Mailman 3 July 2003 - Mailman-Users

default_web_URL
by Gary McClellan July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

Where can I change the default URL used for the web interface? ie., change it from www.gdma.com to mail.gdma.com TIA -- Gary McClellan Gary D McClellan and Associates Ltd 717 Portland Avenue Beloit, WI 53511 Tel: (815) 307-7602 Fax: (815) 307-7608 Cel: (608) 312-1573

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 Questions
by Richard Barrett July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

At 02:35 03/07/2003, Peter Russell wrote: >1. When i setup the mailman box on the private network i used the private >IP at the hostname etc - now i have gone back in and replaced everywqhere i >can find with the FQDN You should only have had to change, in mm_cfg.py, the applicable MM config variables described in Defaults.py. Typically something like what follows, at the end of your mm_cfg.py, will do the trick: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'your.mailhostname.tld' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'your.webhostname.tld' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) Having done that, the $prefix/bin/withlist script $prefix/bin/fix_url.py is your friend. Just run fix_url.py to get its usage. If you are using the MM pipermail archiver with HTML archives, you might also need to run $prefix/bin/arch if there is archived email with attachments that have been extracted with links to the attachments left in the email. These links seem to have the web_page_url of the list concerned at the time the email was added to the archive backed in. Running arch rebuilds these links. > - but still in responses to mailman-request the >original private IP appears - see below - where exactly can i change this? > >The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your >original message. > >- Results: > help > Help for Mailman mailing list: > >This is email command help for version 2.1 of the "Mailman" >list manager. The following describes commands you can send to get >information about and control your subscription to Mailman lists at >this site. A command can be in the subject line or in the body of the >message. > >Note that much of the following can also be accomplished via the World >Wide Web, at: > > http://10.1.10.224/mailman/listinfo/mailman > > >2. IS there a way of using the postfix style auto generated and update >aliases with sendmail? I have postfix on my test machine and it works a >treat, but i can see no option of doing this with sendmail. You could take a look at $MMbuild/contrib/mm-handler which is a Sendmail mailer inplemented in Perl which obviates the need for maintaining the list aliases but subject to some fairly serious constraints. There is a Python implementation of a Sendmail mailer with the same constraints as mm_mailer (which are basically Sendmail constraints) but which is more closely integrated with MM and which, I believe, is a more robust solution; being the author of it I would think that. See: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=644810&group_id=103&atid=30… For preference you should use MM 2.1.2 and download the most recent version of the patch file which matches your MM version: currently mailer-2.1.2-0.1.patch.gz >Many thanks >Pete > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk

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Messages not being sent
by Jason Buscema July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

I am running 2.1-8 on a newly installed Red Hat 9 machine. I setup my list and send a test email to it and I can see that the wrapper kicks in, but no messages are delivered to any users and no messages are pending admin tasks. The cron tasks appear to be setup correctly by default. My setup: Red Hat 9 sendmail-8.12.8-5.90 mailman-2.1-8

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Error messages in maillog
by Kevin Carlson July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

I recently reinstalled mailman and am now getting the following message several times a day in my maillog file. forward /home/mailman//.forward+: Group writable directory Has anyone seen this before and can it be repaired without another reinstall? Thanks, Kevin

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Signup form question
by John Cichy July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

Hello, I am currently running mailman v2.0.11 dedian-woody. When I signed up for this list, I saw an extra field 'Name', I would like to add this field to the reg. form for our gaming list, maybe changing it to Screen Name. Is this a feature of a newer ver server, have I just missed the option to turn it on in the my version, or do I have to write the code to handle this? Thanks in advance... John

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problem with check perms
by javier July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

SO:solaris 8, i'm trying to save lists and archives in a network applyant, how can i make symbolic links to those folders?? thankyou bash-2.03# cd /usr/local/mailman/ bash-2.03# ls -la total 42 drwxrwsr-x 18 mailman mailman 512 Jul 3 12:18 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root other 512 Jun 27 13:06 .. drwxrwsr-x 11 root mailman 1536 Jul 2 11:22 Mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mailman 8 Jul 3 12:18 archives -> archives drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 1024 Jul 2 11:23 bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:22 cgi-bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:22 cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:22 data drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:22 icons lrwxrwxrwx 1 root mailman 5 Jul 3 12:18 lists -> lists drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 1 12:40 locks drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:24 logs drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:22 mail drwxrwsr-x 20 root mailman 512 Jul 1 12:42 messages drwxrwsr-x 6 root mailman 512 Jul 1 12:41 pythonlib drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 1 12:40 qfiles drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:24 scripts drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 1 12:40 spam drwxrwsr-x 23 root mailman 512 Jul 1 12:41 templates drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 512 Jul 2 11:23 tests bash-2.03# bin/check_perms Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/check_perms", line 362, in ? checkall() File "bin/check_perms", line 185, in checkall os.path.walk(d, checkwalk, STATE) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/posixpath.py", line 279, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "bin/check_perms", line 99, in checkwalk mode, gid = statgidmode(path) File "bin/check_perms", line 84, in statgidmode stat = os.stat(path) OSError: [Errno 90] Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS: '/usr/local/mailman/archives' -- Javier Romero Casado tel.913357274 Dep. Comunicaciones CEDEX

