[Mailman-Users] None of my Admin's are Recevicing "Waiting forModerator Aproval E-mails"
Yogesh Subhash Talekar
yogesh at unipune.ernet.in
Thu Jul 8 00:22:56 CEST 2004
I think your MTA does not know the user-id/name using which it should run
the Mailman alias commands.
I mean, suppose your Mailman is ocnfigured with uid "mailman" and your MTA
is postfix, then postfix should know that it should execute all the
mailman related alias commands as user "mailman"
--yogesh
> All,
>
> I support a Mailman Server (2.1.4) that has over 40 maillists on it. We
> took over support from it in February (Everything is working
> great...except) and ever since we have had issues with Admin's not
> receiving "Waiting for Moderator Approval E-mails". Not one time has
> any Admin received these messages, so the lists are getting out of
> control because the Admins are not moderating. All of the lists have
> "Moderation Emails" enabled, and the old contractor that supported the
> site was able to provide these e-mails, because I have example e-mails
> form some of the admins.
>
> The caveat here is that when we took over the system we were only given
> a backup on the previous system, and we had to start over from scratch.
> At the time we decided to take the backup and apply it to a newest
> version of mailman at that time (2.1.4). I'm pretty sure that the
> previous contractor used a 2.0.X version, so I wondering if something on
> my end need to be changed to enable this.
>
> Every time (that requires or will require moderator approval) I send a
> message off to a list I get the follwing errors my log files (filename
> -error):
> Mail.log - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
> syslog - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal command:
> mailowner
> mail.warn - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
> mail.info - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
> mail.err - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
>
> Also here is a common example of my alias list entries. Could it be
> possible that the wrapper to mailman change in 2.1 affected the e-mails?
>
> ## moims-nav mailing list
> moims-nav: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post moims-nav"
> moims-nav-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin moims-nav"
> moims-nav-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join moims-nav"
> moims-nav-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave moims-nav"
> moims-nav-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner moims-nav"
> moims-nav-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
> moims-nav"
>
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Right now I have 40
> different customers ready to cut off my head :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Oliver
> Web Design & Engineering Support
> BTAS, Inc.
> CCSDS Secretariat Support - NASA
> Phone: 937-431-9431
> Fax: 937-431-9413
> Email: brian.oliver at btas.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Brian
> (BTAS)
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:27 AM
> To: Brad Knowles
> Cc: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Administrator E-mail
>
> I have followed the guide below. It was helpful. When I post a
> non-member message to the list that requires moderation I get the
> following errors. Could this be the reason why the admin is not getting
> a notification e-mail?
>
> Mail.log - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
> syslog - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal command:
> mailowner
> mail.warn - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
> mail.info - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
> mail.err - Jun 10 09:05:35 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Illegal
> command: mailowner
>
> This is my alias entry for the list. I am running Mailman 2.1
>
> ## moims-nav mailing list
> moims-nav: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post moims-nav"
> moims-nav-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin moims-nav"
> moims-nav-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join moims-nav"
> moims-nav-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave moims-nav"
> moims-nav-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner moims-nav"
> moims-nav-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe
> moims-nav"
> moims-nav-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
> moims-nav"
>
> Brian Oliver
> Web Developer
> BTAS, Inc.
> CCSDS Secretariat Support - NASA
> Phone: (937) 937-431-9431
> Fax: (937) 937-431-9413
> Email: brian.oliver at btas.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles at skynet.be]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:20 PM
> To: Oliver Brian (BTAS)
> Cc: Brad Knowles; mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Administrator E-mail
>
> At 5:53 PM -0400 2004-06-09, Oliver Brian \(BTAS\) wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I checked and I have that enabled on all of my lists. Could
>> there be in issue internal to mailman (propery files, etc.) that I
>> should look at?
>
> Well, if the feature is enabled, the next thing I'd look at is
> the Mailman logs of outgoing messages as compared to the MTA logs, as
> well as the cron jobs. You've got a slightly different issue, but
> the troubleshooting guidelines at
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>
> would be a good place to start.
>
> --
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
>
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>
>
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--yogesh
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