Mailman 3 May 2001 - Mailman-Users

Digests with wrong num,number of messages
by J C Lawrence May 26, 2001

May 26, 2001

I'm getting digests from my lists where the message count in the subject is larger than the number of messages contained in the digest. Often the subject value is one larger, sometimes two or three larger. Recent example: --<cut>-- Today's Topics (23 msgs) (text/plain) Today's Topics: 1. Re: Player run reputation system (shren) 2. RE: [News] NCSoft + Richard Garriott (Koster, Raph) 3. JOB: How to get into Game Design / Game content (Taylor) 4. RE: [News] NCSoft + … [View More]

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Can I setup a broadcast only list?
by pavak＠ebosys.com May 26, 2001

May 26, 2001

Hi!! I have got Mailman 2.0.3 preinstalled with my virtual server on Verio. I am trying to set up a broadcast only list for a local hospital, but did not came across any options in GUI to achieve that. Is there a way out?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] searching archives
by J C Lawrence May 26, 2001

May 26, 2001

On Fri, 25 May 2001 17:38:39 -0300 Mads Rasmussen <mads(a)cit.com.br> wrote: > Has someone looked into how to search archives, like putting htdig > together with mailman or something? This is easiest if you use an external archiver. I use MHonArc as an external archiver with MnoGoSearch as the search engine: http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/ http://www.kanga.nu/archives/ http://www.kanga.nu/search/ Someone (forget who) I seem to recall dropped a patch on SourceForge … [View More]

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Footer
by Patrick Griffin May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

I am attempting to add a Footer to mail sent to regular list members and although it appears on the list web page it is not visible on the end users E Mail can you tell me why. Sincerely Patrick Griffin.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.1 - problem localized
by Dan Mick May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

> My crontab entries was wrong, DOH > > BUT, there is still a problem, messages only get send when crontab runs > /mailman/cron/qrunner > > This cannot be right?? I suggest reading the comment at the top of qrunner. In fact, I suggest everyone do this, right now.

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searching archives
by Mads Rasmussen May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

Maybe this is a faq, but I haven't been able to find much I found a discusion from january 2000 but it didn't say much Has someone looked into how to search archives, like putting htdig together with mailman or something? It would be really nice to be able to search the archives. For example when I was looking for if someone already asked this question on the mailman list there was no way to know. Regards, Mads

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Customized subscribeack.txt
by David Casamento May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

Hi, We run more then one list off the same machines and would like to have customized welcome messages to new subscribers. The data contained in the /templates/subscribeack.txt file is what is sent to each new member, as well as the Welcome message manually entered in the web management interface. I would like to know how to edit the subscribeack.txt file for one of the lists only. Have tried adding that file to the lists local dir but changes did not take effect as it was still reading … [View More]

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Archives don't seem to be working
by Phil Stracchino May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

I seem to be having a problem with archiving for Mailman lists. I have mailman 2.0.5 installed in /opt/mailman on a Slackware 7-based Linux system running Postfix. I currently have one list, ba-b5, set up. I have archiving turned on for the list, and the following set in /opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 1 ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 0 According to the documentation, this should give me private-access archives using only the web-based archiving mechanism. When I set up my … [View More]list, Mailman created an archive directory /opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5.mbox for the list. However, the archives page appeared to expect /opt/mailman/archives/private/ba-b5 - at any rate, that's what it tried to access. I tried making archives/private/ba-b5 a symlink to the existing archives/private/ba-b5.mbox directory, but the archive page still wasn't happy. After some further experimentation, I now have both archives/private/ba-b5 and archives/private/ba-b5.mbox directories, both with valid-looking contents except that index.html is zero bytes in size. Each appears to have one message archived in it; the message in ba-b5.mbox is a real message, the message in ba-b5 is a test message sent a little later. I think Mailman is actually trying to use the ba-b5 directory, but is falling down when it comes to generating the index. I also see that the database directories are empty -- should they be? Here's the contents of /opt/mailman/archives/private: babylon5:root:/opt/mailman:31 # ls -lR archives/private archives/private: total 8 drwxrwsr-x 4 mailman mailman 4096 May 25 12:08 ba-b5/ drwxrwsr-x 4 mailman mailman 4096 May 25 12:01 ba-b5.mbox/ archives/private/ba-b5: total 12 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 May 25 12:07 2001-May/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 537 May 25 12:07 2001-May.txt drwxrws--- 2 mailman mailman 4096 May 25 12:07 database/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 May 25 12:07 index.html archives/private/ba-b5/2001-May: total 20 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1577 May 25 12:07 000000.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1519 May 25 12:07 author.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1523 May 25 12:07 date.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 May 25 12:07 index.html -> thread.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1517 May 25 12:07 subject.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1542 May 25 12:07 thread.html archives/private/ba-b5/database: total 0 archives/private/ba-b5.mbox: total 12 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 May 25 12:01 2001-May/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2218 May 25 12:01 2001-May.txt drwxrws--- 2 mailman mailman 4096 May 25 12:01 database/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 May 25 12:01 index.html archives/private/ba-b5.mbox/2001-May: total 20 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 3432 May 25 12:01 000000.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1524 May 25 12:01 author.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1528 May 25 12:01 date.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 May 25 12:01 index.html -> thread.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1522 May 25 12:01 subject.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1547 May 25 12:01 thread.html archives/private/ba-b5.mbox/database: total 0 And here's the sum total of settings in mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.babcom.com/mailman/' DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'babcom.com' DEFAULT_ARCHIVE = 0 DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 1 ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 0 SMTPHOST = 'smtp.babcom.com' SMTPPORT = 25 DEFAULT_NNTP_HOST = 'isn' USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 1 DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS = 5 DEFAULT_REPLY_GOES_TO_LIST = 1 DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROSTER = 1 PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE = days(5) DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD = days(5) Can anyone offer me any pointers as to what may be wrong here and why my archives aren't working? I'm guessing it has something to do with those zero-length index.html files, but I don't know why they're not being properly generated. -- Linux Now! ..........Because friends don't let friends use Microsoft. phil stracchino -- the renaissance man -- mystic zen biker geek Vr00m: 2000 Honda CBR929RR -- Cage: 2000 Dodge Intrepid R/T Previous vr00mage: 1986 VF500F (sold), 1991 VFR750F3 (foully murdered) [View Less]

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mailman on RH7.1 still having problems
by Mads Rasmussen May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

I still cannot create a new list properly. The link in the archives/public dir points to a nonexisting file in the archives/private dir Anyone seen this? Another problem, no messages to lists get send, my qfiles dir is growing with nonsend messages. The notification emails when creating a new list get send also when adding a member. I do not know what to do, this was working on RH 6.1 and after I upgraded it doesn't. Any help is much appriciated Regards, Mads

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Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.1 - problem localized
by Nigel Metheringham May 25, 2001

May 25, 2001

mads(a)cit.com.br said: > My crontab entries was wrong, DOH > BUT, there is still a problem, messages only get send when crontab > runs /mailman/cron/qrunner Thats quite right. Mailman processes messages as they come in and drops them in the outgoing queue. A process (the qrunner) then takes the queue and passes it off to the MTA. This decouples the process so things don#t fail if the MTA cannot immediately accept mail. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.… [View More]

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