Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

newbie looking for documentation
by Guillermo Pereyra Irujo March 30, 2001

March 30, 2001

Hello everybody. I'm a new list manager and I'm looking for some documentation to make some changes that I haven't been able to make through the /mailman/admin/listname web interface. I went to www.list.org, but the documentation there explains how all this (already known in my case) stuff /mailman/admin/listname. For example, I want to change the Reply-To: header and the addresses which listname-admin and listname-owner point to, but it isn't described there, nor in the faq. Could you tell me please where can I find a more complete doc? Thanks. -- Guillermo Pereyra Irujo Mar del Plata, Argentina Linux User #207706

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Automatic Reject
by dansan March 30, 2001

March 30, 2001

Dear gurus :) Hey, I've been trying to convince the ppl at work that mailman would be an awesome solution... just came across an "simple"? issue. Is there anyway to automatically reject mail coming from a specific address (or domain?) without having to bother the list administrator with it? Thanks for any help... -- >From the hands of -< dansan >- ------------------------------ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein

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Mailan return address problem
by David Swanger March 29, 2001

March 29, 2001

I installed Mailman on a Sun Sparc server, Solaris 2.8. The name of the server is: aulist.duc.auburn.edu So far it seems to work fine, EXCEPT... I created a mailing list named test. When I subscribed myself to the test mailing list, I received a confirmation message. The return address from this message was not correct, it was: From: test-request(a)aulist.aulist.duc.auburn.edu It should have been: From: test-request(a)aulist.duc.auburn.edu I have the following variable set for DEFAULT_HOST_NAME: Defaults.py:DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'aulist' mm_cfg.py:DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'aulist.duc.auburn.edu' How can I fix this? Thanks... -- David Swanger Office of Information Technology Auburn University, AL swangdb(a)mail.auburn.edu

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RE:Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1110 - 9 msgs
by lcarter1＠cwctv.net March 29, 2001

March 29, 2001

unsubscribe On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:02:06 -0500 mailman-users-request(a)python.org wrote:

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer
by Robert Brandtjen March 29, 2001

March 29, 2001

on 3/29/01 12:42 PM, Aleksandra Witkowska at aleksw(a)ameritech.net wrote: > Blackhole list? When you use m4 to compile sendmail's config file, it has an option to check the senders domain/ip against a list that is maintained against spammers - who seem to have discovered the usefulness of this list. Rob

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Personal Trainer
by Abigail Spencer March 29, 2001

March 29, 2001

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Wrapper gets wrong HOME directory
by Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] March 29, 2001

March 29, 2001

I get the following error message bouncing back when I try to post or subscribe to a mailing list I set up on a Cobalt server. It is compliled to use a local version of Perl 6 and is also compiled with a prefix. It seems that wrapper is looking for /home/mailman/post in /usr/local/majordomo and is obviously having problems. Why would it be doing this and how do I fix it? wrapper: Trying to exec /usr/local/majordomo/post failed: No such file or directory Did you define PERL correctly in the Makefile? HOME is HOME=/usr/local/majordomo, PATH is PATH=/bin:/usr/bin, SHELL is SHELL=/bin/sh, MAJORDOMO_CF is MAJORDOMO_CF=/usr/local/majordomo/majordomo.cf 451 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post uknews"... Operating system error

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Weird stuff
by Jones, Adrian March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

I had something weird happen today. I set up a new list for a client today. They used it and the users are telling them that they are getting the same message 35-50 times. Do you have any idea why this might have happened? Adrian Jones AUI-Technology 201-372-6071 ajones(a)AxsOne.com www.AxsOne.com

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Is it a Bug ?
by Mathew Simon March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Hi, I am the administrator of a non-profit mailing list. First of all let me thank you for letting us use a great product. Now let me explain the problem. I have a mailing list, with the following settings 1. Posting allowed only for the list members. 2. Temporarily we have put the list under moderation. In this setting, all messages have to be approved by the list administrator. a). Under the above settings, I was under the impression that all postings by non-members would be automatically rejected, and only postings by list-members would be displayed to the administrator for approval. b). But recently we received a couple of unsolicited postings from non-members. These postings by non-members were also LISTED FOR APPROVAL along with the postings from members. This created some confusion. c). I verified the mailing list's setting once again and I do not see any obvious problems. d). Is the above behavior is a Bug ? I would appreciate a reply. Thanks, Mathew Simon msimon(a)simdol.com

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Need help rebuilding archives...
by Phydeaux March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Hi! I have a list that has to have its archives rebuilt. The problem is that the first two years of archives do not exist in mbox format, as someone trimmed the mbox file way back when. This portion of the archives only exists in the regular text files, that the Mailman archiver created. I tried appending those two years of files together and changing the initial "From user(a)foo.bar" to "^N^NFrom user(a)foo.bar" to get Mailman to see the files as mbox format files. My local unix mail program (mailx) sees the file as having 2200 or so messages for these two years, but the archiver does not. It only sees two messages in total from it. When I concatenated the old file with the current mbox file (the old archives first ;-) It sees the two messages from the first part of the file and then correctly processes the current mbox part. How can I either a) persuade the archiver to properly handle these messages or b) modify the pipermail.pck file to have it see these two years worth of archives and properly update the index file. We are using Mailman 2.0b2. While I want to upgrade to 2.03, I'd rather not screw up too much at once. Any advice would be appreciated. reb

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