Re: [Mailman-Users] It's not possible to add new members

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alexander Baldauf wrote: > >last weekend, we updated mailman to version 2.1.5, but after the update, >it's not possible to add new members to any list. There ist just a error >message like this: > > >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 > > > We're sorry, we hit a bug! > >If you would like to he

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
mcnutt wrote: >My Mailman installation appears to be working okay, but I'm getting this >message once per day. > > >Your "cron" job on cls >/usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs > >produced the following output: > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up your mailing list

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hujjah 313 wrote: > >Is there a feature on mailman whereby we can backup our mailing list on hard >disk? > >Its quite necessary to have a hard copy of your list when dealing with >10,000+ emails where people constantly want to subscribe and unsubscribe. I'm not sure I understand what you want.

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
dylan lim wrote: > >This is what I have done: > >I cd into my /usr/local/mailman directory. >Did a > >chown mailman.mailman scripts >chown mailman.mailman /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman >chmod 2755 scripts Actually, the scripts directory should be 2775. The wrappers that should be 2755 are /usr/

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

2006-01-03 Thread dylan lim
This is what I have done: I cd into my /usr/local/mailman directory. Did a chown mailman.mailman scripts chown mailman.mailman /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman chmod 2755 scripts chmod 2755 /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman But I still got the same error. On 1/4/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailinglist

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
dylan lim wrote: > >I have set up Postfix+Mailman+htdig on a box and upon sending mails to the >mailing list I have encountered an error of > >fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied > >in my maillog. On my email client, I received a notification that >/usr/local/mailman/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail not being distributed

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ira Rosenblum wrote: >Messages that are being sent to my my group's mailing list (using >Mailman 2.1.6) are not being sent to the list members, but they are >showing up in the archive. They seem to be bouncing and causing >members' bounce scores to go up. I don't know what is preventing the

[Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailing list

2006-01-03 Thread dylan lim
Hi all, I have set up Postfix+Mailman+htdig on a box and upon sending mails to the mailing list I have encountered an error of fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied in my maillog. On my email client, I received a notification that /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I use my ISP's SMTP server?

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:04:20 -0500 To: mailman-users@python.org >Hello all, I've recently upgraded to mailman-2.1.6 from an older version. >I currently host lists via a dynamic IP address, and because of reverse >DNS lookup, many IPS's will not accept m

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:09 PM -0700 2006-01-03, Sean Roe wrote: > Is there anything else I need to do to make this work? I didn't see any > other reference to MM_LISTCHK This is really an Exim problem, and I suspect that you're more likely to get useful assistance by going to their documentation, readi

Re: [Mailman-Users] falling back to login screen (repeat)

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
M. Onur ERGiN wrote: >nah, nothing works. I've checked all off the binaries in bin's and sbin's. >Also tryed the cookie modules of the web server and verified that they work. > >From this point, would you have some recommendations? should I reinstall >mailman? or should I start with trying rein

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help sending to multiple lists

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Andy Bardwell wrote: >I am working with a community radio station which has multiple lists in >Mailman that are used to contact volunteers. A volunteer can be on >several of the lists. We frequently want to send to all volunteers. Is >there a way to send to all the lists, with out duplicates?

[Mailman-Users] Can I use my ISP's SMTP server?

2006-01-03 Thread Eric
Hello all, I've recently upgraded to mailman-2.1.6 from an older version. I currently host lists via a dynamic IP address, and because of reverse DNS lookup, many IPS's will not accept mail from my server because it is a dynamic IP. Is there any way to configure mailman to use my ISP's mail server

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie - Help

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >My inslation came preinstalled on a server from 1 and 1 using redhat and apache >but NOT python...they have it worked around they claimanyway... Perhaps they're shipping Mailman as a frozen binary, but what does that do for configuring via mm_cfg.py? >I can set u

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange problem...

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Robin Getz wrote: >I am running into a bit of a problem - mail seems to be coming into, and >being accepted by mailman, and it stacks up in ./qfiles/in/[key].pck files, >and nothing every seems to be sent out. > >Any ideas? > >Thanks >-Robin > >Running SuSe 9.3 if that makes a difference, all th

Re: [Mailman-Users] merge archives

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Manuel Kissoyan wrote: > >We saved one of the accounts archives and then deleted and re-created the >mailing list, were running for a week, now we need merge the saved archives >with the existing one after the list re-creation. If were another month is >easy but how you merge same month archives

[Mailman-Users] stat=Service unavailable

2006-01-03 Thread Munzir Taha
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi sirs, or shall I say hi Mark? ;) I have a miling list at lists.domain.ws and wanted to subscribe to it with an email of [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the confirmation message didn't reach me. I checked the log files and can see # grep [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list...

