Mailman 3 May 2003 - Mailman-Users

Moderator/Owner Email Address Incorrect After Upgrade
by Frederic Herman May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

I have just upgraded to MM 2.1 Via a RedHat RPM as part of an OS upgrade to RedHat 9.0. The upgrade hosed my MM installation, and I have been able to fix everything, including the wrapper name change, the command aliases, the use of a daemon which wasn't used before,etc. One remaining problem is that the moderator and owner email addresses used for the page footer and the notifications are now <listname>-owner@<hostname> rather than the email addresses that I have set in the Gnereal Settings page. I have searched archives and tried to hack my way through the files to no avail. Since the rpm upgrade apparently does the ./configure, I can't and don't want to try to use a non-RPM copy to try to fix it, because I will likely do more damage. What do I need to do to get the actual email addresses to be usedd for the "run by" footer address and the moderator notifications? TIA Fred

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Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 76
by jnewton＠valdosta.edu May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

We have just installed Mailman for use at our university and we love the features of this program. Kudos to all involved in making this available. We do have a large list of 18,000 addresses, many of which are stale or unused. We have attempted to use the web form to mass subscribe (invite) the users but the form times out unless we use lists of 300 or less. Is there a way to fix this, say using a command line method. I note that the command line version appears to lack the invitation method. Is there a way to effect this? Thanks, Joe Newton Valdosta State University jnewton(a)valdosta.edu

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Names with dots rejected
by Dan Richter May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

When I try to subscribe people using the web form (Membership Management -> Mass Subscription), Mailman rejects any name (or rather, initial) that has a period in it, claiming that the address is invalid. Okay, now that I've found the root problem I can get around it. But why is it A Good Thing? By the way, I'm using Mailman 2.1. ========== Dan Richter ============== mailto:Dan@wimba.com =========== When a program dies / what you need is a moment / of serinity. - Damian Conway, whose Perl module transforms computer error messages into haikus.

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/var/mailman/cron/gate_news
by Eugênia Giancoli Jabour May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

This messages are ariving in postmaster mailbox. Can one help me? Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 198, in main lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.smtp.cesjf.br.15104'

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman
by Paul H Byerly May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

John Grafflin wrote: >First step - how do I get the Mailman code from the download site to my >website? Head to the directory from which you want to do the install. If you want to use your admin directory then do as follows: cd /home/admin wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/mailman-2.1.2.tgz tar zxf mailman-2.1.2.tgz The second command does the download, the third unpacks the tarball into "mailman-2.1.2". Go into mailman-2.1.2 and read "README" and "INSTALL" and any of the other READMEs that apply to you. <>< Paul

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Postfix Streamlining
by Dan Wright US2002021042 May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

Okay, we just installed Postfix as our primary MTU. Any suggestions for streamlining our configuration for a fairly large mailman server? -- --(Dan Wright)- -- ---- ----------------- --- -- - - -- ANTA: List and Forum Moderation -- AIM: rulesninja -- Email: listmod(a)camarilla.white-wolf.com -- Web: http://www.elysiumgrounds.com/~listmodmod -- Lists: http://camarilla.white-wolf.com/mailman/listinfo -- Mailman FAQ: http://camarilla.white-wolf.com/lists/ --(US2002021042)-- ---- ------------------------------- --- -- - -

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Setting an explicit reply to
by Christopher Kings-Lynne May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

Hi Guys, I have a large one-to-many sort of list. I want to set it up so that if a recipient of the newsletter hits 'reply', then I want it to go to a specific Reply-To address. I can see this option in Defaults.py: # Mailman can be configured to "munge" Reply-To: headers for any passing # messages. One the one hand, there are a lot of good reasons not to munge # Reply-To: but on the other, people really seem to want this feature. See # the help for reply_goes_to_list in the web UI for links discussing the # issue. # 0 - Reply-To: not munged # 1 - Reply-To: set back to the list # 2 - Reply-To: set to an explicit value (reply_to_address) DEFAULT_REPLY_GOES_TO_LIST = 2 Now, I've set that to two - but where on earth to I actually set the reply to address??? Or does it get the reply-to address from the email that was sent to everyone? Chris

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No aliases after creating a list
by René Berber May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

Hello, Could someone confirm this? After creating a new list (mailman version 2.1.2) using the Web interface I'm not getting any instructions for adding the required mail aliases. None on the "Mailing list creation results" page, and none in the confirmation mail sent to the owner. I had to use what the FAQ says, changing the obsolete parts to use the mailman command, but is the 4 aliases (i.e test, test-admin, test-owner, test-request) all you have to set? Thanks! -- René Berber

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moderator interface
by John Cessor May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

When I log into the administrative gui http://www.asa4wdc.org/mailman/admin/<list> there are various options available to the admin, is there an interface for the moderator as well? JohnC

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Mailinglist emails
by John Grafflin May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

When I receive a response to a post, am I supposed to reply directly to the person responding, or to the whole list? When I reply to the person responding, I never hear another word.

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