Mailman 3 February 2003 - Mailman-Users

Language setup problem
by Rostyk Ivantsiv 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hello! I have a problem with setting up the language(in my case it's Russian). I can set the Russian language through Language Options for a particular List, but some general admin pages, like http://www.myhost/mailman/admin (it contains the text "Welcome! Below is the collection of publicly-advertised Mailman mailing list...") remain in English. The .po and .mo files appear to have the translation for these parts of text, but how can I set the whole mailman site to be in Russian, not just the lists??? P.S. I tried setting DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'ru' in mm_cfg.py, but it just brought to server error. In README.I18.en it's not described how to implement this. Maybe, you can help? Thanx

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listadmin-addr
by delilah＠seyyav.pair.com 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hi, In the mailpasswds script the variables used for 'hostname', 'useraddr', 'exreq', and 'owner' are listed as: 'hostname': host, 'useraddr': addr, 'exreq' : r, 'owner' : mailman_owner, What is the variable name used for listadmin-addr? I've looked everyplace that I can think of and can't find it. I'd like to replace the mailman_owner address used in the cronpass.txt to the listadmin-addr address. Thank you, Sean

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MM doesn't send mail
by friedrich28＠gmx.de 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hi there, it seems that my mailman installation does not send out mail. I have installed Postfix as MTA on a MacOS X Server. When I create a list, I get the message that the list owner had been notified of its creation by mail. But nothing shows up in the mail.log file, and the mail never arrives. Posting to a list doesn't work either. Postfix itself can send mail, at least by logging in through telnet 25 on localhost. How can I test interaction between mailman and postfix? The Mailman error log doesn't give any hints. Thanks Friedrich

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Personalization Options
by Larry Hansford 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Since I upgraded to Mailman 2.1, I want to add personalized messages in the footer of messages, much like the ones that are included with this list. I added these lines to the mm_cfg.py file, as indicated in the FAQ: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = 1 VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = 1 VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = 1 I'm not sure what variables are available for adding to the lines, though. Is there a link to references of variables that are available? Also, for our lists, the footer is repeated with each reply to the message. I can't find the setting to change that so previous footings are removed before the new one is attached. Thanks! Larry

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Re: [Mailman-Users] squirrelmail sends mailman message as attachment
by Keith Mastin 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

>Keith, > >Just a quick note. You didn't specify when or if you stopped >'mailmanctl' and restarted it. It is safer to stop it, run make >install, then start it again. And this list is full of mentions of >certain kinds of changes not taking affect until it is restarted. > >Just another newbie's guess. > >Hope it helps. Hi John, Yes, I did the stop/start thing. The text still shows up as attachments. I'm afraid if I can't find a fix I'll have to look at another solution. Thanks >Keith Mastin wrote: >> >> Thanks for the link. I just applied the patch and ran a test from galeon >> with the same results (text only in attachment). I did not, however, >> uninstall mailman, just ran make install right over top of the original. >> Does this make a difference? (I have zero experience with patching.) >

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2.1 FreeBSD cgi setup problem
by Chris Tomlinson 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

I'm trying to run Mailman 2.1 on a FreeBSD 4.4 virtual private server installation and have encountered a cgi related setup problem. I configured using --with-cgi-gid, --with-username, --with-groupname, --with-mail-gid and did the make with DIRSETGID=: I ran check_perms until no problems. I updated mm_cfg.py, httpd.conf for ScriptAlias and so forth and am using "MTA = 'Manual'". I created the newlist mailman and got the email notification of success. My problem comes when I try to access any of the scripts (in particular 'create' and 'listinfo' and 'admin') in <mailman-prefix>/cgi-bin. I get the following response: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: No such file or directory I assume a permissions error somewhere but I'm unfamiliar with the internals of Mailman - I've happily used Mailman 2.0.6 on Linux but this is my first experience with 2.1 and FreeBSD. Any help will be appreciated. ciao, Chris

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2.1 / ssl / admin
by Gregg Siegfried 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

I have 2.1 installed on OSX 10.2.3 with apache 1.3.27. I am using redirect directives to ensure all mailman-related web requests use SSL. I have noticed that I cannot process pending administrative requests - no matter what I choose (defer, approve, etc.) the request remains, and the radio button goes back to the default (defer) after I submit. By turning SSL off, requests can be processed as expected. I am using the same ssl redirection on a 2.0.10 server, and have had no such problems. All other elements of using and managing the server appear fine, as do any other web-based interactions.. It seems that this handling of administrative requests is the only malfunctioning area. There does seem to be some http urls coded into that page, as once I submit the request, I get a number of the "you are now entering a secure page.." dialogs. Advice appreciated, Gregg Siegfried gsiegfried(a)wsipc.org

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auth bug
by SUBREDU Manuel 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hy, I'm using mailman 2.0.13 on a RedHat 8.0 linux box. Today I've discovered a bug in authentification on administrative interface. For instance, suppose that I have for a list, the password "1234", and when mailman is asking me for a password, I give him 123456789 he shouldn't let me go further because the password is wrong. But this is not happening. Mailman is letting me in without a problem. Did someone have the same problem as me ? Is there a fix for fix ?

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Mailman not sending out messages
by Moussa Fall 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hi, I have been using mailman for a while now in our server without any problem. It stops sending out mail without any reason. I am using sendmail. I deleted the mail queue and the qfiles in mailman and got no success up to now. Any clue? Many thanxs. moussa

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config.db missing
by Joseph Okech 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hi All, Have a situation where in the lists' folder the file 'config.db' and config.db.last' are missing. I get this when I run the check_db command, and I get a bounce whenever I send mail to the list. su-2.05a$ check_db -av List: mailman /usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck: okay /usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last: okay [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.db' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.db.last' List: testlist /usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.pck: okay /usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.pck.last: okay [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db.last' Currently running Mailman 2.1 on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE-p9 regards, -- Joe,

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Mailman-Users February 2003