[Mailman-Users] How do I assign a default password when doing mass subscriptions

2011-12-12 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I'm setting up a mailman list for the folks over in the anthropology department 
and they have a list of around email addresses that they wish to initially 
subscribe.  How do I assign a default password to each subscriber so they can 
get in via the web interface and change preferences, access private archives, 
etc?

Thanks.



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Re: [Mailman-Users] Neither the list admin or moderator getting notications on new susbriptions

2011-03-24 Thread Rob Tanner
On 3/23/11 6:54 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote:

 On 3/23/2011 5:04 PM, Rob Tanner wrote:
 
 That I'm aware of.  I subscribed myself via my personal email to avoid any
 confusion with me as a list admin.  My request did not appear as a pending
 subscription request until after I clicked the link on the confirmation
 email.  At that point an email notifying me of a pending request should have
 been sent to my list admin email address.  No such message was sent, and
 that's the problem.
 
 
 Are other notices from Mailman being sent such as the list welcome
 message to a new subscriber?
 
 If not, perhaps VirginRunner is not running? Do you have enough access
 to the server to verify that and/or to see Mailman's logs?
 
 If you send an email to listname-owner@... does it get delivered to the
 admins? If not, does it bounce?

I was able to access the mailman logs and the whole things turns out to have
been an aliasing problem and not a mailman issue.  Works perfect now.


Thanks,
Rob
 


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Neither the list admin or moderator getting notications on new susbriptions

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I forgot to mention, the option “Should the list moderators get immediate 
notice of new requests, as well as daily notices about collected ones?” is set 
to yes, so is there another switch as well or is something broken on my site?

~ Rob


On 3/23/11 3:27 PM, Rob Tanner rtan...@linfield.edu wrote:

Hi,

I set up a list that requires confirm and approval for new subscriptions.  
There are two list admins (one email address per line and no comma between 
them) and neither admin gets notification or the subscription request.  I also 
tried adding them as moderators as well to know avail.  Is there some other 
switch that needs to be checked to enable notifications or is something broken 
on the site?  I’m running v2.1.13 on RHEL 5.

Thanks.



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[Mailman-Users] Neither the list admin or moderator getting notications on new susbriptions

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I set up a list that requires confirm and approval for new subscriptions.  
There are two list admins (one email address per line and no comma between 
them) and neither admin gets notification or the subscription request.  I also 
tried adding them as moderators as well to know avail.  Is there some other 
switch that needs to be checked to enable notifications or is something broken 
on the site?  I’m running v2.1.13 on RHEL 5.

Thanks.



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Re: [Mailman-Users] Neither the list admin or moderator getting notications on new susbriptions

2011-03-23 Thread Rob Tanner
On 3/23/11 4:51 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote:

 On 3/23/2011 3:42 PM, Rob Tanner wrote:
 
 I forgot to mention, the option ³Should the list moderators get
 immediate notice of new requests, as well as daily notices about
 collected ones?² is set to yes, so is there another switch as well or
 is something broken on my site?
 
 On 3/23/11 3:27 PM, Rob Tanner rtan...@linfield.edu wrote:
 
 I set up a list that requires confirm and approval for new
 subscriptions.
 
 
 Since admin_immed_notify is Yes, the explanation is probably confirm
 and approval. With this subscribe policy, the subscription requires
 confirmation by the user before it is passed to the admins/moderators
 for approval. There will be nothing requiring moderator action until the
 user confirms via web or email.

That I'm aware of.  I subscribed myself via my personal email to avoid any
confusion with me as a list admin.  My request did not appear as a pending
subscription request until after I clicked the link on the confirmation
email.  At that point an email notifying me of a pending request should have
been sent to my list admin email address.  No such message was sent, and
that's the problem.

~ Rob

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[Mailman-Users] Waiting moderator requests not found

2010-03-04 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I just upgraded from version 2.1.9 to 2.1.13 to hopefully solve a couple of
problems, and the upgrade solved all but one.  The moderator of one of the
lists gets email that tells him there are two requests pending, but when he
clicks on the link to go to the administrative database the message is
³There are no requests pending².   Since this issue was also in 2.1.9, I¹m
assuming it¹s not a software bug but rather a configuration error of some
kind, but I have no idea what that might be.

