Mailman 3 September 1999 - Mailman-Users

install/setup conundrum
by berto＠gsbrgo.uchicago.edu Sept. 20, 1999

Sept. 20, 1999

Folks: After thinking paranoid thoughts, I decided to reinstall Mailman following the advice not to do the configure and make install steps as root. Okay, I redid the installation as the mailman account. I ran bin/check_perms, and no problems were reported. Then I read the following: - You want to be very sure that the user id under which your CGI scripts run is *not* in the `mailman' group you created above, otherwise private archives will be accessible to anyone. In the … [View More]

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Error Decoding Authorization Cookie ????
by MJ.McCool＠ulst.ac.uk Sept. 20, 1999

Sept. 20, 1999

Hi, Mailman is installed and running but I keep getting "Error Decoding Authorization Cookie" whenever I try to carry out any Admin tasks on a list. Checked the archive but can't seem to get a solution, check the time etc....all seem to be in sync. Any suggestions appreciatted. Regards Mike McCool

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Missing documentation for "Must posts be approved by an administrator?"
by Aaron Optimizer Digulla Sept. 20, 1999

Sept. 20, 1999

What is the difference between "Must posts be approved by an administrator?" and "Restrict posting privilege to list members?" ? Does the former mean "Must *all* posts be approved..." ? If so, please change it and add a help-link to it :-) Also, the "Detail* links should better be named "Help" :-) -- 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 … [View More]

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554 / unknown mailer 2 error
by lwl＠sorcery.black-knight.org Sept. 19, 1999

Sept. 19, 1999

I have the following problem: I recently converted over 100+ mailing lists from listproc. I have a list, let's call it 'foobar-wiz', that's got the following /etc/aliases entry: foobar-wiz: "|/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post foobar-wiz" If you send email to it, it works fine (as do all the other lists on the server). If you put in an alias like this, into /etc/aliases: foobar-test: foobar-wiz(a)godlike.com email to foobar-test(a)godlike.com gets sent to foobar-wiz just fine. However, … [View More]

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oh, arg, further password problems
by Listwrangler Sept. 19, 1999

Sept. 19, 1999

Well, I think I'm finally caught up on email related to Mailman after Hurricane Floyd. I tried subscribing myself to one of our lists, and got subscribed. Then when it sent me the monthly password reminder, the password bore no resemblence to what I had inputted. Considering that some other users have had trouble with password errors when they try to access their accounts, I'm wondering if they have the same problem. Unfortunately, I don't have the users' passwords to see exactly what is … [View More]

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subscribe via mail
by Hal Flynn Sept. 19, 1999

Sept. 19, 1999

Mornin' from windy/rainy North Carolina! I have two questions for you gentlemen: 1) I'm trying to judge the impact of moving from majordomo to mailman. My main concern is this: I have web GUI's running with CGI's here for some of the help, that aids them in entering the addresses of customers for our information lists. My goal here is to have as little impact on them as possible, as they're not the most technically esteemed. What I'd like to know in this respect is the possibility of … [View More]

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error decoding cookies
by Listwrangler Sept. 19, 1999

Sept. 19, 1999

My assistant list administrator has been unable to access the admin pages for our email list. He gets the following error message: >'Error decoding authorisation cookie' This is a non-technical person, he doesn't even know what a cookie is. I'm assuming that he has his browser set to reject cookies. I have instructed him to set his browser to accept cookies. However, shouldn't it just ask him to re-enter his password? He is unable to get in at all. Thanks for any help. Listwrangler … [View More]

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Hurricane Floyd
by Listwrangler Sept. 19, 1999

Sept. 19, 1999

Well, I'm high and dry after Hurricane Floyd, I personally suffered little damage. However, my local ISP was flooded and then caught fire, and so is completely rebuilding their system. Service is badly disrupted. I presume therefore that the following error message will resolve itself as they repair and rebuild. However, I'm curious to know what it means anyhow. Could somebody parse this table for me? Thanks. Listwrangler >Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:34:14 -0400 (EDT) >From: Mail … [View More]Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)erols.com> >To: <namedeleted(a)erols.com> >To: postmaster(a)erols.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Subject: Returned mail: rewrite: map mailertable not found >Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > >The original message was received at Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:32:25 -0400 (EDT) >from 207-172-175-228.s37.as6.rkv.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.175.228] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><truespirit(a)office.iximd.com> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >554 rewrite: map domaintable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map domaintable not found >554 rewrite: map domaintable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map domaintable not found ><truespirit(a)office.iximd.com>... Deferred: Name server: office.iximd.com: >host name lookup failure >554 rewrite: map domaintable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map domaintable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found >554 rewrite: map mailertable not found > >Reporting-MTA: dns; smtp1.erols.com >Arrival-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 14:32:25 -0400 (EDT) > >Final-Recipient: RFC822; truespirit(a)office.iximd.com Listwrangler listwrangler(a)iximd.com ******************** For help with subscribe/unsubscribe, troubleshooting, or more info about The American Boyz email lists, please visit: home.iximd.com/~amboyz/online.html, or request a copy of the Amboyz Elist Help File to be emailed to you. If you are familiar with Mailman, the following lists are implemented with Mailman and use standard Mailman features: Amboyz-Main, Amboyz-Announce, TrueSpirit, and ElderTG [View Less]

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mailman having trouble figuring out urls?
by Lars Kellogg-Stedman Sept. 18, 1999

Sept. 18, 1999

Howdy all, I'm looking at mailman to help solve the godawful tangle of mailing lists in our department. I've run into a problem with the 'listinfo' script: in the list of advertised mailing lists, the URLs for the list-specific pages have too many 'listinfo's in them. That is, when accessing listinfo like this: http://mailhost/mailman-bin/listinfo/ I get a list of mailing lists, each one with a url that looks like this: http://mailhost/mailman-bin/listinfo/listinfo/listname Of … [View More]

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number of mailing lists
by Kory Wheatley Sept. 18, 1999

Sept. 18, 1999

Here is my question. I am going to install mailman on a Compaq 450MHZ 64mb 13gb hard drive with the platform being Red Hat Linux 6.0. I will be subscribing over a hundred and fifty mailing lists in mailman, two lists will have at least 7,000 people subscribed in them and these lists are only used once a week. With all of the lists how big of a impact will this be on the system performance? Will the server experience utilization problems? If there will be a problem would you give me some … [View More]

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