Mailman 3 July 2002 - Mailman-Users

Understanding "nomail"
by Christian Tismer July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

Hi Barry, I have a short question concerning Mailman and "nomail". 12 out of 145 members of my Stackless list have the "nomail" flag set. I see this flag can be set from the config UI, but I also think to remember that mailman sets this flag after being unable to deliver emails for a while? Now I would like to reach these members and to figure out if they are still interested or just don't think of the list since they never get any messages. Is it correct to switch nomail off for them and … [View More]

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Machine name problems
by Jessica Perry Hekman July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

I recently installed mailman on a Debian 3.0 machine (to which I do have sudo root access, but only because the admins are nice to me, and I am not really allowed to change much). I set up a test list: test: "|/etc/mail/smrsh/mailman_wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/etc/mail/smrsh/mailman_wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "|/etc/mail/smrsh/mailman_wrapper mailcmd test" test-owner: test-admin When I send mail to test, something … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] command line script for list creation
by Detlef Neubauer July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

Larry Guest <larry(a)guestfamily.com> writes: > What I need is a script that not only makes the list for you (like > "newlist") but will then ask you about the different option you can set for > the list. Things like, list name, list prefix, list footers, Kb messages > size, members, etc. I think i wouldt only go with the webinterface. Or you define it for all new lists in mm-cfg.py. > Also it would be great if it could show you what it > will add to the /etc/alias … [View More]

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numbers of Mail Subscribers...
by Aris Santillan July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

hello where can i locate the copy of the email subscribers? i need the flat files where the list of email subscribers per list Aris Santillan

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HTdig intergration pb
by Odhiambo Washington July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

Maybe someone who has successfully intergrated HTDig and Mailman can help me. I've been trying to get this to work but problems keep creeping in. I've followed the INSTALL.htdig-mm (almost to the letter) but I do feel I am not quite correct in the setting that I have and so I get errors like this: htdig: Unable to find configuration file '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/elections-2002/htdig/elections-2002.conf' htmerge: Unable to find configuration file '/usr/local/mailman/archives/… [View More]

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Mailman + HTDig cron issue
by Odhiambo Washington July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

Since I am not a python coder, I thought I may ask the list about this: ----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon ----- Subject: Cron <mailman@ns2> /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig", line 52, in ? from Mailman.Archiver import HyperArch File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 855 "htdig_extras" = mm_cfg.HTDIG_EXTRAS, ^ … [View More]

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Mailman and News server
by vinod bartakke July 29, 2002

July 29, 2002

Hi All, I am new to Mailman (and this list too). I have a Red Hat 7.2 box running Mailman 2.0.6-1 and news server(INN 2.3.2-5). I want to integrate Mailman with this news server so that users can access/post/modify NEWS from the web interface of the Mailman. Is it possible? if yes, how to configure it? or where can I get the relevent information (URLs) ? Thanks a lot in advance, Regards, Vin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on … [View More]

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Mailman & Exim 4.05
by Mike Gifford July 28, 2002

July 28, 2002

Hello, I'm trying to set up mailman-2.0.12 on a RH 7.2 system using exim 4.05. The main problem that I am having is that I believe your instructions for setting up mailman & exim are 3.x specific. If this isn't the case, please let me know, but I could not find a Directors config file section in 4.05, but could find one prominently in 3.33. I have tried to just 'stuff' the config info that didn't fit neatly into the file into the exim config file, but that definitely didn't work. Any … [View More]

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Mailman/exim lockfile and uid problems
by Eric D Nielsen July 28, 2002

July 28, 2002

I appear to be having common problems judging from the search results on this lists archives, but most of the posts received no replies. I've installed Mailman and exim on a Debian (woody) box using apt-get. I've read through README.Debian and README.Exim and made the required changes to my exim.conf and httpd.conf file. The mailing list administration pages are all functioning. I've created a list using newlist and added the entries it listed to /etc/aliases. The email to list … [View More]administrator arrived properly on remote account. Mail sent to the list (or -request) is getting lost in exim. The first time I tried to send a message exim's mainlog showed: 2002-07-28 18:34:50 17Ywck-0000Ub-00 <= nielsene(a)MIT.EDU H=pacific-carrier-annex .mit.edu [18.7.21.83] P=esmtp S=1201 id=200207282236.SAA24007(a)magic-pi-ball.mit. edu 2002-07-28 18:34:50 17Ywck-0000Ub-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/w rapper mailcmd test with no entries in rejectlog or paniclog Later mailings to the list generate: 2002-07-28 19:08:01 Start queue run: pid=2084 2002-07-28 19:08:01 17Ywck-0000Ub-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/w rapper mailcmd test 2002-07-28 19:08:01 End queue run: pid=2084 2002-07-28 19:08:01 17Yx8r-0000Xf-00 <= mail(a)ballroom.mit.edu U=mail P=local S=7 07 2002-07-28 19:08:02 17Yx8r-0000Xf-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spoo l/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8) 2002-07-28 19:08:02 17Yx8r-0000Xf-00 => nielsene(a)mit.edu <mail(a)ballroom.mit.edu> R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp H=PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.mit.edu [18.7.21.83] 2002-07-28 19:08:02 17Yx8r-0000Xf-00 Completed With the following in paniclog: 2002-07-28 19:08:01 17Ywck-0000Ub-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/w rapper mailcmd test ls -l of /var/spool/exim/db total 8 -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 4096 Jul 27 00:53 retry -rw-r----- 1 mail mail 0 Jul 27 00:53 retry.lockfile -rw-r----- 1 root root 4096 Jul 27 01:05 wait-remote_smtp -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 27 01:05 wait-remote_smtp.lockfile The wait-remote_* were initially owned by mail and according to exim.org should stillbe owned by mail. If I chown them back to mail:mail the first error message regarding the lockfile disppears on the first message sent, but then they revert root:root and that error returns. The lists here and on exim.org mention that the second problem, ("Neither the system_aslias director ... set a uid...") is caused by missing a user = username entry for the _transports. All the transports have the user = MAILMAN_UID line as directed by the README.Exim. MAILMAN_UID has been set to both list (as suggested in README.Exim) and to mail as sugested on the exim.org lists. In all cases, the same error message result. The directors portion mentions that order matters, yet the README does not specifiy where they should go. I've tried a few positions (beginning, end, middle) again none work. What key point have I been missing? Eric [View Less]

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mailman idea.
by mailman＠cloudtown.com July 28, 2002

July 28, 2002

I know I have created a maillist for all my friends so if I am leaving I can email them all at once. I just run into the problem every now and then that i can remember whose emails is whose. Is there a way to add an option for people to maybe enter there there name, be it first with last initial or someting. Just something to help identify whose email is whose?? Thanks. LB

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