Mailman 3 June 2002 - Mailman-Users

FW: [Mailman-Users] Integrating Mailman 2.0.8 with Tomcat 4.0.1
by Winkle, Mitchell (Mitch), MGSVC June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

<html><body> <h4>Installation of Mailman</h4> <strong>NOTE:</strong> These isntructions apply to Mailman version 2.0.8 and RedHat Linux version 7.0. If you follow these instructions for installing Mailman and have installed Tomcat 4.0.1 in the /home directory, you may follow these instructions for other distributions as long as all dependencies for both Mailman and Tomcat 4.0.1 have been met. <ol> <li>Make a user by the name of <strong>mailman</strong> using linuxconf and make the home directory be<pre>/var/mailman</pre> <li>Configure the Mailman directory structure : <pre>cd /var/mailman chown mailman.mailman /var/mailman chmod a+rx,g+ws /var/mailman</pre> <li>Download mailman from <a href="http://www.list.org <http://www.list.org" <http://www.list.org> > http://www.list.org">http://www.list.org</a> <li>Use command : <pre>tar xvzf mailman-2.x.x.tgz</pre> to unpack the distribution <li><pre>cd mailman-2.x.x</pre> <li>Read instructions in INSTALL file of distribution : <pre>more INSTALL</pre> <li>Configure the distribution : <pre>./configure --prefx=/var/mailman --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=root</pre> <li>Install Mailman : <pre>make install</pre> <li>Set up the cron jobs : <pre>su - mailman cd /var/mailman/cron crontab crontab.in</pre> <li>Create link in smrsh for sendmail to work : <pre>cd /etc/smrsh ln -s /var/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper</pre> </ol> <h4>Configuring Tomcat to work with Mailman</h4> <ol> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/conf</pre <li><pre>pico server.xml</pre> <li>Find the section commented out that defines the CGI servlet and uncomment it <li>Find the section below that which defines the CGI servlet pattern to match and uncomment it <li>Save server.xml <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps</pre> <li>Create a new Tomcat application called <strong>mailman</strong> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/mailman/WEB-INF</pre> <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/cgi-bin cgi</pre> <li>Edit the standard web.xml file (from the ROOT webapp) in this directory and add the following between the <pre><webapp></webapp> tags</pre>:<br>| <pre> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </pre> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/ROOT</pre> <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/archives/public pipermail</pre> </ol> <h4>Configuring Mailman to work with Tomcat 4.0.1</h4> <p> The standard scripts and HTML templates which come with the Mailman distribution will not work with Tomcat 4.0.1's CGI wrapper. For some reason, METHOD=POST in the HTML forms that Mailman dynamically builds will break the CGI wrapper in Tomcat, so as a workaround you must laboriously go through all the files in the Mailman distribution which build HTML form templates and change <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong>. To the best of my knowledge these files are : <pre>/var/mailman/templates/admlogin.txt /var/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py /var/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py </pre> Find <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> in all of these files and change it to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong> and save the file. <h4>Restart the Tomcat 4.0.1 server and test your configuration</h4> </p> </body> </html>

