Mailman 3 May 2001 - Mailman-Users

any way to turn off raw archives
by alex wetmore 30 May '01

30 May '01

I'm using pipermail for my non-searchable archives. Recently I've been auditing my bandwidth usage, and have found that a fair amount of it is from people downloading mbox archives, rather than individual messages. I talked to a couple of individuals who were doing this, and it was so that they could do a search (much better for them to do that on my searchable archives). Is there any way to get pipermail not to make the mbox archives public? I would like to keep them around, because they are useful should I ever switch to another archiving mechanism. Currently I'm just chmod'ing these files to 660, so that mailman can party on them, but web users can't. alex

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list subscriptions
by Con Wieland 30 May '01

30 May '01

Hello Does anyone know of a way to list all the lists an individual (or individual address) may be subscribed to on a server? TIA Con Wieland UC Irvine

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AOL User Posts and =20 Problem
by WeRBikers＠aol.com 30 May '01

30 May '01

Perhaps this has been discussed before, but I find no answer in the FAQ or in the GNU List Manangement Guide for v2.0 ... my apologies if this is repetitious. This pertains to version 2.0 of Mailman as implemented on pair Networks www.pairlist.net -- I have pursued emails to pair support to no solution, as have my posts to the pairList specific newsgroup. When an AOL user ... versions 4,5, and 6 inclusive, posts to a pairList the immediate postings are delivered and appear normal to those users receiving in MIME or plain text formats. The digest formats are quite screwed up in that they show the AOL members' posts with =20 strings at the end of each line, then a repeat of the entire post with some HTML tags visible. I know AOL's email interpretation of HTML is half-assed at best, but this is not tolerable in its present form. These quirks hold true regardless of the setting for a given member receiving the Digest format in MIME or plain text. AOL users are not given the choice of sending plain text vs. HTML email. It sends in pseudo-HTML by default and this is unchangeable. The vast majority of subscribers to my particular list are AOL members, so this is quite a problem. Anyone have a solution? Regards, Daniel

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Not sending mail FIXED
by Mike T. Gholson 30 May '01

30 May '01

The server isn't creating the list alias correctly. When I try to subscribe, the confirmation message bounces back to me. Ugh. -----Original Message----- From: Mike T. Gholson Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:32 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Not sending mail FIXED I finally determined where to fix my problem. As you might remember, I was having trouble with a basic installation of Mailman on my Redhat Linux 7.1 box. While sendmail was working on it's own.... Mailman was not sending mail through that particular MTA. After creating a new group, it wasn't sending a confirmation email to the list owner (me). The fix: I added this line to my mm_cfg.py file: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' It defaults to: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' There is also a warning concerning the use of the Sendmail module. I'd rather use the default config, but, I can't get it to work correctly. Does this lead some of you to a possible reason why SMTPDirect might not work? I have no clue. Seems like it's checking for something and not getting what it needs.... [m] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Not sending mail FIXED
by Mike T. Gholson 30 May '01

30 May '01

I finally determined where to fix my problem. As you might remember, I was having trouble with a basic installation of Mailman on my Redhat Linux 7.1 box. While sendmail was working on it's own.... Mailman was not sending mail through that particular MTA. After creating a new group, it wasn't sending a confirmation email to the list owner (me). The fix: I added this line to my mm_cfg.py file: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' It defaults to: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' There is also a warning concerning the use of the Sendmail module. I'd rather use the default config, but, I can't get it to work correctly. Does this lead some of you to a possible reason why SMTPDirect might not work? I have no clue. Seems like it's checking for something and not getting what it needs.... [m]

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible
by Yanek Korff 29 May '01

29 May '01

This cannot be done on a global scale? -Yanek. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Bilbrey [mailto:bilbrey@orbdesigns.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:08 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:47:31PM -0400, Yanek Korff wrote: > Well the problem is people are going to the web site, entering their login > information and receiving something from the server saying reply to confirm. > So the user thinks it's working. No email goes to blah-request until the > user attempts to confirm, at which point it bounces... If "Subscribe Here" > weren't on the web page, that would be a whole lot cleaner. Then edit the contents of the web pages, remove that option. from the admin/listname page, the link for doing this is in the second column, marked * Edit the HTML for the public list pages then edit the General list information page, remove the bits that provide subscription capablility, save and Bob's yer uncle. regards, .brian -- Brian Bilbrey :: bilbrey(a)orbdesigns.com :: www.orbdesigns.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible
by Yanek Korff 29 May '01

29 May '01

Well the problem is people are going to the web site, entering their login information and receiving something from the server saying reply to confirm. So the user thinks it's working. No email goes to blah-request until the user attempts to confirm, at which point it bounces... If "Subscribe Here" weren't on the web page, that would be a whole lot cleaner. -Yanek. -----Original Message----- From: J C Lawrence [mailto:claw@kanga.nu] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:22 PM To: Yanek Korff Cc: 'mailman-users(a)python.org' Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible On Tue, 29 May 2001 13:03:43 -0400 Yanek Korff <yanek(a)cigital.com> wrote: > to disable peoples' ability to subscribe if we set up a server to > do nothing but handle mail archives? Sure, just don't enable the request/etc aliases. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible
by J C Lawrence 29 May '01

29 May '01

On Tue, 29 May 2001 13:03:43 -0400 Yanek Korff <yanek(a)cigital.com> wrote: > to disable peoples' ability to subscribe if we set up a server to > do nothing but handle mail archives? Sure, just don't enable the request/etc aliases. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows

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Is it possible
by Yanek Korff 29 May '01

29 May '01

to disable peoples' ability to subscribe if we set up a server to do nothing but handle mail archives? -Yanek.

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Changing a list administrators password (when password lost)
by Shaun Courtney 29 May '01

29 May '01

Hi I need to change a list's admin password, I do not have it - its lost... (new administrator taking over.) I can log into the admin pages using the site admins password (which I can also change via bin/mmsitepass) but it does not let me change the list ADMIN password. Can anyone help? -sc -- Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment Information Technology Manager 0 828 228822 / 650 2800

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