[Mailman-Users] Cant Log into List admin

2008-03-31 Thread Spyro Polymiadis
Hi there, We're having an issue here, where I cant log into the admin page for a list, nor can the list accept mail to it.. it seems as though the mail gets queued.. but never flushed .. Any ideas anyone? Cheers Spyro This message and its attachments may

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cant Log into List admin

2008-03-31 Thread Spyro Polymiadis
Just posting what I believe was the solution.. I saw that there was a bunch of lock files in the lock directory matching the list name.. and a bunch of files in the queue all destined to that list.. and some were marcked as .bak instead of .pck So I deleted the .bak files, and the lock files,

[Mailman-Users] Archives for a single list mysteriously stopped

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Waltham
I have a list which is still passing messages correctly (the list is moderated) but messages are not appearing in the archives since March 19, 2008. And, no, I don't think I changed anything on that day. :-) A simple check_perms reports no issues at all, and archives for other lists are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cant Log into List admin

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Spyro Polymiadis wrote: Just posting what I believe was the solution.. I saw that there was a bunch of lock files in the lock directory matching the list name.. and a bunch of files in the queue all destined to that list.. and some were marcked as .bak instead of .pck So I deleted the .bak

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives for a single list mysteriously stopped

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Chris Waltham wrote: I just ran a arch --wipe ams-announce, and that seems to have fixed the problem as a test message I sent this morning now appears in the archives; as does other mail that was sent after March 19th and before today. Just out of interest, what kind of things could stop an

Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Par Leijonhufvud wrote: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.03.27] wrote: You might try doing a 'mass_catchup'. If somehow the list's usenet_watermark is too high, this will reset it. Is there a way to do this from the command line? I don't have the list admin password... You could use the

[Mailman-Users] Inactive members

2008-03-31 Thread Mikael Hansen
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to automatically unsubscribe or disable the membership for those who have not posted to a list for a given period of time. Mikael -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

[Mailman-Users] rebuilding .mbox

2008-03-31 Thread Zack Galbreath
Hi list, I accidentally blanked the .mbox file of a mailing list of mine. Is it possible to rebuild this file from the HTML archives? TIA, -Zack -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Inactive members

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mikael Hansen wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to automatically unsubscribe or disable the membership for those who have not posted to a list for a given period of time. There is nothing direct in Mailman. You could make a file of addresses and post dates (or most recent post date)

Re: [Mailman-Users] rebuilding .mbox

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Zack Galbreath wrote: I accidentally blanked the .mbox file of a mailing list of mine. Is it possible to rebuild this file from the HTML archives? Not really. There were headers in the .mbox file that aren't anywhere in the pipermail archive. That information is lost as is the original MIME

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi, Actually this is probably the fourth or fifth time I am revisiting Chapter 6. But I seem to be making better progress now than in my previous attempts. I am at the part where I am trying to make sure data/aliases* have the correct ownership, GID, etc. When I issue genaliases it seems to

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hi, Actually this is probably the fourth or fifth time I am revisiting Chapter 6. But I seem to be making better progress now than in my previous attempts. I am at the part where I am trying to make sure data/aliases* have the correct ownership, GID, etc. When I issue

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi Mark, Not surprisingly you were right on target again :-) And please bear with me as I am relatively new to Linux and I really do try to help myself as much as I can before turning to the list for help. Apparently the target files/folders on my system are under /var/lib/mailman/. So, thanks

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Apparently the target files/folders on my system are under /var/lib/mailman/. So, thanks to your help I have now overcome this hurdle. And yes, I had postfix set as the value for MTA. I am now stepping through all the troubleshooting steps in the mailman FAQ here

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias question...

2008-03-31 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Here is the line from my main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases The results of my ls -l, which by the way I had looked at earlier also and neglected to mention, are illustrated in the attached screen shot. I see the system thinks the