Mailman 3 May 2003 - Mailman-Users

Stripping
by jsmith May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Hello, I have Mailman 2.1.1 running with sendmail an freebsd 4.7 I have recently ran into a problem with Mailman stripping all text codes and making the post nothing but jumbled text without sentences. I do not have Mailman converting HTML to Plain Text. Although I have tried that as well with no real success. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Joe

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Headers
by Nick Phillips May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

I've just upgraded to mailman 2.1.1, specifically because I need the ability to disable the list-* headers (or some of them, at any rate). I was kind of worried to see in the help for that option the fact that it "might be going away". Please don't. Some of the lists we run are compulsory announcement lists for members of the department. They should not be able to unsubscribe, they can't post, and a lot of them are clueless. Some of the clueless ones are, being academics, dangerously curious. Anything that points them in the direction of the web interface is Bad. Oh, and the list server's port 25 is currently inaccessible from off-campus, meaning mail from off-campus to it has to be relayed through another machine, rendering all the request and owner addresses in the headers incorrect. Disabling the ability to remove (or at the very least, customise) these headers would be a serious step backwards. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips / +64 3 479 7073 / Nick.Phillips(a)stonebow.otago.ac.nz # these statements are my own, not those of the University of Otago

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set up a news server to work with mailman
by Adam Lipson May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Has anyone had any success setting up a news server with mailman. I have been told by several people that this has been a bit tricky and did not see anything in the FAQ or a quick search of the archives. I am running mailman 2.0.13 on RH 7.2 and want to run the news server on the same box and have the messages go both to the list as well as the news server and messages posted to the news server posted to the list. I know this is possible as it is an option in the web admin interface just curious if anyone has done this and has any advice? Thanks, Adam

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Losing text from Outlook Mails
by Hugh Caley May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

I'm having the problem with Outlook mail where, if the mail has an attachment, the attachment is archived but the text of the message is not. I am using Mailman v 2.1.2, built from scratch. I have tried applying the patch mentioned here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-February/026082.html but it didn't seem to make any difference. I downloaded the patch, and applied it with: patch -p0 <filename It patched with no errors other than removing some CR's at the end of the file. No difference, though. Anyone else seeing this? Hugh -- Hugh Caley, Unix Systems Administrator Affymetrix Inc., 510-428-8537 Hugh_Caley(a)affymetrix.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] installation instructions?
by Jon Carnes May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:19, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003 14:56:03 -0700 > George Wood <gwood(a)azma.org> wrote: > > > > > Your Documentation Overview page > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/docs.html) > > says that the Site Administrators Documentation page > > (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/site.html) > > > > contains installation instructions. I couldn't find them. Where > > are the installation instructions? > > > > Installation instructions are included in the source tarball. > > -- > Raquel For a bit of helping hand here is a web-site with the steps laid out: http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/mailman.html

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Excessive cpu usage
by Arnar Birgisson May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Something of the sort yes.. if I stop mailman, there is one message in the out queue. However, using dumpdb reveals that this is just a normal message being posted to a list, not a confirm message. dumpdb on the .db file gives (I have replaced @ with 'at' in email addresses..) { 'decorated': 1, 'lang': 'en', 'listname': 'configfiles-commits', 'original_sender': 'arnarb at oddi.is', 'origsubj': '[CVS] cvs-configfiles: poki.oddi.is/etc/mail/ exim', 'received_time': 1054116645.529613, 'recips': ['x at oddi.is', 'arnarb at oddi.is', 'x at oddi.is'], 'tolist': 1, 'version': 3} and dumpdb on the .pck file gives the message source, complete with mailman-added headers and all. The headers are.. >From root at linux.oddi.is Wed May 28 10:10:44 2003 Received: from root by poki.oddi.is with local (Exim 4.20) id 19KxtM-0004OC-K3 for configfiles-commits at listar.oddi.is; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:10:44 +0000 From: "Ofurpaur" <arnarb at oddi.is> To: configfiles-commits at listar.oddi.is User-Agent: OSSP shiela 1.0.4 [CVS 1.11.5+RSE] Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 605 Message-Id: <E19KxtM-0004OC-K3(a)poki.oddi.is> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:10:44 +0000 Subject: [Configfiles-commits] [CVS] cvs-configfiles: poki.oddi.is/etc/mail/ exim X-BeenThere: configfiles-commits at listar.oddi.is X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 List-Id: Patchar við hvert commit á breytingum á config-skrám í CVS <configfiles-commits.listar.oddi.is> List-Unsubscribe: <http://listar.oddi.is/mailman/listinfo/configfiles-commits>, <mailto:configfiles-commits-request at listar.oddi.is?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://listar.oddi.is/pipermail/configfiles-commits> List-Post: <mailto:configfiles-commits at listar.oddi.is> List-Help: <mailto:configfiles-commits-request at listar.oddi.is?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://listar.oddi.is/mailman/listinfo/configfiles-commits>, <mailto:configfiles-commits-request at listar.oddi.is?subject=subscribe> Arnar >>> Gerald Combs <gerald+mailman(a)ethereal.com> 28.5.2003 14:34:04 >>> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Arnar Birgisson wrote: > Sorry for replying to my own post.. but I just noticed by watching the > $prefix/qfiles/out directory.. that files are being created and removed > there constantly.. still, nothing in the logs. There is however no > ongoing traffic at the moment, this is a private server with few lists. > My MTA is Exim 4, since recently. This sounds similar to a problem I'm having. In my case, if I stop qrunner there's a single message in the "out" queue. $prefix/bin/dumpdb shows that it's a malformed confirm message. Like you, nothing shows up in Mailman's nor (in my case) Postfix's logs.

