Mailman 3 May 2003 - Mailman-Users

Fresh install issue
by Lee Stevens May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Hello all, I have just upgraded to the new 2.1.2 because the original one that I was running did not have the functionality I needed. I got the initial admin test screen no problem. But once I added the first list I got an error. It likes to install into /usr/local/mailman... but the apache install that was working with it prior likes /usr/lib/mailman. So I copied over the folder to make it happy and that is what it does not like. Where do I change the config to be where it is at? Here is the error I got... Thank you much for your help in advance! Lee Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 61, in main admin_overview() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 228, in admin_overview mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 124, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 583, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 549, in __load fp = open(dbfile)IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testing/config.pck' Python information: VariableValuesys.version2.2.1 (#1, Apr 3 2003, 10:08:32) [GCC 3.2] sys.executable/usr/local/bin/python sys.prefix/usr/local sys.exec_prefix/usr/local sys.path/usr/local sys.platformlinux2 Environment variables: VariableValuePATH_INFO / HTTP_PRAGMA no-cache PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.26 (Linux/SuSE) PHP/4.2.2 SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)fraser.northwestel.net SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admin SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.26 Server at fraser.northwestel.net Port 80REQUEST_METHOD GET HTTP_HOST fraser.northwestel.net HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING PATH_TRANSLATED /usr/local/mailman/ HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache REQUEST_URI /mailman/admin/ HTTP_ACCEPT text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive SERVER_NAME fraser.northwestel.net REMOTE_ADDR 199.85.228.1 REMOTE_PORT 1495 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us, en;q=0.50 SERVER_ADDR 199.85.225.2 SERVER_PORT 80 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 UNIQUE_ID PtKD18dV4QMAAFreAuk DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/local/mailman

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Eudora 5.2.1 bug?
by Paul H Byerly May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Jon Carnes wrote: >The list is set to hold messages that do not have the <list-name> in >either the To: or CC: field of the message. This setting is >configurable (in the Web-admin) for the list. > >"Implicit destination" means that the email got to the list either via a >BCC: or through some mail-forwarding mechanism. Thanks for all the explanations (including several off list) of the Mailman end of this; but that was not the problem. I have done some testing and have confirmed a Eudora bug on this. If the subject line ends in a period (.) Eudora trashes the headers, deleting the subject, stripping the "real name" out of the from header, and messing with the destination header(s). If I add a white space after the period everything is fine. It's scary the weird and unexpected things code can do. <>< Paul There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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Installing Mailman
by John Grafflin May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Can anyone help a non-techie install Mailman?

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Eudora 5.2.1 bug?
by Paul H Byerly May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Once again Eudora has trashed my headers. Never had this until I upgraded to 5.2.1. On seemingly random messages it sends with the subject (no subject) and does not put my "real name" in the address header. This is bad enough, but on Mailman lists my messages get held for moderation and I get the following" >Your mail to 'Mailman-Users' with the subject > > (no subject) > >Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > >The reason it is being held: > > Message has implicit destination Can someone decode that for me? And my apologies to the moderator for the hassle. <>< Paul

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DNS aliases and public mailing list page access
by jean.berthold＠eos-gd.ch May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Hello, I added an DNS aliase for this machine name to avoid displaying the real server name in the URL, which is vanuatu. Nom : vanuatu.sila.local Address: 172.16.7.37 Aliases: listsrv.sila.local I would like to display the URL http://listsrv/mailman/listinfo instead of http://vanuatu/mailman/listinfo Have you an idea how to do that ? If I try, http://vanuatu/mailman/listinfo Welcome! Below is a listing of all the public mailing lists on vanuatu. Click on a list name to get more information about the list, or to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change the preferences on your subscription. To visit the general information page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a '/' and the list name appended. List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list. Send questions or comments to mailman@vanuatu. List Description Essai [no description available] Etrans-Echanges Archives des ichanges d'emails avec Etrans pour ETSO Mailman [no description available] Toto [no description available] which is the correct display ... If I try: http://listsrv/mailman/listinfo Welcome! There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists on listsrv. To visit the general information page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a '/' and the list name appended. List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list. Send questions or comments to mailman@listsrv. I cannot access on the same page as vanuatu (listing of all the public mailing lists). I tried to change httpd.conf file like that: #ServerName vanuatu.sila.local:80 ServerName listsrv.sila.local:80 Have you an idea how to do that ? Thanks for your help Jean Berthold __________________________________________ Jean Berthold EOS - energie ouest suisse Chemin de Mornex 10 , CP 570 CH-1001 Lausanne , Switzerland Tel. : +41 (0)21 341 24 58 Fax : +41 (0)21 341 20 49 E-Mail : jean.berthold(a)eos-gd.ch ...Unix is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside...

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Time display in the archive web page
by jean.berthold＠eos-gd.ch May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Hello, I cannot figure out how to display correctly the time in this page, for example, the last message was sent at 10:32 but the system always display 11:32. Starting: Thu May 22 11:32:00 MET 2003 Ending: Thu May 22 11:32:15 MET 2003 On the unix server, time is displayed correctly: mailman@vanuatu # date Thu May 22 10:35:31 MEST 2003 May 2003 Archives by date a.. Messages sorted by: [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] b.. More info on this list... Starting: Thu May 22 11:32:00 MET 2003 Ending: Thu May 22 11:32:15 MET 2003 Messages: 2 a.. [Etrans-echanges] 20030523_CAX_CH_EOS_N_CH_ETRANS_N_06 eos_etrans_dispatching b.. [Etrans-echanges] RECEIVED: 20030523_CAX_CH_EOS_N_CH_ETRANS_N_06 Dispatching Last message date: Thu May 22 11:32:15 MET 2003 Archived on: Thu May 22 10:35:47 MET 2003 a.. Messages sorted by: [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] b.. More info on this list... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- This archive was generated by Pipermail 0.09 (Mailman edition). Have you an idea where change that ? Thanks for your help __________________________________________ Jean Berthold EOS - energie ouest suisse Chemin de Mornex 10 , CP 570 CH-1001 Lausanne , Switzerland Tel. : +41 (0)21 341 24 58 Fax : +41 (0)21 341 20 49 E-Mail : jean.berthold(a)eos-gd.ch ...Unix is like a wigwam - no windows, no gates, apache inside...

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Installing Mailman
by John Grafflin May 26, 2003

May 26, 2003

Can anyone help a non-techie install Mailman?

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Request delivery receipt
by Reuben Pearse May 25, 2003

May 25, 2003

Hi all, Is there way that you can mark the emails that are sent from Mailman to request a delivery receipt, and is there a way to easily see which people have opened the email by looking the subscribed user list on the web admin screens? Reuben reuben(a)presence-systems.com

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(no subject)
by paul＠thcwd.com May 25, 2003

May 25, 2003

Angel Gabriel wrote: >... I want to change this to say from something else, or at least from my >domain. How do I do this?? Does you server report the correct name when you issue the command 'hostname' ? If not, then it's a server configuration issue, not a mailman issue. <>< Paul

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make an Administrator
by rebabonney＠ywammt.org May 25, 2003

May 25, 2003

How do I make and administrator? Reba Bonney

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