Mailman 3 October 2000 - Mailman-Users

Cannot save admin options -- here's my fix
by david sims 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

hi, I've been struggling with the problem that others have experienced where if you save some Admin options, the changes don't take and you're rerouted to the password page, over and over again. I debugged this using the 'lynx' web browser. Lynx would say something like "Accept invalid cookie /cgi-bin/mailman as prefix for /mailman/listinfo?' when I went to the Mailman admin page. It occured to me that, for whatever reason, Mailman was putting out cookies in a fixed format "/cgi-bin/mailman" and that I had to make sure my Apache setup conformed to what Mailman wanted. So I changed ScriptAlias in /etc/apache/httpd.conf to read: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/mailman is where I have Mailman installed. After that change, I tested it once more with Lynx and it worked. Then it started working under Netscape as well. So now the cookies that get put out by Mailman match up to the URLs that the browsers are seeing. hope that helps someone, david -- David Sims david(a)simscomputing.com Sims Computing, Inc. www.simscomputing.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple domain lists
by Nigel Metheringham 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

chris(a)gwydion.net said: > I have another domain, bar.com, which has an Apache vhost properly > configured etc, and all that. Exim will handle mail for bar.com. > How to I make mailman establish the list fubar(a)bar.com? For a small number of domains with unique listnames - ie listname(a)foo.com & listname(a)bar.com being the same list is not a real problem to you, you can just set the domain name in the list config and things work correctly - including by the way http://www.foo.com/mailman/ listinfo/ only listing the lists that match that domain. This is exactly what I do with the exim.org box which has a few other personalities. Distinct listnames can be done by one install of mailman per domain (this might actually be a virtualised install where its mostly symlinked - there is a partial mention of this in the exim/mailman howto. Real management of multiple virtual domains is something for the future... you also need to remember that there may be multiple near identical mail domains (I accept mail for www.exim.org as well as exim.org). Nigel. -- [ - Opinions expressed are personal and may not be shared by VData - ] [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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Error Report
by Randal D. Pinkett 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Greetings, I just installed Mailman 1.1 with Python 1.5.2 on a Redhat Linux 6.2 machine, and receive the following error when I visited http://myserver/listinfo --- beginning of output --- Bug in Mailman version 1.1 Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 40, in main FormatListinfoOverview() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 124, in FormatListinfoOverview welcome_items = (welcome_items + File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 424, in GetNestingLevel if path[0] <> '/': IndexError: string index out of range --- end of output Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Randal Pinkett

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Installing Mailman on separate mail and web servers
by enigma 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

I am trying to install mailman, but it appears from the docs that it has to be installed on a machine that's running your SMTP, POP3, and WWW servers. My mail server is a separate box from my web server. Am I screwed or is there a way around this problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ enigma(a)totse.com enigma(a)nirvananet.org enigma(a)pigdog.org http://www.totse.com http://www.nirvananet.org http://www.pigdog.org NIRVANAnet(tm) Message Forums: http://www.totse.com/bin/bbs/Ultimate.cgi

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question about reply to.
by Geoff 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

Hello, I just joined and I wanted to introduce my self and say Hello. My name is Geoff and I'm just started setting up mailman for a list manager. I just found myself wondering if it's possible to make mailman set the Reply-To: header to both the list and to the message poster. Also has anyone had any problems with Hotmail and their Inbox protector? I am having Hotmail users have msg's from my list being put into spam box thing. Any thoughts? I am sorry if I am asking questions that are a frequent but I could find anything on the mailman sites that I found. Thank you, Geoff

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Partitioning of Hd's for dedicated mailman system.
by Wayne Ringling 02 Oct '00

02 Oct '00

I am going to be setting up a new rh7.0 system with two 7 gig ide disks. What would be a efficient way to divide the disks up. I plan on putting each one on a different controller. ie hda on primary master and hdc on secondary master to allow maximum through put. The system has a 10/100 nic, Celron 300, 128 ram. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Please reply off list as I am away from my normal email box. But if you want to also reply on list that ok too.. it will be a while before I can get to that box. Wayne

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newlist patch for beta 5
by Derek Simkowiak 01 Oct '00

01 Oct '00

Hello, Newlist has a problem. When run in interactive mode, it will output the necessary entries for the Sendmail 'aliases' file. That is very nice. However, I am not usually in an X-Window session, so I can't use a mouse to cut'n'paste those entries into my /etc/aliases. It's very annoying. The attached version will print all *informational* messages to stderr, not stdout. Only the 'aliases' entries are printed to stdout. So now, all I need to do is ./newlist >> /etc/aliases (or ./newlist > tempfile.txt ; cat tempfile >> /etc/aliases. You get the idea.) I will still get prompted (if in interactive mode), but the prompts will be printed to stderr, and all the aliases will go to stdout (and hence redirect into my file). If I run in non-interactive mode, and put all the necessary variables on the command line, then the only output (to stdout) is the aliases. All other behaviour is unchanged. This also makes it much easier to write automated shell scripts and CGI programs to create new lists, because there's no messy sed to parse out the informational messages. The attached file is the new version of newlist, created off 2.0beta5. Feel free to create a diff of it if that is your preferred format. Note that I presented this same patch for beta2 but it was never incorporated, so I assume the maintainers aren't interested in this feature. In short: You have to grab this and keep updating it yourself if you want to use it in future versions of MailMan. Thanks, Derek Simkowiak dereks(a)kd-dev.com

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