[Mailman-Users] master-qrunner.pid

2003-02-02 Thread VLists.Net Support
We've had several instances lately where Mailman 2.1 just dies silently and no more mail goes out. I've resorted to putting a cron job in that restarts mailmanctl but when that happens I get the following returned... Shutting down Mailman's master qrunner PID unreadable in:

Re: [Mailman-Users] missing config file

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that MAILMAN_SITE_LIST in ~mailman/Mailman/.. referred to a mailing list name. In this case the mailing list name that is used as the From address for such things as password reminders. The list defaults to mailman. It's format is simple, simply create a

[Mailman-Users] Password reminder

2003-02-02 Thread Adam
Yesterday I got reminders from lists that I am a member of, but am not an administrator. However, the box that I administer (for the past 3 days) didn't send out any reminder. Does it do it automatically on the first day of the month, or rather a month after being setup? Also, is there a way

[Mailman-Users] cron/senddigests error

2003-02-02 Thread Dan Phillips
I suppose I may have created this problem by commenting out the inclusion of all but from, to, cc and subject in /mailman/handlers/ToDigest.py, but it hasn't created problems for any other lists, or previous digests. This error message came today: Traceback (most recent call last): File

[Mailman-Users] htaccess

2003-02-02 Thread Chris [ www.LiFEFORCE.de ]
hi ! i want to have a htaccess file for the archive and for the page to subscribe... but where do i have to place this htaccess file??? i have tried in /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ and /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ but without any success ... i am using mailman 2.0.13 thanks for any help

Re: [Mailman-Users] master-qrunner.pid

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
What are your system resources while running Mailmanctl? How much memory do you have in use? How much swap are you using? How much drive space do you have on each volume? And for an off-beat question: Are your archives updating properly? On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 12:26, VLists.Net Support wrote:

[Mailman-Users] Re: master-qrunner.pid

2003-02-02 Thread David Gibbs
VLists.Net Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... We've had several instances lately where Mailman 2.1 just dies silently and no more mail goes out. I've resorted to putting a cron job in that restarts mailmanctl but when that happens I get the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password reminder

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
Check out the crontab for Mailman. During the install you should have put several entries into the cron for the local user that runs Mailman (usually the user is mailman). The cron entries can be found in: ~mailman/cron/crontab.in One of these entries handles the sending out of monthly list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manually marking users as bouncing/badaddresses?

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
Would it be useful to look at the logs to see the bounces? As an example I run a script to look for members who have been knocked off the list by excessive bouncing... MONTH=`date -dlast month +%b` echo $MONTH grep -hs disabled /home/mailman/logs/bounce.1 \ /home/mailman/logs/bounce

[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Cron/senddigests

2003-02-02 Thread Dan Phillips
Any idea where this error is coming from? This error is coming from only one list; a manual running of senddigests -l on other lists functions perfectly. /lists/problemlist/digest.mbox appears to be fine. Any ideas? anyone? what else should I be checking? Traceback (most recent call last):

[Mailman-Users] Mailman config

2003-02-02 Thread Peter Kasson
Greetings, I installed Mailman with the standard install scripts and followed the docs. Is there anything else I need to do to access the web-based admin site for Mailman ? What is the URL needed to access it ? Regards, Peter --

[Mailman-Users] RE: Welcome Mail and List Mail Text

2003-02-02 Thread NetInfo
Greetings Mailman, My name is Shirley Marshall of Perfect Sites Web Design, and I have just recently partnered with Web4Designer to host my clients' sites, and they use Mailman for their mailing needs. Now I've gotten the whole mailing list set up for my client, and it seems to be functioning

[Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman 2.1

2003-02-02 Thread Albert E. Whale, CISSP
I recently re-installed my Linux Mandrake 8.2 server, I had located some data corruption in the OS Binaries. Anyway, I've been using Mailman for quite awhile, the server has been running LM 8.1 and was upgraded to 8.2. Mailman has received several upgrades while in place on the system. I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ entry: Who should deal with DNS errors?

