Mailman 3 May 2003 - Mailman-Users

Bug in using web-interface "create" function
by Dan Wright US2002021042 May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

Just installed postfix as our MTA and I noticed this error when using the web-interface to create lists 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/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) ________________________________________________________________________ Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.1 (#2, Feb 10 2003, 10:57:30) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] sys.executable /usr/local/bin/python sys.prefix /usr/local sys.exec_prefix /usr/local sys.path /usr/local sys.platform darwin ________________________________________________________________________ Environment variables: Variable Value 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 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_REFERER http://camarilla.white-wolf.com/mailman/create SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.26 (Darwin) mod_ssl/2.8.10 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.1.2 PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)example.com SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.26 Server at camarilla Port 16080 REQUEST_METHOD POST HTTP_HOST camarilla.white-wolf.com HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING REQUEST_URI /mailman/create CONTENT_LENGTH 167 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive HTTP_COOKIE member_id=7; pass_hash=c97833fbd230fb6345714e914819fc35; anonlogin=-1; LPid=1053574951; us-sw-cam-anarch+admin=2802000000694a2dd43e732800000036383865383038353563383534316134353832343236303237656138333132336366643661633938 SERVER_NAME camarilla REMOTE_ADDR 206.65.59.149 REMOTE_PORT 50503 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us, en;q=0.50 __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING 0x46:0:0 SERVER_PORT 16080 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 SERVER_ADDR 206.65.59.149 DOCUMENT_ROOT /Library/WebServer/Documents -- --(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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Need to change the machine name ... what do I have to do?
by Paul Schumacher May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

I have to change the name of my server from foo.foo1.foo2.foo3.edu to foo4.foo5.edu. ( the ip will remain the same) What do I have to change in mailman? thanks, Paul Schumacher Winona State University --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).

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Mailman and MySQL
by Dan Wright US2002021042 May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

externalized user lists. If we could get mailman to get it's mailing list info from mysql we could integrate our system even more. A mailman db instance with each list having it's own table would be simple and easy to work with. Any ideas? -- --(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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virtual domains
by Greg Westin May 28, 2003

May 28, 2003

I've searched the archives and FAQ for answers, but only see questions with no replies. I hope someone makes a FAQ about virtual domains! (or makes it easier to find if it exists!) I can't get lists on virtual domains to work right. The web pages for the list properly show it as being on the virtual domain, but when I send messages to the list, it shows up as being to listname(a)defaultdom.ain instead of listname(a)virtualdom.ain. This is the domain listed in the 'mydomain' variable in Postfix, but I don't think it's anywhere in the Mailman configuration files. Also, virtual-mailman isn't touched when creating lists on virtual domains. Below is more information about my setup. I'm using Postfix as my MTA. In my Postfix main.cf file, I have the following line: virtual_maps= hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman In my mm_cfg.py file, I have the following relevant lines: MTA = 'Postfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['virtualdom1.ain', 'virtualdom2.ain'] POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/local/bin/postalias' POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/usr/local/bin/postmap' #VIRTUAL_HOSTS = {'virtualdom1.ain','virtualdom2.ain'} add_virtualhost('virtualdom1.ain') #VIRTUAL_HOST['virtualdom1.ain'] add_virtualhost('virtualdom2.ain') #VIRTUAL_HOST['virtualdom2.ain'] Any help would be appreciated. Greg --- http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php

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modifying mailman's source
by Wesley T. Perdue May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

All, I need to call an external script whenever a mailing list's membership changes. I'd like to pass the name of the modified list to my script. I've spent some time studying the Mailman source, and I think the file I need to modify is ~mailman/Mailman/MailList.py. I think the functions that need to be modified are functions ApprovedAddMember, ApprovedDeleteMember, and ChangeMemberAddress. Here are the two lines that I'd like to add to the above functions: metacmd= '~mailman/scripts/my-script.pl' + ' ' + self os.system(metacmd) Does this look correct? I'm using Mailman 2.1.2 in Linux. Thanks, Wes ---------- Wes Perdue IT Manager, Greenfield Networks

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Where are the user lists?
by Derek Simkowiak May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

I visit http://www.list.org, click on the "Mailing Lists" link, which takes me here: http://www.list.org/lists.html The link to the list "Mailman Users" is a broken link (as well as the archives link). So, where do I get help? As a "first impressions" note, this is kind of sad with Mailman being a web-based MLM and all :) Thanks, Derek

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

May 27, 2003

You need a TTY program that allows you to access your server and run commands on it from your local winblows machine. If you do not have such a program try PuTTY at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html>. Once you get the TTY working you log in, and enter the commands I gave. You may need to spend some time in a Linux book or a Linux web site before you are ready to try installing. <>< Paul John Grafflin wrote: >Are you referring to the directory on my hard disk, or on my website? And, >where do I enter the command wget >http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/mailman-2.1.2.tgz > >I previously downloaded mailman-2.1.2.tgz and mailman-2.1.2.tgz.asc to my >hard disk. I'm using Win98SE and IE6. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul H Byerly" <paul(a)thcwd.com> >To: <mailman-users(a)python.org> >Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 11:08 PM >Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman > > > > 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.

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installation instructions?
by George Wood May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

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?

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LMTP-injector (Day of stupid ideas).
by foobar May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

Hi, Is there any possibilities to deliver mail via LMTP to MailMan instead of using that suid-wrapper via pipe? (Normal delivery: I use postfix and I don't see any idea why should I change uid again since aliases are owned by mailman-user and setuid is done by postfix already so this leads to newbie guestion: can I remove that suid-wrapper between MTA and MM like in Majordomo I managed to send requests directly to its resend etc programs) (Why I am asking this here is: specifications says nothing about lmtp-delivery via unix/inet-socket) Is there any idea to have one master-process which spawns lmtpd and so on + smtp-workers for sending mail outside even if that is MTA's work). It would be ace to have listserverNN.domain as "transport" which points to example lmtp:inet:anotherserver:port (which is MM) so we can handle all lists from one mta and not having to use nfs-glues delivering messages to multiple MM-instances. Br, ++Titus

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Wahoo!
by Marko Leer May 27, 2003

May 27, 2003

Hi all, After installing Mailman I was encouraged to set up a testlist. I did. I inserted the new aliases. I ran newaliasses. I hit enter. I've been waiting for my listowner e-mail to arrive. It won't. I'm completely in the dark. Any help appreciated. Cheers, Marko *************** "If you accidently end up inside vi, you can quit it by pressing Escape, colon (:), q (q), bang (!) and pressing return." [FreeBSd startup-tip]

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