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing people by email
by Simon Harrison July 3, 2003

July 3, 2003

Howard, Yes, this helps me greatly and in fact we want to be able to subscribe people from a custom website form so it's a good solution. Thanks, Simon Please send all support requests to the Internet Services Helpdesk helpdesk(a)ngfl.gov.uk -----Original Message----- From: Howard Lush [mailto:howie@statmail.co.uk] Sent: 03 July 2003 01:25 To: Simon Harrison Subject: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing people by email Hi Simon I'm trying to do a very similar thing to you, and while playing around with the Mailman interface I found that you can subscribe someone using the following link: http://<www.mydomain.com>/mailman/admin/<admin_email.com>/members?subscri bees=<subscribe(a)me.com>&send_welcome_msg_to_this_batch=0&adminpw=<passwor d> This is based on mass subscribe form on the membership management page - note that the no cookies are required as the admin password is supplied in the URL. Potentially this could be called from a Perl script using something like LWP::Simple get() and so you can create your own subscription form. I know it's a bit of a long way round, but it does avoid any approve or confirm requirements, which I am going to implement separately from Mailman. Does this help? Howard > Hi, > > We would like to subscribe people to Mailman 2.1.2 using a form on one > of our websites that will generate an email to the request address with > a subscribe request, however we do not want Mailman to send confirmation > to each email address subscribed nor do we want to have to approve each > request manually. > > Is there a way of achieving this, perhaps by including an approval > password in the body of the message so that subscribe requests are > automatically approved without the need for a confirm. > > Thanks, > > Simon > Becta Internet Services -- E-mail: howie(a)statmail.co.uk ICQ UIN: 4358182 Homepage: http://www.statmail.co.uk/ Phone / voicemail: 07971 963607 Mobile text message: sms(a)statmail.co.uk ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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Re: [Mailman-Users] List performance queries
by J C Lawrence July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:20:32 -0500 Ed Wilts <ewilts(a)ewilts.org> wrote: > How large are the mailman batches? i.e. How many physical mail > messages go out? Configurable. I'd set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to be fairly high, tho not more than 100 (see Chuq von Rospach's notes on the performance impacts and implications of this setting for more typical MX distributions). > Am I suicidal for even trying to handle lists this large on this size > box, or is this even considered a large list? Nahh, you're still will within the happy spot. You'll want a good chunk of RAM and a nice fast IO chain (see the performance notes on the User FAQ), but even minor tuning you should be fine. > Next, my users want the ability to periodically refresh the subscriber > list - they'll actually be coming from an external database. No problem. > At the time of my subscriber refresh, how can I flush any pending > messages to the list - ie, I don't want to get caught where an earlier > message is still being retried when the subscriber list changes. Don't worry about it. The list of addresses for a message is defined when the message is approved for broadcast. If the list subscriber list changes after that, only subsequently broadcast messages will get the new target list. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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footer as an attachment mailman 2.1.2
by Adam Lipson July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

I have seen that many people have asked this question on the list, but have not found an answer in the archives so forgive me if I ask again. I just upgraded to 2.1.2 and have found that some clients cause the footer to come across as an attachment. I can disable the footer to cause this to go away, but is there a better way to solve this problem? Also, someone posted a real attachment to the list and it did not go thru. It was just the text of a unix shell script, but is there anything that would block this other than message size limit? Thanks, Adam

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2 Questions
by Peter Russell July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

1. When i setup the mailman box on the private network i used the private IP at the hostname etc - now i have gone back in and replaced everywqhere i can find with the FQDN - but still in responses to mailman-request the original private IP appears - see below - where exactly can i change this? The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your original message. - Results: help Help for Mailman mailing list: This is email command help for version 2.1 of the "Mailman" list manager. The following describes commands you can send to get information about and control your subscription to Mailman lists at this site. A command can be in the subject line or in the body of the message. Note that much of the following can also be accomplished via the World Wide Web, at: http://10.1.10.224/mailman/listinfo/mailman 2. IS there a way of using the postfix style auto generated and update aliases with sendmail? I have postfix on my test machine and it works a treat, but i can see no option of doing this with sendmail. Many thanks Pete ===================================================== Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee (or responsible for delivery of the message to the addressee), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my employer shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.

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