Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't create list

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Brown wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:04:46PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Put the following in mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'vidiot.com' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'vidiot.com' Those two lines were there. VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() Don't see this mentioned in the Defaults.py file. It's not.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carlos Williams wrote: > >So I think I am simply going to just "rm -rf >/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox/mailman.box" > >This will retain the first mailman.box directory which is expected to >be there and then remove everything beyond that. >I will then assume at some point Mailman w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't create list

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Brown wrote: > >I tried it from work and got the same problem, virtual host unknown: >vidiot.com Then vidiot.com is not a url host in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS dictionary. Put the following in mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'vidiot.com' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'vidiot.com' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_vi

[Mailman-Users] honeypot lists Re: mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Gadi Evron
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Krystal Zipfel wrote: The problem I see with this is much like the DNSBLs and Block lists (spamhaus?). As Jason put it, one person's spam could very much be another person's ham, so mail starts getting rejected by those who outright trust such a database and it is hell tr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't create list

2008-07-14 Thread Mike Brown
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:04:46PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Put the following in mm_cfg.py > > DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'vidiot.com' > DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'vidiot.com' Those two lines were there. > VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() Don't see this mentioned in the Defaults.py file. > add_virtualhost(DEFAULT

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: > I have no idea how this happened. I suspect somehow instead of > mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox being a file, it somehow became a link back > to its parent. If this is the case, even "rm -rf > /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox" may not succeed because it may > loop indef

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, Stephen J. Turnbull: > This is a market to gain for Mailman but it currently lacks a few > features to do that. Well, my post is slowly getting off topic But IMO it would be quite on-topic for mailman-developers. This kind of post would be more effective in inciting dev activity i

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
Gadi, I think we could certainly do this, but we would need to carefully vette the subscriptions to try to keep the more advanced spammers from sneaking in. Feel free to discuss this with me offline, if you like. -- Brad Knowles Sent from my iPhone On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Gadi Evro

[Mailman-Users] Updated mmfold.py

2008-07-14 Thread skip
A long time ago I wrote a small Python script to allow me to easily manage held messages for a number of Mailman-managed mailing lists. It worked well for me, but was still a bit cumbersome because it required me to enter the admin or moderator password for each list. I fixed that a few days ago,

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Krystal Zipfel
The problem I see with this is much like the DNSBLs and Block lists (spamhaus?). As Jason put it, one person's spam could very much be another person's ham, so mail starts getting rejected by those who outright trust such a database and it is hell trying to get removed from those said lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Jason Pruim
First, I think it would have better luck on the developers mailing list :) But as for the idea, I think it could work, but someone would have to provide the hosting for the database that would hold all the info. And we would have to figure out who would be a "trusted" source to report the

[Mailman-Users] mailman servers coordination: find spammers

2008-07-14 Thread Gadi Evron
I often see addresses popping up and subscribing to all visible lists on my servers. Sometimes they're a curious individual, and most times they are spammers harversting addresses (as these are open only to admin). I wonder what the coding "price" would be, if it can even work with mailman,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Zbigniew Szalbot writes: > 1/ Mailman as a discussion list - like the one we're having here. I > don't imagine spammers would be setting up their lists as discussion > list, would they? I don't actually imagine big time spammers using > mailman. They're all about botnets. Big time spammers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't create list

2008-07-14 Thread Mike Brown
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:03:41PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Because those host names are not in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS dictionary. You > could put something like > > add_virtualhost('192.168.1.1', '192.168.1.1') > > in mm_cfg.py and then create a list in the '192.168.1.1' domain, but > don't do th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Runaway python process

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Cravens
Dragon wrote: Andy Cravens wrote: I'm running Mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. Sometime this weekend we had a mail loop which pounded our list server. The mail loop has been fixed but there is a python process that is consuming an entire cpu. Further inspection of this process reveals: qrunne

Re: [Mailman-Users] Runaway python process

2008-07-14 Thread Dragon
Andy Cravens wrote: I'm running Mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. Sometime this weekend we had a mail loop which pounded our list server. The mail loop has been fixed but there is a python process that is consuming an entire cpu. Further inspection of this process reveals: qrunner --runner=Arch

[Mailman-Users] Runaway python process

2008-07-14 Thread Andy Cravens
I'm running Mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. Sometime this weekend we had a mail loop which pounded our list server. The mail loop has been fixed but there is a python process that is consuming an entire cpu. Further inspection of this process reveals: qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s I'm as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone else reported a similar symptom a month or two ago. (I just > tried to find this in the archive, and I see it was you, not someone > else.) Yes - I reported this during my migration help email. It was me... > I h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carlos Williams wrote: >I have no idea what happened to my mailman installation. As far as I >can tell from a very basic administrative and user level, it works >perfect with my Postifx install. Only only noticed this was a problem >when I started to migrate my mailman data to a new email server I

[Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Carlos Williams
I have no idea what happened to my mailman installation. As far as I can tell from a very basic administrative and user level, it works perfect with my Postifx install. Only only noticed this was a problem when I started to migrate my mailman data to a new email server I am building to replace this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Yum install of mailman on CentOS 5

2008-07-14 Thread Timm Stamer
Hi Duncan, is SELinux enabled? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# getenforce If SELinux is enforcing set it temporary into permissive mode by [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# setenforce 0 and check your webinterface again. Timm Mark Sapiro schrieb: Duncan Drury wrote: After bringing the RedirectMatch ^/