Mailman 3 July 2000 - Mailman-Users

Random passwords
by Joseph Gray July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

Replying to my previous message - never mind, I finally found the other two places to patch this: MailCommandHandler.py and MailList.py.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] pipermail archive -> MHonArc
by Nick Marouf July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

WHAT? then get off the Mailman-Users mailing list. Nick WILDMANJ1(a)cs.com wrote: > DO NOT SEND ANYMORE EMAIL TO THIS ADDRESS

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Random passwords
by Joseph Gray July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

I patched "~/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py" to force the generation of random passwords when a user subscribes from the web page, as documented on this list. I made one change, however. I called Utils.MakeRandomPassword twice, to give an 8 character password. This works fine when the user subscribes themselves, but if the admin subscribes one or more users, only a 4 character password is generated. Obviously, the admin subscribe option invokes some different code than "subscribe.py". I can't seem to find where this is - does anyone have any idea? I just did a test and it seems that when a user subscribes via email, to the "-request" address, this also only generates a 4 character password. Is this in the same place as the admin subscribe? Thanks.

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moving lists
by Dan Kappus July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

I am really quite confused about how mailman identifies what host it is running on. Steps I took to become confused: a)Installed Mailman on machine number one named internal b)moved the entire Mailman filesystem tree with many busy lists to a machine with another hostname, mail c)Tried to access the public archives and couldn't, though the listinfo page was happy, and the admin interface worked d)changed the defaults in mm_cfg.py to reflect new hostname e)did list_lists | awk '{print $1}' | xargs move_list to move all the lists f) went to the listinfo page and noted that none of the many lists that I saw in step c were listed anymore g) ran in circles, deperately crying "Ega!! Bundulooo!" in imitation of esr and rms. What have I done wrong? I follow the list sporadically, but if someone happens to know where I've acted without clue, feel free to follow up with me in email (reply-to is set).

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daily digest send?
by Peter Murray July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

I've had trouble with Mailman 1.1 getting digests to go daily - whether the Kb limit is hit or not. The list is indeed set up to dispatch a digest daily (whether the Kb limit is set or not), but it still waits for the Kb limit... ideas? I didn't find any bugs in the jitterbug database that seemed pertinent to this. I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.1, Python 1.5.2, and Mailman 1.1. I'm anxiously waiting to see how 2.0b4 looks before I do any upgrading... Thanks for any help! -Peter Murray Partner Communications Group, Inc. http://www.ravedata.com

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Mailman and OS X Server?
by Tom Moore July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

OK, this query has been posted here without answer several times, but I'd like to try it once more: Has anyone had luck getting past the error experienced when installing Mailman onto an OS X Server system? This seems to be what everyone gets: do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/scripts; \ done cc -c -I. -DPREFIX="\"/home/mailman\"" -DPYTHON="\"/usr/local/bin/python\"" -DHELPFUL -g -O2 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_SETREGID=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DGETGROUPS_T=gid_t -DHAVE_VSNPRINTF=1 ./common.c ./common.c:26: `PREFIX' undeclared here (not in a function) ./common.c:26: `scripts' undeclared here (not in a function) ./common.c:26: parse error before `;' make[1]: *** [common.o] Error 1 make: *** [doinstall] Error 2 Any ideas? Can anyone on another system diagnose this? Many thanks. Tom Moore Landslide Design -- ---------------- Tom Moore President, Landslide Design tom.moore(a)landslidedesign.com 11 Forest Ave., Rockville, MD 20850 phone: 301.762.0627 fax: 301.762.5156

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A question
by Irma Sheen July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

> > I hope you can help me. I want to know where the members o... > and the list are saved. I think these items are saved in s... > ....or no? > Thanks

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Wrapper problems
by Mark Wendt July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

Hi all, Context: Sun Ultra 1, sendmail 8.9.3, Mailman 1.0. Problem : up until today, list server working just fine. This morning, I come in and the list server is having these problems: Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:09:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON> To: postmaster MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Postmaster notify: unknown mailer error 1 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (postmaster-notification) The original message was received at Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:09:35 -0400 (EDT) from localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner help" (expanded from: help-admin) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner help"... unknown mailer error 1 Looking at the error log, here's what's showing up: Jul 05 12:09:35 2000 post: Traceback (innermost last): post: File "/var/mailman/scripts/mailowner", line 42, in ? post: mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) post: File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 61, in __init__ post: self.Load() post: File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 802, in Load post: raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info' post: MMBadListError : Failed to access config info What what cause this kind of error with the list? Thanks, Mark Wendt

