Mailman 3 January 2014 - Mailman-Users

configuration glitch causing mail delivery fail
by Steve Lindemann 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

I recently moved my email server (with mailman) onto a new server with a different host name. In previous moves the server name was always email.marmot.org (which has an mx record). The server it's on now has a different name and does not have an mx record. I did add the old IP address to the public interface so DNS still points to that box as the mail server and by the name email.marmot.org and I have that in /etc/hosts. Unfortunately when mailman sends messages they fail to deliver to most of the list subscribers and the maillog shows that the helo used is the actual name of the server, not the name of the email server. Naturally the receiving server disconnects when the names isn't right. I could understand this with the move to the new server except every where I know to configure this (both postfix and mailman) I have the name email.marmot.org configured as the URL of the host. Regular email works fine from that box, just mailman is having a problem sending. Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? -- Steve Lindemann, MSIS __ Network Administrator //\\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network \\// against HTML/RTF email, +1.970.242.3331 x116 //\\ vCards & M$ attachments http://www.marmot.org

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Quick mailman configuration question...
by Scott Chapman 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

I have been poking around and trying to see if I can configure mailman to not include the list in the email being sent? The idea is we are going to be sending a newsletter and want to prevent users from accidentally reply-all to the entire the group. Instead we want it to only go back to the original poster. Make sense? Thanks in advance! -Scott.

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User's emails being rejected for "content type not explicitly allowed"
by Peter Shute 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

I've got one user whose emails always get bounced back with the message "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed'. There are no attachments or images in the rejected emails that I can see. Where do I start looking to find out what it's objecting to? Note that we've just moved this list to a new list server, so it's likely to be something we've set wrongly on the new server. There's a dkim-signature header in it. Could that be doing it? I'm not an admin, so I don't have access to any of the list settings. What settings should I ask the admin for to help diagnose it? Peter Shute Sent from my iPad

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Please help, big problem with members being automatically unsubscribed
by Ricardo Kleemann 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what is happening that my lists are having significant numbers of users unsubscribed automatically, even though I turned off bounce processing. It seems that the members being removed indeed have a number of bounces, but if I turned off bounce processing how could this be happening? Thanks for any suggestions Ricardo

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Gateway Timeout Issue
by Mark Sapiro 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

On 01/06/2014 05:31 PM, Chuck Weinstock wrote: > Thanks! > > Yes to the stale lock problem. Regarding the other problem…the last time it shut down was January 1. Here are some of the qrunner log entries just prior to that: > >> Dec 30 18:17:20 2013 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 2209, sig: 9, sts: None, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Dec 30 18:17:23 2013 (16892) ArchRunner qrunner started. >> Dec 31 00:21:05 2013 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 16892, sig: 9, sts: None, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Dec 31 00:21:10 2013 (31527) ArchRunner qrunner started. >> Dec 31 06:25:01 2013 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 15347, sig: 9, sts: None, class: IncomingRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Dec 31 06:25:04 2013 (13794) IncomingRunner qrunner started. >> Dec 31 12:28:51 2013 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 13794, sig: 9, sts: None, class: IncomingRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Dec 31 12:28:53 2013 (28877) IncomingRunner qrunner started. >> Dec 31 18:32:44 2013 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 31527, sig: 9, sts: None, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Dec 31 18:32:46 2013 (10916) ArchRunner qrunner started. >> Jan 01 00:36:02 2014 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 12268, sig: 9, sts: None, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Jan 01 00:36:04 2014 (25317) OutgoingRunner qrunner started. >> Jan 01 12:43:48 2014 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 10916, sig: 9, sts: None, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Jan 01 12:43:50 2014 (22804) ArchRunner qrunner started. >> Jan 01 15:22:22 2014 (8351) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >> (pid: 28877, sig: 9, sts: None, class: IncomingRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] >> Jan 01 15:22:22 2014 (8351) Qrunner IncomingRunner reached maximum restart limit of 10, not restarting. All of the above are signal 9 (SIGKILL). Do you have some cron or other process that's SIGKILLing the qrunners in an attempt to keep them small or for some other reason? See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/94A9>. > Also there are no errors in the error log around the same time. I am seeing a bunch of errors (now) like: > >> Jan 05 20:46:54 2014 (1522) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/in/1388971910.759851+b18e7af8cb0632a2d9f551c9e39053510b278e9a.pck' >> Jan 05 20:46:54 2014 (1522) Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 99, in _oneloop >> msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) >> File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 154, in dequeue >> fp = open(filename) >> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/in/1388971910.759851+b18e7af8cb0632a2d9f551c9e39053510b278e9a.pck' >> >> Jan 05 20:46:54 2014 (1522) Skipping and preserving unparseable message: 1388971910.759851+b18e7af8cb0632a2d9f551c9e39053510b278e9a >> Jan 05 20:46:54 2014 (1522) Failed to unlink/preserve backup file: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/in/1388971910.759851+b18e7af8cb0632a2d9f551c9e39053510b278e9a.bak >> [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > > I think these are related to some pck files that I hand deleted because I thought they were causing the stale lock problem. I think these are because you have more than one qrunner processing the same slice of the same queue. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/_4A9>. -- 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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Gateway Timeout Issue
by Chuck Weinstock 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

