Mailman 3 April 1999 - Mailman-Users

Is anyone...
by Nailgodess＠aol.com 04 Apr '99

04 Apr '99

Is anyone using this system on the clever.net system (in Atlanta)?? Thanks Debbie Doerrlamm Webmaster BeautyTech

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04 Apr '99

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Capitalization of list name
by John Reekie 04 Apr '99

04 Apr '99

How do I stop mailman from changing the capitalization of list names? If I create a list called diva it changes it to Diva; if I create a list named GSRC it changes is to Gsrc. I would just like to turn this silly feature off. Thanks for any help JohnR

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Problems with 1.0b11
by Christopher Lindsey 03 Apr '99

03 Apr '99

Hi there, I upgraded from 1.0b10 to 1.0b11 today, but things aren't going particularly well. I'm now running into cron errors (when none were seen before): Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/staff/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 31, in ? OutgoingQueue.processQueue() File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line 88, in processQueue lock_file.lock() File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 114, in lock if self.locked(): File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 193, in locked pid, winner = self.__read() File "/home/staff/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 96, in __read pid, winner = string.split(string.strip(fp.read())) ValueError: unpack list of wrong size Exception exceptions.ValueError: 'unpack list of wrong size' in <method FileLock .__del__ of FileLock instance at 80b8b78> ignored I have no idea what this means. :) I've taken a look at the code and it looks like fp.read() isn't returning a splittable string, but not sure where to go from there. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Chris

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Release 1.0b11
by Barry A. Warsaw 03 Apr '99

03 Apr '99

Okay folks, 1.0b11 is now available at www.list.org. This is basically a bug fix release addressing problems with case-preserving addresses and archiving of Usenet gated newsgroups. For you hardcore debugging types, there's a new script called bin/withlist which you can run like so: % cd ~mailman % python -i bin/withlist mylist Loading list: mylist (unlocked) >>> m.members {'bwarsaw(a)cnri.reston.va.us': 0} >>> withlist leaves you with a global variable `m' which is the MailList object you opened. Give withlist and optional second argument if you want the list to be locked. A note about upgrading. I had to bump the DATA_FILE_VERSION number so that the config.db got updated to deal with case-preserving addresses in some situation. I've been running this on python.org for a few days now and it all seems to work, but please keep an eye out for anything strange with your config.db file. Enjoy, -Barry

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Upgrading Mailman in Debian?
by Mike Garside 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

Upgrading prior versions of Mailman i.e. 1.0b8-3 to 1.0b10-1 . Is it as simple as entering a command such as dpkg -i mailman-1.0b10-1 to upgrade the program files or do I have to back things up and go from there? Also how stable is mailman 1.0b10-1 ? Should I just stay with my current version? Mike

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Usenet gating and archiving
by Barry A. Warsaw 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

Is anybody currently gating Usenet to a mailing list, /and/ doing archiving with the default Pipermail? If so, you may not have noticed that the archives are pretty broken; nothing that originates on Usenet will show up in the archive. I believe I understand why this is happening, and although I don't have a fix yet, it shouldn't be too difficult. I should be able to get it into 1.0b11. The problem occurs because Pipermail uses Python's mailbox.UnixMailbox objects which expect "From " separators. Message that originate on Usenet don't have these envelopes. The patch should be to simply synthesize these on messages gated off the newsgroup. However, there's a more severe breakage. You've actually lost information that is hard to reproduce because the flat listname.mbox files don't have the separators in them either. Running bin/arch over the file will give you even more corrupt archives (the incremental archiver just throws the Usenet messages away; bin/arch will tack them onto the last email-originated message). What you could do is to trek through the listname.mbox file looking for Newsgroup: headers (which appear, but I don't think are guaranteed, to be the first header in the message). When you find one, you jam in a synthesized "From " envelope. I would rather not add this hack to Mailman unless a lot of people would benefit from it. For the test lists that I'm running, we're willing to just trash the archives and start over; the lists aren't live anyway. I'd like to know who would be really adversely affected by this problem. Thanks, -Barry

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Pointers to using mailman with exim
by J C Lawrence 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:26:13 -0500 Joshua E Rodd <jerodd(a)noah.dhs.org> wrote: > J C Lawrence wrote: >> You need two stanzas in your exim config for running mailman >> under exim. They are required so that the UID and GID are set >> appropriately for delivering mail to mailman, and to read the >> appropriate aliases file for mailman. > I'm afraid I don't understand where those stanzas go. I tried > tacking them onto the end of /etc/exim.conf, but that flat out > didn't work. Quite. As I wrote, the first stanza goes in your transports section, and the second in your directors section. See your Exim documentation (not the man pages) or http://www.exim.org/ for further details. > Once I get it to work, I think I'll write a README.exim file for > mailman. =) What I wrote is pretty well all you need. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Internet: claw(a)varesearch.com ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...

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Configuration of MTA
by Joshua E. Rodd 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

If there is anyone who is using mailman with Exim, could they please mail me their /etc/exim.conf file? I've been trying to get it to work, and been quite unsuccessful. I've read the Exim manual, and while I've learned quite a bit more about Exim, I still don't understand the whole ``deliverer'' thing. Cheers, Joshua.

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Misc. Mailman questions
by Marc L. Allen 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

Hello, I just recently installed Mailman under Linux and I've got a few questions. Some have to do with features that may not exist. If so, please let me know. Thanks. 1) I notice that when someone sends an HTML message (via Netscape, for instance) that the resulting message contains the list header, followed by the MIME attachment, and the list footer. Under Netscape, at least, it only displays the MIME attachment. Is that a Netscape problem or a problem in Mailman with handling HTML messages? 2) Is there a way where I can automatically restrict subscribers to a subnet or domain name? I want to use the list internally to my company, but there's nothing to keep an outside person from subscribing, unless someone moderates every subscribe request. 3) Is there a way to restrict attachments? I did see something about this on the archives, but there wasn't any answer given. I guess not, then, eh? 4) I'd like for a user to be able to disable the automatic monthly password reminder. Is there some way to do that? Thanks, Marc -- ************************************************************************ * Marc L. Allen * * * Principal Architect * "If we had told you it was * * Information Technology Manager * impossible, you'd never have * * * gone off and done it." * * Tokheim Technology Center * * * (757) 366-4185 * -- The Phantom Tollbooth * * allen(a)chesapeake.tokheim.com * * ************************************************************************

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