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Integrating Mailman 2.0.8 with Tomcat 4.0.1
by Winkle, Mitchell (Mitch), MGSVC June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Friends. Please excuse the proprietary shell script references to /root/bin/tomstart, /root/bin/tomstop, and /root/bin/newapp. These are convenience scripts I use to start, stop and create new application file structures in Tomcat. My apologies. I'll make a more generic version of these instructions and try again. Regards, Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Winkle, Mitchell (Mitch), MGSVC Sent: Tue 06/04/2002 1:42 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Cc: Subject: [Mailman-Users] Integrating Mailman 2.0.8 with Tomcat 4.0.1 <html><body> <h4>Installation of Mailman</h4> <strong>NOTE:</strong> These isntructions apply to Mailman version 2.0.8 and RedHat Linux version 7.0. If you follow these instructions for installing Mailman and have installed Tomcat 4.0.1 in the /home directory, you may follow these instructions for other distributions as long as all dependencies for both Mailman and Tomcat 4.0.1 have been met. <ol> <li>Make a user by the name of <strong>mailman</strong> using linuxconf and make the home directory be<pre>/var/mailman</pre> <li>Configure the Mailman directory structure : <pre>cd /var/mailman chown mailman.mailman /var/mailman chmod a+rx,g+ws /var/mailman</pre> <li>Download mailman from <a href="http://www.list.org <http://www.list.org" <http://www.list.org> > http://www.list.org">http://www.list.org</a> <li>Use command : <pre>tar xvzf mailman-2.x.x.tgz</pre> to unpack the distribution <li><pre>cd mailman-2.x.x</pre> <li>Read instructions in INSTALL file of distribution : <pre>more INSTALL</pre> <li>Configure the distribution : <pre>./configure --prefx=/var/mailman --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=root</pre> <li>Install Mailman : <pre>make install</pre> <li>Set up the cron jobs : <pre>su - mailman cd /var/mailman/cron crontab crontab.in</pre> <li>Create link in smrsh for sendmail to work : <pre>cd /etc/smrsh ln -s /var/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper</pre> </ol> <h4>Configuring Tomcat to work with Mailman</h4> <ol> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/conf</pre <li><pre>pico server.xml</pre> <li>Find the section commented out that defines the CGI servlet and uncomment it <li>Find the section below that which defines the CGI servlet pattern to match and uncomment it <li>Save server.xml <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps</pre> <li><pre>/root/bin/newapp mailman</pre> <strong>NOTE: This assumes that the newapp script is installed in /root/bin and the path is properly set. If it is not available, copy the script from one of the other servers</strong> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/mailman/WEB-INF</pre> <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/cgi-bin cgi</pre <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/ROOT</pre> <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/archives/public pipermail</pre> </ol> <h4>Configuring Mailman to work with Tomcat 4.0.1</h4> <p> The standard scripts and HTML templates which come with the Mailman distribution will not work with Tomcat 4.0.1's CGI wrapper. For some reason, METHOD=POST in the HTML forms that Mailman dynamically builds will break the CGI wrapper in Tomcat, so as a workaround you must laboriously go through all the files in the Mailman distribution which build HTML form templates and change <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong>. To the best of my knowledge these files are : <pre>/var/mailman/templates/admlogin.txt /var/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py /var/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py </pre> Find <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> in all of these files and change it to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong> and save the file. <h4>Restart the Tomcat 4.0.1 server</h4> <pre>/root/bin/tomstop</pre>Wait for all java processes to stop by monitoring <pre>ps ax|grep java</pre>and then start Tomcat with <pre>/root/bin/tomstart</pre> </p> </body> </html> 1Ա x%Lj)fju,z宻) hiZr'?+-wffꧺƢf!E 0+az+ 鸧i

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Integrating Mailman 2.0.8 with Tomcat 4.0.1
by Winkle, Mitchell (Mitch), MGSVC June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

<html><body> <h4>Installation of Mailman</h4> <strong>NOTE:</strong> These isntructions apply to Mailman version 2.0.8 and RedHat Linux version 7.0. If you follow these instructions for installing Mailman and have installed Tomcat 4.0.1 in the /home directory, you may follow these instructions for other distributions as long as all dependencies for both Mailman and Tomcat 4.0.1 have been met. <ol> <li>Make a user by the name of <strong>mailman</strong> using linuxconf and make the home directory be<pre>/var/mailman</pre> <li>Configure the Mailman directory structure : <pre>cd /var/mailman chown mailman.mailman /var/mailman chmod a+rx,g+ws /var/mailman</pre> <li>Download mailman from <a href="http://www.list.org <http://www.list.org"> http://www.list.org">http://www.list.org</a> <li>Use command : <pre>tar xvzf mailman-2.x.x.tgz</pre> to unpack the distribution <li><pre>cd mailman-2.x.x</pre> <li>Read instructions in INSTALL file of distribution : <pre>more INSTALL</pre> <li>Configure the distribution : <pre>./configure --prefx=/var/mailman --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=root</pre> <li>Install Mailman : <pre>make install</pre> <li>Set up the cron jobs : <pre>su - mailman cd /var/mailman/cron crontab crontab.in</pre> <li>Create link in smrsh for sendmail to work : <pre>cd /etc/smrsh ln -s /var/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper</pre> </ol> <h4>Configuring Tomcat to work with Mailman</h4> <ol> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/conf</pre <li><pre>pico server.xml</pre> <li>Find the section commented out that defines the CGI servlet and uncomment it <li>Find the section below that which defines the CGI servlet pattern to match and uncomment it <li>Save server.xml <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps</pre> <li><pre>/root/bin/newapp mailman</pre> <strong>NOTE: This assumes that the newapp script is installed in /root/bin and the path is properly set. If it is not available, copy the script from one of the other servers</strong> <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/mailman/WEB-INF</pre> <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/cgi-bin cgi</pre <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/ROOT</pre> <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/archives/public pipermail</pre> </ol> <h4>Configuring Mailman to work with Tomcat 4.0.1</h4> <p> The standard scripts and HTML templates which come with the Mailman distribution will not work with Tomcat 4.0.1's CGI wrapper. For some reason, METHOD=POST in the HTML forms that Mailman dynamically builds will break the CGI wrapper in Tomcat, so as a workaround you must laboriously go through all the files in the Mailman distribution which build HTML form templates and change <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong>. To the best of my knowledge these files are : <pre>/var/mailman/templates/admlogin.txt /var/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py /var/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py </pre> Find <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> in all of these files and change it to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong> and save the file. <h4>Restart the Tomcat 4.0.1 server</h4> <pre>/root/bin/tomstop</pre>Wait for all java processes to stop by monitoring <pre>ps ax|grep java</pre>and then start Tomcat with <pre>/root/bin/tomstart</pre> </p> </body> </html>

