Mailman 3 September 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] several addresses for one user
by Joerg Sommer Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

Odhiambo Washington wrote on Wed 04. Sep, 17:27 (+0300) : > * Joerg Sommer <joerg(a)alea.gnuu.de> [20020903 23:53]: wrote: > > Can I register a member ml-XX on a mailing list and give the addresses of > > persons I trust? So this persons can post, but don't receive mails. > > subscribe multiple addresses that you are sending from and set the others > not to receive mail. So you can post from any of the addresses but only > rcv mail on one, yes? This isn't the way I would prefer, but it is a way. Can I set this parameters in the subscribe mail? Joerg.

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Error messages going to entire list
by jdesalle Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

Mailman-2.1b3 running on RH 7.2 I have "DELIVERY ERROR:" and " MAILER-DEAMON" messages going to the entire list. I assume there is a way to only send these to the mailowner. The bounces are easy to fix but the the Error messages shouldn't go to the list. The other problem is The clients that have an out of the office message. These are looping to the list also and is driving the kind "BRUTAL" list users nut's. I must be missing this in the FAQ's or docs. Any help or direction to info I am missing would be much appreciated. JDesalle

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Delivery Error going to the entire list
by jdesalle Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

Mailman-2.1b3 running on RH 7.2 I have "DELIVERY ERROR:" and " MAILER-DEAMON" messages going to the entire list. I assume there is a way to only send these to the mailowner. The bounces are easy to fix but the the Error messages shouldn't go to the list. The other problem is The clients that have an out of the office message. These are looping to the list also and is driving the kind "BRUTAL" list users nut's. I must be missing this in the FAQ's or docs. Any help or direction to info I am missing would be much appreciated. JDesalle

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Install problems
by Alexander Czernay Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

Hi there! I hope I picked the right list. I'm trying to install Mailman on my Linux server running SuSE 7.2. I followed the install docs up to "make install". That produces the following errors that I don't know how to fix. Can anyone help me please? Thanks a lot Alexander Creating architecture independent directories... chmod o-r /home/mailman/archives/private Creating architecture dependent directories... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/bin' for f in digest_arch mmsitepass newlist rmlist add_members list_members remove_members clone_member update arch sync_members check_db withlist check_perms find_member version move_list config_list list_lists dumpdb; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f /home/mailman/bin; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/bin' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/cron' for f in checkdbs crontab.in mailpasswds senddigests gate_news nightly_gzip qrunner bumpdigests; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/cron; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/cron' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/filters' for f in bowa-strip; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/filters; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/filters' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/misc' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 Cookie.py /home/mailman/Mailman /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 *.jpg *.png /home/mailman/icons for d in bin cron scripts; \ do \ dir=/home/mailman/$d; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 paths.py $dir; \ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 664 pending_subscriptions.db /home/mailman/data make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/misc' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/Mailman' for f in *.py; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/Mailman; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/Mailman' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/scripts' for f in answer_majordomo_mail mailcmd mailowner post driver; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/scripts; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/scripts' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/src' for f in admin admindb edithtml options listinfo subscribe roster handle_opts private; \ do \ exe=/home/mailman/cgi-bin/$f; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f $exe; \ chmod g+s $exe; \ done for f in wrapper; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f /home/mailman/mail; \ chmod g+s /home/mailman/mail/$f; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/src' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/templates' for f in *.html *.txt; \ do \ mv -f /home/mailman/templates/$f /home/mailman/templates/$f.prev || /bin/true; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/templates; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/templates'

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password reminder question
by Christopher Adams Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

I have a question about password reminders. This system sends out montly password reminders. Below is the header and footer of a message to a user. Note that it comes from 'jog-admin' (another list we host) and is for a subscriber of the 'currdir' list. It appears that it sent the correct information to the right person, but why does it appear to be coming from 'jog-admin'? Is this a feature or a bug in Mailman? > -----Original Message----- > From: jog-admin(a)webhost.osl.state.or.us > [mailto:jog-admin@webhost.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of > mailman-owner(a)webhost.osl.state.or.us > Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 5:30 AM > To: penny_alby(a)parkrose.k12.or.us > Subject: webhost.osl.state.or.us mailing list memberships reminder > List Password // URL > ---- -------- > currdir(a)webhost.osl.state.or.us bogus > Christopher Adams Automated Systems Oregon State Library 503-378-4243 x258 chris.a.adams(a)state.or.us

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Installation Problems
by Angel Gabriel Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

I've just installed mail man, followed the instructions, but I'm at a loss as how to access the web interface! Please, could someone give me a hand!

