[Mailman-Users] problems sending to (my) list...
hiya. I just installed and configured Mailman on a server running RedHat Linux 7.1. The MTA is Postfix, which (I think) is supposed to work like sendmail. I have been over the configurations numerous times, but I can't seem to find what I am missing. When I send a test message to my test list, my /var/log/maillog just tells me there's no such user as test. The MailerDaemon error message says the same thing. Following the Common Problems FAQ for sendmail problems, I also created a ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper etc/smrsh/wrapper. What am I missing? (or is Postfix just not compatible??) thanks, gary gary c wang ICQ: 4343405 -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Re: got it.
never mind.. I found this in the archives. cheers, gary - Original Message - From: Jorge Biquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] I read on the archives that I need to be sure that aliases is corrected written and updated with newaliases Do I have to create a user each time I create a list (in this case prueba8 ) ? The answer is yes, unless you use the -o option when setting up the list with newlist. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] problems sending to (my) list...
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:15:47AM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: Did you happen to think to run postmap /etc/aliases ?? Arraugh. Er. postalias /etc/aliases Fumble mind. -- - Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Manager Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ - -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Email Headers
I was wondering if there was an option to turn on or off the email headers that mailman adds. IE: List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Mailman mailing list management users mailman-users.python.org List-Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ They take up a lot of header space, else maybe move them above the To: From: Subject: lines?? I searched the FAQ and the admin docs, but found nothing mentioning these headers. They can get ugly on some mail readers (IE: Eudora) Thanks Darryl -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] smtp error
Hello All, I installed RedHat 7.2 with Mailman from the CD's. I checked the /var/mailman/logs/smtp and I see an error. Mar 28 06:51:02 2002 (1584) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.011 seconds Mar 28 06:51:02 2002 (1584) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection refused') Can anyone tell me what the error is and how to fix it? Thanks, David
[Mailman-Users] Re: stripping Received: headers
Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be aware that not having [Received:] headers will make troubleshooting certain kinds of subscriber problems more difficult. Not an issue for announce-only lists, and maybe not so much an issue for moderated lists, but for others, keep a copy. The simplest way to keep a copy is just to add a file to the alias entry when you create the list, e.g. mylist: /var/spool/lists/mylist,|/home/mailman2/mail/wrapper post mylist Even better would be to keep a big Received Chronicle: mylist: |/usr/local/bin/reformail -c -X Message-Id: -X Received: |sort /var/spool/lists/mylist_recvd,|/usr/local/bin/reformail -I Received: | /home/mailman2/mail/wrapper post mylist That file would contain just the message ID's (or you could use From:) followed by their Received: lines. Tracking down a problem would be relatively easy. You can use one of the log rotater programs to swap these out when they get too big. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] approve every post?
Jonas Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J. Frederick Ball OEF wrote: The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Here is the problem -- if you have implicit destinations, such as addresses in the bcc field, the message is held. Wow, that's my problem too. And how can I tell mailman to ignore implicit destination? Privacy Options Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names, specified below)?[X] No [ ] Yes Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyserver.net/ Oo. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Mail not getting through, but w/ no error message
Ok, so after some help from a few very awesome folks... I reconfigured mailman using the --with-mail-gid=1 the email i was receiving back said that it was looking for gid 6 but was getting gid 1, so I recompiled with that gid. I looked through etc/passwd and the daemon is set as gid 1. I dont know what that means, but I went with it anyway... well, now when I send a message to a listserv, I do not receive an email telling me that the gid is wrong, but the email also does not get through to the members of the listserv. Its as if it just gets stuck somewhere... Any ideas? Any log files I could look at for clues? Everything else is still working great, web stuff still works, it still sends out welcome messages when you add people to groups, etc... If its any help, the mail server is linux based. I am actually operating a web server from a win2k box and the mail server from a separate unix box, the web stuff is administered from the ip of the mailserver. (66.111.67.23/mailman/admin/) With that being said, should i just put myself out of my misery, or are there any ideas? thanks russ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Editing confirm message
Jason Buscema [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to simplify the confirm message. $EDITOR $MAILMANHOME/templates/verify.txt Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyserver.net/ Oo. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Private archives available via Internet
It has come to our attention that mailman archives are available via the Internet even though mailman archives are deemed as private for mailing list members viewing only. If you do a search on Google or any other search engine you can find any message that was posted to the mailing list. This is a problem for our private mailing lists. Is there a way to ensure that this is not available? Also how do you get read of messages in the archives? Nancy Montano -- Nancy M. Montano|| 224 Cruz Alta Rd, #F || Taos, NM 87571 Webmaster/Content Coord || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.laplaza.org La Plaza Telecommunity || [V] 505-758-1836 || [F] 505-751-1812 Aprender es avanzar -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Email Headers
