Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman + postfix + Debian - does not deliver any messages

2008-10-24 Thread Bruno Guimarães Sousa
I am sorry, i posted it wrong. It is un-commented
But it is solved now
I don't know if i upgraded any package coz /etc/aliases had to be in a
diferent syntax:

*profs-val:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post profs-val*
profs-val-admin |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin profs-val
profs-val-bounces |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces profs-val
profs-val-confirm |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm profs-val
profs-val-join |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join profs-val
profs-val-leave |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave profs-val
profs-val-owner |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner profs-val
profs-val-request |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request profs-val
profs-val-subscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe profs-val
profs-val-unsubscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe profs-val

*tecadm-val:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post tecadm-val*
tecadm-val-admin |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin tecadm-val
tecadm-val-bounces |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces tecadm-val
tecadm-val-confirm |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm tecadm-val
tecadm-val-join |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join tecadm-val
tecadm-val-leave |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave tecadm-val
tecadm-val-owner |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner tecadm-val
tecadm-val-request |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request tecadm-val
tecadm-val-subscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe tecadm-val
tecadm-val-unsubscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe tecadm-val




On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Bruno Guimarães Sousa wrote:

  *#profs-val |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post profs-val
 #profs-val-admin |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin profs-val
 #profs-val-bounces |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces profs-val
 #profs-val-confirm |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm profs-val
 #profs-val-join |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join profs-val
 #profs-val-leave |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave profs-val
 #profs-val-owner |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner profs-val
 #profs-val-request |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request profs-val
 #profs-val-subscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe profs-val
 #profs-val-unsubscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe
 profs-val


 So you commented out all the aliases in question?  That won't work very
 well.

  Mailing lists always worked for me creating them like this. But this time,
 when i restarted mailman, it showed me an error message and filled /
 partition with files in /var/lib/mailman (i don't know which files are
 these). Then / partition had zero of free space and postfix stopped
 working well.


 Yeah, that's a totally separate problem.  You need to make sure the machine
 is configured correctly and working correctly, before we have a chance of
 hoping that Mailman will operate correctly.

  After i reduced disk usage, mailman is up and postfix is delivering
 messages
 fine. The problem is that none of the mailing lists are working, neither
 the
 2 new ones nor the old ones.


 Try un-commenting the aliases, rebuild the alias file, then restart
 Mailman.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about footers (again)

2008-10-24 Thread John Whitney
I found this:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2005-February/017850.html

If you want to go HTML all the way w/headers and footers and body. I
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[Mailman-Users] Blocking a person from getting a single email

2008-10-24 Thread Kevin Rector
Hello, I administer a list and I want to send an email to everyone on 
the list except one person (we're getting him a Christmas gift and want 
it to stay secret from him). My plan is to set his nomail flag to on and 
then send the email then after getting the email in my inbox turning off 
his nomail (so that he'll get mail again). It's a low traffic list so 
there is no real risk of him missing any other emails. He doesn't get a 
digest and he is a list administrator and I'm using version 2.1.11.cp2. 
He'll never look in the archives, so that's not an issue. Can anyone see 
any reason why this wouldn't work? I've checked the documentation and it 
seems like this is the best plan but I'd thought I'd get y'alls input. 
Thanks.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-24 Thread Dennis Putnam
Mark Sapiro wrote:
 Prior to 2.1.10, check_perms had a bug and didn't check the owner and
 group permissions on the archives/private directory itself.

 Permissions should be 2771 or maybe 2770 (drwxrws--x or drwxrws---). If
 archives/private is not o+x, it needs to be owned by the web server
 for public archive URLs to work.
   
I changed it to 2771 (I just needed too do a chmod o-r).
 Subordinate directories should be 2775 (drwxrwsr-x) and subordinate
 files 0664 (-rw-rw-r--) except for the archives/private/*/database/
 directory and subordinate files which should not have 'other'
 permissions.
   
OK, this is confusing. The public archive directories are links
(lrwxrwxrwx) to the private archive directories which contain the actual
archives. Those directories are drwxrwsr-x. The files are 755.
 It is not clear to my why a help command to the -request address would
 try to lock the archive. Is (was) 2271 the pid of CommandRunner?

   
No, it is 2273. I'm not sure I understand this question. The pid would
depend on when qrunner was launched. I have stopped and started mailman
several times so the pid could be anything, couldn't it?



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Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a person from getting a single email

2008-10-24 Thread Brad Knowles

Kevin Rector wrote:


I've checked the documentation and it seems like this is the best plan
but I'd thought I'd get y'alls input.


Hmm.  Sounds about like:

If we hold our mouth right, and we hop up and down while
spinning in a triangle-wise manner, and throat-sing
Hava Nagila while drinking ten gallons of the worst rot-gut
Tequila, we think this will work.  But we wanted to check
with you.

