Mailman 3 June 1999 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman, Exim -odqr, Python's `own' SMTP, etc.
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Ian Jackson] > So, what would be the canonical Python or Mailman way of doing this ? > Enclose the body of TrySMTPDelivery in a big `if' ? Move the body > into a new function and turn TrySMTPDelivery into a layer of > indirection ? Whatever suits your fancy :) > Is such a change likely to be accepted in any case, or will I have > to maintain a local version (which means I'll try for the patch with > the lowest changed-lines-count) ? If we're opening up for MTA-… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple domains
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Lorenzo Cavassa] > 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 > … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie question
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Scott Kruger] > I just set up Mailman under Debian Linux using smail. I set up a > users mailing list but right now it is not working - obviously > because I have not set up the mail alias. Is this automated in any > way by mailman? It seems like such a nice package there must be > some way of having this automated. smail allows the creation of > lists just by putting a file with the email addresses in > /etc/smail/lists Is there an easy way of doing this? I think … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] speaking of archiving ...
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Mitchell Marks] > Two of the lists I will be migrating to Mailman already have a > couple years of archives, built up by hypermail (on a different host > from where the slist mail management is running). Any suggestions > on how to integrate the old archives with the new ones that > Mailman+pipermail will be establishing? You can import mbox-format archives into pipermail with the $prefix/bin/arch script. -- Harald

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Authentication/cookies question
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Matthew Darwin] > Is there any particular reason why there is no option (that I can > find) to configure the web interface to use basic authentication > instead of cookies? Just that no one has implemented such support yet. If anyone's willing to do that, I'm sure it'd be a nice feature to have. -- Harald

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with ALIASES
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Usuario para TESTE] > I Having some problem with mailman, i've followed the instructions and > installed 1.0rc1, but when i try to send an E-mail to the list i receive: RTFM, more specifically question #1 in the FAQ. -- Harald

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Lack of RFC822 compliant date header
by Harald Meland June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999

[Matthew Darwin] > So either mailman needs to deliver locally (via qmail-inject) or > generate RFC 822 Date: headers. I'll make Utils.DeliverToUser() add a Date: header when missing. > I also notice that pipermail is broken. My original message is archived > in two pieces: > > http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-June/001436.html > http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-June/001437.html Here's a quick fix for that one: Index: Archiver.py ===… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Perhaps this is covered already ..
by Harald Meland June 15, 1999

June 15, 1999

[Tor Houghton] > Thanks very much. Is there any way to have a "list" of base URL's? > It works as you say when I use the hostname, but it also has a CNAME > ('www') which most people tend to use. No, there are not any Mailman mechanisms to deal with this -- people accessing the web server by the "wrong" virtual interface will not get the same info as the ones accessing by the "right" one -- unless you turn off Mailman's virtual hosting support, of course. The virtual hosting support … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with ALIASES
by Harald Meland June 15, 1999

June 15, 1999

As is apparent from the subject of the message I am now replying to, subject prefixing is broken in rc2 :( Here is the trivial patch (which was just checked into CVS): Index: MailList.py =================================================================== RCS file: /export/public/cvsroot/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py,v retrieving revision 1.125 diff -u -r1.125 MailList.py --- MailList.py 1999/06/13 07:19:20 1.125 +++ MailList.py 1999/06/15 11:43:27 @@ -1269,8 +1269,8 @@ prefix = self.… [View More]

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Perhaps this is covered already ..
by Tor Houghton June 15, 1999

June 15, 1999

But why does the /mailman/admin link say "Welcome! [...] this is the collection of publicly-advertised mailman mailing lists on [...]" and then proceeds to list the publicly available lists (I have 4 lists on my server, where 1 is made non-public, so above link lists (correctly) 3 lists). When the link /mailman/listinfo says "Welcome! [...] There currently are no publicly-advertised [...] lists"?? I am assuming the latter link is wrong; since the admin page actually displays things … [View More]

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