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?
I have a list that I'd like to enforce a set of headers on. In other words, each message subject must start with a certain word in order be posted. Has anybody found a way to do this? I know I can block messages with certain headers, but I want to block all messages and only allow those with the approved headers. If anybody has a great idea how to accomplish this, please pass it on ...
-- Sarah
I need some assistance if possible i get the following errors after reading your trouble shooting i still have no idea what im doing wrong.
# ./configure&
[1] 21167
[root mailman-2.0.6]# loading cache ./config.cache
checking for --with-python... no
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin/python
checking Python version... 1.5.2
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for true... /bin/true
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes
checking for --with-var-prefix... no
checking for --with-username... mailman
checking for mailman UID... 500
checking for --with-groupname... mailman
checking for mailman GID... 500
checking permissions on /home/mailman... configure: error:
***** Installation directory /home/mailman is not configured properly!
***** Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /home/mailman
***** Permissions should be at least 02775: /home/mailman
drwxr-xr-x 4 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:34 mailman
[root mailman]# ls -al
total 7
drwxr-xr-x 4 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Feb 21 23:20 ..
-rw------- 1 mailman mailman 176 Feb 21 23:37 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mailman mailman 434 Feb 21 23:20 .emacs
-rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 778 Feb 21 23:20 .ftphelp
drwxr-xr-x 5 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:20 group
drwxr-xr-x 4 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:20 user
Anyone able to help?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moonlit Submit [mailto:moonlitsubmit@hotmail.com]
>
> Hello,
> I need to know if there's a command for when
> list's mail isn't being sent.
> I do have shell access, but I need step by step instructions for this.
The keyword is logfiles.
Check the mailman /log directory and check the MTA (mailer) logfiles which
are placed depending on your mailer and OS.
Most probably /var/log/maillog or something similar...
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Hello,
A quick scan of the archives and the FAQ didn't turn anything up, so I
thought I'd ask this here.
Is anyone known to be using Mailman with thttpd? If so, are there any
known gotchas or things to look out for? I can't think of a reason
why it wouldn't work, but since the Mailman docs seem to assume
Apache, I figured that it was worth asking before I went ahead and set
up a listserver using thttpd/Mailman.
Thanks.
-Justin
This the official announcement for Mailman 2.1 alpha 2. Because it's
an alpha, this announcement is only going out to the mailman-* mailing
lists. I'll make two warnings: you probably should still not use this
version for production systems (but TIA for any and all testing you do
with it!), and I've already had a couple of bug fixes from early
adopters. 2.1a2 should still be useful, but you might want to keep an
eye on cvs and the mailman-checkins list for updates.
I am only making the tarball available on SourceForge, so you'll need
to go to http://sf.net/projects/mailman to grab it. You'll also need
to upgrade to mimelib-0.4, so be sure to go to
http://sf.net/projects/mimelib to grab and install that tarball first.
To view the on-line documentation, see
http://www.list.org/MM21/index.html
or
http://mailman.sf.net/MM21/index.html
Below is an excerpt from the NEWS file for all the changes since
2.1alpha1. There are a bunch of new features coming down the pike,
and I hope to have an alpha3 out soon. I'm also planning on doing
much more stress testing of this version with real list traffic, and
I'm hoping we'll start to get more languages integrated into cvs.
Enjoy,
-Barry
-------------------- snip snip --------------------
2.1 alpha 2 (11-Jul-2001)
- Building
o mimelib 0.4 is now required. Get it from
http://mimelib.sf.net. If you've installed an earlier
version of mimelib, you must upgrade.
o /usr/local/mailman is now the default installation
directory. Use configure's --prefix switch to change it
back to the default (/home/mailman) or any other
installation directory of your choice.
- Security
o Better definition of authentication domains. The following
roles have been defined: user, list-admin, list-moderator,
creator, site-admin.
o There is now a separate role of "list moderator", which has
access to the pending requests (admindb) page, but not the
list configuration pages.
o Subscription confirmations can now be performed via email or
via URL. When a subscription is received, a unique (sha)
confirm URL is generated in the confirmation message.
Simply visiting this URL completes the subscription process.
o In a similar manner, removal requests (via web or email
command) no longer require the password. If the correct
password is given, the removal is performed immediately. If
no password is given, then a confirmation message is
generated.
- Internationalization
o More I18N patches. The basic infrastructure should now be
working correctly. Spanish templates and catalogs are
included, and English, French, Hungarian, and Big5 templates
are included.
o Cascading specializations and internationalization of
templates. Templates are now search for in the following
order: list-specific location, domain-specific location,
site-wide location, global defaults. Each search location
is further qualified by the language being displayed. This
means that you only need to change the templates that are
different from the global defaults.
Templates renamed: admlogin.txt => admlogin.html
Templates added: private.html
- Web UI
o Redesigned the user options page. It now sits behind an
authentication so user options cannot be viewed without the
proper password. The other advantage is that the user's
password need not be entered on the options page to
unsubscribe or change option values. The login screen also
provides for password mail-back, and unsubscription w/
confirmation.
Other new features accessible from the user options page
include: ability to change email address (with confirmation)
both per-list and globally for all list on virtual domain;
global membership password changing; global mail delivery
disable/enable; ability to suppress password reminders both
per-list and globally; logout button.