2006-01-03 Thread Bryan Carbonnell
On 3 Jan 2006 at 21:45, Glenn Sieb wrote: > Ok--then I guess on my 2.1.5 server, the moderators must have added > people, without thinking, using the web interface--I'll have to upgrade > to 2.1.7 as soon as I see the ht://dig patches come out! I applied the ht://dig patches to 2.1.7 on my test b

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Probe Problems

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
mailbag wrote: > >For some reason, users who have bounced mails back, end up getting the >probe email later - and it includes attachments with all the other >bounced probe emails, which includes other user's passwords to the list. > >I haven't been able to track down the cause, nor have I found ref

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list...

2006-01-03 Thread Glenn Sieb
Mark Sapiro said the following on 1/3/2006 9:39 PM: > Yes. > > Note also that the ban_list applies to more things as of 2.1.7. From > NEWS: > > - The list's ban_list now applies to address changes, admin mass > subscribes and invites, and to confirmations/approvals of address > chan

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list...

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Glenn Sieb wrote: >Let's say I want no users on a mailing list from sitename.com. So, I >have a ban_list address of: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Is this the correct form of RegExp? Yes. Note also that the ban_list applies to more things as of 2.1.7. From NEWS: - The list's ban_list now applies

[Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list...

2006-01-03 Thread Glenn Sieb
Let's say I want no users on a mailing list from sitename.com. So, I have a ban_list address of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this the correct form of RegExp? If not, could someone give me a pointer? Thanks in advance! Best, --Glenn -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little tempo

[Mailman-Users] mail not being distributed

2006-01-03 Thread Ira Rosenblum
Messages that are being sent to my my group's mailing list (using Mailman 2.1.6) are not being sent to the list members, but they are showing up in the archive. They seem to be bouncing and causing members' bounce scores to go up. I don't know what is preventing the messages from going out.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (usingVPN)

2006-01-03 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tristan Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (usingVPN) > Tristan Colson wrote: > >>When I try to invoke our Mailman ins

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (using VPN)

2006-01-03 Thread David Gibbs
Tristan Colson wrote: > Mailman works fine from directly within our network, it just doesn't > work when I am using the VPN. Any chance there's a web proxy being used that is intercepting web requests and doing some kind of filtering or translation? david --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (using VPN)

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Tristan Colson wrote: >When I try to invoke our Mailman installation in a browser (Firefox, >although it doesn't work in IE either), via our corporate VPN >(Netscreen-Remote on Windows XP), instead of displaying the page in the >browser, it attempts to download a file. > I see the message: >---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Turn off receipt of duplicate emails

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elvis Fernandes wrote: > >I have a mail list (a.list) that includes a couple of sub list's (b.list, >c.list). >Some users are members of both these sub lists. > >Currently, if I send out an email to a.list, then users who are common >members of b.list and c.list will receive the same email two time

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sean Roe wrote: >Unfortunately, I have to do it this way, with multiple instances, as one >group of lists are using the mysql adapter and one group isn't. If you use the extend.py mechanism to specify the MysqlMemberships.py MemberAdaptor rather than patching MailList.py, you can use MysqlMem

[Mailman-Users] Turn off receipt of duplicate emails

2006-01-03 Thread Elvis Fernandes
Hello, Does the mailman administrator have a command to turn off duplicate emails to a user? I have a mail list (a.list) that includes a couple of sub list's (b.list, c.list). Some users are members of both these sub lists. Currently, if I send out an email to a.list, then users who are common m

Re: [Mailman-Users] failure to exec script

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Neil Muller wrote: >We've just started having a problem with posts to our mailman lists. Posts >are being rejected with an error of "Command died with status 2: >"/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post list-name-here". Command output: >Failure >to exec script. WANTED gid 67, GOT gid 65533." >

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Sean Roe
Mark Sapiro wrote: > Sean Roe wrote: > > >> this is a virtual domain installation. /data/mailman/{domain} refers >> different mailman installations: >> >> /data/mailman/adoptionlists.com >> /data/mailman/adoptionweek.com >> ect. >> > > > Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were using Ma

[Mailman-Users] failure to exec script

2006-01-03 Thread Neil Muller
We've just started having a problem with posts to our mailman lists. Posts are being rejected with an error of "Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post list-name-here". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 67, GOT gid 65533." This started after a syste

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sean Roe wrote: >this is a virtual domain installation. /data/mailman/{domain} refers >different mailman installations: > >/data/mailman/adoptionlists.com >/data/mailman/adoptionweek.com >ect. Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were using Mailman virtual domains, not separate Mailman instan