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Mailman Functionalty
by Angel Gabriel Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

After managing to install mailman, I would like to implement the following. I want someone to be able to send an email to an address in my domain, and be automaticaly added to the mailing list. I'm only going to be running one list. I also want bounce protection to be added, and I would like to be able to download the list and save it or add address to it. Is the above possible? Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Internal Server Error
by marina Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

At 11:51 AM -0400 2/9/02 [dmy], barry(a)python.org (Barry A. Warsaw) wrote about [Subject] Re: [Mailman-Users] Internal Server Error: >>>>>> "marina" == <marina(a)reliance.it> writes: > > marina> I was wondering whether there's any information available > marina> on possible reasons for 500 Internal Server Errors, apart > marina> from mailman's locks. > >Internal Server Errors come from the web server, so you should check >its logs for clues. > >-Barry Thank you, I know that. Sorry if I didn't make my question clear enough. What I would like to know is if there's any clues on what might cause 500 server errors when a list administrator tries to update the admindb queue. I maintain the list, but have no access to the web server logs, and the sie administrator hasn't been able to find out what causes these random errors. I don't know, and I'm only guessing here, but I would think that if the log had an explanation of what happened, fixing the error wouldn't be a problem for the site administrator. Am I wrong in assuming that the error in the Web server is caused by something mailman does, and could therefore be avoided if we knew (and could fix) what mailman is doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any suggestions, marina Co-ListMum, Soap Naturally mailing list <http://www.soapnaturally.org/>

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It works one day then stops working until I reinstall
by Emmanuel Brun d'Aubignosc Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

Dear Mailman users, I installed Mailman from sources on a FreeBSD 4.6.2 machine. I installed the latest version of Python (2.2.1), apache 1.3.26 (with mod_perl, mod_ssl, php4.2.2) all from sources. I followed all the instructions for the Mailman installation. I created 2 lists. One test list and a production list. Both seemed to work quite well. When a user registered, he got an email for confirmation. When he posted a message he got an answer saying that it needed to be approved, when a post on the test list was approved, it was sent to every one ... There are about 10 000 emails in the production list. When I do a post to this list, it seems that it is not delivered to every email address. But that's not the most important thing. The next day, when I do a post a message to either list, I don't get any answer and the message is not added to the pending requests for approval.When I subscribe a new email address through the "general list info" page, I don't get any confirmation mail. However, if I add that address manually using the Membership Management page, I do get a welcome message. I two words, after a big mailling, users cannot to any postings nor add their email address to the list and the post hasn't been sent to all emails, it becomes unusable. I already reinstalled it about 4 or 5 times and I got the same problems each time. Thank you for your help

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Install problems
by Alexander Czernay Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

Hi there! I hope I picked the right list. I'm trying to install Mailman on my Linux server running SuSE 7.2. I followed the install docs up to "make install". That produces the following errors that I don't know how to fix. Can anyone help me please? Thanks a lot Alexander Creating architecture independent directories... chmod o-r /home/mailman/archives/private Creating architecture dependent directories... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/bin' for f in digest_arch mmsitepass newlist rmlist add_members list_members remove_members clone_member update arch sync_members check_db withlist check_perms find_member version move_list config_list list_lists dumpdb; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f /home/mailman/bin; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/bin' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/cron' for f in checkdbs crontab.in mailpasswds senddigests gate_news nightly_gzip qrunner bumpdigests; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/cron; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/cron' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/filters' for f in bowa-strip; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/filters; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/filters' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/misc' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 Cookie.py /home/mailman/Mailman /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 *.jpg *.png /home/mailman/icons for d in bin cron scripts; \ do \ dir=/home/mailman/$d; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 paths.py $dir; \ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 664 pending_subscriptions.db /home/mailman/data make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/misc' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/Mailman' for f in *.py; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/Mailman; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/Mailman' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/scripts' for f in answer_majordomo_mail mailcmd mailowner post driver; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/scripts; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/scripts' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/src' for f in admin admindb edithtml options listinfo subscribe roster handle_opts private; \ do \ exe=/home/mailman/cgi-bin/$f; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f $exe; \ chmod g+s $exe; \ done for f in wrapper; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 $f /home/mailman/mail; \ chmod g+s /home/mailman/mail/$f; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/src' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mailman/templates' for f in *.html *.txt; \ do \ mv -f /home/mailman/templates/$f /home/mailman/templates/$f.prev || /bin/true; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /home/mailman/templates; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mailman/templates'

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