Mailman 3 June 2001 - Mailman-Users

RE: Nothing happens!
by Firas R. June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Thanks for the advice, I upgraded to sendmail-8.9.3-20 (I didn't make any of the other changes) and I found the source of the problem. It turned out that the relay options must be specified in the /etc/mail/update_pop.conf file not the /etc/mail/access file because this keeps getting overwriten whenever /usr/sbin/update_pop runs So I've finally managed to get sendmail to allow localhost relaying, i setup a test list, and it sends me the new mailing list email :-) But unfortunately i've got a new problem ..... If I try to access http://www.ourserver.com/mailman/admin/test I get an "Internal Server Error" 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 ? -----Original Message----- From: Vizi Szilard [mailto:vizisz@freemail.hu] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:38 AM To: Firas R. Subject: Re: : Nothing happens ! Firas R. wrote: > localhost RELAY > 127.0.0.1 RELAY Try to put here a: localhost.localdomain RELAY line to. > Jun 30 06:37:29 ourserver sendmail[14614]: GAA14614: ruleset=check_rcpt, > arg1=<myself(a)yahoo.com>, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], reject=550 > <myself(a)yahoo.com>... Relaying denied Once this also happened with me, no matter what I modified in the sendmail it does not accept my message. There could be 3 things you can do: 1. change the sendmail version sendmail-8.9.3-20 is working perfectly on my machine, I had to make a downgrade 2. read the README.SENDMAIL in the mailman source, it shows you how to react with sendmail in different way 3. Take a look at the /home/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py # Delivery module for the message pipeline. See # Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py for details. Unless overridden specifically # in that module, this handler is used for message delivery to the list, and # to an individual user. This value must be a string naming a module in the # Mailman.Handlers package. # # SECURITY WARNING: The Sendmail module is not secure! Please read the # comments in Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py for details. Use at your own # risk. # #DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' You should change to Sendmail instead of SMTPDirect. One of this have to work! Szilard Vizi ---------- mailto:vizisz@freemail.hu UIN:10676592 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1?
by J C Lawrence June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:41:35 -0500 J D Bronson <J.D.> wrote: > How do I go about getting a copy of 2.1? CVS on Sourceforge. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ I never claimed to be human.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] thttpd?
by Bob Puff＠NLE June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

I also run a e-commerce program called Interchange (Red Hat), and it uses a CGI very similar to Mailman (i.e., http://server.com/cgi-bin/cgifile/parameter) So I would agree with Barry, if your other webserver program doesn't let this work, I would tend to point the finger at the webserver, not the cgi's author. Bob JS> The use of this behavior makes Mailman unable to work on a JS> simple webserver that correctly implements CGI.

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2.1?
by J.D. Bronson June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

How do I go about getting a copy of 2.1? It sounds as if there is enough changes that I wont mind using 'bleeding edge' software. Jeff -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.8282

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Optimizing configuration
by Sarah K. Miller June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Is there anything special we can do to optimize our Mailman/Python installation? We're running Solaris with 256M of RAM, but Python is regularly hogging 75%+ of system resources. To say this is slowing things down is an understatement. Are there any configuration changes we can make that will cause Python to use less memory and run more efficiently? -- Sarah

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renaming a list?
by jimmy mcdonald June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Hi, I'm new to mailman and but its already in place and I've been asked to rename a list. I can't find any documentation on this. Can someone either point me to a doc or give me a basic outline of the steps needed. I don't understand how to update the config.db entries for things like the location of the files. Thanks in advance, Jimmy

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Error decoding authorization cookie
by Christian Billette June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Hi ! On the upper part of the administrative authentification page of a list, this message appear "Error decoding authorization cookie". http://mail.visuaide.com/mailman/admin/test Merci ! Christian B. Gestionnaire de réseaux Visuaide, inc.

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gate news
by J.D. Bronson June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Under 2.0.5 I am having trouble getting news->mail to work. (Since no one ever answered my previous email) :( I think that I have it all configured correctly, but when cron runs the gate news (or if I do it manually) nothing happens and there is no errors. There is also no traffic going in/out...so I dont think it is doing a thing! Nothing in any log files anywhere even syslogs.... I have the server and group specified fine...but... any help PLEASE? (where to look/fix??) -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.8282

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Re: how to know in which lists I have subscribed ?
by Vizi Szilard June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

Eric Gerbier wrote: > any possibility via a mail request I suppose ? No, you can get the subscribers of a given list with the email command 'who'. You should put this in a message body then send to the list request address. Szilard Vizi ------------- mailto:vizisz@freemail.hu UIN:10676592

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how to know in which lists I have subscribed ?
by Eric Gerbier June 29, 2001

June 29, 2001

hello as an admistrator, I can play with find_member command but as a simple user ? ps : if I compare with majordomo, there is a "which" mail command to do that. -- Eric Gerbier

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