Mailman 3 July 1999 - Mailman-Users

mailman aliases
by Todd Pfaff 02 Sep '99

02 Sep '99

Wow! I'm impressed. Once past the initial hurdle of the vsnprintf problem and Solaris 2.5, I had mailman installed and working in less that an hour. Beautiful! In case this hasn't been discussed already, I have a suggestion for handling the mailman aliases. The INSTALL file says: - Add aliases for `mailman' and `owner-mailman' to the system's mail alias database. These aliases should point to whoever is ultimately responsible for the Mailman installation. Here are instructions for those running sendmail: 1. su to root. 2. Assuming your email is fred(a)flintstone.com, add the following lines to the file /etc/aliases: mailman: fred(a)flintstone.com mailman-owner: mailman 3. Some versions of sendmail require you to run the program 'newaliases' explicitly. I did this a little differently: 1) add to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf O AliasFile=/home/mailman/aliases 2) create the /home/mailman/aliases dbm files cd /home/mailman - edit aliases and add mailman and mailman-owner alias entries as above touch aliases.dir aliases.pag chown root aliases* chgrp mailman aliases* 3) run newaliases and restart sendmail When adding a new list: /home/mailman/bin/newlist list-name list-admin-address admin-password 1 >> /home/mailman/aliases then you just have to edit the aliases file to remove the extra junk output by newlist (but this could be suppressed when the immediate flag is used) and run newaliases. -- Todd Pfaff \ Email: pfaff(a)mcmaster.ca Computing and Information Services \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22920 ABB 132 \ FAX: (905) 528-3773 McMaster University \ Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1 \

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Wrapper error
by Tom Hallewell 29 Aug '99

29 Aug '99

Mailman has been working great for several months until I made a couple of changes on the server. I had been getting tons of mail errors because the hostname was actually an ALIAS according to DNS, so I changed the hostname to the CNAME and stopped getting the errors. Around that same time, I upgraded to RedHat 6.0. Somewhere along the line, I started getting this error everytime anyone tries to post to any of our lists: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post be-install" (expanded from: <be-install(a)techops.rfa.org>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post be-install"... Service unavailable Reading between the lines :), it appears that for some reason sendmail is no longer allowing wrappers. Any ideas? -- Tom Hallewell Lead Technical Engineer Radio Free Asia (202) 530-4976 2025 M St. NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 USA

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Disabling passwords altogether.
by Joseph Leaver 17 Aug '99

17 Aug '99

Hi! I run a joke-a-day list and have received several complaints about the need to use passwords to subscribe and unsubscribe. Is there any way to disable this feature? Thanks, Joe

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[listname] + space?
by Bek Oberin 31 Jul '99

31 Jul '99

I can't seem to add a space after the [listname] prefix, so things come out like this: Subject: [listname]foo bar baz instead of this Subject: [listname] foo bar baz Is this an inherent weakness, or what? Adding a space after it on the admin webpage and it seems to get stripped off again. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : gossamer(a)tertius.net.au http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their : stupidity to themselves? -- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

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Using Mailman With qmail
by Matthew Kaing 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

Hi, I like to use mailman with qmail. I like to know if anyone have successfully configure them to work together. Please help with the setup and configuration if you have done this. Thanks, Matthew

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How do i subscribe a huge number of member >>With Password<<
by Romain GRIFFITHS 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

Is it possible to subscribe a huge (20000) number of members with password (migration to mailman) using either mass subscribe on the web-interface or add_members script ??? PS: Specified password is important. _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

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users object to [listname] prefix
by James Strickland 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

I just switched our internal lists over to Mailman (yay!!!!) without making an announcement on the list. The switch went smoothly, once I figured out how to get the old archives into mbox format! There are now a lot of messages on the list, however, objecting to the [listname] prefix taking up "valuable subject line space". I suspect all of these people are using Microsoft products... anyway, has anyone else had this experience? Has anyone explicitly commended the use of the [listname] prefix? I personally like it, and don't want to change anything. The list has ~500 subscribers, and 5 have so far complained. I could just ignore them... any thoughts? -- James Strickland Perforce Software

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Maquerading problem.
by Bhavnesh Makin 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

I just installed mailman on solaris 2.6 box yesterday and everything till now seems to be working smoothly. The only problem I have is with the headers, I donot know if sendmail is doing it or mailman has some influence in it. This box which is running mailman has a very stripped down version of sendmail.cf which basically tells the sendmail to masquerade as login(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com instead of login(a)box.dnrc.bell-labs.com and it sends the mail to one of our mailhosts for routing. The following is the header generated from one the mail from a list called test123. >From test123-admin(a)maya.dnrc.bell-labs.com Thu Jul 29 19:07 EDT 1999 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:06:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Bhavnesh Makin <makin(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com> To: test123(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com Subject: [Test123] rrrr X-Mailman-Version: 1.0rc3 List-Id: <test123.maya> X-BeenThere: test123@maya _______________________________________________ Test123 mailing list - Test123@maya http://maya.dnrc.bell-labs.com/mailman/listinfo/test123 I wondering if there is a way to change "From" field from test123-admin(a)maya.dnrc.bell-labs.com to test123-admin(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com. Also how do I change Test123@maya to Test123(a)dnrc.bell-labs.com in the footer. thanks, Bhavnesh Makin

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Cann't send big mail
by Victor Gamov 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

Hi! I have a big problem -- I cann't send mail to list more then 16K size. We use Mailman-1.0rc2 and ZMailer-2.99.50s11 on FreeBSD-3.2 and error the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 97634# connection from postman.lipetsk.ru ipcnt 2 ident: NO-IDENT-SERVICE 97634w 220 postman.lipetsk.ru ZMailer Server 2.99.50-s11 #1 ESMTP+IDENT ready at Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:01:55 +0400 97634# remote from [195.34.224.68]:53516 97634r ehlo postman.lipetsk.ru 97634w 250-postman.lipetsk.ru Hello postman.lipetsk.ru 97634w 250-SIZE 20000000 97634w 250-8BITMIME 97634w 250-PIPELINING 97634w 250-CHUNKING 97634w 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 97634w 250-DSN 97634w 250-X-RCPTLIMIT 10000 97634w 250-ETRN 97634w 250 HELP 97634r mail FROM:<consultant-base-admin(a)lipetsk.ru> size=543124 97634w 250 2.1.0 Sender syntax Ok 97634r rcpt TO:<cons(a)chousing.lipetsk.su> NOTIFY=failure 97634w 250 2.1.5 Ok; can accomodate 543124 byte message 97634r rcpt TO:<root(a)prom.lipetsk.su> NOTIFY=failure 97634w 250 2.1.5 Ok; can accomodate 543124 byte message 97634r data 97634w 354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF> 97634- aborted (17459 bytes): SMTP protocol timed out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- CU, Victor Gamov

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Regarding Internationalization
by Glen Malley 30 Jul '99

30 Jul '99

For the record, I did some hunting and came across a page which contains modified source files for Python which enable Japanese to be handled nicely by the string and token handlers. After re-compiling Python 1.52 using the substitute source files (stringobject.c, compile.c, tokenizer.c) I found that Python readily accepts Japanese characters. Upon sending a test message or three to my temporary mailing lists, I found that Mailman also processes the characters perfectly now. I am now a happy camper. ;-) The page is listed below, though I warn you it is entirely in Japanese: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA010598/python/pylha32.htm

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