[volunteers] Fwd: The results of your email commands

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Apr 5 12:47:42 PDT 2007


Quoting Paul Reiber (paul at reiber.org):

> Rick - any idea what's going wrong w/ Paul Cubbage's email?

Hi, Paul R.  I'm CC'ing "volunteers" so that we can help maintain the
state of collective knowledge -- which I think is a good habit to
cultivate.  I'm also CC'ing Paul C., to keep him informed.


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul Cubbage <pcubbage at yahoo.com>
> Date: Apr 5, 2007 12:16 AM
> Subject: Fwd: The results of your email commands
> To: Paul Reiber <paul at reiber.org>
> 
> 
> I can't seem to get my email changed on the "improved" system.  Any ideas?
> 
> Note: forwarded message attached.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate
> in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.
> http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: svlug-bounces at lists.svlug.org
> To: pcubbage at yahoo.com
> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:14:53 -0700
> Subject: The results of your email commands
> The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
> original message.
> 
> - Results:
>    Invalid confirmation string.  Note that confirmation strings expire
> approximately 3 days after the initial subscription request.  If your
> confirmation has expired, please try to re-submit your original request or
> message.
> 
> - Unprocessed:
>    confirm 39cf583a6a6bb8adf2c5a0293a83f3ba5007c5b7
>    ____________________________________________________________________________________
>    Be a PS3 game guru.
>    Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! 
>    Games.
>    http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121
> 
> - Done.
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul Cubbage <pcubbage at yahoo.com>
> To: svlug-request at lists.svlug.org
> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 00:14:41 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: confirm 39cf583a6a6bb8adf2c5a0293a83f3ba5007c5b7
> confirm 39cf583a6a6bb8adf2c5a0293a83f3ba5007c5b7
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Be a PS3 game guru.
> Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
> http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121



One way to investigate is like this:

rick at svlug:~$ su -
Password: 
svlug:~# cd /var/local/mailman/logs/
svlug:/var/local/mailman/logs# ls -al
total 22072
drwxrwsr-x    5 root     mailman      4096 2005-03-06 13:59 .
drwxrwsr-x   21 root     root         4096 2006-12-12 17:44 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman   2056574 2007-04-05 12:00 bounce
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman    353352 2007-04-05 09:55 error
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     12490 2005-03-04 09:50 fromusenet
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     28519 2007-03-30 09:35 locks
-rw-rw-r--    1 www-data mailman     26690 2007-04-04 13:06 mischief
drwxrwsr-x    3 root     mailman      4096 2003-04-29 08:50 old
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 2003-10-17 08:09 old2
drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 2005-02-23 00:06 old3
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman   2277592 2007-04-05 12:11 post
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman     58286 2007-03-29 21:49 qrunner
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman   9714605 2007-04-05 12:11 smtp
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman   6882960 2007-04-01 05:00 smtp-failure
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman    324866 2007-04-05 10:54 subscribe
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman    762478 2007-04-05 12:08 vette
svlug:/var/local/mailman/logs# date
Thu Apr  5 12:34:26 PDT 2007
s# grep -i pcubbage at yahoo.com *
error:admin(30045): MMAlreadyAMember: pcubbage at yahoo.com
grep: old: Is a directory
grep: old2: Is a directory
grep: old3: Is a directory
post:Mar 20 13:16:13 2007 (1253) post to svlug from pcubbage at yahoo.com,
size=3382, message-id=<401258.46574.qm at web54512.mail.yahoo.com>, success
post:Mar 21 10:28:26 2007 (1253) post to svlug from pcubbage at yahoo.com,
size=3155, message-id=<785135.42899.qm at web54505.mail.yahoo.com>, success
subscribe:Mar 20 18:04:15 2007 (16504) svlug: pending Paul Cubbage
<pcubbage at yahoo.com>  67.180.161.143
subscribe:Mar 21 10:12:28 2007 (1250) svlug: new "pcubbage at yahoo.com"
<Paul Cubbage>, via email confirmation
vette:Mar 20 12:53:39 2007 (1251) svlug post from pcubbage at yahoo.com
held, message-id=<401258.46574.qm at web54512.mail.yahoo.com>: Post by
non-member to a members-only list
svlug:/var/local/mailman/logs# grep 39cf583a6a6bb8adf2c5a0293a83f3ba5007c5b7 *
error:admin(30045):     HTTP_REFERER:
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/confirm/svlug/39cf583a6a6bb8adf2c5a0293a83f3ba5007c5b7 
grep: old: Is a directory
grep: old2: Is a directory
grep: old3: Is a directory
svlug:/var/local/mailman/logs#

