[Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-01 Thread tanstaafl
Hello, I'm still trying to fix a problem I've had for a long time (started after an update) where mailman won't start from the standard init script. I think I have finally figured out what the problem is, but wanted to ask... Is the mailman user supposed to be passwordless? I know I'm running a

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and group mismatch error

2009-08-01 Thread Greg White
> Mark wrote: >> Greg wrote: >> >># ls -lhZ /etc/aliases* >>-rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_aliases_t /etc/aliases >>-rw-r--r-- root root system_u:object_r:etc_aliases_t /etc/aliases.db >> >># ls -lhZ /etc/mailman/aliases* >>-rw-rw root mailman user_u:object_r:mailman_data_t /etc/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing confirmation requests and held messages

2009-08-01 Thread Gregory Skelton
Hi Mark and et al, I apologize for not explaining myself very well before. The collaboration that I work for has had MailMan lists for over 10 years, and we've recently run into a problem with our lists. I've read through the install directions and have even googled the problem; without any r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing confirmation requests and held messages

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Gregory Skelton wrote: > >The problem we're having looks like this. When we have messages held for >moderator approval, when there "approved" the message disappears and >doesn't get delivered to the list. The things we've already look at are: >the mailman cron job, owned my mailman is in place a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

2009-08-01 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Karl Zander wrote: > > >This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken. > > It's a bit dated, but I have a rant about broken autoresponder here: > > http://goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and group mismatch error

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Greg White wrote: > >I then use mutt (still as root) to send an email and this is what I see in >/var/log/maillog >Aug 1 13:21:44 list postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system >Aug 1 13:21:44 list postfix/master[2494]: daemon started -- version 2.3.3, >configuration /etc/postfix

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

2009-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Karl Zander wrote: This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken. It's a bit dated, but I have a rant about broken autoresponder here: http://goldmark.org/netrants/auto-resp/ As others have said, if an autoresponder is responding repeatedly to the sa

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and group mismatch error

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Greg White wrote: > >> Mark wrote: >> >> The above looks good. what is the exact group mismatch error message >> you get in the DSN and/or maillog when you mail to t...@list.xyz.com? > >To send the test message I sshd into my box as user, su - to root, and did: ># /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trivial prob in migrating

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
viz wrote: > >The next question is the archives. > >http://server/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo brings me: > > Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9 > We're sorry, we hit a bug! > Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. > Printing of traceback and other system information has > >/var/lib/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Membership Management Question

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Boes, RaeLynn wrote: >I can't seem to find where to add a new member to an existing list. >Can you help? You can directly add or invite members on the web admin Membership Management... -> Mass Subscription page. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Cali

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing confirmation requests and held messages

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Gregory Skelton wrote: > >I'm kinda new to the administrating mailman lists, and I've recently run >into a problem with our current setup. We have multiple list, all the data >is mounted over nfs, and we're seeing missing emails. For instance, we've >had some users try to subscribe to a list but

Re: [Mailman-Users] sitewide mailman list

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Melinda Humphrey-Gilmore wrote: >I feel like this is a silly question, but I have search all of the setting >files on my mailman server. When users send a message to mailman@, a copy >of the message is going to another email address. This was done by another >tech no longer with us. I cannot f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error Running bin/genaliases

2009-08-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
anirudh nair wrote: > >I get the following error while running bin/genaliases > >anir...@ani-lap:/usr/local/mailman/bin$ ./genaliases >postalias: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = It looks like you have a problem in your Postfix configuration. This is not a genaliases problem. You'll

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trivial prob in migrating

2009-08-01 Thread viz
Hi Mark and all That problem was solved, although not exactly according to your instructions (see details below). I have another prob at the bottom of this mail. Ref: Mark Sapiro 28.07.2009 16:07 > v...@lug.zhaw.ch wrote: > > > >This is roughly what I did: > >- copied old:/usr/local/mailman/{lis

[Mailman-Users] Membership Management Question

2009-08-01 Thread Boes, RaeLynn
I can't seem to find where to add a new member to an existing list. Can you help? RaeLynn --- RaeLynn Boes UGRL Operations Coordinator Purdue University Libraries (49)4-2842 rb...@purdue.edu ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and group mismatch error

2009-08-01 Thread Greg White
> Mark wrote: > >> Greg wrote: >> >>I am running Centos 5.3 with all of the updates. I needed a mail list server >>so I installed mailman and postfix. I did yum install postfix and yum install >>mailman. postfix installed and can send email to my live account so it is >>working. mailman is inst

[Mailman-Users] held messages problem

2009-08-01 Thread Gregory Skelton
Hi All, I'm kinda new to the administrating MailMan lists, and I've recently run into a problem with our current setup. We have multiple list, all the data is mounted over nfs, and we're seeing missing emails. We're seeing "held" messages in a qeue, but when its authorized, it doesn't get sent

[Mailman-Users] Missing confirmation requests and held messages

2009-08-01 Thread Gregory Skelton
Hi All, I'm kinda new to the administrating mailman lists, and I've recently run into a problem with our current setup. We have multiple list, all the data is mounted over nfs, and we're seeing missing emails. For instance, we've had some users try to subscribe to a list but don't get a confi

[Mailman-Users] sitewide mailman list

2009-08-01 Thread Melinda Humphrey-Gilmore
I feel like this is a silly question, but I have search all of the setting files on my mailman server. When users send a message to mailman@, a copy of the message is going to another email address. This was done by another tech no longer with us. I cannot find where he made that change. I wan

[Mailman-Users] Error Running bin/genaliases

2009-08-01 Thread anirudh nair
Hii Guys I get the following error while running bin/genaliases anir...@ani-lap:/usr/local/mailman/bin$ ./genaliases postalias: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = Traceback (most recent call last): File "./genaliases", line 116, in main() File "./genaliases", line 102, in mai