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Re: [Mailman-Users] large lists question
by Andreu Sanchez June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

thanks for your answers :) -- __________________________________________________ / In disk space, nobody can hear your files scream \ ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Andreu Sánchez Costa - Internet Web Serveis | | Tel: +34973234106 - http://www.iws.es/ - Dep. Gestió de Sistemes | | Fingerprint = EA1E 8926 637C 3BAF 240A F33F DDE6 2DD1 343D 825B | | Public Key at http://www.taniz.org/gnupg.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------

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large lists question
by Andreu Sanchez June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Hello, First to do is congratulate you all for the great job you are doing, we are using mailman in a lot of machines and is working perfectly, keep doing that great job!. Well, i have a question regarding mailman, we need to create some lists with 5000 mail addresses and we ask ourselves if mailman would support that huge bunch of mails and if the answer is yes, what machine must have the mailman? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- __________________________________________________ / In disk space, nobody can hear your files scream \ ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Andreu Sánchez Costa - Internet Web Serveis | | Tel: +34973234106 - http://www.iws.es/ - Dep. Gestió de Sistemes | | Fingerprint = EA1E 8926 637C 3BAF 240A F33F DDE6 2DD1 343D 825B | | Public Key at http://www.taniz.org/gnupg.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------

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multiple mailman dirs
by Rantanen, TC1 June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Someone posted a comment about having multiple directories of mailman, to create a grouping or hierarchy. If this is done, what would the entries look like for the cgi-bin in relation to ScriptAlias and the pipermail Alias. Ed Rantanen

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Changing the subject
by Simone Shall June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Hi I am a mailman user and want to know if it is possible to do the following: I have a list where I have to approve all messages sent to the list. At the moment, when I approve a message I cannot change the subject of the message. I want to be able to do this. Is it possible. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks Simone ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simone Shall SANGONET USER SERVICES http://www.sn.apc.org/ Toll Free: 0800 115220/ 0800 113440

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possible to add logo/image to footer?
by Tom Boeken June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Hi, I would like add some Mailman logo/image to the footer of the email. Is this possible? Greetz, Tom

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error log entries
by Tjalling Kikkert June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Hi there, my /home/mailman/logs/error keeps filling up with lines like: Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 282, in ? Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): kids = main(lock) Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 252, in main Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): keepqueued = dispose_message(mlist, msg, msgdata) Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 121, in dispose_message Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): if BouncerAPI.ScanMessages(mlist, mimemsg): Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.py", line 59, in ScanMessages Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): addrs = func(msg) Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.py", line 57, in process Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): more = mfile.next() Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/multifile.py", line 121, in next Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): while self.readline(): pass Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/multifile.py", line 93, in readline Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): if marker == self.section_divider(sep): Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/multifile.py", line 157, in section_divider Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): return "--" + str Jun 04 09:37:20 2002 qrunner(5219): TypeError : cannot add type "NoneType" to string I can't find a solution to get rid of these messages. Any ID's? Tjalling Kikkert Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug
by J C Lawrence June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:38:05 +0200 Stefaans Mostert <stefaans(a)pop.co.za> wrote: > i would also like to have my recent discovery(browser) recorded in the > faq It could happen to someone else. Then please add it. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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