Re: [Mailman-Users] adding new members with their fullnames via commandline

2005-09-22 Thread lkolchin
Hello Again,

Is it true that there is no way to add member to the list with his full name 
from the command line?

I know that the below syntax won't work:
./add_members -r - firstname1 lastname1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] somelistname

But maybe some of you have solved it with some script or workaround?

Best Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 12:23 PM
To: Mailman-Users@python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] adding new members with their fullnames via commandline

Hello All,
 
I'd like to move lists from an old machine (Solaris 8) to new one (SLES 9) with 
all their corresponding members.
 
I'm creating new list (on my new server) with newlist command.
 
To see the members of the list with their full names I run (on the old machine):
# ./list_members -f listname
 
I got this kind of members list:
firstname1 lastname1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firstname2 lastname2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
..
 
Is there syntax to add members with add_members or another command, so I 
could directly add them to new list with their full names?
 
Leon Kolchinsky
 
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual host document root for mailman/listinfo

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Anton
Tom Combs wrote:

Hello,

 I'm running mailman-2.1.6rc4 and apache-2.0.54. I have a virtual host 
set up
 for my mailman web interface. I would like the listinfo page to be the 
default
 page for my mailman web address so one can enter http://mylists.com instead
 of http://mylists.com/mailman/listinfo.  I haven't been able to figure 
out what
 the document root setting for the mylists virtual host setting should 
be in the
 apache http.conf file. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

  Thanks,  Tom Combs

  


sorry Tom, first mail was replied falsely, wanted to send it to the 
list, not to you

I made it simple,
i have put a directory htdocs in /home/mailman, where my mailman is 
installed (because of settings in suExec that does not allow to execute 
cgi's that are not in wwwroot), in the lists.mydomain.tld vhost i 
have DocumentRoot in /home/www/htdocs, in there is one html-File with 
this content:

html
head
titleRedirection/title
meta http-equiv=refresh content=0; URL=mailman/listinfo
/head
body
If the redirection does not work, click a 
href=mailman/listinfohere/a!
/body
/html

This is of course not a very fine solution but it works, and it works 
with virtual hosts too, just give every apache vhost for which you have 
mailinglists the DocumentRoot /home/mailman/htdocs.


Greets

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Re: [Mailman-Users] adding new members with their fullnames via commandline

2005-09-22 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello!

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:00:58PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Again,

Is it true that there is no way to add member to the list with his full name 
from the command line?

I know that the below syntax won't work:
./add_members -r - firstname1 lastname1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] somelistname

There're a few things wrong with that command line.

First, you'd probably have to quote the special characters, , , and .

Second, with -r - you specify that add_members will read the addresses
of the members to add from standard input.

I.e. you could try something like
  echo 'firstname lastname [EMAIL PROTECTED]' |
add_members -r - listname

[...]

Kind regards,

Hannah.
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual host document root for mailman/listinfo

2005-09-22 Thread lkolchin
Hi,
You should make something like this in your apache.conf (or whatever you call 
it apache conf. file)
For SuSE for example do something like:

In /etc/apache2/default-server.conf (add these lines):
##
##
## mailman
##

# Redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended)
RedirectMatch /[/]*$ http://mylists.com/mailman/listinfo

##
## end mailman
##
## 

Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Anton
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:48 PM
Cc: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual host document root for mailman/listinfo

Tom Combs wrote:

Hello,

 I'm running mailman-2.1.6rc4 and apache-2.0.54. I have a virtual host 
set up  for my mailman web interface. I would like the listinfo page to 
be the default  page for my mailman web address so one can enter 
http://mylists.com instead  of http://mylists.com/mailman/listinfo.  I 
haven't been able to figure out what  the document root setting for the 
mylists virtual host setting should be in the  apache http.conf file. 
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

  Thanks,  Tom Combs

  


sorry Tom, first mail was replied falsely, wanted to send it to the list, not 
to you

I made it simple,
i have put a directory htdocs in /home/mailman, where my mailman is installed 
(because of settings in suExec that does not allow to execute cgi's that are 
not in wwwroot), in the lists.mydomain.tld vhost i have DocumentRoot in 
/home/www/htdocs, in there is one html-File with this content:

html
head
titleRedirection/title
meta http-equiv=refresh content=0; URL=mailman/listinfo /head body If 
the redirection does not work, click a href=mailman/listinfohere/a!
/body
/html

This is of course not a very fine solution but it works, and it works with 
virtual hosts too, just give every apache vhost for which you have mailinglists 
the DocumentRoot /home/mailman/htdocs.


