You need to have a mailing list named "mailman". The INSTALL file says:

- Create a "site-wide" mailing list.  This is the one that
  password reminders will appear to come from.  Usually this
  should be the "mailman" mailing list, but if you need to change
  this, be sure to change the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable in
  mm_cfg.py (see below).

      % bin/newlist mailman

  Follow the prompts, and see the README file for more
  information.

- You should then subscribe yourself to the mailman list.

- Stoney

On 12/2/02 5:20 PM, "NOW Website Coordinator" <webperson@now.org> wrote:

I can't find this answer in the archives, or in the scripts. The first time that 2.1 (right now I'm using 2.1b5) would send out password reminders, it failed with this message:

Your "cron" job on now /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds produced the following output: Site list is missing: mailman

When I look at the mailpasswds script, I find the section it came from:

# This is the list that all the reminders will look like they come from, # but with the host name coerced to the virtual host we're processing. try: sitelist = MailList.MailList(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST, lock=0) except Errors.MMUnknownListError: # Do it this way for I18n's _() sitelistname = mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST print >> sys.stderr, _('Site list is missing: %(sitelistname)s') syslog('error', 'Site list is missing: %s', mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST) sys.exit(1)

but I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. Is there something in mm_cfg.py I should set?

Thanks in advance.

By the way, this worked for 2.0.

Also: 2.1b5 fixed my earlier problem of not being able to see the members! Thanks.

Sarah Stapleton-Gray

Web Site Coordinator National Organization for Women http://www.now.org

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