Mailman 3 December 1999 - Mailman-Users

sendmail gid
by Steve Ruby 22 Dec '99

22 Dec '99

I configured with --with-mail-gid=12 sendmail.cf says: # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid) O DefaultUser=8:12 yet my mail log is saying Dec 22 12:12:33 ruby32 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 65535. (Reconfigure to take 65535?) when mail is sent to the server any ideas why sendmail isn't throwing the expected GID? Thanks

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing binaries
by J C Lawrence 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:38:20 -0800 (PST) Deirdre Saoirse <deirdre(a)deirdre.net> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Dan Mick wrote: >> 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 > On a list with a bunch of users with vcards and stuff, this would > simply tax the mail list admins. You might be surprised. If your users value the list you have at hand a significant manipulative force for altering their behaviour. Just delay or bounce-back posts which don't meet your standards and they'll likely change. It would have been easier if you had done this to start with as you could have then formed a base more for your list culture more easily, but it can still be retrofitted. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Internet: coder(a)kanga.nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing binaries
by Dan Mick 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

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 Content-type:.*multipart/alternative.* Content-type:.*multipart/mixed.* .*text/html.* .*text/enriched.* .*text/x-vcard.* Content-Disposition:.*attachment to Privacy Options/Hold posts with header value... > I haven't upgraded from one of the betas to the official 1.1, but I was > wondering if anyone had done any patches that allowed one to set whether > or not to strip binaries from the list (including vcards and so on). This > is fairly common on commercial lists. > > I am now hosting a pretty large list of spinning fiends and, as the > average spinner isn't especially technical, I'd rather NOT see, say, the > latest virus going to the list. > > -- > _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.net * http://www.deirdre.net > "Mars has been a tough target" -- Peter G. Neumann, Risks Digest Moderator > "That's because the Martians keep shooting things down." -- Harlan Rosenthal > <Harlan.Rosenthal(a)Dialogic.com>, retorting in Risks Digest 20.60 > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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to and reply to change
by Kory Wheatley 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Simple question. I have mailman 1.1 installed on a red hat 6.0 linux box running sendmail. The host name is mm.isu.edu. My mailman lists are setup to be either list(a)mm.isu.edu or they can use the CNAME to mail to the list which is list(a)maillist.isu.edu. My "to:" always specifies that it was sent from list(a)mm.isu.edu how would I change my "to: and Reply to:" to have it have the "to: and Reply to:" be list(a)maillist.isu.edu instead of the other? Would I have to edit the Deliverer.py to do this? -- Kory Wheatley Office Phone 236-3874 Computing & Communication Academic Computing Analyst sr. Everything you do must point to him.

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extracting "list admin's email address(es)"
by Mentor Cana 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Hello, I would like to know if someone has a script that would extract the "list admin's email address(es)" from the config.db for a particular list. Something similar to list_members would be nice. thanks, Mentor

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Mailman and Web Ports other than 80?
by Chrisie Mitchell 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

Hello, This question is probably really dumb, but I just can't seem to get it working right, so any help would be appreciated. I run my Apache web server on a different port than 80, and even though getting to the pages works fine, when you attempt to subscribe to the lists or use anything that requires a command be sent to the server, it won't connect on the port I'm using. It attempts to use the default 80. I attempted to fix this by changing the default URL line in mm_cfg.py to include the correct port, but that doesn't seem to do it. Does anyone have any ideas on this? - C. Mitchell

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using answer_majordomo_mail
by Brian Anderson 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

G'day, Can someone please tell me how to use the answer_majordom_mail script please? I assume its via an alias however I can't find any doco on it :-( Actually if someone could point me in the direction of some extra - ie. other than the sprinkling that comes with mailman - doco I'd be very grateful. Please answer directly as I only get the daily digests. Many thanks brian ========================================================================= Brian Anderson mailto:b.anderson@cowan.edu.au Network Controller Phone: 08 9273 8103 Edith Cowan University Intl: +61 8 9273 8103 Pearson Street, Churchlands Mobile: 040 7474 093 Western AUSTRALIA Fax: 08 9273 8000 In a world without walls and fences,who needs windows and gates? P.Nutton ===================== #include</std/disclaimer.h> =======================

