Mailman 3 December 2004 - Mailman-Users

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by marioca789 Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

Hello, Recently I set up a mailing list with members from many countries. My question is: if someone from France sets their messages to display in French, would a post from a subscriber in Brazil in Portuguese be automatically translated into French? Any information about this would be appreciated. Thanks, Marioca

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HTML Tokens
by Peter Gysegem Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

When editing the HTML for a MailMan web page, there are many tokens such as <MM-List-Name>. Is there a list anywhere of these tokens and what they do?

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Ok, I goofed.
by Dan Egli Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

I installed mailman on my company's mail server so we could manage our bulk outgoing mail with it. No problem, except one. I didn't notice I mis-spelled the domain name before I ran update. So now all messages are going out with that wrong domain. Is there a way I can go into the mailman config and find where it stored the domain wrong and fix it? i tried updating mm_cfg.py and running update again but it says there are no updates. Help? -- -- Dan

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Deleting a list
by Bruce N. Audie Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

Hello, We just did a Linux version and Mailman version upgrade today. I had to copy over all my lists and configurations. I have lost the "delete this list" choice on the Mailman list administration page. I know by default this does not appear. I forget what the command or process is to activate this. I cannot find it in FAQs or documentation. Does anybody know the answer? Thanks, Bruce

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Unknown user- what am I missing?
by Zain Memon Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

I have a nice list set up with Mailman and Postfix as my MTA. Everything seems to work beautifully, except for one thing. Say I have three email addresses subscribed to my list. One is from the domain hotmail.com, one is from the domain gmail.com, and one is from the domain speakeasy.net. Now I send an email to the list, and it goes through fine to the Gmail and Hotmail users. However, it never gets to the Speakeasy user. It isn't a speakeasy problem since the email doesn't get past my server.… [View More]

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Mailman on separate web and smtp load balanced farms.
by Matt Ruzicka Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

First of all I apologize profusely for re-submitting this often talked about topic. I've been reading archives and googling and see that people keep asking similar questions, but their needs end up being a bit different so the answers offered up by the community don't quite answer what I'm looking for (as I am understanding them). My company is currently running three separate load balanced farms (all FreeBSD) - one each for web (Apache), incoming mail (Postfix) and outgoing mail (Postfix) … [View More]behind virtual IP's. The SMTP farms are split because we do filtering on the incoming, while the outgoing servers have separate user needs. We would VERY much like to keep the web and incoming/outgoing mail aspects separate. I was wondering if anyone is actually doing something remotely similar to this. The outgoing aspect seems like a non-issue in that it appears we can easily configure mailman to dump all mail over to the correct outgoing mail server. The issue that is confusing me is the separation of the web and the incoming mail. I have seen lots of talk about running mailman on two different servers, and I did see a few other people offer information that indicated they are using completely separate web and mail servers, but the threads always seem to move towards solutions that merge some aspect of web and mail onto one server. I'm assuming I will be installing the mailman files onto an NFS partition, which although there is a lot of legitimate concern, it sounds like the Mailman developers have worked hard to address this. Although I'm concerned the load balanced farms, in addition to the separate servers, might be too much for any NFS locking model as it relates to Mailman. (The more I re-read this the more I realize I might be SOL.) So the big questions: 1. How are people handling incoming mail to an SMTP server separate from the web server? 2. How, if at all, are people handling the above question on a load balanced incoming SMTP farm? 3. Do people have any recommendations/warnings for running Mailman on a load balanced web farm? 4. Am I just over-complicating something (the install of Mailman) that doesn't need to be as complicated as I'm thinking (our architecture model aside. ;) )? Thank you very much for your time and consideration of this issue, it is very much appreciated. Matthew Ruzicka - Systems Administrator Front Range Internet, Inc. matt(a)frii.net - (970) 212-0728 Got SPAM? Take back your email with MailArmory. http://www.MailArmory.com [View Less]

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Has anyone successfully installed Mailman on Fedora Core 2?
by Greg Deputy Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

Has anyone successfully installed Mailman on Fedora Core 2? I've been trying on and off for the last few weeks, without success. Looking through the mailling list archives I've seen several threads on problems getting Mailman to compile on Fedora core 2, which is exactly what i'm having trouble with. The box I'm trying to get mailman installed on has python version 2.3.3. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. Here's a sample output of when i try to run Make Install: [root@… [View More]mx mailman-2.1.5]# make install Creating architecture independent directories... chmod o-r /usr/local/mailman/archives/private Creating architecture dependent directories... make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mailman-2.1.5/bin' for f in mmsitepass newlist rmlist add_members list_members remove_members clone_member update arch sync_members check_db withlist check_perms find_member version config_list list_lists dumpdb cleanarch list_admins genaliases change_pw mailmanctl qrunner inject unshunt fix_url.py convert.py transcheck b4b5-archfix list_owners msgfmt.py show_qfiles discard rb-archfix; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 ../build/bin/$f /usr/local/mailman/bin; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mailman-2.1.5/bin' make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mailman-2.1.5/cron' for f in crontab.in; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /usr/local/mailman/cron; \ done for f in checkdbs mailpasswds senddigests gate_news nightly_gzip bumpdigests disabled; \ do \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 ../build/cron/$f /usr/local/mailman/cron; \ done make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mailman-2.1.5/cron' make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mailman-2.1.5/misc' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./*.jpg ./*.png /usr/local/mailman/icons for d in bin cron scripts tests; \ do \ dir=/usr/local/mailman/$d; \ /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 paths.py $dir; \ done /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 mailman /usr/local/mailman/scripts /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sitelist.cfg /usr/local/mailman/data for p in email-2.5.5 JapaneseCodecs-1.4.10 KoreanCodecs-2.0.5; \ do \ gunzip -c ./$p.tar.gz | (cd . ; tar xf -); \ (cd ./$p ; umask 02 ; PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib /usr/bin/python setup.py --quiet install --install-lib /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib --install-purelib /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib --install-data /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib); \ done /usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213: UserWarning: 'licence' distribution option is deprecated; use 'license' warnings.warn(msg) src/_japanese_codecs.c:12:20: Python.h: No such file or directory src/_japanese_codecs.c:16: error: syntax error before '*' token src/_japanese_codecs.c:16: warning: data definition has no type or storage class src/_japanese_codecs.c:21: error: syntax error before '*' token src/_japanese_codecs.c:21: error: syntax error before '*' token src/_japanese_codecs.c: In function `codec_tuple': src/_japanese_codecs.c:23: error: `PyObject' undeclared (first use in this function) src/_japanese_codecs.c:23: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once src/_japanese_codecs.c:23: error: for each function it appears in.) And then it just goes on and on with more and more errors. [View Less]

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Has anybody installed mailman on Solaris 9?
by Shubham Saxena Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

I have to install mailman on Solaris 9. Can anybody help me out? Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.

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discard messages to 'mailman' list
by arjen van drie Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

Hi, I have problems to find the answer to this question: how can I discard messages that were posted to the 'mailman' list? When I visit the URL in the message with subject "30 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting", which ends in /mailman/admindb/mailman, I'm being redirected to the listinfo page. Is there a command line tool for this? Thank you, Arjen van Drie.

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FAQ Wizard
by PeteBell Nov. 30, 2004

Nov. 30, 2004

This is probably a bit more of an unusual query from usual, but my question is this: How is the "FAQ Wizard" feature on your website driven? I want to feature something exactly like this on my website. Thanks in advance Pete Bell, UK

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