Mailman 3 November 2001 - 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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Allowing posts with certain topics/blocking all others
by Sarah K. Miller 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

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

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SMTPDirect?
by Alex Lau 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Is this protocol able to send external email? Thanks Alex

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Stop monthly password reminders?
by Josh Lothian 13 Aug '02

13 Aug '02

Hi all, Quick question: I've looked through most of the options available to a list admin, and I can't find one to disable the monthly password reminders. I know this sounds like a bad idea, but we have a secretary who maintains quite a few mailing lists for out department, and we'd like to switch her over to mailman. However, we probably don't want students to be able to unsubscribe themselves from certain of our announcement-type mailing lists. Any ideas? Am I missing something simple? Thanks much, Josh Lothian System Administrator University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science

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Help?
by Eris 23 Feb '02

23 Feb '02

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?

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RE: [Mailman-Users] list emails aren't being sent
by Enriko Groen 22 Jan '02

22 Jan '02

> -----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... -- Enriko Groen, Hosting manager -------------------------------------------------------- netivity bv www.netivity.nl enriko.groen(a)netivity.nl 038 - 850 1000 van nagellstraat 4 8011 eb zwolle --------------------------------------------------------

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RELEASE Mailman 2.0.8
by barry＠zope.com 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Hot on the heels of Mailman 2.0.7, I'm now releasing 2.0.8 which fixes several cross-site scripting security holes, and a few other minor bug fixes. More information on cross-site scripting exploits in general can be found at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html I recommend anybody running a version of Mailman up to, and including 2.0.7 to upgrade to version 2.0.8. I've made both full source tarballs and patches available. Actually, patches going all the way back to 2.0 are now available on SourceForge. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 for links to download all the patches and the source tarball. If you decide to install the patches, please do read the release notes first: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=63042 Currently the SourceForge and www.list.org sites are up-to-date, and I expect the gnu.org site to be updated soon. See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://www.list.org http://mailman.sf.net I've also included links on the FAQ page to the Mailman FAQ wizard. Thanks everybody for contributing good entries! (I may do some reorg when I get a chance.) See the FAQ wizard at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Cheers, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.0.8 (27-Nov-2001) Security fix release to prevent cross-site scripting exploits. See http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html for a description of the general problem (not Mailman specific).

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Do you use the Mailman-htdig integration patches?
by Richard Barrett 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Having posted Mailman-htdig integration patches on sourceforge and subsequently maintained them I am interested in finding out how many sites have adopted the patches and want to continue using them. The patches I'm referring to are: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444879&group_id=10… http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444884&group_id=10… and their earlier incarnations 401669/401670: I'm asking for two reasons: 1. to gauge the likely demand for MM 2.1 compatible version of the patch and how urgently it is needed. btw: I've got a MM 2.1a3 compatible version of the patches about to be tested and hope to post them on sourceforge next week. 2. to see if there is sufficient demand for the patch being integrated with the main development trunk of MM. If enough users say they want it then presumably the primary MM developers will consider a request to fold the patch into the main development line post the MM 2.1 release. My motives here are fairly selfish in that I'd like to avoid having to redevelop and test the patch again for the next major MM release after 2.1 Reply off list would probably be appropriate. I will collate the responses and post to the list a summary of the interest expressed. Thanks Richard

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stripping out HTML
by Eric S. Johansson 11 Dec '01

11 Dec '01

yes, I know this is a frequently asked question and I know it's mostly sendmail related. I want to strip out HTML/attachments from incoming mail messages. I've done some research and settled on using stripmime.pl until stripping out mime stripping is incorporated into Mailman. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble getting it running with sendmail/smrsh. I am running Mailman 2.0.5 I have doublecheck all the obvious things I can think of, such as: soft link from /etc/smrsh to stripmime rerun newaliases checked ownership and permissions (root, root, 755) here is what the alias looks like: ## test mailing list ## created: 28-Jun-2001 mailman test: "|/usr/local/bin/stripmime.pl|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/usr/local/bin/stripmime.pl|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "|/usr/local/bin/stripmime.pl|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" test-owner: test-admin What seems to be happening is that the smrsh is stripping off everything prior to wrapper and is never seen the stripmime pipe. Any suggestions? Is there a better option other than stripmime? ---eric

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page
by Dan Mick 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote: > > > > >>>>> "B" == Bob <bob(a)nleaudio.com> writes: > > > > B> So how do you change it for a list already created? Export the > > B> config file, mess with it, then re-import? > > > > Make bin/withlist your best friend! :) > > Could you describe exactly how to do this, please - perhaps even add it > to the FAQ? It would be of great help to those of us who don't know, nor > have the time to learn, python. Thanks. Didn't even bother to look at bin/withlist, did you? There's a huge example right at the beginning of the script.

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