Greets

Christian
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Re: [Mailman-Users] adding new members with their fullnames viacommandline

2005-09-22 Thread lkolchin
Hello Hannah,

Thanks for your reply.

Terrific, there is no syntax for such thing in ./add_members --help!!!

This syntax is working:
echo 'firstname lastname [EMAIL PROTECTED]' | ./add_members -r - testlist2

Could you please tell what syntax should I use if I have file with the list of 
users, like following:
firstname1 lastname1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firstname2 lastname2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
..

Best Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky





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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hannah Schroeter
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 1:08 PM
To: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] adding new members with their fullnames 
viacommandline

Hello!

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:00:58PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Again,

Is it true that there is no way to add member to the list with his full name 
from the command line?

I know that the below syntax won't work:
./add_members -r - firstname1 lastname1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
somelistname

There're a few things wrong with that command line.

First, you'd probably have to quote the special characters, , , and .

Second, with -r - you specify that add_members will read the addresses of the 
members to add from standard input.

I.e. you could try something like
  echo 'firstname lastname [EMAIL PROTECTED]' |
add_members -r - listname

[...]

Kind regards,

Hannah.
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[Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

2005-09-22 Thread Jon Harris
Hi List

After about a year of trying, I think I have finally got AOL to
whitelist my (subscription only!) mailing list :-(

http://postmaster.aol.com/cgi-bin/whitelist.pl (if anyone is interested)

In the mailing list I have around 1500 members with aol addresses with
their 'nosend' ticked. Obviously, after repeated bounces mailman has
given up trying to send it to them.

I could, through the web interface, untick the 'nosend' flag, to switch
them all back on again which would take ages.

Is their a way of clearing the nosend flag from the command line for all
@aol.com addresses?

TIA

Jon Harris


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[Mailman-Users] unsuccessful subscribe/unsubscribe notifications?

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Singerman
Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way for Mailman to send the
administrator a notification email whenever there is an unsuccessful
subscribe or unsubscribe attempt.  I know it is possible whenever the
subscribe/unsubscribe goes through, but I cannot find an option for
the former, and it would be extremely helpful.

Thanks,

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Synchronizing Mailman between two servers.

2005-09-22 Thread Brian Elliott Finley
Aaron,

I'm very interested in the solution you chose, and in how well it works
for you.

I'm in the process of designing a fault-tolerant mailman installation,
and any wisdom from experience would be very useful.

Thanks!

-Brian


IT Purchases wrote:


 Hello,

 Any thoughts on what is the best way to synchronize mailman databases
 between to linux boxes?

 If my alias_maps are defined the same in /etc/postfix/main.cf are the
 same on both hosts can I just duplicate my /usr/lib/mailman and
 /var/lib/mailman directories?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not working

2005-09-22 Thread Darren G Pifer
Hello,

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:01, John Dennis wrote:
 On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:44 -0400, Darren G Pifer wrote:
  
  Anything else?
 
 Well, if it were me I'd edit the script and throw in a few print
 statements in a few judicious places to track what it was or wasn't
 doing since you're not getting any info in the logs.
 
 Python print statements are pretty easy, in its simplest form:
 
 print value1=%s value2=%s % (value1, value2)
 
 each %s is replaced by the matching value inside the parens, just make
 sure the indentation of the print statement lines up.

Thanks for the 'print' statement because I do not know python, but
it will be on my list to learn it.

I added this to my version of mailpasswds at line 237:

print msg=%s % (msg)
msg.send(sitelist, **{'errorsto': sitebounce,
  '_nolist' : 1,
  'verp': mm_cfg.VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS,
 })

The output from the print statement shows that everything is in the
message but once it hands off to msg.send for the delivery that is
it. Where is msg.send located? Also, has anyone played with the
test_message.py script in the mailman/tests directory? I haven't seen
any documentation on the test code, a Google search offers no help and
the Mailman FAQ wizard comes up with zero hits.

