Mailman 3 January 2004 - Mailman-Users

creating private lists by default
by Andy Malato Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

What is the way to tell mailman to create a private list by default? Currently, when a list is created, it gets created as a public or "advertised" list, this is not desirable. Is it possible to change this behavior, and if so, what needs to be set? Thanks, ---Andy

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processing list-owner messages
by Ray Gardener Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Hi, my platform is Mailman 2.1.4 running on Solaris 7 integrated with Exim 4. I notice a annoying facet of the installation. Mail for the list-administrators (e.g. request to action subscriptions) are being sent by mailman to to addresses list-owner@domain. List-owner@domain is a requred address for mailman - but I would expect that mailman would expand the address to the actual real email of the administrator9s) rather than send them to list-owner. The effect of not doing this is: after the mail is sent to the address it re-enters mailman where is is (correctly) recognised as a bounce. This bounced message is then correctly sent to the list admins (but presumably only because I have the option to sent the bounces to the admin set - otherwise I wouldn't see the requests). Can anyone advise me on what I need to do get mail to sent the administrative messages to the actual admins first time round? Regards -- R.A.Gardener Team Leader E-Communications Corporate Information Services Sheffield Hallam Uiversity R.A.Gardener(a)shu.ac.uk 0114 225 4926

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Cannot get GUI to work
by William C. Mueller Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

We are setting up Mailman 2.1.4 for testing and review on a Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.0 system. Mailman installed OK and usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms produced no errors. So unto Step 4. Final system set-up. However here is where we run into problems. We are trying to interface Mailman with Apache but cannot get the Mailman GUI to run. Per the instructions httpd.conf was edited to include: ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> The ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" and its Directory definition were commented out. The web server was started with "apachectl start". Browsing into our machine we get only: Index of / with no files listed. Also DocumentRoot and Directory were experimented with: DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" was changed to DocumentRoot "/usr/local/mailman" and <Directory "/var/www/html"> was changed to <Directory "/usr/local/mailman"> Making this change resulted in the browser to display all the files in /usr/local/mailman. Clicking on the cgi-bin directory resulted in Forbidden Access. A listing of /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin shows the following files. admin admindb confirm create edithtml listinfo options private rmlist roster subscribe We thought there should be .cgi files or an index.html file in there. How do we point to the file that starts the GUI interface? Since we are just new to this environment the answer may right in front of us and we can't see it. Any help from this list would be much appreciated. Thank you, -Bill Mueller William C. Mueller mueller(a)doit.wisc.edu 608-262-9886 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Systems Engineering & Operations - Customer Application Services University of Wisconsin - Division of Information Technology 5752 Tokay Blvd, Suite 200, Madison, WI 53719 - United States

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Using LDAP for list of recipients
by Chris Barnes Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

I am considering using a real MLM to manage the mailling lists we use within our department. However, one of the requirement for this is that the product must be able to get is subscriber list from our LDAP (OpenLDAP 3) information store. For example, in LDAP there is an attribute for each user that tells us whether they are "faculty", "staff", "grad", or "undergrad" (there are others, but this works for the example). I need a MLM that can make an LDAP query and get all of the "faculty", then send the message out. It needs to do this for EVERY message for that list. Can MailMan do this? If not, is there a MLM that can? -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes(a)tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University

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Problem getting mailman to run on RH9
by sysadmin Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

I am trying to get mailman working with RedHat 9. I installed the RPM from using yum and it installed version mailman 3:2.1.1-4.i386. I see where it is installed at /var/mailman. When I try to start it up, I get this error: Logging error: <StampedLogger to '/var/log/mailman/error'> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 67, in __get_f 1) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/codecs.py", line 496, in open file = __builtin__.open(filename, mode, buffering) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error' Original log message: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error' Jan 29 06:54:06 2004 (8452) Site list is missing: mailman I searched through the archives, and found that I need to create the mailman list. So I ran the newlist and added the mailman as the list, and gave it an email address and password. But then the script dies with: Illegal list name: mailman@mm_cfg_has_not_been_edited_to_set_host_domains I could not find that in the archives, so I am not sure what to do now. Thanks in advance. Rob

