Mailman 3 January 2002 - Mailman-Users

Mailman is erratic
by Ganesh HariHaran 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hello!! I use mailman 2.0.6 with sendmail 8.9 and apache 1.3.12 on redhat 6.2 I have 3 lists...on it on a valid domain and static ip/ but this mailman is erratic... where it doesnt posts mails to its subscribers constantly... i have to remore the crontab.in file and add it again , i have kill the qrunner process and delete all files under /home/mailman/locks directory.. My sendmail is working fine as my regular mails are working fine.. how to solve this from once and for all.. thanks in advance rgds Ganeshh

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Mailman & Virtual Host
by Basil Sumodobila 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

I just recently looked at various listservers (Liststar,Majordomo,Sympa, and Mailman). I have been able to install all of them except Sympa due to compications with MySQL which it requires for its database and I am giving up on that one. Of the 3 I have installed and tested I like Mailman the most due to its web-based admin and archiving facility and looking at the list of users it looks impressive, Apple, Dell, etc. I decided to concentrate on Mailman. My plan is to set up Mailman on a virtual host. Right now my test machine is connected by cable modem, but would not like the day-to-day babysitting of this server. Besides running a server is not allowed by my cable provider. I would like to sign up with with web-hosting company where I can install Mailman and have them take care of the server 24/7. Has anybody done this?. It seems like it can be intalled on a virtual web host but maybe there are some steps which would require root access to the server, then it will not be possible. I would appreciate any input. Thanks in advance Basil Sumodobila webmaster(a)bohol.org

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Please assist
by Hearn, Allison 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

I need to extract my member list into an excel spreadsheet. Is this possible? If so, please provide me with instructions. Thanks-- Allison Hearn Toll free: 800/287-1811 Direct phone: 301/944-1205 Fax: 301/926-6174

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Newbie question
by Nino Katic 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

How to restrict posts only to administrator of the list, so that no one else can post to it, only receive posts? Nino

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can't discard requests
by Guzik, Louis 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

When attempting to discard post requests I get the following. Bug in Mailman version 1.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 112, in main HandleRequests(doc) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 200, in HandleRequests list.HandleRequest(request, v, form[comment_key].value) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 122, in HandleRequest self.HandlePostRequest(request_data[2:], value, comment) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 167, in HandlePostRequest self.LogMsg("vette", note) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 835, in LogMsg logf.write(msg % args + '\n') TypeError: not enough arguments for format string How do I recover from this? Can I clear out the post requests from the shell without using the web interface? -Thanks

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Newbie question
by Nino Katic 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi, I want to restrict postings to only one (admin) address, so that no one else can post to the list. How to do this? Nino

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Wrong message count in digests
by Melanie Dymond Harper 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi, Mailman 2.0.7 on Linux; one of my lists seems to have problems deciding how many messages in a digest. Subject line of the digest says (e.g.) 23 messages, but body and the "Today's Topics:" list contain only 21. No messages appear to be getting dropped. Any suggestions? I don't see anything in the FAQ or in the list archives... Cheers Mel

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I guess....
by Frizon Development 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

... that this questions has been brought up before, but perhaps someone can point me to the answer.... I run RedHat 7.0 with PostFix, currently trying to install Mailman 2.0.8 and it is not working to good... mostly GID problems... Help! I've found two answers on the net regarding changing GIDs with ./configure.. the problem is this... The sourcecode, compiled, wont work at all... and the RPMS / SRPMS will work, but claim errors on the GID part...

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CHANGING CONFIRMATION MESSAGES
by Miguel Rosario 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

I have MailMan in my site: www.larumbamusical.com which is an all-spanish content site, and would like to change the subscription confirmation messages into Spanish, how can I do that? Miguel

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Welcome message questions
by Rich Grant 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

I've got a welcome message that I want to go out to a list. The text I have goes out just fine but then there is a bunch of stuff added to the bottom of it that discusses things like changing digest mode, password etc. Lists a password and more. I want to get rid of all that stuff but can't figure out where it is hidden. Can anyone help me out? And I'm a REAL Mailman Novice at this point. Rich Grant - A/V Ministry Leader and Webmaster Trinity Baptist Church, 33 Lund Rd, Nashua, NH 03060-4284 603-881-5619 (my day phone) 603-883-9704 (my 24-hour fax) Email: RGrant(a)TrinityNH.org Web: http://www.TrinityNH.org

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