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[Mailman-Users] Mailman daemon broken.

2005-09-22 Thread Arnaud de Prelle
Hi,

I had two mailing list perfectly running on a FBSD 5.4 server.
Since last reboot the daemon of the mail manager seems broken:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]|120#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 547, in ?
main()
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 389, in main
lock = acquire_lock(force)
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 213, in acquire_lock
lock = acquire_lock_1(force)
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 205, in acquire_lock_1
hostname, pid, tempfile = get_lock_data()
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 173, in get_lock_data
pid = int(parts[-1])
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): be smtp to polytech2010 for 1 rec

Could anyone help me resolving this problem ?

Thank you in advance.

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[Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman

2005-09-22 Thread julien grosjean
Hi everybody,

First, sorry for my poor english...

I install mailman 2.1.5 on my CentOS distro.

I can create list via web interface.
I setup mm_cfg conf file.

By example, i create a list nammed test
We can suscribe to the list, but the problem is than when we sent an
email to the list email, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED],
just this email receive the mail...
Only [EMAIL PROTECTED] receive the mail from the sender...
Is there a configuration to make ?

Our email server is not on the same server...

Perhaps there is an aliases problem ?

here is my /etc/aliases file :

mailman:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman
mailman-admin:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman
mailman-bounces:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman
mailman-confirm:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman
mailman-join: |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman
mailman-leave:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman
mailman-owner:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman
mailman-request:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman
mailman-subscribe:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman
mailman-unsubscribe:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman


test:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test post test
test-admin:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test admin test
test-bounces:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test bounces test
test-confirm:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test confirm test
test-join: |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test join test
test-leave:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test leave test
test-owner:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test owner test
test-request:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test request test
test-subscribe:|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test subscribe test
test-unsubscribe:  |/usr/lib/mailman/mail/test unsubscribe test



i found nothing in logs...

all emails are create...

All advices are welcome... :)

Many thanks...


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman

2005-09-22 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 18:39 +0200, julien grosjean wrote:
 By example, i create a list nammed test
 We can suscribe to the list, but the problem is than when we sent an
 email to the list email, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 just this email receive the mail...
 Only [EMAIL PROTECTED] receive the mail from the sender...
 Is there a configuration to make ?
 
 Our email server is not on the same server...

If your mailserver is not local have you configured your SMTPHOST in
mm_cfg?


 i found nothing in logs...

Which logs?

Did you look at /var/log/mailman/smtp to see if the message was sent? If
so does /var/log/mailman/bounce show the mail bounced?
Does /var/log/mailman/error show anything?

Does your test list have members? Are you looking in the inbox of the
test list members to see if it was received? Are you aware that there is
a flag to prevent a sender from receiving their own post, if you send
the mail from the same address you're expecting to see it returned in
from the list, you won't.

Have you looked in /var/log/maillog for SMTP messages?

Have you reloaded your aliases?



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Re: [Mailman-Users] Synchronizing Mailman between two servers.

2005-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:46 AM -0500 2005-09-22, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:

  I'm very interested in the solution you chose, and in how well it works
  for you.

Sorry, I missed the original message.

  I'm in the process of designing a fault-tolerant mailman installation,
  and any wisdom from experience would be very useful.

Generally speaking, I don't think that many people try to do 
this.  You can off-load the web processing with multiple front-end 
web proxies, and you can off-load the mail processing with multiple 
inbound and outbound mail servers (usually best kept as separate 
groups, since the anti-spam, anti-virus, and certain other 
requirements are different for inbound versus outbound use), and the 
rest is just Mailman itself.

But, if you do want to go the whole nine yards, the Mailman 
programmers have been pretty careful to keep everything relatively 
NFS-safe, so you should just be able to have an NFS filesystem which 
is then mounted on all of the Mailman servers (preferably served by a 
high availability/redundant NFS server cluster).  Doing things over 
NFS will slow down individual operations, but the overall aggregate 
throughput might be able to be higher, if the NFS server has the 
right architecture and you spread the load out across enough Mailman 
servers, etc

  Any thoughts on what is the best way to synchronize mailman databases
  between to linux boxes?

