Mailman 3 January 2002 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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SMTP Problem
by Fuss, Christian 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

Hi, i do have a really urgent Problem with my Mailman. Actually everythings working fine except of sending the mails to the list-members. I get following failure in the smtp-failures log: Oct 12 19:49:11 2002 (2292) delivery to Christian(a)malibu-2002.de failed with code 553: 5.3.0 <mailingliste-bounces(a)malibu-2002.de>... No such user here what might be a problem is, that i have activated smtp auth for preventing relaying. can anybody help me? thx Christ

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Allowing posts with certain topics/blocking all others
by Sarah K. Miller 16 Sep '02

16 Sep '02

I have a list that I'd like to enforce a set of headers on. In other words, each message subject must start with a certain word in order be posted. Has anybody found a way to do this? I know I can block messages with certain headers, but I want to block all messages and only allow those with the approved headers. If anybody has a great idea how to accomplish this, please pass it on ... -- Sarah

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SMTPDirect?
by Alex Lau 06 Sep '02

06 Sep '02

Is this protocol able to send external email? Thanks Alex

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Stop monthly password reminders?
by Josh Lothian 12 Aug '02

12 Aug '02

Hi all, Quick question: I've looked through most of the options available to a list admin, and I can't find one to disable the monthly password reminders. I know this sounds like a bad idea, but we have a secretary who maintains quite a few mailing lists for out department, and we'd like to switch her over to mailman. However, we probably don't want students to be able to unsubscribe themselves from certain of our announcement-type mailing lists. Any ideas? Am I missing something simple? Thanks much, Josh Lothian System Administrator University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science

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trouble shooting question
by Melinda Gallagher 23 Jun '02

23 Jun '02

Hi, My mailman list is host through hostway. It seems that some of the peopple subscribed to my list are no longer receiving emails posted by the poster (the owner-myself) but there is no indication on my end that these messages are being bounced back. Any suggestions as to why this may be happening? --Melinda

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Help?
by Eris 22 Feb '02

22 Feb '02

I need some assistance if possible i get the following errors after reading your trouble shooting i still have no idea what im doing wrong. # ./configure& [1] 21167 [root mailman-2.0.6]# loading cache ./config.cache checking for --with-python... no checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin/python checking Python version... 1.5.2 checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for true... /bin/true checking for --without-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... mailman checking for mailman UID... 500 checking for --with-groupname... mailman checking for mailman GID... 500 checking permissions on /home/mailman... configure: error: ***** Installation directory /home/mailman is not configured properly! ***** Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /home/mailman ***** Permissions should be at least 02775: /home/mailman drwxr-xr-x 4 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:34 mailman [root mailman]# ls -al total 7 drwxr-xr-x 4 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:34 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Feb 21 23:20 .. -rw------- 1 mailman mailman 176 Feb 21 23:37 .bash_history -rwxr-xr-x 1 mailman mailman 434 Feb 21 23:20 .emacs -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 778 Feb 21 23:20 .ftphelp drwxr-xr-x 5 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:20 group drwxr-xr-x 4 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 21 23:20 user Anyone able to help?

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Install Question
by Tim Legg 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

FreeBSD 4.4, Postfix I am preparing to install mailman-2.0.8 on my system according to my INSTALL document. In step 1, I was told to create user and group mailman by modifying the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Is it good enough to create these accounts/groups by placing them alone on a single line, or should I fill in the other atributes? In FreeBSD, /etc/passwd and /etc/group have the fields delimited by colons. I am not entirely clear on what each of these fields represent, but should I know what to enter for the shell path, home dir path, real name, et cetera? TIA Tim Legg

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cookies
by Tacs01＠aol.com 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Can you tell me why I get the message "error decoding authorization cookie" when I try to access private archives. Thank you

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question
by Cynthia Nakagawa 31 Jan '02

31 Jan '02

We are using the mailman product. I think it is 2.0.8 version or something like that. Is there any way to disable the password per list. We do not like to use a password for all the lists. Is there any way to set one default password for all users. If not do you have to manually have the user go to the website and change it for all lists? Thanks Cynthia Cynthia Nakagawa Network Operations Support (916) 526-8262

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