Mailman 3 January 2004 - Mailman-Users

Mailman Setting question
by Kory Wheatley 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

In Mailman 2.1.4, what option do I change to allow members and non-members to post to the list without moderator approval. I want every message sent directly to the list. Rachelle Wheatley __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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Creating mailing lists
by Aanda Faith 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Hi, My name is Amanda Faith and I work for a church that is interested in setting up email lists for different groups in the church. We were wondering about your services and how exactly we'd set up the lists. Also, I would like to know if there is a limit to the number of lists we would be able to set up. Thanks for your help, Amanda Faith All Souls Church Reception & Admin. Asst. (918) 743-2363 afaith(a)allsoulschurch.org

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrative requests for all lists
by AfriArc＠aol.com 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

In a message dated 1/26/04 9:43:51 AM, moritzengel(a)web.de writes: > like many people, I maintain a number of mailman lists. It would be so > nice if it would be possible to have a page where all administrative > pending requests form all lists are mentioned. Especially that I have to > log in to every list with administrative privileges separately is very > time vasting. > > If there is a feature implemented or you have got an idea, please mail > back. > > Thanks, > Moritz > That is a super great idea.

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postfix + mailman, bounce detection not working?
by Robert Breithuber 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

i have no idea whats going wrong: i have lots of entries in ..mailman/logs/smtp-failure like this: Jan 27 22:26:39 2004 (29932) delivery to public(a)sushu.net failed with code 450: <public(a)sushu.net>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found since weeks now every 15min (!) i am using postfix as MTA. any ideas what may go wrong? is this not a case for bounce processing? i checked, the bounce settings and anything seems to setted correctly. everything else is working perfectly! any hint would be very appreciated... greetings, robert -- ________________________________________ / The game, anoraks.2.0.0.tgz, will be \ | available from sunsite until somebody | | responsible notices it and deletes it, | | and shortly from | | ftp.mee.tcd.ie/pub/Brian, though they | | don't know that yet. | | | \ -- Brian O'Donnell, odonnllb(a)tcd.ie / ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||

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x.509 cert authentication for web interface?
by Noah Meyerhans 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi all. I'm wondering if anybody has devised a way to authenticate to the admin/moderator interfaces in Mailman using browser certificates. We try to use them to authenticate to web services wherever possible, and have a fairly widely deployed PKI at my site. It seems like this should be possible, but I really don't know python and am not very familiar with Mailman's code. We use Apache and mod_ssl, which means that we can make a bunch of environment variables associated with the certificates available to Mailman. In particular, we can find out the email address of the user. It seems like we should be able to look for that email address in the list of admin or moderator addresses and consider the user to be authenticated if it's there. The web server is already doing the necessary work to verify that the certificate is valid, so everything presented to Mailman should be trustworthy. Any help would be much appreciated. noah -- Noah Meyerhans System Administrator MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

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Re: [Mailman-Users] who command
by Mike Phillips 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Never mind. It helps to use the right password. That being said, how can a subscriber cause his password to be resent? I had to unsubscribe and then resubscribe myself to find my missing (subscriber) password. > I am the adminstrator and subscriber to a list. I sent a command to > list-request(a)mydomain.com with the body of the message "who > <password>". The server responded, "You are not allowed to retrieve the > list membership." "Who can view subscription list?" is set to list > members. Is there another setting to allow me to get the list > membership by email? > > What I am trying to do is move the membership of one MailMan list to > another one. The real question is, how can I get a simple listing of > the membership (one email address per line) so that I can do a mass > subscription on a second list? > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users% 40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: mmlist(a)mikephillips.com > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/mmlist% 40mikephillips.com > >

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(no subject)
by Clark Burbidge 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

mandrake 9.2 secure server setting using postfix I am not getting confirmation messages or adding members to my new mailing lists. I also get and error when I run bin/check_perms_grsecurity.py f [root@localhost mailman]# bin/check_perms_grsecurity.py -f Making select directories owned and writable by root only /usr/lib/mailman/mail /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin /usr/lib/mailman/bin Skipping creation of /usr/lib/mailman/bin/CheckFixUid.py Making cgis setuid mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/edithtml /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/options /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/private /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/rmlist /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/roster /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe Making mail wrapper setuid mailman /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman Ensuring that all config.db/pck files are owned by Mailman Patching mailman scripts to change the uid to mailman Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/check_perms_grsecurity.py", line 183, in ? main(sys.argv) File "bin/check_perms_grsecurity.py", line 149, in main filefd = open(script, "r") IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'add_members' [root@localhost mailman]# I can see `add_members' 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mail mail 7612 Oct 6 22:30 add_members* Are these the correct permissions?

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removing members who aren't on the list ???
by Heather Skojec 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi. I'm the list administrator for a listserv that goes out weekly to about 2000 email addresses. Each week I receive about 15-20 bounced emails. When I try to remove them from the list, the address listed is not subscribed. I assume that this means the listserv email is forwarded to the email address that isn't working. Is there anyway to find out what the original email address is so that I can remove these from the subscribers list? Thanks for your help. Hillary Edwards Program Assistant Center for Civic Ed. and Service Florida State University 850 644-3342 hedwards(a)admin.fsu.edu

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Can I set up a user-friendly write-to address?
by Lee 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, I have Mailman installed as a standard option on my web host, but the only thing stopping me from moving over to it is the way the write-to email address is configured, which I feel is far too complicated for my users to grapple with. Here's how my list's address gets set up : incel_incelsite.com(a)incelsite.com where 'incel' is my chosen list name and 'incelsite.com' is my primary domain on that web account. I need to have the write-to address as simply : incel(a)incelsite.com Is there any way I can do this, maybe through an alias or forwarding? I've fiddled around but have had no success. In case it's relevant, I would need the list to be available to subscribers only, so we keep the option of blocking any potential troublemakers. Incidentally, 'incel' also happens to be the user name of that web account. This means that my 'ideal' list write-to address (above) would actually be the same as my account's default mail address. I don't know if this itself would cause me any trouble. If it would, I could obviously slightly re-set things to make the list write-to address something like : incel1(a)incelsite.com many thanks for any help, lee ________________________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk

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bug in mailman
by Josephine Foo 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

hi, our mailing lists messageboard(a)sanjuanpeace.org and news(a)sanjuanpeace.org are on your mailman, and they havebeen up and down for the last week. today we got this message when we accessed the admin page--hope you can help us. josey foo please reply to fooferg(a)hotmail.com _____ Bug in Mailman version 2.1.3 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/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/driver", line 223, in ? run_main() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/driver", line 97, in run_main print_traceback(logger) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/driver", line 120, in print_traceback print >> logfp, '@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@' File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 73, in write Logger.write(self, "%s %s" % (prefix, msg)) MemoryError _____ Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python2 sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 _____ Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://www.sanjuanpeace.org/ SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PYTHONPATH /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)sanjuanpeace.org SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/listinfo REQUEST_METHOD GET HTTP_HOST sanjuanpeace.org PATH_INFO /messageboard_sanjuanpeace.org SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING REQUEST_URI /mailman/listinfo/messageboard_sanjuanpeace.org HTTP_ACCEPT */* HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive SERVER_NAME www.sanjuanpeace.org REMOTE_ADDR 67.41.7.225 REMOTE_PORT 1540 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us PATH_TRANSLATED /home/sanjuanp/public_html/messageboard_sanjuanpeace.org SERVER_PORT 80 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate SERVER_ADDR 69.10.149.14 DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/sanjuanp/public_html

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