Mailman 3 April 2000 - Mailman-Users

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

28 Apr '00

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:46:01 -0400 Scott R Every <scott(a)emji.net> wrote: > Well, I'm using sendmail 8.9.3. I have many lists running through > it with mj 1.94.4 with no problems other than its slow. The > problem I am having here is that the approval page times out and > the mail is never being sent. is the cgi script sending the > actual mail or just approving so another program can send it? As of the 1.0 series the CGI actually posts the message and waits until the MTA has accepted all the broadcast. This, given the fact that you are using sendmail and "it is slow", is the base of the problem and the basic item beneath all my other questions. I understand the behaviour is a different (more or less asynchronous) as of the 2.0 series, but I haven't checked. > its just seems weird that the cgi would send the mail itself. Agreed. > i am going to get postfix running this weekend to see if it helps. > let me know if you have other suggestions. <nod> > --On Friday, April 28, 2000 12:41 PM -0700 J C Lawrence > <claw(a)cp.net> wrote: >> Is your MTA running as a daemon or thru inetd? (should be >> runnign thru inetd for minimal startup time) There's a missing NOT there. It should read: Is your MTA running as a daemon or thru inetd? (should NOT be running thru inetd for minimal startup time) -- 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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Mailman2b2 errors with archiving
by Patrik Wallstrom 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

Hi, I have just set up Mailman for the first time. I have only one problem so far, archiving does not work for me and my list. The error log reports for each mail to the list: post(27372): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 204, in ArchiveMail post(27372): self.__archive_to_mbox(msg) post(27372): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 160, in __archive_to_mbox post(27372): post.SetHeader('Date', time.ctime(time.time())) post(27372): AttributeError: SetHeader What can I do to fix this? Thanks, Patrik -- patrik wallstrom | f o o d f i g h t tel: +46-8-6188428 | s t o c k h o l m gsm: +46-708405080 | - - - - - - - - - fax: +46-859827151 |

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2.0: private web archive not created
by Paul Jakma 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

I've setup mailman 2.0b2, and everything seems to be working perfectly. I read the docs and followed the instructions. bin/check_perms is happy. All the web pages are viewable. I setup a "test" list, and that worked great. Archiving worked fine - it was public. Then i setup a "sysadmin" list. And again, everything works fine, bar one detail. I've set this list to be private and the web archiving doesn't seem to work. The actual list works fine, the configuration page works fine, users can subscribe/unsubscribe, change passwords, mail goes through fine. I can see the mail is even archived in $prefix/archives/private/sysadmin.mbox/sysadmin.mbox. However it is not being archived to the web, ie to the $prefix/archives/private/sysadmin/ directory. The "show archive" page just says: "Currently there are no archives" (it correctly asks for subscription address + password first, of course) so my question is: what do i have to do to get private lists to archive to web? thanks, Paul Jakma Sys Admin ITG Card Services

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Re: [Mailman-Users] announce list
by Brian Edmonds 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

More interestingly, some of my current Majordomo lists have -announce counterparts that work by sending mail to announce subscribers, regular list subscribers, and directly to digest subscribers (ie. announce posts are not digested). I'd like to be able to convert these lists to Mailman eventually, but there doesn't seem to be any support for this sort of feature. Brian.

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announce list
by Omar Armas Aleman 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

I want to setup an announce list with mailman. This list must have a few addresses and I want that only a single e-mail be able to post, not even the list members should have permision to do it. Is this configuration correct?: (From "Privacy Options") Must posts be approved by an administrator? : No Restrict posting privilege to list members? : Yes Addresses of members accepted for posting to this list without implicit approval requirement : mail(a)can.post I did some tests and it seems to work. Apparently only mail(a)can.post could post messages to the list. Is this the correct way? Anything else I am missing? Omar

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add member from unix?
by Dave Robbins 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