Can anyone offer me ome useful advice?

Thanks,
Rob



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[Mailman-Users] Getting python errors with bin/arch

2008-02-06 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I am trying to rebuild archives -- actually porting archives over from 
another machine and then doing a rebuild, but the problem below shows up 
inb all the archives.

I run the command bin/arch small_centers and get the following error:

#0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
figuring article archives
2008-February
Pickling archive state into 
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/small_centers/pipermail.pck
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File bin/arch, line 200, in module
main()
  File bin/arch, line 188, in main
archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end)
  File /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py, line 580, in 
processUnixMailbox
self.add_article(a)
  File /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py, line 624, in 
add_article
author = fixAuthor(article.decoded['author'])
  File /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py, line 62, in 
fixAuthor
while i0 and (L[i-1][0] in lowercase or
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb5 in position 26: 
ordinal not in range(128)

This actually looks like a problem in a specific email message in the 
archive.  How do I identify the mesand how do I fix it?

Thanks,
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[Mailman-Users] Porting from a 2.1.5 installation to 2.1.7

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I am retiring a server running Mailman 2.1.5 and need to port  
everything to a server running 2.1.7 (Fedora Core distribution).  Can I 
take the lists directory and simply copy it from one server to another 
(i.e., is the format of the various files the same)?  Is there anything 
else that needs to be copied?

Thanks,
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Porting from a 2.1.5 installation to 2.1.7

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Tanner
That was very very helpful.  Thanks!

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Mark Sapiro said the following on 02/05/2008 01:22 PM:
 Rob Tanner wrote:
   
 I am retiring a server running Mailman 2.1.5 and need to port  
 everything to a server running 2.1.7 (Fedora Core distribution).  Can I 
 take the lists directory and simply copy it from one server to another 
 (i.e., is the format of the various files the same)?  Is there anything 
 else that needs to be copied?
 


 There are many threads on this in the archives of the mailman-users
 list. The FAQ at
 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.004.htp
 points to a few of them.

 In short, for 2.1.5 to 2.1.7, you can move the lists/ directory and
 Mailman will transparently update config.pck formats as necessary as
 lists are accessed.

 Note the following:

 If you move the lists/*/request.pck files, you also need to move any
 data/heldmsg-* files. OTOH, you can ignore any held messages on the
 old server, in which case, it's better to not move the request.pck
 files.

 If you want to move archives, you can move the entire archives/private/
 directory. You don't really need to worry about archives/public/ as
 the symlinks therein will be recreated on the new system as the lists
 are accessed, but if you want to move archives/public/, make sure that
 you move the symlinks and not the directories they point to.

 If you want to be selective about which archives to move, make sure
 that you move both the archives/private/listname/ and the
 archives/private/listname.mbox/ directories for each list.

 You also have to deal with MTA aliases on the new server if the MTA
 uses aliases for Mailman.

 If the domain names for web and email will be the same on the new
 server, that's all. If not, you need to run fix_url to update the
 lists. Also, in this case, it might be better to just move the
 archives/private/listname.mbox/ directories and rebuild the archives
 with bin/arch --wipe so that the listinfo links in the archives will
 have the correct host name.

 If you are going to rebuild archives, it is good to first check the
 archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox file with bin/cleanarch.

 See:

 bin/arch --help
 bin/cleanarch --help
 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.069.htp

   

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[Mailman-Users] getting python errorss with check_perms

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

Running this as root so that it can fix any perm problems, but I'm 
getting what I assume to be python errors:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# bin/check_perms -f
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File bin/check_perms, line 382, in module
checkarchives()
  File bin/check_perms, line 216, in checkarchives
print _(\
NameError: global name '_' is not defined


I get the same errors without the '-f' argument.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rob




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Re: [Mailman-Users] getting python errorss with check_perms

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Tanner
Todd,

I think the bug URL you gave me is a wrong URL.  Bug 132495 is a 
Japanese encoding bug and its status is closed (which I presume means 
fixed).  That doesn't sound like the problem I'm seeing.

