Mailman 3 April 2000 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)
by Dan Mick 22 Apr '00

22 Apr '00

> Okay, you recieve a mail with commands I tried that before. User commands. > > When you do: subscribe [admin-password] address=[address] he still asks > for administrator approval. Are you trying to say that when you subscribe a user with email, the Mailman software still sends a request to the administrator to approve the subscription? Yes, of course, that's true...email subscription is no different because of the user it's coming from. If you're saying "is there a way to bypass that", well, no, no way that I know of. You could always turn off any sort of approval, do your email subscriptions, and then turn the approval back on. You can batch-subscribe users from the admin web page, too, but you can't give them passwords; I'm not sure if that bypasses the normal approval mechanism or not. It would be nice to have a way to "batch-subscribe" users and be able to give them a known password.

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Second plea for help
by Johnpaul Rogerson 22 Apr '00

22 Apr '00

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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UNSUBSCREIBE
by hstropez 22 Apr '00

22 Apr '00

mailman-users-request(a)python.org ha scritto: > Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to > mailman-users(a)python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mailman-users-request(a)python.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mailman-users-admin(a)python.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Mailman-Users digest..." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Today's Topics: > > 1. Had to changes the delivery mode on RH6.2 (Paul Stavrides) > 2. Re: cgi error - more info (Johnpaul Rogerson) > 3. Re: (no subject) (Dan Mick) > 4. Re: (no subject) (Jeroen Keppens) > 5. v2.0beta2 three patches (Bernhard Reiter) > 6. Re: v2.0beta2 three patches (Doug Hughes) > 7. Re: v2.0beta2 three patches (Doug Hughes) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: [Mailman-Users] Had to changes the delivery mode on RH6.2 > Data: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:58:10 -0400 > Da: Paul Stavrides <pauls(a)quad-sys.com> > A: Mailman Users <mailman-users(a)python.org> > > That was fun... I know a whole lot more about gdb and Phython than I did > a day or two ago.... > > Your milage may vary, but on our RH6.2 system we had to: > > # Delivery module for the message pipeline. See > # Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py for details. Unless overridden > specifically > # in that module, this handler is used for message delivery to the list, > and > # to an individual user. This value must be a string naming a module in > the > # Mailman.Handlers package. > DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' > #DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' > > Regards, > > -paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi error - more info > Data: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:44:51 +0100 > Da: "Johnpaul Rogerson" <j.rogerson(a)edscout.net> > A: <mailman-users(a)python.org> > Documentazione: <Pine.SOL.3.94.1000420105200.2532A-100000(a)canna.dcs.ed.ac.uk> > > looking at thge error log it shows a premature end of script error > iam not sure how to fix in perl it is easy but new to python > > Can anyone help > > JP > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Johnpaul Rogerson" <jvr(a)dcs.ed.ac.uk> > To: <mailman-users(a)python.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:59 AM > Subject: [Mailman-Users] cgi error > > > Can any one help i get this error message when trying to run python 1.1 > > uid: (admin/admin) gid: (mailman/mailman) cmd: admin > > directory is writable by others > > :(/home/httpd/vhtdocs/mailer/mailman/cgi-bin) > > > > > > Can anyone help me ive already ran the --with-cgi-gid > > wich removed another problem. > > > > JP > > > > > > Johnpaul Rogerson > > jvr(a)dcs.ed.ac.uk > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject) > Data: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:28:44 -0700 (PDT) > Da: Dan Mick <Dan.Mick(a)West.Sun.COM> > A: myosotis(a)xs4all.nl > CC: mailman-users(a)python.org > > > People subscribing to the mailinglist via the mailmanpages should be > > approved before being allowed, but people subscribing at our password > > protected session shouldn't be approved. > > > > This would be easy to do, when there was an admin-mail-interface. > > > > But I recieve following message when creating a new list: "There is also > > an email-based interface for users (not administrators) of your list; you > > can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help' > > as subject or in the body, to:...". Is it really not possible?? > > Is what really not possible? Yes, you can send "help" to the > -request alias, and get back a list of mail commands. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject) > Data: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:19:06 +0200 (CEST) > Da: Jeroen Keppens <myosotis(a)xs4all.nl> > A: Dan Mick <Dan.Mick(a)West.Sun.COM> > CC: Mailman List <mailman-users(a)python.org> > > Okay, you recieve a mail with commands I tried that before. User commands. > > When you do: subscribe [admin-password] address=[address] he still asks > for administrator approval. > > Or am I doing something wrong here? > > Jeroen Keppens > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: [Mailman-Users] v2.0beta2 three patches > Data: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 14:01:55 +0200 > Da: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard(a)intevation.de> > A: mailman-users(a)python.org > > Just to keep you informed I started testing mailman-2.0beta2 here. > > The three changes I made are attached. > > The first ist cosmetic: It removes the python and gnu logo from the > mailman webpages. Putting logos down there is inflational > I guess that one pointer to the product is enough in this case. > If people click through when they are interested it, > they still can get all the information. > > The second fixes a bug in cron/checkdbs already fixed in the CVS > version. > > The third fixes a bug for archival of moderated mails. > > Everything well known on the developers list, but I thought > you might like the summary. > > Bernhard > -- > Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) > The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) > Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: 2.0beta2.local1.diff > 2.0beta2.local1.diff Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Description: Patch for mailman2.0beta2: Only Mailmanlogo on Mailmanwebpages > > Name: 2.0beta2.local2.diff > 2.0beta2.local2.diff Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Description: Patch for mailman 2.0beta2, segfault in cron/checkdbs, already fixed in cvs > > Name: 2.0beta2.local3.diff > 2.0beta2.local3.diff Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Description: Patch for mailman 2.0beta2, fixed: archival of moderated mails > > Part 1.3.5.1.2Type: application/pgp-signature > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: Re: [Mailman-Users] v2.0beta2 three patches > Data: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 08:16:09 -0500 (CDT) > Da: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes(a)Eng.Auburn.EDU> > A: mailman-users(a)python.org > > > > >The third fixes a bug for archival of moderated mails. > > > > excellent! Yes, I posted about this bug last week but > received no response. Much appreciated! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: Re: [Mailman-Users] v2.0beta2 three patches > Data: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:20:48 -0500 (CDT) > Da: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes(a)Eng.Auburn.EDU> > A: mailman-users(a)python.org > > >The third fixes a bug for archival of moderated mails. > > > > More background: The bug manifests itself as anything that > must be approved by the moderator does not make it to > the pipermail archive. It does, however, make it into the > .mbox archive, but with a missing MBOX From line. > > This bug affects 2.0beta1 and 2.0beta2 > > 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. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > while (<>) { > if (/^Received:/ && $last eq "\n") { > $keep = $_; > $done = 0; > while ($done != 2) { > $_ = <>; # Get next line > if (/^Date: /) { > $done++; > ($label, $dow, $dom, $mon, $yr, $time) = split(/[\s,]+/); > } > if (/^From:.*<(.*)>/) { > $done++; > $fr = $1; > } > $keep .= $_; > } > print "From $fr $dow $mon $dom $time $yr\n"; > print $keep; > > } else { > $last = $_; > print; > } > } > > example with a list called testlist > > cd $mailmanhome/archives/(private|public) > mv testlist testlist.bak > perlscript < testlist.mbox/testlist.mbox > newtl.mbox > diff newtl.mbox testlist.mbox/testlist.mbox > .. < text containing new From lines in newtl.mbox > ... > ../../bin/arch testlist newtl.mbox > chown -R daemon testlist > mv newtl.mbox testlist.mbox/testlist.mbox > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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v2.0beta2 three patches
by Bernhard Reiter 21 Apr '00

