Mailman 3 September 1998 - Mailman-Users

Possible buglet in mail->news gateway
by Cees de Groot Sept. 29, 1998

Sept. 29, 1998

I've just configured Mailman to run on a box that uses the Netscape servers (main, news, LDAP). It's doable and workable, if anyone is interested I can make a writeup. Two problems (apart from the ones that have to do with the Netscape software): - I encountered the URL problem pointed out by Greg and Bob. When entering ..../mailman/admin/list, I get the password box - whatever I do, I'm bounced back to .../mailman/admin. When inspecting the HTML, ACTION is set to "/mailman/admin" instead of "/mailman/admin/list". - With the mail->news gateway, my NNTP server complained about a duplicate Sender header. Dunnow whether it should've been stripped beforehand, but adding a "del msg['sender']" at line 121 of GatewayManager.py seems to do the trick. Last remark: Great stuff! I'll be replacing my Majordomo setup at home ASAP :-) Regards Cees -- Cees de Groot Acriter Consulting http://www.acriter.com

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Just a little help please. ;)
by Nimh Sept. 18, 1998

Sept. 18, 1998

Heya all, I have recently set up Mailman on my system in lue of Petidomo, and I must say I am most impressed. I only have a few questions: 1) Most of my subscribers are reciving more than one copy of every relayed email...so I set the max connections to 1 in the config (I saw that solution in the archives). Is that correct? 2) How do I get my archives working or are they not implemented yet? 3) What permissions do you all have set on your /home/mailman and the cgi scripts? I ended up adding mail and nobody to my mailman group. I am running RedHat Linux 5.1 with all the most recent errata updates for gcc etc etc. Thanks in advance, great job! -- Jason Wellman

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Archives
by Marek Habersack Sept. 10, 1998

Sept. 10, 1998

Hi, Well, I have just installed mailman for the first time and so far everything works fine except for the archives. I have downloaded the pipermail software, but cannot find any suitable explanation on how to install it to work with mailman. I assume that it involves creating ScriptAlias for Apache, but how where should the alias point? To mailman/archives/public/? I will be grateful for a hint or two on how to configure the two pieces of software to work in concert :))) grendel

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mailman dies insider deliver...
by Joseph T. Bore Sept. 2, 1998

Sept. 2, 1998

after installing b5, with python 1.5, and chmod'ing all the appropriate directories according to all the messages in the archive I am still experiencing problems. No mail is being delivered. If I mail to any mailing list on my machine the following shows up in the mailman logs. Any help is greatly appreciated since all my lists have broke... 8( jb Sep 02 00:10:46 1998 deliver (child): Traceback (innermost last): deliver (child): File "/home/mailman/scripts/deliver", line 154, in ? deliver (child): main() deliver (child): File "/home/mailman/scripts/deliver", line 49, in main deliver (child): do_child() deliver (child): File "/home/mailman/scripts/deliver", line 57, in do_child deliver (child): spawns = string.atol(sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]) deliver (child): ValueError : empty string for atol()

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