[Mailman-Users] maximum size

2006-06-22 Thread Eduardo Núñez
Hello, Can I fix messages's size for all lists? I want that administrators can't modify this. Thanks in advance. -- Eduardo Núñez Martínez --- SICT - Serveis Informàtics Campus Terrassa Àrea de Serveis Bàsics Telf. 93.739.86.17 - UPC -

[Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding: gb2312

2006-06-22 Thread Reinhard Proessler
Hello Some users reports that emails from a Chinese customer do not reach the recipients from a list. The mails reach our system, where stored in the archive folder, but not forwarded to the list member. I took a look to the mailman error log and found (only) this entry: Jun 21

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question regarding Mailman

2006-06-22 Thread Ryan Steele
Hai-Seong, Try this: for each list you have, execute the following command: bin/withlist -l -r fix_url /listname/. Then, when that's all said and done, just for good measure, execute bin/check_perms. See if that fixes things. I had a similar problem recently and that fixed things for me.

[Mailman-Users] UnpicklingError: pickle data was truncated

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Kennedy
After a server crash Mailman no longer starts up correctly on boot (which I can live with for now) and I get the following error on some messages. The message stay in the data directory but don't show up in the pending request GUI. Some messages work, others don't. Can someone tell me what this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding: gb2312

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Reinhard Proessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched in the Internet and mailing-lists and found only a hint to install Chinesecodecs. But after applying these ChineseCodecs-1.1.0p to python site-packages with python installer the problem still exists. Did you restart mailman's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question regarding Mailman

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Ryan Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: for each list you have, execute the following command: bin/withlist -l -r fix_url /listname/. Then, when that's all said and done, just for good measure, execute bin/check_perms. See if that fixes things. I had a similar problem

[Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread mardin
Hi, We have a Mailman 2.1.5 server running on the Linux system. It is working well. Now we want to change the host IP address to another subnet address, but the hostname will not be changed. My question is: Should we do somthing on Mailman 2.1.5 related to the changing of host IP address?

Re: [Mailman-Users] UnpicklingError: pickle data was truncated

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Patrick Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the pending request GUI. Some messages work, others don't. Can someone tell me what this means? Jun 22 09:53:02 2006 (1915) SHUNTING: 1150895602.261858+74296d31f3e250906fd5b2fb837e2555b866798e Jun 22 09:53:02 2006 (1915) Uncaught runner

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a Mailman 2.1.5 server running on the Linux system. It is working well. Now we want to change the host IP address to another subnet address, but the hostname will not be changed. My question is: Should we do somthing on Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] UnpicklingError: pickle data was truncated

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Patrick Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removed all of them and just sent some test messages and am getting the same thing. How does one unpickle? I did unshunt. Unshunt doesn't remove them, it reinjects them into the queue. Was this what you did? You want to actually 'rm' the

Re: [Mailman-Users] UnpicklingError: pickle data was truncated

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Kennedy
New messages do it as well. I think. The data directory is empty. Where else could it be borked. Should qfiles/shunt be emptied out? -Original Message- From: Patrick Bogen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:33 AM To: Patrick Kennedy Cc:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread mardin
(Of course, there might be some problems if DNS isn't switched over immediately.) Yes. We will switch DNS for this host right before changing IP address locally. As long as everything in Mailman was configured on the hostname level, you should be fine. How to check everything in Mailman was

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archives

2006-06-22 Thread Uthra Rao
I found out the path to my mailing list archives. I first checked the link on the admin page -go to list archives - 2006-June.txt.gz File name. I then did a find on this file on our server. I found out that my archives were in /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/newlist directory. I think by

Re: [Mailman-Users] UnpicklingError: pickle data was truncated

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Kennedy
Problem solved. Emptying out the shunt directory was all that I needed. Thank you for your help, I just inherited this box a week ago and haven't had time to look at the documentation much. -Original Message- From: Patrick Bogen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Northwood
Hi, I'm currently having a problem with Mailman 2.1.8 and Exim 4.62 on the 64-bit version of Fedora Core 5. Exim is set up as per the Exim+Mailman FAQ on www.exim.org, and everything appears to be working fine from Exim's point of view: Jun 22 14:59:37 shinobu exim[15144]: 2006-06-22 14:59:37

[Mailman-Users] Adding standard notes to all postings

2006-06-22 Thread Uthra Rao
In mailman mailing list is there a way to have standard note to appear in all the postings of a mailing list? I was not sure if in the admin page - digest option - footer added to every digest is the box where I need to enter my notes if I want it to show up in every postings of that mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about the configure script.

