Mailman 3 March 2000 - Mailman-Users

Public Archives
by Jeff Fiegel March 30, 2000

March 30, 2000

When users go to the archives for a public archive they get an error that it cant find that page.... Turns out that there is no "public" file in the /home/mailman/cgi-bin (I assume that there should be one.) How do I resolve this?? BTW if I make the archives private it works (there is a /home/mailman/cgi-bin/private)..... Thanks for your help.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 0.0% Intro APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW! http://www.nextcard.com/index6.html?ref=aff0032891

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No more SMTPdirect on 2.0b1?
by Bill Bradford March 30, 2000

March 30, 2000

Anybody else had the problem where SMTPdirect stops working after upgrading to 2.0beta1? I had to switch it to use sendmail to get my lists working again, and also now, list bounces are sent back to the original sender of the post (instead of me, which is how it used to work).... This is on Solaris 7, fully updated/patched, Sendmail 8.9.3, Python 1.5.2. 1.1c worked *beautifully* without a problem... Bill -- +---------------+-------------------+ | Bill Bradford | mrbill(a)mrbill.net | +-------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-------+-----------------------------------------+ | Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:++ a- C++++ US++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ N++ o K+++ w--- | | O- M-- V- PS PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5 X- R-- tv+++ b++++ DI++++ D++ G++ e++ h r++ y+ | +--------END GEEK CODE BLOCK--------------------------------------------------+

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Mailman subscribers passwords: urgent help
by Patrick Putteman March 30, 2000

March 30, 2000

Hi all, I'm new to this list, and although I've searched the archives, I haven't found the answer. I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I run Mailman 1.1 and offer a mailing list service to our clients. Ase some of them have migrated from expensive NT based mailing lists, they exported their subscriber lists, and mass-subscribed them using the web interface. To make the system as secure as possible and to avoid script-kiddies to fiddle with the web interface, we opted to have an alternative interface to subscribe from the web: an html form where people just enter their e-mail address. The form sends a mail to the request addres of the concerning mailing list with the subscribe command and a default passwd in the subject line and a the from address set to the new subscriber so that the confirmation mail gets sent to the right place. The same happens for unsubscribtions. For new users this works like a charm, the problem is with users that have been mass-subscribed. We don't want them to access the mailman web-interface nor do we want them to recieve monthly passwd reminders. We want it as simple as possible for our users to avoid any problems/questions. So, I'd like to know if it is possible to set the password of ALL subscribers to the same password. The subscribers don't know this password as the web interface is not accessible to them (the config of our apache server prevents this) and the only way for them to subscribe/unsubscribe is to use the mailforms we set up to this purpose. Else, is their a way to disable the password protection for subscribers altogether ? Thx, Patrick Putteman

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron error: /home/mailman/cron/gate_news
by Dan Mick March 30, 2000

March 30, 2000

It's from the "gate_news" cron job. If you're not gatewaying to a newsgroup, the right answer is probably "remove that cron job from mailman's crontab". > I just noticed the 5,131 copies of the following mail, sitting in mailman's > mailbox (for some reason they didn't come to me). > > I have no idea what this means. Well, you *could* look around a bit; did you at least try looking for "gate_news" in all the Mailman sources? That would have given you a huge clue. > I'm using Mailman 1.1: > > Subject: Cron <mailman@steed> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/gate_news > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? > main() > File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main > mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ > self.Load() > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 810, in Load > raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info' > MMBadListError: Failed to access config info > > -- > David B. O'Donnell - atropos(a)fates.org - http://www.fates.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Y2K???
by Crisogono Francisco Rubio N. March 30, 2000

March 30, 2000

Sometime ago I used the formula of deleting the html message archive, edit the list mbox and running arch to get rid of some messages and it worked fine. But last night and today I tried to do the same for two lists and I couldn't, instead I got the following messages: Traceback (innermost last): File "../../bin/arch", line 114, in ? main() File "../../bin/arch", line 103, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, Article) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 385, in processUnixMailbox a=articleClass(m, self.sequence) # Create an article object File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 242, in __init__ date=time.mktime(date)-tzoffset ValueError: year out of range (00-99, 1900-*) Any ideas? Dr. Crisógono Francisco Rubio N. Consultor en Informática Médica E-mail: francis(a)LaRed.net.pe http://mismi.LaRed.net.pe/~francis

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"Operating System Failure"
by Rick Willmore March 30, 2000

March 30, 2000

Anyone seen this error in the mailq?? Im not receiving my mail after registering. group id problems maybe?? Ive tried to look for any group problems but cant seem to find if this is in fact where my error is occuring. Thanks, Rick

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automatic remove??
by Pete Holsberg March 29, 2000

March 29, 2000

Sometimes I get email from a mass mailer and it says that I can remove myself from the list by sending an email to remove(a)whatever.com. Is there a way for a list subscriber to do that with Mailman? Thanks, Pete

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problem with confirming subscriptions
by Todd Shrider March 29, 2000

March 29, 2000

This is the error that i get when a user tries to subscribe to the list i have created: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/people/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd 3dstudiomax" (expanded from: <3dstudiomax-request(a)einsteinium.cin.kascope.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/usr/people/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd 3dstudiomax"... unknown mailer error 2 Any ideas? -todd

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Race condition in mailman's locking?
by Marc Merlin March 28, 2000

March 28, 2000

After I enabled bidirectional news gatewaying for 9 lists, I get the following errors from time to time It looks like two locks are granted at the same time and the second unlock fails because the lockfile was already removed by the first process. Does that make any sense? ----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <root(a)marc.merlins.org> ----- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:55:02 -0800 From: root(a)marc.merlins.org (Cron Daemon) To: mailman(a)marc.merlins.org Subject: Cron <mailman@marc> /usr/bin/python /var/local/mailman/cron/gate_news X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/local/mailman> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman> Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? main() File "/var/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 101, in main lock.unlock() File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 263, in unlock raise NotLockedError Mailman.LockFile.NotLockedError ----- End forwarded message ----- Marc -- Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ (friendly to non IE browsers) Finger marc_f(a)merlins.org for PGP key and other contact information

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Openwall; Hard Links
by William Ahern March 28, 2000

March 28, 2000

I use the Openwall patch that limits hardlinks. I do not want to remove this since it helps protect against possible exploits (like those always found in Lynx, et al). Does anybody have any diffs that works around this problem, or suggestions on file ownership? I couldn't find anything in the archives, though I found a few messages that mentioned this? I've read the LINUX.README ;) Thanx, Bill -- William Ahern MIS, JINSA --------------------- JINSA Online http://www.jinsa.org/ ---------------------

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