Mailman 3 March 2002 - Mailman-Users

minor Mailman Web site and sf.net files inconsistency
by Kirill Bolschakow 04 Mar '02

04 Mar '02

Hello Mailmen, The latest stable release mentioned at http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/MM21/index.html is 2.0.7, but the one available is 2.0.8. Regards, Kirill Bolschakow ISS Dept. @ SPb SUAI raven(a)overhours.net --- "Ein Krieg ist koestlich gut, der auf den Frieden dringt; "Ein Fried ist schaendlich arg, der neues Kriegen bringt." - Friedrich von Logau

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Setting up a read-only list (like the Mailman Annouce list)
by b! 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

Hi! Could someone please tell me how I can set-up a read-only announcement list with Mailman? I haven't found any option in the admin interface. Of course it could be that I'm just plain blind (and dumb). If this is the case, call me blind (and dumb of course), but dont forget to tell me where this option hides. Thank you in advance, Bernhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . web: http://garnitchique.eudaimonia.nu mail: b(a)eudaimonia.nu tel: 0699/12030309 icq#: 109152897

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AOL disabling Reply All button - is this unique?
by Skip Montanaro 03 Mar '02

03 Mar '02

I got the following message from a user on a Mailman-managed list: >> I have a technical question. On all the CEDU mailing list e-mail I >> get, the reply to all button is blanked out so I can only reply to >> the person sending the mail. I've also been having some problems >> with AOL. Is this related, or unique to this site? I've got several >> other groups I send to, but no others have this particular problem. I do not mess with the Reply-To header, so it refers to the poster, not the list. Any ideas why AOL might be disabling the Reply All button? That is, is it something AOL doesn't like about Mailman or is it something specific to this user? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro (skip(a)pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)

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Mail to news gatewaying
by Andrew Clark 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I'd like to gateway a news group from a server that requires authentication to connect. Can I do this with mailman? R, AJFC.

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HTML in Mailman
by Steven A. Miles 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I have a small HTML formatted email that I would like to send to a list. I've already set up the list with Mailman and sent subscriptions. How do actually format and send the HTML message? I'm using RH7.1 with Postfix/Mailman/PostGreSQL already running uneventfully for 3 months. :-)

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Transport problem w/ Exim (Undefined error: 0 in config.db test)
by Matt Staroscik 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I have narrowed my problem down to an issue with the list_director in my exim/mailman combo. There is one cyrptic error message that I cannot fathom, and it's got to be the key. ># sendmail -d 9 -bt test(a)wrongcrowd.com >Exim version 3.34 debug level 9 uid=0 gid=0 >probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) >Caller is an admin user >Caller is a trusted user >originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=Charlie Root >sender address = root(a)wrongcrowd.com >Address testing: uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 egid=0 > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >Testing test(a)wrongcrowd.com >wrongcrowd.com in local_domains? yes (matched wrongcrowd.com) >wrongcrowd.com in percent_hack_domains? no (end of list) >address test(a)wrongcrowd.com > local_part=test domain=wrongcrowd.com > domain is local > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >directing test(a)wrongcrowd.com >list_owner_director director skipped: suffix mismatch >owner_list_director director skipped: prefix mismatch >list_admin_director director skipped: suffix mismatch >list_request_director director skipped: suffix mismatch >calling list_director director >require_files = /usr/local/mailman/lists/test/config.db >test existence of /usr/local/mailman/lists/test/config.db > required present, EACCES => unknown > Undefined error: 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Right there, "Undefined error: 0." I cannot find any wisdom on this particular fault... Any ideas? (mailman 2.0.8, exim 3.34, FreeBSd 4.5) Here's the rest of the test: >list_director director called for test(a)wrongcrowd.com >queued for list_transport transport: local_part=test domain=wrongcrowd.com > errors_to=NULL > domain_data=NULL local_part_data=NULL >list_director director succeeded for test >test(a)wrongcrowd.com > deliver to test in domain wrongcrowd.com > director = list_director, transport = list_transport >search_tidyup called Thanks in advance for cluons. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Matt Staroscik * KF6IYW * mstar(a)speakeasy.net * http://wrongcrowd.com "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." -- Leon Trotsky

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IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test2/config.db'
by Robert Koberg 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Everything else seems to working. I can use the web interface to affect the new lists I add, but I can't send a message to the list. I have searched through the archives from April 2024 - January 2002 :) While I saw a few people with the same problem. There was never a real response other than "oh, it was in the docs." I can't infd it can someone please point it out or help with some advice? I have run configure with the default mail-gid and set the option for --with-cgi-gid to use my system. I keep getting the mail from the Cron Daemon saying: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__ self.Load() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 892, in Load dict, e = self.__load(dbfile) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 869, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test2/config.db' help, -Rob

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downloading mailman lists
by Linda Hondroulis 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

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Aliases
by Ralph Boersema 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Dear Folks, We have just installed mailman and are as yet unfamiliar with it. We have run into a problem with the configuration. We can't get email aliases to work. We tried it out by creating a test group. The problem is that when a user registers for the group, an email is sent to a certain email address created by Mailman. This address forwards (or is supposed to) to the administrator of the group. The problem is that the email address aliases that should point to him are not being created properly, and the email is returned to the sender each time. Does anyone have a suggestion where to look for our problem? Ralph

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exception in mailman 2.1a2
by Justin Sheehy 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

My mailman installation has worked fine for months. Today I added a new list and a number of people were subscribed to it. I didn't change anything at all in the basic mailman config, just in that list. Now, the web interface throws an exception on the "membership list" page every time it is accessed. The exception is appended to this message. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks. -Justin Bug in Mailman version 2.1a2 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 191, in main show_results(mlist, doc, category, category_suffix, cgidata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 452, in show_results form.AddItem(show_variables(mlist, category, cgidata, doc, form)) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 468, in show_variables return membership_options(mlist, cgidata, doc, form) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 701, in membership_options qs = cgi.parse_qs(os.environ['QUERY_STRING']) File "/usr/local/stow/Python-2.2/lib/python2.2/UserDict.py", line 14, in __getitem__ def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key] KeyError: QUERY_STRING Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2 (#1, Dec 28 2001, 09:54:53) [GCC 2.96 20000306 (experimental)] sys.executable /usr/local/bin/python sys.prefix /usr/local/bin/../stow/Python-2.2 sys.exec_prefix /usr/local/bin/../stow/Python-2.2 sys.path /usr/local/bin/../stow/Python-2.2 sys.platform sunos5 Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_ACCEPT text/html, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */* AUTH_TYPE Basic HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux) Opera 5.0 [en] TZ US/Eastern HTTP_REFERER http://www.iago.org/mailman/admin/in-the-wings/members/add SERVER_NAME ra GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 PYTHONPATH /home/mailman REMOTE_ADDR 65.202.32.10 SERVER_SOFTWARE thttpd/2.21b 23apr2001 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admin CGI_PATTERN mailman/**|mailman/*/* REQUEST_METHOD GET HTTP_HOST www.iago.org PATH_TRANSLATED /export/home/thttpd/data/in-the-wings/members/list SERVER_PORT 80 SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0 HTTP_COOKIE (valid cookie info) PATH_INFO /in-the-wings/members/list

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