Mailman 3 July 2000 - Mailman-Users

./newlist dies with MMUnknownListError
by Paul Reilly 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

Hi, I'm new to mailman. I've just installed it okay, but when I try to add a new list with $prefix/bin/newlist the program dies with... Mailman.Errors.MMUnknownListError ...see below. I'm using RH 6.2 (2.2.16) with Python 1.5.2. Any ideas? Thanks Paul ------------------------------------------------ Server -> ./newlist Enter the name of the list: test Enter the email of the person running the list: paul(a)ireland.seds.org Initial test password: Traceback (innermost last): File "./newlist", line 155, in ? main(sys.argv) File "./newlist", line 112, in main mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw) File "/home/users/mailman/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 785,in Create self.Lock() File "/home/users/mailman/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1345,in Lock self.Load() File "/home/users/mailman/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 894,in Load raise Errors.MMUnknownListError Mailman.Errors.MMUnknownListError

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case of restricted hardlinks
by Iqbal Santyaswardan 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

I thought it would never happen to me, but it did. Now I seek kind-hearted souls who would tell me just how I could turn off restricted hardlinks when using secure linux (Mandrake 7.0). I know this is probably appropriate to a linux mailing list, but after I asked someone who answered vaguely to look in the scripts, I decided to see if someone here with Experience could point the right way much quicker. (The only security options I saw under draksec were low, medium, high) iqbal s.

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Very Extremely High Membership list
by Ingenius N.N. 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

Hi I have problems with mailing list, i have one mailing list of 130.000 subscribers, if any can help pleace send me email. Thanks Inge

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Very Extremely High Membership list
by Mariano Alejandro Orsili 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

Hi I have problems with mailing list, i have one mailing list of 130.000 subscribers, if any can help pleace send me email. Thanks Inge

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newlist patch
by Derek Simkowiak 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

Hello, Attached is a patch for the "newlist" utility script. It causes all informational messages to go to stderr, and the generated "aliases" to go to stdout. Other than that, newlist works exactly the same (no new command-line options or anything). That means you can do this: bin/newlist >> /etc/aliases [...or...] bin/newlist > /tmp/listname.aliases [...or...] bin/newlist listname owner(a)domain.com passwd > somefile.txt ...and the automatically-generated aliases will be in the file you redirect stdout to. Here is a sample run: [mailman@platinum bin]$ ./newlist > aliases-only.txt Enter the name of the list: ft5 Enter the email of the person running the list: dereks(a)kd-dev.com Initial ft5 password: Entry for aliases file... Hit enter to continue with ft5 owner notification... [mailman@platinum bin]$ cat aliases-only.txt ## ft5 mailing list ## created: 30-Jun-2000 mailman ft5: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post ft5" ft5-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner ft5" ft5-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd ft5" ft5-owner: ft5-admin [mailman@platinum bin]$ I made this patch because I'm not always in X-windows, meaning I don't always have a mouse to cut'n'paste the generated aliases into my /etc/aliases file. And I'm too lazy to edit out the informational prompts by hand with vi. Also, this patch should make it easier for automated/CGI scripts that create new lists. They won't need to worry about specifically parsing the aliases from the rest of the (informational) output. If no-one objects, it would be groovy if this could make it into 2.0beta4 (since it's such a simple script). Thanks, Derek Simkowiak dereks(a)kd-dev.com

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b3 / my posts / archive
by Ricardo Kustner 01 Jul '00

01 Jul '00

first considering my current problem with the approval page: i'm so desperate that i decided to completely reinstall mailman and all the subscribers... everybody will get a new password this way :( Hopefully this fixes the problem... but my server is still sending out the new welcome messages now so i'm waiting for that to finnish... I'm still keeping an copy of the original setup to see if i can find out what is (hopefully *was*) going wrong.... secondly, I notice that sometimes my posts to mailman-developers don't seem to arrive on this list (even though mailman-users always seem to go through)... but i noticed that my post with the subject "approval & b3" didn't arrive in my own mailbox but i *did* find it in the June 2000 archive on python.org... did anybody see my post on this list? (http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2000-June/002541.html) Ricardo. --

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