Mailman 3 December 2002 - Mailman-Users

MM2.1 Upgrading trouble.
by Marco Trevisan | Bazzmann.Com Jan. 2, 2003

Jan. 2, 2003

Hi all! I just finished upgrading from 2.0.13 to 2.1 stable. It works ok (great work guys!), but when I send a post to pre-created mailing list, QMail returns me a message like this: "<humana(a)bazzmann.com>: preline: fatal: unable to run /usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper: file does not exist" I have to create again the same list or there is a tool that I don't see yet? I have correctly execute crontab -u and qrunner. Thanks in advance, Marco -- Bazzmann Labs(c) - Accessibilita', usabilita', webdesign e standard W3C ::--------------------------------::---------------------------------:: http://www.bazzmann.it | Il sito ufficiale di Bazzmann Labs. http://www.bazzmann.com | La risorsa per informare e aggiornare. http://www.dev2dev.it | Elemento D2D002

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Help required-- Root Full
by sunny Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Hello, I have mailman 2.1.10 running on solaris 2.7 for the last 6+ Months, now the problem is the Mailman program is installed on /home which is part of the root file system, and by default archive option was enabled for most of the lists, now the issue is the root filesystem has become 90%, I don't want any archives, how to go about ? Pls help me in bringing down the size of root file system. TIA, Regards Sunny. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: Question about Mailman !!
by Paul H Byerly Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Barry wrote: >I don't know anything about Ensim, but if it's even remotely Unix-y, Ensim is software that is used to make a server do virtual hosting. There are both Linux and Windows versions. Mine, and many, run with Red Hat Linux 7.x. >you should be able to do an "altinstall" of Python 2.2.2 in /usr/local. >E.g.: > > ./configure > make > make altinstall I love this list! Never seen an altinstall mentioned, but they I'm still crawling. Apparently this does the same thing as make install except it does not create (or replace) a hard link of the new version to "python". Doing some searching on this I'm seeing reference to using the --prefix option with configure to name the directory that it will be installed to. Is this necessary, or is it only for installing the files in a directory other than the current one? Thanks for any enlightenment! <>< Paul

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1 - final
by barry＠python.org Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

After nearly two years of development, we are happy to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.1. Mailman is free software that enables users to manage email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Its integrated web interface provides easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more. Mailman 2.1 is fully internationalized, supporting 17 languages out-of-the-box. A summary of additional new features in Mailman 2.1 is outlined below. The NEWS file in the source distribution contains more details about all the new features. For more information on Mailman, including downloading and installation instructions, please visit one of the following mirror sites: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sf.net The Mailman developers wish to thank Control.com for their sponsorship of several Mailman 2.1 features, Zope Corporation for their support, and the entire Mailman community for their contributions. -Barry Warsaw Pythonlabs, Zope Corporation -------------------- snip snip -------------------- - Multi-lingual support for all web pages and Mailman generated email notices, with languages selectable on a per-site, per-list, and per-user basis. - Through-the-web list creation and removal; (with automatic support depending on the MTA) - "Real name" support for members - Improved simple user-task operation (e.g. no passwords required for subscription and unsubscription). - Support for personalized deliveries and VERP-like message delivery for foolproof bounce detection - Emergency moderation - MIME-based content-filtering, with demime/stripmime-like options - Regular expression based topic-filtering - Better membership management, including searching - Re-organized administrative requests pages - Moderated newsgroup support - A new architecture for the mail delivery subsystem, removing dependence on cron, resulting in improved responsiveness and scalability - New moderation and privacy controls - Invitations - Autoresponse governors - Users can now change some delivery options globally, for all lists at a site, including their password, delivery status, real name, and more. - Improved MIME and I18n support in the archiver - Addition of a separate "list moderator" role - Urgent: header support (bypasses digests to reach all users immediately).

