Mailman 3 September 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password Reminders
by J C Lawrence 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 17:45:26 -0500 Doc Schneider <maddoc(a)maddoc.net> wrote: > I thought this was fixed by upgrading to MM 2.0.12 > Is there a fix for this? v2.1 -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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Password Reminders
by Doc Schneider 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

For some unknown reason when Mailman sends out its monthly passwd reminders it is sending them with the first list that it comes to... in this case cats@ It is buried in the headers of the messages, as the envelope sender and as the Sender: Errors-To: and X-BeenThere: I thought this was fixed by upgrading to MM 2.0.12 Is there a fix for this? Thanks, -- -Doc --- MomNDoc Online Consultants http://www.maddoc.net/ maddoc(a)maddoc.net

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Some problems
by Patrick Schoenfeld 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

Hi people, i tried to setup mailman this evening and had some problems and i hope you can help me :-) 1. I want to run the list at lists.domain.xy not at domain.xy and i couldn't find out how to realise that 2. I can access the webadministration via http://domain.xy/mailman/admin but every link is wrong. e.g. it's not http://domain.xy/mailman/admin/test but http://domain.xy/admin/test I've used following settings in $PREFIX/Mailman/mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'lists.domain.xy' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://domain.xy./mailman/' PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' 3. If i send a mail to any list e.g. test(a)domain.xy it comes back the MTA mail contains: test(a)domain.xy Child process of list_transport transport returned 2 from command: /usr/mailman/mail/wrapper I checked which GID ./configure takes when i don't specify it and it matches my system (apache is running under GID 33 and exim under GID 8 - that's what ./configure of mailman says and that's totally true) Something more about my current system configuration: I'm running it on a Debian system with exim as MTA configured like i where told in README.EXIM The used httpd is apache which is configured like following: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /usr/mailman/archives/public/ I had to remove the Exec Line that i were told in the online installation instructions and added a the following Directory directive instead cause apache refused to start with that line. <Directory /usr/mailman/cgi-bin> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Ok, that should be all neccessary information, if you have any questions that would help you to help me just ask them. Thanks for any help -Patrick

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists with spaces in the name
by J C Lawrence 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:30:35 -0400 Kevin Flanagan <kflanagan(a)nc.rr.com> wrote: > 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. Spaces are not allowed in the LHS of email addresses. See RFC 2822 for details. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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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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public listname case? + system pass?
by Paul Reilly 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

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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