2003-02-02 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 31/01, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: | | ST == Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | ST I was going to add this FAQ entry, but I realize that I don't | ST have a password to do that and I have to leave for a meeting | ST right now. | | Folks, remember that the FAQwiz is on the

[Mailman-Users] Command output: Failure to find group name mailman

2003-02-02 Thread Dr Patrick Atlas
Hello, I have closely followed install instructions for mailman. But when I try to send something I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Command died with status 8: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman. Command output: Failure to find group name mailman Try adding this group to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting mailman to use the same smtp connectionfor messages sent to the same domain

2003-02-02 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Simon White wrote: SW31-Jan-03 at 14:39, Gareth Hopkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : SWIs there a way to get mailman to deliver messages to the same SW domain in one smtp connection. SW SWExample SW SW[EMAIL PROTECTED] SW[EMAIL PROTECTED] SW[EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] mm.cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST

2003-02-02 Thread Jim LaSalle
I recently installed Mailman at our school. It is fantastic. Thank you very much for a fine software package. This morning I receive and email saying Site list is missing: mailman Picking through the /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswords script I see a mm.cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST is required.

Re: [Mailman-Users] IRC

2003-02-02 Thread Adam
irc.freenode.net with channel #mailman (but it seems that I'm the only person there at the moment). On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:57:18 -0500 Jim LaSalle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an IRC for users of this mail list? -- Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1 + qmail + vpopmail = alias tremendous problems

2003-02-02 Thread r.sand
Hello As a lot of qmail+vpopmail+mailman users, I get the famous Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1) error message. I have gathered here the 3 alias creation methods i found reading the archives, in the hope one of a goodwill soul to help. Here is my setup: FreeBSD 4.7_Stable -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting mailman to use the same smtp connectionfor messages sent to the same domain

2003-02-02 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: BAW BAW SW == Simon White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BAW BAWSW Chunking like this means that you're actually sending RCPT TO: BAWSW based on TLD, and then only US TLDs, right? So SMTP_MAX_RCPTS BAWSW set to 50 could mean several different

[Mailman-Users] Language setup problem

2003-02-02 Thread Rostyk Ivantsiv
Hello! I have a problem with setting up the language(in my case it's Russian). I can set the Russian language through Language Options for a particular List, but some general admin pages, like http://www.myhost/mailman/admin (it contains the text Welcome! Below

[Mailman-Users] qmail-to-mailman.py qmail vpopmail bad combo?

2003-02-02 Thread df
In my attempts to get qmail-to-mailman.py to work with mailman_2.1/qmail/vpopmail on FreeBSD 4.7_stable.. -All the previous softwares were installed from port tree- --- Note, for further references: domain.com = mydomain ml.domain.com = virtual domain used for mailman host.domain.com = my qmail

Re: [Mailman-Users] missing config file

2003-02-02 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- Jon Carnes wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that MAILMAN_SITE_LIST in ~mailman/Mailman/.. referred to a mailing list name. In this case the mailing list name that is used as the From address for such things as password reminders. The list defaults to mailman. It's

Re: [Mailman-Users] qmail-to-mailman.py qmail vpopmail bad combo?

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
Are you remembering to setup the Virtual domains inside ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py? If Mailman does not see the virtual domain defined in mm_cfg.py then it will only attempt local mailing via the default domain. On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 18:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my attempts to get

[Mailman-Users] RE;Cron/senddigests bug

2003-02-02 Thread Dan Phillips
Tried that and it reported no problems. The problem definitely seems to be in digest.mbox, although I can't see anything wrong. I renamed it and sent a test message to create a new one, the ran cron/senddigests -l, and it went out fine. when I moved the original mbox back it generated the same

Re: [Mailman-Users] missing config file

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 18:32, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: Hi All-- Jon Carnes wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that MAILMAN_SITE_LIST in ~mailman/Mailman/.. referred to a mailing list name. In this case the mailing list name that is used as the From address for such things

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE;Cron/senddigests bug

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
I've had to go into Mbox before and delete a few messages that were gumming up the works. What I normally do is simply look at the last message to be processed and then delete the next message from the Mbox. At that point it normally becomes obvious what the problem with the offending mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE;Cron/senddigests bug

