Mailman 3 August 2000 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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Editing HTML for listinfo
by Matt Starnes 05 Sep '00

05 Sep '00

How do I edit the html for the main /mailman/listinfo url that shows the lists of lists. I tried editing /mailman/templates/listinfo.html but nothing happened. Thanks, Matt

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reply to subscription confirmation problem
by Gregory Leblanc 01 Sep '00

01 Sep '00

I've noticed that lately replying to subscription confirmations doesn't work. I know that it worked just fine using mailman 1.1, and I'm sure that it's broken in 2.0 beta 5. I don't have any of the earlier betas still running, so I can't test those. Has this code changed significantly since 1.1? Can we get it working again? The client that I've been having problems with is Outlook 2000 (yeah, I know). Thanks, Greg

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bug in version 1
by Michael Curtin 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

I has anyone seen this error message before? I try to connect to the URL admin to change some configs but this keeps coming up. I've tried restarting the server but nothing. Is there anything I can do other than upgrade at this point? Thanks Bug in Mailman version 1.0 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/export/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 40, in main FormatListinfoOverview() File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 88, in FormatListinfoOverview l = MailList.MailList(n, lock = 0) File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 61, in __init__ self.Load() File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 806, in Load raise Errors.MMBadListError, \ MMBadListError: Unmarshaled config info is not a dictionary

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umbrella lists
by Michael Ghens 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Now that they are mentioned. How does one set them up?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing
by J C Lawrence 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:49:13 -0700 Chris Smedley <csmedley(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > Can someone please tell me if it is possible to bounce messages > which contain certain keywords? There's no facility to auto-bounce, but you can have posts matching certain header fields held for moderation (see Privacy options in your list config) and of course you can insert a grep/formail recipe in front of the list to detect verboten words and insert a header to make the Privacy options catch the post. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Work: claw(a)nuron.com http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Keys etc: finger claw(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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unsubscribe without a password
by Dennis Director 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Is there any way to make it easier for members to unsubscribe. In particular, is there a way to turn off requiring a password to unsubscribe ?? Thanks.

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trimming extra headers; footer info in digests
by Brett Dikeman 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

So, after our switch off majordomo, I've received feedback from users. First, digest users complained that a lot of extra headers were making it tough to see the separation between messages. I also personally noticed that a -lot- of bandwidth is wasted by not stripping the footer of each message from the digest version(so the digest ends up with 20+ copies of the list's footer, with the list name and all.) Our list ballooned in bandwidth requirements when we went to mailman, and we're limited to an ISDN line. Alternatives like handing mail off to another server for expansion+delivery are not options at the moment; neither is a faster line(DSL is not available yet in the area where the server is.) I'd also like to know if there is a way to strip a lot of unnecessary headers, to save bandwidth and to make posts easier to read. Mainly, I don't see why we need listers(and especially digest users) to get much more than from, subject, to/cc, date, and reply-to if it's defined by the sender. Now, granted, there are strange setups, and it probably isn't compliant with some RFC thus-and-such to just hose headers, so it could be a non-default feature. However, I think that stripping each message of the mailman-addred footer -before- it is put in the digest would be great(just as how this is done with Pipermail archiving.) I would settle for this alone... Make sense? I've considered some kind of pre-processor program/script that takes a message and does stuff like: -remove unneeded headers -remove MIME/attachments -remove HMTL I'd guess that it's probably been done before, but a quick(and I do mean quick) search did not find anything. Brett PS:I should mention that people commented to me that they like the options/preferences, the archives, and -- ---- Brett Dikeman Systems Engineer CFN(formerly iClick, Inc) 914-872-8043 120 Bloomingdale Rd. 914-872-8100(fax) White Plains, NY 10605 http://www.iclick.com PGP Fingerprint: 06C2 5D5B D2B4 7626 BB24 2BBC 9E4A C8B3 PGP Key location: http://pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net/pgp/brett.pgp

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error during admin auth
by Gerhard Mourani 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Hi, I'm trying to configure my mailling list through the administrative authentication web page and receive the following error: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main main() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 136, in main mlist.Save() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 847, in Save self.__save(dict) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 822, in __save os.link(fname, fname_last) OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted The problem is "Operation not permitted" why?? The directory under where mailman is installed is as follow: drwxrwsr-x 16 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 . drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Aug 30 17:53 .. drwxrwsr-x 8 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:55 Mailman drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 archives drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 cgi-bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:54 cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:54 data drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 filters drwxrwsr-x 3 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:57 lists drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 31 00:38 locks drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:58 logs drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 16:48 qfiles drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 18:00 scripts drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Aug 30 17:53 templates Thanks, / / Gerhard Mourani

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Bouncing
by .Chris Smedley 31 Aug '00

31 Aug '00

Can someone please tell me if it is possible to bounce messages which contain certain keywords? I recently switched from Majordomo to Mailman and cannot see how this is done. Chris Smedley.

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