Mailman 3 February 2002 - Mailman-Users

Just a question - Language support
by Esther Pulido Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

Hallo, I am Esther Pulido from Spain, Canary Island. I have just installed mailman in my webmail server and everything is working right. The problem is that the users of this server do not understand much English. Have you got language support, so that they may receive the admin-messages in Spanish? Thanks a lot for your attention. Esther Pulido

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Re: Apache Alias
by Jarkko Laine Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

Erik wrote: >My question is: in what file does this go, and where exactly? >I have access.conf and httpd.conf In the hhtpd.conf, works at least for me in the end of the file. >Other thing is that I would like to alias the name: >www.myhost.nl/cgi-bin/mailman to something a little >easier like www.myhost.nl/mailman. Again, I would >like to know how to do this in Apache. In the same file: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/mailman/cgi-bin/ Regards, Jarkko -- Jarkko Laine jarkko.m.laine(a)tut.fi Tampere University of Technology Industrial Engineering and Management +358-(0)50-3588858

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external data store/setting and changing member passwords
by Michael Styer Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

Hi there, I was just reading through the archives from December and I came across a mention that in MM2.1, it will be/is possible to store list member information in an external datastore, eg. an SQL database. This would be a big help to me, because I'd like to be able to set and change the passwords for list members programmatically from another database, and currently I can't see any way of doing that using the existing Mailman interface scripts. So, I have two questions: 1) Can someone confirm that storing member data, eg. passwords, in an external SQL database will be possible in MM2.1? 2) Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might go about setting the password for users added programmatically to lists, rather than having Mailman choose arbitrary passwords itself? Thanks for your help. mas -- Michael Styer mas(a)codix.net phone: 020 7603 5723 107 Shepherd's Bush Rd fax: 020 7603 2504 London W6 7LP

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Icons aren't showing
by Jarkko Laine Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

Hi there, I can't get the footer images showing, there's just empty boxes instead of them. The mm_cfg.py looks like this: # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/' and httpd.conf: Alias /icons/ /home/mailman/icons/ <Directory /home/mailman/icons/> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> I don't understand how it's still not working. The images are in the /home/mailman/icons folder with read access for everyone. When I look at the source of the pages (http://kepardi.cc.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo), it looks like everything was OK and the path to the images is /icons/. Still the images aren't there. TIA, Jarkko -- Jarkko Laine Tel: +358-50-3588858 Tampere University of Technology Email: jarkko.m.laine(a)tut.fi Industrial Management

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users confused about unsubscribing
by Haxial Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

Hi, first of all I'd like to say that Mailman is great. However, there's one thing about it that I think could be improved. I find that users are confused about how to unsubscribe, and then they email me asking me to remove them from the list because they couldn't figure it out themselves. It's irritating having to answer that question. I think what happens is this: the user receives another message from the mailing list, and decides they no longer want to be on the list. So they look to the instructions at the bottom of the email. There is the URL there, so they click the URL which takes them to the lists page. Then they see the sections/titles on that page: About Discussion Using Discussion Subscribing to Discussion Discussion Subscribers But wait, there's no option there for unsubscribing! So then they email me asking how to unsubscribe. Yes, I know if you look more carefully, if you read the text at the end of the "Discussion Subscribers" section, it says: "To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery modes, get a reminder of your password, or unsubscribe from Discussion), enter your subscription email address". And then click "Edit Options", and THEN on that second page you can enter your password to unsubscribe. But users don't see that. I even missed it myself the first time. It's easy to miss because it's a single word in a sentence that is talking about something completely unrelated (editing options). What would be much better is if you added another title/section similar to the "Subscribing to Discussion" section but titled "Unsubscribing". And you type in your email address and your password, and click the "Unsubscribe" button. Then it would be clear and obvious. Thanks. ________________________________________________________ http://www.haxial.com support(a)haxial.com

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Mail delivery failure
by Anne Strebe Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

After our three lists were down yesterday and we found out that our Linux system did have a power outage due to snow storms in Minesota, we were able to recover the lists from the backup. We can now access all three lists through the control panel, but 1) around 9.00 pm EST we got the "bug message" for each list when trying to access the administrator's section. 2) Since 11.00 pm EST, the page does not load at all 3) A test message to one of the lists brings the following return message: Which steps should we do next to re-activate the mailing lists? Thanks, Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mail Delivery System" <Mailer-Daemon(a)hydro.sourcedns.com> To: <arcas(a)cantv.net> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper post tf-board_tolefriends.com > generated by Tf-board(a)tolefriends.com > Child process of virtual_address_pipe transport returned 1 from command: > /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper > > The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: > > ------ pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper post tf-board_tolefriends.com > generated by Tf-board(a)tolefriends.com ------ > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/post", line 94, in ? > main() > File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in main > mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) > File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__ > self.Load() > File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 891, in Load > dict, e = self.__load(dbfile) > File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load > fp = open(dbfile) > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/tf-board_tolefriends.com/config.db ' > > ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ > > Return-path: <arcas(a)cantv.net> > Received: from rs9s2.datacenter.cha.cantv.net ([200.44.32.49]) > by hydro.sourcedns.com with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) > id 16WUd0-00048v-00 > for Tf-board(a)tolefriends.com; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:44:42 -0500 > Received: from computer (nas1-058.ras.poz.cantv.net [161.196.213.59]) > by rs9s2.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.10.2/8.10.2/2.0) with SMTP id g113ifd32012 > for <Tf-board(a)tolefriends.com>; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:44:41 -0400 > Message-ID: <01fa01c1aad2$cab1f980$3bd5c4a1@computer> > Reply-To: "Anne Strebe" <arcas(a)cantv.net> > From: "Anne Strebe" <arcas(a)cantv.net> > To: <Tf-board(a)tolefriends.com> > Subject: > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:44:19 -0400 > Organization: Arcas del Arte > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > > > > > > Anne Strebe, SDP, FPDA > Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela > arcas(a)cantv.net > http://tolefriends.com > http://arcas.paintwebs.com > http://paintwebs.com > ****************************** > Rom. 8:28 >

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AOL subscribers and mailman?
by Lynn Calvin Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

At 10:56 PM 1/31/02 -0500, you wrote: >sean pambianco wrote: > > > Are there any known issues regarding aol subscribers to mailman lists? > > The only problems I've ever run up again with AOL users are that 99% >of them post in HTML format and don't know, or can not turn it off, and >the level of spam also tends to increase a bit. We've only got a week and a half of mailman, (just converted 11,000 total subscribers on160 different lists) but our AOL subscribers are *profoundly* grateful for no-mime digests which are very clean compared to listproc's, which we were using previously. -- Lynn Calvin lcalvin(a)interaccess.com listmgr(a)uua.org (as part of the list management volunteer team). Co-Moderator UU-Community Mailing List

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question
by Cynthia Nakagawa Feb. 1, 2002

Feb. 1, 2002

We are using the mailman product. I think it is 2.0.8 version or something like that. Is there any way to disable the password per list. We do not like to use a password for all the lists. Is there any way to set one default password for all users. If not do you have to manually have the user go to the website and change it for all lists? Thanks Cynthia Cynthia Nakagawa Network Operations Support (916) 526-8262

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