Mailman 3 June 2002 - Mailman-Users

host not found Error
by tomcat＠downtownhost.com June 8, 2002

June 8, 2002

Hi I recently renumbered the IPs on one of my servers, after that I noticied that people could't subscribe to the mailing list that used to works fine. Checking at the mailman error logs I found this. admin(13854): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.11 -----] admin(13854): [----- Traceback ------] admin(13854): Traceback (innermost last): admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(13854): main() admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 76, in main admin(13854): process_form(mlist, doc) admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 187, in process_form admin(13854): mlist.AddMember(email, pw, digest, remote) admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1005, in AddMember admin(13854): text) admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 211, in __init__ admin(13854): OutgoingMessage.__init__(self, text) admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 205, in __init__ admin(13854): self['Message-ID'] = Utils.make_msgid(idstring='Mailman') admin(13854): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 769, in make_msgid admin(13854): idhost = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0] admin(13854): error: host not found To be honest, I'm lost, and I don't know how to solve it, can anybody help me here? Thanks in advance -- Best regards,

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virtual domains not servername
by Newfield Nethost June 8, 2002

June 8, 2002

We have mailman on our server, and host several virtual domains. The admin page, users page, etc. for lists within virtual domains is listing our server instead of the virtual domain: http://ourserver.com/mailman/admin/list_virtualdomain.net But we would like it to be: http://virtualdomain.net/mailman/admin/list/ and http://virtualdomain.net/mailman/listinfo/list-users/ .. What do we need to do to accomplish this? Thank you. tom

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mm 2.0.11, web interface and file permissions
by M Taylor June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

I'm using mailman 2.0.11, qmail 1.0.3, and apache 1.3.23 on a linux 2.2 / glibc-2.1.3 system mailman was configured with: ./configure --with-mail-gid=nofiles --with-cgi-gid=nobody and ~mailman/bin/check_perms returns with no problems found when run was root or mailman. I set up a test list, and subscribed via email with no problem, but after I use the web based admin interface <.../mailman/admin/test> the file permissions for the config.db appears to be wrong and mailman stops doing anything via email, including sending mailing list messages and handling subscriptions. ls -l ~mailman/lists/test/config.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1706 Sep 14 2001 admindbpreamble.html -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 4537 Jun 7 22:36 config.db -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 4537 Jun 7 21:26 config.db.last -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 189 Sep 14 2001 handle_opts.html ... ls -ld ~mailman/lists/test drwsrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Jun 7 22:36 /home/mailman/lists/test If I force the config.db to be owned by mailman and permissions of 664 then things okay until I (as admin or list manager) or anyone else (general subscriber) uses the web interface. I was wondering if it could be a umask related problem, but that wouldn't explain the change in owner would it? What am I doing wrong? Thank you. -- M Taylor http://www.mctaylor.com/

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Cannot Modify Welcome Message
by Benjamin Young June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

Hi all, I'd like to leave the welcome message blank, so that the prepend text becomes the entire message. I don't have access to the server but my host has been trying out all the suggestions provided. It was suggested here that the subsribeack.txt file be left blank but when this is done, the welcome message is blank and the pre-pend text is not inserted. I thought maybe there had to be something to prepend above, so had the admin insert a line of text - but the welcome message now only includes that one line, never the prepended text. Is there a command that needs to be included in the subscribeack.txt file that would pull the pre-pend message and insert it properly? Has anyone else successfully modified their welcome message so that the pre-pend text becomes the entire welcome message? My host thinks this may be a bug in Mailman 2.0. Thanks! Benjamin P.S. I apologize if this was posted twice. My email client returned an error message the first time.

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A thank-you and comments about the FAQ entries for my work
by Scott Courtney June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

Good afternoon, all. First, I wanted to let you know that my Mailman lists are now 100% operational and are all in production with 2.1b2. Thanks, very much, to the several members of this list who offered very helpful advice and answers. I am planning to write a mini-HOWTO about deploying Mailman in non-root mode using Procmail. This and the two FAQ entries I owe should be online in a week or so. I decided that since I have a background in technical writing I owe it to the Mailman user community to do more than just a brief FAQ entry; I want to contribute to the body of documentation in a more formal way. I mention this just in case you're wondering why the promised FAQ entries have not materialized yet. I've been working up the article here and hope to finish it shortly. It'll be published on my web site and also made available under copyleft for use elsewhere. Kind regards, Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them courtney(a)4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)

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Message has implicit destination
by Clayton Rogers June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

I have set up two lists. List 1: Has three members and and anyone can send to it. List 2: Has List 1 as a member and anyone can send to it. With List 2 I am receiving the error metioned in the Subject section above. Why is this so? I have followed the table in the documentation: Receive from anyone in the universe, but the message still requires moderation approval. Cheers -- Clayton Rogers Computer Systems Officer Bundaberg City Council Queensland, Australia Phone: +61 0741539232 Fax: +61 0741529155 Email: claytonr(a)bundaberg.qld.gov.au Web Site: www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au

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can users change their email address on a closed list?
by Ajay Sharma June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

Hello, I just upgraded to mailman 2.0.11 from majordomo (I know, I know...) and I'm wondering how can my users change their email address without requiring my approval? But this is a closed list and I'm the only person that adds people to the list. So if they are already subscribed I want them to be able them to be able to change their email address without any interaction from me. Is this possible? later, ajay -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma ssharma(a)odc.net --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Mailman-Users] administrative posts only?
by Detlef Neubauer June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

"Ben Kempner" <ben(a)2xl.com> writes: > Is there a way to make it so only the list administrator (one e-mail > address) can post messages to the list? Yes. Make a list were all posts must be approved. And add the allowed poster in "Addresses of members accepted for posting to this list without implicit approval requirement". Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyserver.net/ Oo.

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Mixing internal and external archives
by Ray Osborn June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

I am in the process of transferring an old mailing list to Mailman. It used Hypermail for archiving, and I would like to continue using it both in order to maintain some of the old message URLs and because there were quite a few HTML and MIME messages, which Pipermail can't handle. However, I am also setting up some new lists, and would like to use the the standard Pipermail archives for those. If I understand the comments in Defaults.py, it is possible to set PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER to a shell command that triggers Hypermail, but there doesn't seem to be a way to specify different options for different lists. I also couldn't see any relevant options in the list administration pages. Is there a standard way to use internal and external archiving on different lists? I apologize if this was in the FAQ, but the archive questions seemed to address different issues. We are running version 2.0.11 Thanks -- Ray Osborn

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How to add easy unsubscribe message?
by Dan Crane June 7, 2002

June 7, 2002

I asked this before but did not get an answer. Is there a way for users to unsubscribe w/o having to login? Is there some command they can put in the email or header to auto-unsubscribe themselves? Thanks, Dan

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