Mailman 3 April 2000 - Mailman-Users

Opps, last msg should read like this... sorry
by Wayne Ringling April 24, 2000

April 24, 2000

I would like to find info or man page on Mailman for virtual hosting.... I want to have a setup like this server.domain.com - default domain mailinglist.domain.com - vitual for mailing list I know how to do the apache part, virtual sendmail, what would be the best way to do the aliases that I need to create? I saw on the features page support for virtual domains but I did not see and docs for it? Any info greatly appreciated. Thankyou Wayne Ringling

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Virtual domain help. Is there a how to in order to set this up?
by Wayne Ringling April 24, 2000

April 24, 2000

I would like to find info or man page on Mailman for virtual hosting.... I want to have a setup like this server(a)domain.com - default domain mailinglist(a)domain.com - vitual for mailing list I know how to do the apache part, virtual sendmail, what would be the best way to do the aliases that I need to create? I saw on the features page support for virtual domains but I did not see and docs for it? Any info greatly appreciated. Thankyou Wayne Ringling

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Broken Mailman
by Chris Abraham April 24, 2000

April 24, 2000

Hi: I am using Mailman 1.0 on my formerly Linux RedHat 5.2 box. I just upgraded to 6.1 and the Mailman install is broken. I am trying to get a message out of it, but it was about the mail handler... Chris Abraham

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Install Problem
by Dion Todd April 23, 2000

April 23, 2000

He all, mailman Newbie here. I have a linux server running Mandrake 7 and a postfix mail setup. I installed mailman on it. I tried to follow the directions as best I could and all seemed to go fine and complete with no errors. When I create a list, it sends me the mail as it should but when I go to the link it provides to admin or as a user the web server says. "You are not allowed to access this file". Also, When I send a message to it with "help" in the subject as it suggest it gets rejected with a : <test-request(a)nix.domain.com>: Command died with status 1: "/home/users/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" Has to be a permission problem but at this time I have follwed the instructions as close as I know how and nothing I seem to change helps. When I "configured mailman I used the 99 and 251 for user and group permissions. should i have used a "name" instead? thanks for any help in this.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Second plea for help
by Dan Mick April 23, 2000

April 23, 2000

Don't send vague descriptions of the error messages; send the exact messages, cut and pasted from your screen. This is only vaguely better than "I tried to use it and it broke." > I have installed mailman 1.1 everything went ok until i tried to access the web interface this gave me an internal server error. > I looked at the error log file and it told me i had a premature end of script headers > can anyone help me to solve this. > > Thanks > > JP

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NEWLIST PROBLEM PLEASE HELP
by InterVision April 23, 2000

April 23, 2000

When runing the NEWLIST command i get the flowing error: #/home/mailman/bin/newlist Enter the name of the list: iv Enter the email of the person running the list: dan(a)newmaoi.net Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 154, in ? main(sys.argv) File "/home/mailman/bin/newlist", line 101, in main list_pw = getpass.getpass("Initial %s password: " % listname) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/getpass.py", line 44, in getpass termios.tcsetattr(fd, TERMIOS.TCSADRAIN, old) termios.error: (22, 'Invalid argument') Please Help !

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Virtual Domains
by Mel Sojka April 23, 2000

April 23, 2000

I have been using mailman 1.1 from the red Hat rpm for awhile now and still haven't found any solid docs on howto setup virtual domains. I have searched the archives and found bits and pieces. I did grab the tarball for version 2 since the info page stated that it had virtual domain support built in but still looking through the tar file no info. Can anyone give me this info. Mel -- ------------------------------------- This Mail composed using Netscape 4.5 Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 Linux 2.0.36 ----------------------------------

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Re: v2.0beta2 three patches
by Owen Taylor April 23, 2000

April 23, 2000

> Here is a simple Perl script to fix the .mbox file. > Direct it into a new file. move the original pipermail > archive directory to e.g. listname-bak, then run arch > on the new mbox file, chown the listname dir to the appropriate > owner (e.g. daemon), and then copy the new perl generated > .mbox file over the old one. (if you feel uncomfortable about > this, do a diff on list.mbox/list.mbox and the new file > previous to the arch and copying steps. Hmm, your script doesn't quite do the right thing in all cases: - All messages do not begin with a Received-From line (Delivered-To and Return-Path are two found in my mailboxes) - All date formats legal in a Date line are not legal in the unix from line, and mailbox.py will not recognize such incorrect unix from lines as message separators. I don't have a patch right now (the first one is easy to fix, the second one quite hard) - but wanted to put out that warning. People may want to wait before trying to fix up their mailboxes. Regards, Owen

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mailman 2.0b2 errors
by Scott R. Every April 22, 2000

April 22, 2000

Getting these errors in the logs: Apr 21 14:38:19 2000 post(24584): Traceback (innermost last): post(24584): File "/home/mailman/scripts/mailowner", line 71, in ? post(24584): main() post(24584): File "/home/mailman/scripts/mailowner", line 65, in main post(24584): mlist.Save() post(24584): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 845, in Save post(24584): os.link(fname, fname_last) post(24584): OSError : [Errno 17] File exists This may be related to my next question which is why can i not approve posts? I have around 40,000 subscribers to this announce-only list. Every time the approve post option is selected, the browser goes out to make a request and eventually comes back with a Document contains no data error. The post never goes out. This listed was tested extensively with smaller numbers of users in the previous weeks, and seemed to work fine in the small cases. Is there a limitation on mailman for # of subscribers? Any insight would be appreciated. s -- Scott R. Every - mailto:scott@emji.net EMJ Internet - http://www.emji.net voice : 1-888-258-8959 fax : 1-919-363-4425

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Question
by Matt Juszczak April 21, 2000

April 21, 2000

Hi. I have a question. With Mailman, as a list owner, is there anyway to ONLY allow certain people to post and automatically deny other people posting access? I know there is a way to make certain people be able to get through without being authorized for postings, but still, our mailing list admin keeps getting messages saying "This user wants to post", etc. When really our mailing list is more of a company "newsletter"...so the postings only come from the admin. Is there a way to do this? Thanks. -Matt

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