Mailman 3 August 2002 - Mailman-Users

import feature
by Bjorn-Ivar Sigbjornsen 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hi I have been looking at the Mail Man program you offer and it looks really interesting. As I already have subscribers to another mailinglist, I wonder if it's possible to import the existing subscribers directly into Mail Man? I also wonder if the Plain Digests mode means that you can post a newsletter that is not being sent out immediately, but say 6 hours later? That way I can send it out during the night. One last thing. Is it possible to set it up as an announce list only, so replies don't go out to all subscribers? Thanks for your help! Best, Bjorn-Ivar

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high resource usage
by Roelf Schreurs 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hi Running the newest mailman on FreeBSD 4.4 I get a high resource usage on our server. PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 67216 mailman 64 0 58196K 53356K RUN 0:55 65.77% 65.77% python [root@dmx cur]# ps aux | grep 67216 mailman 67216 67.1 5.1 55288 53700 ?? R 10:18AM 1:16.68 qrunner /opt/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArcRunner:0:1 -s (python) Any reason why this is so high? Thanks Roelf

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Arabic Support + Full Customization
by Bu Marwan 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hello All. I have two questions to ask, 1- Does the mailman list support Arabic E-mails? I mean if I have installed the system on my server and have setup a mailing list and got subscribers. Can I send an Arabic e-mail to them? 2- Is the System fully custumizable? Can I customize the look and the text found in the subscribing pages, the confirmation e-mails, .. etc? Thanks for your help and concern. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Permissions denied
by David Gitman 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

I'm receiving the following error message from cron. /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/checkdbs Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 92, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 59, in main mlist.Save() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 860, in Save self.SaveRequestsDb() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 93, in SaveRequestsDb self.__closedb() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 80, in __closedb fp = open(self.__filename, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/mailman/lists/workhouse-publicity/request.db' Executing a "./check_perms" resulted in "No problems found". Any suggestions? [-d]

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how to mass unsubscribe members
by David Luu 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi, I know there is a mass subscribe option in membership management to subscribe people. Is there also a way to mass unsubscribe these people? David _____________________________________________________________ <a href="www.iqseek.com"> IQSeek </a>- The Smart Way to Search _____________________________________________________________ Promote your group and strengthen ties to your members with email(a)yourgroup.org by Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net/?btn=tag

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problem with repeating admin message
by Andrew Clelland 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

I'm fairly new to this program and haven't been able to find a solution to this problem. I keep getting messages saying that "The Info(a)blahblah.com mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: http://bahamas.dnsvault.com/mailman/admindb/blah blhsdh Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. Pending posts: From: somebody(a)hotmail.com on Fri Aug 23 12:28:00 2002 Cause: Message has implicit destination" But yet when I follow the link in the email, to get to the pending requests it says that I have none. I receive the above email everyday at 5:01 yet everytime there are no pending requests contrary to what the message says. can anyone offer a solution? Andrew

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Problem
by MaX 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi, I installed mailman some hours ago, it seems to work but I have a problem with Postfix and I have this error : "<test(a)lists.dstiny.net>: mail for lists.dstiny.net loops back to myself" I don't find any solution... Can you help me ? I run : Linux dstiny.net 2.4.18 #1 Wed Jul 17 18:28:39 CEST 2002 i686 unknown mailman 2.0.13 thanks you very much in advance for you answer... MaX

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web server user conflict
by Michael Geary 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi folks, I sense that this may be a FAQ, but I can't find a clear source of information about it. I am running mailman with Postfix and Apache. Everything seems to be okay. I have created a user and group called "mailman" and changed the ownership of everything in the main mailman director (/usr/local/mailman) to mailman:mailman. However, whenever I use the web-based admin tools, the ownership of files: -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 4094 Aug 26 14:29 config.db -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 4094 Aug 26 14:29 config.db.last changes to: -rw-rw---- 1 www mailman 4094 Aug 26 14:29 config.db -rw-rw---- 1 www mailman 4094 Aug 26 14:29 config.db.last and I then get permission errors from the cron job "qrunner" until I change permissions back to mailman:mailman. I suspect that something needed to be done with the -gid or -uid configure options, but the INSTALL notes weren't clear enough for me. Could anyone help? Thanks, michael geary

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Resetting list admin password if list admin forgot password
by David Luu 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi, Is there an easy way to overide a list admin password and reset it to a default password if the admin forgets the password? Changing the password by finding the password within the program scripts would be quite a bother. Would be nice if mailman has admin/moderator feature like in forums where moderator has most of the important features of admin but admin is the top guy. So admin has final control over things. We want to give users admin access but need to be able to access admin functions in case user forgets password. Like resetting password in Linux. Any help is appreciated. David _____________________________________________________________ <a href="www.iqseek.com"> IQSeek </a>- The Smart Way to Search _____________________________________________________________ Promote your group and strengthen ties to your members with email(a)yourgroup.org by Everyone.net http://www.everyone.net/?btn=tag

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additional forms in signup
by Ken Grunke 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

I have approval required for new subscriptions to my list, and I manually send a message to the requester asking for some basic info about them before approving. Just want to keep spammers to an absolute minimum. Using the "Edit the HTML for the public list pages" feature, can I add additional forms in the info page for my list, to ask for the name and some basic info on the person requesting a subscription, besides just the email and password? And have it mailed to me as listadmin? I'm on a shared hosting environment, and don't have access to the Mailman application. Thanks, Ken Grunke http://www.crwoodturner.com

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