Re: [Mailman-Users] alias.db not getting updated

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:57:53AM -0700, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> I've recently added a mailman list and have run
> bin/genaliases and put that data in the data/aliases
> and restarted both postfix and mailman.
> 
> Apparently this isn't updating the alias.db which
> explains why all 'old' lists still work but any new
> ones don't.

To generate alias.db, you need to run Postfix's 'newaliases'
command.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive search?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:22:01AM -0400, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
> Is there a way for users to search the Mailman list archives
> (pipermail)?

FAQ:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.011.htp

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[Mailman-Users] Mailman and virtual domains

[Stephen R Laniel]

We have 2 domains, foo.com and bar.com, that are physically
hosted on the same machine. We'd like foo.com/mailman and
bar.com/mailman to list completely separate lists; we'd like
people who email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get a little note at
the bottom of their emails saying that if they want to
unsubscribe, they should visit foo.com/listinfo/listname,
whereas bar.com users get a note in their messages that
points to bar.com.

Is there any way to do this other than installing two
separate copies of mailman? I.e., does mailman do virtual
hosts? (Obviously my MTA handles its own virtual hosts, but
I'm talking about virtual hosts for mailman-specific
functions.)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and virtual domains

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:20:49PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> We have 2 domains, foo.com and bar.com, that are physically
> hosted on the same machine. We'd like foo.com/mailman and

Sorry, FAQ:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.047.htp

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman shuts down silently under FreeBSD

[Stephen R Laniel]

lman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63170) NewsRunner qrunner 
exiting.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63171) OutgoingRunner 
qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63171) OutgoingRunner 
qrunner exiting.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63172) VirginRunner 
qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63172) VirginRunner 
qrunner exiting.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63174) RetryRunner 
qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63174) RetryRunner 
qrunner exiting.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63166) ArchRunner qrunner 
caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63166) ArchRunner qrunner 
exiting.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63167) BounceRunner 
qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner:Oct 20 13:57:34 2005 (63167) BounceRunner 
qrunner exiting.

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[Mailman-Users] Mailman shuts down silently under FreeBSD

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm running Mailman out of FreeBSD's 'ports' collection, and
for some reason qrunner shuts down silently every now and
again. Today, for instance, I created a mailing list through
the Mailman command-line interface, then tried to send that
list a test message. Nothing arrived at the subscribers'
mailboxes. Having noticed this behavior before, I restarted
qrunner via

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh start

It restarted, and the queue cleared; all the messages that
should have been delivered were delivered.

The machine hasn't restarted; 'uptime' on that end reads

 2:58PM  up 21 days, 12:43, 0 users, load averages: 1.98, 2.10, 1.99

So can anyone think of why qrunner would have shut down?

Thanks much,
Steve

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[Mailman-Users] Apache errors causing user-management problems

[Stephen R Laniel]

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I've recently had some Apache problems, which started when I encountered
this bug:



I used the hack that they mentioned at the bottom of that bug, then
upgraded to the latest unstable build of Apache when it came out. This
fixed Apache, which I can now use to load my Website
(http://www.laniels.org/ , if you want to confirm it).

At least one problem is left: I'm having troubles now subscribing new
members to my lists. When I try to do that, I get the mailman message
that we've hit a bug; when I look in the error log, the following looks
like the relevant error:

admin(5271): [- Mailman Version: 2.0.12 -]
admin(5271): [- Traceback --]
admin(5271): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(5271):   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 98, in run_main
admin(5271): main()
admin(5271):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 154, in main
admin(5271): ChangeOptions(mlist, category, cgidata, doc)
admin(5271):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 899,
in ChangeOptions
admin(5271): digest, send_welcome_msg)
admin(5271):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1097,
in ApprovedAddMembers
admin(5271): Utils.ValidateEmail(name)
admin(5271):   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 160, in
ValidateEmail
admin(5271): realname,str = rfc822.parseaddress(str)
admin(5271): AttributeError: 'rfc822' module has no attribute
'parseaddress'


I think the problem is that somewhere along the line, I downgraded
libc6 back to an earlier version to fix my Apache problems, and apt
*removed* some of my packages; I must have keyed too quickly through
apt-get when it did this. I think it probably removed some package
that's important to mailman.

I tried reinstalling mailman (apt-get install --reinstall mailman), and
apt did as I said. I still get the same problems, though; I still can't
subscribe new members. Any idea what might be the problem? It looks like
the rfc822 module got downgraded, or removed, or something. But a quick
scan through apt-cache doesn't show any package where "rfc822" and
"python" appear together. Might this be the problem?

