Mailman-Users April 1999

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List roster not found.
by Mike Garside 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

I have setup Mailman on my Debian GNU/Linux box and receive the following error message in html when checking the subscriber list. "List roster not found" I am using the default list setups that are generated when using the newlist command. I am also using version 1.0b8-3 of mailman that came with the "slink" distribution of Debian. The weird part is that everything else seems to work fine, I can do updates from admin, post to the list, view archives etc etc, I can even view the subscriber list once or twice after creating a new list. It then gives me this error??? Any ideas? Mike

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Re: [Mailman-Users] [Q]: Mailman Archive Text Searching Capabilit es?
by Ken Manheimer 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

Sean O'Neill writes: > Is there any way to provide HTML forms based searching capabilities to a > mailing lists user community? We have mailman running but my users want to > be able to search the archives for text within the messages. The built-in pipermail archives provide no such facility. If you want it, you're either going to have to hack the pipermail code to add this feature - not trivial - or hook up with another archival mechanism. I know of some people who use MHonarc, and i understand hypermail is again actively maintained, and i believe both can be hooked up via a regular list subscription. (If they respect the X-no-archive header, then password reminders and so forth won't get archived, besides.) For that matter, if your lists are public you could even subscribe one of the public maillist archive services, like egroups.com or reference.com.... > Sean O'Neill > AppNet, Inc. > Century Computing Division (Hmm - century computing - barry's old stomping grounds! Interesting...) Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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Stupid Admin Trick: lost a password
by Bill Bumgarner 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

I'm a list admin on a box for which I also admin the mailman installation. Given that, I lost an admin password and want to recover it. Is there a way to do so and how? I imagine that this is probably a fairly common question asked by remote admins... i'm embarassed that I'm wheel on the machine and lost my own damned list password. b.bum

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Re: Pointers to using mailman with exim
by Joshua E. Rodd 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

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. exim(8) was unhelpful, and I can't find anything in mailman about using it with exim. Once I get it to work, I think I'll write a README.exim file for mailman. =) Cheers, Joshua.

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

02 Apr '99

On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:30:11 -0500 Joshua E Rodd <jerodd(a)noah.dhs.org> wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to use mailman with exim. What I don't > understand is how to route mail from exim to mailman. I tried > adding aliases to send mail from mylistname and mylistname-request > to mailman, but that just ended up in /var/spool/mail/mailman > getting appended. What am I missing? 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. First you need a transport: mailman_list_pipe: driver = pipe allow_commands = /home/mailman/mail/wrapper user = mailman group = mail return_fail_output Then you need a director: mailman_lists: driver = aliasfile search_type = lsearch file = /home/mailman/data/aliases pipe_transport = mailman_list_pipe Note that I keep all my mailman specific aliases in /home/mailman/data/aliases rather than /etc/aliases. -- 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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Pointers to using mailman with exim
by Joshua E. Rodd 02 Apr '99

02 Apr '99

Hello, I'm trying to use mailman with exim. What I don't understand is how to route mail from exim to mailman. I tried adding aliases to send mail from mylistname and mylistname-request to mailman, but that just ended up in /var/spool/mail/mailman getting appended. What am I missing? Is there some sort of background process that needs to run? FYI, this is on a Debian potato system, with the latest everything, including the latest exim and mailman. Cheers, Joshua.

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[Q]: Mailman Archive Text Searching Capabilites?
by Sean O'Neill 01 Apr '99

01 Apr '99

Is there any way to provide HTML forms based searching capabilities to a mailing lists user community? We have mailman running but my users want to be able to search the archives for text within the messages. Any and all help appreciated. --------------------------------- Sean O'Neill AppNet, Inc. Century Computing Division 301-953-3330 soneill(a)cen.com soneill(a)centurycomputing.com

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XYZ-owner@other.machine
by Baranyai Laszlo 01 Apr '99

01 Apr '99

Hi, could you tell me, how can I send letters to the correct address instead of "somebody-owner@somewhere"? I use mailing lists with "elfiz2.kee.hu" and "phd.hu" names [mailman 1.08b]. Members from other servers are not available sometimes(?). Members were registrated "bulk" on admin page and listinfo page (by themselves). I have no problem with most of them only one or two seems to have incorrect options. What can be wrong? Regards, Laszlo Baranyai ___________________________________________________________________________ Association of Hungarian PhD Students University of Horticulture & Food H1146 Budapest, Ajtosi Durer sor 19-21 Department of Physics & Control http://www.phd.hu H1118 Budapest, Somloi u. 14-16. dosz(a)phd.hu, iroda(a)phd.hu T.: (+36-1)-372-6200/6020

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changing defaults
by Alan Neiman 01 Apr '99

01 Apr '99

I have found the "defaults.py" and the "mm_cfg.py" files, and I've been able to change almost all the defaults we want to. I do have a problem with the archives. We would like it turned off, and can't get that part working. I have added/changed the following line in both files, but the lists are still being created with archives turned on. ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = -1 Any idea? thanks alan

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