In answer to your questions, the Fedora release is Fedora release 7 
(Moonshine) and the mailman package installed  is mailman-2.1.9-5.1 
(output of rpm -qa).   I just no checked, and there is not a more 
current package to download via yum.

-- Rob


Todd Zullinger said the following on 02/05/2008 04:34 PM:
 Rob Tanner wrote:
   
 Running this as root so that it can fix any perm problems, but I'm 
 getting what I assume to be python errors:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# bin/check_perms -f
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File bin/check_perms, line 382, in module
   checkarchives()
 File bin/check_perms, line 216, in checkarchives
   print _(\
 NameError: global name '_' is not defined


 I get the same errors without the '-f' argument.  Any ideas?
 

 You said in another thread that you're migrating to a Fedora Core
 system.  Are you using the Fedora rpm packages of Mailman?  This looks
 like a bug in one of the patches that is applied in the Fedora/Red Hat
 rpms.

 If you're using the rpms, what version of Fedora are you running, and
 what is the version and release of the mailman package?  The changes
 I'm thinking of were discussed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/132495

   
 

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Re: [Mailman-Users] getting python errorss with check_perms

2008-02-05 Thread Rob Tanner
Todd,

That update took case of it.  Thanks.

-- Rob

On 02/05/2008 05:56 PM, Todd Zullinger wrote:
 Rob Tanner wrote:
   
 I think the bug URL you gave me is a wrong URL.  Bug 132495 is a
 Japanese encoding bug and its status is closed (which I presume
 means fixed).  That doesn't sound like the problem I'm seeing.
 

 The bug summary may not sound like what you're seeing, but the patch
 that was applied to correct the initial problem does redefine _() and
 can cause the sort of errors you're seeing.  I know this because I ran
 into some places where the patch was incomplete and caused just such a
 problem for me. :)

   
 In answer to your questions, the Fedora release is Fedora release 7
 (Moonshine) and the mailman package installed  is mailman-2.1.9-5.1
 (output of rpm -qa).   I just no checked, and there is not a more
 current package to download via yum.
 

 There may still be problems with the patch, as the maintainer noted in
 the last comment.  The bug is closed with the resolution rawhide,
 which means that the latest updated patch may not have been pushed to
 F7 (I haven't looked closely, though you can by looking at the Fedora
 CVS: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/mailman/)

 There does happen to be an update that is in the updates-testing
 repository, and the patch in question has been updated in that version
 (mailman-2.1.9-5.3.i386.rpm).  You can download that directly or
 enable the updates-testing repo to install it with yum like so:

 yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update mailman

 This package should hit the standard updates repo very soon as it
 fixes CVE-2006-3636 (multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities).

   
 

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[Mailman-Users] Problem with URL host installing v2.1.9

2007-09-18 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

This is a new install and not an update.  I first ran configure with no 
options and then built/installed mailman.  Then I reran configure with 
the argument: --with-urlhost=www.linfield.edu.  I also verified 
Defaults.py: DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.linfield.edu'.  The problem is that 
the banners (stuff in the blue bar at the top of the page) all show the 
host name of the machine and not the URL host.

Also, how do I give myself the authority to create lists from the web as 
opposed to running newlist from the command line.  Whenever I try I get 
an error back saying that I'm not authorized.

Thanks,
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting notifications for admin requests that don'eexist

2006-05-26 Thread Rob Tanner
Thanks.  The crontab was the issue.

-- Rob

On 05/25/2006 10:29 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
 Rob Tanner wrote:
   
 I have at l;east one list owner (only one list owner has complained 
 anyway) who is regularly getting email from Mailman with the subject 19 
 Small_centers admin request(s) waiting.  When he clicks on the link, 
 the page displays There are no pending requests. Click here to reload 
 this page. 

 I'm presuming that the web page is correct and the email wrong (but I'm 
 not sure).  Other than the web interface, how can I determine if there 
 are, in fact, admin requests waiting.
 


 bin/dumpdb lists/listname/request.pck


   
 And if there aren't what would be 
 causing the email message to get repeatedly generated.
 


 A crontab still running the cron/checkdbs job from a prior
 install/version in a different location.

