[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.6 and Office 2007 documents

Whitcomb, Jeff jmwhitco at samford.edu
Thu Mar 27 14:55:52 CET 2008 

Mark,

Thanks for the reply.  I guess I forgot to mention that Barracuda is only catching the mail with the Office 2007 attachment if it was sent to a list for delivery.  If I send an email directly to another person on campus, not using a list, then the message delivers fine.

Jeff Whitcomb
Technology Services Manager
Member: Staff Advisory Council
Cumberland School of Law - Samford University
205-726-4662

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: how do I delete a pending subsc request for	themailman
      list (Mark Sapiro)
   2. Re: Mailman 2.1.6 and Office 2007 documents (Mark Sapiro)
   3. Re: Mailman 2.1.6 and Office 2007 documents (Brad Knowles)
   4. Re: Mailman does not deliver messages any more (Mark Sapiro)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:49:01 -0700
From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I delete a pending subsc request
	for	themailman list
To: Steve Lindemann <steve at marmot.org>,	mailman-users at python.org
Message-ID: <PC1760200803261849010875bb981f6c at msapiro>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Steve Lindemann wrote:
>
>> The Mailman at marmot.org mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your
>> consideration at:
>> 
>> 	http://email.marmot.org/mailman/admindb/mailman
>> 	
<snip>
>
>Following the provided link doesn't take me to the usual login page, 
>instead I end up on the generic listinfo page 
>(email.marmot.org/mailman/listinfo).
>
>I can log into the list management interface for the mailman list, but 
>when I click on the link to "Tend to pending moderator requests" I end 
>up on the same general listinfo page instead.


The underlying problem is in your web server config. Assuming apache,
you probably have something like

RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$   /mailman/listinfo

This needs to be anchored as in

RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$   /mailman/listinfo

As a workaround, you can go to
http://email.marmot.org/mailman/admindb/mailman/x which will work
because the 'x' doesn't match in the redirect and it is igmored by the
admindb cgi. I don't recall for sure if the subsequent post will work
or have the same problem.


>I found the controlling file(s) in /var/mailman/lists/mailman... 
>leastwise the members name and address are in the request.pck file.  Can 
>I simply delete request.pck (and/or request.db) to clear this?  Is there 
>anything else I need to do to clear the pending subscription?  Thanks!


Yes, you can just delete request.pck (request.db is left over from
pre-2.1.5 and is not used).

There may also have been a pending subscription in pending.pck, but
it's probably expired by now.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:03:14 -0700
From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.6 and Office 2007 documents
To: "Whitcomb, Jeff" <jmwhitco at samford.edu>,
	<mailman-users at python.org>
Message-ID: <PC1760200803262003140406dcfc0304 at msapiro>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Whitcomb, Jeff wrote:

>Has anyone run into issues with the Barracuda SPAM filter catching
>emails sent through mailman 2.1.6 with the new Office 2007 format
>documents attached?  The email admin says Barracuda is seeing the
>messages as containing a .zip attachment, not a .docx attachment.  We
>disabled the .zip filtering temporarily to work around the problem.  The
>email admin is contacting Barracuda to see if this is there problem, and
>I thought I would ping here to see if others might be having the same
>problem.


OT, but...

docx files are zip archives containing a number of xml files, so
Barracuda is recognizing the file by its content rather than by
extension.

Perhaps Barracuda would be willing/able to make their appliance perform
a more in depth content analysis to determine if this zip file appears
to be a docx or open document or Google Earth .kmz or other known file
type which is in fact a zip archive of other files, but apparently
they do not currently do this.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:13:25 -0500
From: Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.6 and Office 2007 documents
To: "Whitcomb, Jeff" <jmwhitco at samford.edu>,
	<mailman-users at python.org>
Message-ID: <p06240801c410c11e3414@[192.168.1.199]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"

On 3/26/08, Whitcomb, Jeff wrote:

>  Has anyone run into issues with the Barracuda SPAM filter catching
>  emails sent through mailman 2.1.6 with the new Office 2007 format
>  documents attached?  The email admin says Barracuda is seeing the
>  messages as containing a .zip attachment, not a .docx attachment.  We
>  disabled the .zip filtering temporarily to work around the problem.  The
>  email admin is contacting Barracuda to see if this is there problem, and
>  I thought I would ping here to see if others might be having the same
>  problem.

Note that .docx *IS* a ZIP file.  See 
<http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=73329>.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:31:35 -0700
From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman does not deliver messages any
	more
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
Cc: mailman-users at python.org
Message-ID: <PC17602008032621313502031623502e at msapiro>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>
>OutgoingRunner was running, and there were messages in qfiles/out. Other 
>points from that FAQ entry didn't apply much as well.


If there were messages in qfiles/out/, but they weren't being picked up
by OutgoingRunner, OutgoingRunner was in some funny state or it may
have been hung waiting for a low level SMTP response.


>Simply restarting Mailman helped (why didn't I do it in the first place? 
>I guess I'm just not accustomed to restarting), but I'm still not sure 
>of the reason it stopped delivering messages.


For whatever reason, OoutgongRunner wasn't doing its job. Restarting
Mailman got it going again. Possibly something as simple as sending it
a SIGHUP would have started it too.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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