I wouldn't recommend either procedure for any particular purpose, and if 
you're on a University campus and you're trying to get someone else to do 
something like this then you might get arrested for hazing.



For what you want to achieve, why not just set up a separate mailing lists 
with all the same subscribers (except the intended victim), closed archives, 
and a different listowner password?


There's still a number of different ways that things could leak out of that 
idea, but at least it's got a few smaller holes than depending on the victim 
not reading the archives, no one else responding to the message after his 
delivery is turned back on, etc


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote:

Mark Sapiro wrote:
 Prior to 2.1.10, check_perms had a bug and didn't check the owner and
 group permissions on the archives/private directory itself.

 Permissions should be 2771 or maybe 2770 (drwxrws--x or drwxrws---). If=

 archives/private is not o+x, it needs to be owned by the web server
 for public archive URLs to work.
 
I changed it to 2771 (I just needed too do a chmod o-r).


Then that wasn't the problem.


 Subordinate directories should be 2775 (drwxrwsr-x) and subordinate
 files 0664 (-rw-rw-r--) except for the archives/private/*/database/
 directory and subordinate files which should not have 'other'
 permissions.
  
OK, this is confusing. The public archive directories are links
(lrwxrwxrwx) to the private archive directories which contain the actual
archives. Those directories are drwxrwsr-x. The files are 755.


If the files are 755, that's OK, but they aren't executable so they
really should be 644.

And yes, the contents of archives/public are symlinks (the permissions
of which are irrelevant). That's so archives can be changed from
public to private and vice versa by just removing/creating symlinks.


 It is not clear to my why a help command to the -request address would
 try to lock the archive. Is (was) 2271 the pid of CommandRunner?

 
No, it is 2273. I'm not sure I understand this question. The pid would
depend on when qrunner was launched. I have stopped and started mailman
several times so the pid could be anything, couldn't it?


Yes, that's why I said (was). However, if CommandRunner is now 2773,
it is likely that 2771 is another runner and was at the time. In any
case, 2771 was the pid of the process that tried to create the lock.

I asked, because I don't believe that the

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
'/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/database/2008-October-date.lock.dap002.2271.2'

error came from your 'help' command mailed to -request. In any case,
where did this error come from?. If it is in Mailman's error log,
there should also be a traceback. What is that?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman + postfix + Debian - does not deliverany messages

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bruno Guimarães Sousa wrote:

I am sorry, i posted it wrong. It is un-commented
But it is solved now
I don't know if i upgraded any package coz /etc/aliases had to be in a
diferent syntax:

*profs-val:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post profs-val*

The colon : is correct it should be on all the aliases, not just the
posting address.

profs-val-admin |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin profs-val
profs-val-bounces |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces profs-val
profs-val-confirm |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm profs-val
profs-val-join |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join profs-val
profs-val-leave |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave profs-val
profs-val-owner |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner profs-val
profs-val-request |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request profs-val
profs-val-subscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe profs-val
profs-val-unsubscribe |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe profs-val


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[Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

2008-10-24 Thread TGPlatt, WebMaster
I took an existing mailman web account that was working just fine and moved
it from our test directory to our production directory. Mailman remains
unchanged. Relative paths are all the same as they were before. I checked
that. Subscriptions still work (as long as confirm is turned off in the
privacy options) and all the admin functions seem to work as well. 

 

Yet, suddenly mailman seems unable to send out emails to any of its
subscribers. It can't even send out new subscriber confirmation emails or
your message was held for approval emails.  In fact when I tried to turn
enrollment confirmation on, pretty much everything stopped working but when
I turned it back off again then users could once again sign up; but none of
the messages mailman should be sending out to list members are actually
getting mailed. 

 

All this stuff worked FINE yesterday before the move; so somehow this is
clearly related to the move; but I'm not exactly sure what could be wrong.
Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to
answer these questions:

 

1.  Why don't confirmations work? 
2.  2. Why can't mailman send emails to list members? 

 

Thanks!

 

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Re: [Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

All this stuff worked FINE yesterday before the move; so somehow this is
clearly related to the move; but I'm not exactly sure what could be wrong.
Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to
answer these questions:


See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9 for a troubleshooting
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Re: [Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

2008-10-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

 All this stuff worked FINE yesterday before the move; so somehow this is
 clearly related to the move; but I'm not exactly sure what could be wrong.
 Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to
 answer these questions:
 
 1.Why don't confirmations work? 
 2.2. Why can't mailman send emails to list members? 

Did you by any chance forget to (re)install the crontab that runs 
most of Mailman's background tasks?


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Re: [Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

 All this stuff worked FINE yesterday before the move; so somehow this is
 clearly related to the move; but I'm not exactly sure what could be wrong.
 Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to
 answer these questions:
 
 1.   Why don't confirmations work? 
 2.   2. Why can't mailman send emails to list members? 

   Did you by any chance forget to (re)install the crontab that runs 
most of Mailman's background tasks?


