Mailman 3 May 1999 - Mailman-Users

Search....
by David Corbin 04 May '99

04 May '99

I've been using mailmain for a few weeks now for some very small lists. I think it's great. The web-admin stuff is REALLY great. One thing that seems to be missing, to me, is that there is no way to search the archives on the web. If there is, I missed it. Are there any plans to add such? Thanks -- David Corbin Corsol Corporation http://www.csol.com dcorbin(a)csol.com

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[ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0rc1
by bwarsaw＠python.org 04 May '99

04 May '99

Hi folks, Mailman 1.0 release candidate 1 (1.0rc1) has just been uploaded to www.list.org. Barring any major screwups by me, this will be the final 1.0 release. The next step is to create the GNU web pages. I just want to personally thank everyone who's helped with ideas, contributions, suggestions, and support in getting us to where we are. Here are a few things to note about this release: - We have a logo contest winner! By a narrow margin, Dragon's logo has won. My thanks to the other 3 logo creators; in different ways I liked them all, and they are all much better than /I/ could ever have done! Mailman will now display Dragon's small logo on (most) generated pages; I may have missed a few, but those will all be fixed when we revamp the page designs after 1.0. You need to read the instructions in the INSTALL file for putting mailman.gif in a place that your Web server can find them, and for setting up the img src URL. Comments on how to improve this manual installation step would be appreciated. - There is a new cron/mailpasswd script which groups users by virtual domains if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW is true (the default). While I've tested this feature, I would /really/ appreciate some more detailed testing by you folks who run multiple virtual domains (hi Greg S. :-). Please, let's not wait until June 1 to find out something is broken, but also be careful not to spam too many of your users! - If anybody feels like they are being left out of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file, or have any other updates for this file, please send them directly to me. I haven't kept up with this as well as I should have, so don't be shy. :-) That's all I can think of. Grab the tarball from http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz Enjoy, -Barry P.S. I'll probably somewhat unresponsive to the mailing lists for a while. I need to concentrate on getting the next JPython release out.

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Bug: Further info...
by Tomas 04 May '99

04 May '99

The bug seems to be only when someone tries to subscribe via email. I think. I seem to be able to add these people via the web interface. These folks don't have web access. I have a hunch, but cannot figure it out, that maybe there's a permission thing happening? By the way, the site is: http://louis-lamour-fan.com the list is ll-chat(a)louis-lamour-fan.com (and ll-chat-admin@ is the list admin, right?) Thanks, Tomas -- What would you like me to do today? ----------------------------- http://GreaterGood.com - - - - Shopping that benefits your group. http://YourSchoolShop.com ..... where 5% goes back to your school! Tomas Hood - Technology (Miracle) Worker Voice (206) 624-8972 FAX (206) 344-5221 Pager (206) 998-3805 "If everyone is thinking alike then somebody is not thinking..." -- George S. Patton

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Bug: [Fwd: Trying to Subscribe]
by Tomas 04 May '99

04 May '99

I have been having users send me these error reports: When I tried to subscribe to your mailing list, I got this error. Please let me know when to try again. I am very interesting in chatting again. Bug in Mailman version 1.0b11 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 161, in main list.AddMember(email, pw, digest, remote) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 851, in AddMember cookie = Pending().new(name, password, digest) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 67, in new db = self.__load() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 94, in __load self.__assert_lock(self.db_lock_timeout) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 120, in __assert_lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 127, in lock raise TimeOutError TimeOutError What can I do about this? I am using the latest Red Hat linux.

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Moving Listproc lists
by Gerhard Gonter 03 May '99

03 May '99

Does anybody have a nice little tool to transfer a listproc based mailing list to mailman? If not, I'll start with a program to transfer the user list or check, if add_members could be hacked to do that ;) +gg -- Gerhard.Gonter(a)wu-wien.ac.at Fax: +43/1/31336/702 g.gonter(a)ieee.org Zentrum fuer Informatikdienste, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria

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Error
by Douglas Eadline 03 May '99

03 May '99

Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 124, in main HandleRequests(doc) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 214, in HandleRequests list.HandleRequest(request, v) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 122, in HandleRequest self.HandlePostRequest(request_data[2:], value, comment) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 165, in HandlePostRequest self.LogMsg("vette", note) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 793, in LogMsg logf.write(msg % args + '\n') TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/local/etc/pages/plogic HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip REMOTE_HOST atmax-2-38.enter.net CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded PATH_TRANSLATED /usr/local/etc/pages/plogic/xtreme REMOTE_ADDR 207.16.153.94 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_COOKIE xtreme-admin=-1541011237; xtreme-admin=-1541011237 SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en REMOTE_PORT 1796 SERVER_PORT 80 HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* REQUEST_URI /mailman/admindb/xtreme PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin QUERY_STRING SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb CONTENT_LENGTH 52 HTTP_HOST www.plogic.com REQUEST_METHOD POST SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admindb SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)plogic.com SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.2.6 Red Hat PYTHONPATH /home/mailman PATH_INFO /xtreme HTTP_REFERER http://www.plogic.com/mailman/admindb/xtreme SERVER_NAME www.plogic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Paralogic, Inc. | PEAK | Voice:+610.861.6960 115 Research Drive | PARALLEL | Fax:+610.861.8247 Bethlehem, PA 18017 USA | PERFORMANCE | http://www.plogic.com -------------------------------------------------------------------

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gate_news giving errors (in cron)
by Soren Dayton 02 May '99

02 May '99

I have two kinds of errors. Has anyone ever seen these? This is 1.0b11, python 1.5.2 on Solaris 2.5. thanks, Soren

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Re: Mailman bug
by ijackson＠chiark.greenend.org.uk 02 May '99

02 May '99

Stephen Early writes ("Mailman bug"): > When trying to view the subscribers list of 'troubadours', which is > only available to list members, and providing a bogus address and > password: > > > Bug in Mailman version 1.0b11 > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main > main() > File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/roster.py", line 61, in main > list.ConfirmUserPassword(id, pw) > File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 76, in ConfirmUserPassword > raise Errors.MMNotAMemberError > MMNotAMemberError I'm using Mailman 1.0b11. I installed it as a home-made Debian package, using the debianisation patch from Debian's 1.0b8-3. (The lists are at www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/mailman/listinfo etc.) Ian.

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group shows up as part of cgi url
by Daniel Jacobs 01 May '99

01 May '99

This is a strange one - For an example, go to http://jubjub.wizard.com/mailman/admin Any cgi program name is having the group (nogroup) appended to it in the html being generated. I've poked through the archives and the faq and haven't come across this. I am running on FreeBSD 3.1 w/apache 1.3.1 and python 1.5.1. Daniel Jacobs | @wizard.com - Las Vegas Providers of Internet Services (702) 317-2001 | http://www.wizard.com/ | danielj(a)wizard.com "In art and dream, may you proceed with abandon. In life, may you proceed with balance and stealth." - Patti Smith

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deleting archives
by kevin＠vulcanind.com 01 May '99

01 May '99

I have got Mailman running and tested on a Debian GNU/Linux box. I am going to put this into production in the next few days on our intranet. During my testing phase I just used forwarded copies of one of my favorite digests. Well now I got 50-60 copies of these digests in my archives, and it is not exactly appropriate reading material for business use. I can not find anything in the FAQs or archives that addresses deleting and restarting the archives. Any suggestions? Kevin Lee Vulcan Industries (205) 640-2433 mailto:kevin@vulcanind.com http://www.vulcanind.com

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