Mailman doesn't really use databases.  At least, not 
out-of-the-box.  There are third-party unsupported patches to allow 
database member adapters, but that's about it.

Mailman stores pretty much everything into Python pickle files, 
which is a particular binary Python-specific file format that can be 
quickly saved and re-loaded in the native binary format.

  If my alias_maps are defined the same in /etc/postfix/main.cf are the
  same on both hosts can I just duplicate my /usr/lib/mailman and
  /var/lib/mailman directories?

Duplicate?  What do you mean by duplicate?  Just once?  If so, 
then the directories would get out-of-sync.  You'd have to keep all 
the directories in sync somehow.

In a nearline backup method, something as simple as rsync would 
suffice, and would potentially only lose any information that was 
written since the last rsync.

In a production OLTP type of environment, you'd have to use 
shared filesystems between the sets of machines, and you'd have to 
make sure that those shared filesystems implement all the necessary 
cluster-wide locking facilities, etc... to keep Mailman working 
correctly.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

2005-09-22 Thread Lloyd F. Tennison
Try this patch. 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=982644group_id=1
03atid=300103

Date sent:  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:08:55 +0100
From:   Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mailman-Users@python.org
Subject:[Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

 Hi List
 
 After about a year of trying, I think I have finally got AOL to
 whitelist my (subscription only!) mailing list :-(
 
 http://postmaster.aol.com/cgi-bin/whitelist.pl (if anyone is interested)
 
 In the mailing list I have around 1500 members with aol addresses with
 their 'nosend' ticked. Obviously, after repeated bounces mailman has
 given up trying to send it to them.
 
 I could, through the web interface, untick the 'nosend' flag, to switch
 them all back on again which would take ages.
 
 Is their a way of clearing the nosend flag from the command line for all
 @aol.com addresses?
 
 TIA
 
 Jon Harris
 
 
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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

2005-09-22 Thread Jon Harris
Lloyd

Thanks for that, I will give it a go.

Jon 

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Try this patch. 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=982644group_id
=1
03atid=300103

Date sent:  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:08:55 +0100
From:   Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mailman-Users@python.org
Subject:[Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

 Hi List
 
 After about a year of trying, I think I have finally got AOL to 
 whitelist my (subscription only!) mailing list :-(
 
 http://postmaster.aol.com/cgi-bin/whitelist.pl (if anyone is 
 interested)
 
 In the mailing list I have around 1500 members with aol addresses with

 their 'nosend' ticked. Obviously, after repeated bounces mailman has 
 given up trying to send it to them.
 
 I could, through the web interface, untick the 'nosend' flag, to 
 switch them all back on again which would take ages.
 
 Is their a way of clearing the nosend flag from the command line for 
 all @aol.com addresses?
 
 TIA
 
 Jon Harris
 
 
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[Mailman-Users] unsuccessful subscribe/unsubscribe notifications?

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Singerman
Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way for Mailman to send the
administrator a notification email whenever there is an unsuccessful
subscribe or unsubscribe attempt.  I know it is possible whenever the
subscribe/unsubscribe goes through, but I cannot find an option for
the former, and it would be extremely helpful.

Thanks,

Matt
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not working

2005-09-22 Thread Darren G Pifer
Hello,

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:28, Darren G Pifer wrote:
 Hello,
 
 On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:01, John Dennis wrote:
  On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:44 -0400, Darren G Pifer wrote:
   
   Anything else?
  Python print statements are pretty easy, in its simplest form:
  
  print value1=%s value2=%s % (value1, value2)
  
  each %s is replaced by the matching value inside the parens, just make
  sure the indentation of the print statement lines up.
 
 Thanks for the 'print' statement because I do not know python, but
 it will be on my list to learn it.
 