The entry in logfile "error" is as follows:

Apr 05 00:08:48 2007 admin(30045):
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 
admin(30045): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.6b4 -----] 
admin(30045): [----- Traceback ------] 
admin(30045): Traceback (most recent call last):
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main
admin(30045):     main()
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 137, in main
admin(30045):     addrchange_confirm(mlist, doc, cookie)
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 515, in addrchange_confirm
admin(30045):     op, oldaddr, newaddr = mlist.ProcessConfirmation(cookie)
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1202, in Pro cessConfirmation
admin(30045):     self.ApprovedChangeMemberAddress(oldaddr, newaddr, globally)
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1115, in ApprovedChangeMemberAddress
admin(30045):     self.changeMemberAddress(oldaddr, newaddr)
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 2 51, in changeMemberAddress
admin(30045):     password=password, language=lang)
admin(30045):   File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 1 75, in addNewMember
admin(30045):     raise Errors.MMAlreadyAMember, member
admin(30045): MMAlreadyAMember: pcubbage at yahoo.com
admin(30045): [----- Python Information -----] 
admin(30045): sys.version     =   2.2.1 (#1, May  3 2002, 23:19:03) [GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] 
admin(30045): sys.executable  =   /usr/bin/python 
admin(30045): sys.prefix      =   /usr 
admin(30045): sys.exec_prefix =   /usr 
admin(30045): sys.path        =   /usr 
admin(30045): sys.platform    =   linux2 
admin(30045): [----- Environment Variables -----] 
admin(30045):   HTTP_ACCEPT: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 
admin(30045):   CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded 
admin(30045):   HTTP_REFERER:
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/confirm/svlug/39cf583a6a6bb8adf2c5a0293a83f3ba5007c5b7 
admin(30045):   HTTP_X_BROWSER_TIMESTAMP: 0 
admin(30045):   PYTHONPATH: /var/local/mailman 
admin(30045):   SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.31 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.2.3 mod_ssl/2.8.19 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
admin(30045):   SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster at svlug.org 
admin(30045):   SCRIPT_NAME: /lists/confirm 
admin(30045):   SERVER_SIGNATURE: <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.31 Server at lists.svlug.org Port 80</ADDRESS>
admin(30045): 
admin(30045):   REQUEST_METHOD: POST 
admin(30045):   HTTP_HOST: lists.svlug.org 
admin(30045):   PATH_INFO: /svlug 
admin(30045):   SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 
admin(30045):   QUERY_STRING:  
admin(30045):   PATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/virtual/lists.svlug.org/svlug 
admin(30045):   SCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/local/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm 
admin(30045):   REQUEST_URI: /lists/confirm/svlug 
admin(30045):   CONTENT_LENGTH: 69 
admin(30045):   HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 
admin(30045):   HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11 
admin(30045):   HTTP_COOKIE: svlug+user+pcubbage--at--opencountry.com=280200000069b3051446732800000036393466663663313866616463393231646339396162303163623137306434323031363866633163 
admin(30045):   SERVER_NAME: lists.svlug.org 
admin(30045):   REMOTE_ADDR: 71.204.132.115 
admin(30045):   REMOTE_PORT: 3885 
admin(30045):   HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5 
admin(30045):   UNIQUE_ID: RhSggJ0WFOMAAHVZQGc 
admin(30045):   SERVER_PORT: 80 
admin(30045):   GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 
admin(30045):   HTTP_X_NAVID: 2d4-dcec80 
admin(30045):   HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip,deflate 
admin(30045):   SERVER_ADDR: 157.22.20.227 
admin(30045):   DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/virtual/lists.svlug.org 



Looks like Paul C.'s request to subscribe "pcubbage at yahoo.com" was
rejected because that address was already subscribed.  Checking the
roster, one indeed confirms that fact.

Paul C., if you have any problems, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Thanks.






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