Mailman 3 January 2004 - Mailman-Users

Mailman installation
by Jahir Jimenez 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I want to install this tool to make my mail list public for other users on my Company Network, but, I don't know how to install it or manage the .tar file that you send to me Because I'm not too expert about linux's systems. If you got some documents or something to help me I'll appreciate it. Regards,

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MM 2.1.4 compatible mailman-htdig integration patches
by Richard Barrett 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I have now updated a number of my Mailman patches to be MM 2.1.4 compatible and where possible uploaded the revised versions to sourceforge. Unfortunately, I have been unable to upload revised version of my htdig integration patches #444879 and #444884 to sourceforge. I have filed a support request with the folks at sourceforge but pending a response from them I can only suggest that if you want the 2.1.4 compatible patches you download them from my own web site at: http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/index.html Let me know if you have any problems with these patches. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk

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How to disable..the results of your email commands
by Zaw Min 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Can anyone help me how to disable the email " The results of your email commands" sent after user confirm their subscribe or unsubscribe. Thanks, Z.M --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Get your photo on the big screen in Times Square

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Sendmail: low level smtp error
by dmartin＠origen.com 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I am upgrading my OS and mailman installations, and mailman does not seem to be able to pass a message to the MTA. The current system is FreeBSD 4.9 Mailman 2.1.14 Sendmail 8.12.10, default sendmail.cf file Installation was normal, and mail-gid and cgi-gid were set during configure. This all worked fine on my existing system, which is installed and configured the same way. (why upgrade, right?) I have also run thru all the checks in the FAQ 3.14, but am still getting the same error: The message is accepted and passed to mailman, but in the smtp-error log the messages produce this: Low level smtp error: (7, 'No address associated with hostname'), msgid: <mailman.0.1072917255.93454.mailman(a)rufus.origenbio.com> Jan 01 22:11:08 2004 (21131) delivery to dmartin(a)origen.com failed with code -1: (7, 'No address associated with hostname') Sendmail seems to be working fine otherwise, both sending and receiving, and the aliases are current. While I am pretty sure this is a problem of mailman not finding the Sendmail MTA, I am not sure how to fix this. Thanks, Richard Martin

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Virus in Download ????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Junker, Gerhard 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

VIRUS WARNING Document http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz <http://www.list.org/mailman.tar.gz> contains one or more viruses! VIRUS: Virus 'Exploit-MIME.gen' Generated by your GeNUGate-Proxy (/usr/local/sbin/wwwrelay) on gate2-f.ifag.de <<Gerhard Junker>>

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Automatically reject email from non member
by Gian-Carlo 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

due to stupid daily spam to my list I whant automatically refuse any email from non members, without any request to the list administrator and administrative intervention Is that possible ?? thanks

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mailer error 1
by David Herron 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Hi, I'm just setting up mailman (2.1.3) for the first time and have a stumper that doesn't seem to be covered by the documentation, nor the discussion in this group. *) I can send mail to users on the system (RH9 w/ Sendmail) *) I have A and MX records pointing at the host in question *) If I execute, as user mailmain, /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post list-name and enter an email message by hand, it posts just fine. I've attached a sample bounce message. In the INSTALL doc it mentions a possibility that the group ID is wrong when the "mailman post" command is being executed. And, if I execute the same command as root it fails telling me to run it as the right group. However, in the INSTALL doc it mentions an explicit error message which is sent to syslog, but this message is not seen. Instead I get the following (in my syslog, "mail.*" is directed to /var/log/maillog): Jan 1 19:36:38 java sendmail[11845]: i01Jabrg011845: from=<davidh(a)7gen.com>, size=580, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.BSF.4.58.0401011436320.34884(a)pi.pair.com>, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=pi.pair.com [209.68.1.29] Jan 1 19:36:39 java sendmail[11846]: i01Jabrg011845: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post try", ctladdr=<try(a)java.7gen.com> (8/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=30758, dsn=5.3.0, stat=unknown mailer error 1 Jan 1 19:36:39 java sendmail[11846]: i01Jabrg011845: i01Jadrg011846: DSN: unknown mailer error 1 Jan 1 19:36:39 java sendmail[11846]: i01Jadrg011846: to=<davidh(a)7gen.com>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=31782, relay=pi.pair.com. [209.68.1.29], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (ok 1072985799 qp 92593) The lines are wrapped to make for easier reading. When I ran configure, I didn't specify any options as the defaults looked right for what I understood the system to require. Obviously there's a sensitivity to which group ID is used to invoke the mailman script. How do I determine which ID is being used when sendmail hands off to mailman? - David

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move a list over servers
by john walsh 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi, If I am moving an existing mailman from one server to another - what files do I need to copy ? The new server will be setup the same as the old server, same dir layout... but may be a different kernel/linux (or even mailman, but all post 2.1.2). I was looking in the mailman home directory, and as far as I can see the only directories which contain any data for a list are: archives/ lists/ logs/ So if I make a clean installation of mailman on my new server, and then copy over those directories from the old server - will that work ? Thanks, John. _________________________________________________________________ Send a funky Messenger Christmas card http://www.msn.co.uk/christmascard

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Mailman Edit
by Customer Support 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

How do I edit the subscription confirmation page to remove the Mailman footer data? I find it to be a security issue to give a link to my admin page (whether one needs a password or not) to anyone and everyone who browses through my list pases.

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ASCII error
by Sean 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi, I'm running Mailman 2.1.3 on a FreeBSD 4.6 box. I tried to run the sync_members script and got this error: # ~mailman/bin/sync_members -n -f stories-news-and-other-good-stuff_regular_members stories-news-and-other-good-stuff Dry run mode Added : ayalah(a)rcn.com Removed: 110742.522(a)compuserve.com Removed: karen_vona_mcintyre/cam/lotus(a)lotus.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/mailman/bin/sync_members", line 286, in ? main() File "/usr/mailman/bin/sync_members", line 277, in main s = email.Utils.formataddr((name, addr)).encode(enc, 'replace') UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) I'm not sure that the error mesasge means or what cause it. Any ideas? Thanks, Sean Happy New Year!

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