[Mailman-Users] Re: searchable private mailing lists in Mailman 2.1.20

2020-06-18 Thread Mark J Bradakis
On 6/18/20 10:42 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote:  I do see that Mnogosearch hasn't been updates since 2015, is that the best choice of tool? Gosh!  For autox.team.net/archive I'm using MHonArc and Namazu. Compared to these, Mnogosearch seems cutting edge! And yes, I am considering newer, better

Re: [Mailman-Users] help

2019-08-09 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-28 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
On 4/27/19 10:56 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 4/27/19 5:25 PM, Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users wrote: And if you post one of those tracebacks here, we'd be happy to help No need to, the fix was easy.  I had changed some permissions and ownership of the mailman cgi files while trying to figure

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-27 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
Progress!  Well, I guess, at least a differnet error.  Changed some Apache configs regarding cgi and now when I go to http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo I get Bug in Mailman version 2.1.29 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-24 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
On 4/24/19 4:27 PM, Robert Heller wrote: Yes, selinux. [root@autox teamnet]# getenforce Disabled Selinux should not be a factor here. mjb. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-24 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
On 4/24/19 3:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'm still interested in 'ls -l' [root@autox cgi-bin]# ls -l total 352 -rwxr-sr-x. 1 mailman mailman 31496 Apr 20 09:36 admin -rwxr-sr-x. 1 mailman mailman 31496 Apr 20 09:36 admindb -rwxr-sr-x. 1 mailman mailman 31496 Apr 20 09:36 confirm -rwxr-sr-x. 1

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-24 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
[root@autox cgi-bin]# ls -Z . system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 admin system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 options system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 admindb system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 private system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 confirm system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 rmlist system_u:object_r:default_t:s0

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-24 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
So digging through the logs I found this: [authz_core:error] [pid 31549:tid 139863772874496] [client 50.198.190.18:46884] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: So I added an AuthType None to the httpd.conf file.  Now I still get the Server unavailable page, but a different err:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-24 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
On 4/23/19 1:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: The above URL returns: Service Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Have you run Mailman's bin/check_perms? I suspect some kind of permissions

[Mailman-Users] Frustrating web page issues

2019-04-23 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
So a couple of days ago I had a server just up and die.  It was put in place about 12 years ago, if not more.  Luckily I was working on replacing it, so I had  a new box under construction almost ready to take its place.  But the old server dies before I could make a smooth transition and get

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sorting pending requests?

2018-08-29 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
Thanks for the responses, I have it doing what I want it to do now. mjb. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy:

[Mailman-Users] Sorting pending requests?

2018-08-27 Thread Mark J Bradakis via Mailman-Users
I have a feeling I may have asked this question a few years ago. Maybe not. When you go to the admin web page of pending moderator requests, the messages are presented in a list using alphabetical order of the sender.  Is there a way to easily change this so they are presented by date, oldest

[Mailman-Users] Logging sequence?

2016-04-24 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mailman is not working. Messages come in, nothing goes out. Logs are useless, providing no clue as to what is happening. In a working mailman system. what is the sequence of logging that a message would go through? mjb. -- Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-17 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mark Sapiro wrote: On 08/16/2014 08:34 PM, Mark J Bradakis wrote: Indeed. I can go to the listinfo page, click on the archives for the bad lists, browse the archives, no problem. And after doing this is the list's data_version still 98? If so, I suspect some permissions issue or something

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-17 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mark Sapiro wrote: Can you go to the admin page for the list? If so, does the from_is_list setting appear there? Sort of. I get the login page for the list just fine, type in the password then get the 'hit a bug' page. Error log shows: admin(2802): File

[Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-16 Thread Mark J Bradakis
S I finally decide to sit down and try to figure out why http://www.team.net/mailman/admin and http://autox.team.net/mailman/admin return different results, even though it is the same machine. Checking on some list configs, I do bin/config_list -o - listname and get this from one list, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-16 Thread Mark J Bradakis
As an added bit of info, the first 7 of 67 lists, in alphabetical order all have this problem. Maybe I just need to reinstall 2.1.18-1 mjb. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-16 Thread Mark J Bradakis
There is an issue with the list's data_version attribute vs. Mailman.Version.DATA_FILE_VERSION. When the from_is_list and other new attributes were added, Mailman.Version.DATA_FILE_VERSION was incremented to make it greater than the list's data_version attribute which in turn will cause

