Mailman 3 September 2000 - Mailman-Users

Multiple domain lists
by Silk Sept. 28, 2000

Sept. 28, 2000

Hi: Feel free to rtfm me if I'm being idiotic here, and have missed something obvious but: How does one configure mail lists in mailman under multiple domains all vhosted on one box? eg: I have an ip address 127.0.0.1 and I only have one. I have domain foo.com which is the 'actual' domain name of the box, and when I apt-get install mailman it configures for that domain. I have another domain, bar.com, which has an Apache vhost properly configured etc, and all that. Exim will handle mail for bar.com. How to I make mailman establish the list fubar(a)bar.com? Thanks, ~cHris -- Chris Naden - chris at gwydion dot net " Sometimes, home is just where you pour your coffee... " - Bruno Baldwin

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Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML links broken in 'listinfo' and 'admin' pages
by Shane Y. Gibson Sept. 28, 2000

Sept. 28, 2000

Quoting Dan Mick at Wed Sep 27 16:24:56 2000: > > > > http://host.domain.com:port/admin > > > > that it used to point to. > > I'm confused; that has no 'mailman' and does have 'admin'. Typo? **Blush** Yes, I meant: http://host.domain.com:port/mailman I added a trailing slash. That seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for bearing with me. v/r Shane

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HTML links broken in 'listinfo' and 'admin' pages
by Shane Y. Gibson Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

All, I just upgraded from 2.0beta4 to 2.0beta6. Upgrade seems to have gone well, with one small exception. In the overview listinfo page, the link to the Admin pages now points to: http://host.domain.com:port/admin as opposed to what it used to be, and should be: http://host.domain.com:port/mailman/admin The flip side is the admin pages which has a link back to the listinfo pages, has the same problem, the link is /listinfo instead of the old working /mailman/listinfo Has anyone else seen this? If so what's the procedure to fix? I've spent the last hour and half digging through the mailman install trying to find the HTML code that generates this, and haven't been able to. Thanks, Shane -- Shane Y. Gibson sgibson(a)digitalimpact.com Network Architect

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add to accept list via unix?
by Dave Robbins Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

Hi, I have version 1.1 running and would like to know if it's possible to add to the accept list via unix (that is, what is under "Privacy Options" as: Addresses of members accepted for posting to this list without implicit approval requirement. (See "Restrict ... to list members" for whether or not this is in addition to allowing posting by list members I don't see anything in ~mailman/bin for achieving this. It would be much nicer to do this in Unix where accept lists for one list could be appended to others and kept up-to-date much much easier. If nothing is available in 1.1 (and any developers are reading this), please add it in 2.0! >From my perspective (unless I'm missing something), it is the major drawback to otherwise superlative software. Thanks for the fantastic job! Dave Robbins

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Error in senddigests
by William R. Dickson Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

Upgraded to 2.0b6 yesterday. Seems to be working well, mostly, but I'm getting this new error. If there's anything I can do to get more useful info to go with it, please let me know. -Bill ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:00:10 -0700 (PDT) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: mailman Subject: Cron <mailman@repo-mac> /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/cron/senddigests Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/cron/senddigests", line 65, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/cron/senddigests", line 42, in main send_list_digest(mlist) File "/usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/cron/senddigests", line 59, in send_list_digest mlist.Save() File "/usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/Mailman/MailList.py", line 846, in Save self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() File "/usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 256, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir makelink(privdir, pubdir) File "/usr/local/mailman/awenet.com/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 42, in makelink os.symlink(old, new) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory -- William R. Dickson -- Consuming the Earth's limited resources since 1968 wrd(a)awenet.com http://www.awenet.com/~wrd/ (PGP public key available) When he that speaks, and he to whom he speaks, neither of them understand what is meant, that is metaphysics. - Voltaire

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*FIXED?* RE: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fw d)
by Chris Hedemark Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

