Mailman 3 May 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] wrapper error
by mackay＠kodak.com 08 Jun '00

08 Jun '00

From: Scott D. MacKay This is already a running thread on mailman configuration, I believe (slight variation). Make sure your '--with-mail-gid' configure flag is set correctly. The wrapper checks the invokers GID and dies with code 2 if it does not match (exit code 2 is GID MISMATCH or something from mailman). Sendmail sees it and passes it back to you. The GID MUST be the GID of the mail process. If you enabled syslog, it should be logged (check the archive list on my previous post, think it is mail.err or something). That will be the biggie, checking the output of the syslog to see what GID REALLY is being used by the invoker. For those that had the problem, please let me know if changing the --with-mail-gid worked or not, ty ) -Scott

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Read-only announcement list
by J C Lawrence 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

> At 11:15 AM 5/25/00 , Griff Wigley wrote: >> I'm having trouble setting my list to read-only announcements. I >> found previous discussion about this in the March archives but I >> still have questions. Set the list to posting by members only. Set it to moderated. Set yourself as an automatically approved poster. >> But the list's web page still tells people how to post. It >> displays: You may need to hand edit that page. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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moving archives
by Bill Hoffman 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

Hello, I am upgrading from majordomo to mailman. Is there a way to move the old archives into the mailman format? Thanks.

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Problem archiving Japanese messages
by Akira Tagata 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

Hello, I have started to use Mailman v1.1 with exim on Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. On an archived message from our Japanese mail messages must be converted into the Extended Unix Code (EUC) from the ordinary transporting Japanese text (JIS). Indeed I have had some problems to archive my test message in Japanese. So I have tried to insert a filter which convert JIS to EUC before post by the wrapper. And Mailman works fine. One Japanese charater needs two 7 bit code within the special quotation in JIS, and I understood that scanning JIS code to convert to HTML text may mistake. But in EUC one character needs two 8 bit code. But the posted message from this test mailing list have delivered in EUC. The Japanese mail messages must be written in JIS. I need to know where and/or how I insert this filter(*) in the Mailman. Probably it will be before scanning the message to convert to HTML text for archiving the posted message. (*)The filter named nkf can also convert mime headers Please give me any suggestions. Thanks in advance. -- Akira Tagata <tagata(a)rand.co.jp> R&D Computer Co., Ltd. / Tokyo

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approved messages in 2.0beta3 not archived
by Mentor Cana 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hello, Some testing with 2.0beta3 revealed that the approved message are not being archived properly. Actually, the messages get into the list.mbox file but they are missing the "From " line and therefore do not show on the archive page. later, Mentor

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restricting posting
by Hank Fein 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi, I am running Mailman 2.0 beta 2 and have both "Must posts be approved by an administrator" and "Restrict posting privilege to list members" set to YES. Yet it seems that anyone can post to my mailinglists -- and I never get prompted to approve anything. Thanks, Hank __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Large-number of users in Mailman/switching fr om Listproc
by Gregory Leblanc 31 May '00

31 May '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: David Champion [mailto:dgc@uchicago.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:14 PM > To: Anne Cross > Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Large-number of users in > Mailman/switching > from Listproc > [snip] > The package is severely underdocumented. For a lot of people, it's > sufficiently self-documenting, or they just don't care about what they > don't understand. But we do spend upward of an hour per day dealing > with list support issues of one kind or another. Often the > information > is there, but they simply don't "get it". I'm not convinced this is > strictly a reading-comprehension problem. The people we spend most > time with have technical problems with how, or how well, > Mailman passes > mail through cleanly, or they can't figure out how which > options to use > -- generally NOT stuff covered in the Aurora documentation project, > which we've linked to. Since I've only got 2 lists on my server right now (test, and test2), I can't comment on performance, but I will do so on the documentation. There isn't much. Not hard to get installed, although binary packages would be nice. Looks like we'll be using this when fall rolls around for all of our lists at the University where I work, so I will at least have to write something that I send to the profs who will be running the lists. Oh, one more thing. 8^) It would be nice if there was some way to set defaults for EVERYTHING, through the web interface. The suggestions that I've gotten for setting reply-to: headers to the list by default are to go in and change mm_config.py, or some other damn file. I know it's evil, but half of the people on our lists don't know even know how to turn on a computer, so it's definately a necessity for our environment. Later, Greg

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switching from one server to another
by Roland Krause 31 May '00

31 May '00

I want to switch mailman from one server to another. Is there an easy way to do so? Have I only to change names in mm_cfg.py or Defaults.py or have I to reinstall the whole thing? : Judge your success by what you had : to give up in order to get Roland : it. : :

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