Mailman 3 August 2002 - Mailman-Users

mailman postfix howto
by fanatic Sept. 14, 2002

Sept. 14, 2002

hi ppl :) I don't know whether this is the right place to ask ... but anyway : does any of you have a good howto to make mailman run with postfix and debian ? many thanx in advance ------ fan98(a)gmx.net

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SMTPDirect?
by Alex Lau Sept. 6, 2002

Sept. 6, 2002

Is this protocol able to send external email? Thanks Alex

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Re: [Mailman-Users] changing DEFAULT_HOST_NAME after creating lists
by John P. Looney Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:08:09PM -0500, David F. Reed mentioned: > There is a place in the overall configuration (one of the .py scripts) > that you can change the entry of all of them... > > On a RedHat 7.3 system, it is /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py > On other systems, I would think a locate mailman|grep mm_cfg.py > would find it.. > > Edit variable DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = <new host name> > > > Good luck; if you have a moent for it, > I am curious how you moved all the lists, archives, etc. The problem is that this variable is only accessed when the list is created - so for all new lists, the DEFAULT_HOST_NAME will be correct. In the end, I just went to the web page of all sixty lists, and changed them manually. John

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archive stats
by Waldchen, Erick (VIPTechSprt) Sept. 3, 2002

Sept. 3, 2002

Thank you for the very excellent Mailman. It's been rock-solid for the past 5 months I've been using it. My only wish is for a way to generate statistics on list how the list is being used. (top posters, top subjects, top posting times, etc.) My users really get into the "numbers" thing, if you know what I mean ;) If I was a programmer I would try to write something that parses the archives and would generate an HTML stats page, but I don't have the skills for something like that. Does such a program exist for Mailman? I've searched extensively online but haven't found anything yet. Thanks for your time, Sincerely, Erick Waldchen

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Error in *eMail* rejecting a moderation request?
by Johannes Posel Sept. 2, 2002

Sept. 2, 2002

Dear Mailman-users, I'm running Mailman 2.1b3, and it works fine after a few install headaches ;) My MTA is Exim v3.36, and I've set it up according to README.EXIM. Now, a list moderator got an approval request[1] for a message held in the mod queue, which had inside these instructions as well[2]. The subject was "confirm ..." with some sort of code in it. He wanted to try it, but got only an error back: > The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your > original message. > > - Results: > Invalid confirmation string. Note that confirmation strings expire > approximately 3 days after the initial subscription request. If your > confirmation has expired, please try to re-submit your original request or > message. > > - Unprocessed: > > If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, > > Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is > > spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header > > with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting > > to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line > > of the body of the reply. > - Done. Is this some kind of bug or error in my setup? As he rightly points out, if Mailman provides him with an eMail based moderation, he'd really want to use it. Thanks for any input! Cheers, Johannes mailto:posel@inf.fu-berlin.de [1] As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: Cafe@xyz From: somebody(a)someplace.tld Subject: Hi Reason: Posts by member are currently quarantined for moderation At your convenience, visit: http://stromgrade.its-toasted.org/mailman/admindb/cafe to approve or deny the request. [2] If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply.

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Re: Exim 4.05 & Mailiman - Missing the Directors Configuration (update)
by Mike Gifford Sept. 1, 2002

Sept. 1, 2002

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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public listname case? + system pass?
by Paul Reilly Sept. 1, 2002

Sept. 1, 2002

2 questions: 1) when i create a new list with 'newlist -q mylist paul(a)paul.com mypass' it creates the list fine, but it always changes the case of the listname to uppercase. ie "mylist" becomes "Mylist". This means I need to go in to the web interface to change it back to lower case every time. How do I stop this from happening? What code needs to be edited ? I'm using mailman 2.0.13 2) Is there/how does the global admin password work? I want to delegate list management to the list owners, but still have a password that will get me in to the admin section of any list. How do I implement this? Thanks

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Lists with spaces in the name
by Kevin Flanagan Aug. 31, 2002

Aug. 31, 2002

It appears that a list with a space in the name isn't quite happy, has anyone else had this trouble? I created a new list with - in place of the space and all is well. TIA, Kevin

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HTML Emails
by Norman Campbell Aug. 31, 2002

Aug. 31, 2002

I currently have several lists being hosted by another company using Mailman 2.1b2. We want the capability to send html email. When I send the email, it is received as attachments only. Nothing is in the body of the email. Is there a way so that the email is received with the html in the body of the message? Thanks, Norm Campbell Information & Technology Manager NBTA 703.684.0836

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Trying to debug "All recipients refused:..."
by Booker Aug. 30, 2002

Aug. 30, 2002

Greetings, I'm having problems with this mailing list I'm trying to setup. Initially the list worked fine until I added more users. Here's what I have in my configs and my logs. I'm guessing that the MTA or SMTP server is doing the refusing. in logs/smtp Aug 30 14:16:30 2002 (21555) All recipients refused: Server not connected Aug 30 14:16:30 2002 (21555) smtp for 1991 recips, completed in 328.470 seconds in mm_cfg.py SMTPHOST = 'virtaul.smtp.host.net' #bunch of smtp servers we have load balanced SMTPPORT = 25 # default from smtplib Is there an option that I can turn on so that the output in logs/smtp is more verbose? Mahalo, Booker

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