Mailman 3 January 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman question: How do I use server side includes in administrator interface option: "Edit General List Information Page"
by Ed Reiss Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

Hey Benny, Yes - I'm using Apache, and SSI had been enabled. (See my note below about the includes working on other pages.) However, I just noticed that the Addhandlers in the configuration file are for .html and .htm extensions, while the address of the listinfo page has no extension. So, I went to the page you suggested and then added "XBitHack on" first to a .htaccess file, then to the configuration file. Neither worked. Regards, Ed Reiss At 10:46 PM 1/30/2002 -0600, C. Bensend wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Ed Reiss wrote: > >> After doing this, the includes did show up in the source for the page, but they >> were never interpreted - they had no effect. The includes work on other >> dynamically generated pages at the web site in question. They are: >> >>  >> and  > >Hey Ed, > > Since you didn't specify, are you using Apache? >Or what web server? > > If you're using Apache, you need to tell it to >allow SSI. If you don't, they won't be interpreted. >A quick-n-easy read: > >http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-06-12-001-01-PS > > If you're not using Apache, sorry, dunno. > >Benny > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. A 'great' >landing is one after which they can use the plane again. > --Rules of the Air, #8

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Mailman question: How do I use server side includes in administrator interface option: "Edit General List Information Page"
by Ed Reiss Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

I unsuccessfully tried using server side includes to create custom headers and footers in a Mailman list information page using the Administrative "Edit General List Information Page" option. After doing this, the includes did show up in the source for the page, but they were never interpreted - they had no effect. The includes work on other dynamically generated pages at the web site in question. They are:  and  Any way around this problem? Thanks for your help. Ed

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Commands via email?
by Ben Kempner Jan. 30, 2002

Jan. 30, 2002

Where can I find documentation (or can anyone tell me?) on how to unsubscribe/subscribe people to my mailing list via emails instead of the web-interface? Thanks, Ben

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how to properly backup mailman
by Ferdinand E. Mangio Jan. 30, 2002

Jan. 30, 2002

Hi, Thanks for creating such an outstanding product. My question is how to properly backup mailman on linux 6.2 using tar. Thanks and more power, Ferdinand

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Re: [Mailman-Users] No footer for HTML messages
by jgo Jan. 30, 2002

Jan. 30, 2002

> Fri, 2002-01-25 19:03:53 -0500 David Pierron <linux(a)wombatsweb.com> > I installed Mailman 2.0.8 and have noticed that it doesn't put the list > footer on messages in HTML format... > > I looked on SourceForge to see if the bug was posted and a possible > resolution, but didn't see anything in Bugs or Patches... > > Is this a known bug, or has no one noticed? (doubtful)... > How can I fix it? I ran afoul of a very closely related problem 5 years ago, when I volunteered to help add footings for Tallahassee freenet, noting that the page was "Served from blah blah freenet. This page was laste updated on 2002-01-29." Because of the nature of HTML it is a complex problem. HTML is very loose about requiring that pairs of tags being matched, i.e. you can get by without </html> at the end, you can get by without </table> to close out a table definition, and you can get by without a </ul> to close out a list. And then there are parts of HTML that can be dynamic, and the several divergent pseudo- standards... So, let's say some bright person decides to send hir messages to your list as enriched text or as html, only their html may or may not be missing some of these closure tags. When mailman adds its footing it may be adding it in the middle of a table, or in the middle of a list or dictionary, or after the </html>. The problem becomes writing a fairly complete HTML parser to add the footing just before the </html>... or to close out a <table> by adding a missing </table> and close out a <ul> by adding a missing </ul> and then adding the footing and then the </html> BTW, there is a nice html checker at <http://validator.w3.org:8188/> and there may be some useful tools there from which to build. >>> Marc Merlin wrote: >>> ...I was asleep at the wheel :-) (catching up on my >>> 2000+ list Email backlog right now) Over-worked, under-employed, under-paid; leading the bleeding edge. :B-) John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist Existence, Consciousness, Identity, Life, Liberty, Property, Privacy, Justice <http://gosc.nisus.com/~giovanni>

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another question....
by Alex Sammons Jan. 29, 2002

Jan. 29, 2002

Hi there!!! what about when a receive a message of The original message was received at Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:23:13 -0600 (CST) from nobody@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- userone(a)mail.com (reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown) usertwo(a)mail.com (reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 5.1.1 userone(a)mail.com... User unknown 550 5.1.1 usertwo(a)mail.com... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.com Arrival-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:23:13 -0600 (CST) Final-Recipient: RFC822; userone(a)mail.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 550 5.1.1 User unknown Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:23:14 -0600 (CST) In fact both users exist, i don´t know why send this message????? Thanks!!!! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Encuentra el coche de tus sueños en Yahoo! Autos http://autos.yahoo.com.mx

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman + postfix + virtual domains
by matthew.malthouse＠guardian.co.uk Jan. 29, 2002

