Mailman 3 July 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: Exim 4.05 & Mailiman - Missing the Directors Configuration (update)
by Mike Gifford 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

Hello Again, > | I'm assuming now that the Directors Config area in the runtime > | configuration file has been removed in 4.x > Correct. exim4 was revamped, and the router/director distinction was > removed. Ok.. So when mailman's README.EXIM tells me to put files in the Directors section, this should be the same as putting it in the ROUTERS CONFIGURATION section as exim is no longer distinguishing between the two. > | If so does anyone have any suggestions on the modifications required > | to a 4.05 setting to get mailman & exim cooperating? > Convert the example director to a router. I've tried to do this... I can't see how it would need any more configuration.. However exim 4.05 seems to dislike the driver = smartuser in the following (Now at the bottom of the Routers Config section): list_owner_director: driver = smartuser require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db suffix = "-owner" new_address = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}" The error it gives me is as follows: [root@learningpartnership exim.mike]# bin/exim -C configure -bV Exim version 4.05 #3 built 13-Jul-2002 23:35:22 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002 2002-07-16 10:31:21 Exim configuration error in line 438: router list_owner_director: cannot find router driver "smartuser" I've been searching for info on this error, but I can't seem to find much of interest. Does exim 4.05 support a smartuser driver or has this concept too been revised. > The Mailman 2.1 CVS tree has instructions on using exim4. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/mailman/README.EXIM?… >From this I'm guessing that driver = smartuser should be replaced by driver = accept But pretty much every line in the exim config looks like it would need to be rewritten as suffix = -request new_address = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}" (and likely others) prefix = "owner-" all need to be rewritten for 4.0.5 > I'm sure you can combine the data in the mailman instructions and > exim's spec to create the necessary transports and routers tailored to > your usage of mailman. If you have specific questions about certain > options or something, then by all means ask. The are very different and I don't know enough about exim or mailman to wade through the code and try to find something that 'may' work via trial & error. Could take years.. Is there a way to rewrite this easily for exim 4.05? What other instructions are no longer useful in the new exim and can I just replace them? list_owner_director: driver = smartuser require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db suffix = "-owner" new_address = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}" owner_list_director: driver = smartuser require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db prefix = "owner-" new_address = "${lc:$local_part}-admin@${domain}" ## ## Next 3 directors direct admin, request and list mail to the appropriate ## transport. List existence is checked as above. list_admin_director: driver = smartuser suffix = -admin require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db transport = list_admin_transport list_request_director: driver = smartuser suffix = -request require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db transport = list_request_transport list_director: driver = smartuser require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.db transport = list_transport > (I haven't personally > configured mailman so I can't really give any better info than that) That makes it harder.. I didn't think I was doing anything too groundbreaking here.. this isn't the alpha release of exim.. Had hoped that others using mailman had upgraded to a more current version of exim than 3.33 and would have experience (and config pointers) to share. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.ca Open Source Web Applications for Social Change. Featured Client - NDP Leadership Candidate - http://www.billblaikie.org "An unjust law is no law at all." - Saint Augustine

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RELEASED Mailman 2.0.12
by barry＠zope.com 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

I' released Mailman 2.0.12 which fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability, among other changes. I recommend that folks upgrade their 2.0.x systems to this new version. See below for a NEWS file excerpt. As usual, I've made both full source tarballs and patches available. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 for links to download all the patches and the source tarball. If you decide to install the patches, please do read the release notes first: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=97760 See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://www.list.org http://mailman.sf.net Cheers, -Barry -------------------- snip snip -------------------- 2.0.12 (02-Jul-2002) - Implemented a guard against some reply loops and 'bot subscription attacks. Specifically, if a message to -request has a Precedence: bulk (or list, or junk) header, the command is ignored. Well-behaved 'bots should always include such a header. - Changes to the configure script so that you can pass in the mail host and web host by setting the environment variables MAILHOST and WWWHOST respectively. configure will also exit if it can't figure out these values (usually due to broken dns). - Closed another minor cross-site scripting vulnerability.