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Bounces management
by Remko Lodder Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

use aliases blabla-bounces "|script to run" cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: mailman-users-bounces(a)lists.elvandar.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces@lists.elvandar.org]Namens Juan Enrique Gomez Verzonden: donderdag 29 januari 2004 13:37 Aan: Mailman Users Onderwerp: [Mailman-Users] Bounces management Hi! I am trying to figure out how to execute an script after a member of a list is bounced, is this possible? Thanks! -- Saludos, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Juan Enrique Gomez Perez |Metropoli2000 Networks, S.L. | Phone: +34 914250023 Fax: +34 914250136 | Mobile: +34 615 922 820 | email: juan.enrique.gomez(a)metropoli2000.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint: 6B39 3A2B A17B 1E8E CFFD FC14 678E 0A22 BD80 C486 Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBD80C486 If this message hasn't a correct signature please notify it to juanen(a)metropoli2000.com. To get the public key please use the above url. Thanks for your help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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How to purge correctly old messages ?
by BERTHOLD Jean Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Hello, -- Please, I have this big archive: root@vanuatu # pwd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private root@vanuatu # root@vanuatu # du -sh etrans* 2.4G etrans-echanges 645M etrans-echanges.mbox root@vanuatu # root@vanuatu # pwd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/etrans-echanges root@vanuatu # du -sh database 903M database root@vanuatu # -- How to remove the oldest messages correctly ? -- For example, is it sufficient to only delete files under: root@vanuatu # pwd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/etrans-echanges root@vanuatu # du -sh 20030625* 5.9M 20030625 4.1M 20030625.txt 120K 20030625.txt.gz root@vanuatu # -- Or do I need delete related files under: root@vanuatu # pwd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/etrans-echanges/database root@vanuatu # du -sh 20030625* 5.9M 20030625-article 12K 20030625-author 10K 20030625-date 15K 20030625-subject 10K 20030625-thread root@vanuatu # -- And after the previous delete , is this file will be updated automatiquely: root@vanuatu # pwd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/etrans-echanges.mbox root@vanuatu # ls etrans-echanges.mbox root@vanuatu # du -sh * 645M etrans-echanges.mbox root@vanuatu # -- Is there somewhere a script for automatic purge ? By date criteria ... -- I cannot find documentation about that ... Thanks for your help and have a nice day EOS Holding Jean Berthold Administrateur Unix & Oracle Unité Gestion de l'infrastructure Team Systèmes Ch. de Mornex 10 Tél. +41(0)21 341 24 58 Fax +41(0)21 341 20 49 jean.berthold(a)eosholding.ch

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Bounces management
by Juan Enrique Gómez Jan. 29, 2004

Jan. 29, 2004

Hi! I am trying to figure out how to execute an script after a member of a list is bounced, is this possible? Thanks! -- Saludos, -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Juan Enrique Gomez Perez |Metropoli2000 Networks, S.L. | Phone: +34 914250023 Fax: +34 914250136 | Mobile: +34 615 922 820 | email: juan.enrique.gomez(a)metropoli2000.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint: 6B39 3A2B A17B 1E8E CFFD FC14 678E 0A22 BD80 C486 Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBD80C486 If this message hasn't a correct signature please notify it to juanen(a)metropoli2000.com. To get the public key please use the above url. Thanks for your help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Question About Mail Man & Bounced emails
by Nicholas Tritchew Jan. 28, 2004

Jan. 28, 2004

How does Mail Man mailing list manager handle bounces? -Nicholas

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Mailman Install - Virtuals
by Ryan Jan. 28, 2004

Jan. 28, 2004

Hello, I've just installed mailman and I'm not sure where "The web page for users of your mailing list" (the link in the email received when creating a new list) is in relationship to the $prefix directory. Also, do I have to create any virtuals for admin web pages or archives or any others? I've read and reread the install doc several times and haven't seen anything indicating that I need to. I have made a few virtuals just to try to narrow it down and check them out from a web page. One to the $prefix/templates, $prefix/lists, and the $prefix/public directory (which has soft links pointing towards the lists in the private directory). In the lists that are in the private directory, each has a config.pck, config.pck.last, or request.db. I'm thinking maybe I'm not browsing the correct directory. Please shed some light. Thanks, Ryan

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