[Mailman-Users] Minor Mailman problem
I received the monthly reminder from mailman earlier this month regarding the two mailing lists that I administer. I noted an error in the message, as follows: "If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks!" ^ There's no problem with the domain name anywhere else. Messages get through to the lists and the admin stuff is dealt with correctly. I'm running 2.0.8-1 on RedHat Linux 7.2/kernel 2.4.9. Any help in pinpointing the problem will be appreciated...thanks! -- Bob -- ________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The weather is here - wish you were beautiful." - J. Buffett -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] messages stuck and not going out...
Be careful!! This is an invitation to some significant headaches. A friend of mine found his mail server was being used as a relay by most of the People's Republic of China (literally about 10,000 messages per hour through his little Pentium-200 mail server) until he shut this option OFF. YMMV - Good luck - Bob On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, aaron wrote: > The solution to my problem was to make the following changes to sendmail: > > - turn on accept_unresolvable_domains. > > once I did this, mailman released all of the messages it has been holding > for days... -- ________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The weather is here - wish you were beautiful." - J. Buffett -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
[Mailman-Users] Group error message
Hey all - could someone tip me off as to the problem here? [mailman@firefox: ~]$ /var/mailman/bin/check_perms Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 50, in ? MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0] TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation TIA - Bob -- ________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The weather is here - wish you were beautiful." - J. Buffett -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] Group error message
Thanks, Tim - that fixed it. On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, tim wrote: > Yes... you are probably using a crudded up Defaults.py. > I've found that some RPMs of mailman seem to have MAILMAN_UID = 'mailman', > and MAILMAN_GID = 'mailman', which clearly breaks the Python code. > > If you open Defaults.py and change them to whatever the numerical value of > mailman is in your /etc/passwd and /etc/group, it'll work. -- Bob -- ____ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The weather is here - wish you were beautiful." - J. Buffett -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/log/mailman files
Just out of curiosity...you're not running Mandrake 7.1, are you? That release had a strange bug which caused a lot of directories in /var to fill up with files with those sorts of names, many levels deep. This was fixed in 7.2 and newer. --Bob -- On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Charles Sebold wrote: > On 19 Elul 5762, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > > > Looking in my /var/log/mailman directory, I see file names such as: > > > > error > > error.1 > > error.1.1 > > error.1.1.1 > > error.1.1.1.1 > > error.1.1.1.1.1 > > This probably indicates a problem with your logrotate scripts (that's > what bumps logfiles with numbers, and optionally compresses them). Not > sure where they are in RedHat but in Debian they're in /etc/logrotate* . > -- Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The weather is here - wish you were beautiful." - J. Buffett -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
[Mailman-Users] Chaning users' e-mail addy
Greetings: Using 2.0.8 under RedHat Linux 7.3 with no problems. Is there an easy way to change a user's e-mail address in the database without having to unsubscribe/resubscribe them? Failing that, how can I do it while preserving their existing password?? I have noted the announcement of 2.1. I'm thinking about updating, but don't wish to screw with something that works fine already...! Thanks for all the good work! -- Bob -- ________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The waiting is the hardest part." - T. Petty -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Failures after Sendmail upgrade
Just upgraded to Mailman 2.0.13 from 2.0.8 a couple of weeks ago. Last week I upgraded Sendmail from 8.12.3 to 8.12.7. I got a bunch of these back today (after the monthly reminders were sent out). Is this a Mailman issue or sendmail? The original message was received at Sat, 1 Mar 2003 05:00:14 -0800 from cust.64-52-19.058.ip.ebrb.net [64.52.19.58] with id h21D0E40020264 - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "| /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner samohi74" (reason: Service unavailable) (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session follows - smrsh: "wrapper" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable It seems that smrsh is the culprit. All was working well until these upgrades were done. Any help with this would be appreciated... -- Bob -- ________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The waiting is the hardest part." - T. Petty -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Failures after Sendmail upgrade
Jon: I upgraded via the 8.12.7 tarball, not rpm; the old 8.12.3 version was rpm'd. Nope...that wasn't it. There's no directory sm.bin anywhere on the server. I was able to get working by disabling smrsh altogether (removing the line enabling it in sendmail.mc, then recreating sendmail.cf); the mailing lists are now functioning as they were before. However, I'd like to find a better fix than this, if possible; smrsh does serve a security function, I suppose! Thanks again. -- Bob -- On 1 Mar 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > Depending on how you upgraded, it might be checking the wrong directory > for smrsh information. There is a note in the Archives discussing this. > > === From Keith Steward === > When CMDDIR is not defined by the OS, then in smrsh.c it defaults to > /usr/adm/sm.bin/ . Even though RedHat7.2 already has an /etc/smrsh/ > directory (including a link entry there for slocal), the Sendmail (at > least the 8.11.6 version I downloaded and installed) was not using that > directory. Instead, it was looking for the default /usr/adm/sm.bin/. > The /etc/smrsh/ directory was a red herring! Once I created the > /usr/adm/sm.bin, and chmod 755 (recommended by the smrsch/README within > Sendmail), and then set up the symbolic link in there: > mailman -> /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman > the problem disappeared. > === > > HtH - Jon Carnes > > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 20:57, Bob Sully wrote: > > > > Just upgraded to Mailman 2.0.13 from 2.0.8 a couple of weeks ago. Last > > week I upgraded Sendmail from 8.12.3 to 8.12.7. I got a bunch of these > > back today (after the monthly reminders were sent out). Is this a > > Mailman issue or sendmail? > > > > > > The original message was received at Sat, 1 Mar 2003 05:00:14 -0800 > > from cust.64-52-19.058.ip.ebrb.net [64.52.19.58] > > with id h21D0E40020264 > > > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > > "| /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner samohi74" > > (reason: Service unavailable) > > (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > >- Transcript of session follows - > > smrsh: "wrapper" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) > > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > > > > > > It seems that smrsh is the culprit. > > > > All was working well until these upgrades were done. > > > > Any help with this would be appreciated... -- Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The waiting is the hardest part." - T. Petty -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Failures after Sendmail upgrade