At 23:53 +1100 3/28/2002, Darryl Harvey wrote: I searched the FAQ and the admin docs, but found nothing mentioning these headers. They can get ugly on some mail readers (IE: Eudora) They can be turned off in Eudora (it's easier in the Mac version than the Windows version). I have my Eudora set to show the List-Post: and suppress the others. I think the method is in the FAQ. Yes... Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py I searched on headers and scrolled down to 4.1 Note that if you remove the headers, you make life harder for users of mail programs which make use of them. Unfortunately, that's a set missing some key players. --John -- John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Mailman problem - gid not find
I get the following problem in mailman when try to send mail to the list: [ Part 2: 'Delivery error report' ] Reporting-MTA: dns; desktop.carfield.com.hk Arrival-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:45:04 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 2: '/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post smartcarpark'. Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 65534. (Reconfigure to take 65534?) How can I fix it? \\\|/// \- - -// ( @ @ ) ---oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Visit my homepage at http://www.carfield.com.hk --- -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Re: smtp error (linux@ke6upi.com)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mar 28 06:51:02 2002 (1584) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.011 seconds Mar 28 06:51:02 2002 (1584) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection refused') Can anyone tell me what the error is and how to fix it? Make sure your mm_cfg.py has a line like this: SMTPHOST = 'your_hostname.yourdoman' Also, if you can access /var/log/maillog, it will give you more information. Donna -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Private archives available via Internet
At 08:47 28/03/2002 -0700, you wrote: It has come to our attention that mailman archives are available via the Internet even though mailman archives are deemed as private for mailing list members viewing only. What are the URL paths being returned by the search engine. Do they point to the web server delivering your Mailman web GUI? This is not such a dumb question as it might appear. It is entirely possible for a list subscriber to direct their incoming mail from the list to their own archive and it is this source which is being referenced by the search engines. Potentially the same content as your mailman archive just a different location/URL. If the URLs being returned point to the web server delivering your Mailman web GUI, do they begin with the public archive alias (default /pipermail/) or the private script alias (default /mailman/private/) or some other path? This could give some clue as to how a search engine's indexer gained access to the private mail archives you are concerned about. Any list that was created as private and has stayed as private ever since can only be accessed using HTTP, on a _properly_ configured system, via mailman's CGI script in $prefix/Mailman/Cgi/private.py. And this script requires a list subscribed member e-mail id and associated password before it allows list access. If the web server concerned was mis-configured, so that it could serve the pages directly from the private archive storage through the file system via some other URL path, rather than the proper CGI path of /mailman/private/listname/..., this could give a clue as to what is causing your problem. If the lists concerned were at some time public then the indexer could have accessed them at that time but the URL paths returned by the search engine would be of the form /pipermail/listname/... and following the link should now fail if the list is now private. If you do a search on Google or any other search engine you can find any message that was posted to the mailing list. This is a problem for our private mailing lists. But can you access the actual archive mail file via the URL returned by the search without having a valid member id and associated password? The source of your problem will hinge in part on how the search engine indexers are crawling your web site. Is it pure 'arms length' HTTP access? One of the problems with indexing Mailman private list archives to provide legitimate search facilities is the cookie authentication scheme used to control access by $prefix/Mailman/Cgi/private.py script. The indexers for some search engines are not programmed to handle this type of authentication. For instance, with the htdig search engine, in order to set up search of private list archives one has to do the indexing of them in the file space i.e. the indexer has to access the archive files through the filing system, and provide the indexer with a rule for mapping the file space paths back to the URLs that are to be returned in subsequent search results. Is it possible that such an access path has been set up on your system for indexing private archives and that the index information has 'leaked' onto a publicly available search engine? I see you have a search facility on your site. How is this implemented? Could this be the source of the leakage from the private mail archives to other search engines? How does your site search facility (it appears to be delivered by http://search.atomz.com/search/) do its indexing? Also, I see your site makes use of PHP - no criticism intended - but the tools to drive a coach and horse through Mailman's attempts at archive security are ready to hand. Is there a way to ensure that this is not available? Also how do you Yes: 1. configure your mailman and associated web server correctly 2. control the setup of any local archive search facility you set up to ensure the information it holds does not leak to outside search engines. 3. add a restriction on access for /mailman/ to your site's robots.txt: yes I know! But some search engine crawlers honor it get read of messages in the archives? I assume you meant get rid of messages in the archives. If so yes: 1. Edit the raw message in list's mailbox file $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox to remove the offending messages. 2. Rebuild the archive using the command $prefix/bin/arch listname Nancy Montano -- Nancy M. Montano|| 224 Cruz Alta Rd, #F || Taos, NM 87571 Webmaster/Content Coord || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.laplaza.org La Plaza Telecommunity || [V] 505-758-1836 || [F] 505-751-1812 Aprender es avanzar -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Mailman-Users] virtual hosting / list name
