Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Users

Base URL for virtualhosts... again!
by Michael 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi guys, I am a new Mailman user. I run my own server with several virtualhosts on it. I try to figure out, how to change the base URL of lists hosted on my virtualhosts. Every time a new list is created on a virtual host, the default url is set back to the main server again, instead of the virtualhost, hosting that list. I don't kown a thing about Python. I've already red the previous responses regarding the Base URL question, but couldn't figure how to use fix_url.py Can someone give me a step by step procedure to change to Base URL on some of my lists (not every list) ? Second question: why did you remove the Base URL attached to each list from the web interface ? Why use and fix_url script instead ? One though: as the alias path in the default Apache configuration does not refer to any host in particular, it works with any virtual host (i.e. www.virtualhost1.com/mailman/admin and www.virtualhost2.com/mailman/admin lead to the same admin interface). So why not set the Base URL of a list to the virtualhost on which the list was created? Thanks for your help.

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Archive URL in postings (2.1b3)
by Brian Read 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi I have a set-up where the domain name is different to the mailing address name. Mailman seems to have set-up the mail addresses and the list admin URLs ok, but it gets the Archive URL wrong. It is using the email hostname,. not the domain name that it uses for the list admin etc. I have tried editrting mm_cfg.py, the PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL var, but my postings still come out with the "old" URL. How do I change it for existing lists? Cheers Brian Brian J Read www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk www.theonlineorganiser.com www.thepersonalknowledgebase.com Mitel SMEserver Contributions and Howtos: www.abandonmicrosoft.co.uk/abandon/links.html +44 1695 723723

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!Not sending list mail
by Mike Ingram 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

My new installation of 2.0 is using Sendmail. The welcome letters appear to be going out ok, but sending a message to the list does not seem to work. Where should I start looking? Wrappers......trappers.....zappers? :-) Thanks, Mike

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Baffled
by Ronald A. Davidson 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Let's assume that after many hours of retrying to get qmail and mailman to work together, I have exhausted all my skills. I simply cannot get qmail to mail to the members of a list. I get the infamous failure notice. qmail works fine, mailman works up to mail time. Can anyone suggest anything?

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new to mailman; can't find list web page
by michael shiloh 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

hi, i've long admired mailman as a user and finally decided to add it to my own server. my setup: redhat 7.3 with most updates linux 2.4.9-21 python 1.5.2 sendmail 8.11.6 mailman 2.0.13 Apache 1.3.22 i've read the readme, readme.linux, readme.apache and the faq. i've tried the troubleshooting, and i've looked at my syslog files, but i can't figure this out: i user "newlist" to create my test list, and i get this email: The mailing list `test' has just been created for you. The following is some basic information about your mailing list. You can configure your mailing list at the following web page: http://www.magrittesystems.com/mailman/admin/test however, i don't see this page anywhere. i do see a new directory /home/mailman/lists/test, but not this admin/test. i'm guessing i'm missing some web server configuration, but i'm not sure what. any suggestions? thanks, michael

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Mailman Virtual Hosting - my findings
by MCV Webmaster 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi, New mailman user here. I have been reading all the archives for a couple of days now on how to configure mailman in a virtual host environment. I have to say, the documention isn't very clear or really does not even contain that much on the subject. Oh, I am using MM 2.0.13-1 on RH Linux. First, thanks to Jon Carnes from earlier today for his post about modifying virtusertable and genericstable. That was invaluable. It should go in the documentation, or the FAQ at the very least. I have come to the conclusion that you really can't do virtual hosting with Mailman all that well from a single installation; the best thing to do for virtual hosting is to have multiple installations. Here is how I came to that conclusion (at least for my situation): 1) When you create a list with "newlist", the info mail sent to the list manager always contains a base URL from the "real" host name of the server. Q: Is there a way to set the base URL and prefered host name of a list at the time of creation? As I said, I am new to this so maybe I just haven't seen the right documentation yet. 2) Even with VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=1, lists you want virtually hosted still show up on the "admin" list of lists even after you have changed the list's base URL and prefered host name. Maybe this is just a bug? Anyway, I wasn't expecting to see my list there except when the admin page was referenced via my virtually hosted domain name. It disappears from the listinfo page just fine (as expected). and finally (the killer for me) 3) As my server is configured now, I can't run the "default" mailman installation. The reason is because I "suexec" my CGI scripts for my virtual domain (via User and Group Apache directives in my VirtualHost configuration). As set up now, Mailman is not installed in a directory tree under which "suexec" is currently configured to allow running scripts from (default is /var/www or something like that in a default RedHat install I believe). I believe the only way for me to get around #3 above is to have my own private copy of mailman in a place I can run my own scripts from under suExec. If I didn't have Apache User and Group settings, I don't believe I would have this particular problem. Those are my findings. YMMV. I hope Mailman 2.1 or later can improve on this because otherwise, I like it a lot. Please educate me if I am wrong about something. Thanks! -- Jeff Donsbach Webmaster and Bass Drummer The Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums W. Medford, MA http://www.mcvfifesanddrums.org/

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stats
by Davin Dahlgren 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Has anyone written a program that will give me some stats on Mailman's progress? Percent complete, how many have gone out, how many are yet to go, etc.? Davin Dahlgren

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Admin password problem
by Mark Leisher 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Setup: Solaris 2.8 Python 2.2.2 Mailman 2.0.13 Mozilla 1.1 (Enable all cookies) List and site passwords always fail authentication. Any relevant clues? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Leisher Computing Research Lab But blogging's political bias New Mexico State University is not so much left/right as Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL anti-idiot. Las Cruces, NM 88003 -- Glenn Reynolds

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SQL
by Zautasvili Peter 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Dear Ms/Mr, is there any way to use SQL (MySQL) database for storing members. It would be very cool, if Mailman could use a column of an SQL table to get e-mail addresses. Do You know anything about how to solve this without extra cron scripts? Regards, Peter Zautasvili

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two lists, same name, different domains
by Dan Langille 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Has anyone figured out how to run two lists in different domains but with the same list name? e.g. mylist(a)example.org & mylist(a)example.com -- Dan Langille

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