Mailman 3 July 1999 - Mailman-Users

Admin Pages Problem
by Michael W. Ryan July 17, 1999

July 17, 1999

Please email me any response directly, as I'm not subscribed to the list. I'm having a problem with Mailman 1.0rc3. After a myriad of changes to the server that my Mailman installation is running (mostly involving Apache, ApacheSSL, and other related items), I am unable to make changes in any of the admin or admindb pages, unless I am accessing the pages from the same machine. The pages, also, aren't using the password stored in the cookie on my browser (yes, I've verified that cookies are on). Even after attempting to submit a change, I am prompted for the admin password. When trying to attend to items in the admindb, the same occurs, but the "Database Updated" message also appears at the top of the page. Of course, the database wasn't really updated. The member pages still update just fine. Changes made do occur. The installation is running on a Linux (Redhat 5.1) system. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 1999 mryan(a)netaxs.com | Convention of Otaku Generation http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/ PGP fingerprint: 7B E5 75 7F 24 EE 19 35 A5 DF C3 45 27 B5 DB DF PGP public key available by fingering mryan(a)unix.netaxs.com (use -l opt)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] To and Sender address seem wrong ?
by Soren Dayton July 16, 1999

July 16, 1999

Andy McClements <a.mcclements(a)linst.ac.uk> writes: > 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 the list configuration web interface, to "lists.domain.org". > > However, I find that in messages coming from the list I see the following > headers: > > To: test-list(a)box.domain.org > Sender: test-list-admin(a)box.domain.org > X-BeenThere: test-list(a)lists.domain.org > > eg. the To: and Sender: seem to be wrong. I *sent* the message to > "test-list(a)lists.domain.org", so in fact the To: header has been changed to > the wrong address by Mailman. > > Where is Mailman picking up the FQDN ? How do I fix this ? It isn't. Any transport agent will canonicalize the name to the non-CNAME. if this is the behavior that you want, use MX records. Or a separate A record. Soren

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How do I configure a private list
by Neil Turner July 16, 1999

July 16, 1999

Hi I want to set up a list that only administrators (not members) can post to. So I don't want the 'how to to post to list' bit in the welcome email can any one tell me if this is possible and how. I would also like to lose the password feature, is that possible? TIA Neil Turner

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mailman and qmail loop detection problem
by Matthew Darwin July 16, 1999

July 16, 1999

Anyone else have this problem loop problems with qmail? Here's what do to make it happen (Caution don't do this unless you know what you're doing). Use any non-existant e-mail address for the administrator. % ./newlist test Enter the email of the person running the list: junk(a)davin.ottawa.on.ca Initial test password: % mail -s loop test-admin(a)lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca </dev/null Null message body; hope that's ok /var/log/mail quickly fills up. % echo "./Mailbox" > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-junk the HUGE bounce message is delivered. I'm using mailman rc2, qmail 1.03 and qmail-to-mailman.py (March 1999). Sample error message: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Return-Path: <test-admin(a)lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca> Received: (qmail 18934 invoked by uid 2); 15 Jul 1999 22:35:54 -0400 Received: from localhost (HELO HSE-OTT-ppp33359.sympatico.ca) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 1999 22:35:53 -0400 Received: (qmail 18926 invoked for bounce); 15 Jul 1999 22:35:53 -0400 Date: 15 Jul 1999 22:35:53 -0400 From: MAILER-DAEMON(a)davin.ottawa.on.ca To: test-admin(a)lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at davin.ottawa.on.ca. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <junk(a)davin.ottawa.on.ca>: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. [quoting the above message repeatedly until you get back the original message] --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <test-admin(a)lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca> Received: (qmail 18890 invoked by uid 2); 15 Jul 1999 22:35:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (HELO HSE-OTT-ppp33359.sympatico.ca) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 1999 22:35:50 -0400 Received: (qmail 18882 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jul 1999 22:35:50 -0400 Date: 15 Jul 1999 22:35:50 -0400 Message-ID: <19990716023550.18881.qmail(a)davin.ottawa.on.ca> From: matthew(a)davin.ottawa.on.ca To: test-admin(a)lists.davin.ottawa.on.ca Subject: loop

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Archiving Support
by Paul Hebble July 15, 1999

July 15, 1999

>From Features list in README: o Automatic Web based hypermail-style archives (using pipermail or other external archiver), including provisions for private archives How do you set up an external archiver, besides subscribing it to a list? Thanks, -- Paul Hebble <hebble(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu>

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Migrate majordomo to Mailman
by Kory Wheatley July 15, 1999

