Mailman 3 October 2002 - Mailman-Users

is it possible to customize subscription success welcome message?
by Patrick Hsieh Oct. 2, 2002

Oct. 2, 2002

Hello all, I've read the FAQ and can't find any idea about this. -- Patrick Hsieh <pahud(a)ezplay.tv> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatezplay.gpg

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Mailto Link? 2nd time
by Sparklez Grrl Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

Norm. StatHi! I was wondering if there was a way for me to .. make a mailto link to a request_to_join(a)domainname.com (for example).. that goes directly to the mailman database and submits them as a subscriber and don't have to go to the general list info page? Thanks.. Luvz, Hugz k Friendship Jackie..Y Innocence Wasted www.innocencewasted.com Help Stop Domestic Violence..Sign the Petition Help Stop Domestic Violence..Sign the Petition

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Thanks...
by Pontus Falk Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

So, now I know that I have to update /etc/aliases by myself... Thanks to everyon!!! When I now start a new list I get a message back... <message> You can configure your mailing list at the following web page: http://localhost.localdomain/mailman/admin/skansen The web page for users of your mailing list is: http://localhost.localdomain/mailman/listinfo/skansen <end> How do I tell Mailman that my domain name is se.homelinux.org?

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INTERACTIVE MAP HELPS ARTS WALKERS PLAN THEIR WALK
by DawnMarie Moe Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

OlympiaOnline.com - Thurston county's ad-free, cost-free online community - announced today the publication of the first interactive version of the Arts Walk map. We thought this would be a nice community contribution to the Arts Walk this year. Part of the Walk is a 12-year retrospective of Arts Walk map and poster design, said DawnMarie Moe, web developer and owner of WhooshWeb, Inc., and it just makes sense that there should be an interactive version. So we teamed up with OlympiaOnline to provide it. The online version of the map reveals information about the artists as reader hover their mouse over the numbered locations. It is also connected to a database of Arts Walk information which can be sorted online to give easy access to artists, events, times, and locations. In addition, there is a printable PDF version of the map. Links to the map and database can be found at www.olympiaonline.com. Take a look and Plan Your Walk today! Arts Walk 2002 will be held on Friday, October 4. DawnMarie Moe WhooshWeb, Inc. / OlympiaOnline www.whooshweb.com www.olympiaonline.com 360.455.7075 (tel) ~ 360.838.2180 (fax) The work of an individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. - Igor Sikorsky, Russian-born American engineer

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Private Lists and mailpasswds
by Justin Alcorn Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Private lists on my server didn't get the monthly password mailing, even though I set them to do so. I'm not a member of any private lists on any other server, so I wasn't sure if this was expected behavior. Looking through cron/mailpasswds I found: ~ a_public_list = None ~ (for all lists....) ~ if not a_public_list and mlist.advertised: ~ a_public_list = mlist ~ if a_public_list: ~ a_public_list.Lock() ~ try: ~ mail_passwords(a_public_list, hosts) ~ finally: ~ a_public_list.Save() ~ a_public_list.Unlock() OK, I'm a perl, C and php coder, not python, but it appears to me that we aren't going to process any lists unless at least one is advertised. Why? There's no indication of that in any documentation. I have no public lists on my server, so I go through all the processing and end up with a_public_list being false, and I simply fall through to the bottom. I can't see any security risk associated with sending out the passwords. Is this a bug? if I take off the 'and mlist.advertised' it seems to me that I'd send out passwords. But I still don't quite understand the logic, it seems that the first public list found will be Lock()ed, Save()ed and Unlock()ed. HUH? someone please explain. - -- Justin Alcorn http://jalcorn.net PGP Sig: A36D D691 C5B0 BE15 5A2A AF49 AA1C 372C http://www.keen.com/UnixHelp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Using PGP with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBPZojO3YdKc0RR4enAQGVSQgAvDFEHqWjKJ0CRN+CiHZr5uVz2dwADViv Jz3OupMQ0IrJO0W1GmrtoACI2nTChMhFMTAbNvhbVGXnRTSCdUUoHrUBhIhlCus4 +hZekrSGYDCVqLuSDwSbHtgSwWRGOvFpP9610esL97zTb/Vqw0j3LSG2M6OXAtI9 DIIRZgexMum7N8Aiv3Z53CWYril94Q4Y+AS+LLKmDlMsqXW6XH5PV5vB6TQCpspW pi8NvlZd9HhDWC0YtXbRDVmzdr6rS0rYp1Esj6W95o5zuQn0CkrP8FqDdhBfmC1q FZQnxLDe4MAbJ4D/EZI5v26sMCVm3PAPWFDoWGAocSucL7/B088ntQ== =ClXl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Sending out email blast in HTML format
by Jonathan Chum Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

