Mailman 3 July 1999 - Mailman-Users

Unsubscribe methods
by Jeff Barger July 8, 1999

July 8, 1999

Hi, Just getting mailman up and running, had a quick question: Is there any way to keep mailman from requiring a password for someone to unsubscribe from a list? Seeing as how most of the chores involved with maintaining a list are the unsubscribing hassles I'd like to make it as easy as is possible to subscribe... Thanks, -Jeff

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[ANNOUNCE] Mailman 1.0rc2
by Harald Meland July 8, 1999

July 8, 1999

Hi there, Mailman 1.0 release candidate 2 (1.0rc2) is now available for download from <URL:http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz> This is a bugfix release -- most notably, a security flaw in Mailman's cookie authentication mechanisms have been fixed. As the security flaw could be used to obtain access to any Mailman admin page, EVERYONE using Mailman are urged to upgrade AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. One word to everyone who has reported bugs, submitted patches, given suggestions … [View More]

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Problem - User Unknown
by Mr. Sharkey July 8, 1999

July 8, 1999

Hi, I'm using Mailman v1.0cr2, Mandrake Linux, and Sendmail 8.9.3. I've created a mailing list, it shows up with a listinfo and admin page, but when I try to mail to it, my system returns 'User Unknown'. Any suggestions on where to start looking to see what's gone amiss? Thanks, M.

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Handling of MIME attachments
by z＠singtel.telcosucks.org July 8, 1999

July 8, 1999

Is there anyone here working on the handling of MIME attachments for the Archives so that they don't appear as a huge chunk of gibberish. Also how about the downloading of attachments? The current method of downloading a single gzipped message is definitely lacking in functionality. I might try to code in the handling of MIME attachments if there are no efforts to do so right now. Regards

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"Too many recipients" error & tuning
by nicolas＠hushmail.com July 7, 1999

July 7, 1999

Hello: I posted to a list with 2000+ users, and got a Too many recipients error. It seems to be that the sendmail remote server choked when received an email with too many recipients. The problem is that I can't find enough documentation about the variables presented in ~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py and ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. I think I should set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to something as low as 20 (it is set to 500 now), but DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS also seem a good choice. Which … [View More]

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Stupid question
by Glen Malley July 7, 1999

July 7, 1999

So here's my contribution to the stupid question pool. 1. The mailman-users archive is gzipped (apparently automatically). How? 2. When replies to a post are directed to the list instead of the poster, the "Re: [List]" subject prefix is not removed automatically...so you basically get hugely nested subject lines consisting of nothing but "Re: [List] Re: [List]" etc. Why isn't this stripped automatically? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Glen … [View More]

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help me decode a 'We're sorry, we hit a bug!" message
by Joshua S. Freeman July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

One of our subscribers writes: "I was changing my e-mail address and having un- subscribed from the old one, I was setting up for the new one. I entered my addy and pass code, hit subscribe and got this message. Hope this helps!!" below is the message he received. Can someone please check it out and tell me if I need to fix anything? I've been over and over it, I can see that something happened at line 112 in one script and line 157 in another and that for some reason it didn't like … [View More]that this person was trying to subscribe to the digest, but... what should I do about it? Thanks, J. > > Bug in Mailman version 1.0b10 > > 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 157, in main > if digest: > NameError: digest > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > Environment variables: > Variable Value > DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/mailman/htdocs > HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate > CONTENT_LENGTH 71 > CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded > PATH_TRANSLATED /home/mailman/htdocs/howdoi > REMOTE_ADDR 63.14.37.70 > SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 > HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us > GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 > SERVER_PORT 80 > HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive > HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; MCIWORLDV2) > HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* > REQUEST_URI /mailman/subscribe/howdoi > PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin > QUERY_STRING > SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe > SCRIPT_URL /mailman/subscribe/howdoi > HTTP_HOST list.scansoft.com > REQUEST_METHOD POST > SERVER_SIGNATURE > SCRIPT_URI http://list.scansoft.com/mailman/subscribe/howdoi > SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/subscribe > SERVER_ADMIN gowen(a)scansoft.com > SERVER_SOFTWARE Red Hat Secure/2.0 (Unix) PHP/3.0.6 mod_ssl/2.0.15 > SSLeay/0.9.0b > PYTHONPATH /home/mailman > PATH_INFO /howdoi > HTTP_REFERER http://list.scansoft.com/mailman/listinfo/howdoi > SERVER_NAME list.scansoft.com > REMOTE_PORT 1389 > > > > > [View Less]

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To and Sender address seem wrong ?
by Andy McClements July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

Hi All, There's something not right here.. I want my listserver to appear to be running on a system with the name "lists.domain.org" instead of its full-qualified domain name "box.domain.org". Accordingly, I've created a CNAME DNS record for "lists" that points to the FQDN, and added "lists.domain.org" to the /etc/sendmail.cw file. The system is now happy to accept mail to addresses at "lists.domain.org". I've set (1). DEFAULT_HOST_NAME in mm_cfg.py and (2). "Host name this list prefers" in … [View More]

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URL appended to list messages is wrong
by Andy McClements July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

Hi All, I'm finding that the URL appended to each list message sent out by Mailman has the URL incorrect, inasmuch as it omits the ".cgi". I'm using Apache, and it generates a 404 error without the extension. eg: it reads; _______________________________________________ Test-list mailing list - test-list(a)lists.domain.org http://lists.domain.org/mailman/listinfo/test-list instead of: _______________________________________________ Test-list mailing list - test-list(a)lists.domain.org http://lists.domain.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/test-list

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Couple of basic newbie questions
by Andy McClements July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

Hi All, Now I've got things cooking I need to tune some of the lists I'm establishing. As Mailman will probably replace our old listserver, I need to maintain a few things, such as the actual list addresses. Questions: 1. The listserver will be known by a hostname different from the FQDN. The default address for the mailman-owner is "mailman-owner@fqdn". Where do I change this to "mailman-owner(a)listserv.domain.org" ? Do I need to re-configure/re-install after changing this ? 2. I can set … [View More]

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