Mailman 3 October 1999 - Mailman-Users

Problems with my domain
by Michael Rose 21 Oct '99

21 Oct '99

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I am having. When we send mail out using Mailman, the mail is only delivered to those with a domain of ag.arizona.edu. When I checked the smtp-failures file in my log directory, I got the following message, many times. This example is just from someone with the domain "u.arizona.edu" which are our primary users besides those with "ag.arizona.edu". Sep 15 20:10:11 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: To xxxxxx(a)u.arizona.edu: Sep 15 20:10:11 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: Mailman.pythonlib.smtplib.SMTPRecipient sRefused / {'xxxxxx(a)u.arizona.edu': (550, '<xxxxxx(a)u.arizona.edu>... we do not relay')} (dequeued) This message is shown with more than just people with domains "u.arizona.edu", there is also problems with "aol.com", etc. If anybody has any information that would help me solve this problem, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank-you. Michael Rose Ag Networking Lab Forbes 218 621-2489

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beginners questions
by Judge, Jack 20 Oct '99

20 Oct '99

Hi, I've just started playing with MM and I've a couple of questions. First of all, where is the URL for the overall server administrator ? I can find the pages for the individual list admins easily enough, but not one for the overall server administrator. As the server admin, how do I administer a list (or even remove one) if the list owner isn't available ? Is editing the mm_cfg.py file the only way of setting server policies ? And I suppose any policy changes I make wouldn't be retroactive and affect any previously created lists ? JJ

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still cant use admin interface
by Alex Knight 20 Oct '99

20 Oct '99

I'm still having problems using the admin interface. What's really odd is that there are no cookie problems, and nothing is complaining about there being any permissions problems (nothing). I've seen alot of people on FreeBSD complain about this over the last 6 weeks. Any possible connections? Knight

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Trying to use ht://dig for private archive
by Jerry Adlersfluegel 20 Oct '99

20 Oct '99

I have seen others mention that they are using ht://dig for searching their private archives by having it index the files on the disk instead of crawling through the web server. I have it installed and working, but I can't figure out how to to make htdig index the files. If anyone has this sort of setup working, please let me know what you had to do to configure it that way. Thank you. -- Jerry Adlersfluegel

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Error w/Mailman: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1
by Andy Ciordia 20 Oct '99

20 Oct '99

Every now and then mailman throws a piece of mail out that should be going to a group that does exist. Here's the error, if anyone has any suggestions or trouble shooting, it would be apprecaited. -Andy From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> To: webmaster-admin Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/d0/mailman/mail/wrapper post webmaster" (expanded from: <webmaster(a)goingv.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Traceback (innermost last): File "/d0/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ? mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) File "/d0/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 55, in __init__ raise Errors.MMUnknownListError, 'list not found: %s' % name MMUnknownListError: list not found: webmaster 554 "|/d0/mailman/mail/wrapper post webmaster"... unknown mailer error 1

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list-specific templates
by Rachel Willmer 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Sorry, my previous email wasn't clear. I know that you can modify some settings on a per list basis from the admin page on the lists website. I want to make the templates list-specific, and thought that I could change TEMPLATE_DIR to do this, to make it "templates/(listname)" rather than just "templates" Trying to append (real_name) to TEMPLATE_DIR doesn't work, I suspect this is getting interpolated at a later stage. So how can I change TEMPLATE_DIR on a per-list basis ? Rachel

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Importing users
by Stefan Neuenschwander 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Hello to all! We now have set up a listserver successfully. But we have the problem, that we have to move old lists to our new listserver. Is there a built-in way to import a userlist and get them sent a notification about there user-id with a preset password? thanks University of Berne Stefan Neuenschwander

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Re: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #363 - 10 msgs
by Soren Dayton 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

No it didn't. It wanted a better solution. I don't have this problem. Perhaps things aren't SGID? Soren gary <gary(a)rattler.cameron.edu> writes: > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 03:33:01 -0500 (CDT) > From: gary <gary(a)rattler.cameron.edu> > To: mailman-users(a)python.org > In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910160406110.16546-100000(a)rattler.cameron.edu> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910180329210.26797-100000(a)rattler.cameron.edu> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: unknown mailer error 2 [different than previous, similar notes] > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"... unknown mailer error 2 > > > > I tried a softlink in /etc/smrsh to /home/mailmail/mail/wrapper, restarted > > sendmail, and still had the same problem. > > Sendmail (/etc/sendmail.cf) wanted the line > > O DefaultUser=mailman:mailman > > Gary

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Can someone send me "patch-mailman.archiving.gz" please
by Paula 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

Can someone send me this patch so I can use an external archiver so that one can see attachment(.gif, .jpg) in the archive Thank you very much Paula...

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Virtual Hosting
by Nicholas Brenckle 19 Oct '99

19 Oct '99

A few questions about virtual hosting. Is anyone else doing this? Im not doing anything complicated, Im not even hosting a different domain, Im simply aliasing the machinename lists.blah.com to net233-220.blah.com Now, I have virutal hosting (I think) set up correctly in Apache. I can view "/listinfo" and it will display only those lists that i have set the preferred URL to the alias. Works great no? No. When I go to edit the list with the admin pages, it asks for my pw on every page reload and ignores my changes. Can someone post their Apache config entry for the virtual hosting section? Or are people only aliasing the MX records and things, NOT the web interface? -Nick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Brenckle Yale University School of Medicine nicholas.brenckle(a)yale.edu ITS Med - PO Box 208089 203-737-2377 New Haven, CT 06520-8089

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