Mailman 3 September 1999 - Mailman-Users

Mailman and Exim HOWTO document
by Nigel Metheringham 30 Oct '99

30 Oct '99

[Copy sent separately to both exim and mailman lists] I updated and cleaned up my HOWTO information for using exim & mailman together and put it up on the exim web site. The exim list is now using *exactly* that configuration (copied and pasted from the howto) for its list settings, so I am reasonably confident that I didn't break something stupidly when copying :-) Any comments, corrections or additions on this can be sent directly to me. The URL for the HOWTO is http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html For completeness, Mailman info is at http://www.list.org/ and exim information is at http://www.exim.org/ The mailing lists and archives for each are linked off their main pages. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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Email subscription with no confirmation
by Nicholas Brenckle 15 Oct '99

15 Oct '99

At the beginning of each year, we do a massive creation of new accounts for students. (Well, not THAT massive but a few hundred anyway) Currently with PMDF listserv our addstudent script on the unix host that holds the student accounts fires off a "subscribe class-of-2001" message to the list server and the student is added. Mailman has that feature but requires a confirmation of the student before the subscription is added. While most would argue that this is acceptable, Im going to say most students as well as the administrators of those lists will complain to me they want one step adding. Anyway to do this? Perhaps a "subscribe [password] [digest option] [no confirm] address=blah(a)blah.com"? If im sending the list password (admittedly though unsecure email) this should work the same as if I added them via the web interface. -Nick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Brenckle Yale University School of Medicine nicholas.brenckle(a)yale.edu ITS Med - PO Box 208089 203-737-2377 New Haven, CT 06520-8089

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Mailman 1.0 & OpenBSD 2.5 & Python 1.5b2
by Nicholas Brenckle 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

I installed the patch as posted by Tor Houghton (mailman-users : 30 March 1999 - http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-March/000941.html ) This didnt work for me. I still receive the error on newlist creation (see below) This is on an OpenBSD 2.5 system and Python 1.5b2. A little more poking and I found the solution was to set the list to 'openbsd2' instead of 'openbsd' in the posixfile.py lib file. Is now: if sys.platform in ('netbsd1', 'freebsd2', 'freebsd3'): Change to: if sys.platform in ('netbsd1', 'freebsd2', 'freebsd3', 'openbsd2'): There are two lines that contain the same thing (checking for netbsd and freebsd) add the 'openbsd2' to each of them. -Nick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Brenckle Yale University School of Medicine nicholas.brenckle(a)yale.edu ITS Med - PO Box 208089 203-737-2377 New Haven, CT 06520-8089 Error Message I was getting before the fix to the posixfile.py: Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/newlist", line 146, in ? raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv)) File "bin/newlist", line 93, in main newlist.Create(list_name, owner_mail, pw) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 724, in Create self.Lock() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1379, in Lock self._lock_file.lock('w|', 1) File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 190, in lock flock = fcntl.fcntl(self._file_.fileno(), cmd, flock) IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

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htdig
by Bek Oberin 14 Oct '99

14 Oct '99

How can I set up a search engine like htdig that uses the regular mailman (email+password) security? If I point it at http://hostname/pipermail/listname/ it's going to only index the enter-your-information pages and not the content, correct? How can I get around this? And how can I -then- require actual users to enter their email+password to access the info? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : gossamer(a)tertius.net.au http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my : favorite species. -- The Doctor, 'Doctor Who'

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Some subscribers receiving multiple copies
by Nigel Metheringham 05 Oct '99

05 Oct '99

will(a)connectcorp.net said: > Some of our subscribers are reporting receiving 2, 3, or even 4 copies > of each post. I've seen very occasional examples of this on our list running mailman 1.0. The headers show that the duplication is occurring at the point where mailman injects the message into the MTA for delivery to the list subscribers. I've just checked yesterdays logs and found one message that did this. In this case the final mail injection was duplicated - ie mailman injected the message 5 times to a different set of subscribers, and then injected it twice with the same recipient list each time. There is no indication of problems in the mailman logs. The injects were spread over a 5 or so minute period, with the last 2 (duplicated) injects done 2.5 minutes apart. The machine would have been quite heavily loaded around that time - there was a message still in the process of injection by mailman when the second arrived and a few messages in the mailq. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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Problems with subscribed users
by Aaron Optimizer Digulla 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

I have a closed list but for some *subscribed* users, all posts must be approved by me (error Only subscribed users may post to the list). (See Bug 126 in the jitterbug DB). Can you please have a look ASAP because many valid users get these mails back ? This seems to be related to having several aliases for a machine. -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla Team AMIGA AROS Head of Development Author of XDME, ResTrackLib, CInt. <http://www.aros.org/> "(to) optimize: Make a program faster by improving the algorithms rather than by buying a faster machine." <digulla(a)hepe.com>

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version 1.0 vs. 1.0.2
by Mentor Cana 01 Oct '99

01 Oct '99

Hi, After installing mailman at the bottom of my mailing list pages it says it is version 1.0. However, it seems as this list runs on v 1.0.2 . Look at the bottom of: http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Can someone explain what the difference is if any? Is 1.0.2 the latest release? later, Mentor

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help me make my warnings go away.
by Christian Nally 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Dear Mailman Makers, GREAT PROGRAM! Running mailing lists was the reason I got into linux oh so long ago. Mailman is the tool that we all needed all those years. Congradulations! (kudos to majordomo required at this point... :) Dear Mailman Users, I have a simple problem. But I just can't find the switch to fix it. I get this warning in pink at the top of an admin page. >> Warning: you have lst members, but non-digestified mail is turned off. They will receive mail until you fix this problem. >> I copied and pasted that, so it's shown as-is. I don't quite understand the message actually. Should 'lst' be list? I have many members all set to receive non-digest (that is normal mail). Why would it be a problem if they got mail? The list seems to be functioning normally. The real questions are these: Where are the switches to enable and disable mail types? What do I have to do to get this warning to go away? THANKS ALL... Christian Nally

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y2k...
by Joshua S. Freeman 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

is there a y2k statement for Mailman somewhere that I can point my IT dept. to? Thanks, J.

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mailman and debian
by Michael Stevens 30 Sep '99

30 Sep '99

Hi. I'm using the mailman release supplied with the current stable debian distribution. The package version is: ii mailman 1.0rc2-5 Powerful, web based list processor The problem I'm having is that I've partially but not completely got mailman working. I can create a newlist with 'newlist', subscribe to it, post stuff, all that. I can subscribe via the web. But if I try to go to the web admin page, going to the url supplied in the mail sent when the list was created, I get a 'premature end of script headers' message. I've read the FAQ about possible uid/gid problems, but reading the logs doesn't produce any of the syslog messages I'm warned to be looking for. All I can find in syslog or the apache logs is the 'premature end of script headers' message that I already know about (in the apache error log).

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