Mailman 3 June 2001 - Mailman-Users

NNTP-Posting-Host not of the sender, in mail-news gateway
by Giancarlo Pinerolo June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

I had< people complaining that, in a list that is a mail-news gateway, the NNTP_posting-host header does not contain the IP address of the sender, but rather the name of the server running the mail-news gateway. In practice I've been subtly accused of giving a way to spammers to forward messages to a newsgroup through the use of mailman. Really I've no idea of who, where this header gets written, because a message sent to e.g: alt.gruop(a)my.server.com is sent to the mail server at my.server.com before being resent to the news server. Where is the fault? Should I configure sendmail differently or is there anything that mailman misses in forming the headers? Thanks for any help Giancarlo ______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

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Where's the CHANGELOG?
by matt mcparland June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

Is there any place that I could find a changelog for Mailman? I just want reasons to upgrade to incremental version changes. -- Matt McParland matt(a)engsoc.org

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permissions on 'error' log file?
by J.D. Bronson June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

Bug in Mailman version 2.0.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. When trying to go to the 'admin' page to view the lists..... I get the above! ...I ran check_perms as 'mailman' and did the -f too.....I still get the above message! Mailman runs as mailmain:mailman and the webserver as nobody:nobody... I fixed this by overwriting the following preset permissions: chgrp nobody /home/mailman/logs/error chmod 664 /home/mailman/logs/error ..it seems the default permissions do not allow 'something' to write to the error log, even though there is no error! I am seeking a more appropriate fix for this or an explanation as to why I had to do this? -> check_perms I would have thought would fix this quite well. Ideas? -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.8282

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restricting post to members in a mail-news gateway
by Giancarlo Pinerolo June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

What is the effect of 'restrict_post_to_members' in a mail-news gateway list? It seems that it not only requires that posters to the list be member of it, but also posters to the newsgroup be member of the list. In practice I get a 'posting by a non-member' error-reply to every post sent to the newsgroup, not only to those sent via the list. Is is correct like that? How can I restrict relaying to the newsgroup only to messages sent by memberrs, but not the other way round? Thanks Giancarlo ______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

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restrict_pst_to_members in mail-news GW side effects
by Giancarlo Pinerolo June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

The formentioned settings (that is setting 'restrict_post_to_members' in a mail-news gateway list) has a very undesirable effect: not only messages sent by non-members to the list address gets a message that alerts he's been trying to post to a list without being member of it. Everyone that post to the newsgroup by his on way (not via the list address) gets that message too! Is this a bug or is there a particular combinantion of settings I am missing for this? Thanks Giancarlo ______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

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RE: : Nothing happens !
by Firas R. June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

Sorry about that last posting, I guess I was a little trigger happy .... Looking at the error found in apache's suexec_log I'd assume that /home2/mailman/cgi-bin would have permissions rwxrwsrwx but as you can see below, only the owner and mailman's group have write permissions to the cgi-bin directory. Anyone know what the cause of this error is ? Thanks a lot, Firas #### drwxrwsr-x 2 admin mailman 1024 Jul 1 05:39 /home2/mailman/cgi-bin/ error_log : [Sun Jul 1 05:43:18 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Sun Jul 1 05:43:19 2001] [error] [client 146.115.26.14] Premature end of script headers: /home2/mailman/cgi-bin/admin acces_log : [01/Jul/2001:05:43:19 -0400] "GET /mailman/admin/test HTTP/1.1" 500 534 suexec_log : [2001-07-01 05:43:19]: directory is writable by others: (/home2/mailman/cgi-bin) -----Original Message----- From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:24 PM To: Firas R. Cc: Chuq Von Rospach; mailman-users-admin(a)python.org Subject: Re: : Nothing happens ! On Friday, June 29, 2001, at 01:17 PM, Firas R. wrote: > Checking apache's logs I found the following : > > error_log:[Sat Jun 30 16:22:25 2001] [error] [client 207.172.11.232] > Premature end of script headers: /home2/mailman/cgi-bin/admin > suexec_log:[2001-06-30 16:22:25]: directory is writable by others: > (/home2/mailman/cgi-bin) > > Is this an Apache problem or is it related to the scripts themselves ? > Take a look at the error message. What does the phrase "directory is writable by others" mean? 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. How about never? Is never good for you? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: : Nothing happens !
by Firas R. June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

error_log : [Sun Jul 1 05:43:18 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Sun Jul 1 05:43:19 2001] [error] [client 146.115.26.14] Premature end of script headers: /home2/mailman/cgi-bin/admin acces_log : -----Original Message----- From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 4:24 PM To: Firas R. Cc: Chuq Von Rospach; mailman-users-admin(a)python.org Subject: Re: : Nothing happens ! On Friday, June 29, 2001, at 01:17 PM, Firas R. wrote: > Checking apache's logs I found the following : > > error_log:[Sat Jun 30 16:22:25 2001] [error] [client 207.172.11.232] > Premature end of script headers: /home2/mailman/cgi-bin/admin > suexec_log:[2001-06-30 16:22:25]: directory is writable by others: > (/home2/mailman/cgi-bin) > > Is this an Apache problem or is it related to the scripts themselves ? > Take a look at the error message. What does the phrase "directory is writable by others" mean? 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. How about never? Is never good for you? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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(no subject)
by dcuming June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

If you could help me, I want a program that sends my email list out and not show other email addresses in the mail to each of the members. Does outlook do this. Do you know of a program. I have windows. I also want it to send html. Best Regards deane cuming

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Posting messages on the web
by J C Lawrence June 30, 2001

June 30, 2001

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:48:08 +0530 Akshay Guleria <akshay(a)himline.com> wrote: > Is there a facility to allow postings on through the web ie post a > new message or reply to a message? Not in Mailman, no. > I have seen it on sourceforge and a couple of other sites too. You can accomplish this via other external tools such as MHonArc and PHP asi "ve done here: http://www.kanga.nu/lists/archives/ RCs for that setup can be found here: ftp://ftp.kanga.nu/pub/Kanga.Nu/WebArchives/ -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ I never claimed to be human.

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Posting messages on the web
by Akshay Guleria June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Is there a facility to allow postings on through the web ie post a new message or reply to a message? I have seen it on sourceforge and a couple of other sites too. I am using mailman ver.2.0 -Akshay Tel: +91-177-226275

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