   

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[Mailman-Users] Getting notifications for admin requests that don'e exist

2006-05-25 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi,

I have at l;east one list owner (only one list owner has complained 
anyway) who is regularly getting email from Mailman with the subject 19 
Small_centers admin request(s) waiting.  When he clicks on the link, 
the page displays There are no pending requests. Click here to reload 
this page. 

I'm presuming that the web page is correct and the email wrong (but I'm 
not sure).  Other than the web interface, how can I determine if there 
are, in fact, admin requests waiting.  And if there aren't what would be 
causing the email message to get repeatedly generated.

Thanks,
Rob


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[Mailman-Users] Problem integrating v2.1.5 into the mail system

2005-09-13 Thread Rob Tanner

I upgraded from Mailman 2.0.6 to 2.1.5, and I'm having a problem with 
the aliases.   My MTA is Postfix.

Here's my problem.  Our mail system uses the LDAP server for all the MTA 
required local aliases.  However, on the specific server hosting 
Mailman, I modified the following line in the Postfix main.cf file to 
include the Mailman aliases file:

   alias_database = 
dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases,dbm:/opt/mailman_2.1.5/data/aliases

Apart from hosting Mailman, that server is not part of our regular mail 
system.

When a message is sent to listname@linfield.edu, Postfix, on which 
ever one of the mail gateway servers that first sees the message, looks 
up the alias, and then using the mailroutingaddress attribute, re-routes 
the mail to listname@calvin.linfield.edu, which is the actual name of 
the host.  However, when the mail hits the Mailman server, Postfix 
reject it with the error:


 550 listname@calvin.linfield.edu: User unknown in local 
recipient table

The other pertinent setting in main.cf is:

 local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps, dbm:/opt/mailman_2.1.5/data/aliases

I've played extensively with the various Postfix parameters, and I've 
not been able to resolve this problem.  It probobly is a Postfix 
settings issue, and I'm hoping someone has had and resolved a similar issue.

Thanks,
Rob


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem integrating v2.1.5 into the mail system

2005-09-13 Thread Rob Tanner
Cockpit error on my part.  Your suggestions ended up pointing me right 
to it.

Thanks,
Rob

John Dennis said the following on 09/13/2005 09:45 AM:

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 09:25 -0700, Rob Tanner wrote:
  

I upgraded from Mailman 2.0.6 to 2.1.5, and I'm having a problem with 
the aliases.   My MTA is Postfix.

Here's my problem.  Our mail system uses the LDAP server for all the MTA 
required local aliases.  However, on the specific server hosting 
Mailman, I modified the following line in the Postfix main.cf file to 
include the Mailman aliases file:

   alias_database = 
dbm:/etc/postfix/aliases,dbm:/opt/mailman_2.1.5/data/aliases

Apart from hosting Mailman, that server is not part of our regular mail 
system.

When a message is sent to listname@linfield.edu, Postfix, on which 
ever one of the mail gateway servers that first sees the message, looks 
up the alias, and then using the mailroutingaddress attribute, re-routes 
the mail to listname@calvin.linfield.edu, which is the actual name of 
the host.  However, when the mail hits the Mailman server, Postfix 
reject it with the error:


 550 listname@calvin.linfield.edu: User unknown in local 
recipient table

The other pertinent setting in main.cf is:

 local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps, dbm:/opt/mailman_2.1.5/data/aliases

I've played extensively with the various Postfix parameters, and I've 
not been able to resolve this problem.  It probobly is a Postfix 
settings issue, and I'm hoping someone has had and resolved a similar issue.



Here are some things to check:

In your main.cf file you've specified a file_type of dbm but I don't see
anything in your mail saying you've told Mailman's Postfix.py to use
that file format. Have you? It defaults to whatever is the default
database type in your postfix installation. You should verify the file
types are in fact in harmony with one another. You could take a look at
postfix error logging to see if its complaining or use the postmap
command to simulate the lookup.

Also, it looks like you're performing domain mapping when you re-route
to the primary server. If the alias lookup's include domain information
you may fail the local_recipient_maps lookup because although the user
part of the address is correct it may include a domain part not
recognized by the server fielding the request. I would use the postmap
command to simulate an alias lookup and see what is returned and make
sure domains are not part of the alias or if they are that they match.
  


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Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR
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