Mailman 3 June 2001 - Mailman-Users

Nothing happens !
by Firas R. 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hi everyone, This is my first attempt at setting up a mailing list manager, so I downloaded mailman-2.0.5-1.i386.rpm off of rpmfind.net and followed these instructions that were posted there : * run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass to create the mailman administrator password * edit /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to customize mailman's configuration for your site * set "DAEMON=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail to configure sendmail, and add * add these lines: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /var/mailman/archives> Options +FollowSymlinks </Directory> to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to configure your web server. I then added crontab.in 's contents to mailman's crontab and added these aliases to /etc/aliases : mailman: myemail(a)myemail.com mailman-owner: mailman and ran 'newaliases' Then I created the site password using 'mmsitepass' and created a new list 'test' using 'newlist', entered the proper info Then I added these aliases to /etc/aliases : test: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" test-admin: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" test-owner: test-admin So after doing all of that , nothing happens ! I don't get an e-mail, and the only clue I've found is the following error from ( /var/mailman/post ): Jun 30 02:56:52 2001 (11522) post to test from mailman-owner(a)ourserver.com, size=1329, 1 failures I checked the log files, cron is running everything set for mailman without any errors But strange enough, there isn't anything in maillog for mailman ?! PLEASE HELP !! We're running RedHat 6.1 kernel 2.2.16-3 sendmail-8.9.3-15 Thanks in advance, Firas _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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I fell so stupid! Can you please help me?
by IDoDC＠aol.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hi everyone, I just set up a mailing list, subscribed myself to be on regular mail, got the welcome message... then sent several tests to the list to see if it was operating correctly... the test messages have never shown up in my mailbox or in my archives or in my owner box.. I have written my server and they have not responded... What am I doing wrong?? I am used to a majordomo system, not a web system TIA alana

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman & Sendmail problems
by Chuq Von Rospach 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 10:48 PM, Alexander Prohorenko wrote: > I'm not taking caffeine :) Anyway, thanks for advise. > Actually, I'm just transferring from majordomo to mailman, and majordomo > processes input queue almost immediatly. I just wanted the same > effect for mailman. > It's a teeny bit slower, but a lot better on the system. Do you know what happens when you have 15 messages hit majordomo at about the same time? All 15 go off at once. Mailman is a little slower on a close-to-idle system -- but scales MUCH better than majordomo when it gets busy. 2.1 will actually improve this further, but majordomo has a bad tendency to implode a system if you get a burst of content and haven't tuned the system right. Mailman's designed to avoid that, and what you're seeing is one of the tradeoff's needed to avoid that kind of peak load resource crisis. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Internet Gnome <http://www.chuqui.com> [<chuqui(a)plaidworks.com> = <me(a)chuqui.com> = <chuq(a)apple.com>] Yes, yes, I've finally finished my home page. Lucky you. You know, I Remember When I Used To Speak In Capitals, Too. It's addictive. It also encourages people to poke sticks at you. Justifiably. (chuq, 1992)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman & Sendmail problems
by barry＠digicool.com 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

>>>>> "AP" == Alexander Prohorenko <white(a)extrasy.net> writes: AP> I'm not taking caffeine :) Anyway, thanks for advise. AP> Actually, I'm just transferring from majordomo to mailman, and AP> majordomo processes input queue almost immediatly. I just AP> wanted the same effect for mailman. MM2.1. :) -Barry

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Mailman & Sendmail problems
by Alexander Prohorenko 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hello guys, I've got a problem working Mailman. I've installed it properly, everything works, but nobody can post/subscribe to the list. Ie, I'm subscribing my email through the web, I'm recieveing a confirmation messages and sending reply but Mailman just do nothing, and my email still exists as "pending" one. As admin, I can easily subscribe any email address through the web. However, nobody is able to post to the list - Mailman just do nothing with a messages. Can you please advise me what should I look at to fix this? Thanks. ps. FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE, Sendmail 8.11.1, Mailman 2.0.5. -- Alexander Prohorenko, Extra Solutions http://www.extrasy.net/solutions "Good day to be alive, sir"

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Newbie help with news2email
by J.D. Bronson 29 Jun '01

29 Jun '01

Hello.... I have configured mailman and since I can run groups and everything seems to be working correctly, i wanted to know if there is a web site out there that can explain how to do this following thing: I want to setup mailman so that a user can subscribe to a usenet group and have it delivered via mailman to their personal email and hence not have to 'read' news using a news reader! I know this is possible, but I cannot find any docs on how to do it. I know the newserver IP/name and it is not on the same machine as mailman is running on. One of the groups I am interested in for example is: Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Any help for this 'new' guy would be appreciated. Since I have come this far on my own, I dont think that I am too far off! TIA for any help offered. -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.8282

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Reminders
by kevin jacks 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

I wish to remind the users of my list at a set date every month, of action that should be taken. How do I do this within Mailman. Many thanks, Kevin Jacks Administrator Centre for Empirically Informed Social Theory (CEIST) University of Portsmouth, Milldam, Burnaby Road Portsmouth, PO1 3AS. UK. Tel: +44(0)23 9284 2201 Fax: +44(0)23 9284 2224 e-mail: kevin.jacks(a)port.ac.uk

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Re: [Mailman-Users] maillists for multiple domains on the same machin e??
by claw＠kanga.nu 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 05:51:04 -0700 Brett Miller <brett(a)millerconsultants.net> wrote: > Can mailman be configured to handle lists for more than 1 domain?? Yes, with the caveat that given a single installation of Mailman no two lists may have the same name. -- 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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messages pending approval
by Andreas Freyvogel 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

Greetings all, I am just new with Mailman, so please bear with me. My question is this: if someone is sending a message that requires approval, where is it set that the administrator of that list will get an email (immediately preferably) telling him/her that it is waiting for their approval/denial? I hope you understand, and thanks in advance for any assistance. -Andreas

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archive
by Yanuar Nugroho 28 Jun '01

28 Jun '01

Hi, How is the principle of archiving in Mailman? Is it related to storing and retrieving data when the archives are accessed thru the website? Can mailman take a particular message in the archive and stick it to new message to be distributed? Yanuar

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