ojedeji wrote: > > >>> Technical details of permanent failure: >>> Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the >>> recipient >>> domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further >>> information about the cause of this error. The error that the other >>> server >>> returned was: 554 554 5.7.1 <mailman(a)lists.mydomain.net>: Recipient >>> address rejected: No such domain. (state 14). >>> >> > That's not a mailman issue. > > Did some research, and RFC 1893 notes this about this type of error (the > clue is the 5.7.1 error): > > X.7.1 Delivery not authorized, message refused > > The sender is not authorized to send to the destination. > This can be the result of per-host or per-recipient > filtering. This memo does not discuss the merits of any > such filtering, but provides a mechanism to report such. > This is useful only as a permanent error. > > In short, it isn't Mailman, it's the MTA. Focus there. > > -Dennis > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Seun Ojedeji,*

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman subscriptions broke after 2 days
by Mark Sapiro April 28, 2012

April 28, 2012

Hank Montgomery wrote: > >On 4/28/2012 11:47 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> In any case, you should get a daily summary "nn moderator requests" >> email. These are sent daily at 8:00 a.m. local time unless the >> installation has modified that. >I did not get any daily summary - but I do not think there were any >outstanding requests overnight. >Would this request include requests that have already been acted upon? No. It is only a summary of what you would see in you went to the admindb page at that time. >> What happens if you send an email to LISTNAME-owner@... If that is >> received, it will verify that Mailman can send to the list >> owners/moderators and narrow the problem somewhat. >I just tried that and it has been 20 minutes and I have not had a response. >Although in testing this morning there were notices to that address from >mailman-bounces@..... AFTER a subscription was accepted or a subscriber >was deleted. So you are getting the notices controlled by admin_notify_mchanges. This confirms that Mailman can send to owners/moderators and VirginRunner is running. If mail to LISTNAME-owner@... is not working, there is some other reason for that, although this mail uses essentially the same processes as list posts so it is hard to guess what may be wrong. >> The remaining possibility after checking all the above is most likely >> that VirginRunner is not running. This is something that needs to be >> investigated/corrected by the host, although if you can do a 'ps' on >> the server, you could tell if it's running (see the FAQ at >> <http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9>). As I note above, VirginRunner IS running if you got the subscribe and unsubscribe notifications. >I will contact my hosting provider - Lunar Pages. Using cPanel I was >initially able to delete an old email list that had worked well but was >no longer being used - however I was not able create the new mail list >using cPanel. Searching the internet found a couple of reports of the >same problem happening after a mail server was moved (my whole hosting >server moved not long ago) so I reported the problem and it was fixed. >I hope that your suggestion of "VirginRunner" may be the problem. I do >not have access to a shell account on the host server. I will contact >their support techs again. The hosting service is going to have to figure this out. Further diagnosis needs access to Mailman's logs and/or the MTA logs. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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mailman subscriptions broke after 2 days
by Hank Montgomery April 28, 2012

April 28, 2012

I installed mailman version 2.1.14-1 from cPanel on a Lunar Pages host. It worked fine during testing of subscription process (approval required). 2 days later a user sent me an email because there had been no reply to his subscription request. I found no request in queue and no email had been sent to administrators or moderators. Suspecting user error, I tested for myself using a new email address and found that no approval requests were being sent to the 2 admins or the 3 moderators -- but there was a pending subscription request in the queue. I have tried every option I can find that is remotely related but nothing seems to get the notices out to the administrators or moderators. I even deleted their subscriptions and subscribed them again. I searched the archives and the FAQ but found nothing related. Can anyone tell me what to try? If I can find an answer I would like to try resetting all options to the original defaults -- but I can't find a way to do that either. Otherwise I guess I will have to delete the mail list entirely and start over -- which would mean making a list of all the current users and entering them back by hand :-( Thanks, Hank Montgomery

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suspending lists from the command line
by turgut kalfaoğlu April 26, 2012

April 26, 2012

Hi there. During busy times I would like to suspend almost all lists,except some emergency ones.. Is there a way to achieve this from the command line via some script? Many thanks, -turgut

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ne pas afficher l'adresse de la liste de la newsletter
by Pierre KUHN April 26, 2012

April 26, 2012

Bonjour Est ce que vous auriez la solution pour masquer l'adresse de la liste ? L'idée est d'afficher que l'adresse de l'expéditeur et l'adresse de réception. Comment faudrait il faire ? Pierre

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Bounce identity
by Ken Blake April 26, 2012

April 26, 2012

I am using Mailman as newsletter/announcement/one-way list as described in http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030685. There are only about 200 names in my list. I have explored the various options in bounce processing, but still cannot figure out a way to determine (1) if any of my list names are bouncing, and (2) if so, which ones are bouncing, so that I can correct them. Any advice? Thanks, Ken Blake.

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