Mailman 3 July 1999 - Mailman-Users

installation as a user with limited permissions
by Matthew Swift July 29, 1999

July 29, 1999

I'm hoping to be able to use mailman to run mailing lists from my ISP's machine and web server. On this machine, I cannot create new user groups or users, and I cannot modify the Apache configuration or sendmail configuration. I can run my own CGI scripts, and I can control (via procmail) where all mail to my domain gets directed. I have looked over the installation directions for mailman, which calls for creating a user and usergroup, adding sendmail aliases, and modifying the webserver's configuration. My impression is that I could manage to satisfy mailman in some respects (e.g., I have a 'ScriptAlias /bin/ <a directory of mine>' to work with, so maybe I could mimic the requested 'ScriptAlias /mailman/ <dir>' by making clever links), but that in general it is a lost cause to try to use mailman in my situation. Is it a lost cause? If not, has anyone figured out all the necessary kludges and written them down for me? If so, is there a similar piece of software that would work well in my situation? I've heard of Majordomo & SmartList, for example, but I don't really know what's out there and what they do. Any advice will be much appreciated. Matt

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Re: Mailman German
by Bernhard Reiter July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

[followup to the "Mailman German" Thread] I also have the need for mailman in different languages. Therefore I added it as a request to the mailman Jitterbug: http://www.python.org/mailman-bugs/requests?id=71;user=guest It is still open, but the comment to it is: I18N is big on our list for post-1.0final features. FYI. Bernhard (ps.: cc relevant mail to me, I'm not subscribed to the list.) -- Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)

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mailman-1.0rc3, Solaris 2.5 and vsnprintf
by Todd Pfaff July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

When building mailman-1.0rc3 on Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1 I get a linker error about the unresolved name vsnprintf used in common.c. How are other people dealing with this problem? -- 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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How to disable -admin?
by Joerg Stenger July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

I want to set up an announcement list and the mail sent from the admin's of the list should have only "listname(a)my.dom" in the "From:" line. Q1: how do I prevent anyone but the admin's from posting? Q2: how do prevent "listname-admin(a)my.dom" as sender? Thanks in advance, Joerg Stenger -- ZENIT GmbH Dipl.-Ing. Joerg Stenger Dohne 54 D-45468 Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany Tel: ++49-208-30004-12 | Fax: ++49-208-30004-19 Checkout our homepage: http://www.zenit.de

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Re: [Mailman-Users] CLosed unsubscribe?
by J C Lawrence July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

At VA we have a number of mailing lists that are supposed to have everyone in a certain division/company/group subscribed. These lists are extremely useful for reaching all of a defined population. Controlled unsubscribes would be useful here. On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 03:50:10 -0700 John Viega <John(a)list.org> wrote: > Wow, I don't think anyone had ever anticipated someone wanting to > do this. It'd need to be added to the system. > John > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:46:47PM +0200, Massimiliano Lehmann > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> how can I run a mailing list with a "close unsubscribe"? So, how >> can I configure mailman to stop any unsubscribe request and put >> them on hold to be approved by an administrator? >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> -- Massimiliano Lehmann >> +------------------------------------------+----------------------------+ >> | mailto:lehmann@lsd.it | LSD - [L]ehmann | | http://www.lsd.it >> (Personal web) | [S]ystem | | http://majjolone.lsd.it (Crazy web) >> | [D}evelopment | >> +------------------------------------------+----------------------------+ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org >> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users -- J C Lawrence Life: http://www.kanga.nu/ Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Work (Linux/IA64): claw(a)varesearch.com ... Beware of cromagnons wearing chewing gum and palm pilots ...

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Unknow Mailer error 2
by Claudio Martinez July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

How do i fix this error !?! im syslog, i see someting like this : " Jul 28 11:20:40 mailman Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 6, GOT gid 1. (Reconfigure to take 1?) " how do i change the GID !? Plz! n Tnkz! ====Cláudio Martinez ================= CCUEC - UNICAMP - GDTEC Gerência de Desenvolvimento Técnologico tel. (019) 788-2287 ======================================

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Odd things with mailman/listinfo
by Stephen Adler July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

Today, I added a list on my openscience.bnl.gov site. After doing so, http://openscience.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo showed no lists on the server. (I had 5 setup before this last one.) My guess is that some file protection got messed up? Can someone tell me how to get the listinfo to properly show the list open to the public? Thanks. Steve.

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Anyone added logging to private.py?
by Len Lattanzi July 28, 1999

July 28, 1999

I'd like to track successful reads of private archives.

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Mailman smtp-failure. Please help!
by Victor Gamov July 27, 1999

July 27, 1999

Hi! I have big problem with mailman-1.0rc2. Here is Mailman and ZMailer smtpserver logs: ~mailman/logs/smtp-failures: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jul 27 14:12:02 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: To ['cons(a)chousing.lipetsk.su', 'root(a)prom.lipetsk.su']: Jul 27 14:12:02 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: Mailman.pythonlib.smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected / Connection unexpectedly closed (dequeued) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /var/log/zmailer/smtpserver: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We use FreeBSD-3.2 with Mailman-1.0rc2 and ZMailer-2.99.50s11. Can anybody help me with this problem? P.S. This problem occured with mailman-1.0rc3 too. -- CU, Victor Gamov

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Message w/ attachment goes into archive but no mail sent
by Victor Gamov July 27, 1999

July 27, 1999

Yes, I have some problem with Mailman-1.0rc2 and rc3. Can anybody help me to resolve this problem? It's very impotant for me. -- CU, Victor Gamov

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