Hi, I'm pretty new to Mailman, but I was wondering how would I send a newsletter in HTML format. Other email blast applications usually have an option whether to send as HTML or as TXT format. Any ideas how'd I do this? Regards, Jonathan Chum Systems Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A I S M e d i a , I n c . "We Build eBusinesses" 115 Perimeter Center Terrace Suite 540 Atlanta, GA 30346 Tel: 800.784.0919, Ext 502 / Fax: 678.382.2471 http://www.aismedia.com / jchum(a)aismedia.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Archiving I'm dying over here.....
by David Mir Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

Please HELP I am running Mailman (mailman-2.0.11-1) installed via RPM on RH7.3 system. Archiving never has worked. If just left to pipermail all I get is the "raw" dump screen no matter what the settings on the mailing list (have set it to daily and still not archives. This mailing list has been runnning for over a month, so I tried using Mhonarc I can't get that to work (though that one AT LEAST gives me an error message). Can anyone please, please, please (w/sugar on top) tell me how I can either get pipermail mail to work (ie. what to look for and what settings to check) or tell me how they got Mhonarc to (exactly what changes to what files) work as their archiver. Let me say I have already followed several unoffical How-tos none of them worked, if I just tell mhonarc to take my mbox and convert it it works fine (I get a web page etc.) if I try to get mailman to send mhonarc the message I get "sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file" error message at least this is farthest I have gotten .(this archinvg thing is killing me! :) Here is my mm_cfg.py file: (including various commented out command lines for Mhonarc) ==================================================================================== # -*- python -*- # Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. """This is the module which takes your site-specific settings. From a raw distribution it should be copied to mm_cfg.py. If you already have an mm_cfg.py, be careful to add in only the new settings you want. The complete set of distributed defaults, with annotation, are in ./Defaults. In mm_cfg, override only those you want to change, after the from Defaults import * line (see below). Note that these are just default settings - many can be overridden via the admin and user interfaces on a per-list or per-user basis. Note also that some of the settings are resolved against the active list setting by using the value as a format string against the list-instance-object's dictionary - see the distributed value of DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER for an example.""" ####################################################### # Here's where we get the distributed defaults. # from Defaults import * import pwd, grp ############################################################## # Here's where we override shipped defaults with settings # # suitable for the RPM package. # #MAILMAN_UID = pwd.getpwnam('mailman')[2] #MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2] LOG_DIR = '/var/log/mailman' QUEUE_DIR = '/var/spool/mailman/qfiles' ############################################################## # Put YOUR site-specific configuration below, in mm_cfg.py . # # See Defaults.py for explanations of the values. # DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'soartech.com' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.%s/mailman/' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = 0 PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL='/archives' #PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s >> /tmp/out_external_archiver' #PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -outdir /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s >> /tmp/out_external_archiver' #PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '(mkdir -p /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s ; /usr/bin/mhonarc -nomodtime -add -umask 022 -outdir /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s -multipg -expireage 2592000 -idxsize 1 5 -noauthsort -reverse -nothread -nosubsort -idxfname index.html -rcfile /var/mailman/frames.mrc' #PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '(mkdir -p /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s ; /usr/bin/mhonarc -nomodtime -add -umask 022 -outdir /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s -multipg -expireage 2592000 -idxsize 15 -noauthsort -reverse -nothread -nosubsort -idxfname index.html -rcfile /var/mailman/frames.mrc' PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '(/usr/bin/mhonarc -nomodtime -add -umask 022 -outdir /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s -multipg -reverse -idxfname index.html -rcfile /var/mailman/frames.mrc' PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = '/usr/bin/mhonarc -nomodtime -add -umask 022 -outdir /var/mailman/archives/mhonarc/%(listname)s -multipg -reverse -idxfname index.html -rcfile /var/mailman/frames.mrc' # Note - if you're looking for something that is imported from mm_cfg, but you # didn't find it above, it's probably in Defaults.py. ============================================================================ also I have changed in default.py: # Are archives on or off by default? DEFAULT_ARCHIVE = 1 # 0=Off, 1=On # Are archives public or private by default? DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 0 # 0=public, 1=private # ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX #-1 - do not do any archiving # 0 - do not archive to mbox, use builtin mailman html archiving only # 1 - archive to mbox to use an external archiving mechanism only # 2 - archive to both mbox and builtin mailman html archiving - # use this to make both external archiving mechanism work and # mailman's builtin html archiving. the flat mail file can be # useful for searching, external archivers, etc. # ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 2 # 0 - yearly # 1 - monthly # 2 - quarterly # 3 - weekly # 4 - daily # DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_VOLUME_FREQUENCY = 1 # These variables control the use of an external archiver. Normally if # archiving is turned on (see ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX above and the list's archive* # attributes) the internal Pipermail archiver is used. This is the default if # both of these variables are set to false. When either is set, the value # should be a shell command string which will get passed to os.popen(). This # string can contain %(listname)s for dictionary interpolation. The name of # the list being archived will be substituted for this. # # Note that if you set one of these variables, you should set both of them # (they can be the same string). This will mean your external archiver will # be used regardless of whether public or private archives are selected. PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 1 PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 1 ================================== Yes before trying mhonarc I had both PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER set to 0. Thanks! -- David Mir System Administrator Soar Technology, Inc. mir(a)soartech.com