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ryan Steele wrote: All I did was follow the instructions in UPGRADE included with 2.1.8. There is a Defaults.py at /path/to/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py with the line OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING = Yes in it. So, unless the instructions in UPGRADE (basically, to run ./configure with the same options

[Mailman-Users] Confirm messages not getting to any COMCAST.NET email addresses

2006-06-22 Thread Rob Stewart
The Mailman Confirm message, either created due to an Admin Invite, or via a user join request are not getting thru to any Comcast.net email addresses. Messages sent to Comcast.net email also fail, so I guess it is all messages. Anyone have any ideas? Rob Stewart No virus found in this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as everything in Mailman was configured on the hostname level, you should be fine. How to check everything in Mailman was configured on the hostname level since some Mailman files are binary files? You should only need to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirm messages not getting to any COMCAST.NET email addresses

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Rob Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Mailman Confirm message, either created due to an Admin Invite, or via a user join request are not getting thru to any Comcast.net email addresses. Messages sent to Comcast.net email also fail, so I guess it is all messages. Sounds like

Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Eduardo Núñez wrote: Can I fix messages's size for all lists? I want that administrators can't modify this. There are a couple of ways to accomplish this, but they involve patching Mailman code. Without modifying code, there is no way to prevent list admins from changing the limit. You can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Chris Northwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious here. I can't see anything in the list archives or in the documentation/FAQs that describes this situation. Any advice would be fantastic! :) The FAQ in question is pretty simplistic. In

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Mailman User options page]

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/16/06, Martin Dennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way I can amend the HTML behind the page to force a field to be made mandatory? I'm thinking of the name field - once a user enters their options page, I would like them not to be able to leave it until they have filled their

Re: [Mailman-Users] SOLVED: Re: Mailman and Qmail - Cannot connect via SMTP

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/16/06, Douglas G. Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply Mark. The problem was that the /etc/hosts file was set to 600 for the permissions. Resetting to 755 worked great. Now I've run into another problem, but I've found plenty of info on that. I guess this is a bit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archives

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Uthra Rao wrote: I found out the path to my mailing list archives. I first checked the link on the admin page -go to list archives - 2006-June.txt.gz File name. I then did a find on this file on our server. I found out that my archives were in /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/newlist

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Northwood
-Original Message- From: Patrick Bogen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2006 17:23 To: Chris Northwood Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails? On 6/22/06, Chris Northwood [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding: gb2312

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Reinhard Proessler wrote: Some users reports that emails from a Chinese customer do not reach the recipients from a list. The mails reach our system, where stored in the archive folder, but not forwarded to the list member. I took a look to the mailman error log and found (only) this entry:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about the configure script.

2006-06-22 Thread Ryan Steele
Yes, it contains the from Defaults import * line. Yes, there is a paths.py with the correct prefix. There are two Default.py'sone in an abandoned installation of another version. I inherited this box not long ago, but I've checked to make sure the init.d script looks for it in the proper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn'tappear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Chris Northwood wrote: These settings weren't set in mm_cfg.py, but in Defaults.py. I've put them in mm_cfg.py too, but no luck. If you put the same setting from Defaults.py into mm_cfg.py, it doesn't make any difference as you are just redefing something with the same value it already had.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about the configure script.

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ryan Steele wrote: There are two Default.py'sone in an abandoned installation of another version. I inherited this box not long ago, but I've checked to make sure the init.d script looks for it in the proper prefix...I can't imagine why it would try to find the other. Check the crontab

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding standard notes to all postings

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Uthra Rao wrote: In mailman mailing list is there a way to have standard note to appear in all the postings of a mailing list? I was not sure if in the admin page - digest option - footer added to every digest is the box where I need to enter my notes if I want it to show up in every postings

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn'tappear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Chris Northwood I've looked in these files, but they're not giving me any information whatsoever, just errors occuring at totally different times and unrelated to the mail message. Most of the errors are due to a misconfiguration when setting up my initial mail list. And just so you don't think

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirm messages not getting to any COMCAST.NETemail addresses

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Rob Stewart wrote: The Mailman Confirm message, either created due to an Admin Invite, or via a user join request are not getting thru to any Comcast.net email addresses. Messages sent to Comcast.net email also fail, so I guess it is all messages. Comcast is blocking all mail from your IP.