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-16 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mark Sapiro wrote: I understood that config_list wouldn't work. That's why I suggested that you need first to fix the lists by changing DATA_FILE_VERSION in Mailman/Version.py and then instantiating the lists to fix them. I guess I am not understanding what you mean by instantiating

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is new

2014-08-16 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mark Sapiro wrote: Anything you do which accesses a list's config.pck via Mailman/MailList.py (which is pretty much any Mailman process other than bin/dumpdb) will test if Mailman.Version.DATA_FILE_VERSION is greater than the list's data_version and if so, will run

[Mailman-Users] Sigh

2014-05-28 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Currently just over 8,000 queued messages awaiting delivery. But I don't think it is a mailman issue: root@autox:~# ping -c 3 gmail.com PING gmail.com (74.125.225.182) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=20.2 ms 64 bytes from

[Mailman-Users] 2.1.18-1 - this is new

2014-05-13 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Just installed a fresh copy of 2.1.18-1. Sent a test message to a list where dmarc_moderation_action is set to 'munge from'. The message resulted in this error log entry: May 13 23:16:25 2014 (26946) Uncaught runner exception: unsupported operand type(s) for ^=: 'int' and 'str' May 13

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging fail?

2014-05-12 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mark Sapiro wrote: What's in Mailman's qrunner log? Nothing. There can't be Nothing in the qrunner log unless you never started mailmnanctl or you're looking at the wrong log? My turn to apologize, I should have specified that the logs contained nothing related to that specific

[Mailman-Users] Well isn't that nice

2014-01-20 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Moving Mailman from an old Fedora system to a new Ubuntu ( 13.10 ) server. going to the mailman/listinfo or admin links results in the web pages asking if I want to download the binary file. Actually I want the file to be executed on the server, and give me the expected pages. Time for a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Well isn't that nice

2014-01-20 Thread Mark J Bradakis
You'd think that these lines in the config file would work like they used to, but apparently not: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /local/mailman/teamnet/cgi-bin/ Directory /local/mailman/teamnet/cgi-bin Options +ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script Require all granted

Re: [Mailman-Users] Well isn't that nice

2014-01-20 Thread Mark J Bradakis
And it gets stranger: www.team.net:80 50.198.190.18 - - [20/Jan/2014:18:50:15 -0700] GET /mailman/admin HTTP/1.1 200 27444 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 SeaMonkey/2.23 www.team.net:80 50.198.190.18 - - [20/Jan/2014:18:59:38 -0700] GET

Re: [Mailman-Users] Well isn't that nice

2014-01-20 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Mark Sapiro wrote: is not effective for these URLs. Why is an Apache question, not a Mailman question, Yes, it is an apache issue. And boy, do I feel silly. I like to cook. I don't think I ever stood there waiting for a pot of water to boil without putting water in the pot first. mjb.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing monthly membership reminder

2013-12-03 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Javad Hoseini-Nopendar wrote: Hello I have a mailing list. In the settings of the mailing list, I selected No for Sending monthly password reminder, but the mailing list still sends membership reminders to the members in the beginning of each month. What should I do to deactivate sending that

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-15 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Is there any method to identify the user from the AOL feedback loop? If not, how does AOL expect us to unsubscribe the user who complained? I set personalization to yes and have something like the following in the non-digest footers: Unsubscribe:

[Mailman-Users] Spam filters

2012-05-14 Thread Mark J Bradakis
So my mailing lists are getting hit by spam that goes to the lists since it claims to be from some poor subscriber whose email got hijacked. But to be more general, what are some of the current best practices to filter out spam in a postfix mailman environment on Linux? mjb.

[Mailman-Users] Data version error?

