Mailman 3 July 1999 - Mailman-Users

command syntax
by Thomas Gramstad July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

I'd like to use the E-mail command interface, if possible, but even with the mailman help file and 4 years experience with Majordomo I'm not able to figure out the command syntax. For example, I have tried to send to listname-request: who who password password who In the body. And in the Subject:. What am I missing? (The list is set to only list-admin can get a who, and I'm the list-admin sending it from the list-admin account). Thomas Gramstad thomasg(a)ifi.uio.no

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Solved (Was: Re: [Mailman-Users] URGENT HELP SOUGHT)
by Andy McClements July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

Thanx all for your replies, However I found the problem. I was advised (last week, by George Feil) to check for duplicate python installs on my system, and did so, but somehow missed the fact there *WAS* an old installation. DOH ! When I sorted this out, and re-set the passwords, the admin pages were accessible. Cheers, Andy McClements (and sorry for shouting !) >> >> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 11:18 AM >> >> To: mailman-users(a)python.org >> >> … [View More]

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Problem with mailman
by surendra rajbanshi July 6, 1999

July 6, 1999

colleagues, when I reading the mail I'm geeting following error. Error Message: No login provided, cannot proceed. can anybody know how to solve this. thanks ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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URGENT HELP SOUGHT
by Andy McClements July 5, 1999

July 5, 1999

Hi All, Sorry to shout, but I need to evaluate this system asap. and I cannot because the admin password is broken. Please will anyone who might be able to suggest why the adminstrative passwords might be rejected in the admin webpage, with a message "Sorry, wrong password. Try again." See my previous post below for the system details. I've just used "mmsitepass" again to reset the admin password, but the new password is rejected. The ~/mailman/logs/error is empty. I don't know where else to … [View More]

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Mail list management
by Zev Percowitz July 5, 1999

July 5, 1999

Dear Mail Gurus: What equipment does one need to set up a mail list program. And, how does it work in conjunction with web pages? I would like to generate my own leads and am curious what it would take. Thank You. Zev

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Problem: HTML Admin Interface won't update member list -- at all
by Sean O'Neill July 4, 1999

July 4, 1999

I was hoping someone could help me with this problem. I haven't completely checked out how Mailman is working but this is one problem I've found and can't figure it out. - Ultra 2 running Apache Web Server - Mailman v1.0b9 - Mailman repository lives in /home/mailman - Everything in /home/mailman is setup for 'mailman' ownership and 'mailman' group - Everything has the group ID bit sit (i.e. rwxr-srx) - Apache is running as 'nobody' HTML admin interface works except when I try to update a … [View More]

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Mailman oddity... again...
by Mike Cisar July 4, 1999

July 4, 1999

Have run across another oddity trying to get Mailman installed and running... as background the system is running Redhat Linux 6.0. The system is running as stage2.starmania.net but also virtualhosts lists.starmania.com (the virtual host where the lists will be running). I've just pulled down the latest CVS version of Mailman, to make sure I'm as current as possible... I seem to be running into a problem where mailman thinks it knows where it is sometimes, but not others... take as an … [View More]example the subscription confirmation request message shown below. In the text portion of the message all is as it should be (all addresses pointing to @lists.starmania.com) but the message headers are a different story, they are all pointing to @starmania.net (a completely different machine, which is probably why this problem became evident). Looking in MailList.py (somewhere around line 879) I can see that self.GetRequestEmail() and self.GetAdminEmail() seem to be called to fill in the blanks in both the headers and the body of the message... so the question (I think) is why self.host_name is returning 2 different sets of values? That, I am afraid, is the limit of my debugging skill... hopefully the grand Mailman gurus can figure out what's happening from there! -- message clip, unimportant parts <..SNIP..>ped for brevity -- <..SNIP..> Message-Id: <199907030031.SAA28877(a)stage2.starmania.net> From: starmania-news-request(a)starmania.net Subject: Starmania-news -- confirmation of subscription -- request 318541 To: admin(a)starmania.net Date: Fri Jul 2 18:31:22 1999 Reply-to: starmania-news-request(a)starmania.net Errors-To: starmania-news-admin(a)starmania.net X-Mailman-Version: 1.0rc2+ Precedence: bulk List-Id: <starmania-news.lists.starmania.com> <..SNIP..> starmania-news(a)lists.starmania.com mailing list. To confirm the request, please send a message to starmania-news-request(a)lists.starmania.com, and either: <..SNIP..> this message. Send questions to starmania-news-admin(a)lists.starmania.com. -- end of message clip -- Thanks again, >>>>> Mike <<<<< P.S. I seem to have worked around my earlier problem with the error "Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 65535. (Reconfigure to take 65535?)" by adding a group numbered 65535 to my /etc/group file. I have a suspicion that isn't nessesarily a wise/safe solution to the problem (is it???), but it is allowing the wrapper to run until such time as some Linux guru can tell me who's hat it's pulling 65535 out of. I'm beginning to suspect it may be getting that value somehow from the virtual local delivery agent used to handle the mail (seeing as lists.starmania.com is a virtual server)... but should not any running program be running under a group that actually exists?? [View Less]

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Wrapper problem...
by Mike Cisar July 3, 1999

July 3, 1999

Can anyone tell me what this error message means... received when trying to send a message to the test list... Jul 2 16:15:37 stage2 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 65535. (Reconfigure to take 65535?) Mailman was compiled with --with-mail-gid=mail and mail is gid 12 on this system... ???????? Help! >>>>> Mike <<<<<

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Cookies and IE5
by Mike Cisar July 3, 1999

July 3, 1999

Subsequent to my previous message (below), I've had to do a little fiddling. What I'm wondering is if anyone else is successfully able to administer Mailman using Microsoft IE5? Went in and tested my installation with Lynx (ugh!) and it shows the cookie warning, accept the cookie and all is well to admin the page (and "details" works too). Went back to IE5, doesn't work at all... went into the IE5 config and switched from "automatically accept cookies" to "warn before accepting" and somehow … [View More]

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Suggestion: link to admin from each list's listinfo page
by Mitchell Marks July 3, 1999

July 3, 1999

We have a prominent link from our front page to the Mailman listinfo page. But some of my list administrators sail right by the paragraph at the top that's addressed to them and links to the admin overview page, and instead see their list below and click on it. At this point they're at the listinfo page for their list, and don't see the admin options they're expecting. Of course, the listinfo page is for subscribers and potential subscribers, and I wouldn't suggest mixing in admin … [View More]

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