[Mailman-Users] Information about Mailman v2.1.7.cp2

2006-06-22 Thread Ricardo Scachetti Pereira
Hi all, I'm about to migrate a number of lists from one server (a thirdy party hosting service) to another (my own server) sometime soon. The hosting server runs Mailman 2.1.7.cp2. I plan on installing Mailman 2.1.8 and then migrating the lists to my server. I searched the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Chris Northwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in the If you get no posts but you do get some notifications camp, so Mailman must be communicating with Exim somehow. I'm at a total loss as to what's going wrong, especially as the logs are showing nothing, but Exim is saying

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Mailman User options page]

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Martin Dennett (Gmail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Patrick - looks like it's a no-go then :-( Martin Well, you can theoretically require them to give all the pertinent info (Name, email, etc.) in one fell swoop (and you can then do verification on the name before doing anything

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information about Mailman v2.1.7.cp2

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Ricardo Scachetti Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the announcements lists, Mailman site and Google but I couldn't find information about the 2.1.7.cp2 release. Where can I find notes about that release? And what does cp2 stand for? .cp2 probably means it's a cPanel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: At 9:25 PM -0500 6/21/06, Antonio Dragone wrote: Has mailman some kind of fault tolerance to resume an incomplete job? Sure. Mailman puts all outgoing messages into it's own outgoing queue, before it delivers those messages to the MTA. So, anything that has not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information about Mailman v2.1.7.cp2

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogen wrote: On 6/22/06, Ricardo Scachetti Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the announcements lists, Mailman site and Google but I couldn't find information about the 2.1.7.cp2 release. Where can I find notes about that release? And what does cp2 stand for? .cp2

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Mailman User options page]

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Martin Dennett (Gmail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem we had is that we moved server (and host) and had to fight to get the mailing lists from our previous host. All we were given were the email addresses which we uploaded en-bloc but the names weren't provided. With over

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread mardin
Patrick, You should only need to check the Defaults.py and mm_cfg.py to make sure you're using hostnames and not IP addresses. I found our hostnames in Defaults.py: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'our_hostname' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'our_hostname' I didn't find any hostnames in mm_cfg.py file. I also

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archives

2006-06-22 Thread Uthra Rao
I added the correct path to the pipermail alias in the httpd.conf file and restarted apache. I can now access the archive by typing http://hostname/pipermail/newlist. Thank you very much for your help. UR. At 12:35 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote: Uthra Rao wrote: I found out the path to my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, is it normal not find any hostnames in the mm_cfg.py file? Yes, if Mailman was configured with the correct names so that the assignments in Defaults.py are correct. In this case, they would only be needed in add_virtualhost() lines in mm_cfg.py to add

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding standard notes to all postings

2006-06-22 Thread Uthra Rao
I tested both Header added to mail sent to regular list members and footer added to mail sent to regular list members. It works great! Thank You. At 01:42 PM 6/22/2006, you wrote: Uthra Rao wrote: In mailman mailing list is there a way to have standard note to appear in all the postings

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn'tappear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Northwood
-Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2006 18:47 To: Chris Northwood; 'Mark Sapiro' Cc: Mailman Users Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn'tappear to deliver mails? Chris Northwood I've looked in these

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change host IP address

2006-06-22 Thread mardin
Thanks for your help! -- Original message -- From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, is it normal not find any hostnames in the mm_cfg.py file? Yes, if Mailman was configured with the correct names so that the assignments

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Mailman User options page]

2006-06-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 6/22/06, Martin Dennett (Gmail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I can't get to that part of the interface. I don't have direct server access :-( You could make your own page anyway, and hope that your users aren't smart enough to figure it out. Assumably, they're not maliciously

Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size

2006-06-22 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:12:56AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Eduardo Núñez wrote: Can I fix messages's size for all lists? I want that administrators can't modify this. There are a couple of ways to accomplish this, but they involve patching Mailman code. Without modifying code, there is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Northwood
-Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2006 21:40 To: Chris Northwood Cc: 'Mailman Users' Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails? *snip* Yes, that's all the runners. So let me

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim on Fedora Core 5 doesn't appear to deliver mails?

2006-06-22 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/22/06 9:51 AM, Chris Northwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm at a total loss as to what's going wrong, especially as the logs are showing nothing, but Exim is saying completed. You've solved the problem, and the completed wasn't related to the problem, so this is just a note. Exim's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and fault tolerance

2006-06-22 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/22/06 11:11 AM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on how the server died and whether Mailman (specifically OutgoingRunner) was sent a SIGTERM and given a chance to wrapup. The outgoing message (containing a recipient list in its metadata) is placed in Mailman's 'out'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirm messages not getting to any COMCAST.NET email addresses

2006-06-22 Thread Rob Stewart
Well, It turns out the my address was blacklisted at Comcast. Got it un-blacklisted and now I get messages. Seems to be working now. Thanks. Rob Stewart No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.2/373 - Release Date: