Mailman 3 December 1999 - Mailman-Users

MIME Digest Topics as links
by Roger Buck 26 Dec '99

26 Dec '99

Is there any MailMan config option for Digests to provide active links - from the Digest toc to the respective messages contained within that digest (using simple A NAME or similar links?). If not, I have zero Python skills, seems that is should be fairly easy to make the "Todays Topics:" toc into A HREF links? Anyone suggest an easy way I can make the make the necessary script mods myself? Better still, how about incorporating that as a standard option in future release(s) :-) ? R. PS: I have many years experience with list software - After only one day playing with Mailman it appears to be a truly excellent product already. Many thanks!

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Fw: Bug in Mailman version 1.1 - problem with cookies? Round 2
by blurr＠txraves.org 24 Dec '99

24 Dec '99

i never got a response to this. can someone help me out? thanks --- -] jordan -] blurr(a)txraves.org -] http://www.txraves.org/~blurr - [ s p r e a d t h a v i b e ] - ----- Original Message ----- From: <blurr(a)txraves.org> To: "Mailman-users" <mailman-users(a)python.org> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:35 AM Subject: Bug in Mailman version 1.1 - problem with cookies? > just like to say i've been running mailman for a good while now and i've turned > into a total list whore! =P > > heres a recent problem i've run into that i'm thinking has to do with cookies. it > breaks on my machine(internet exploder & nutscrape) but works fine on another > machine. > > Bug in Mailman version 1.1 > > 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: > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main > main() > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 103, in main > is_auth = lst.WebAuthenticate(password=adminpw, > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 83, in WebAuthenticate > return self.CheckCookie(cookie_key) > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 117, in CheckCookie > if cookiedata[keylen+1] <> '"' and cookiedata[-1] <> '"': > IndexError: string index out of range > > any ideas? > > thanks! > --- > -] jordan > -] blurr(a)txraves.org > -] http://www.txraves.org/~blurr > > - [ s p r e a d t h a v i b e ] - >

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How to fix spelling ?
by John A. Martin 24 Dec '99

24 Dec '99

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After about 2,000 'add_members .. -c y -w y' it appears that the name of the list was misspelt. Is there a good way to fix the spelling? jam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: By Mailcrypt 3.5.4 and Gnu Privacy Guard <http://www.gnupg.org/> iD8DBQE4YsosUEvv1b/iXy8RArXAAJ9I7sYwVG5tdf2znBz8AIBRfpOyOACfWkaK duSmEJYcA44LWrOmDRqbu1g= =Uw9n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Subject: [Mailman-Users] Apache Conf files
by Michael Ghens 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

I don't know if you want the whole file, but this is out of the srm.conf file of mine (new appache has everything in httpd.conf) ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/other/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /home/other/mailman/archives/public/ Also in access.conf (new appache has everything in httpd.conf), I had to put in <Directory /home/other/mailman> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI </Directory> Current apache is VERY restrictive in its permissions by default. (rightfully so, but hey, it is always a balance between keeping users happy and some idea of security.) These lines gives most people grief: # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of # permissions. # <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:42:16 -0500 From: Jerry Thomas <jerry(a)scoregroup.com> Organization: The Score Group To: Mailman-Users <mailman-users(a)python.org> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Apache Conf files Could some body please post their Apache Conf Files. Thank You -- Jerry Thomas jerry(a)scoregroup.com Network Administrator ph. (305) 662-5959 ext. 211 The Score Group fax (305) 662-5952

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Apache Conf files
by Jerry Thomas 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Could some body please post their Apache Conf Files. Thank You -- Jerry Thomas jerry(a)scoregroup.com Network Administrator ph. (305) 662-5959 ext. 211 The Score Group fax (305) 662-5952