2003-02-02 Thread Dan Phillips
Thanks. I've done that once before, and as you said, the problem was obvious. My difficulty this time is that every message in the box went out just fine as individual emails. There were a couple that were content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable, which on my old system caused multiple

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE;Cron/senddigests bug

2003-02-02 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
Dan, Incidentally, as I mentioned in the first message, I cleaned up the headers within digests by commenting out some lines in /handlers/ToDigest.py, excluding everything but date, to, from and subject. Is that likely to gum up the works somewhere along the line? I suppose that breaks

[Mailman-Users] Per Virtual domain customizations

2003-02-02 Thread John Locke
Hello, I've been using Mailman for a while now for a single, low-traffic, low-membership list. I'm now launching a service that's going to use mailman for quite a few more low-traffic, low-membership lists, and I'm trying to set up some customizations for the membership and administrative

[Mailman-Users] script wrapper reports No such file or directory

2003-02-02 Thread Chris Tomlinson
I'm trying to install mailman-2.1 on a FreeBSD virtual private server enviroment. I've used --with-cgi-gid, --with-username, --with-groupname, and the DIRSETGID=: and so forth. I've successfully gotten through the check_perms and created the newlist mailman - with the notification message. I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manually marking users as bouncing/bad addresses?

2003-02-02 Thread NOW Website Coordinator
My problem is all the ones that Mailman *isn't* knocking off the list, but sending to me as an uncaught bounce notification, or even it's not even going through mailman and just coming right to the list owner. Can I get them to be marked as bad, so that Mailman will then disable them and then

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manually marking users as bouncing/badaddresses?

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
Hmmm, your best bet might be to modify your Bounce handlers so that these errant bounces are captured by Mailman. I would be happy to take a whack at the ones it's missing if you want to forward them on. No guarantees, but at least I'll do no harm! The rest of what you want will have to wait

Re: [Mailman-Users] script wrapper reports No such file ordirectory

2003-02-02 Thread Jon Carnes
I'm guessing that you are using Postfix as the MTA. Have you run ~mailman/bin/genaliases yet? If so, what are the rights on the files: ~mailman/data/aliases ~mailman/data/aliases.db -rw-rw-r--1 mailman mailman 4210 Feb 1 22:52 aliases -rw-rw-r--1 mailman mailman 12288

Re: [Mailman-Users] script wrapper reports No such file ordirectory

2003-02-02 Thread Chris Tomlinson
Dear Jon, I've got MTA = 'Manual', so I don't think that's the problem. Thanks On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 09:28 PM, Jon Carnes wrote: I'm guessing that you are using Postfix as the MTA. Have you run ~mailman/bin/genaliases yet? If so, what are the rights on the files:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password reminder

2003-02-02 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam wrote: Does it do it automatically on the first day of the month, or rather a month after being setup? The default is the first of each month. This is done via cron so you might want to make sure your mailman crontab is setup right. There

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1: lotsa language options problems...

2003-02-02 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
first of the month, and my password sending errored out again. I've been spending some time debugging. it boiled down to problems with some of the language codecs, the multi-byte languages. So evidently that isn't really fixed on OS X, but I'll deal with that later. debugging this is tough,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Digest Topic Lists

2003-02-02 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Paul, It looks fine if you only have a few messages, but gets hard to scan through when you have 50+ messages per digest. MM 2.0.x's lists were very nice. Bob -- Original Message From: Paul H Byerly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: Digest Topic Lists Date: Sat,

[Mailman-Users] config.db missing

2003-02-02 Thread Joseph Okech
Hi All, Have a situation where in the lists' folder the file 'config.db' and config.db.last' are missing. I get this when I run the check_db command, and I get a bounce whenever I send mail to the list. su-2.05a$ check_db -av List: mailman /usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck: okay

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.db missing

2003-02-02 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Joseph Okech [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030203 10:28]: wrote: Hi All, Have a situation where in the lists' folder the file 'config.db' and config.db.last' are missing. I get this when I run the check_db command, and I get a bounce whenever I send mail to the list. su-2.05a$ check_db -av