Ashley: Nice thought, but no go. Plus. /etc/smrsh already contained the link. I followed your steps below; no joy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /etc/mail]$ lsl /etc/smrsh/ total 92 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Feb 9 18:36 ./ drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 7168 Mar 1 20:00 ../ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 19 Dec 24 1999 slocal -> /usr/lib/nmh/slocal* -rwxrwxr-x1 mailman mailman 84127 Jan 4 2002 demime* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 30 Feb 9 18:36 wrapper -> ../../var/mailman/mail/wrapper* [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /etc/mail]$ lsl /usr/adm/sm.bin/ total 2 drwxrwxr-x2 root root 1024 Mar 1 20:41 ./ drwxrwxr-x3 root root 1024 Mar 1 20:41 ../ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 25 Mar 1 20:41 wrapper -> /var/mailman/mail/wrapper* -- Bob -- On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Bob Sully wrote: > > > - Transcript of session follows - > >smrsh: "wrapper" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) > >554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > > > # mkdir /usr/adm/sm.bin > # cd /usr/adm/sm.bin > # ln -sf /usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper ./ > NOTE: replace the above path with the path of your MM installation > > > smrsh will need to have mailman's wrapper in it's directory and last > I checked, sendmail (be it rpm or tarball) doesn't create that directory. > > -- Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The waiting is the hardest part." - T. Petty -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbe Headaches
Jon: You've seen the flurry of these over the past couple of weeks. I firmly believe that the problem lies with some mod to smrsh in the latest versions of Sendmail. I had previously been running 2.0.13 with Sendmail 8.12.3 without a problem...after upgrading to 8.12.7 I got the same message as below; same thing with 8.12.8. The only way to get around this is to disable smrsh in sendmail.mc -> sendmail.cf. This is bothersome, as smrsh does have some (albeit minor?) security value. I'd like to see a fix for this soon. Perhaps we should alert the Sendmail developers. -- Bob -- On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > Well, you could disable the Smrsh control from within Sendmail - or - you > could look up on your system where Smrsh's link directory should be located. > You may have to create the directory and then create your links to the > Mailman executables. > > Good Luck - Jon Carnes > > BTW: there are some recent expositions about Smrsh in the Archives that > contain more info about Smrsh and its default settings. > > > >- Transcript of session follows - > > smrsh: "mailman" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) > > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable -- Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The waiting is the hardest part." - T. Petty -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbe Headaches
Jon: I did install from source but paid special attention to the smrsh directories. Everything is where it should be. Still didn't work. -- Bob -- On 12 Mar 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > Most of these (I think) were from folks upgrading their Sendmail due to > the recent vulnerability and subsequent update release. I would hope > that folks using package management (like rpm or apt-get) would have no > problems if they used the updated packages for their distributions. > > If folks are installing from source they could easily overlook the > placement of the smrsh directories... > > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:02, Bob Sully wrote: > > > > Jon: > > > > You've seen the flurry of these over the past couple of weeks. I firmly > > believe that the problem lies with some mod to smrsh in the latest > > versions of Sendmail. I had previously been running 2.0.13 with > > Sendmail 8.12.3 without a problem...after upgrading to 8.12.7 I got the > > same message as below; same thing with 8.12.8. The only way to get > > around this is to disable smrsh in sendmail.mc -> sendmail.cf. This is > > bothersome, as smrsh does have some (albeit minor?) security value. I'd > > like to see a fix for this soon. Perhaps we should alert the Sendmail > > developers. -- Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net "The waiting is the hardest part." - T. Petty -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Integration with ClamAV
Use ClamAV with MimeDefang, and set it up so anything with a virus signature gets rejected. Works wonderfully on my servers. On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Brendan Chard wrote: > I'm running Mailman 2.1.4 on a FreeBSD server using sendmail as my MTA. I > have ClamAV already installed and running using the clamd/clamc combo > > What is the best way to integrate ClamAV with Mailman so that viruses posted > to lists will be nuked? > > > Thanks, > -Brendan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________ Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net http://www.malibyte.com "The floggings will continue until morale improves." -- 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.
Agreed: I run Fedora Core 2 with Mailman on one of my mail servers, using MIMEDefang with SpamAssassin and Clam Antivirus, along with having my lists fully moderated. I've never had even one spam or virus get through (lists have been up for several years; started with RedHat 6.2 or 7.1 and Mailman 2.0.7, as I recall). Bob On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Jeff Groves wrote: > Maybe you should install a virus scanning feature to your mailer? > > I use mimedefang which has a hook to many different virus scanning products. > I use f-prot. > > My platform: > > Fedora Core 2 > Sendmail 8.13.1 > mimedefang 2.48 > f-prot linux ws 4.4.2 > > this configuration discards infected email messages. > > > Jeff g. Bob Sully - Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.net http://www.malibyte.com "There will be no white flag above my door." -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
