Mailman 3 March 1999 - Mailman-Users

TypeError: read-only buffer ...
by Joseph Chin March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

hi folks, I have been using Mailman on Red Hat Linux 5.x system since b4 (just upgraded all systems to b9 today), and most things work as advertised. However, there is one problem that won't go away ... An application uses a Java SMTP applet to send notices via email. It works fine unless the recipient address is that of a Mailman list. The following is an excerpt from the bounced mail: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- |"/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post product-… [View More]

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BUG REPORT: password lookup
by Brian Ryner March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

Ok, I tracked this one down I think. If a user is subscribed with capital letters in the email address using the Mass Subscribe feature, then they go to get their password mailed to them, it fails. This seems to be because when they enter their email address on the listinfo page (and click "edit options") it lowercases it, but the password is stored with an uppercased version of the email address. I see two solutions: - lowercase all emails when they are subscribed from the Mass Subscribe … [View More]

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GUI misfeature with textarea boxes
by Vivek Khera March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

I think that the use of WRAP=soft on the text boxes for things such as the trailer text and list descriptions should be removed. The reason is that carriage returns are significant in these fields and it is not possible to distinguish hard returns you type from the soft returns netscape inserts. The only way right now is to do a "view source" and see where the hard returns are. Simply removing the "WRAP=soft" from these textarea boxes will make it easier to detect these differences. … [View More]

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posting restrictions still confusing to me (or not working?)
by Vivek Khera March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

I've got a small list for which the following settings control who's allowed to post: Approve by administrator: no member_posting_only: yes list of additional accepted addresses: khera(a)kcilink.com Yet anyone who posts to the list gets deferred for admin approval with the error that they must be on the list to post, including myself. I'm running 1.0b9 (from CVS as of this morning.) It seems to matter little whether I list additional addresses -- if member_posting_only is yes, I *always* … [View More]

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notes on my first big list message delivery
by Vivek Khera March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

Last nite, I sent out the first broadcast on one of my lists using Mailman. This list consists of about 7,000 customers. I set up the list to be moderated, and turned on auto-bounce processing (no notify), with a 1 message bounce threshhold. I populated the list from a text file from the old mailing list software. This took about 10 minutes using add_members. Then I sent the email. Immediately, as administrator, I started getting bounce notices in my inbox. Yuck! They seem to be getting … [View More]

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Text mode reporting tool, on number of users in a list
by Rob Thomson March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with this problem. I have recently converted my companys mailing list server from majordomo, to mailman. So far I am really impressed wirh the software, it has proveded every feature i have needed, bar one. What i need, is some way to query the system, (from the console) to report back the number of users in a list. It is posible to retrieve this info from the web page, however my supervisors would like the feature whereby they are mailed on … [View More]

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National fonts and letters
by Janos.Zana＠elfiz2.kee.hu March 2, 1999

March 2, 1999

Most of Hungarian letters with diacritical symbols are available in mailman. We use the symbol set ISO-8859-2 which consits of two more letters: "o-doubleacute" and "u-doubleacute" (upper- and lowercase). When I wrote them in my pages the mailman converted them - e.g. the "o-doubleacute" was converted as o" (o and doublequote). Do anybody know if there is any possibility using my own national letters or font sets? János Zana -- my "a-acute" is not converted... - - - Good rest to all that … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] inserting mbox files?
by Corbett J. Klempay March 1, 1999

March 1, 1999

At 08:22 PM 3/1/99 +0100, you wrote: >According to Corbett J. Klempay: >> the guy who previously ran the list has an mbox file of the last 100+ >> messages from when it was still under majordomo. Is there any way for me >> to have these archived? > >just run > arch <listname> <mboxfile> >as user mailman. arch is in mailman's bin directory. This is exactly what I tried on first guess...and I get this output: [mailman@chimera whs1996.mbox]$ /home/… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] [ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0b9
by Per Starback March 1, 1999

March 1, 1999

Barry wrote: > But I'd like b10 to be the last beta. It's time to get 1.0 out the > door (I know I've said this before -- this time I mean it :-). That sounds good! As a very new user of Mailman I can say that the beta version number was one thing that made me hesitant about using Mailman when I recently looked around wondering what MLM I should switch to. (I'm finally leaving SmartList after several years.) > Enjoy, and let me know if I missed anything. It's always nice to have … [View More]the NEWS file or something like that in announcements of new versions so you can decide if you want to upgrade without having to fetch and unpack the whole thing: # Differences between 1.0b8 and 1.0b9 # # - New bin scripts: clone_member, list_members, add_members (a # consolidation of convertlist and populate_new_list which have been # removed). # # - Two new readmes have been added: README.LINUX and README.QMAIL # # - New configure option --with-cgi-ext which can be used if your Web # server requires extensions on CGI scripts. The extension must # include a dot (e.g. --with-cgi-ext=".cgi"). # # - Many bug fixes, including the setgid problem that was causing mail # to be lost on some versions of Linux. Hm, --with-cgi-ext was in 1.0b8 too. At least it's mentioned in the INSTALL there, but I didn't use it. Wish list: * 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.) * Possibility for individual list members to say if they want a Subject line [tag] or not. That would mean that there would have to be two versions of each message, but I think that would be worth it as the [tag]/no tag preference is more about the preferences (and mail situation) of individual list members that about the preferences of the list itself or its maintainer. I would never add a tag like that on my lists per default, but if users who want it could get it explicitly that would be nice. * A line at the Membership Management page where you set default attributes for new users in the same way that you can change attributes for the existing users. This more general feature would be instead of the Which delivery mode is the default for new users? and When receiving digests, which format is default? questions on the Digest-member options page. I think I would like to set "hide" by default, and anyway I think it's better for the future to have one general way of setting the default instead of having to add new list options sometimes when new membership options are made. I'm sorry if my wish list consists of things that have been beaten to death here. Being a list manager myself I should know better than to jump in on a list without lurking for some time first. :-) -- Per Starback <starback(a)ling.uu.se> <http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/me.html> "Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!" [View Less]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman customizations...
by Greg Stein March 1, 1999

March 1, 1999

jwm(a)plain.co.nz wrote: > Greg Stein writes: > >... > > This seems overkill. Why don't you simply have the form post to that > > other machine? Why monkey with SSH setups and simulating a CGI on the > > target machine? That seems like a very non-intuitive approach. > > It seemed like a neat hack. :-) hehe. well... I guess that can usually count as a Good Reason... :-) > > This is something like the second or third time where I've heard people … [View More]

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