July 15, 1999

My question, is there someway to migrate majordomo lists over to mailman and have them totally functional. I want to do this because I don't want to have to create all my lists over in mailman, because I manage about 70 mailing lists on majordomo. I would like to use mailman has our listserv package and no longer support majordomo, because I like the interface of mailman better. -- Kory Wheatley Office Phone 236-3874 Computing & Communication System Operations & Networking

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sendmail aliases interface to newlist?
by Dave Edick July 14, 1999

July 14, 1999

Can anyone tell me how an outside script is called by newlist to automatically create aliases? Or even better, has anyone already created one for sendmail? I don't know Python and I haven't been able to figure out how newlist passes the info to the script. Sorry if this has been hashed over before. I checked the past couple months in the list archive and couldn't find anything on this. -- /Dave Edick/ dedick(a)stmarys-ca.edu Unix Systems Administrator, St. Mary's College of California

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front end database
by Office July 14, 1999

July 14, 1999

Hi I'm new to using mailman but I think its great. Its nice to administer and easy for users. Its being used at http:www.bush.org.nz/kereru/ My question is I want to add Web Pages (produced by a simple front end database)that users log onto with password etc. They can add personal details like name, mailing address, interests. They can then tick a number of lists to subscribe/unsubscribe from. The lists they can subscribe to depending on eligibility (database derived). The lists being run from mailman. Is here an easy way to do this Mike Peters volunteer programmer/ webmaster New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network

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How do I reset forgotten password on list
by John Lewis July 14, 1999

July 14, 1999

How can I reset the password on a list where the maintainer has forgotten it? I looked at the scripts, and did not see anything obvious... Thanks. -- John Lewis ProSpace volunteer webmaster and mailinglist maintainer

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rc3 compile failure under OSF4
by Christopher Kolar July 14, 1999

July 14, 1999

Hi everyone. I am having trouble getting this to the jitterbug database, so I thought that I would post it here. We have been running rc2 without incident. With rc3 the configure seems to go well with the same flags used as before. When we make install we get the following error. Any suggestions as to what we could do would be much appreciated. Can anyone explain what vsnprintf refers to? Cheers, --chris ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: TypeScript File - Mailman1.0rc3 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Lowe <slowe(a)students.aurora.edu> Script started on Tue Jul 13 14:26:18 1999 # make install Creating architecture independent directories... chmod o-r /usr/users/mailman/archives/private Creating architecture dependent directories... for f in digest_arch mmsitepass newlist rmlist add_members list_members remove_members clone_member update arch sync_members check_db withlist check_perms; do .././install-sh -c -m 755 $f /usr/users/mailman/bin; done for f in archive checkdbs crontab.in mailpasswds senddigests upvolumes_monthly upvolumes_yearly gate_news run_queue; do .././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/cron; done for f in bowa-strip; do .././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/filters; done for f in deliver dumb_deliver contact_transport; do .././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/scripts; done .././install-sh -c -m 644 Cookie.py /usr/users/mailman/Mailman ffor d in bin cron scripts mail; do dir=/usr/users/mailman/$d; .././install-sh -c -m 644 paths.py $dir; done .././install-sh -c -m 664 pending_subscriptions.db /usr/users/mailman/data ffor f in *.py; do .././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/Mailman; done .././install-sh -c -m 644 mm_cfg.py.dist /usr/users/mailman/Mailman iif [ ! -f /usr/users/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py ]; then .././install-sh -c -m 644 mm_cfg.py.dist /usr/users/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py; fi for d in Cgi Logging Archiver pythonlib; do (cd $d; make install); done for f in *.py; do ../.././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/Mailman/Cgi; done for f in __init__.py Logger.py MultiLogger.py StampedLogger.py Utils.py; do ../.././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/Mailman/Logging; done for f in __init__.py Archiver.py HyperArch.py HyperDatabase.py pipermail.py; do ../.././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/Mailman/Archiver; done for f in *.py; do ../.././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib; done for f in answer_majordomo_mail mailcmd mailowner post driver; do .././install-sh -c -m 644 $f /usr/users/mailman/scripts; done cc -c -I. -DPREFIX="\"/usr/users/mailman\"" -DPYTHON="\"/usr/local/bin/python\"" -DHELPFUL -O -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_SETREGID=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DGETGROUPS_T=gid_t ./common.c cc -DSCRIPT="\"admin\"" -I. -DCGI_GID=81 -O -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_SETREGID=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DGETGROUPS_T=gid_t common.o -o admin ./cgi-wrapper.c ld: Unresolved: vsnprintf *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. -- /////\\\\\/////\\\\\ Christopher G. Kolar Director of Instructional Technology Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois ckolar(a)aurora.edu -- www.aurora.edu [View full header for public key recovery information.]

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