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Basic questions
by Lee Stevens May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Hello all, I have been trying to do 3 things with a new mailman install. 1. Restrict my lists so that no-one but the administrator can send messages... like a message only list. I have toyed around with some of the settings, but think it is something in the members DB... a flag or something that is not in the admin interface. 2. Re-write the welcome message that gets sent out automatically and customize it to reflect this kind of a setup. We also are not going to use the web interface for the users. This is completely an e-mail only list with subscribe and un-subscribe options only. It is for notifications only. 3. Change the reply to address to another e-mail address on another server. If you can point me in the general direction to look for these or have suggestions I would be most grateful. This is my first run with mailman. It was installed as part of our SuSE install and I really like it so far. Thank you very much! Lee Stevens HSI Systems Administrator IS Support Technician Northwestel Inc. http://www.nwtel.ca

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2 machines with 2 mailmans & 1nfs /archives & /lists
by javier May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Hi people! The two machines has the same DNSname, but diferent IP number. two mailmans are working good... you can create list from the two machines... i put special atenttion in user and groups, and i had to change the mailman uid&gid to be the same number in 3 machines (mailman1,mailman2,NFS store). When i create a list, i have to change perms to 777, to be listed from 2 machines with bin/list_lists, and two mailmans listed all lists created with both, so.... Could I change any .py file to change perms that mailman create the new-lists files?? thanks -- Javier Romero Casado tel.913357274 Dep. Comunicaciones CEDEX

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Solved: Problem with admin pages in non standard http port
by Richard Barrett May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Further to what I said below. Consider the example where I want to allow access to public mail archives (/pipermail/ URLs) via http on port 80 and deliver access to private archives, admin interface and such (/mailman/ URLs) via https on port 443. The present features allow that. Your suggested bug fix doesn't allow that. At 20:06 28/05/2003, René Berber wrote: >On 2003-05-26 14:03:54 -0500 René Berber <rberber(a)legosoft.com.mx> wrote: > >[snip] > >> Is there a configuration option to get mailman working on a specific port? > > > > I found a solution to my problem, I added the following to mm_config.py : > > > > DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'myhost' > > DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s:81/mailman/' > >It was almost solved, I also had to change: > >PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://%(hostname)s:81/pipermail/%(listname)s' > > > This is weird, it never worked with DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'myhost:81', I > had to > > change the second parameter. Seems like the first parameter gets > parsed and > > the port is discarded. > >It looks like a bug in version 2.1.2, the change should be in only one >place and the port should not be discarded. No it is not a bug, it is a feature. DEFAULT_URL_HOST defines a host, not a host and a port on that host. DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN and PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL define partial URLs, parts of which are a scheme, a placeholder for a hostname, optionally a port, and the start of a URI. These two parameters allow flexibility in defining the form of URLs used by Mailman which can be adjusted to match what you choose to assign in the Alias and ScriptAlias related directives in your Apache server's httpd.conf >-- >René Berber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk

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Problem with admin pages in non standard http port
by René Berber May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Hi, I'm starting to use Mailman and my installation is on a machine that already has port 80 in use by another application (WebLogic), so I did: ./configure --with-urlhost=myhost:81 It didn't work, I can access the http://myhost:81/mailman/create page, fill the form and when I hit the Create button the request goes to myhost and I get a "Connection was refused ..." (which is what the other application responds.) Is there a configuration option to get mailman working on a specific port? -- René Berber

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