Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

2005-05-15 Thread Matt England
Another note: /usr/lib/sendmail is a qmail executable disguised as sendmail for backwards-compatibility. -Matt At 5/15/2005 10:50 PM, Matt England wrote: >I should also note: Mailman outbound email seems to work just fine when >using Sendmail.py. > >-Matt > >At 5/15/2005 10:49 PM, Matt Engla

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

2005-05-15 Thread Matt England
I also ran this test successfully: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:03pm [~] 3> telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. 220 biz2tek.com ESMTP helo lists.biz2tek.com 250 biz2tek.com mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 ok rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 250 ok data

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

2005-05-15 Thread Matt England
I should also note: Mailman outbound email seems to work just fine when using Sendmail.py. -Matt At 5/15/2005 10:49 PM, Matt England wrote: >It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying to >figure out what it is or how I can reproduce it other then keeping to >point Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

2005-05-15 Thread Matt England
It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying to figure out what it is or how I can reproduce it other then keeping to point Mailman or phpBB forums at it (both fail for SMTP localhost connections). I can run the following test ok: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:35pm [~] 1> telnet l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Matt England wrote: > >Is there any way I can isolate the outbound/smtp mailman >process/program/module? I've got all my other outbound email mechanisms >working, but I'm wading through a mountain of modules in mailman trying to >figure out exactly which part is responsible for the outbound mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

2005-05-15 Thread Matt England
Some more info about my system: MTA = patches qmail 1.03 Mailman = 2.1.6rc4 At 5/15/2005 06:36 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > Occasional timeouts are not too unusual, if you're on a busy > server. We see them on the python.org mail system, for example. That's note the case with my host. Th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to access web interface

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
William McLain wrote: >IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/logs/error' > > >Subsequently, the permissions and ownerships of the log files were repaired. >We finally got mailman to stabilize and it seems to be working properly >except that the web interdace still comes up wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Virtual domains Postfix+Mailman

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dave Pisarek wrote: >I built a new list server and will be moving the lists from the old >server to the new. My question is - How do I set it so the old lists >i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also still work with the new server >that would have a list address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope that >makes se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages moderated from port 2525

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Danley
Thank you. That solved the problem. On 5/15/05 6:58 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Danley wrote: > >> The message reads: >> >> The reason it is being held: >>Posting to a moderated newsgroup >> > > On the admin->Mail<->News gateways page, news_moderation is set to > Mo

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM relayed mail through Mailman.

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Colorado Tech Support wrote: >Hi, I'm pretty new to this, but I've got a problem. > >Last night, a SPAMer was able to relay 250 mail messages through my >server and I can't figure out how they did it. > >Here's my configuration: > >Fedora Core 2 - kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 >apache - httpd-2.0.51-2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages moderated from port 2525

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ed Danley wrote: >The message reads: > >The reason it is being held: >Posting to a moderated newsgroup > On the admin->Mail<->News gateways page, news_moderation is set to Moderated. It should probably be None unless you actually are gating to a moderated Usenet news group. It should definit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages moderated from port 2525

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Danley
The message reads: The reason it is being held: Posting to a moderated newsgroup When I go to the web page for Membership Management, the box for "mod" is not selected on any of the ids having problems. Of all of the boxes for the ID, only nodupes and plain are have a check mark in them. I a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

2005-05-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:20 PM -0500 2005-05-15, Matt England wrote: > May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) Low level smtp error: (110, 'Connection timed > out'), msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) Low level smtp error: please run connect() > first, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > May 15 17:58:22 2005

[Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

2005-05-15 Thread Matt England
Hello, I'm having outbound email problems on my qmail-based server. I've had the outbound email working previously on this server, so I know it CAN work. I upgraded Mailman to 2.1.6rc4 since then. Here's some of the smtp-failures log: May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) Low level smtp error: (110, '

Re: [Mailman-Users] Include original e-mail with Held notice

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bryan Carbonnell wrote: >When a post is over the max_message_size a held notice is sent back to >the sender. > >Is it possible to include the original e-mail with this held notice? >Or at least the first line of the e-mail? If admin_immed_notify is Yes, the entire post is attached to the notifica

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages moderated from port 2525

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ed Danley wrote: > >My domain host (http://www.siteground.com) runs mailman 2.1.5p1. I have a >mailing list setup for my church for general news. The pastor and secretary >are authorized to post. All others are moderated. > >This setup ran fine through my ISP, DSL via SBC, until SBC decided to star

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do the spammers do it?

2005-05-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:10 PM +0200 2005-05-15, Christophe Meessen wrote: > The only efficient filtering system I can think of would use mail > signature (pkcs7/pgp). Such signature can be generated for free it is > only used for a specific application like a mailing list. If the signature is automatical

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mailnull

2005-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Poltorak wrote: > >I've just tried send mailing to a mailman list and get this error:- > > > - Transcript of session follows - >Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail >wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but >the system's mail server executed the mail script as >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman FAQ

2005-05-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:36 PM -0400 2005-05-14, Deboo ^ wrote: > Is there a Mailman howto and some FAQ? Please provide the links. All the Mailman documentation is linked under , and the FAQ Wizard is at . -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] shunt dir and "Uncaught runner exception"

2005-05-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:43 PM -0400 2005-05-14, Charles Sprickman wrote: > The perms look OK, but I do remember many months ago that the "smtp" > logfile would sometimes revert to being owned by root rather than > mailman. Very odd. Are the logs being automatically rolled by a cron job? That might expl

[Mailman-Users] SPAM relayed mail through Mailman.

2005-05-15 Thread Colorado Tech Support
Hi, I'm pretty new to this, but I've got a problem. Last night, a SPAMer was able to relay 250 mail messages through my server and I can't figure out how they did it. Here's my configuration: Fedora Core 2 - kernel-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 apache - httpd-2.0.51-2.9 mailman-2.1.5-10.fc2 sendmail-8.12.1

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do the spammers do it?

2005-05-15 Thread Christophe Meessen
JLB wrote: ... > I just don't get it. Nobody on this mailing list would be stupid > enough to fall for a spammer. Of course. It is ment to catch trojans and spybots that steal valid emails without the user beeing aware of it. > Isn't there some way we can track these morons down and say "HEY

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do the spammers do it?

2005-05-15 Thread JLB
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Christophe Meessen wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:38:55 +0200 > From: Christophe Meessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Heather Madrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: mailman-users@python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How do the spammers do it? > > If each user used a specific

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do the spammers do it?

2005-05-15 Thread Christophe Meessen
If each user used a specific address to post to the list, one would know the source of inspiration of the spammer. For public lists it would not be easy to setup though. Another method which I suspect was used for this purpose is to send to each subcriber a mail with a specific reply-to address

[Mailman-Users] Unable to access web interface

2005-05-15 Thread William McLain
We recently started a new installation on a Mailman list on a new server, and transferrred several lists from another server. One list with about 4000 subscribers was not configured properly (left unmoderated) resulting in several auto-replies to get through which then resulted in a mass reply of