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Re: Question about Mailman !!
by Paul H Byerly Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Erich Fuchs wrote: >the only idea i have is to do a parallel installation of Python 2.2.2 - >and point MailMan to this installation - but i'm NOT sure about this ! >it's also a little dangerous and timecomsuming task (expect 2-3 hours) - >and i did't want to break your servers config !!! I am also looking at having to do this, and would love to hear from anyone who has done it. You are correct that updating Python will trash Ensim. My Ensim has two versions of Python (neither is high enough) and I can point things to the other one just fine - so it is possible to have two installations. Now I just need to figure out how to install a second version without messing with the other ones. <>< Paul

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Email addresses that get modified by outgoing server cause subscr iption problems
by chris.gray＠amd.com Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

I have a small problem. When users subscribe to my list they will use say " <mailto:cgray@foo.bar> cgray(a)foo.bar". The subscription process works... however... unbeknownst to the user... their subscription email address is should really be "cgray(a)mail.foo.bar <mailto:cgray@mail.foo.bar> ". So what happens, is cgray(a)foo.bar <mailto:cgray@foo.bar> is a member... and cgray(a)mail.foo.bar <mailto:cgray@mail.foo.bar> is not allowed to post. I did a brief search on Usenet and the faqs and couldn't come up with he correct search combination to find my answer. How can I allow foo.bar as my posting address and not mail.foo.bar? Can anyone provide some insight for me? Thanks in advance... please respond to my email address as I am not on the list. Thanks, -Chris

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autorespond_requests in 2.1x
by Mark Geisinger Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Greetings! Is autorespond_requests broken in 2.1x, or do I perhaps misunderstand its purpose? I'm using 2.1b4 and would like to avoid having a request autoresponse sent to a subscribe request, or for any other request. What's happening is that anything send to the -subscribe, or -request, aliases is send an autoresponse with the original message attached, in addition to the normal response. I did a db dump and verified that autorespond_requests = 0. I don't recall this being the case in v2.0.13. Am I missing something in 2.1x? -- Best regards, Mark list-mailman(a)lanbytes.com

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Question about Mailman !!
by webmaster＠war-veterans.info Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Hello Is there a way to run Mailman on server with Python 1.5.2 my delicated server use Ensim with Python 1.5.2 internally for mostly all functions !!! I had contact with the company there the server runs and this is there reply on my qouestion to upgrade my server to the newest Python : Hi Rob, to use MailMan, it's neccessary to have Python 2.1.x or higher installed - on your Server is the stable Python 1.5.2 (comes with Ensim) installed. If you really like to run MailMan - it's a little tricky, because Ensim use Python 1.5.2 internally for mostly all functions !!! so i'm personally a little scary to update Python :-) i had a simmilar experience with a Perl Update on a Ensim Server :-( the only idea i have is to do a parallel installation of Python 2.2.2 - and point MailMan to this installation - but i'm NOT sure about this ! it's also a little dangerous and timecomsuming task (expect 2-3 hours) - and i did't want to break your servers config !!! If there is any way - i would suggest to use a PHP script - if there is any outthere ... or Majordomo warmest regards -- Erich Fuchs We want to run email discussionsgroups on our http://veteransgroups.com <http://veteransgroups.com/> server it's a non-profit server only for allied war-veterans, most of our groups are, on this moment, on Yahoogroups, but we have many problems with the sending and receiving of the mail, sometimes we have to wait seven of eight hours to receive a mail, and that is very tricky when there is a emotional discussion going on, In your software we find all the topics we need, Is there a way to solve this problem?, or do you know another program that runs e.g on PHP or PERL with the same classifications as Mailman? Please reply, Warmest regards and a happy New Year, Rob Stolk Webowner Veteranen.info, War-Veterans.info, Veteransgroups.com

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listinfo: ... comments to mailman@www
by Lukas Ruf Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Dear all, on /mailman/listinfo Send questions or comments to mailman(a)www.rawip.org is written always. However, I do not have an MX-record for <www.rawip.org>. Is there a way to have listinfo display <mailman(a)rawip.org> instead? Thanks for any hint! Lukas -- Lukas Ruf http://www.lpr.ch Wanna know anything about raw ip? Join rawip(a)rawip.org on http://www.rawip.org

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How to move or delete a list completely
by Lukas Ruf Dec. 31, 2002

Dec. 31, 2002

Dear all, switching from majordomo to Mailman, I had to setup a bunch mailing lists. Thanks to 2.1rc1 nearly everything wen smoothly. However, I created a mailing list under a wrong virtual web-address. So, the mailing list appears under the wrong virtual host section when typing <http://.../mailman/listinfo>. Which is wrong. Since it is an empty mailing list, I could either delete the mailing list and set it up again -- or move it if this was possible. (I prefer the first). How can I delete a mailing list completely? Thanks, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf http://www.lpr.ch Wanna know anything about raw ip? Join rawip(a)rawip.org on http://www.rawip.org

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