Mailman 3 May 1999 - Mailman-Users

problem with message approval
by Alan Barnes 11 May '99

11 May '99

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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listmembers still requiring moderation
by John Lewis 11 May '99

11 May '99

After upgrading to 1.b11, listmembers of my lists are having their messages require moderator approval, even though I've set them up to be allowed to post. What am I missing? Is it a permissions thing? Wish I could search the archives... -John Lewis

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re: archives via html frames
by Eric Gus 11 May '99

11 May '99

sorry for the 'dupe'. Please see http://www.evg.org/~webdesign/listarchive/ for what I'm looking for except with the ability to have it done by month as well (above link is with mhonarc/majordomo) >Is there any info on doing some sort of a html frames version? > >What I'm looking for: >top frame - month index >left frame - msg threads (with option to view by auth/subj/date) >right from - msgbody (or custom intropage if you've just started viewing the archive) > >Gus >

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[Q] pipermail status & more
by Bernhard Reiter 11 May '99

11 May '99

Hi Mailmen, thanks for this nice mailing list management software. I'm trying it out and it looks quite nice to far. But I have a couple of questions. Archiving: As pipermail is declared obsolete by its author, what is the status of this package. It seems to be partially supported by the mailman authors. Will it be supported? Otherwise I think that mailman doesn't necessarily need to support an archiving and searching web engine. Most people want a ready to go solution and it would be easy to produce that using hypermail and htdig. IMO most people would benefit from having easy to-go instructions for setting up hypermail and htdig. (I guess that I am an advocate of modularisation.) Of course a state of the art mailarchive program in python would be nice. ;) Mailinglist management: Is there an options to have other posts as coming from the subscriber and the allowed mailing addresses to go to the moderators for approval? I guess that I can use the "posters" option to add totally different list member posting email addresses (e.g if someone as a totally different login) Wouldn't it be better to have a user-manageable option for this? Option HTML page: I don't like that I get a different Webbrowser windows, when I press (Details) . (Okay it is easy to change, but still I wanted to let you know, that I don't like it.) :) Kind Regards, Bernhard

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Maximum number of subscribers?
by John Lewis 07 May '99

07 May '99

I can't remember the specific details, but what is the maximum number of subscribers that mailman can handle? What is the practical number? If it can hold thousands, is there any easy way to search the member list for specific addresses? The reason I ask this is I have a 19,000 member list that I'm thinking of migrating, and some of the addresses in it are not the current addresses users are using... So when they ask to be removed, and can't find their exact address, I need to do the greping to find them. Also, do all users have to have passwords? I can disable that can't I? If these are dumb questions that have been answered somewhere, please point me in that direction. Thanks.

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`Password reminder' message lacks some helpful properties
by ijackson＠chiark.greenend.org.uk 07 May '99

07 May '99

Observe the attached bounce message. Unfortunately, I can't easily do anything about it because the original message doesn't tell me which list(s) it relates to. Furthermore, the password reminders are sent with envelope from mailman-owner rather than the listowner; this means that the wrong person has to deal with it. Would it be possible for a future version of Mailman to: (a) Provide correct machine-readable information about which list(s) the message relates to in the headers. (Complete information would be nice, but at least one correct entry would allow me to find a hook into fixing the problem.) (b) Change the envelope from for these messages to be the listowner of at least one of the relevant lists. ? (I'm using Mailman 1.0b11.) Thanks, Ian.

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list member data base
by Richard B. Pyne 07 May '99

07 May '99

I have some web pages that I want to put up for use by members of a closed mailing list. Has anyone used the list database to restrict access to web pages other than those managed directly by Mailman? I would appreciate any insights on this idea. Thanks, ------------------------------ Richard B. Pyne, KB7RMU rpyne(a)kinfolk.org http://pyne.kinfolk.org/rbp2

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(no subject)
by Antonio Lopez 06 May '99

06 May '99

Dear mailman-users: I am trying to configure mailman 1.0b8 in a Linux system, and I have problems with the wrapper. I could not subscribe to any list, because as the subscription result I have the following mail: Reporting-MTA: dns; nutria.unesco.org.uy Received-From-MTA: DNS; ferrari.fing.edu.uy Arrival-Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:25:48 -0300 Final-Recipient: RFC822; <foroagua-request(a)nutria.unesco.org.uy> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd foroagua(a)nutria.unesco.org.uy Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 10:25:54 -0300 any help will be sincerely appreciated. best regards, antonio.

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initial install Q's. [NEWBIE]
by Eric Gus 06 May '99

06 May '99

don't understand the docs fully so... Q - Does the user I invoke ./configure with need access to su or can I become user mailman. Q - Can i unpack the archive into /home/mailmain/mailman-1.0rc1/ and do everything else from there User gus (me) is only user allowed access to su apache1.3.6 installed w/default user/group on a linux 2.0.32 kernel (slackware) User nobody Group nogroup /etc/passwd root:[deleted]:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash bin:*:1:1:bin:/bin: daemon:*:2:2:daemon:/sbin: nobody:*:65534:100:nobody:/dev/null: mailman:*:586:104:MailMan MailingList Manager:/home/mailman:/bin/bash /etc/group root::0:root,gus bin::1:root,bin,daemon daemon::2:root,bin,daemon wheel::10:root,gus mail::12:mail mailman::104:mailman,gus Q - Does --prefix need /home/mailman/public_html or just skip the prefix to use the defualt /home/mailman/ Q - would these be correct? (sendmail 8.7.5-- will be changing to postfix or qmail) /etc/sendmail.cf # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid) O DefaultUser=1:1 --with-cgi-gid=nogroup --with-cgi-ext=.cgi --with-mail-gid=1 (bin) Q - If I use suExec or CGIwrap, do I have to configure cgi-gid differently? Confused and green, Gus

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List of vendors that run Mailman?
by editor4＠chiconews.com 05 May '99

05 May '99

All, I am shopping for a vendor that uses Mailman software to run lists. The vendor I now use does not want to add new lists unless they will use Majordomo. Any specific suggestions? Bob Fleming editor4(a)chiconews.com

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