Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

Change user settings through command line
by Geoff Powell May 7, 2004

May 7, 2004

Hi all, Is it possible with Mailman 2.1.4-1 to change user settings from a command line tool? For example set nomail to 1 for a user on a mailing list? I looked in the bin directory and none of the utilities appear to be designed to do this, does anyone have any suggestions? Tia Regards Geoff

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Change nomail property through script?
by Geoff Powell May 7, 2004

May 7, 2004

Hello I have a quick question, was wondering how I could change user settings (such as nomail to 1) from a script or command line utility rather than the web interface? I am using Mailman version 2.1.4-1. I looked in /var/mailman/bin directory, none of the utilities there appear to be able to do this, the list_members script seems useful for getting a list of users who have nomail set to 1 though. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do it? Thanks Regards Geoff

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Delivery problems
by Ben Lisle May 7, 2004

May 7, 2004

Hi, Can anyone point me in the direction of a good troubleshooting guide for pin pointing problems with mailman? Specifically, it not delivering to a single subscribed user? We run about 55 sperate lists, they're all working perfectly, except for one subscriber who doesn't get anything delivered. I've trolled through some logs and she is just not being forwarded the mails. Thank you

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Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 17
by Paul H Byerly May 7, 2004

May 7, 2004

Franco, Ruben wrote: >What about the stuff in "$MAILMANHOME/archives/public/$LISTNAME"? Because the path to the Mailman install can vary, it's given as something like $MAILMANHOME or <prefix>. Likewise $LISTNAME or <listname> indicates the name of a list. <>< Paul

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Mailman Admin URLs wrong
by Scot Condry May 6, 2004

May 6, 2004

I have a home network with a windows server plus a linux box as a postfix mail server. The linux box is also my firewall / router so it gets my static IP and an inside IP as the gateway (192.168.1.1). Mailman is running and I created a list. I can go to http://linuxbox.mydomain.com/mailman/admin/mylistname and the list admin page comes up, and lets me log in with my password. But all of the links in the admin page point to http://mydomain.com/mailman, etc... not http://linuxbox.mydomain.com. I made the destinction in DNS so that I could have my linux web server at http://linuxbox.mydomain.com because I have a windows web server running on just the http://mydomain.com. So my question is what created the links in the admin site and how do I make them point to my linux box. Is it Mailman, is it Apache? And where do I change it? I already changed mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_URL_HOST to http://linuxbox.mydomain.com but it didnt seem to work. Thanks SC

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Mail not going out or to archive
by chad＠chadphillips.org May 6, 2004

May 6, 2004

Hi, I set up mailman. The list is meant to be send only, all emails being moderated. The moderation flag is set for all email addresses. When I send an email to the list it goes into the queue. I then go into "Administrative requests for mailing list" and see "Posting Held for Approval". Then I mark it "Approve", "Preserve message for site administrato" and "Additionally, forward this message to:". The mail does not go out and it does not go into the archive. The list owner gets a blank email with the subject "Forward of moderated message." Any ideas on how I can fix this? I only have web access to the maching mailman is running on. thanks chad phillips ps. This is for a non-profit I am volunteering for and any help would be appreciated.

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Changing a list name
by Estelle Weyl May 6, 2004

May 6, 2004

Is there a way to change the name of an existing list. I have been searching far and wide on the server for a place to use the vi editor to edit a database file or something on the server, but I can't find where "real_name" variable is stored. Thanks for any guidance. -Estelle

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configure --with-mail-gid=user not working
by Ignacio M. Sbampato May 6, 2004

May 6, 2004

Guys, when i run the command: ./configure --with-mail-gid=some_user on a system previously installed, it isn't working. The user isn't changed, and i get the following error when i send an email to a test list: <list@server>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post prueba". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "postdrop", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "postdrop", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. I'm using Posftix as MTA. Thanks.

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qrunner
by Steffan May 6, 2004

May 6, 2004

Hello did a new install of mailman 2.1.4 now cron gives this error File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 96 print >> fd, _(__doc__) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax any idees

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on Mailman site list.
by Kevin W. Gagel May 6, 2004

May 6, 2004

----- Original Message Follows ----- Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on Mailman site list. Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:16:27 -0400 > Kevin W. Gagel wrote: > > Some time ago I setup mailman, followed some instructions on > > creating the mailman site list. Now I find I can't access its admin > > page and I'm not sure what I did. Each time I try to get to the > > admin page of the mailman list I am redirected back to the list > > index page for all of the lists. > > > > Any ideas? > > You probably have an overzealous redirect in your apache config. > Check there. Right you are, I've found it in the httpd-mailman.conf. Unfortunatly I can't seem to get around it. This file is what the mailman install put in if memory serves correctly I put the include into my apache.conf for it. Within the mailman.conf file there is a commented line that the comments say to remove. That is what is causing the behaviour. I can't figure out how to reduce it to only redirect if url ends with /mailman it just keeps redirecting anything that ends with mailman which would be the mailman sitewide list as well. Any suggestions? -------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. --------------------------------------------------------------

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