Mailman 3 March 1999 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] How does Mailman use identd?
by J C Lawrence March 24, 1999

March 24, 1999

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:48:32 -0600 Paul Barnett <ptb(a)home.ptb.org> wrote: > I just subscribed to the mailman-announce list. About that time, > my firewall denied eight requests to port 113 (identd) from > parrot.python.org This is just an MTA doing authentication and logging of its mail traffic. A Good Thing. > It obviously failed.. Actually non-obviously. It is not difficult to configure a suitable identd daemon on a firewall to give useful returns. -- J C … [View More]

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How does Mailman use identd?
by Paul Barnett March 23, 1999

March 23, 1999

I just subscribed to the mailman-announce list. About that time, my firewall denied eight requests to port 113 (identd) from parrot.python.org It obviously failed, but I still got the subscription confirmation. How does it use the information, if it manages to get it?

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List adminstration and moderation
by Paul Barnett March 23, 1999

March 23, 1999

Since I'm a new user (Mailman 1.0b9), I'm not sure if the "problem" I'm describing is actually a feature, but I'll submit it for consideration: When I first enter mailing list administration: http://x/mailman/admin/test I get a demand for "Administrative Authentication". That's expected, but if I immediately click on "Tend to pending administrative requests": http://x/mailman/admindb/test I get a second demand for "Administrative Authentication". I thought this might be so that … [View More]

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New Mailing List
by Barry A. Warsaw March 23, 1999

March 23, 1999

There have been a number of requests to start an announce-only list for Mailman. I've now done this http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-announce The function of the lists are now better explained on the www.list.org site. Let me know if you have any problems. -Barry

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patch to fix the alias-wrapper.c
by Roger Peña Escobio March 23, 1999

March 23, 1999

Hi... few days ago we discuses about aliases file, well... this my patch of mailman-1.0b9 to fix alias-wrapper, also fix newlist. this patch also changes the rmlist file, including an rmaliases programs (rmalias-wrapper.c, this programs edit the aliases file when you eliminate a list ). Of course, you are free to apply the patch or not, but if will do it look inside first, see what it will do and if you agree, ¡¡ great !!! lets do it :-) this line are for the brave souls :-) who like apply … [View More]the patch 1-move the patch to the source dir , for example , /usr/local/src if mailman source is in /usr/local/src/mailman-1.0b9 2-rename the alias-wrapper.c source to addalias-wrapper.c , it is, mv ./mailman-1.0b9/src/alias-wrapper.c ./mailman-1.0b9/src/addalias-wrapper.c 3-exec the command : patch -p0 < mailman-1.0b9-patch-r.patch 4- if you dont get any estrange line or question every thing was fine, if not ...... check if you really have the mailman-1.0b9 version or if you are in the correct dir. 5- everything is ok ? great, now put the rmalias-wrapper.c into the src dir, it is ./mailman-1.0b9/src/ 6-now you have to check some "little" thing, first of all , my aliases file for mailman is /etc/mailman/aliases, you can change that editing the addalias-wrapper.c and rmalias-wrapper.c, is really simple, take a look, I dont know if mailman user can edit the /etc/aliases file ( I think he cant) but in the other way I prefer to have two aliases file one for system alias and another for mailman alias, if I convince you about two alias, you will have to change your sendmail.cf and create the /etc/mailman/ dir : 6.1-creating the /etc/mailman/ dir : #mkdir /etc/mailman ; chgrp mailman /etc/mailman ; chmod 755 /etc/mailman 6.2-changing the sendmail.cf: do this really depend on your OS , in RedHat you have to do this: cd /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf/ edit your *.mc , if you never do this before ( if you have the sendmail.cf from distribution) your *.mc is redhat.mc, put this line define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/aliases,/etc/mailman/aliases') exec the command : #m4 ../m4/cf.m4 redhat.mc > myhost.cf make a copy of your old sendmail.cf : #cp /etc/sendmail.cf /etc/sendmail.cf.old copy the new *.cf file to /etc/sendmail.cf: #cp myhost.cf /etc/sendmail.cf restart sendmail: #/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart and thats all !!!! are you still with me ???? :-) 6.3-check if you have /var/tmp dir , addalias-wrapper.c and rmalias-wrapper.c need it temporally, redhat already have but other OS dont 7-the only thing that rest is run autoconf INSIDE mailman source , it is : #cd /usr/local/mailman-1.0b9 ; autoconf that is for make configure from configure.in 8-well, if you do all above you really have my mailman ready to install, so install it :-)) a final words.... maybe you think something like this "should I do all this thing instead of edit the aliases file manually?? are you crazy!!!" but you only need to do this only once, and then when you create or eliminate a list all will be do automatically. well a hope that this patch help someone . Roger [View Less]

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(no subject)
by The List Server Administrator＠UNH March 23, 1999

March 23, 1999

John W Baxter <jwblist(a)olympus.net> posted to the mailman-users list (in part): > And we can't change now, since our [Majordomo] users are trained that > way [to use *-owner for reaching a human], although when we switch to > Mailman (not before 1.0 non-beta) we will retrain them to the Web. Our problem is that our ListProc subscribers (11,732 distinct e-mail addresses spread across 398 lists, managed by 202 distinct owners) are already trained to use *-… [View More]

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My Web interface cant run !!
by Sanjay Shukla March 22, 1999

March 22, 1999

My browser says Internal Server Error ... This is what I see in the Apache Error Log [Mon April 22 07:41:47 1999] access to /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin failed for 10.1.1.213, reason: Premature end of script headers Thanx in advance -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Sanjay Shukla, Java Developer Quantum Link Communications Pvt. Ltd.,Mumbai,India. Pin 400034 email-id : shukla97(a)hotmail.com : sanjay(a)qlc.mailserve.net Home Page : … [View More]

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Pipermail
by Jeff Wallace March 22, 1999

March 22, 1999

Hi, I'm converting mailman from majordomo, can someone point me in the direction of some documentation on moving my majordomo archives over to use pipermail within mailman? -jeffw

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Aliases not working
by Joshua March 22, 1999

March 22, 1999

Mailmen - I just upgraded to b9. Running Sparc/Linux on a SS4 with RH 5.2. Got things working ok - almost. I created a test list 'test3' and the admin, info work ok. I can't tell if list_members does cause I haven't been able to subscribe to the list. these email addresses: test3-request(a)brassica.agronomy.wisc.edu test3(a)brassica.agronomy.wisc.edu return: From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <Mailer-daemon(a)brassica.agronomy.wisc.edu> Subject: Returned mail: User … [View More]

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No passwords for members?
by Christopher Lindsey March 21, 1999

March 21, 1999

I could've sworn that this was addressed on the list already, but I can't seem to find the message about it... So here I go (again?) Anyhow, I recently converted a SmartList list to Mailman via the add_members script, but now I'm getting this error message for all of the users who try accessing their password: Mailman noticed in .MailUserPassword() that: User: 'xxxxxxxxxx(a)aol.com' List: rose-list lacks a password. Please notify the Mailman system manager at this … [View More]

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