Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

Prob1: How to disble unsubscribe for some users
by Leonardo Boselli March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

I set up a list, i did a mistake and so after one month all subscriber received their password valid to unsubscribe. Since some user MUST NOT unsubscribe the list, there is a way to "change" the password for them (I have root access to the server) so they cannot use the previous one to unsubscribe ? Leonardo Boselli nucleo informatico e telematico Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo

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Prob2
by Leonardo Boselli March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

I forgot the abmin password of a list ... I have however the root one for the machine: how can i reset the admin password for one list other than destroying the list and resetting up ? Leonardo Boselli nucleo informatico e telematico Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo

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ANNOUNCE Mailman 2.0.2 (important privacy patch)
by barry＠digicool.com March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

I've just uploaded the Mailman 2.0.2 release to SourceForge. This is a bug fix release that also fixes a potential privacy hole, which could allow a list administrator to get access to user passwords. Even with those passwords, I believe there's little additional harm that a list admin could do, but still they probably shouldn't have access to those passwords. There are a few other important fixes in this release, so I recommend that all sites running Mailman 2.0 or 2.0.1 should upgrade. As usual I'm releasing this as both a complete tarball and as a patch against Mailman 2.0.1. If you grab the patchfile, you'll want to cd into your 2.0 source, and apply it like so: % patch -p1 < mailman-2.0.1-2.0.2.diff Currently only http://mailman.sourceforge.net is updated, but the list.org and gnu.org sites should be updated soon. The release information on SF is at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=25955 My thanks to Thomas Wouters for his help! Enjoy, -Barry P.S. I'm not sure if I'll have time to release a 2.1 alpha of the I18N stuff before I leave for the Python9 conference. If we get the expected foot of snow between Sunday and Monday, it's a possibility. ;) [From the NEWS file] 2.0.2 (03-Mar-2001) Security fix: - A fix for a potential privacy exploit where a clever list administrator could gain access to user passwords. This doesn't allow them to do much more harm to the user then they normally could, but they still shouldn't have access to the passwords. Bug fixes: - In the admindb page, don't complain when approving a subscription of someone who's already on the list (SF bug #222409 - Thomas Wouters). Also, quote for HTML the Subject: text printed for held messages, otherwise messages with e.g. "Subject: </table>" could royally screw page formatting. - In Netscape.py bounce processor, don't bomb out on ill-formed messages (no semi-colon separating parameters), otherwise mail delivery could grind to a halt. Bug reported by Kambiz Aghaiepour. - Docstring fix bin/newlist to remove mention of "immediate" argument (Thomas Wouters). - Fix for bin/update when PREFIX != VAR_PREFIX (SF bug #229794 -- Thomas Wouters).

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Cookie problems?
by m.lavy March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

Hello, I run three separate Mailman servers (all low volume). Yesterday evening I encountered a weird problem with 2 of them: It seemed as if (a) cookies had stopped working or (b) a strange permissions problem occurred because although I could log in to the admindb page for all my lists with no problem, an attempt to approve a vetoed message just returned me to the login screen. Likewise, an attempt to switch between the various admin pages led me straight back to the login, even though I could happily authenticate to each individually. The strange thing is that this happened only on 2 out of 3 machines, even though Mailman is configured identically on all. I do not think it is a webserver problem because the two machines run different software. Even more strangely, today everything is working fine! I'd be grateful for any thoughts. Matthew -- Matthew M Lavy MA MPhil ARCM LTCL Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL

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can one attach figures to messages ??
by Marcello M. Pavan March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

Greetings We are considering using Mailman to organize and archive the blizzard of email messages that our group passes amongst one another. We are a subatomic physics group where some of our collaborators are in Europe, the US, etc. I have a couple of quesitons that I could not find the answers to after a half-hour or so on your website: One thing that absolutely we require is the ability to send figure attachments (usually Postscript). Another thing is that we would really like to be able to find old messages with a keyword search. Can Mailman handle Postscript figure attachments and searching through archives ? If so, I think you'll get another pile of users. Looking forward to your reply. with best regards, dr marcello pavan

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xiao.bing is not here now, please don't sent this mail any more, thanks.
by Administrator March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

DR reasons are listed with each recipient, along with the notification requested for that recipient, or the precedence. <xiao.bing(a)oztime.com> xiao.bing(a)oztime.com MSEXCH:IMS:oztime:PRC:MAIL 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient Precedence: bulk The message that caused this notification was: I've just set up sendmail to handle virtual domains, all of which appears to be working well. My next project is to get some of my lists moved to different domains on the same server. From recent discussion here, it sounds like the cleanest setup would be to use a completely separate mailman installation for each domain. If I set the install options (--prefix, --with-username, and --with-groupname) properly for each installation, it looks like this should be pretty simple to set up. The only "gotcha" I've found is what to do with list archives. The INSTALL document (BTW, one of the best I've seen for any Linux application!) says to set a web server alias like so: Alias /pipermail/ "/home/mailman/archives/public/" If I look in that directory, there are subdirectories named for each of my current lists. One of the things I'd like to do is change my lists to more generic names like "announce" and "chat", which would mean lists with the same name under different domains. Is it possible to set up multiple instances of pipermail as well? I can't find anything about this in the docs or online. Also, are there any other obstacles I'm likely to encounter with a multiple-mailman setup? Thanks, Dave Melton ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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(no subject)
by Dave Melton March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

I've just set up sendmail to handle virtual domains, all of which appears to be working well. My next project is to get some of my lists moved to different domains on the same server. From recent discussion here, it sounds like the cleanest setup would be to use a completely separate mailman installation for each domain. If I set the install options (--prefix, --with-username, and --with-groupname) properly for each installation, it looks like this should be pretty simple to set up. The only "gotcha" I've found is what to do with list archives. The INSTALL document (BTW, one of the best I've seen for any Linux application!) says to set a web server alias like so: Alias /pipermail/ "/home/mailman/archives/public/" If I look in that directory, there are subdirectories named for each of my current lists. One of the things I'd like to do is change my lists to more generic names like "announce" and "chat", which would mean lists with the same name under different domains. Is it possible to set up multiple instances of pipermail as well? I can't find anything about this in the docs or online. Also, are there any other obstacles I'm likely to encounter with a multiple-mailman setup? Thanks, Dave Melton

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how to remove badly formed email address from list
by Rachel Willmer March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

I've got a user on one of my lists who's subscribed himself with the email address with a form of "myname@home"@isp.co.uk. Of course, this address is completely undeliverable, and every mail out to the list bounces. So I'd like to remove this guy. But I can't figure out how! If I deselect him from the web interface, mailman complains that the user doesn't exist. Same if I try it via the mail interface. I've tried every combination of quotes and escapes I can think of. So any ideas, anyone? Thanks Rachel

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mailman and OpenBSD
by Rick VanNorman March 2, 2001

March 2, 2001

Does anyone have Mailman running on OpenBSD 2.8 with postfix for their mta? I've been trying without success to get such a combination up and running :( Thanks, Rick VanNorman

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want archival enhancement
by Alex Yu March 2, 2001

March 2, 2001

Hello, Can anyone tell me how to hook the archival with an external archivers so I'll have o be able to show HTML mails o be able to download the attachments Sorry, I'm not on the list. Please send personal e-mail to me. Thanks! Alex

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