Mailman 3 April 1999 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Msgs. from subscribers requiring approval?
by Greg Connor April 13, 1999

April 13, 1999

At 01:08 PM 4/12/99 -0400, gmelists wrote: >Thanks for your reply. > >I'm running 1.0b11. Just changed the following options under privacy: >(paraphrased) > Posts approved by administrator: no > Restrict posts to list members only: yes > >Send another message from gme(a)caffeine.sundial.net, and got the following: >Postings from member addresses only. > > :-( Your logs/vette file should tell you who mailman *thinks* the message is from. Looking here … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Usenet gating and archiving
by Ben Gertzfield April 13, 1999

April 13, 1999

>>>>> "Stephan" == Stephan Spencer <sms(a)netconcepts.com> writes: Stephan> We're using Mailman to gateway a Usenet newsgroup and Stephan> email list. I'm curious, is that "severe breakage" in the Stephan> archives that Barry Warsaw mentioned in his Apr 2 post Stephan> fixed yet? I noticed that using 1.0b9, newsgroup mirroring and archiving was totally busted because messages did not start with "From " (notice space, not :). I upgraded to 1.… [View More]

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Msgs. from subscribers requiring approval?
by gmelists April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

Is there anything that would prevent a message from gme(a)caffeine.sundial.net from being disbursed when gme(a)caffeine.sundial.net is a subscriber? This test message, which was originally sent on Apr 9, was sent from Eudora Pro 4.1 which possibly had an "X-Sender: gme(a)10.0.0.1" since that machine was behind a firewall, however, I sent another message directly from caffeine.sundial.net using Pine and still encountered the same thing. Any ideas? TIA! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- … [View More]

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Bounce not caught
by Greg Connor April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

Should we be reporting it as a bug, if we get a bounce message that wasn't caught by the automatic bounce processor? Is there a way to adjust Mailman's bounce detectors? Anyway, this wasn't being flagged as a bounce, and instead went to the admin address. Thanks gregc To: poly-admin(a)polyamory.org From: Mail Administrator <postmaster(a)camb-mail.kenan.com> Reply-To: Mail Administrator <postmaster(a)camb-mail.kenan.com> Received: from camb-mail.kenan.com by ext-nic via … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Hypermail integration
by Rupa Schomaker (list) April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

Sorry, I can't help. But a question for the list. It seems that searching the pipermail archives is a feature that many of us would like. Are there plans for adding searching to pipermail? "Tzeng, Nigel" <NTzeng(a)cen.com> writes: > 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 … [View More]

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Mailman FAQ on web page is clobbered by HTML
by Ben Gertzfield April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

The last question ("I want to get rid of some messages in my archive. How do I do this?") in the Mailman FAQ is missing some critical information; it includes lines like: remove $prefix/archives/private/<listname> edit $prefix/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox et cetera, except when this is changed to HTML, the < and > are not changed to < and > so the <listname> bits are totally invisible! Oops! This should probably be fixed. -- … [View More]

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REPLY-TO oddity
by Marc L. Allen April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

I'm using 1.0B10 and I've noticed the following: I've created a CNAME in my DNS to point maillist.x.y.z to machine x.y.z. I've also setup Mailman to use maillist.x.y.z as it's address and URL. When I set a list up to have replies go to the list, the REPLY-TO: field of the message is list(a)x.y.z instead of the expected list(a)maillist.x.y.z Any quick fixes? Thanks, Marc -- ************************************************************************ * Marc L. Allen * … [View More]

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Possible bug, duplicate messages
by Greg Connor April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

Hello. This is the first day of activity on a new mailman list, changed over last night from a Listproc list with 290 members. Pretty standard stuff... our MTA is Sendmail 8.8.7. First few messages went OK, but one out of the first four message seems to have gone out to everyone twice. According to the logs, Mailman received one copy and sent out two; maybe the first attempt gave Mailman an error or other seizure... but nothing shows up in logs/error or logs/smtp-failures. This is using … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords
by claw＠kanga.nu April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:34:50 -0400 (EDT) gmelists <gmelists(a)caffeine.sundial.net> wrote: > Finally, a suggestion. How difficult would it be to split up the > database into separate components. One for general configuration, > one for privacy options, etc. This would at least allow me to > "lock out" any changes by chown'ing the .db file and making it > owned by root or whatever so user mailman can't modify it; for > example if I want a particular list to remain … [View More]

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RE: [Mailman-Users] BUG(S): Mailman ignoring setting of privacy
by Nicholson James D April 12, 1999

April 12, 1999

> When you say 'From field', do you mean the header that looks like > > From: test2-admin(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu > > or > > From test2-admin(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu Sat Apr 10 00:48:53 1999 > > (basically, the envelope sender or the From: header)? > [Nicholson James D] Here's what I received from a test message to my test lists. My PC is being used to post to the list and I use qpopper to pop mail from the IRIX machine.: Received: … [View More]from <IRIX machine name> ([<IP of my PC>]) by <IRIX Machine name> (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA18532 for <lightchain@<IRIX Machine Name>>; Sun, 10 Apr 1999 23:49:20 -0500 Message-ID: <370ECDCD.D6F9C112@<IRIX Machine Name>> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:04:29 -0400 From: Jim <jim> As you can see, the From: field is directed back at me even though I used the admin privacy option to send it back to the list. I think Microsoft Outlook [hisssssss] looks at the From: line to figure out where to reply to. So, I need to make that From: line say listname(a)machine.name. I am assuming that that is what the privacy option to redirect mail to the list was intended to do. > > > o Changed nobody uid/gid to 65534 to match mailman settings > [Nicholson James D] My mailman is set up to be uid/gid 2001/50 with appropriate group entry. Why are you setting nobody to match mailman settings? Won't this cause security problems down the line if someone can access your machine as nobody? > > Then I added these directives to httpd.conf *exactly* as they appear > below. > [Nicholson James D] Thanks for the tip. This set of commands was not in httpd.conf. It made a difference. It was also not mentioned in the docs for mailman. Adding these allowed me to access mailman and still to deny a directory listing. > <Directory /home/staff/mailman/cgi-bin/> > Allow from all > Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch ExecCGI > </Directory> > > ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/staff/mailman/cgi-bin/ > > [Nicholson James D] Now the reason you have to include both ScriptAlias /mailman/ ...... & ScriptAlias /~mailman/ ...... is not because /mailman/ doesn't work. It works fine. The problem is that the message that was sent out to new subscribers said to access the web interface at http://<machine name>/~mailman/listinfo/<listname>. You can have it either way, but I was confused by the other URL being sent to my test accounts. So, I suppose I can have both of them there. It doesn't seem to hurt anything. [View Less]

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