[Note: the handle_opts cgi has gone away]
o Color schemes for non-template based web pages can be defined
via mm_cfg.
o Redesign of the membership management page. The page is now
split into three subcategories (Membership List, Mass
Subscription, and Mass Removal). The Membership List
subcategory now supports searching for member addresses by
regular expression, and if necessary, it groups member
addresses first alphabetically, and then by chunks.
Mass Subscription and Mass Removal now support file upload,
with one address per line.
o Hyperlinks from the logos in the footers have been removed.
The sponsors got too much "unsubscribe me!" spam from
desperate user of Mailman at other sites.
o New buttons on the digest admin page to send a digest
immediately (if it's non-empty), to start a new digest
volume with the next digest, and to select the interval with
which to automatically start a new digest volume (yearly,
monthly, quarterly, weekly, daily).
DEFAULT_DIGEST_VOLUME_FREQUENCY is a new configuration
variable, initially set to give a new digest volume monthly.
o Through-the-web list creation and removal, using a separate
site-wide authentication role called the "list creator and
destroyer" or simply "list creator". If the configuration
variable OWNERS_CAN_DELETE_THEIR_OWN_LISTS is set to 1 (by
default, it's 0), then list admins can delete their own
lists.
This feature requires an adaptor for the particular MTA
you're using. An adaptor for Postfix is included, as is a
dumb adaptor that just emails mailman@yoursite with the
necessary Sendmail style /etc/alias file changes. Some MTAs
like Exim can be configured to automatically recognize new
lists. The adaptor is selected via the MTA option in
mm_cfg.py
- Email UI
o In email commands, "join" is a synonym for
"subscribe". "remove" and "leave" are synonyms for
"unsubscribe". New robot addresses are support to make
subscribing and unsubscribing much easier:
mylist-join@mysite
mylist-leave@mysite
o Confirmation messages have a shortened Subject: header,
containing just the word "confirm" and the confirmation
cookie. This should help for MUAs that like to wrap long
Subject: lines, messing up confirmation.
o Mailman now recognizes an Urgent: header, which, if it
contains the list moderator or list administrator password,
forces the message to be delivered immediately to all
members (i.e. both regular and digest members). The message
is also placed in the digest. If the password is incorrect,
the message will be bounced back to the sender.
- Performance
o Refinements to the new qrunner subsystem which preserves
FIFO order of messages.
o The qrunner is no longer started from cron. It is started
by a Un*x init-style script called bin/mailmanctl (see
below). cron/qrunner has been removed.
- Command line scripts
o bin/mailmanctl script added, which is used to start, stop,
and restart the qrunner daemon.
o bin/qrunner script added which allows a single sub-qrunner
to run once through its processing loop.
o bin/change_pw script added (eases mass changing of list
passwords).
o bin/update grows a -f switch to force an update.
o bin/newlang renamed to bin/addlang; bin/rmlang removed.
o bin/mmsitepass has grown a -c option to set the list
creator's password. The site-wide `create' web page is
linked to from the admin overview page.
o bin/newlist's -o option is removed. This script also grows
a way of spelling the creation of a list in a specific
virtual domain.
o The `auto' script has been removed.
o bin/dumpdb has grown -m/--marshal and -p/--pickle options.
o bin/list_admins can be used to print the owners of a mailing list.
o bin/genaliases regenerates from scratch the aliases and
aliases.db file for the Postfix MTA.
- Archiver
o New archiver date clobbering option, which allows dates to
only be clobber if they are outrageously out-of-date
(default setting is 15 days on either side of received
timestamp). New configuration variables:
ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY
ARCHIVER_ALLOWABLE_SANE_DATE_SKEW
The archived copy of messages grows an X-List-Received-Date:
header indicating the time the message was received by
Mailman.
o PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL configuration variable is removed (this
can be calculated on the fly, and removing it actually makes
site configuration easier).
- Miscellaneous
o Several new README's have been added.
o Most syslog entries for the qrunner have been redirected to
logs/error.
o On SIGHUP, qrunner will re-open all its log files and
restart all child processes. See "bin/mailmanctl restart".
- Patches and bug fixes
o SF patches and bug fixes applied: 420396, 424389, 227694,
426002, 401372 (partial), 401452.
o Fixes in 2.0.5 ported forward:
Fix a lock stagnation problem that can result when the
user hits the `stop' button on their browser during a
write operation that can take a long time (e.g. hitting
the membership management admin page).
o Fixes in 2.0.4 ported forward:
Python 2.1 compatibility release. There were a few
questionable constructs and uses of deprecated modules
that caused annoying warnings when used with Python 2.1.
This release quiets those warnings.
o Fixes in 2.0.3 ported forward:
Bug fix release. There was a small typo in 2.0.2 in
ListAdmin.py for approving an already subscribed member
(thanks Thomas!). Also, an update to the OpenWall
security workaround (contrib/securelinux_fix.py) was
included. Thanks to Marc Merlin.
I recently had a problem pop up with sending out
digests. Some of my mailing list users receive
multiple copies of the same digest. I have not had
this problem before now. Does anyone know what causes
this? Can I reset something to stop it and then start
it back up? Thanks!
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http://www.mysql.org/mailman/listinfo/
I have four lists running and. for each of them, in the Privacy Options
page I have "Advertise this list when people ask what lists are on the
machine?" set to "Yes". Isn't that where I set this feature?
TIA,
J.
(p.s.- i've shutdown and restarted, refreshed, etc.. my browser repeatedly
but still no lists are showing up.)
thanks again...
J.
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Hello,
What can I do to get back my admin list password when
I have forgotten it ?
Thanks a lot
François
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