I have three mailman mailing lists running on a new server. When I try to open the admin or admindb interface and give it my password for one of the three lists I get a Gateway Timeout instead of it actually logging in. When I do this with either of the other two mailing lists it works fine. Clearly something is amiss with the one of the lists. I can provide more information but I am not sure what to provide. Also, perhaps unrelated, the qrunner processes reach a maximum number of restarts and then shuts down…I have no idea how to debug this either. Thanks for any help, Chuck

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has: root, expected list permissions problem
by thufir 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Oddly: thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/locks bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) Problems found: 10 Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix thufir@dur:~$ Is this some sort of installation problem with Ubuntu? I don't get it, I installed from apt. Does this indicate that something went wrong with the install? -Thufir

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problem after changing the server name
by Dominique Asselineau 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

Hello, With mailman 2.1.13-5 on Debian/Squeeze, i encountered a problem after changing the name of the server. The administration web pages of the existing lists, continue to use the old server name. It seeems the server name is encoded in file /var/lib/mailman/lists/<list-name>/config.pck updated by the command "config_list -i <config-file-name>", but i do not find manner to modify the server name into those pages. host_name specifies only the domain in the e-mail adresses. Is there solution without recreating the lists? Thank you for your help. dom --

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Moderating on an iPad
by Peter Shute 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

I've been asked to moderate a mailman list, and it's easiest for me to do it on my iPad. I often (not always) find that when I reopen the browser to look at the moderation queue, when I click on the "reload page" link, it logs me out. I assume that what's happening is that iOS's multitasking has decided I haven't used the browser for a while, so it has closed it, so the cookie expires or something. Then when I reopen the browser, it restores the page how I left it, but it's not really logged in. Does anyone know a way around this? The password for the list concerned is very difficult to type on the iOS keyboard, so just logging in again isn't an option. The browser doesn't offer to save the password like with some sites, not sure why. I've tried the Mailman Moderator app, but it doesn't let me read messages, or see more than one item at a time. Peter Shute Sent from my iPad

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Mailman Admin pages repeatedly asking for password after server migration
by Tanstaafl 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

Hello, I have googled, and can't seem to find the exact answer to this question. Cookies are enabled (I use the same browser to access the mailman admin pages on the old server and those don't do this)... Would someone please point me to the FAQ page for how to resolve this (I'm sure it is easy, I just haven't been able to figure it out). This was the last test on my checklist before I pull the trigger and do the last rsync of the emails before changing all of the DNS pointers to point to the new server. Thanks Charles

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