Mailman 3 June 2012 - Mailman-Users

Off Topic - Apache Config Help Needed
by Dennis Putnam June 11, 2012

June 11, 2012

My apologies for this off topic post but my attempts to get an Apache config issue resolved has garnered zero replies on the Apache forum and others. I am hoping there is someone here that is quite knowledgeable with Apache configuration willing to help me off list. Thanks.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] /bin/sh: mailman: command not found
by Mark Sapiro June 10, 2012

June 10, 2012

Dennis Putnam wrote: > >Doh! You are correct. The directory /var/spool/cron is empty. > >The format of the cron file is what was distributed with CentOS. Odd >that it would be wrong but explains why my additions work and the distro >ones do not. Is this file unchanged with updates so if I fix it, it >won't break? It is not wrong. It is correct for a system crontab, i.e. for /etc/cron.d/mailman. If the standard crons give the 'mailman command not found' message and your … [View More]

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/bin/sh: mailman: command not found
by Dennis Putnam June 10, 2012

June 10, 2012

I am getting a daily message with the subject: Cron <mailman@dap002> mailman /usr/lib/mailman The message simply says: /bin/sh: mailman: command not found Since there is no path for the mailman commands in crontab.in (a distro bug?), I assume I am supposed to add it myself. Am I correct that it really wants /usr/lib/mailman/scripts/mailman or is there some other executable somewhere named 'mailman' that I should use? TIA.

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list suddenly stopped working
by Christian Stalberg June 8, 2012

June 8, 2012

I host several lists. One of them suddenly stopped working. In poking around I see that the ownership had changed from mailman to apache [root@zarathustra mailman]# ls -la /var/lib/mailman/lists/listdude total 56 drwxrwsr-x. 2 root mailman 4096 Jun 8 07:41 . drwxrwsr-x. 18 root mailman 4096 Feb 19 19:21 .. -rw-rw----. 1 apache mailman 18639 Jun 8 07:41 config.pck -rw-rw----. 1 apache mailman 18639 Jun 8 07:41 config.pck.last -rw-rw----. 1 mailman … [View More]

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How can I disable "no duplicates" for all members on a list?
by Ralf Hildebrandt June 8, 2012

June 8, 2012

How can I disable "no duplicates" for all members on a list? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155

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understanding Yahoo's "email temporarily deferred due to user complaints"
by Dave (FitEyes) June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

We received the following message from Yahoo. We want to understand what happened and how to resolve it. <somelistmember(a)yahoo.com>: delivery temporarily suspended: host mta5.am0.yahoodns.net[209.191.88.254] refused to talk to me: 421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from <OUR_IP_ADDRESS> temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/421-ts01.html The message has an attachment named noname.eml (as well as a details.txt file). We are assuming this … [View More]noname.eml is the triggering email (maybe the one that was complained about). (BTW, it was not spam.) This first response from Yahoo listed (in details.txt) 150 out of about 600 total Yahoo members on our list. These were the email addresses that we could not send to for 4 hours. There were 4 subsequent similar messages (each with a noname.eml attachment) from Yahoo (so 5 in total) and now this affects 450 out of 600 Yahoo members on our list. Among these five different noname.eml attachments, four were the exact same message. So there were only two different emails. Both were from the same author -- and the message is *not* spam. It appears that only messages from this member are problematic (but our sample size is small -- just 2 distinct messages -- and we're doing a lot of guessing). I don't see any problem with the triggering message, although the attachment (noname.eml) has incomplete headers -- our usual DKIM signature and SPF "pass" are missing. Apparently, the attachment includes only a subset of the headers. I'm subscribed to the list and when I view this email (the version I received directly from the list), the full headers show a valid DKIM signature from our list, SPF pass, and all the other expected headers. So it appears to me that there is nothing "wrong" with the message that triggered this action. It appears that Yahoo suspends emails to that server for four hours. http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&locale=en_US&id=S LN3434&impressions=true<http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&locale=en_US&id=…> Their solution is to "wait for four hours". That doesn't seem to be enough in this case, as this issue has continued for two days and is growing. We want to resolve this properly (but we don't know what action to take). Unfortunately, our understanding of this and attempts to resolve it are complicated by the fact that there appears to be a 5 day delay. We have gotten these notices for the last two days, but they apparently are triggered by a message originating from our list 5 days prior to each notice. The member in question has sent about six more (non-spam) messages to our list in the last few days, so we expect more of these messages from Yahoo in coming days. Again, we don't know how to resolve this yet. Our proposed course of action is: - since our list is completely moderated, we will hold all messages from this single "triggering" member (until we understand the problem). - temporarily *remove all our valid Yahoo members from our list*. Unsubscribe them and leave them unsubscribed until this runs its course (a few more days at least) or we figure out a solution and resolve it properly. - maintain the list of removed but valid Yahoo members and re-subscribe them once we resolve this issue. - do not allow any new yahoo.com members to join the list until we resolve this issue. [View Less]

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Clearing Bounce Scores Globally
by Terry Earley June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

We need to clear/reset bounce stats for Yahoo members on our list. we modified Mark Sapiro's script at: http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/reset_bounce.py to modify only Yahoo email addresses, but it cleared only 2 that had been bouncing. That squares with the comment at top: > """Enable delivery for all bouncing members. > is there a way to make it clear bounce stats for all (in this case Yahoo) to avoid these members from going over threshold? If not, we could run the script after we get … [View More]

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Error :: Message sent to user-owner ?
by jacques June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

Hello, Mailman here speaks french :)) each time I subscribe a ''user'', using mass subscription http://melusine.eu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/argos-vienne/members/add I get two messages via mail : user(a)hotmail.fr a été abonné à Argos-vienne avec succès that is corract, In addition I get an error message that shows that Mailman has sent a Welcome Message to : user-owner(a)hotmail.fr Not a big deal, things seems to be working fine, but I would like to fix this. Thanks in … [View More]

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Prefix of sender
by David Bradley June 6, 2012

June 6, 2012

Hello, The prefix in front of each sender, can this be changed in any way, hidden or removed? For example water-bounces(a)domain.net; on behalf of [name and email address of sender] David Bradley

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Error when editing user
by Jeff Conley June 6, 2012

June 6, 2012

We've had several user's email accounts get hacked, and spam get sent out to the entire list. When this happened before, I would simply check their moderation bit and could hold messages until I was assured their account was secured. I tried to do this yesterday, and began receiving the below error message. I also receive it when I try to set the global moderation bit. Any help would be greatly appreciated! ---------------------------------- Not Acceptable An appropriate representation of … [View More]

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