Mailman 3 September 2002 - Mailman-Users

Mailman List admin password not working anymore?
by Chris Joelly 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

Hello all! i have problems with some of my list admin passwords. I cannot login on the admin page with my passwords, but i have dumpdb'ed the config.db files, and if i compare the hash code of the encrypted passwords (i recalculate them with perl's crypt) with the stored password then they appear as the same password. I have also found one posting on an python list regarding something changed in python, which affects the list admin password on mailman. Can anybody tell me how to restore or set new passwords for mailman list admins? Thanx, Chris -- Chris Joelly

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How do I ...
by Nestlerv＠aol.com 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

configure the mailing list so that no users can post. I want is only as a vehicle for me to be able to distribute information to people who subscribe to my list. Thanks

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Showing number of posts
by John Wards 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

Hi, If there a way of showing the number of posts each user has done on a list? If this is not in built can someone point me in the right direction of where it start? I don't know any python but I am willing and able to learn. I know PHP could I do it using PHP? Cheers John Wards Sportnetwork.net

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log directories exceed 64K
by Mark Gillingham 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

Most of the files in /var/log/mailman/ are empty and I don't understand why the format is of many directories with numbers (e.g., post.5.4.3.2.1). This came to get me this weekend when our local telco cut our line and many extra logfiles were created because mail could not be sent or received. The number of directories exceed 64K and caused my system to stop. Can I erase all of these logs? Why are the created in this way? Where can I read about them? Mark

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Asking users more questions
by John Wards 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

Hi I need to ask users and store more things than just a users email address. So in sign up they get asked Telephone, Address, email etc. Is this possible and which files would I need to start hacking at? Cheers John Wards SportNetwork.net

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.htaccess
by Daz 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

Hi I am thinking of putting some sort of security on the Mailman archives to stop harvesting of email addresses etc. I have set up a .htaccess file at the same level as the index.html page of the archives (/archives/public/nameoflist/) but this does not seem to work. Has anybody else set this up successfully? Am I using hte correct directory? Regards Daz

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cookies on beta version
by william+mm＠hq.newdream.net 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

I just started testing the beta version of mailman (2.1b3 in this case) on one of my machines. My friend was complaining about having to re-authenticate each time in OS X IE. He was able to fix the problem by switching to Mozilla. However, now, I'm having hte same problem. I'm using Mozilla 1.0 on FreeBSD, and yes... cookies are enabled. I'm asked to re-authenticate every time I switch to a different page. If I remove my cookies.txt file and restart Mozilla, the problem seems to go away - I'll write back if the problem turns back up. I also noticed it's *really* hard to download the beta version from the Mailman site - is this intentional? Even if I go to the specific site for the beta version, the only links I can find are to the sourceforge page (where I was able to download the beta), or the link to the stable version. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >

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does not send emails
by Atlas 26 Sep '02

26 Sep '02

List no longer sends emails, but archive is updated. Need help. using latest version and I am getting the following error in /var/log/mailman/smtp Sep 25 19:00:03 2002 (11605) All recipients refused: host not found Sep 25 19:00:03 2002 (11605) All recipients refused: host not found Sep 25 19:00:03 2002 (11605) smtp for 18 recips, completed in 0.011 seconds Sep 25 19:01:00 2002 (11619) All recipients refused: host not found Sep 25 19:01:00 2002 (11619) All recipients refused: host not found Sep 25 19:01:00 2002 (11619) smtp for 18 recips, completed in 0.012 seconds Sep 25 19:02:00 2002 (11623) All recipients refused: host not found Sep 25 19:02:00 2002 (11623) All recipients refused: host not found Sep 25 19:02:00 2002 (11623) smtp for 18 recips, completed in 0.011 seconds and in smtp-failure Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1 xxxx(a)somthing.com (ignore) Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1 xxx (ignore) Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1xxxx (ignore) Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1 xxxxx (ignore) Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1 xxxxx (ignore) Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1 xxxxxx(ignore) Sep 25 19:03:01 2002 (11663) -1 xxxxxx (ignore) and in post Sep 25 19:04:01 2002 (11667) post to moonwalkers from xxxx@xxxx, size=906,18 failures

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem
by Know How 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

Jon, Thanks for the reply again. When i run qrunner from mailman i see following messages shown below are logged into mailman log files (three logs files, those are smtp-failure, post and smtp). For every qrunner i run from mailman account I see ignore in smtp-failure log file, i see failures in post log file and getaddrinfo failed in smtp log file. As i said in the earlier mail that qrunner does not process any messages in qfiles when run as mailman user, and it runs fine from root. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- in logs/smtp-failure $ tail smtp-failure Sep 25 14:07:04 2002 (24204) -1 padhp(a)hotmail.com (ignore) Sep 25 14:07:07 2002 (24204) -1 beteachable(a)hotmail.com (ignore) in logs/post file $ cat post Sept 25 14:07:04 2002 (24204) post to test from test-request(a)mailman.mydomain.com, size=674, 1 failures Sep 25 14:07:07 2002 (24204) post to test from test-admin(a)mailman.mydomain.com, size=3138, 7 failures Sep 25 14:07:08 2002 (24204) post to test from mailman-owner(a)mailman.mydomain.com, size=1346, 1 failures Sep 25 14:07:08 2002 (24204) post to ntistest from test-request(a)mailman.mydomain.com, size=1231, 1 failures in logs/smtp file $ cat smtp Sep 25 14:07:04 2002 (24204) All recipients refused: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed') Sep 25 14:07:04 2002 (24204) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.131 seconds Sep 25 14:07:07 2002 (24204) All recipients refused: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed') Sep 25 14:07:07 2002 (24204) All recipients refused: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed') Sep 25 14:07:07 2002 (24204) smtp for 7 recips, completed in 0.133 seconds Sep 25 14:07:08 2002 (24204) All recipients refused: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed') Sep 25 14:07:08 2002 (24204) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.103 seconds Sep 25 14:07:08 2002 (24204) All recipients refused: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed') Sep 25 14:07:08 2002 (24204) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.093 seconds ------------------------------------------------------------------ Does anybody know what the problem?? Thanks again >From: Jon Carnes <jonc(a)nc.rr.com> >To: Know How <beteachable(a)hotmail.com> >CC: mailman-users(a)python.org >Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem >Date: 25 Sep 2002 10:44:49 -0400 > >It is a rights issue. Have you run the check_perms program to look for >any rights issues? > >On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:01, Know How wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed mailman 2.0.13 and HP-UX 11.00. The messages in the > > qfiles directory does not get processed. I have entry in crontab for >mailman > > account to run qrunner every 1 min. Here is the entry: > > > > * * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /opt/mailman-2.0.13/cron/qrunner > > > > Python version 2 > > > > But when i run from the command line from root it sends out the messages >in > > qfiles, but if i run it from command line as mailman it does not process >any > > of the messages. > > > > Anybody know what the problem is??? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users mailing list > > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > Searchable Archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Mail List Encryption
by Wang, Mary Y 25 Sep '02

25 Sep '02

Hi, I do I setup Mailman so that all emails being sent out are encrypted? Or do I need to specify this in the Sendmail? Any clue? Thanks for any inputs. Mary

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