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Translations
by Jorge Godoy July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

Paulo Schreiner <paulo2(a)bewnet.com.br> writes: > Im in need of a portuguese translation of Mailman, where do I get it? If > it doesn't exist yet, what are the guidelines to do it, so it can be > included in future releases? > > Yours, > Paulo Schreiner I think there is none. I'm a volunteer to work on it with you. I have some experience on doing this. ;-) See you, -- Godoy. <godoy(a)conectiva.com> Departamento de Publicações Publishing Department Conectiva S.A.

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My MHonArc configuration
by Joseph Gray July 5, 2000

July 5, 2000

This is a followup to my posting about how I had MHonArc configured with Mailman. After some suggestions from others on the list, I have changed things substantially. Here is my present configuration. Be careful of any word wrapping that my email client may have done to the following lines. ----- First, I define the external archiver in "mm_cfg.py". Note that I am calling a wrapper script and not MHonArc directly. PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = "/home/mailman/ext-archiver %(listname)s" PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = "/home/mailman/ext-archiver %(listname)s" ----- Here is the wrapper script itself. Since this script is called each time a message is archived, it checks to see if a directory for the current month exists. If not, a new month's directory is created and at that time, the "index.html" file is updated to list the directories containing each month's archive. I didn't want to let the Apache web server automatically index these directories, since they are in the "private" directory. I also wanted to control the format of the web page listing. I am no shell script expert, so if anyone sees a problem with this, please let me know. #!/bin/sh # 2 Jul 2000 Joe Gray - /home/mailman/ext-archiver # Wrapper script to make MHonArc create monthly archives. umask 022 LISTNAME=$1 MONTH_YEAR=`date +%B%Y` LISTDIR=/home/mailman/archives/private/$LISTNAME OUTDIR=$LISTDIR/$MONTH_YEAR RCFILE=/home/mailman/mhonarc.mrc # Make the monthly directory if it doesn't exist. Update the "index.html" # file to reflect the added month. if [ ! -d "$OUTDIR" ]; then mkdir -p $OUTDIR cd $LISTDIR ls -t -1 > dirlist grep -v 'dirlist' dirlist > newlist grep -v 'index.html' newlist > dirlist rm -f newlist echo '<html>' > index.html echo '<head>' >> index.html echo -n '<title>Monthly Archives of ' >> index.html echo -n $1 >> index.html echo '</title>' >> index.html echo '</head>' >> index.html echo '<body>' >> index.html echo -n '<h1>Monthly Archives of ' >> index.html echo -n $1 >> index.html echo '</h1>' >> index.html echo '<hr><pre>' >> index.html for I in `cat dirlist`; do echo -n '<a href="' >> index.html echo -n $I >> index.html echo -n '/">' >> index.html echo -n $I >> index.html echo '/</a>' >> index.html done echo '</pre><hr>' >> index.html echo '</body></html>' >> index.html fi /usr/local/bin/mhonarc -add -rcfile $RCFILE -outdir $OUTDIR ----- Here is my "mhonarc.mrc" resource file.    <UMASK> 022 </UMASK>  <IDXFNAME> index.html </IDXFNAME>  <NOSAVERESOURCES>  <MULTIPG> <IDXSIZE> 20 </IDXSIZE>  <Sort>  <MODTIME>  <FieldOrder> to from date reply-to </FieldOrder>  <TITLE> Mailing List Archive (by Date) </TITLE>  <TTITLE> Mailing List Archive (Threaded) </TTITLE>  <LiTemplate> <li><strong>$SUBJECT$</strong> - <em> $YYYYMMDD$ - $FROMNAME$</em> </li> </LiTemplate>  <TLiTxt> <li><strong>$SUBJECT$</strong> - <em> $FROMNAME$</em> </TLiTxt>  <MIMEargs> text/plain;maxwidth=80 </MIMEargs> -----

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