 I added this to my version of mailpasswds at line 237:
 
 print msg=%s % (msg)
 msg.send(sitelist, **{'errorsto': sitebounce,
   '_nolist' : 1,
   'verp': mm_cfg.VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS,
  })

Just to let everyone know, for grins and giggles, I changed the msg.send
line to:

msg.send(mlist)

and it sent the password reminder. Now I must find out why the original
code did not work. Can someone who knows python tell me what the second
argument to msg.send is doing? Also, were there changes in the code
from 2.1.6b4 (our current version) to 2.1.6 for mailpasswds? We will be
upgrading soon but I wonder if we should do it sooner rather than later.

Darren 

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Synchronizing Mailman between two servers.

2005-09-22 Thread Ivan Fetch
Hello,

i'm looking at this for our setup as well.  How are others handling 
the Mailman processes (qrunners) starting on a second server once the first 
server has gone down, and switching back to the first server once it has 
recovered?

Mailman's locks are usually not cleaned up properly when a server 
unexpectedly fails - although we could force the locks to be removed and 
start mailman processes on the second machine, we'll need to be sure that 
the first machine is really dead.  I assume two machines trying to run 
qrunners on the same mailman directories at once is not a good thing.


This brings me to search for a way to insure that even if other 
services on a machine are not available, Mailman is certainly not 
operating on the Mailman directories before I try starting Mailman 
processes on a second machine.  Perhaps looking at access / 
modification times of particualr files or directories, relative to the 
current time?  Are there any ideas or comments from others doing or 
looking into this?


- Ivan Fetch.



  I'm very interested in the solution you chose, and in how well it works
  for you.

   Sorry, I missed the original message.

  I'm in the process of designing a fault-tolerant mailman installation,
  and any wisdom from experience would be very useful.

   Generally speaking, I don't think that many people try to do
 this.  You can off-load the web processing with multiple front-end
 web proxies, and you can off-load the mail processing with multiple
 inbound and outbound mail servers (usually best kept as separate
 groups, since the anti-spam, anti-virus, and certain other
 requirements are different for inbound versus outbound use), and the
 rest is just Mailman itself.

   But, if you do want to go the whole nine yards, the Mailman
 programmers have been pretty careful to keep everything relatively
 NFS-safe, so you should just be able to have an NFS filesystem which
 is then mounted on all of the Mailman servers (preferably served by a
 high availability/redundant NFS server cluster).  Doing things over
 NFS will slow down individual operations, but the overall aggregate
 throughput might be able to be higher, if the NFS server has the
 right architecture and you spread the load out across enough Mailman
 servers, etc

  Any thoughts on what is the best way to synchronize mailman databases
  between to linux boxes?

   Mailman doesn't really use databases.  At least, not
 out-of-the-box.  There are third-party unsupported patches to allow
 database member adapters, but that's about it.

   Mailman stores pretty much everything into Python pickle files,
 which is a particular binary Python-specific file format that can be
 quickly saved and re-loaded in the native binary format.

  If my alias_maps are defined the same in /etc/postfix/main.cf are the
  same on both hosts can I just duplicate my /usr/lib/mailman and
  /var/lib/mailman directories?

   Duplicate?  What do you mean by duplicate?  Just once?  If so,
 then the directories would get out-of-sync.  You'd have to keep all
 the directories in sync somehow.

   In a nearline backup method, something as simple as rsync would
 suffice, and would potentially only lose any information that was
 written since the last rsync.

   In a production OLTP type of environment, you'd have to use
 shared filesystems between the sets of machines, and you'd have to
 make sure that those shared filesystems implement all the necessary
 cluster-wide locking facilities, etc... to keep Mailman working
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[Mailman-Users] Redirecting html-pages to another mailman server

2005-09-22 Thread Osmo Kujala


Hi List

I'm trying to migrate from version 2.0.8 to 2.1.5 by transferring
lists one by one from old server to new server. Problem is to keep
server name the same (lists.jyu.fi) all the time. So I decided to
first move that name to new server and redirect mail addresses and
html-accesses from there to old server. Mail is handled by aliases-file.
For www-pages I'm creating fake-lists with names suchlike in old server
and with old server as host_name. That will direct links on html-pages to
old server, but direct html-accesses must be redirected too.
I'm doing this using templates like:

