Mailman-Users July 1998

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1.0b5 problem!
by Luke 28 Jul '98

28 Jul '98

Hello. . .i just installed Mailman 1.0b5 on my MkLinux box (1.0b4 was working fine) and I get the following error when trying to access any of the CGI stuff. . .any ideas? Luke luke(a)indy.net "Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain"---Two Step

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ANNOUNCE: Mailman 1.0b5 release
by John＠list.org 27 Jul '98

27 Jul '98

Version 1.0b5 of the Mailman mailing list manager is now available from the Mailman web page: http://www.list.org/ Via ftp, the release is available at: ftp://www.list.org/pub/mailman/mailman-1.0b5.tar.gz New in this version: - New file locking that should be portable and work w/ NFS. - Better use of packages. - Better error logging and reporting. - Less startup overhead. - Various and sundry bug fixes. Please be sure to read the README file after downloading. John Viega

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compatibility NCSA httpd
by Jean-Bernard ADDOR 26 Jul '98

26 Jul '98

Hy! I considere to install mailman, do you have an idea if it is compatible with NCSA httpd? Or will I have to install apache? CU Jean-Bernard

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Who is using MailMan?
by Jean-Bernard ADDOR 25 Jul '98

25 Jul '98

Hy again! Do exist a list of servers using MailMan (other than python.org)? CU Jean-Bernard

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compatibility mhonarc
by Jean-Bernard ADDOR 25 Jul '98

25 Jul '98

Hy! If I install mailman, can I use mhonarc for archiving the messages? Would it be easier to install pipermail too? CU Jean-Bernard

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compatibility procmail
by Jean-Bernard ADDOR 25 Jul '98

25 Jul '98

Hy! Always, considering to install mailman. Can it be used on the same computer as procmail? CU Jean-Bernard

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mail encoding
by guenter＠ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de 23 Jul '98

23 Jul '98

Hi, Mailman seems to encode mails that it sends to list member, at least in digest mode. It changes german umlauts to escape sequences most email clients cannot decode. In particular, the ae-umlaut (ä) is encoded as the three characters escape, a, :. I have seen this with other list servers before and am not sure, why this is done (maybe there exists some standard somewhere which says to do this). I have tried sendmail from the command line and it does not do it. Generally two methods of transferring eight bit characters work a lot better: 1. leave them as they are 2. add the header "Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable" and encode as "=" plus the hex code of the character. Is there any way to make mailman use one of the above schemes? Is the mime module of python the culprit? Has anyone else experienced similar problems? - Guenter -- Guenter Radestock, Universitaetsbibliothek Karlsruhe guenter(a)ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/~guenter

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Multilingual support in mailman?
by Farzad FARID 07 Jul '98

07 Jul '98

Hello, I'm planning to use mailman on a mailing-list I'm gonna create. But I'd rather have it display all messages in french :) Right now I see that I'd have to edit many scripts to translate the texts. Would it be possible to have a version in which the texts and the scripts are separated? That would make translation easier. Furthermore by greping the sources I see that many sentences are repeated often. Wouldn't it be safer to have only one definition of these across all scripts? For example "-- confirmation of subscription -- request" is used 4 times in 3 scripts: ./cgi/subscribe: list.SendTextToUser(subject = "%s -- confirmation of subscription -- request %d" % \ ./modules/mm_mailcmd.py: conf_pat = r"%s -- confirmation of subscription -- request (\d\d\d\d\d\d)" % \ ./modules/mm_mailcmd.py: self.SendTextToUser(subject = "%s -- confirmation of subscription -- request %d" % \ ./modules/mm_pending.py: %(listname)s -- confirmation of subscription -- request %(cookie)s Having only one string would also make translation a lot easier :) Another question: has mailman been tested on large lists? Like around 500 subscribers. Thanks. -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau Publicis Technology

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huh?
by Corbett J. Klempay 07 Jul '98

07 Jul '98

I just started a new mailman list...and since I don't have Pipermail running, I went in the admin pages to edit the HTML for the General List Information page...I wanted to kill the section that links to the archives. However, after I make the changes and put in the admin password, it comes up with a page saying I input the wrong admin password. I know it's right, though, because I can even go and verify it's the right one by relogging in as admin with this same password... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corbett J. Klempay Quote of the Week: http://www2.acm.jhu.edu/~cklempay "The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends." PGP Fingerprint: 7DA2 DB6E 7F5E 8973 A8E7 347B 2429 7728 76C2 BEA1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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