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Installation on Irix: Installs Fine, Behaves Badly
by Fred Hicks 21 Dec '99

21 Dec '99

I've just gotten the latest mailman installed on my irix system (an O2). I set up the test list and it, cosmetically, seemed to be fine; I added myself as a subscriber, poked around at the web interface, and so on. Seemed to like it. Then I tried posting a message to the list. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Checked syslog, and found this spew came up whenever I tried to send a message; Dec 20 10:37:42 6C:iago sendmail[18714]: KAA18714: from=iago, size=5, class=0, pri=30005, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199912201037.KAA18714(a)iago.net>, relay=iago@localhost Dec 20 10:37:42 6C:iago sendmail[18714]: KAB18714: clone KAA18714, owner=testlist-admin Dec 20 10:37:42 3C:iago Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 2147430212, GOT gid 0. (Reconfigure to take 0?) Dec 20 10:37:42 6C:iago sendmail[18716]: KAB18714: to="|/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post testlist", delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=unknown mailer error 2 Dec 20 10:37:42 6C:iago sendmail[18716]: KAB18714: KAA18716: DSN: unknown mailer error 2 Dec 20 10:37:42 3C:iago Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 2147430212, GOT gid 0. (Reconfigure to take 0?) Dec 20 10:37:42 6C:iago sendmail[18716]: KAA18716: to="|/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner testlist", delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=unknown mailer error 2 Dec 20 10:37:42 6C:iago sendmail[18716]: KAA18716: KAB18716: return to sender: unknown mailer error 2 Dec 20 10:37:43 6C:iago sendmail[18716]: KAB18716: to=root, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent Now, this doesn't seem to be as clear as 'reconfigure mailman to take 0', because that's, well, what I did on the second or third recompile-with-a-different-mail-delivery-gid attempt. I'm also not sure why it wants gid 2147430212, since that's, well, ludicrous. I feel as though I've tried FAQ-based solutions, and I've ended up stuck. Am I encountering a solved problem here, and I'm just not applying the solution? I sure hope so. Thanks for any help, Fred

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Feature request: editable welcome message
by Dan Mick 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

I know I can write interactive Python code to extract the welcome message, write it to a file so I can edit it, and suck it back in, but that should be easier than it is; if it needs to stay in config.db for reasons I don't understand, perhaps config.db could look in a configurable path for a file with a timestamp and decide "oh, it's changed, I should snarf in a new one". (Customizable welcome messages are almost always used, IMO.) Also, it would be nice if the "subscription" text could appear at the beginning rather than the end. I'll probably attempt to hack both these in.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: editable welcome message
by Dan Mick 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

> DM> if it needs to stay in config.db for reasons I don't > DM> understand, perhaps config.db could look in a configurable > DM> path for a file with a timestamp and decide "oh, it's changed, > DM> I should snarf in a new one". (Customizable welcome messages > DM> are almost always used, IMO.) > > Understand what config.db is: it's a marshaled Python dictionary. The > keys of the dictionary correspond to attributes on the MailList > object. What happens is that when a MailList object is saved, all of > it's attributes (except those that start with an underscore) are > examined and their values are placed into a dictionary. That > dictionary is then marshaled into config.db for the list. Yes, I understand that, but usability would be enhanced by having *some* of that MailList object information stored outside config.db, I think is another way to say what I'm trying to say. In particular, things like welcome messages should, IMO, be "external", because they change often enough and are "tweaked" enough that it's a pain to have to extract/edit/reload just to change a comma. A slight violation of the purity of the object storage model might be appropriate. (yet another restatement of the opinion.)

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