Mailman 3 April 2000 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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converting mbox archive to mailman archive
by Doug Hughes 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

I've asked this question once or twice before, but no response yet. How do I manually convert a standard, previously existing, concatenated MBOX format archive into a mailman archive? Also, no response to my question about mailman 2-beta2 Posts that must be approved by administrator do not make it into the archive. 1) is this is a known bug? 2) Is there a way to take the <list>.mbox file (which appears to be okay for whatever strange reason..) and manually just add the messages that are not in the pipermail archive to the pipermail archive?

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umbrella lists
by Danny Yee 09 May '00

09 May '00

The "general options" menu has a umbrella_member_suffix option, which is described as "Suffix for use when this list is an umbrella for other lists, according to setting of previous "umbrella_list" setting." But there is no "umbrella_list" setting anywhere that I can find! (I have one list subscribed to another, and there are problems with replies to messages sent to the first and received on the second. I was hoping the "umbrella list" option would give me some way of fixing this.) Danny.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] approval of post questions
by J C Lawrence 09 May '00

09 May '00

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 23:16:55 -0400 Scott R Every <scott(a)emji.net> wrote: > the web approval page keeps timing out. is anyone running large > moderated lists wth 2.0b2? should i switch to 1.1? What MTA are you using? Quite simply, I would not recommend anything but QMail or Postfix. In ~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py or ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py set both MAX_SPAWNS and SMTP_MAX_RCPTS high, the latter as high as yuor MTA will take. Is your MTA running as a daemon or thru inetd? (should be runnign thru inetd for minimal startup time) Is your MTA configured to do host lookups or other address verification (other than being sytacically correct) on all connections/addresses? If so, configure it NOT do lookups on localhost and all local IPs, and to cease checking addresses for other than syntactic correctness. If you telnet to localhost on the SMTP port, how long does it take before the MTA's welcome message appears? If more than a fraction of a second, check for other DNS settings, and anything like TCP Wrappers or other security filters. If your MTA is logging thru syslogd, make sure that the entries in /etc/syslog.conf for the MTA are set to not sync on each write (a '-' before the path). Check any MTA settings related to system load, # of messages receieved in a single connection, # of recipients per message etc, and set appropriately. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Internet: coder(a)kanga.nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...

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setting up Mailman
by Alexander 01 May '00

01 May '00

Hello. I am about to make a decision on which way to go for a dedicated server, Cobalt, or a normal Intel PC dedicate server. I have a preference for the Cobalt servers. Has anyone installed Python, and Mailman on such a system? Is there an online resource with a description on how to do that? Do the Cobalt servers work with Mailman? Thank you

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Languages
by Paul van Tilburg 30 Apr '00

30 Apr '00

Hi! I was translating the customizable HTML pages for the webinterface of mailman into Dutch! And it looks very nice now, accept for some messages that come in place for certain tags (e.g. <MM-Restricted-List-Message>) they are still English. What would be the nicest and cleanest way to get those also translated to Dutch? TIA, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Student @ University of Technology | ICQ: 8678828 Eindhoven, The Netherlands | email: paul(a)donald-duck.ele.tue.nl >Using the Power of Debian/GNU Linux< | GPG: finger paul(a)donald-duck.ele.tue.nl

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list not working, more detaled description
by Erich Neuwirth 30 Apr '00

30 Apr '00

i was panicky, therefore my last message was inexact. it turns out that one of my lists is not working any more. the web interface still works, and the list is visible, but mail bounces other lists on the server ARE working, so this is a problem of just this list. this is the error message. Traceback (innermost last): File "/servers/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ? mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) IndexError: list index out of range 554 "|/servers/mailman/mail/wrapper post... unknown mailer error 1 i did a checkdb for the list, and it did not find any errors. how can i revive the list? erich you can visit the interface at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo

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problem
by Erich Neuwirth 30 Apr '00

30 Apr '00

i cannot send mail to my lists any more. the web interface still works, and the listsa are visible, but mail bounces this is the error message. what can i do? you can visit the interface at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo Traceback (innermost last): File "/servers/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ? mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) IndexError: list index out of range 554 "|/servers/mailman/mail/wrapper post... unknown mailer error 1

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Mailman Message Hangups Due to Faulty "Sender" Netscape 4.6
by Art Wagner 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

In the README.NETSCAPE file included with Mailman-1.1 through 2.0beta 2, you point out a problem with Netscape 4.6 and provide a fix which we have found does resolve the problem. However we have found that the same problem exists with Netscape 4.7 and 4.72. The same fix specified in the README works with both. It would be helpful to modify the README.NETSCAPE file to cite all three revisions of Netscape. Thanks Art Wagner Phoenix Linux Users Group. PLUG

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Re: [Mailman-Users] approval of post questions
by J C Lawrence 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:47:27 -0400 Paul Tomblin <ptomblin(a)xcski.com> wrote: > Quoting J C Lawrence (claw(a)cp.net): >> Is your MTA running as a daemon or thru inetd? (should be >> runnign thru inetd for minimal startup time) > Almost certainly *not*. If you run it through inet, it has to > start up and parse its configuration files every single time it > recieves an email. If runing as a daemon, it's got the config > files parsed already before the mail even hits it. Yup, absolutely. Somehow that sentence got mangled between brain and fingers/keyboard when I typed it. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Internet: coder(a)kanga.nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...

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