Thanks,
Steve

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list (fwd)

[Stephen R Laniel]

I sent this accidentally from [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and my message got bounced back. Apologies ...

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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:50:59 -0400
From: "Steve Laniel:" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Mailman Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list

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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:44:03AM -0700, irwin wrote:
> 
> Is there an option so that the list administrator may post without my having 
> to approve my own postings?

Hmmm ... I've had some difficulties with this, because my username is
[EMAIL PROTECTED], but I email from [EMAIL PROTECTED]; the latter is
an alias for the former, but mailman doesn't know that. Consequently, if
I'm not careful about giving other mailing lists the right subscription
information, I'll get my messages put in queue to be processed by the
administrator.

Is that similar to your problem?

Steve

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[Mailman-Users] Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily (fwd)

[Stephen R Laniel]

Hi folks,

Thanks for your help. It turns out that I needed to make user mailman a
member of group list, and I needed to give the list group write
permissions on the mailman locks directory. Once I did that, all was
fixed.

Then I had a problem accessing the list archives, but that was easy: I
needed to force Apache to follow symlinks. Once I did that, again all
was well.

Thanks again,
Steve

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[Mailman-Users] Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily (fwd)

[Stephen R Laniel]

Hi folks,

Following up on what I wrote yesterday, I got this cron report in my
email this morning. Might this explain why I'm seeing the mailman
problems that I'm seeing?

Also, root:root owns a lot of the mailman files. Does the owner matter
much?

Thanks for any help you can give me. This is a highly irritating problem
- and vaguely urgent, since I want to get a mailing list up and running
to discuss a friend's upcoming bachelor party. :-)

Thanks,
Steve

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron  test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.daily
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:33:04 -0400

/etc/cron.daily/mailman:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 92, in ?
main()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 41, in main
mlist = MailList.MailList(name)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 77, in __init__
self.Lock()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1340, in Lock
self.__lock.lock(timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
self.__write()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write
fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/var/lib/mailman/locks/bachelor_party.lock.bertrandrussell.10065'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 65, in ?
main()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 42, in main
send_list_digest(mlist)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 46, in send_list_digest
mlist.Lock()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1340, in Lock
self.__lock.lock(timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock
self.__write()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write
fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
'/var/lib/mailman/locks/bachelor_party.lock.bertrandrussell.10067'
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mailman exited with return code 1

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[Mailman-Users] Get to authentication screen, die when page loads

[Stephen R Laniel]

Hi folks,

This one's bugging me: I just installed mailman yesterday, so there's
probably a newbie's explanation for it, but I can't find an answer in
the documentation or FAQs.

1) I can load the admin front page:



2) If I select a particular list that I created (click the lone link in
the admin page above), I get prompted for a password, and

3) If I enter the wrong password, I get the "authentication failed"
error, but

4) If I enter the right password, I get

  Bug in Mailman version 2.0.12

  We're sorry, we hit a bug!

  Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
  traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
  but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. 

and I can't continue. That is, I can't do any mailman admin tasks for
any of my lists.

Permissions on my mailman directories look fine:

  slaniel@bertrandrussell:/var/lib$ ls -d mailman
  drwxrwsr-x8 root list 4096 Jul 29 12:23 mailman

  slaniel@bertrandrussell:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ ls -d mailman
  drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Jul 29 10:21 mailman

I think Apache's fine, or I wouldn't have been able to load *any*
mailman admin pages, right?

Any thoughts on what might be the issue here?

Thanks,
Steve

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[Mailman-Users] Get to authentication screen, die when page loads

[Stephen R Laniel]

Hi folks,

This one's bugging me: I just installed mailman yesterday, so there's
probably a newbie's explanation for it, but I can't find an answer in
the documentation or FAQs.

1) I can load the admin front page:



2) If I select a particular list that I created (click the lone link in
the admin page above), I get prompted for a password, and

3) If I enter the wrong password, I get the "authentication failed"
error, but

4) If I enter the right password, I get

  Bug in Mailman version 2.0.12

  We're sorry, we hit a bug!

  Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
  traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
  but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. 

and I can't continue. That is, I can't do any mailman admin tasks for
any of my lists. I doubt there's actually a bug; it's probably just
newbian problems.

Permissions on my mailman directories look fine:

  slaniel@bertrandrussell:/var/lib$ ls -d mailman
  drwxrwsr-x8 root list 4096 Jul 29 12:23 mailman

  slaniel@bertrandrussell:/usr/lib/cgi-bin$ ls -d mailman
  drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Jul 29 10:21 mailman

I think Apache's fine, or I wouldn't have been able to load *any*
mailman admin pages, right?

Any thoughts on what might be the issue here?

Thanks,
Steve

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