Has any other cpanel hosts had the problem where a user is sending out a mailing list and it goes out of control, sometimes sending hundreds of emails to one or all of the addresses?

I seen this before, and could not reproduce the problem, but my users (more then one) have stated their mailing list goes out of control, today a lady said 1 person got 20 emails of the identical message

Any help would be appreciated :)

Never had this problem. You should e-mail it to mailman-users@python.org and see what they got to say.

I haven't any experience of this type of problem.May be it is a control panel's bug.So you should contact to your control panel provider.
Thank you

...........Has any other cpanel hosts..........

I know HostRocket was having problems a couple months ago with the mailing list and they just ended up disabling it I think. You might want to check with Brendan and see if he has any suggestions for you.

There was fix, and it looks like the system overwrote the fix, so our tech has setup a cron to make sure it doesnt happen again

I got the same problem! I set up a mailling list and choose and option to email mailling list admin (me) when a user is subscribed/unsubscribed to the mailling list. Then I subscribed about 40 email accounts ... set a mail forwarding from that mailling list admin's email account to my primary email account ... and ... wholla .. I am getting about 2-3000 (yes, thosands already) emails by now (to my primary email account). Funny though, I disable the forwarding and overwrite the inbox of the mailling list admin's email account (to empty), and I am still getting hundreds of these emails. I need to know how to fix this... Anybody knows?

Man ... I am just hoping none of the people I subscribed will get the same problem ...

cheers,
:beer:

Does anybody knows what is this error: (it happen when i try to create a mail list through cpanel). Burstnet is not giving me answers about that...

Account Created
The mailing list ht with password hf was sucessfully created.

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/newlist", line 220, in ?
main()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/newlist", line 216, in main
mlist.Unlock()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1351, in Unlock
self.__lock.unlock(unconditionally=1)
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 295, in unlock
islocked = self.locked()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 319, in locked
self.__touch()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 367, in __touch
t = time.time() + self.__lifetime
AttributeError: time
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cp_mailman", line 39, in ?
raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cp_mailman", line 24, in main
file=open('/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/' + list + '_' + domain + '/config.db','r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/ht_freeweb.com.ar/config.db'

From what Simon said, is you have to disable mailman from using sendmail, and this should fix the multi emails, check the cpanel forums and you will find a fix for it

Originally posted by rghigliazza
Does anybody knows what is this error: (it happen when i try to create a mail list through cpanel). Burstnet is not giving me answers about that...

Account Created
The mailing list ht with password hf was sucessfully created.

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/newlist", line 220, in ?
main()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/newlist", line 216, in main
mlist.Unlock()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1351, in Unlock
self.__lock.unlock(unconditionally=1)
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 295, in unlock
islocked = self.locked()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 319, in locked
self.__touch()
File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 367, in __touch
t = time.time() + self.__lifetime
AttributeError: time
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cp_mailman", line 39, in ?
raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cp_mailman", line 24, in main
file=open('/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/' + list + '_' + domain + '/config.db','r')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/ht_freeweb.com.ar/config.db'

I'm having the same problem with hosturbo.com. I have sent a request for hosturbo's support 3 times but not response received. :(