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Sean Roe
Mark Sapiro wrote: > Sean Roe wrote: > >> 2006-01-03 09:42:52 1EtpFL-0003iz-RY == [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport defer (2): No such file or >> directory: failed to chdir to /data/mailman/:adoptionweek.com >> >> >> I believe the problem is the colon at the begining of

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sean Roe wrote: > >2006-01-03 09:42:52 1EtpFL-0003iz-RY == [EMAIL PROTECTED] >R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport defer (2): No such file or >directory: failed to chdir to /data/mailman/:adoptionweek.com > > >I believe the problem is the colon at the begining of sub directory >name. I cant see

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Sean Roe
Hi All, The changes I made were to exim's list_macrodefs: from: MM_LISTCHK=MM_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.pck to: MM_LISTCHK=MM_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.pck and mailman_router: from: require_files = MM_LISTCHK to: require_files = <; MM_LISTCHK I made the changes above, but no

[Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (using VPN)

2006-01-03 Thread Tristan Colson
When I try to invoke our Mailman installation in a browser (Firefox, although it doesn't work in IE either), via our corporate VPN (Netscreen-Remote on Windows XP), instead of displaying the page in the browser, it attempts to download a file. I see the message:

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread John W. Baxter
On 1/3/06 9:29 AM, "Sean Roe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The macro > MM_LISTCHK=MM_HOME/lists/${lc::$local_part}/config.pck is later used in a list context > require_files = MM_LISTCHK So I to would expect the : in $(lc:$local_part) to have to be doubled. But what seems to be happening is th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up your mailing list

2006-01-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Hujjah 313 wrote: > Is there a feature on mailman whereby we can backup our mailing list on hard > disk? Well, they're already on the server's hard disks. If you want to back up the lists, all you need to do is copy them, they're in the mailman/lists dir. Given

[Mailman-Users] Backing up your mailing list

2006-01-03 Thread Hujjah 313
Dear all, Is there a feature on mailman whereby we can backup our mailing list on hard disk? Its quite necessary to have a hard copy of your list when dealing with 10,000+ emails where people constantly want to subscribe and unsubscribe. Thank you for any replies.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Invalid : @hotmail.com

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Munzir Taha wrote: > >I will try to figure which name is the culprit but the mystry lies behind the >fact that since I compiled all these names from running list_members > >myfile.list how come that email (if defected) was there?! Pre 2.1.6 Mailman was not as fussy about 'funny' characters in emai

[Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

2006-01-03 Thread Sean Roe
Hi All, I am setting up a mailman server running Debian sarge, exim4, and mailman 2.1.6 that supports several domains, and have run into a bit of a problem. I have set up the virtual domains per the documentation but I am running into an issue when I test the installations. Here is the outpu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging Archive Creation in MM2.1.7

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bryan Carbonnell wrote: >On 03/01/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Please go to >> >> and download and try the HyperArch.patch id 161935. >> >> I think this patch should completely fix the

[Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command

2006-01-03 Thread mcnutt
My Mailman installation appears to be working okay, but I'm getting this message once per day. What's wrong? Bill McNutt IT Administrator, UT Center for Literacy Studies http://cls.coe.utk.edu -Original Message- From: Mailman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:0

Re: [Mailman-Users] It's not possible to add new members

2006-01-03 Thread Alexander Baldauf
Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:26 AM +0100 2006-01-03, Alexander Baldauf wrote: > >> Python information: >> >> Variable Value >> sys.version 2.3+ (#1, Feb 7 2005, 18:30:23) [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE >> Linux)] >> sys.executable /usr/bin/python >> sys.prefix /usr >> sys.exec_prefi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging Archive Creation in MM2.1.7

2006-01-03 Thread Bryan Carbonnell
On 03/01/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > >I intend to develop a proper fix within a day or two. As soon as I can > >get a grasp on what 2.1.7 change is causing this changed behavior. > > Please go to >

Re: [Mailman-Users] It's not possible to add new members

2006-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:26 AM +0100 2006-01-03, Alexander Baldauf wrote: > Python information: > > Variable Value > sys.version 2.3+ (#1, Feb 7 2005, 18:30:23) [GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] > sys.executable /usr/bin/python > sys.prefix /usr > sys.exec_prefix /usr > sys.path /usr > s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Archives, please help

2006-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:05 PM -0800 2006-01-02, Hugh Esco wrote: > But now when there should be four or six messages available > in the archive, I'm seeing only a browser message reading: > The requested URL /pipermail// was not found > on this server. This sounds like you may not have done t

[Mailman-Users] It's not possible to add new members

2006-01-03 Thread Alexander Baldauf
Hi last weekend, we updated mailman to version 2.1.5, but after the update, it's not possible to add new members to any list. There ist just a error message like this: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please