Mailman 3 May 2000 - Mailman-Users

smtp problems ?
by Wochele, Markus 31 May '00

31 May '00

hi there, i have a little problem with my mailman installation. the file: /home/mailman/logs/smtp Apr 27 17:12:00 2000 (1851) All recipients refused: host not found I don't receive any mailinglist emails (no error, no mail .... nothing). Because why ??? Please write me back. regards, Markus

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mailman problems
by Wochele, Markus 31 May '00

31 May '00

hi there, i have a little problem with my mailman installation. the file: /home/mailman/logs/smtp Apr 27 17:12:00 2000 (1851) All recipients refused: host not found I don't receive any mailinglist emails (no error, no mail .... nothing). Because why ??? Please write me back. regards, Markus

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Textbridge and agfa 1212U scanner
by David Gatt 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi, I own a copy of textbridge version 8 serial number 9906EJ00414 which I purchased about 2 months ago and cannot get it to work properly with an imac and OS 8.6 using an agfa 1212U scanner. I think I need version 8.5 but can't find the download, Can you help. Thanks David Gatt.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with SMTPDirect / Security Bug?
by Nigel Metheringham 31 May '00

31 May '00

palsina(a)chasque.net said: > Using SMTPDirect as delivery module just times out, not sending any > mail out. I used Sendmail as MTA, and saw a few messages on this board > suggesting that Postfix was faster, so I replaced sendmail with > Postfix. You are running a SMTP daemon on 127.0.0.1 [or actually on whatever address SMTPHOST is set to]? If you telnet to that address/port do you see the initial SMTP banner in a reasonable length of time? Can you then go through the basic SMTP commands that would be used for sending a message (HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO) and have it turn those round in reasonable time? Its most likely the MTA that is misconfigured - either not listening, or trying to verify everything and taking lots of time about it. palsina(a)chasque.net said: > Looking at the code, I see that the recipient list is not sanatized > before invoking the shell. Unless I'm wrong, one could subscribe an > 'larry;command_here;(a)none.com' and make the command_here to get > executed! Ugh. I'm going to repeat my comment that I don't think Sendmail.py is ready for prime time. > I'm going to try to patch the Sendmail.py to put each recipient > between '' to avoid shell expansion. Hope that will do. It would be better not to shell at all - the argument list should be built up in python and then exec-ed across without a shell being involved (since a shell has nothing to contribute here except burning some CPU cycles and lousing up the argument lists. Nigel. -- [ - Opinions expressed are personal and may not be shared by VData - ] [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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Large-number of users in Mailman/switching from Listproc
by Anne Cross 31 May '00

31 May '00

Currently, Tufts University is looking at switching from Listproc to something a little more stable and a lot easier to administrate. All the things I've seen in testing Mailman would tend to indicate that I've found an acceptable replacement for Listproc. However, I'd appreciate any firsthand accounts from administrators of more than 300 lists, or more than 5000 users, or anyone who's switched from Listproc to Mailman. Regards, Anne Anne Cross System Administrator, Tufts University "In books and ages and life, the ending can never truly be written." -Riven

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IE auth problems
by Pablo Alsina 31 May '00

31 May '00

Hi! I'm managing several lists now and are very happy with Mailman, but I'm having problems with listadmins who use IE5. They are all bounced back to the password promt screen after every submit, and the changes they made on their list config does get lost. I (myself) use Netscape and does not have those problems. Using NS or IE on the same machine produces the same results: IE fails, NS works. Searching for this problem on the list archives, I found messages suggesting that time differences between MM server and browser client could be a problem, but the they are almost identical (I even extended the cookie timeout period), or that DEFAULT_URL should be as client sees it, and it is. Any suggestion? Thanks, Pablo

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Can't call server function
by ashrafi 31 May '00

31 May '00

I have a problem by my corba program in delphi, So when I want to type cast for early binding it retuens nil, why? with IUnknown(Client_DM.CorbaConnection1.AppServer ) as IFirstCorbaDM do MyServerFunc; whitch : TFirstCorbaDM = class(TCorbaDataModule, IFirstCorbaDM) ..... end; is my server data module please help me.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Large-number of users in Mailman/switching from Listproc
by J C Lawrence 31 May '00

31 May '00

On Tue, 30 May 2000 17:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Anne Cross <across01(a)emerald.tufts.edu> wrote: > However, I'd appreciate any firsthand accounts from administrators > of more than 300 lists, or more than 5000 users, or anyone who's > switched from Listproc to Mailman. Tehre are some performance concerns with the curren't version of Mailman's administration interface on systems hosting large numbers of lists. This has been fixed in the current CVS tree, but that hasn't rolled yet. -- 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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Mailman list confirmation question
by Christopher Adams 30 May '00

30 May '00

I have setup Mailman and am able to setup a list and do administrative things, but when I try to send the confirmation information when subscribing (I tried just replying and also sending the confirmation info directly to mailman_test-request), I get the following message. Can anyone tell me what this means? <mailman_test-request(a)sparkie.osl.state.or.us>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd mailman_test" -- Christopher Adams Oregon State Library 503.378.4246 chris(a)opac.osl.state.or.us

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Sendmail permissions
by chuckd＠aphid.net 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi wonderful MailMan people. This is slightly off topic but I don't have anywhere better to go. I am running sendmail as my MTA. Currently I have my mailman aliases in /etc/mail/mailman-aliases. This file has to be owned by root otherwise sendmail gives permission denied. I assume this is sendmail being paranoid rather than actually permission denied, because even if I change owners to mail or give world write permissions it still gives the error. What is the standard way of having a mail aliases file owned by a regular user (i.e. mailman)? Perhaps I need the DontBlameSendmail option? Or move to Postfix of course. Soon, soon. Actually I set up my home box with Postfix - it roxors =) Thanks, Chuck

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