Mailman 2.1.x does not rely on cron for anything to do with mail
delivery except for periodic digests and the news-mail gateway.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

2008-10-24 Thread TGPlatt, WebMaster
Thanks Mark... obviously one of those things was exactly the enema mailman
needed because as soon as I finished them (and restarted our server) I found
a whole boatload of emails in each of my test subscriber inboxes. I guess
that means all the other list members probably got them too. 

Although I've absolutely nothing that should have changed permissions in
DAYS now (and when I last checked permissions, it was clean, check_perms
still did find a single permissions error on aliases.db 

Could THAT have somehow been the cause of mailman's sudden bout of email
constipation? If so, do you any idea what might have caused the permission
change when I'd done nothing to those files?

I'm going back to do some further testing now, but it looks like we managed
to break the log jam.

Thanks again.

-Original Message-
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

All this stuff worked FINE yesterday before the move; so somehow this is
clearly related to the move; but I'm not exactly sure what could be wrong.
Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to
answer these questions:


See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/A4E9 for a troubleshooting
check list.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] How did I break my mailman?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

Thanks Mark... obviously one of those things was exactly the enema mailman
needed because as soon as I finished them (and restarted our server) I found
a whole boatload of emails in each of my test subscriber inboxes. I guess
that means all the other list members probably got them too. 

Although I've absolutely nothing that should have changed permissions in
DAYS now (and when I last checked permissions, it was clean, check_perms
still did find a single permissions error on aliases.db 

Could THAT have somehow been the cause of mailman's sudden bout of email
constipation? If so, do you any idea what might have caused the permission
change when I'd done nothing to those files?


Creating/deleting lists with MTA = 'Postfix' updates data/aliases and
then runs POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD (default '/usr/sbin/postalias') to update
aliases.db. This can change the ownership/permissions on aliases.db,
but it shouldn't cause any problem, and if it did cause a problem, it
would cause Postfix to reject incoming mail; it wouldn't affect
outgoing mail delivery.

The likely cause of no outgoing mail in this case is OutgoingRunner not
running or hung waiting for an SMTP response from the outgoing MTA.

Check Mailman's 'error', 'qrunner' and 'smtp-failure' logs for any
error reports.

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[Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running?

2008-10-24 Thread TGPlatt, WebMaster
Okay, so now that I've got finally mailman moved and running on the new
server and working with postfix and apache2 and sending and receiving emails
and all that basic stuff, I still have one question I haven't been able to
answer.

 

I seem to be missing two full months worth of archives. From what I can tell
looking at my backups, it appears that the last time the archive process
actually ran on our old server was in early August. 

 

Then for some reason it stopped funning and thee have been no archive
updates since then. I suspect those lost messages aren't really lost at
all but are merely caught in some sort of internal blockage in mailman. What
I'm trying to figure out here is how to clear the clogged drain pipe and get
the archive working again. 

 

When I first installed the backup from the old server to the new one and
then checked the list's configuration parameters, I saw some parameters on
the Archiving options page that provided for rebuilding the archive. But
now those options seem to have disappeared now too.

 

Can Mark or someone else tell me how I go about figuring out where my
missing messages have gone and get the archive working again as it should
be?

 

Thanks.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Migrating Mailman to New Server

2008-10-24 Thread Dennis Putnam


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Re: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archiveprocess running?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:

I seem to be missing two full months worth of archives. From what I can tell
looking at my backups, it appears that the last time the archive process
actually ran on our old server was in early August. 

 

Then for some reason it stopped funning and thee have been no archive
updates since then. I suspect those lost messages aren't really lost at
all but are merely caught in some sort of internal blockage in mailman. What
I'm trying to figure out here is how to clear the clogged drain pipe and get
the archive working again. 


There are a few possibilities:

1) ArchiveRunner died on the old server in early August. In this case,
the messages would be on the old server in the qfiles/arch/ directory.
If that is the case, you could just move the contents of that
directory to the corresponding directory on the new server and that
should do it.

2) Some error was shunting the archived messages in which case they may
be in qfiles/shunt/ and they may or may not be in the individual
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox files. If the messages
are in qfiles/shunt/, you could just move them and rin bin/unshunt,
but you need to be careful as not all the files in qfiles/shunt/ may
be messages you want. You can look at these entries with
bin/show_qfiles or bin/dumpdb.

If the messages are in the listname.mbox files, the easiest thing is
probably to rebuild the archives with bin/arch --wipe.


When I first installed the backup from the old server to the new one and
then checked the list's configuration parameters, I saw some parameters on
the Archiving options page that provided for rebuilding the archive. But
now those options seem to have disappeared now too.


I don't know what you say, but there's nothing in the web Archiving
Options page about rebuilding archives.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't thearchiveprocess running?

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote:

I don't know what you say, but there's nothing in the web Archiving
Options page about rebuilding archives.


That should be I don't know what you saw, ...

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