Oh boy do I feel dumb. In my defense, my IQ is being sapped by cold medicine. The new Defaults.py hadn't been changed. I didn't think it would be overwritten in an upgrade. But it was. It was trying to send mail to 'localhost' which for some reason wasn't defined. Well I fixed that in '/etc/hosts', and a little at a time mail is starting to trickle in that had been queued up. There are some other nagging problems but sending mail has been fixed. Thanks guys. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hedemark [mailto:hedemark@bops.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:11 AM To: 'mailman-users(a)python.org' Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fwd) OK I had a nearly fully functioning list server with 2.0beta2. The upgrade to 2.0beta6 was prompted by a problem with archiving (it wasn't archiving messages). It was actually sending messages just fine. With 2.0beta6 we have archiving, but messages aren't moving. I've tried sending mail from this box using "pine" and "mail" and it works fine. I'm going to have a bunch of relevant logs posted shortly. -----Original Message----- From: F. Winter [mailto:winter@PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:09 AM To: Chris Hedemark Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fwd) Hi Chris! > The weird thing is, I didn't have this problem with 2.0beta2. It started > when I got the 2.0beta6 installed. > Do you mean that you have exactly the same problem that no list works with 2.0beta6 ? I tried 1.1stable although. The same result. > -----Original Message----- > From: F. Winter [mailto:winter@PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de] > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 9:46 AM > To: mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures (fwd) > > > Hi guys! > > The problem Dan has sounds exactly like my one: > > The first "test" mailing list does not send the notification > email either. I have the same logs in smtp, smtp-failure and > post every minute. > > I run Tru64 UNIX 4.0f. Python 1.5.2 and Mailman 2.0beta6 > and exim 3.16 > > Yes, I installed the crontab under the user mailman. And I > followed the HOWTO "exim and mailman" found at www.exim.org. > > I tried with installing the aliases into system-alias and > without it. Nothing changed. The first notificaten email > does not arrive. There are no entries in exim's log files. > > Any suggestions? > > > -- > Frank Winter Tel.: +(49)-40-42838-2404 > PHYSnet RZ Email: winter(a)PHYSnet.uni-hamburg.de > Uni Hamburg > Jungiusstr. 9 > D-20355 Hamburg > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:16:39 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dan Mick <Dan.Mick(a)West.Sun.COM> > To: mailman-users(a)python.org, hedemark(a)bops.com > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures > > What is your MTA, and what do its logs say? > > > OK I did the upgrade to 2.0beta6 and all hell has broken loose. Followed > > INSTALL and UPGRADE but something is still wrong. > > > > My smtp-failures log is full of stuff like this: > > > > Sep 26 13:05:02 2000 (1549) -1 hedemark(a)bops.com (ignore) > > > > There is one log entry for every mailing list subscriber, and this gets > > updated every minute. Looks like lots of stuff is backed up in the queue > > and not going out. Have tried recompiling Mailman to no avail. This is > on > > a Red Hat 6.2 system. > > > > FWIW, it is doing a decent job of archiving my pile of test messages. > > Though nobody is actually getting the test messages. > > > > Thanks for being patient with me guys. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Installation question
by Dale M. Grantham Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

I just finished installing mailman (version 2.0beta6) on a Solaris 2.6 box with iPlanet and Netscape Messanger 4.0 I've created the 'test' list per the INSTALL directions. After subscribing, I replied to the confirmation message. Nothing has happened since. Can anyone help me out? Dale.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Mail to list not delivered
by Chris Hedemark Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

Try this: "tail /home/mailman/logs/smtp" "tail /home/mailman/logs/smtp-failure" What do you see? -----Original Message----- From: Michael Lampman [mailto:lampman@newact.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 12:10 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mail to list not delivered Under RH 6.1, Secureweb I am using mailman-2.0beta5. Everything appears in every way to be working perfectly. I can subcribe, all the appropriate auto-generated messages are sent and received, all permisssions, httpd.conf, mm_cfg.py, etc are correct etc. etc. When mail is sent to the list address, it appears to send - no bounce messages are received and no errors are logged anywhere on the system so far as I can tell but the messages just evaporate??? I can find no evidence of them in any log or spool anywhere. Any ideas? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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beta6 subscribe woes
by Courtney V Bearse Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

If I set up a list to send replies to list messages to the "This List" the subscribe function also sets the reply-to header to listname(a)blah.org. It subscribe confirmations should always go back to listname-reuqest(a)blah.org. correct? where could i change that function? courtneyb -- courtney v bearse - cvbear0(a)sweb.uky.edu Vice President - University of Kentucky Linux Users Group pager(a)big-c.com: mobile command center AIM: cvb77 / ICQ: 18257052 ----------------------------------------------------- "The Only Way to Stop a Hacker Is to Think Like One." -----------------------------------------------------

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Mail to list not delivered
by Michael Lampman Sept. 27, 2000

Sept. 27, 2000

Under RH 6.1, Secureweb I am using mailman-2.0beta5. Everything appears in every way to be working perfectly. I can subcribe, all the appropriate auto-generated messages are sent and received, all permisssions, httpd.conf, mm_cfg.py, etc are correct etc. etc. When mail is sent to the list address, it appears to send - no bounce messages are received and no errors are logged anywhere on the system so far as I can tell but the messages just evaporate??? I can find no evidence of them in any log or spool anywhere. Any ideas?

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