Mailman 3 April 1999 - Mailman-Users

Question about the template directory
by Soren Dayton April 8, 1999

April 8, 1999

I see that Util.maketext() uses the template directory for things, but it seems to me that a much nicer idea might be to have a template path, using the first template in the path. This could handle upgrades very robustly, and allow an obvious kind of list administrator modification. Would this be a desirable feature? (I would submit code, but I don't actually know python... Sorry) Thanks Soren

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Hypermail integration
by Tzeng, Nigel April 7, 1999

April 7, 1999

We're testing mailman as our list software and so far we like it. However, we'd like to be able to search our archives for info...something that Pipermail doesn't offer. I've finished compiling Hypermail and I'm wondering if anyone has any pointers in replacing pipermail with Hypermail. Thanks! Nigel Tzeng Century Computing

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Problems (still) MM-1.0b11 & Python 1.5.2b2 on BSD3.1
by George M. Ellenburg (Mailing List Account) April 7, 1999

April 7, 1999

Fetched Python 1.5.2b2 from Python.org, install and tests went without a hitch. Sucked down MM 1.0b11 this morning as well. As user 'mailman' I ran `./configure --prefix=/u1/mailman --with-mail-gid=32766 --with-cgi-gid=32766` (32766 is user nogroup) followed next by `make install`. No problems here. In fact, I'm able to access the admin cgis. But, as before, if I try to rin /bin/newlist I get the following error: sundial:~/bin $ ./newlist Enter the name of the list: test Enter the email of … [View More]

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A couple of questions
by Richard Ellerbrock April 7, 1999

April 7, 1999

Just a compliment to start off with. I think that mailman is the best thing since sliced bread! Now for the questions: Under the list admin web page, membership management page, mass subscribe section how does a person change the "Send Welcome message to this batch?" to default to no. If I change the DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE = 2048 in the mm_cfg.py file, the web page only displays the first three characters (204). Bug! Under the list admin web page, Archival Options, how do I change Archive … [View More]

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"No module named pythonlib"
by Tor Houghton April 7, 1999

April 7, 1999

The Cron daemon reports the following for the mailman user: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 27, in ? from Mailman import MailList File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 33, in ? File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 28, in ? File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 31, in ? ImportError: No module named pythonlib (Had I noticed this earlier, I would have included it in my previous mail.) Cheerio, Tor Houghton.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Approved posters denied in 1.0b11
by Grace, Terry April 7, 1999

April 7, 1999

I had the same problem. Barry suggested I add USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 0 to mm_cfg.py and it worked like a charm. -----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-admin(a)python.org [mailto:mailman-users-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of J.D. Falk Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 1:13 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Approved posters denied in 1.0b11 Just upgraded to 1.0b11 'cause I saw this problem in 1.0b10 and thought maybe 11 would fix it...people who're supposed … [View More]

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Approved posters denied in 1.0b11
by J.D. Falk April 6, 1999

April 6, 1999

Just upgraded to 1.0b11 'cause I saw this problem in 1.0b10 and thought maybe 11 would fix it...people who're supposed to be allowed to post to lists (whether it's subscribers only or a subset thereof) are being blocked, as if the list now requires administrative approval for all messages. I'm guessing that this is something I missed in the spate of mail about b10 over the past few weeks.... ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk(a)cybernothing.org> =========--------- | … [View More]

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RE: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #169 - 13 msgs
by Ken Manheimer April 6, 1999

April 6, 1999

On monday, Ray Everett-Church <ray(a)everett.org> wrote: > I'm curious... are the anti-spam features (such as restricted posting) > for this list turned off? I've not had a spammer attack any of my lists > yet <wood knock="on">... If they aren't, could I suggest they be > turned on so we can see if the Kuppler crooks make it through again? As barry indicated, there's a lot of spam you haven't seen, because it was caught. Most is caught by a rule which prohibits holds … [View More]

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exim configure
by nbecker＠fred.net April 6, 1999

April 6, 1999

Here is all I needed to do to use mailman with exim: After system_aliases: Add mailman_aliases: driver = aliasfile file = /etc/aliases.mailman search_type = lsearch user = mailman initgroups errors_to = mailman-owner This assumes you want the alias pipes run as user "mailman". You can cut and paste verbatim the aliases spit out by "newlist" into "/etc/aliases.mailman".

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kudos and question
by nbecker＠fred.net April 6, 1999

April 6, 1999

First let me say mailman is entirely too cool! Next a question. I have setup a list here. Attempting to followup to a message I posted to my list (using gnus) it goes to <list>@hns.com. Unfortunately I don't control hns.com, only nbeckerpc.hns.com. Where can I configure this? (My exim mailer is configured to accept hns.com as well as nbeckerpc.hns.com - but if someone else not using my machine tries to reply it will just bounce)

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