Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

password yasu310
by Yasu 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

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Cron jobs
by Robert Brandtjen 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

I just installed Mailman yesterday, as I watch my system log, I see it running a cron job every 2minutes or more! is that really necessary? Or is there some way to scale that back a lil bit? TIA, Rob -- Web Site Creation and Hosting Services Hostmaster(a)prometheusmedia.com www.prometheusmedia.com

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socket.error
by Rick Whitmore 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Every few weeks, Mailman seems to hang, and the smtp-failures log indicates: TrySMTPDelivery: socket.error / host not found (deferred) and tells me to restart my MTA. This usually works, but it's happening with more frequency. The system is: RedHat 6.2 Mailman 1.1 Exim 3.13 Any advice is appreciated. Rick Whitmore, Technology Manager The University of Kansas School of Law r-whitmore(a)ku.edu

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Re: lists.crisisweb.org mailing list memberships reminder
by Denis Ramboux 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Hi, I am Denis Ramboux the Operations manager at the International Crisis Group. Eric Witte has set up the list that you are handling. However he has left the organisation a few months ago. We have now several tools for the electronic distribution of our report, I would therefore appreciate if you could cancel your service. Thanks Denis Ramboux **************************** International Crisis Group 149 avenue Louise 1050 Brussels Belgium Tel: +.32.2.536.00.67 (direct) +.32.2.536.00.60 (general) Fax: +.32.2.502.50.38 www.crisisweb.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailman-owner(a)lists.crisisweb.org> To: <dramboux(a)crisisweb.org> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:00 AM Subject: lists.crisisweb.org mailing list memberships reminder > This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your > lists.crisisweb.org mailing list memberships. It includes your > subscription info and how to use it to change it or unsubscribe from a > list. > > You can visit the URLs to change your membership status or > configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery > or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on. > > In addition to the URL interfaces, you can also use email to make such > changes. For more info, send a message to the '-request' address of > the list (for example, allreports-a4-request(a)lists.crisisweb.org) > containing just the word 'help' in the message body, and an email > message will be sent to you with instructions. > > If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to > mailman-owner(a)lists.crisisweb.org. Thanks! > > Passwords for dramboux(a)crisisweb.org: > > List Password // URL > ---- -------- > allreports-a4(a)lists.crisisweb.org kxcp > http://lists.crisisweb.org/mailman/options/allreports-a4/dramboux@crisisweb. org >

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preventing a subscriber from posting
by David Herren 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

I am aware that one can enter the address of a subscriber into one of hte fields in the Privacy section of the admin tools, but I would love to see this feature be a little easier to access. Wouldn't it be possible to add another check box to the membership management area--something like "Posting Allowed" which could be deselected for particular "read only" users? /david -- david herren | In an Internet without doors, shoreham, vt | who needs Windows or Gates?

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I need help
by Hanamichi Sakuragui (El Talentoso !!!) 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

I 've installed mailman-2.0beta5-3.i386.rpm in my Red hat 6.2 with apache-1.3.14-2.6.2 and when i try to admin 1 of my list, the server respond me : Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server. The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 48, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) Any ideas how to fix that ?? where can i find the lastest version of mailman in rpm format ?? Thanks

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bannig someone
by Andreas Hasenack 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Ok, I saw that this feature is on the current wishlist, but has somebody created some workaround for now? I want to ban a specific user from talking, subscribing, etc. The list is moderated, so of course I can stop his postings, and I get notified of all subscriptions, but I would like to even stop him from subscribing. Yes, he can change his email, etc. Whatever. Has someone implemented something, even if ugly :), for this? Perhaps another wrapper, let the alias expand to that, check the email and only then call the real wrapper?

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Moving List
by The BOFH 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Is there a FAQ or a README or some other documentation which details the steps to move a list from one machine to another? I'm replacing a machine, and I don't know if I need to simply gzip up the list directories and move them, or if there are other steps involved. Thanks, SWS

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WANTED gid d, GOT gid
by Saïd El Mamouni 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

Hello I've just installed mailman on a digital unix server when i send email to subscribe to a list, sendmail reply that : Failure to exec script. WANTED gid d, GOT gid d. (Reconfigure to take d?) 554 "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post csmath"... unknown mailer error 2 does any one have a suggestion ? thanks

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smrsh error....
by kotrach＠encino.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

I've have changed my list of server and upgraded the version of mailman (2.0rc1 to 2.0.1) and now I got the following error The original message was received at Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:30:07 -0300 from encino.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl [146.83.196.25] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post la-chacra" (reason: service unavailable) (expanded from: <la-chacra(a)encino.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- smrsh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs 554 5.0.0 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post la-chacra"... Service unavailable [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; encino.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl Received-From-MTA: DNS; encino.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl Arrival-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:30:07 -0300 Final-Recipient: RFC822; la-chacra(a)encino.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post la-chacra Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 69 Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:30:08 -0300 I've corrected some other problems like the gid for the cgi and mail... Please help me 'cause this list is very important on my server and i've to get it running as soon as possible.... thanks...

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