Mailman 3 June 2000 - Mailman-Users

Private archives and wilma/glimpse/mhonarc
by Kevin M. Myer June 27, 2000

June 27, 2000

Hi, I have wilma/glimpse/mhonarc setup as an archiver, using mostly Todd Pfaff's instructions and scripts and its working really well for lists that have public archives. However, I can't seem to figure out the combination to have it work with a public list but private archive. Here is what happens - with a public list but private archive, I'm taken to a URL <http://list-server/mailman/private/listname> where I need to enter a subscriber name and password. Clicking on the Submit … [View More]

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automated list creation (non-interactive)
by Christopher T. Lansdown June 27, 2000

June 27, 2000

Hi, The newlist script is quite easy to use, but the problem with it is that it requires a user at the console. I'm working on a system which sets up a mailman account as part of a bunch of stuff set up, and consequently want to automate the list creation process. I really don't want to have to fake a controlling terminal, so if anyone has a suggestion I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -Chris P.S. please cc me on all replies. -- lansdoct(a)cs.alfred.edu Homepage: http://cs.… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Private mailing list/private web page
by Brian Edmonds June 27, 2000

June 27, 2000

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan(a)home.com> writes: > The list members want to do bios, including pictures, but I want to > restrict access to the bio page to list members only. Hmm, an apache module supporting authentication from a Mailman subscriber database would be quite cool. I'm not up to writing one, but maybe one of the regular developers has the necessary experience to whip one up fairly easily? Brian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--… [View More]

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list subscribers' numbers
by Fil June 27, 2000

June 27, 2000

Thought I could share this simple cron job, that neatly lists the number of subscribers of all lists. Once every day is good for your mental health. 32 10 * * * cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/ ; for i in `\ls` ; do echo $i ` /var/lib/mailman/bin/list_members $i| wc -l` ; done Results in things like : acromed 2 copoins 1429 debocrimed 1 infdipo 2 mentor 4745 spiop 7 uoenda 283 uofo 38 vuju 10

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umbrella lists smart about sending duplicates
by Christopher Kolar June 27, 2000

June 27, 2000

Hi all. I am not running the 2bx on any of my production machines right now, so I was wondering if umbrella lists are smart now about delivering duplicate massages to individual accounts. So if I am subscribed to list A and list B, and umbrella list C consists of those two, will I get two copies of a message sent to list C? I know that a merged database is not on the burner WRT to passwords, but I was wondering if MM is smart enough on this issue. Thanks in advance. --chris

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Re: [Mailman-Users] checkdbs errors
by Dan Mick June 26, 2000

June 26, 2000

Because it's getting a TypeError on that line. I just answered this question last week, and it's been answered several times before on this list. Did you search the archives at all? > Why does Mailman send the mail administrator these error messages? It's sent > everyday. Thanks for any help. --Sanjay. > > --------contents of error message ----------------- > > Subject: Cron <mailman@list> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/checkdbs > > Traceback (innermost … [View More]

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checkdbs errors
by Sanjay Jeer June 26, 2000

June 26, 2000

Why does Mailman send the mail administrator these error messages? It's sent everyday. Thanks for any help. --Sanjay. --------contents of error message ----------------- Subject: Cron <mailman@list> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/checkdbs Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 87, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 52, in main text = text + '\n' + pending_requests(mlist) File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 72, in … [View More]

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Indexing the archived messages through UdmSearch
by Sheryl Weidner June 26, 2000

June 26, 2000

Hi folks, Another question, this time about making the mailing list archive searchable. I currently run UdmSearch on the server where Mailman resides. It does a beautiful job of indexing and categorizing my regular web content, and all of the public_html directories, but because the Mailman archives live in a private directory, it doesn't index those. What's more, it couldn't reference those properly anyway since they aren't broken out in to URLs by article until they go through the … [View More]

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strange behavior of the "Additionally, forward this message to: "
by Fil June 26, 2000

June 26, 2000

The "Additionally, forward this message to: " feature in admindb has a strange behavior // if I enter the address "fil(a)bok.net" (without the quotes) the postfix server tries to send to "f@server" "i@server" "l@server" "b@server" "o@server" "n@server" "e@server" "t@server" and "root@server". Not quite what it's supposed to do ;) If I enter nothin in the address section, nothin happens If I enter just "root" it sends to "r@server", "o@server" and "t@server", but not to root (which hence must … [View More]

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Adding old Archives
by Dovey J, Mr June 26, 2000

June 26, 2000

> -----Original Message----- > From: Nigel Metheringham [mailto:Nigel.Metheringham@VData.co.uk] > The arch program takes a mbox and builds, or adds to an > archive. So it > does exactly what you want. Brilliant. Thanx. > BTW if you have extensive old archives, you probably need to > split them > somewhat... arch seems to use resources in some way > proportional to the > number of messages handled... so when I gave it 5 years backissues of > the exim … [View More]

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