Mailman 3 May 2002 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman password and administrative reminders
by Dan Mick 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

? This very message came to me with the following header: Errors-To: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org All my bounces come to the list admin address, set in the admin webpage, in the second field of General Options. Do you have that set to something, and bounces still come to root? > 2. Bounces are sent to the poor postmaster instead of a -admin address. > I'm not entirely certain, but I think an Errors-To: header or something > like that in all Mailman messages might allow one to distribute that load > somewhat.

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External subscriber lists in 2.1
by J C Lawrence 23 Aug '02

23 Aug '02

Barry, In 2.1 when used with external subscriber storage (eg SQL), will the new equivalent of qrunner request and load the entire subscriber DB onto the heap prior to broadcast? <<Yeah, I'm cheating and being lazy on not checking the source myself>> Reason: This poses scaling problems for lists with very large numbers of subscribers. I'd suggest paging thru the set in blocks. ObExcuse: Chap on -users asking about millions of subscribers. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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MM2.1 CVS: broken configure script
by Matthias Klose 12 Jul '02

12 Jul '02

mailman checks for the installation directories during configury. IMO this wrongly assumes, that - the build machine is the target machine - the directories already exist during configuration - you don't use a temporary installation directory 2.1b2 works ok. Found this while making experimental Debian packages. Matthias ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/mailman \ --with-var-prefix=/var/lib/mailman \ --with-username=list \ --with-groupname=list \ --with-mail-gid=daemon --with-cgi-gid=www-data creating cache ./config.cache checking for --with-python... no checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin/python checking Python version... 2.1.3 checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for true... /bin/true checking for --without-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes checking for --with-var-prefix... /var/lib/mailman checking for --with-username... list checking for list UID... 38 checking for --with-groupname... list checking for list GID... 38 checking permissions on /var/lib/mailman... configure: error: ***** Installation directory /var/lib/mailman is not configured properly! ***** Directory doesn't exist: /var/lib/mailman make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1

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suggestion for configure
by Ron Jarrell 12 Jul '02

12 Jul '02

Add a --with-fqdn and --with-url or equivalent. The current cvs snapshot can't guess my fqdn on my production box, and it's used now to build a web of interconnected addresses, as well as populate the VIRTUAL_HOSTS table, so I had to do a bunch of deleting and repairing in mm_cfg. I can, if I *remember*, which I've already forgotten once, fix it when I build by setting FQDN and URL environment variables, so that configure picks those up by default, but I have a habit of just looking at config.status to see how I ran configure the last time. Having an explicit configure switch would be nice.

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Interesting study -- spam on posted addresses...
by Chuq Von Rospach 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

Interesting article on slashdot: <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/17/2031249> Basically, DSLreports did a test, and found that e-mail addresses posted on a web site could start seeing spam in as little as 8 hours. I mention it for two reasons. One, since mail lists manage e-mail addresses (and archives of e-mail addresses), it is yet antother indication of just why we have to be careful about presenting and disclosing that stuff. And second, since one of the addresses presented and disclosed is that of the admin, we really need to come up with ways that allow newbies to contact an admin without easily disclosing addresses to spammers. And, unfortunately, the security problems with formmail.pl have shown THAT isn't really the answer... Chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach (chuqui(a)plaidworks.com -- http://www.chuqui.com/) Will Geek for hardware. Very funny, Scotty. Now beam my clothes down here, will you?

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Wrong domain choosed when creating a new list (mm2.1b2)
by Danny Terweij 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

Hi, These are my mm_cfg settings: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lnx.p-s.nl' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.p-s.nl' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s:81/mailman/' DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = DEFAULT_URL_HOST DEFAULT_URL = DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN % DEFAULT_URL_HOST VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = 0 When i do creating a new list : ./newlist [root@lnx bin]# ./newlist Enter the name of the list: testlist-1 Enter the email of the person running the list: danny(a)terweij.nl Initial testlist-1 password: [aliases shown] Hit enter to notify testlist-1 owner... When i hit it and check my mailbox of danny(a)terweij.nl : mailman-admin(a)www.p-s.nl <mailman-admin(a)www.p-s.nl> wrote: > The mailing list `testlist-1' has just been created for you. The > following is some basic information about your mailing list. It is using DEFAULT_URL_HOST or DEFAULT_HOST_NAME instead of DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST. (in my case... the lists are not runing on www.p-s.nl, but on www.p-s.nl : 81 redirected internaly to my linux host lnx.p-s.nl) Where can i change this? Danny.

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problems subscribing via some webmail interface
by stefano danovaro 31 May '02

31 May '02

hello, I have mailman version 2.1b2+. Some users that use some webmail interfaces are experiencing problems with the subscription process. It seems that the reply to the confirmation request message arrives to mailman encoded with base64 and so the subscription fails. Is there a solution ? thanks, Stefano

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[ mailman-Bugs-563091 ] digest an option in confirm cgi
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 31 May '02

31 May '02

Bugs item #563091, was opened at 2002-05-31 15:14 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=563091&group_id… Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Christopher Donald Wiegand (cdwiegand) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: digest an option in confirm cgi Initial Comment: I have a list that has the digest option turned off (via the cgi). However, when I confirm a subscription to this list via the cgi link in the email, the page gives me the option of turning digests on (even though it is not an option when first subscribing to the list). Also, I would recommend that on that same confirmation page, the subscribe button be directly below the fields, and the cancel button on the side. I almost accidentally cancelled my confirmation... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=563091&group_id…

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bin/arch woes in 2.1b2
by Oliver Wang 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi, I am testing out 2.1b2 and try importing some mbox with foreign characters by "bin/arch", and it broke down in the middle with following errors. Any ideas what is wrong? thanks /oliver main() File "bin/arch", line 148, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, Article, start, end) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 545, in processUnixMailbox m = mbox.next() File "/usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 33, in next return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop)) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 77, in scrubber return mailbox.scrub(msg) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 97, in scrub return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 114, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, filter_html=0) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 217, in save_attachment decodedpayload = msg.get_payload(decode=1) File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 162, in get_payload return Utils._bdecode(payload) File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 66, in _bdecode value = base64.decodestring(s) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 44, in decodestring return binascii.a2b_base64(s) binascii.Error: Incorrect padding __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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Help !
by Valentijn Borstlap 31 May '02

31 May '02

Hi, I tested mailman a while ago. But now I don't use it. It seems that my postfix program isn't working ok. Do you have some idea's on how I can uninstall mailman? Thanx in advance! Valentijn Borstlap ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FirstFind E-Consults Schrevenweg 5-17 8024 HB ZWOLLE T: 038-4530752 F: 038-4530761 U: firstfind.nl E: v.borstlap(a)firstfind.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** Voorbehoud FirstFind E-Consults: Aan de inhoud van dit e-mailbericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend, tenzij dit expliciet in dit bericht is verwoord. De informatie verzonden met dit e-mailbericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien het wordt ontvangen door iemand anders, wordt verzocht het te retourneren aan de afzender. *****************************************************

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