Mailman 3 June 2000 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Q. finding users passwords and Administrivia filter
by Dan Mick 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

> i've scoured through the mailing list and found others with a similar problem. the only workaround i thought i could come up with was a post by Dan Mick... > > "You can look up the password from the Python database with a small > modification to bin/withlist; if you need me to dig out my hack > to do that, I can." > > please do! i might be able to write something that would bypass the need to submit a password with a unsub request. Well, here's a module to use with bin/withlist like so: python -i bin/withlist -r pws.pws <listname> that will create a list of users and passwords, both non-digest and digest. As you can see, it's not magic; it's just list.passwords[member]. You could post-process this output with a shell script, or you could make it look up just one member by, rather than running it from bin/withlist, incorporating it into bin/withlist to make a separate Python program. import sys fmt = "%-40s\t%s" def pws(list): for member in list.members.keys(): print fmt % (member, list.passwords[member]) for member in list.digest_members.keys(): print fmt % (member, list.passwords[member]) sys.exit(0)

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mailman/openbsd/postfix problems
by Brian Cohen 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

I'm running Mailman 2.0beta on OpenBSD 2.6. My MTA is postfix. The box handles virtual domains. I set up a list, let's call it "foo" and then added the following line to /etc/postfix/virtual : foo(a)domain.com foo(a)sandworm.intercarve.net (obviously domain.com is not my real domain <grin>) The lines in /etc/aliases are exactly as $prefix/bin/newlist outputs them. I ran "postalias /etc/aliases" and then "postfix reload". No matter what, if I try to send mail to foo(a)domain.com I get the following message bounced back at me: <foo(a)sandworm.intercarve.net>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post foo" I tried following the instructions regarding "smrsh" in INSTALL (I created the director /usr/adm/sm.bin and symlinked wrapper so that it appeared in that new directory,but all it changes is the path to "wrapper" in the error above. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks in advance. -Brian Cohen

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Q. finding users passwords and Administrivia filter
by John Castillo 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

dear list: i'm currently evaluating Mailman to support large announce style lists. looks nice. unfortunately, the unsub process seems to REQUIRE a users password which in my opinion is limiting. i've scoured through the mailing list and found others with a similar problem. the only workaround i thought i could come up with was a post by Dan Mick... "You can look up the password from the Python database with a small modification to bin/withlist; if you need me to dig out my hack to do that, I can." please do! i might be able to write something that would bypass the need to submit a password with a unsub request. the SECOND question is, concerning (Administrivia filter) which says... "Check postings and intercept ones that seem to be administrative requests? (Details)" I have this set to yes, however if i email my list(a)checkout.com with unsubscribe in the body it fails to return any sort of unsub information. is this because i still need to supply a users password, which they DO NOT KNOW, for this feature to work? john castillo sys admin checkout.com

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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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Re: [Mailman-Users] incorrect list-id
by Christopher Kolar 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

At 10:33 AM 6/1/2000, Alexandre Denes dos Santos wrote: >My server has the same problem, and only with the list reminders. I also >noticed (in my case) that the list id that is assigned to all reminders of >all lists is the id of the first list (by the order that they appear in >listinfo). I posted something to the developer's list about this last month. Apparently Mm uses the ID of the first publicly visible list on your server for all of the monthly reminder messages. The rationale for this seems to be that many people getting the reminders may be on multiple lists, so the list ID used for the reminder is really just an unimportant placeholder so that there is not a lot of header creation confusion for people on multiple lists. Now that I bothered to write that out, here is one of the official replies: Herald Meland wrote: >I think the reasoning went like this: As any reminder message can >contain info about more than one list membership, it's impossible to >use the "correct" list for delivery. Thus, as Mailman can't get this >completely right, it rather chooses the easiest solution available; >use the same list for all deliveries. You can find the string in the Mm developer's list archive, the subject line that I used was: wrong list info in header (b1) Cheers, --chris -- /////\\\\\/////\\\\\ Christopher G. Kolar Director, Department of Instructional Technology Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois ckolar(a)admin.aurora.edu -- www.aurora.edu/~ckolar [PGP Public Key ID: 0xC6492C72]

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incorrect list-id
by Haisam K. Ido 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

On the server that I use when mailman sends monthly reminders the list-id is always incorrect. How does one fix that? +----------------- Haisam K. Ido <haisam(a)ido.org> ----------------------+

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Approving only via Web?
by Luca Maranzano 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

Hello, I'm trying Mailman 2.0beta2 on SunOS 5.5.1 and it seems to work well, we intend to migrate some smartlist based mailing list to Mailman :-) I've a question about moderation: is it possible to approve or reject or discard a message simply by email? We are in the situation where some moderators will have mostly email access for the list administration. I didn't found any reference to this in the documentation. Thanks in advance for any answers. Regards from Italy. Luca -- _____________________________________________________________________ Luca Maranzano voice:+39.010.2463638 SIR s.r.l. - PublinetWork(tm) fax:+39.010.2461246 GENOVA - ITALY________________________________mailto:liuk@publinet.it

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + Postfix: Problems with the wrapper
by Peter Evans 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

busia (busia(a)tiscalinet.it) wrote: > I have installed the latest versions of postfix (Beta 19991231 Patchlevel 08) and mailman (2.0beta2), I have created a ML and, then, added the aliases. > When I try to send a message to the ML the wrapper send me this error: > --------- > Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post redazione" > --------- > The file "/home/mailman/logs/error" is empty, the check_perms is ok. > It's very urgent for me to find the solution for this problem. I can give you all the informations you need Check ownership of the aliases file that drives the mailman stuff. typically its a separate aliases file in the mailman directory with the appropriate owner. You can also try reading the readme's about postfix+mailman. Worked for me. ^_^! P -- Remember The 5 K's. The Justified Agents of Munya-munya-muuuu ...

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Mailman + Postfix: Problems with the wrapper
by busia 01 Jun '00

01 Jun '00

I have installed the latest versions of postfix (Beta 19991231 Patchlevel 08) and mailman (2.0beta2), I have created a ML and, then, added the aliases. When I try to send a message to the ML the wrapper send me this error: --------- Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post redazione" --------- The file "/home/mailman/logs/error" is empty, the check_perms is ok. It's very urgent for me to find the solution for this problem. I can give you all the informations you need Thanks Andrea Busia -- TiscaliFreeNet, libero accesso ad Internet. http://www.tiscalinet.it

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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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