Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

Your culture
by cp＠humanahom.com March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

We need to devide culture... yours too... Please accept it, connecting you to www.humanahom.com If you need further informations about us or our project, please connect you to our site or simply reply to this mail. If culture doesn't interess you, choose "optout" option, by replying to this mail, with "optout" in its subject. Best regards, Christophe Parmentier

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Re: Make List Function
by Kevin McCann March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Mitchell, There are a few steps to do what you want. Maybe there are better ways, but I use the "sudo" program to allow the web user ("nobody" on most systems) to issue the "newlist" mailman command as root. It also allows "nobody" to append to /etc/aliases and issue the "newaliases" command. First, you can create a php form like so: ------------------------ form_newlist.php: ------------------------- <? print ' <P> <TABLE BORDER=0> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 ALIGN="middle"> <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica"><B>Add a List</B></FONT> </TD></TR> <FORM ACTION="act_newlist.php" METHOD="post"> <TR> <TD>List name:</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="listname" SIZE="50"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>Admin Email</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="adminemail" SIZE="50"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>Admin Password</TD><TD><INPUT TYPE="password" NAME="adminpass" SIZE="50"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="submit"> </FORM> '; ?> --- The above form, when submitted, will execute the script below: ----------------------- act_newlist.php: ----------------------- <? // Issue newlist command, append output to /etc/aliases $newlist = exec("/usr/local/bin/sudo /home/mailman/bin/newlist --quiet --output=/etc/aliases$listname $adminemail $adminpass ",$alloutput,$returnvalue); // Issue newaliases command $newaliases = exec("/usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/bin/newaliases"); print "List created.\n"; ?> ----- Notice that both the "newlist" and "newaliases" commands are prepended with the /usr/local/bin/sudo command. To get sudo, go to http://www.courtesan.com/sudo Once you have downloaded and installed it, create your sudoers file which will look like this: ------------------- /etc/sudoers: ------------------- # sudoers file. # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias specification # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: /home/mailman/bin/newlist nobody ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/newaliases -------- If you want to create other forms to, say, add members, delete lists, etc., just do the same kind of thing and remember to add the new commands to the sudoers file. Be very careful about how you set up sudo. It's a great program but can be harmful if misused. Hope this helps. - Kevin

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bug report, or not? i hope this helps
by Christian SPENER March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

got this when i go to the admin page of a list debian potato kernel 2.4.2 Bug in Mailman version 1.1Bug in Mailman version 1.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 104, in main cookie='admin') File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 83, in WebAuthenticate return self.CheckCookie(cookie_key) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 117, in CheckCookie if cookiedata[keylen+1] <> '"' and cookiedata[-1] <> '"': IndexError: string index out of range Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www SERVER_ADDR 129.27.207.160 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING x-gzip; q=1.0, gzip; q=1.0, identity SERVER_PORT 80 PATH_TRANSLATED /var/www/matura-95 REMOTE_ADDR 212.17.107.128 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU PHP/4.0.3pl1 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 UNIQUE_ID OsHWn4Ebz6AAAAGYGbY HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE de, de_DE, en REMOTE_PORT 33898 SERVER_NAME zsstahl.tu-graz.ac.at HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.1.1; X11) HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET iso-8859-1;q=1.0, *;q=0.9, utf-8;q=0.8 HTTP_ACCEPT text/*;q=1.0, image/png;q=1.0, image/jpeg;q=1.0, image/gif;q=1.0, image/*;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5 REQUEST_URI /cgi-bin/mailman/admin/matura-95 PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin QUERY_STRING SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 PATH_INFO /matura-95 HTTP_HOST zsstahl.tu-graz.ac.at REQUEST_METHOD GET SERVER_SIGNATURE SCRIPT_NAME /cgi-bin/mailman/admin SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)zsstahl.tu-graz.ac.at SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin PYTHONPATH /var/lib/mailman HTTP_COOKIE chuckmIMPlang=de -- Christian SPENER email: chris(a)spener.net

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Cron Errors
by Andreas Pauley March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Hi, We've been receiving strange errors from the mailman cron entries on our newly setup list server. Here are three examples. Does anyone know wat this could be? Thanks, Andreas. Subject: Cron <mailman@lsd> /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 1 Né?óROA~Ä3&MÆFpython ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Subject: Cron <mailman@lsd> /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 1, in ? #! /usr/bin/env python NameError: There is no variable named 'ILNDIJBPGLJO' Subject: Cron <mailman@lsd> /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 1 R><FONT COLOR="#python ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax -- ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.)

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Mailman + Postfix: All recipients refused
by Joseph E. Wells March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

OK, this is my first Mailman install, so please be kind :^). I'm running Mailman 2.0.3 and Postfix 20010228 on RedHat 7. I've been through all of the docs that I can find, but no luck so far. I know that Postfix can send and receive mail without Mailman involved. But posts to Mailman sit in the queue and I get messages in /home/mailman/logs/smtp: All recipients refused (111, 'Connection refused') and in ...logs/smtp-failure: -1 username(a)domain.tld (ignore) for each email address in the list. Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure I compiled Mailman with the right mail-gid, /etc/aliases looks good and I keep running newaliases to make sure. Is the 111 in the error message a port number? If so, what on earth is using sunrpc? Any guidance (or educated guesses) would be most welcome. Thanks, Joe Wells

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announce only lists
by Bill Logan March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Greetings. I could not find the answer to my question in the FAQ or other documentation on the site. I beg your indulgence if I have overlooked the answer in my haste to get already existing lists configured on a new host. Is it possible to create announce-only lists? If so, how do I do it? TIA, Bill Logan

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Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?
by J C Lawrence March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:33:25 -0800 JC Dill <mailman(a)vo.cnchost.com> wrote: > The fact that this hasn't been done makes the product in question > (mailman) look less attractive to those who are considering using > it... There is a logn standing tradition for support lists for products to not be closed to non-subscribers. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Make List Function
by Mitchell March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

What I am looking for is some way to add to the http://www.yourdomain.com/mailman/listinfo page which lists all the lists on my server, a form so people can create there own lists. Has anyone done anything like this before? alternativly a cgi or php script I can link to which will create the lists would be fine. thanks for any help you can come up with. -- Mitchell Smith Blitz Technology mjs(a)blitz-technology.net God is real, unless declared as an integer.

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Static hostname?
by Tanya Brethour March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Hello, I have kinda a weird question.. and I apologize if it seems silly. I am using Mailman with Exim. I currently have Exim set up to use domain X (ie: machine.test.com). Now, I will be switching to a new domain Y (something.org). If I setup mailing lists while Exim is configured for domain X. Will my mailing lists still function fine when switching to domain Y? What exactly is static during the list creating? Is the domain name static? So if I create test-list(a)machine.test.com, will this switch to test-list(a)something.org or do I need to recreate the lists? Will mailman change everything to use the new domain? Once I switch to domain Y, domain X mail will no longer be captured by this machine.. so I wont be supporting both. (it was used purely for tranistion). Thanks in advance! Tanya

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Email based administration
by James Thompson March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Hello again, It looks as if my migration to mailman has been stopped dead in it's tracks :( I have a user that can not stand the web based approval of email, prefering majordomos mail based approval system. I don't see mention of this type of feature anywhere in the docs. So is this type of feature planned? Thanks, James ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-< James Thompson 138 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, Ks 66506 785-532-0561 Kansas State University Department of Mathematics ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<

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