Mailman 3 November 2003 - Mailman-Users

Problems moving lists from old to new server
by Gordon Campbell 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Afternoon all. I'm the process of upgrading our main departmental server from an old and crotchety Sparc Server 10 to a nice dual-Athloon redhat box and have run into a minor glitch in moving mailman. I have sucessfully moved the lists over and and everything appears to be there except in the web interface side of things: the list of lists refuses to re-populate. I cannot get the list on either the admin script page or the listinfo page. Have I missed a command in the upgrade process? Cheers, .....G -- ***************************************************** ** Gordon Campbell ** ** Computer Systems Administrator ** ** Department of Physics, Queen's University ** ** Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 ** ** (613) 533-6000 x74781 ** ** gordon(a)physics.queensu.ca ** ** perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2), \ ** ** sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' ** *****************************************************

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No mail going out to lists members with RH 8 RPM
by florian＠teamx.ch 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hello This is my first step with the Mailinglist. - I have try it to install mailman with the RPM mailman-2.0.13-3.i386.rpm - My system ist RedHat 8.0 whit sendmail My problem is: The installation was succsesfully. /var/mailman/bin/check_perms was succsesfully. The admin Web-Page is ready. When i join a new Member, then he become a Mail. The maillog ist also ok. But when i send a Mail to the Maillist-Adress it doesn\'t works and the Mail going in the root Inbox. No mail going out to lists members! Can anybody help me? Sorry for my bad english thx Florian

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Easy Install Instructions for Mailman and (exim, postfix or sendmail)
by Mike Gifford 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hello, I did manage to get mailman set up to run with sendmail & wanted to report back to the list on what was useful. First, Todd's advice to comment out the DAEMON_OPTIONS in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl (Two comments on this - what an odd way to comment out something and also, the inline instructions in the rpm aren't all that clear - "Remove the loopback dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet." - why not just say comment out the line below???) I also kept looking for setup/install instructions within the Mailman Documentation list here (doesn't seem to be an option): http://www.list.org/docs.html Searching the whole faq here though provided some very useful info: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all These were particularly helpful: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#5.5 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#1.7 I did try exim & postfix, but couldn't get either to work.. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://www.openconcept.ca Stop Cdn Pension Plan War Investments -> http://coat.openconcept.ca/ Another world is not only possible, she is on her way -Arundhati Roy

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having trouble getting mailman to work correctly on Debian
by Scott Berry 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi there list, I am having some trouble setting up mailman on a Debian system with kernel 2.4.22 with Speakup a screen reader for Linux included in the kernel. I am very new to Linux and think I can handle this I read the documentation but I am getting lost as to put what where. If someone would be kind enough to help me off list I would appreciate it. Thanks much. Scott Berry

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mailman
by Detlef Kroeze 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hello, I have a question concerning Mailman. I have created a mailinglist with 35 users. The users very offen receive an errormessage that they are not allowed to post to the mailinglist, althought there emailadres is correct. I tried to solve this to allow non-members to post but the message stil comes (not always) - I use mailman 2.1.2 - I didn't install the code myself, it was an option in my cpanel. - i do not have shell access so i can't install it myself. Any suggestions? Regards, Detlef Kroeze The Netherlands email : dwkroeze(a)onetelnet.nl

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URLs incorrect on private mailing list archive index pages
by Andy Smith 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi, I just moved a bunch of lists running under Mailman 2.0.8 on Linux over to Mailman 2.1.3 on FreeBSD. After following the INSTALL and UPGRADING notes almost everything seems to have gone well, except for the private list archives. When I go to http://lists.example.com/private/listname/ I get the archive by-month overview page as expected, but the links miss out the list name and do not work. For example, one link might be http://lists.example.com/private/2003-November/thread.html when I expect the list name between the "/private/" and the "/2003-November". Public lists seem to be unaffected and are still perfectly navigable via the /pipermail URL. When moving these lists from one installation to another all I did was move the private/listname.mbox directories and then run "bin/arch listname" for each list. Hopefully someone will have some idea what I have missed here. A quick search of the archives of this list didn't show anything hopeful, but if I didn't look hard enough I'm sorry; please give me the URL. If you need any more information, please ask! Regards, Andy

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2 questions about mailman
by Damar Thapa, ICT Technician 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi, I just completed mailman installation under RH9.0, and seems it is working fine. While I go through the documentations, I would like to ask the list the following questions: 1. Not all our list users are capable of going to the list URL and subscribe to the list. Can List Manager/Administrator simply put the list of email addresses as subscribers? If possible,how and where it can be done? 2. As a school, we would like to keep some of our lists within our domain (subscriptions to be allowed only from our school email addresses!). Is it possible? Any pointers would be highly appreciated. Regards, Damar Thapa ICT Technician, Kennedy School _________________________________________________

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Easy Install Instructions for Mailman and (exim, postfix or sendmail)
by Mike Gifford 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Todd <Freedom_Lover(a)pobox.com> wrote: > Mike Gifford wrote: > > RH 8.0 - upgraded with apt-get > > mailman-2.1.1-4 > > sendmail-8.12.8-9.90 > > postfix-1.1.12-1 > [...] > > Tweaking only works if you know what to touch.. > True, but I know I've seen that info in either the Red Hat release > notes or somewhere else reasonably handy. I haven't run a machine > with Sendmail for years, I switched to Postfix after just a few looks > at the Sendmail configs. Yeah.. I've strugled with exim & never tried sendmail.. > > Any pointers? > > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > Yeah, looking at the redhat rpm of sendmail from 7.3, that file > contains this: > dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1 > dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want > dnl to accept email over the network. > DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') Looks like this would comment it out: dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl Restarted it and wow.. It worked! Thanks! > > How do I activate postfix so that this is run.. > Red Hat uses the alternatives system for this. There is an app, > redhat-switchmail which will do this for you. You can also just > uninstall sendmail and then postfix will become the default MTA if > it's installed. I could find it in the gui.. Just had lost the text version... > To get postfix to accept connections from other than localhost, you > need to comment out this line in /etc/postfix/main.cf: > inet_interfaces = localhost I've switched that to all, if I need to try to switch to postfix.. For right now I'll try to get mailman running with sendmail. Appreciate your help todd. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://www.openconcept.ca Stop Cdn Pension Plan War Investments -> http://coat.openconcept.ca/ Another world is not only possible, she is on her way -Arundhati Roy

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how to strip 'doble extension' attachs?
by Pablo Chamorro C. 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

I have Postfix + Procmail as LDA, but with Mailman, I'm noting that the rules from /etc/procmailrc are skipped, am'I? In that file I have a rule for stripping 'doble extension' files. Can I achieve the same effect from Mailman? How? Thanks, Pablo Chamorro C. --

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pass_mime_types - server or client side solution?
by Pablo Chamorro C. 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

I want to allow only certain types of files for the lists. Ok, I'm using pass_mime_types including lines like these: text/plain application/pdf application/msword application/vnd.ms-excel I was testing and I noted that it works different according to the email client. For example, an excel file sent from an old Netscape is stripped out by Mailman, but from Open Webmail or from Pine it passes! Is there some solution on the server/Mailman side in order to allow certain files based on its extension no matter the mime type? Thanks, Pablo Chamorro C. --

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