2011-12-10 Thread Mark J Bradakis
So I go to the mailman/admin webpage, and get a the 'we hit a bug' page. The error log shows: admin(3764): [- Mailman Version: 2.1.14 -] admin(3764): [- Traceback --] admin(3764): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(3764): File /local/mailman/teamnet/scripts/driver, line

[Mailman-Users] A rare moment

2010-10-10 Thread Mark J Bradakis
I've been running various automotive related mailing lists, web pages, FTP sites and such for over twenty years. It is a labor of love, not a means of making money, so tending to outstanding requests is not top priority. But I've had a nasty cold the last few days, and have spent some time

[Mailman-Users] Slow mail problem fixed

2010-02-17 Thread Mark J Bradakis
A current thread reminded me of the trouble I was having with Mailman taking 2 - 3 hours to process messages and send them out. I requested the list's help in tracking down the problem. Turned out to be a hardware issue. Some bad disk blocks showed up in the qfiles tree so some qrunner

[Mailman-Users] post and smtp logs?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Can anyone tell me at what point in the process of delivering list messages does information get written to logs/post and logs/smtp ? Currently a message comes in, postfix hands it off to mailman and the message is written to the qfiles/out directory within a second or so. But it isn't until

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-21 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Precisely what does a web forum do? Would Trac or Roundup serve? Are you seriously asking about what are web forums? There's about 38.63 gazillion of them on the net. A couple I'm working on are at http://www.team.net/forums and http://wasatchfoodies.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalized Digests

2009-11-11 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Have you tried VERP? I'd rather not turn on VERP for all 60+ lists I'm running. As I recall it is a domain wide setting, not a per list setting. I was hoping there might be a way to use something like $(user_address) in non-digest mode on digest mailings for just the one list with the

[Mailman-Users] Personalized Digests

2009-11-10 Thread Mark J Bradakis
Speaking of brain dead AOL cretins, is there any way to get some sort of personalization in digests that are sent out? I've got a few lists where some clueless AOL dimwit getting digests is marking the mail as abuse. I would love to simply remove them from the list, but thanks to the policies

[Mailman-Users] Odd error - no space left on device

2008-01-31 Thread Mark J Bradakis
So all of a sudden my mailman ( version 2.1.9 ) quit working, returning mail posted to lists with the error |/local/mailman/teamnet/mail/mailman post fot. Command output: Name main::debugfile used only once: possible typo at /local/majordomo/demime line 280. -p on unopened filehandle

Re: [Mailman-Users] searchable archive interface desired

2007-07-18 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
What I've done is set up Mharc as a searchable archiver, and have list messages get sent to an address that adds them into the archive. RealSoonNow I'll muck with mailman to get the archive link from the Mailman pages to point to the right place. Check http://www.team.net/archive to see what

[Mailman-Users] Taboo body?

2007-06-27 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
I've poked around a bit in various list related archives, but haven't found a definitive answer. Has anyone implemented some sort of add-on, filter or whatever to give mailman something like the majordomo 'global taboo body' rejection capability? All the predefined content filters seem to just

Re: [Mailman-Users] Extract list of lists with population?

2004-07-01 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
Depending on your shell, something like foreach l ( `/your/path/to/mailman/bin/list_lists -b `) echo -n $l /your/path/to/mailman/bin/list_members | wc -l end might do the trick. mjb. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. -Albert Einstein.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Send to list error

2004-05-13 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '10.20.1.163' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '10.20.1.163' 10.* is an unrouted network. Any properly configured MTA will ignore anything coming from an external host claiming to be 10.whatever. mjb. -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating a list of approved senders

2004-04-27 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
There was a patch sent to the list about a year ago that allowed one to use addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] as automatically approved addresses. We applied it to our Mailman 2.1.1 here at the U of Utah School of Computing. It is real handy for professors to add the teaching assistant

Re: [Mailman-Users] From field displayed by MS Outlook

2004-01-21 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
I could find nothing in the archive about open bug reports on outlook and displaying addresses... Why would stupid behavior in Outlook be considered a mailman bug? If people want to use Microsoft's Virus Propagation Wizard to mangle their mail, that should be their problem. mjb. Today's

[Mailman-Users] Approved posters, accept_these_nonmembers

2003-03-24 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
While digging around in the FAQ and the archive, it seems there are many references to setting 'accept_these_nonmembers' to a regular expression. Does this actually work, and if so, can anyone provide a working example for Mailman 2.1.1 we are running? I'm assuming that one feature of majordomo,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run configure file!

2002-05-09 Thread Mark J. Bradakis
The first line of configure should be something like #! program_path Does the program named in your configure file exist, and have the proper permissions? mjb. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]