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list right problem
by Peter Prins Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

Hello, I have problem, which I am trying to solve for more then a week now :p Mailman always worked good until something went wrong with, well whatever it was, but I don't know. So I reconfigured and recompiled it again, but then I got errors about wrong userid's. That problem is solved now, finally, but the old lists which I had work great, but when I want to add a new list they won't work. :( This is the error message: Command died with status 2: "/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post test". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 41, GOT gid 12. (Reconfigure to take 12?) So I reconfigured it, with id 12, but then nothing works. recompile again with id 41 and the old lists are working again, except the new lists. Somebody recognize this or could help me out. Best regards, Peter Prins

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Help
by Ken Carson Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

I have been using mailman with python, postfix and apache for about 1.5 years. I am now getting these errors all the time: Oct 01 14:16:02 2002 (7749) Delivery exception: bad marshal data Oct 01 14:16:02 2002 (7749) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 159, in process hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NotExplicitlyAllowed) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 218, in hold_for_approval mlist.HoldMessage(msg, reason, msgdata) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 145, in HoldMessage self.__opendb() File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 69, in __opendb self.__db = marshal.load(fp) ValueError: bad marshal data I have rebuild the databases, and upgraded to the latest version. I can't really find any other info on this problem. Lots of people have had it it from what I can find in news groups, web sites, etc many different things have fixed it. Right now the largest mailing list we have is down and its a huge probelm. (we get about 300 requests from our members a day to this list). Anythng you can tell me would be helpful. -- Ken Carson Heavy

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Large Attachments
by Justin Alcorn Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

I am trying to set up a list whose reason for being is to allow the emailing of attachments to a large number of (self-selected) people. I've set the max message size to Zero, and small attachments work fine when subscribers are set up as not 'Plain'. but larger attachments are missing, with no indication of what is happening to them. Is there another setting I need to use for large attachments? -- Justin Alcorn http://jalcorn.net Contact me http://www.keen.com/UnixHelp

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