21 Apr '00

Just to keep you informed I started testing mailman-2.0beta2 here. The three changes I made are attached. The first ist cosmetic: It removes the python and gnu logo from the mailman webpages. Putting logos down there is inflational I guess that one pointer to the product is enough in this case. If people click through when they are interested it, they still can get all the information. The second fixes a bug in cron/checkdbs already fixed in the CVS version. The third fixes a bug for archival of moderated mails. Everything well known on the developers list, but I thought you might like the summary. Bernhard -- Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)
by Dan Mick 21 Apr '00

21 Apr '00

> People subscribing to the mailinglist via the mailmanpages should be > approved before being allowed, but people subscribing at our password > protected session shouldn't be approved. > > This would be easy to do, when there was an admin-mail-interface. > > But I recieve following message when creating a new list: "There is also > an email-based interface for users (not administrators) of your list; you > can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help' > as subject or in the body, to:...". Is it really not possible?? Is what really not possible? Yes, you can send "help" to the -request alias, and get back a list of mail commands.

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cgi error
by Johnpaul Rogerson 21 Apr '00

21 Apr '00

Can any one help i get this error message when trying to run python 1.1 uid: (admin/admin) gid: (mailman/mailman) cmd: admin directory is writable by others :(/home/httpd/vhtdocs/mailer/mailman/cgi-bin) Can anyone help me ive already ran the --with-cgi-gid wich removed another problem. JP Johnpaul Rogerson jvr(a)dcs.ed.ac.uk

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Had to changes the delivery mode on RH6.2
by Paul Stavrides 21 Apr '00

21 Apr '00

That was fun... I know a whole lot more about gdb and Phython than I did a day or two ago.... Your milage may vary, but on our RH6.2 system we had to: # Delivery module for the message pipeline. See # Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py for details. Unless overridden specifically # in that module, this handler is used for message delivery to the list, and # to an individual user. This value must be a string naming a module in the # Mailman.Handlers package. DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' #DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' Regards, -paul

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Anyone seen this before? [Fwd: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1]
by Kevin of Thornbury 20 Apr '00

20 Apr '00

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:09:36 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)seahorse.atlantia.sca.org> To: atlantia-admin(a)seahorse.atlantia.sca.org The original message was received at Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:33:21 -0400 from web213.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.113] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper post atlantia" (expanded from: <atlantia(a)atlantia.sca.org>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- XXX lineno: 123, opcode: 119 Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ? mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 61, in __init__ File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 798, in Load File "/var/tmp/mailman-root/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1379, in Lock File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 153, in lock import struct, fcntl, FCNTL File "/usr/lib/python1.5/plat-linux-i386/FCNTL.py", line 123, in ? BIG_ENDIAN = __BIG_ENDIAN SystemError: unknown opcode 554 "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/wrapper post atlantia"... unknown mailer error 1

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(no subject)
by Jeroen Keppens 20 Apr '00

20 Apr '00

Hi, problems have been solved. Another one has occurred. Here it is: People subscribing to the mailinglist via the mailmanpages should be approved before being allowed, but people subscribing at our password protected session shouldn't be approved. This would be easy to do, when there was an admin-mail-interface. But I recieve following message when creating a new list: "There is also an email-based interface for users (not administrators) of your list; you can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to:...". Is it really not possible?? Jeroen

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Probably a permissions problem...
by Paul Stavrides 20 Apr '00

20 Apr '00

Hi, Still trying to get Mailman going on RH6.2 We still can't get mail through. When I run qrunner I get the following: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 106, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 51, in main lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 209, in lock os.link(self.__lockfile, self.__tmpfname) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied Does this ring a bell with anyone? Check_perms runs without errors. Thanks, -paul

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