Mailman 3 May 1999 - Mailman-Users

install troubles
by Richard Ames 20 May '99

20 May '99

Hi - I'm having a bit of trouble with the install... using the INSTALL file of mailman-1.0rc1 Step 1 - noproblem. Step 2 - cd to the src directory, ./configure doesn't work, ../configure appears to work fine. make install results in a bunch of errors starting with: Creating directory hierarchy /home/mailman/logs /bin/sh: ./mkinstalldirs: No such file or directory There is no mkinstalldirs in the src directory, so I copy it there from the mailman-1.0rc1 directory. Try make install again - it makes a whole bunch of directories in /home/mailman and then: Creating directory hierarchy /home/mailman/cgi-bin mkdir /home/mailman/cgi-bin Creating directory hierarchy /home/mailman/mail mkdir /home/mailman/mail make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/mailman-1.0rc1/src/bin' for f in digest_arch mmsitepass newlist rmlist add_members list_members remove_m embers clone_member update arch sync_members check_db withlist; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f /home/mailman/bin; \ done /usr/bin/install: digest_arch: No such file or directory /usr/bin/install: mmsitepass: No such file or directory /usr/bin/install: newlist: No such file or directory What now??????????? Thanks, Richard. Richard Ames linsup.com, Sydney, Australia Tel: +61 2 9144-6131, Fax: +61 2 9144-6138 mailto:richard@linsup.com http://www.linsup.com

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Posting only from list members does not identify members correctl y y
by Keith Swenson 19 May '99

19 May '99

I looked through the archives and found the attached email message. I am having the same problem. 1. I created a mailing list, posting allowed only from members 2. I signed up two users. Both users received a welcome message 3. I post a message from a user to the list and I get this message: List: Cystinuria(a)endeavor.med.nyu.edu Reason held: Postings from member addresses only. From: kswenson(a)netscape.net Subject: Test Mail #1 The email address mentioned in the message is *exactly* what is in the list. I did not see a reply to Alan's message in the archives. Is there any workaround to this problem? -Keith >We are having a problem with the rc1 version of mailman. The problem >also existed is previous versions I tried. If you select to allow posts >only from members AND to not have to approve each message it doesn't >work right. We still have to approve every message and the reason given >is that posts are allowed by members only. How exactly is the mailman >try to determine if you are on the list? Sometimes it looks like it's >getting it from Sender: and sometimes it looks like it's getting info >from one of the Recevied by tags. I've tried it from 5 different mail >servers and I get the same results every time. It tells me that posting >is restricted to members of the list. One time it told me that I had to >approve the message for that reason and the From: address it listed in >the email to me WAS the same as the one I entered. This program >(mailman) is great so if someone could help me out here I would >appreciate it. Thanks! > >Alan Barnes >dodger(a)toast.net

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Multilingual support
by Adonis El Fakih 19 May '99

19 May '99

Howdy, My name is Adonis. I am new to Mailman, and wanted to know if Multilingual support of lists is already incorporated. I saw some posts about this in the Archive, but I did not see anything in the documentation. I also wanted help in configuring a read-only list. I read through the distribution documentation, and archive and found no reference to that option. Any pointers will be greatly appretiated. Adonis ______________________________________________________________ Ayna, E-mail that speaks your language - http://login.ayna.com

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/mailman/listinfo/
by Andy Harrison 19 May '99

19 May '99

Everything's working beautifully in my MailMan setup... cept for one last little thing. It's barely worth mentioning, but it's nagging me, so I thought I'd ask. When I point my browser to my website with just a /mailman/listinfo/, it should bring up a list of the public lists, however it states that there are no public lists. I went to each of my lists and verified that it was indeed marked public and the ownership and perms of the files seem to be right what they should be. Any clues? Thanx! --------------------------------- E-Mail: Andy Harrison <andy(a)nachoz.com> Date: 18-May-99 Time: 23:52:45 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------

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Web setup
by Andy Harrison 19 May '99