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Transparent bug
by Matteo Guainazzi 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Dear all, my Mailman manager is hitting from yesterday a small nasty bug. Whenever an administrative operation or a new subscription is performed, the following page appears/the following mail is sent to the subscriber. However, the changes/subscriptions are apparently done correctly. Any clue of what may be happening? Thanks a lot in advance. Matteo Bug in Mailman version 1.1 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: Traceback (innermost last): File "/data/xmm/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 167, in main ChangeOptions(lst, category, cgi_data, doc) File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 876, in ChangeOptions lst.SetUserOption(user, okey, 0) File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 217, in SetUserOption self.Save() File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 799, in Save self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 277, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir makelink(privdir, pubdir) File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 56, in makelink reraise() File "/data/xmm/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 52, in makelink os.symlink(old, new) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /data/xmm/html/htdocs HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip REMOTE_HOST xvsas01.vilspa.esa.es CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded PATH_TRANSLATED /data/xmm/html/htdocs/xmm-news/members REMOTE_ADDR 193.147.152.101 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_COOKIE xmm-news:admin="(lp1\012S'193.147.152.101'\012p2\012aI945937496\012aI945948296\012aI-732295900\012a." HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE it,de-DE,es REMOTE_PORT 44337 SERVER_PORT 80 TZ GMT HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* REQUEST_URI /mailman/admin/xmm-news/members PATH /usr/sbin:/usr/bin QUERY_STRING SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0 CONTENT_LENGTH 1364 HTTP_HOST xmm.vilspa.esa.es REQUEST_METHOD POST SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.3 Server at xmm.vilspa.esa.es Port 80 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admin SERVER_ADMIN root(a)xvsoc01.vilspa.esa.es SCRIPT_FILENAME /data/xmm/mailman/cgi-bin/admin PYTHONPATH /data/xmm/mailman PATH_INFO /xmm-news/members HTTP_REFERER http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/mailman/admin/xmm-news/members SERVER_NAME xmm.vilspa.esa.es HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive -- Matteo Guainazzi XMM SOC INTERNet: mguainaz(a)xmm.vilspa.esa.es VILSPA - ESA Phone: +34 91 8131 176 Apartado 50727, E-28080 Madrid Fax: +34 91 8131 172

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OS error?
by A Iqbal Santyaswardan 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi, I installed about a week ago and it seemed to be working fine. But I had to reinstall the operating system yesterday, and also mailman, and now I couldn't subscribe/verify by email. I keep getting this messages in /var/log/maillog: Dec 23 11:54:56 server sendmail[12005]: KAA10055: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mailmantest", delay=01:32:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system error Dec 23 11:54:56 server sendmail[12005]: KAA10024: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd mailmantest", delay=01:35:42, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system error Dec 23 11:55:56 server sendmail[12016]: LAA11939: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mailmantest", delay=00:08:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Operating system error Nothing strange show up in /var/log/messages or /home/mailman/logs/ How can I fix this? I don't think I changed my sendmail cf; my other email seems just fine. A Iqbal Santyaswardan iqbal95(a)student.te.ugm.ac.id

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing binaries
by Dan Mick 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

> Quoting Dan Mick (Dan.Mick(a)West.Sun.COM): > > My solution, suggested here, is working fairly well: make them > > beg for approval by setting a bunch of the right headers to be > > "suspicious": add > > My solution is to run posts through procmail before mailman sees them. > I've posted detailed instructions on this before, but I got the original idea > from this mailing list before that. Yup, and if it didn't involve procmail, I'd probably do it too. I despise having two tools for the same job, especially when one of them is a chainsaw with no blade guard or handle. ;) Someone else posted Perl and Python scripts for prefiltering. Same objection, from my end. I'd like to see Mailman have an option to "immediately trash" messages of various criteria: From someone(a)badhost.com, with header "text/html", etc.

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autoresponder how-to?
by Tom Wells 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hi, Is there any way to set up an auto-responder for all postings to a mailing list? Thanks -- ###################################################################### Tom Wells Hipbone Inc. email: twells(a)hipbone.com System Administrator alpha-page: page-twells(a)hipbone.com ######################################################################

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HTML webpages
by Jerry Thomas 23 Dec '99

23 Dec '99

Hello, for give me if this question but I am exhausted and can't find anything reelvant in the archives. I created directories for mailman per the documentation and made the appropriate aliases in apache but the administrative web pages are no where to be found. Could someone please point me to some documentation for this and any other documentation available. Thanks, Jerry -- Jerry Thomas jerry(a)scoregroup.com Network Administrator ph. (305) 662-5959 ext. 211 The Score Group fax (305) 662-5952

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