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errors
by Tom Lynch 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

I just installed Mailman on a Solaris 7 system. Python 2.2 wouldn't build so I used an already installed version 1.5.2. I got the following error: Jul 17 15:42:01 2002 qrunner(15261): File "/usr2/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py", line 124, in ParseMailCommands Jul 17 15:42:01 2002 qrunner(15261): ack = msg.get('x-ack', '').lower() Jul 17 15:42:01 2002 qrunner(15261): AttributeError : 'string' object has no attribute 'lower' I hacked the code and removed ".lower()" which seemed to help. Is this error due to my using the older version of Python? What problems can I expect due to the "hack"? Thanks, Tom

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Stop monthly password reminders?
by Josh Lothian 13 Aug '02

13 Aug '02

Hi all, Quick question: I've looked through most of the options available to a list admin, and I can't find one to disable the monthly password reminders. I know this sounds like a bad idea, but we have a secretary who maintains quite a few mailing lists for out department, and we'd like to switch her over to mailman. However, we probably don't want students to be able to unsubscribe themselves from certain of our announcement-type mailing lists. Any ideas? Am I missing something simple? Thanks much, Josh Lothian System Administrator University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science

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Re: [Mailman-Users] stripmime.pl
by Raquel Rice 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:07:25 -0400 (EDT) Fuzzy Fuzzy <fuzzy(a)pooh.ASARian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Chad Rebuck wrote: > > > Any idea how I can get mailmail to work with stripmime and > sendmail? > > <snip> > > assuming you are not using smrsh that should work > > A line from my aliases for list courage (2.1b2+ but the idea is > the same): > > courage: > "|/usr/local/bin/stripmime.pl|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post > courage" > > Fuzzy And if we are using smrsh?? -- Raquel ============================================================ One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. --P. J. O'Rourke

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./configure brakes on mailman 2.0.12
by Roberto Colon 05 Aug '02

05 Aug '02

Hello there folks: I am trying to install mailman in a Sun Solaris V9 Sparc Ultra 5 desktop. I have Python 2.2.1 install and running fine. When I try to execute the command "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mailman" it works for a few seconds and then brakes with this error: loading cache ./config.cache checking for --with-python... no checking for python... /usr/local/bin/python checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python checking Python version... 2.2.1 checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for true... /usr/bin/true checking for --without-gcc... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... cc checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... no checking whether cc accepts -g... yes checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... mailman checking for mailman UID... 1003 checking for --with-groupname... mailman checking for mailman GID... 507 checking permissions on /usr/local/mailman... okay checking for mail wrapper GID... 1 checking for CGI wrapper GID... 60001 checking for CGI extensions... no ./configure: test: unknown operator == I have installed and configure mailman 2.0.11 and I am trying to upgrade. I have stoped the old mailman version before I try to install the newone but that still won't work. Any thoughts???

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Retreiving e-mail list from Mailman / Reset Password?
by Devin Atencio 04 Aug '02

04 Aug '02

Is there a way in mailman to export a list of all currently subscribed users to a list? If so how is this done? Also if someone forgets the admin password to their list is there an easy way to reset the password for the list? Thanks in advance.

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Mailman question
by \"Katherine P. Casale\" 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I'm a new administrator for a listhost that you host, and I cannot figure out how to set the e-mail addressed for the members of the listhost. I'm in the Membership Management area, but on the Membership list it says "0 members total" and I can't figure out how to add people. Please help! Thanks! Kate -- ********************************** K A T H E R I N E P. C A S A L E THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ---------------------------------- 5521 South University Ave. Apt. 3 Chicago, IL 60637 Home:(773) 667-5287 Cell:(773) 230-9471 kcasale(a)uchicago.edu **********************************

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/etc/aliases in sendmail
by Larry Guest 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

Is there a better way to handle the mailman aliases instead of just editing my /etc/aliases file and running newaliases. When I get to over 200 lists its going to be a nightmare file. Thanks

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problems with email
by Becky Strathdee 02 Aug '02

02 Aug '02

I have created a list called "test" and added 3 email accounts. From the web interface which appears to be working great, when I setup the 3 accounts, Mailman sent the welcome email to all 3 of the email accounts. However, when I try to send an email to "test(a)praiseassembly.org", I get the email back with the following error message. ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <test(a)praiseassembly.org> (reason: 550 5.1.1 <test(a)praiseassembly.org>... User unknown) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.praiseassembly.org.: >>> RCPT To:<test(a)praiseassembly.org> <<< 550 5.1.1 <test(a)praiseassembly.org>... User unknown 550 5.1.1 <test(a)praiseassembly.org>... User unknown I checked the aliases and virtualalias files and cannot find any place where MailMan created the mail alias when it created the list. Any ideas you have would be most helpful.

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