so i have a question, which it seems other people may have experienced... is there any way to change the email addresses that mailman sends out to list admins / subscribers? here's an example: i have a domain will.invalid and a mailing list named list. we use a virtual hosting setup, so we actually make the list-name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] even though aliases point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the actual list post. is there any way to make mailman report the shorter name (without breaking the list)? -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net . -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] smtp error is now fixed
Sendmail was accepting on 199.245.188.13 not 127.0.0.1. My /etc/hosts file had 127.0.0.1ke6upi.com ke6upi localhost localhost.localdomain. I changed it to 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 199.245.188.13 ke6upi.com Thanks for the help, David Shaw
Re: [Mailman-Users] Email Headers
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 23:53:00 +1100 Darryl Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was an option to turn on or off the email headers that mailman adds. Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual hosting / list name
Will Yardley wrote: we use a virtual hosting setup, so we actually make the list-name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] even though aliases point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the actual list post. I take a different approach: - I create list just the way I want it named (for example: test) - Sendmail's virtusertable does the following translation: [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-lists.domain.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-admin-lists.domain.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-request-lists.domain.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-admin-lists.domain.net - The Alias file takes care of the rest (lines wrapped): ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ## created: 13-Dec-2000 root test-lists.domain.net: \ |/home/mailman/lists.domain.net/mail/wrapper post test test-admin-lists.domain.net: \ |/home/mailman/lists.domain.net/mail/wrapper mailowner test test-request-lists.domain.net: \ |/home/mailman/lists.domain.net/mail/wrapper mailcmd test This allows me to have multiple 'test' lists across multiple domains, on the same machine, all behaving as separate lists. (This also means I have multiple MM installations.) -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] Re: virtual hosting / list name
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Will Yardley wrote: we use a virtual hosting setup, so we actually make the list-name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] even though aliases point: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the actual list post. I take a different approach: - I create list just the way I want it named (for example: test) - Sendmail's virtusertable does the following translation: [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-lists.domain.net [...] - The Alias file takes care of the rest (lines wrapped): ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ## created: 13-Dec-2000 root test-lists.domain.net: \ |/home/mailman/lists.domain.net/mail/wrapper post test This allows me to have multiple 'test' lists across multiple domains, on the same machine, all behaving as separate lists. (This also means I have multiple MM installations.) hrmm that seems like an interesting way to do things. do you use an automated system to create each one? i think a variation on this might fit our needs pretty well (although a way to simply change the email address sent by mailman would, of course, be nicer :) do you use symbolic links for commands and just create a new directory structure for the data directories and stuff? seems like having lots of full mailman installations might be a major headache when it comes time to upgrade (keep in mind that we have about 10-12k customers and are now starting to allow unlimited discussion lists on all plans)... -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net . -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: virtual hosting / list name
Will Yardley wrote: hrmm that seems like an interesting way to do things. do you use an automated system to create each one? Yeah, it's called 'My Ten Fingers'... :) do you use symbolic links for commands and just create a new directory structure for the data directories and stuff? No, although I have thought about that. Not sure if it will work or not - never tried it. -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not getting through, but w/ no error message
You may have a rights issue. su - mailman bin/check_perms if that comes up clean, try editing /etc/mail/access and adding the ip address of your server followed by the keword RELAY That should brute force Sendmail to allow any mail from this machine to be sent. --- Original Message: Thursday 28 March 2002 10:50 am --- Ok, so after some help from a few very awesome folks... I reconfigured mailman using the --with-mail-gid=1 the email i was receiving back said that it was looking for gid 6 but was getting gid 1, so I recompiled with that gid. I looked through etc/passwd and the daemon is set as gid 1. I dont know what that means, but I went with it anyway... well, now when I send a message to a listserv, I do not receive an email telling me that the gid is wrong, but the email also does not get through to the members of the listserv. Its as if it just gets stuck somewhere... Any ideas? Any log files I could look at for clues? Everything else is still working great, web stuff still works, it still sends out welcome messages when you add people to groups, etc... If its any help, the mail server is linux based. I am actually operating a web server from a win2k box and the mail server from a separate unix box, the web stuff is administered from the ip of the mailserver. (66.111.67.23/mailman/admin/) With that being said, should i just put myself out of my misery, or are there any ideas? thanks russ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
[Mailman-Users] ? How to change the Object of the Welcome message ?
Hi folks, I want to change the object of the welcome message (oh, not much, the idea is simply to put it in french since the mail will be sent to French people - who usually do not really like the english language as I do). Has anybody done it before ? Any clue ? Of course I'd like to change te Goodbye message too, but I guess it's pretty much the same. Have a nice week-end (Wonderful spring weather here in Paris :-)) Herve' Cassagne -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