/usr/lib/mailman/lists/test-list/en/admlogin.html:

meta http-equiv=refresh content=5;
url=http://lists2.cc.jyu.fi%(path)s

/usr/lib/mailman/lists/test-list/en/listinfo.html:

meta http-equiv=refresh
 content=5; url=http://lists2.cc.jyu.fi/mailman/listinfo/MM-List-Name

/usr/lib/mailman/lists/test-list/en/options.html:

  This is one problem. Access of members option-page is not directly
handled by options.html-template any more, like it was in version 2.0.8,
and templates are not at all compatible. Any ideas how to get this
working?
Apache-redirect's are possible, but I did like the template approach more
so far. Also don't want to modify .../Cgi/options.py.

Someone must have considered something like this before. I tried to find
something from archives and FAQ wizard, but no hit yet.

I think it would be easy to add such list option to Mailman to
redirect all list access to another server?

This approach is not only for migrating lists but could serve as
kind of front end distributing lists among several servers.

regards
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[Mailman-Users] HTML Message Excerpt

2005-09-22 Thread Brian Wong
Is there a way to see the HTML in the 'Message Excerpt' rendered in
the web interface? Some of my users find it inconvenient that it is
the raw source of the body. They have a hard time picturing how the
message would look. If not, is there a major reason to why it is not
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[Mailman-Users] Change respond_to_post_requests text

2005-09-22 Thread John Hansen
We are using MailMan 2.1.5 on WhiteBox Linux.

Is it possible to change the default message in the respond_to_post_requests
when the message is moderated?  We would like it to be a little more intuitive
for our list members as to why their message is being held.

If so, where is the location of the file so it can be modified?

Thanks.

John

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[Mailman-Users] umbrella lists and approved senders

2005-09-22 Thread Gary Casterline

We've set up chain of hierarchical lists to accommodate annual groups.
Each year we create a list for the new cohorts:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

and then add the new class-of list to the umbrella list:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Each list is set to allow postings from subscribers and a
small set of approved non-subscribed addresses.  I'd like to add
these approved addresses to the umbrella list and have messages go
through without owner/moderator approval to the sublists.
As it is now, we have to add the approved addresses to each sublist.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

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[Mailman-Users] Mailman Master Unsubscribe

2005-09-22 Thread Lloyd F. Tennison
I would like to be able to have a main page where a person can remove 
themselves from all lists on the server with just one command/entry.  I know 
they can eventually get to the unsubscribe all button, but I want to be able to 
have an all button like some of the large list services have.

I have thought of making a master list and having that on the main page - but 
cannot find an easy way to link to that unsubscribe all button.  I do not see a 
way that the umbrella can help me here either.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

2005-09-22 Thread Martin Dennett


Jon Harris wrote:

Hi List

After about a year of trying, I think I have finally got AOL to
whitelist my (subscription only!) mailing list :-(

http://postmaster.aol.com/cgi-bin/whitelist.pl (if anyone is interested)

In the mailing list I have around 1500 members with aol addresses with
their 'nosend' ticked. Obviously, after repeated bounces mailman has
given up trying to send it to them.

And after having had my own (subscription only) mailing list added to 
their whitelist, I have been in constant contact with the Mail Delivery 
Analyst of AOL UK AntiSpam operations as that ISP's accounts still seem 
to bounce constantly. After analysing over 100 ov my lists' mails and 
telling me what IP needed adding, he then had the cheek to ask me what 
IP address I'd added! At the moment, he's away on holiday (so his I'm 
out of the office and I don't want to deal with your mail auto-responder 
tells me) so I'm rubbing my hands with glee in anticipation of next 
Monday morning

Oh, and just as an aside, myself and my co-moderators have given very 
serious thought to banning AOL addresses on our list. Not a decision 
we've taken lightly, but after 3 such instances with the same ISP in 
less than 5 months (and no othe ISP giving us anywhere near the amount 
of trouble that they have), it's time for action.

Regards

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman daemon broken.

