Mailman 3 August 1998 - Mailman-Users

Mailman configuration question
by GoBig Aug. 27, 1998

Aug. 27, 1998

Hi, I've just recently setup the mailman list server software and had a question I couldn't find the answer to. The question is: Is there any way to substitute this welcome announcement with one I modify?? I'd like to send a welcome msg to new users but the one listed below is far too detailed. I saw in the list configuration options, the ability to prepend a message to the "default" one but I'd like to do away with the "default" text below. Is this possible? Thanks, John Jones … [View More]

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misc problems and a bug report...
by Jerry Adlersfluegel Aug. 20, 1998

Aug. 20, 1998

I have set up 1.0b5 on linux 2.0.32 with sendmail 8.8.7. The list is working ok, after I turned down the number of connections to just one. Before that, multiple messages were going out all the time. I'm not sure if that problem is resolved yet; but that isn't why I am writing. On the list info page, at the bottom where you enter your address and hit "Edit Options," I receive the following in the error log (in addition to the web page error that's returned): Aug 20 23:35:21 1998 admin: [----… [View More]

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Localization
by Tomas Fasth Aug. 20, 1998

Aug. 20, 1998

Hi, I'm new to this list. IMHO, Mailman is a jolly good piece of software. Have anyone tried to localize Mailman (translate to another language)? A quick look gave me a hint that it isn't that straight forward. It seem to exist quite a number of texts intended for user presentation inside scripts. Oh, maybe some are for the administrator presentation. Anyway, I wish to translate the whole thing. Like to share experiences on this topic, anyone? I intend to join the developer's list as well to … [View More]

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mailman problem (?)
by bob＠staff.cs.usyd.edu.au Aug. 18, 1998

Aug. 18, 1998

I've installed mailman and followed the instructions to set up a list called test. I go to the management page for the list and I'm asked for"test Administrative Authentication". I enter the correct password (as verified in the initial mail) but the page that comes up is the general admin page (/mailman/admin). Is this correct? I was expecting a page to allow me to manage the list. Bob.

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mailman, pipermail
by David.Sparrman＠kristnet.org Aug. 9, 1998

Aug. 9, 1998

I need to get a listserver up and running in one week, and am currently checking out mailman. My current problem is that I am not familiar at all with mailing list software. (etc etc, standard newbie warning) The installation procedure for mailman is fairly well documented including shell commands except for one stage: "point an external archiver at the public and private archives" [pipermail]. I can't find anything in the pipermail package that give me any hints about how this should be … [View More]

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Hi and, well, er, Help!
by Mark Aug. 7, 1998

Aug. 7, 1998

Hi there. First, I must say that I am a Social Sciences major who has a work study job in the computer dept at my college, so please excuse that I am not that bright with computers and thus this silly question. We are transferring the administration of our all-campus mailing list to the Director of Propaganda..er Public Information and mailman looked like real sexy way for him to be able to administer and, well, I didn't want to setup majordomo again cause I was in hospital for weeks after an … [View More]

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low level failure
by Ken MacCuish Aug. 7, 1998

Aug. 7, 1998

FWIW I am having the same problem that Luke mentioned in an earlier posting. That is when trying to submit anyting via the web interface I receive the following: 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 … [View More]

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Odd b5 behavior
by Corbett J. Klempay Aug. 5, 1998

Aug. 5, 1998

I've been having this problem for a few days, and I am just trying to find out if anyone else here is experiencing a similar phenomenon (so that maybe I'll get lucky and talk to you and figure out what the story is): - 1.0b5 + sendmail 8.9.1 - RH Linux 5.1 (if you need more info, it's also http://www2.acm.jhu.edu -- there's lots of stuff there) There was some weirdness with permissions being set wrong with Linux + b5, but Barry issued a patch in about 2 seconds flat that cleared that one up. … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Odd b5 behavior
by Janne Sinkkonen Aug. 3, 1998

Aug. 3, 1998

"Corbett J. Klempay" <cklempay(a)acm.jhu.edu> writes: > How do I check? Is this what I see when I do mailq? If that's it, it's > empty. Ok. > > When I had a broken sendmail, most of the messages still went through. > > I don't know that my sendmail is really broken..it works with b4, and all > of our non-mailman mail is running smoothly. At least the MIME bug is not your problem, since it doesn't exist in 8.9.1. (BTW, practically all of our non-mailman mail ran … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Odd b5 behavior
by Janne Sinkkonen Aug. 3, 1998

Aug. 3, 1998

Ken Manheimer <klm(a)cnri.reston.va.us> writes: > There is a known bug in some recent versions of sendmail (8.8.x for some > x, and 8.9.0) such that the sendmail will core dump when attempting to > deliver mailman's (or any 8-bit encoded) Mime-format digests in certain > (somewhat uncommon) circumstances. The question then is, were the > messages that never appeared in the users mailbox Mime digests? And if > not, could you construct a repeatable test that at least … [View More]

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