Jan. 29, 2002

On 29/01/2002 00:50:12 Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: >I have a postfix daemon running, accepting and delivering mails for my >local domain and a few virtual domains. >Now I want to integrate mailman as listserver for one of the virtual >(!) domains. > >My problem is: >The output generated by bin/newlist applies for 'alias'-style maps and >not for a postfix 'virtual' map. And this is where my problems start: I'm uncertain how this might work on one machine as I host many virtual domains on a relay while the list servers are on other machines. However, for what it might or might not be worth: Relay's virtual file lists.this.domain.tld DOMAIN @lists.this.domain.tld @lists.real.address # sends all mail for @lists to lists machine On the lists machine aliases as normal. Now perusing the Postfix book it looks as if you should be able to do what you want on one machine like this: /etc/postfix/virtual virtual.domain DOMAIN list(a)virtual.domain list list-admin(a)virtual.domain list-admin list-request(a)virtual.domain list-request list-owner(a)virtual.domain list-admin another.domain DOMAIN thing(a)another.domain thing thing-admin(a)another.domain thing-admin thing-request(a)another.domain thing-request thing-owner(a)another.domain thing-admin /etc/postfix/aliases list: "|/mailman/mail/wrapper post list" list-admin: "|/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner list" list-request: "|/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd list" list-owner: list-admin thing: "|/mailman/mail/wrapper post thing" thing-admin: "|/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner thing" thing-request: "|/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd thing" thing-owner: thing-admin However since each "list" in a virtual domain points at a local "user" and those local users must be unique so too the list names must be unique over ALL the virtual domains: ie you cannot have mylist(a)virtual.domain and mylist@seconddomain. Mmm... perhaps worth saying again, I'm looking at a book, I *haven't* set it up like this myself. Matthew NB: The book refered to is "Postfix", by Richard Blum, Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-32114-9

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Which folders to backup
by Islam, Sharif Jan. 29, 2002

Jan. 29, 2002

I need to backup my mailing lists. Which folders should I backup? Is there any recommended backup script ? thanks

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Messages not getting posted
by Michael Sullivan Jan. 29, 2002

Jan. 29, 2002

Hello, I'm running Mailman 2.0.6 on an OpenBSD 3.0 x86 box. The installation had been working perfectly until recently. Unfortunately I lacked the foresight to properly adjust certain kernel parameters beforehand, the box ran out of proc entries, and crashed. It was rebooted and the proper settings tweaked to prevent a re-occurance of the incident. Since then, mail is still being accepted, but is just building up in the qfiles directory. These are moderated lists, but when we log in to the adminsitrative interface, we get "There are no pending requests". requests.db stays at a filesize of 2. Mail logs indicate that the mail is being successfully delivered to wrapper. The only entries in the qrunner log are "cannot acquire lock". This entry appears almost every minute, but skips one about every 5 minutes, so I'm assuming that the lock is expiring and qrunner running normally for a couple of minutes, and the lock is preventing any new instances from starting up. The only entries I have in the error log are qrunner "Not locked" exceptions. There are only a few, and I think they correspond with me deleting the locks with qrunner still running while I was troubleshooting. The post log is simply empty (since the date on which things stopped working). I have stopped the cron job long enough to erase lockfiles and run qrunner manually. This did me no good. check_perms returns no problems (as does check_db, although I doubt it's relevant). The only thin gI can find that looks the least bit out of place is that the access times on the qrunner lock files are always 10 hours or so in the future. I'm not sure if this is normal behavior or what. Any ideas? I don't really know where else to look for my problem. Thanks, Michael Sullivan UNIX System Administrator e-Commerce Support Centers, Inc.

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Help, Urgent!!! Massive emails...
by Ramon F. Tecolt G, Jan. 29, 2002

Jan. 29, 2002

Hi everybody..... I have mailman running on a Solaris 8 server... and i have 3 lists; all of them are with posting restrictions until approval; just me and another account can post without approval. When I send messages to any list, i still requiring approval... this is my first trouble. The second, is if someone sends an email to the list, the message of "pending authorization" is sent to everybody suscribed to the list ( i have this trouble on the 3 lists). It is suppossed to be just to the sender, isn't it? I read the FAQ, i tried many different configurations on the admin interface and directly on mm_cfg.py and Defaults.py; and i still have the problems... someone can help me? does someone have had this problems? thank you ppl. i'll really appreciate any help you can give to me... -- famous programmer quotation: "strange" ---- Ramon F. Tecolt G. Network Manager & Webmaster Universidad Iberoamericana Golfo Centro Direccion de Informatica - Coordinacion de Operacion Blvd. del Niño Poblano No. 2901 Unidad Territorial Atlixcayotl, 72430 Puebla, Pue. MX Voice: +52 (222) 229 07 00, ext. 589 Fax: +52 (222) 230 17 30 EMail: rtecolt(a)uiagc.pue.uia.mx Web: http://www.pue.uia.mx/ Linux User Number: 185441 ICQ Number: 42060334

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