Mailman 3 August 2000 - Mailman-Users

Problems with AMPERSAND in addresses on list
by mitd＠mitd.com Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

If this problem has already been covered or solved, our apologies but we couldn't find it in list. Problem: list address like: mom_&_dad(a)foobar.com when mailman creates sendmail command line SHELL truncate address and thinks '&' is shell command and puts in background ... causing everything to crap out. Our solution: modify sendmail.py to put "sendmail address arguments " inside doblequotes. But: We wonder if smrsh should be taking care of this?? Comments??? -- Peter Marshall --… [View More]

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Problem with beta5
by Pete Holsberg Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

I installed beta 5 on a sparc running solaris 2.7, and the install (including bin/check_perms) was fine. I created a test list and subscribed a dummy person. The email system complained as afoows: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test" (expanded from: <test-admin@viking>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 500, GOT gid 1. (Reconfigure to take 1?) 554 "|/home/mailman/… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] access via https, some links use http
by J C Lawrence Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:22:23 -0300 Andreas Hasenack <andreas(a)conectiva.com.br> wrote: > I'm using mailman 2.0beta4 and I like to use the administrative > pages via https rather than via http. It works, no problem with > that. But some links in the pages have http://... hardcoded in > them... While a hack, have you tried just having the HTTP side use a rewrite/redirect rule to bounce uncrypted requests back to the HTTPS side? -- J C Lawrence … [View More]

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Re: Forcing use of FQDN when speaking to postfix
by andrew＠ugh.net.au Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

Hi, Well I have got my quick fix working...I remember now...tabs and spaces are not equal in python...after the pain it took to find that out last time I'm not sure how I could have forgotten... It would still be nice if this hack wasn't necessary for when 2.0 is released. Thanks, Andrew PS Sorry for the dreadful formatting in the last mail. I wont send mail from my web browser again...

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Re: [Mailman-Users] A Vote Against Passwords
by J C Lawrence Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 13:39:35 -0700 Dan Mick <Dan.Mick(a)west.sun.com> wrote: > If you're going to require passwords (as Mailman does), it seems > critical to me that the reminder remain "on", as "I lost my > password because I can't follow welcome message instructions" is > *the* number 1 complaint of my list users. I find it telling, especially since I'm using the default Mailman footer that lists the URL to the list page, that every month I get a rash of unsubscribes … [View More]

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Forcing use of FQDN when speaking to postfix
by andrew＠ugh.net.au Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

Hi, I just upgraded from 2.0b2 to 2.0b4 and have got the bug back where mailman says HELO localhost and postfix rejects it as it isnt fully qualified. (PR 234) I have tried adding: name = "my.fqdn.here" on lines 298 and 316 of smtplib.py but mailman is still saying HELO <shortname> Can anyone help? I'm afraid I don't know much about python but I'm after a fix quickly. Thanks for your time, Andrew

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Re: [Mailman-Users] autoreply/redirect
by J C Lawrence Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:13:32 -0400 Yacketta,Ronald J <YackettaRJ(a)worldkitchen.com> wrote: > We (my company) just acquired another company, we would like to > have all email sent to user(a)olddomain.com autoreply with a message > informing them of the new email address of user(a)newcomapny.com. > is this possible? You can do this fairly easily at the MTA level. If you want to be a bit userfriendly you can also set your MTA rewrite the inbound message to go the proper … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] New to List - Installation Help
by Nigel Metheringham Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

Robert, Its difficult to give a straight recipe for this stuff since it can depend on what else the system does, are you running virtual servers etc. However, as a boilerplate recipe try this... back the config files up first :-) Assuming you are using a standard RH apache package set, edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, find the lines that look like # You may place any other directories or locations you wish to have # access information for after this one. (they should be pretty much … [View More]

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autoreply/redirect
by Yacketta,Ronald J Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

Hello all! We (my company) just acquired another company, we would like to have all email sent to user(a)olddomain.com autoreply with a message informing them of the new email address of user(a)newcomapny.com. is this possible? -Ron ============================================================================ == ______ /_____/\ Ronald J. Yacketta /____ \\ \ Solaris Systems Administrator /_____\ \\ / World Kitchen /… [View More]

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New to List - Installation Help
by Meredith, Robert Aug. 2, 2000

Aug. 2, 2000

I recently downloaded and installed Mailman v3. The installation of Mailman itself was rather seamless. I followed the readme, and ran the bin/check_perms - it finished with no problems. After this, I ran into problems. I am not sure how to give this program the necessary cgi permissions, nor how to make my apache installation work properly with it. Here is a brief run-down on my system setup: Red Hat v6.2, full installation, all defaults Mailman is installed in /home/mailman Apache was … [View More]

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