BUG: virtual hosting (was Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in b7?)
Ken Manheimer wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Greg Stein wrote: ...
Could this be due to the "per-virtual host" list option? I don't recall exactly how/where you set that, but I've got it set on my mailman installation. Lists will only appear if the hostname in the URL matches the hostname listed in the configuration for the "URL root" or whatever it is called.
Correct - jason, you might try adding the line:
VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = 0
to the end of Mailman/mm_cfg.py.
By inhibiting VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW you set the overview pages to show all the advertised hosts, not just the hosts which have a "preferred" host name that's the same as the one by which people are getting to the overview page. If it works, then you may want to check the setting for DEFAULT_HOST_NAME, also in mm_cfg.py (or Defaults.py in the same dir, if it was never overridden). You can also specify the preferred host name on a per-list basis - it's one of the the options at the bottom of the admin 'general options' page.
Speaking of virtual hosts...
BUG REPORT:
When the automated, monthly reminder goes out, the text uses a host name that might not apply to all the mailing lists in the combined reminder(!).
I got a number of emails on January 1 when people received their mailing list reminder for harleydavidson.com (I run a mailing list for that domain). People couldn't quite see how the Python2C Announcement list should be hosted on harleydavidson.com :-)
The combined report is cool and all :-), but I would recommend that it only combines reports for lists on the same virtual host!
thx -g
-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Greg Stein wrote:
Speaking of virtual hosts...
BUG REPORT:
When the automated, monthly reminder goes out, the text uses a host name that might not apply to all the mailing lists in the combined reminder(!).
I got a number of emails on January 1 when people received their mailing list reminder for harleydavidson.com (I run a mailing list for that domain). People couldn't quite see how the Python2C Announcement list should be hosted on harleydavidson.com :-)
Yikes! But with an amusing touch of irony, i must say:-)
The combined report is cool and all :-), but I would recommend that it only combines reports for lists on the same virtual host!
Good point. It should not be hard.
All the relevant logic is in ~mailman/cron/mailpasswds. The fragment that does the grouping needs to be more discerning about how it groups, factoring in virtual host, and then the messages need to be sent out as if from mailman-admin on that virtual host. (Hmm - that's a bit of a problem, because currently mailman doesn't distinguish a number of owners. It can be kludged for now in mailpasswd, but a functional interface should be created to provide an owner address distinguished by host.)
If anyone want to look at it, please do so - but realize that changes to mailpasswds requires good testing, because it only happens periodically, and causes a lot of traffic, quite a nuisance if it goes awry. I usually test with a version where the actual sends are inhibited, producing output to identify that it's doing what i want, before committing anything.
If no one gets to it, i should before the end of the year. (Kidding - but i really do not know when i will next be able to change anything in mailman and have adquate time for testing the changes - no point in hacking if i can't be confident it works!)
Ken
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