2005-09-22 Thread Arnaud de Prelle
Arnaud de Prelle wrote:

Hi,

I had two mailing list perfectly running on a FBSD 5.4 server.
Since last reboot the daemon of the mail manager seems broken:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]|120#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 547, in ?
main()
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 389, in main
lock = acquire_lock(force)
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 213, in acquire_lock
lock = acquire_lock_1(force)
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 205, in acquire_lock_1
hostname, pid, tempfile = get_lock_data()
  File /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, line 173, in get_lock_data
pid = int(parts[-1])
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): be smtp to polytech2010 for 1 rec

Could anyone help me resolving this problem ?

Thank you in advance.

  

I've found where was situated the problem! Simply in 
/usr/local/mailman/locks ...

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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

2005-09-22 Thread Heather Madrone
At 9:15 PM +0100 9/22/05, Martin Dennett wrote:
Oh, and just as an aside, myself and my co-moderators have given very
serious thought to banning AOL addresses on our list. Not a decision
we've taken lightly, but after 3 such instances with the same ISP in
less than 5 months (and no othe ISP giving us anywhere near the amount
of trouble that they have), it's time for action.

That's what I've done.  AOL was an ongoing headache, and I got tired
of their high-handedness.  AOL subscribers who want to receive my
list can use free yahoo or gmail accounts, and many of them do.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist

2005-09-22 Thread Lloyd F. Tennison
I actually have had zero problems with them after the initial whitelisting  
eighteen months ago - except it took over a week when I moved my server.  
(They said it should take 48 hours.)  I send almost 300,000 to them three 
times a week  - all without problems, plus normal hosting emails. They are 
always extremely responsive.

Now with all the changes in Hotmail last week  - THEY are a problem.  Their 
whitelist through BondedSender.com will cost me almost three grand a year.


- Original Message -
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:26:55 -0700
From: Heather Madrone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

At 9:15 PM +0100 9/22/05, Martin Dennett wrote:
Oh, and just as an aside, myself and my co-moderators have given very
serious thought to banning AOL addresses on our list. Not a decision
we've taken lightly, but after 3 such instances with the same ISP in
less than 5 months (and no othe ISP giving us anywhere near the amount
of trouble that they have), it's time for action.

That's what I've done.  AOL was an ongoing headache, and I got tired
of their high-handedness.  AOL subscribers who want to receive my
list can use free yahoo or gmail accounts, and many of them do.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Synchronizing Mailman between two servers.

2005-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:46 AM -0600 2005-09-22, Ivan Fetch wrote:

 i'm looking at this for our setup as well.  How are others handling
  the Mailman processes (qrunners) starting on a second server once the
  first server has gone down, and switching back to the first server once
  it has recovered?

You'd have to have some sort of heartbeat monitor application 
which uses the standard OS start/stop routines when it decides that 
the other system has gone down, and might need to put in some 
additional lock cleanup code in there.

Moreover, you'd have to make sure that the problem is not in the 
heartbeat monitor script, which could potentially cause the Mailman 
processes on both machines to be running and each think that the 
other is down.  You'd also need to make sure that you don't start 
Mailman on the second machine if the shared filesystem is not 
properly available.  And there are a bazillion other potential 
failure modes that you'd also need to look out for.

Doing high availability is tough.  Much tougher than anyone ever 
gives it credit for.


The problem is that Mailman was never designed to be used/abused 
in this way, so you're pretty much in completely uncharted water.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mmdsr -- Mailman Daily Status Reports (Bourne shellscript, updated)

2005-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:57 PM -0700 2005-09-10, Mark Sapiro wrote:

  The script assumes the a single specified directory (normally the
  VAR_PREFIX directory) contains the queues in the qfiles/ directory and
  the logs in the logs/ directory. This isn't the case in all
  installations. I modified it to allow independent specification of the
  directory containing the logs.

  The script leaves a temp file behind.

  See the above URL for my comments and patch.

I've taken your submission and incorporated that, as well as 
fixing another bug that was brought to my attention by Adrian Wells. 
It turns out that there is a minor log file difference between 
Mailman versions 2.1.5 and 2.1.6, which causes the smtp log to be 
written in a slightly different format.  The code should now handle 
both styles without problems.

See the latest version and comments at 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1123383group_id=103atid=300103.


Thanks!

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