Mailman 3 March 1999 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on add_members routine
by Harald Meland March 4, 1999

March 4, 1999

[Nicholas Brenckle] > For add_members tho it seems to only take a file as input. > `add_memebers -n @add` won't work. Is there a newer version of > add_members? I've patched my copies of add_members and remove_members to allow "-" as the filename, meaning "Read addresses from stdin". For add_members, only one of the digest and non-digest files can be stdin. Not exactly what you're asking for, but I'll check my changes in shortly. > Or is this just it and I need to start … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Change e-mail address?
by Harald Meland March 4, 1999

March 4, 1999

[Clark Evans] > Is there a way for a subscriber on, say 10 lists to > change his/her e-mail address? Sorry, no -- Mailman currently has no notion of "users" outside the scope of specific lists. A installation-wide database of user objects is one of the things high on my list as soon 1.0 is out. Thus, currently this would have to be done with 10 unsubscribes and 10 subscribes. > It seems they would want to do this more often than changing their > password. Well, that depends … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] [ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0b9
by J C Lawrence March 4, 1999

March 4, 1999

On 03 Mar 1999 18:33:42 +0100 Harald Meland<Harald.Meland(a)usit.uio.no> wrote: > As this (currently) is a non-standard header, I wouldn't feel good > about putting explicit support for it into Mailman. However, a more > general "Add this header (standard or not) (if it doesn't exist > already) to all messages to this list" might be good. But not for > 1.0, methinks. This has my vote, as well as a set of pages to configure MailMan's defaults for all other lists. *THAT*… [View More]

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Long Email Addressess
by John-David Childs March 4, 1999

March 4, 1999

FYI: I know next to nothing about Python, some I'm not able to specifically scan the code (yet) looking for the big obvious security holes...but I did run across something interesting. I tried a very simple/stupid buffer overflow test. What would happen if I tried to subscribe a long email address? My test case was only about 300 characters...I'll probably try some really long usernames later but in any case I found that sendmail would choke on the email address I entered (prescan: token too … [View More]long) yet mailman would think that the addy was sucessfully subscribed. djdjddddddddddddddddddddddddjjdjdjdjdjddjddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddididididididididiididididididddddddddddddddddddddd idiidididididididididididididididididididididididddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd ddddddddddddddddddiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiii(a)nterprise.net has been successfully subscribed to Test. No crashes, no obvious buffer overflow, but methinks that mailman ought to expect *and check for* whatever the RFC defined maximum email address is (or ought to be able to pick it out of the local sendmail config). At the moment, I have two goals in mind that I want to figure out how to do in mailman...and when I do I'll try to create a FAQ entry/HOWTO: 1) I want to figure out how to get mailman to work with virtual hosts. Should be similar to doing this with Majordomo. I don't want to install copies of mailman in every virtual domain directory...instead I want a different "cf" file for each domain, and a switch to each of the bin/cgi programs that will read the appropriate cf file. (This functionality might already be there...I just unpacked/installed mailman for the first time today). 2) I want to run mailman through cgiwrap as a user other than the webserver. The docs suggest that running it as user mailman isn't a good idea either because that would give everyone access to the private archives, but I really don't like running it with webserver privs either. For that matter, I don't like running the wrapper with daemon privs (call me super paranoid). I'd rather run the wrapper and CGI's as some other user/group...one with absolutely no other privs than what is necessary to run mailman. Other than these minor nits, mailman seems to beat the pants off any other MLM I've looked at! This is great stuff! -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions Systems Administration http://www.nterprise.net & Network Engineering 8707 E. Florida Ave #814 Denver, CO 80231 "Virtual" means never knowing where your next byte is coming from. [View Less]

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Installation Woes...
by Grant Fengstad March 3, 1999

March 3, 1999

I'm having some problems getting mailman running properly: Background: Sun Solaris 2.6 python 1.51 mailman 1.0b9 Everthing appears to install correctly. The Web interface is working... partially... When I go to the URL for webserver/mailman/admin/list (list is an example), I am able to authenticate as the list owner, but then am presented with a page that indicates "List mailman not found". Further, I am unable to modify any of the attributes for my list. I have created the aliases in … [View More]

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Mailman+Sendmail/smtpfeed
by Edgard Castro March 3, 1999

March 3, 1999

Hi! Someone ever used this configuration? Running mailman using sendmail+smtpfeed? I personally like the way smtpfeed works, so I think it should do a better job than bulk_mailing. I haven't tested it yet.. The question is.. Whats the better way to use this configuration? Allowing mailman run only one smtp instance or leaving it spawning process to sendmail ? Laters! :) e. -- Edgard Castro <castro(a)usmatrix.net> | 305-273-5003 -o) Chief Network Engineer - U.S. Matrix … [View More]

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nomail setting not always working
by Brian Ryner March 3, 1999

March 3, 1999

Hi- Yesterday I sent a message to a mailing list I'd set up, and got several bounces (as I expected). I have mailman set to disable the users and notify me, which it did. Today I sent another message, and got more bounces from the same people! which means it tried to deliver to them again. The second message I received said "subscription not disabled- user not found" (or something similar). I tried reproducing this on a test list and was unable to. Looking at the bounce messages I do … [View More]

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copy and paste
by Matt Chipman March 3, 1999

March 3, 1999

Hi there, after the newlist is created, there are a series of names and directories to insert into the aliases file. I cant really see how to do this except for manually repeating all the info again (typing) it into the aliases file. Apart from the length of time it takes to do this, there is the obious problem of errors occuring during the translation. Is there away to cut and paste this into the aliases file? Is it recorded somewhere else? thanks Matt

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BUG REPORT: Quoted addresses munged (and request)
by Christopher Lindsey March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

Is there a way to store real names alongside the email addresses in Mailman? In majordomo it can be done like "Christopher Lindsey" <lindsey+mailman @ ncsa.uiuc.edu> lindsey+mailman @ ncsa.uiuc.edu (Christopher Lindsey) When I try this with mailman it just takes the email address. Another oddity that I've noticed is that mailman pulls spaces out of email addresses. For example: "test this"@ncsa.uiuc.edu fails (Mailman stops at the first space, fails to find an '@' so … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: wishlist (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0b9)
by Per Starback March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

I wished for: > > * Add Mail-Followup-To header. (I've done that for myself, but > > I would appreciate not having to do it again, as well as I'd like > > to see more use of this useful although nonstandard header.) and Aaron Schrab wrote: > No! List servers should not be adding Mail-Followup-To headers, that's > something that needs to be done at the sender's end. Well, now Mailman supports inserting those infamous Reply-To headers pointing to the list … [View More]

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