I'm a recent convert to GNU Mailman and wondered if it is possible to add a member to a list via the unix commmand line. I have Mailman 1.1 on Solaris 7. I also am still wondering if its possible to authorize non-members for posting privileges to a list on a per host basis. For example, is there a way to allow all users on yourhost.yourdomain.edu to post to mylist@myhost? Thanks. Dave Robbins -- "The Fair" The fair, the fair, the wonderful fair What will I win? A fish, duck or bear? I'll go buy some cotton candy, all sticky and pink I'll go play darts and win a pen full of ink. The fair, the fair, the wonderful fair What should I eat? A plum, peach or pear? I'll ride the slide on a gunny sack I hope I win a beanie baby, especially Mac. The fair, the fair, the wonderful fair But now the fair is leaving town They are taking the ferris wheel down I'll just wait til next year And start all over again. Becky Robbins (age 8)

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approval of post questions
by Scott R. Every 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

posted to a new list with around 1000 subscrubers and got the following in the logs/smtp log: Apr 27 15:40:30 2000 (28365) smtp for 1008 recips, completed in 122.794 seconds now the approval process seemed to run for a long time before it finished. is this time in the log an indictor of how long the cgi will run or something else? this is related to my ealier questions about list size. i am still having no luck sending posts to larger lists(>10k) the web approval page keeps timing out. is anyone running large moderated lists wth 2.0b2? should i switch to 1.1? any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. thanx 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] public archive link problem!
by Dan Mick 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

> Everything is okay until archives(http://my.domain/pipermail/list/) > do not link to /home/mailman/archives/public. > > in httpd.conf file, > > Alias /pipermail/list/ /home/mailman/archives/ > > What is the problem? help me!!! I have alread read the installation > document in details... ...and yet, when the document says: - Configure your Web server to point to the Pipermail public mailing list archives: For example, in Apache: Alias /pipermail/ $prefix/archives/public/ you, inexplicably, do this: Alias /pipermail/list/ /home/mailman/archives/ Do you not see the difference?

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public archive link problem!
by Yooseong Yang 28 Apr '00

28 Apr '00

I am Yooseong. Everything is okay until archives(http://my.domain/pipermail/list/) do not link to /home/mailman/archives/public. in httpd.conf file, Alias /pipermail/list/ /home/mailman/archives/ What is the problem? help me!!! I have alread read the installation document in details... -- -- Yooseong Yang ICQ#65184660 yooseong(a)kldp.org Polymer and Colloid Engineering Laboratory School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University Phone: +82-2-874-9373 Fax: +82-2-873-7523 http://pcel3.snu.ac.kr/~yooseong ########################################## K\L\U\S\T\E\R Kaist cLUSTER user group kluster-members(a)kluster.kaist.ac.kr http://kluster.kaist.ac.kr #########################################

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test list problems
by Omar Armas Aleman 27 Apr '00

27 Apr '00

I installed mailman-2.0beta2 in RH6.2, and created "test" list, I can see the web page of the list and added a few members, but when I send a mail to the list, I don't receive anything. This is what I see en /var/log/maillog: ************************************** Apr 27 11:35:56 linux sendmail[5400]: LAA05400: Authentication-Warning: linux.mpsnet.com.mx: oarmas owned process doing -bs Apr 27 11:35:56 linux sendmail[5400]: LAA05400: from=<oarmas(a)mps.com.mx>, size=327, class=0, pri=30327, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.21.0004271135321.5386-100000(a)linux.mpsnet.com.mx>, proto=ESMTP, relay=oarmas@localhost Apr 27 11:35:56 linux smrsh: uid 8: attempt to use wrapper post test Apr 27 11:35:56 linux sendmail[5401]: LAA05400: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test", delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Service unavailable Apr 27 11:35:56 linux sendmail[5401]: LAA05400: LAA05401: DSN: Service unavailable Apr 27 11:35:57 linux sendmail[5401]: LAA05401: to=<oarmas(a)mps.com.mx>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=mail.mps.com.mx. [200.4.49.47], stat=Sent (OK ******************************* How can I fix it? This is are the permisions of the wrapper: [oarmas@linux src]$ ls -l /home/mailman/mail/wrapper -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 30891 Apr 25 18:37 /home/mailman/mail/wrapper [oarmas@linux src]$ I "did" newaliases and have the correct alias in /etc/aliases. Please help me. Omar

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