Mailman 3 October 1998 - Mailman-Users

archiving and piper
by Darren Henderson Oct. 9, 1998

Oct. 9, 1998

Does anyone have any pointers to info on configuring/installing piper and getting it working with mailman. Perhaps I'm overlooking it in the distributions I pulled in or perhaps I'm looking to hard and its simpler then I'm thinking it should be:) ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren(a)jasper.somtel.com Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/

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installing on freebsd 2.2.1
by Darren Henderson Oct. 9, 1998

Oct. 9, 1998

mailman configures just fine but when I try to make it I get.... for d in bin cron filters mail misc Mailman scripts src templates; do (cd $d; make); done for d in Cgi Logging; do (cd $d; make); done gcc -DSCRIPT="\"admin\"" -I. -DCGI_GID=65534 -g -O2 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DSTDC_HEA DERS=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DGETGROUPS_T=gid_t -DHAVE_VPRINTF=1 common.o -o admin /usr/lib/crt0.o: Undefined symbol `_main' referenced from text segment *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. I'm gonna go start digging through the code but on the off chance someone has solved this already... ______________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren(a)jasper.somtel.com Help fight junk e-mail, visit http://www.cauce.org/

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Mailman not sending out post
by Jacques Rall Oct. 9, 1998

Oct. 9, 1998

Hi all, We've recently installed mailman here to evaluate it, but ran into a brick wall: mailman does not redistribute any post. It seems that mailman is receiving the post with no problems but it is not sending it out to any of the subscribed users. We've run all the commands in the crontab to no avail. What shall we do? Thanks in advance, Jacques

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former SmartList users?
by rob＠alegria.com Oct. 6, 1998

Oct. 6, 1998

I've been using SmartList (3.11pre7) for many years and am interested in switching my list software to something more current. Are there any former SmartList users here on mailman-users who can tell me that I'll be making the right move? thanks. --Rob -- Rob Lingelbach | 6418 Velasco Ave., Dallas, TX 75214 rob(a)alegria.com |"I would give nothing for that man's religion whose rob(a)info.com | very dog and cat are not the better for it." rob(a)tele.com http://www.alegria.com --Rowland Hill, "Village Dialogues"

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Mailman with Exim?
by Peter Bowyer Oct. 6, 1998

Oct. 6, 1998

I've got the WWW interface working finally - after sorting the permissions and ownerships out as recommended in advice in the archives. But all main commands fail with this : Child process of address_pipe transport returned 69 from command: Any suggestions? I suspect it's permissions again - what user/group should I tell exim to run the command as? Thanks for any help. Peter

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Re: HELP! Really like mailman, need help getting
by LUK ShunTim Oct. 6, 1998

Oct. 6, 1998

Hi, I installed mailman in my Debian 2.0 machine and I ran into exactly the same problem as John Lewis, whose posting I found in the mailman list archive. (And I shared his feeling towards majordomo.) In configurating the Makefile, default values coming with the source are used. The MTA is smail (Debian default), not sendmail and I've added the required aliases in /etc/aliases and ran newaliases. One more observation: When I tried the administration page, in the General Options Section, there are a numbers of links named "Details" which should be pointing to some topic specific explanation but they all gave the Administrative Authentication page although a look at the HTML source show that that are indeed pointing to different locations. Any suggestions on how to solve the problem? ST --

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nancies
by Brian Conlin Oct. 6, 1998

Oct. 6, 1998

if one of you run the nancies mailing list I need help removing my name from the list, everytime I try they say my file has gone astray, please help Thank you, Brian Conlin

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Mailman Installation Problem??
by Larry C. Murdock Oct. 1, 1998

Oct. 1, 1998

I have recently installed mailman package (mailman-1.0b5/Python-1.5.1) and with some minor tweeking have gotten it up and running. I have created the test list and have run into some problems with the feature of allowing only list members to be able to post. I have no problems with members posting, however, I have run into errors from the scripts when a non user attempts to post. As administrator, I receive two copies of the email notification to permit the post and one copy from the mailer daemon indicating an "unknown mailer error 1". As a bit of backgroound information, I had to open up the data directory (777) to get the posting to work (otherwise receiving permission problems). The installation is on a Solaris 2.6 system. The following is the output from ~mailman/logs/error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Larry Murdock UC Santa Barbara - - - - - - Sep 30 17:42:19 1998 contact_transport: Traceback (innermost last): contact_transport: File "/home/mailman/scripts/contact_transport", line 52, in ? contact_transport: OutgoingQueue.processQueue() contact_transport: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line 38, in processQueue contact_transport: Utils.TrySMTPDelivery(recip,sender,text,full_fname) contact_transport: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 204, in TrySMTP Delivery contact_transport: OutgoingQueue.dequeueMessage(queue_entry) contact_transport: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line 25, in dequeueMessage contact_transport: os.unlink(msg) contact_transport: os . error : (2, 'No such file or directory') - - - - - -

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HELP! Really like mailman, need help getting it to work.
by John Lewis Oct. 1, 1998

Oct. 1, 1998

Greetings all, I'm REALLY excited about mailman, and am dying to get it up and running. I followed the very well written instructions (except for the mail archiver section), and am running into the following problem. Firstly, I am running Redhat 5.1 on an Intel box. Python 1.5 is installed. I skipped the mail archiver step as I could not make heads or tails of the recommended software. I created a new list without a problem, and was able to access it with a web browser. However, when trying to submit changes, I would get the below response. Please, I am not exactly a UNIX guru, but desperately need to get a mailing list system up and running for our non profit organization, and really would love to get mailman working rather than having to wrestle with majordomo. ANY help anyone can offer to get this going would help extremely. Thanks. John Lewis -------------------- We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Content-type: text/html We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback. Please report this to the Mailman administrator at this site.

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