19 May '99

I recently upgraded my Mailman to 1.0rc1 from 1.07b. Anyway, the configure, install, and upgrade seemed to go without incident. I also had upgraded apache a little while back and in doing so I accidentally blew away some of the mailman config stuff. So now, I have re-added: access.conf: <Directory /home/mailman/cgi-bin> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI </Directory> <Directory /home/mailman/archives/public> Options FollowSymLinks </Directory> <Directory /home/mailman/archives/private> Options FollowSymLinks </Directory> srm.conf: Alias /pipermail/ /home/mailman/archives/public/ ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/mailman/cgi-bin My /home/mailman/cgi-bin directory is as follows (so you can see the perms): [/home/mailman/cgi-bin] # ls -la total 202 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 1024 May 18 09:22 . drwxrwsr-x 15 mailman mailman 1024 Jan 22 12:26 .. -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18953 May 18 09:22 admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18957 May 18 09:22 admindb -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18957 May 18 09:22 archives -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18957 May 18 09:22 edithtml -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18965 May 18 09:22 handle_opts -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18957 May 18 09:22 listinfo -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18957 May 18 09:22 options -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18957 May 18 09:22 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18953 May 18 09:22 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 18961 May 18 09:22 subscribe Now I get various errors in the apache error_log: "attempt to invoke directory as script: /home/mailman/cgi-bin" "File does not exist: /home/httpd/html/mailman" "script not found or unable to stat: /home/mailman/cgi-binlistinfo" "script not found or unable to stat: /home/mailman/cgi-binadmin" And through netscape when I attempt to access my /mailman/listinfo/laughs/ directory I get nothing more than the Not Found error. I did my ./configure with gid's of 99 which matches the user/group set in my httpd.conf file. I'm running apache-1.3.3-1 under Red Hat with python-1.5.1-4 installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx! --------------------------------- E-Mail: Andy Harrison <andy(a)nachoz.com> Date: 18-May-99 Time: 10:08:51 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------

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Multiple domains
by Lorenzo Cavassa 18 May '99

18 May '99

Hi, i would like to run Mailman hosting several mailing lists with several domains. An example: - two ml. : test(a)domain1.com, test(a)domain2.com - the internal naming is: domain1.test and domain2.test - i configure the MTA to accept test(a)domain1.com and test(a)domain2.com and to route email for these ml. to domain1.test and to domain2.test How can i instruct MailMan to hide the internal naming in welcome messages to subscribe users? Thank you! Lorenzo

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Re: Mailman, Exim -odqr, Python's `own' SMTP, etc.
by Ricardo Kustner 17 May '99

17 May '99

> special delivery mode option which I've found greatly improves SMTP > connection reuse and general efficiency. I'd also like to avoid ident > lookups etc. i added this to my exim configure: rfc1413_except_hosts = 127.0.0.1 to prevent identd lookup from localhost smtp connections... Ricarod.

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incomplete archives
by Brad Crittenden 17 May '99

17 May '99

hello: i've been running a list using mailmanB7 since last december. i just noticed that the private archive pages don't have anything since april 26, 1999. the text file and the list.mbox are current. originally the list was marked to start a new archive yearly. i've tried changing that to quarterly to see if it would cause a re-generation of the archive web page but that didn't work. any suggestions? thanks, brad ------------------------------------------------------------ Brad Crittenden bac(a)ivc.com Tel. 919-468-9901 x 111 Fax. 919-468-9904

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Need queue error help
by John Lewis 17 May '99

17 May '99

Greetings, What does this error mean? And how do I go about resolving it? Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 31, in ? OutgoingQueue.processQueue() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/OutgoingQueue.py", line 121, in processQueue recip,sender,text = marshal.load(f) EOFError: EOF read where object expected I get one of these messages every half hour. Thanks

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mailman rc1 and zmailer doesn't cooperate?
by Tomaz Borstnar 17 May '99

17 May '99

Hello! I downloaded rc1 and everything went smoothly except 2 things: - make install failed with templates - switch to GNU make cured the problem - when sending mail to list maintainer with newlist Zmailer complained about bad behaviour: 94508r mail FROM:<mailman-owner(a)lists.over.net> size=1521 94508w 250 2.1.0 Sender syntax Ok 94508r rcpt TO:<tomaz.borstnar(a)over.net> NOTIFY=failure 94508w 250 2.1.5 Ok; can accomodate 1521 byte message 94508r data 94508w 501 5.5.4 Extra junk after 'DATA' verb 94508# Session closed w/o QUIT Zmailer is usually very conforming to standard so I guess Mailman is too lax which is not good. What does it do after 'data'? Using FreeBSD 3.2-Beta, ZMailer 2.99.50s18 and python 1.5.2 and Mailman rc1. All latest as you can see. Thanks in advance. Tomaz ---- Tomaz Borstnar <tomaz.borstnar(a)over.net> "Love is the answer to the final question you ask" - Unknown

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