Mailman 3 April 2003 - Mailman-Users

[Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] .signature to posts]
by Solignani Tiziano 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Charles Sebold said: > On 24 Shevat 5762, Clark Cooper wrote: > >> Is there a way in Mailman to append text to each posts as done with a >> .signature file? > > On the web admin interface, go to page "Regular-member (non-digest) > Options" and change the option labeled "Footer added to mail sent to > regular list members". Is that what you were after? > -- > Charles Sebold 25th of Shevat, BTW how can I add taglines, i.e. random strings picked frpm a text file where they lies every one on a separate line. ALmost every list manager has tag lines administration, but I did not find them in mailman... Cheers, ---- Avv. Tiziano Solignani via Bonesi n. 15 - Vignola (MO) tel. 059 76.19.26 - fax 059 77.04.535 mail: solignani(a)solignani.it web: http://www.solignani.it chat: avv_tiziano_solignani(a)hotmail.com PC Open magazine - www.pcopen.agepe.it "rarest jewel is a true heart" -- ---- Avv. Tiziano Solignani via Bonesi n. 15 - Vignola (MO) tel. 059 76.19.26 - fax 059 77.04.535 mail: solignani(a)solignani.it web: http://www.solignani.it chat: avv_tiziano_solignani(a)hotmail.com PC Open magazine - www.pcopen.agepe.it "rarest jewel is a true heart"

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list of python variables for use in headers/footers
by Russell Uman 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

howdy. is there a list anywhere of variables that can be used in the headers and footers? i'm trying include the email address of the recipient in the footer... thanks!

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Translation Problems Fixed
by Michael 'Moose' Dinn 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

I had written earlier: > I'm hoping someone's seen this before - when I go to admin.cgi/listname, I > get a 500 Internal Server Error. From using strace, this appears to be due > to translations: > > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en_US.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > 0xbfffef8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > 0xbfffef8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > 0xbfffef8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > {st_mode=S_ISUID|S_ISGID|0502000712, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > 26862 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- > 26857 <... read resumed> "", 4096) = 0 > 26857 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) --- > > Anyone seen this before? Slackware version 7.0.0, libc-2.1.2... > Upgrading glibc to the lastest release version fixed the problem completely. -- Michael 'Moose' Dinn, Twisted Pair Network Consulting Incorporated dinn(a)twistedpair.ca // 902 423 4700 (voice) // 902 423 8407 (fax) Colocate your server in our underground bunker!

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Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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Mailman usage for Usenet gatewaying
by Darren Wyn Rees 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

Looking for examples of Mailman usage for Usenet gatewaying particularly for moderated newsgroups. I can see the obvious example of comp.lang.python, but maybe there are others ? I am evaluating Mailman... currently mirroring articles on a local test newsgroup. Thus far, it proves impressive. I have used Russ Allbery's robust News::Gateway toolkit, http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/gateway/ along with ezmlm and Majordomo. Mailman seems to tie a lot of things together, eg. integrated web interface, archiving. It's also user-friendly. On the downside, there does not seem to be much scope for header manipulation at present, eg. headers like Path/XRef/NNTP- are mailed. -- Darren

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Passwords
by Willie McKemie 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

After operating several mailman newsletters for several months, I just became aware that subscribers find unsubscribing a daunting task. They can not do it without their password and they don't know their password. They end up asking me, as list owner, to do it. I am looking for ways to make it easier for them. Newsletters go out about once a week and I do not wish to burden them with periodic password notification. With my previous maillist software, I just told my potential subscribers (and unsubscribers) to put "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in a message to <listname>-request@<domain>. That worked very well for me and I would like mailman to operate as simply. Here are the things I have thought of to deal with this mailman problem: 1) do away with all user passwords. The FAQ tells me that that is not possible currently. 2) set all user passwords to the same and then make it public. This seems to involve mailman configuration beyond my access. I am the client of a hosting service and do not have the site password and I don't expect my host to be willing to spend much time on the problem. 3) send the user password in reply to an unsuccessful unsubscribe or help request and then tell them what to do with it. Can anyone tell me how to do that? 4) reply to a confirmation email. It seems to me that the unsubscribe procedure could operate as simply and be as secure as the subscribe procedure. That is, in response to a unsubsribe email, a reply required confirmation email could be sent to the subscriber's address. Is that feasible? 5) Anyone have any other ideas? A few months ago, I posted here queries on several configuration issues; replies allowed me to get my footers straightened out get html posts rejected. One outstanding issue is access to the subscriber lists. With my previous maillist, I was able to ftp to and from my subscriber lists. That gave me a sense of comfort, knowing that I was not completely dependent on my host. I realize I can cut and paste each batch of 30 subscribers from the administration web interface, but I find that pretty tedious. Help? -- Willie Time for a Kurdish state? Are YOU an html abuser? http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Linux system uptime 153 days 18 hours 11 minutes

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Problems with mailman 2.0.13
by Ísak Ben 04 Jun '03

04 Jun '03

Hi there. Im running RedHat Linux 7.2 with Sendmail 8.12.5 compiled from source and i just compiled mailman 2.0.13 from source This is my error: -- Sep 17 14:30:19 gola smrsh: uid 25: attempt to use wrapper.post.testlisti Sep 17 14:30:19 gola sendmail[27357]: g8HEUJhi027356: to=|/usr/adm/sm.bin/wrapper post testlisti, ctladdr=<testlisti(a)snerpa.is> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30820, dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable -- I've tried pointing the wrapper to /usr/adm/sm.bin/, /etc/smrsh, and /etc/mail/smrsh beucoes those dirs where all on my system and im not sure which one to use First i configured mailman to use gid 12 = mail and of course that is wrong so i'm using gid 25 = smmsp now and wrapper doesnt give any errors when i run it from the shell. Anyone been in my shoes? -- Ísak Ben.

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upgrade from 2.1beta3 to 2.1 final
by Marius Scurtescu 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Hi, I am running Maiman 2.1 beta 3 and I would like to upgrade to the final release. Could someone point me to the proper documentation or just quickly tell me what I need to do? Any information is more than welcome. Thanks, Marius

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VirtualHosting and Mailman
by Ram Prasad 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

Hi I have installed mailman successfully, and would like to know how I can do virtualhosting... The scenario is: 1) the client wants to have his own listman page ( for the lists of his domain, say, news(a)abc.org) 2) now, since we also run lists for other domains, the address news(a)abc.org is conflicting with news(a)xyz.org. I am using sendmail as my MTA. I would like to know how I can do virtual hosting with mailman. Any pointers to articles on the net is also fine.. Please help Ram Prasad. P http://www.megalinux.net

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Mailman has browser issues
by Tomasz Finc 23 May '03

23 May '03

After upgrading to mailman 2.1, I noticed that I am not longer able to approve posts with almost all browsers minus opera 6.1(linux). Whenever i try to approve a held post the page reloads with all of the same content. Opera 6.1(linux) on the other hand asks me if I want to post data to the web page .. which i do and it works fine. funny enough opera 7.1(win) doest not work. The same change and no actual change happening happens when i try to add new users to a mailing list. the following do not work: opera7.1(win) ie6.0(win) mozilla-1.4(linux) The system is redhat6.2 2.2.5 running apache-1.3.27 with mod-ssl --tomasz

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