Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

How can I update 2.1.2 --> 2.1.5?
by Gerardo Ardiles 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hi, I`m new at the use of the Mailman Software. I dont quite understand how to update it. My present version is 2.1.2 and I wish to take to 2.1.5. Where can I read how to do it?. I read the README and the Updating files but I didnt fully understand what I should do. I would be grateful if someone helped me. Thanks in advance. Gerardo

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relay access denied
by Kelsey Forsythe 23 May '04

23 May '04

Users attempting to subscribe to my list have not been added lately and looking in my /var/log mail.log file I find the following. Recipient address rejected: Relay acce ss denied; from=<chemclub-bounces(a)atom.chem.iupui.edu> to=<kforsyth(a)iupui.edu> p roto=ESMTP helo=<atom.chem.iupui.edu> I'm using postfix as the main mail on the server and have pop-before-smtp configured to allow for relaying so I'm puzzled. Any suggestions? Thanks, Kelsey Kelsey Forsythe, PhD Director, Computational Molecular Science Facility IUPUI Chemistry LD 320 402 North Blackford St. Indianapolis, IN 46202 Ph: 317-278-2202 Fax: 317-274-4701

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Virtual Hosts in mm-cfg.py
by bescher 23 May '04

23 May '04

Hello again I apologize for not putting a subject line in my last post. I am having several issues one of which are below I asked the question earlier (thank you Richard for helping me) about having more then 1 domain to have mailing lists in) he showed me where in defaults.py is the reference for it and also in a FAQ Now I am presuming you DON'T edit defaults.py at all and do everything in mm-cfg.py? I have the below in my mm-cfg.py and would like to know if this is correct Thank you for everything # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. IMAGE_LOGOS ='/icons/' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.test.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.tester.org' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(listserv.test.com, mail.test.com) add_virtualhost(list.test1.com, mail.test.com) PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private'

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(no subject)
by Bob Escher 23 May '04

23 May '04

Hi all In the Instructions put out by Sasa it says to put the below in the /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm-cfg.py DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.jones.org' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.jones.org' My question is what do you do if you have several domains that will run a mailing list? Put them all in there? Thanks Bob E

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Open / Close lists
by Brian York 23 May '04

23 May '04

Were are the settings for open and closed lists for mailman 2.14? Thanks Brian

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mailman 2.0.11 - debian installation
by Joachim Schwendtner 23 May '04

23 May '04

i have some problems with the installaion of mailman 2.0.11 (debian woody) with apt-get install 1. after installation and setting up "testlist" my testusers do not get a mail, when i send a mail to the list "testlist", the listadministrator received the mail 2. on the website the 3 images are not displayed (phyton, mailman, gnu) mailman is stored on my webserver in /var/lib/mailman i have copied the images to /var/lib/mailman/images in mm_cfg.py i have added: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'hsbadhall.at' DEFAULT_URL = 'https://mail.hsbadhall.at/cgi-bin/mailman/' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/images/' USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 0 DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = 0 MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/var/lib/mailman/private' and where should pipermail be??? and /apache-ssl/httpd.conf i have added: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives> Options +FollowSymlinks </Directory>

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reply-all
by Ludmilla Saskova 22 May '04

22 May '04

How do I set up the discussion list so that the users automatically responds to all on the list rather then to the one person who sent the original message? I know you can to reply all or dragg the list email address, but my clients would prefer to have this done automatically. thanks ludmilla

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New to mailman and questions
by Bob Escher 22 May '04

22 May '04

Hi All I am new to mailman and I am running it with xmail. I finally figured after reading a lot the general setup and was able to set list and users up with no problems I was also able to send a subscribe requests out to users and they were able to send them back. The problem is when I tried tosend a message to that list. It disapears. At first before I added that list name as a "user" in xmail I got a 550 error But now it goes out it says (in the logs) it was sent but nothing comes in. I relooked at the xmail logs and it appears that it went out (the smtp log) shows this "" "xmailserver.test" "69.33.193.67" "2004-05-22 05:44:10" "rsegroup.com" "list.shermanpark.org" "bescher(a)rsegroup.com" "board(a)list.shermanpark.org" "S23D" "RCPT=OK" "" "0" "" also the ctrl log file shows this (the ip is wrong "69.33.193.68" "root" "#deb35edab6a1285a8479f78494f81795" "2004-05-22 06:14:07" "REQ" "69.33.193.68" "root" "#deb35edab6a1285a8479f78494f81795" "2004-05-22 06:14:07" "AUTH" Thanks Bob Any ideas Thanks Bob Escher

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CGI Error: Failure to find group name
by Andrew Hill 22 May '04

22 May '04

Hi all, This question is asked several times in the archives, but I'm yet to find the answer. What do you do when you've installed Mailman, but accessing the CGI pages with a web browser gives the error message: Failure to find group name nobody. Try adding this group to your system, or re-run configure, providing an existing group name with the command line option --with-cgi-gid. Mailman was configured like this: ./configure \ --with-mail-gid=postfix \ --with-cgi-gid=nobody \ --with-mailhost=xxx.xxx.xxx \ --with-urlhost=xxx.xxx.xxx And I'm pretty sure that the group "nobody" exists: # pw group show nobody nobody:*:65534: So, why can't Mailman find the group? TIA! -- Andrew Hill andrew(a)awarez.net

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Scrubber question
by Kory Wheatley 22 May '04

22 May '04

I'm currently using Mailman 2.1.4 with Postfix on a Red Hat Enterprise Ver3 workstation. I installed the scrubber patch[904850], to use it to save attachments to be viewed in the archives, and this leads me to my question. How would I be able to have mailman remove attachments being sent to the mailing lists to subscribers personal emails, but still have scrubber save it as an attachment link in the archives. I know you can use content filters to remove attachments, but when this happens, the scrubber patch doesn't save them in the archive area. I tried changing the GLOBAL PIPELINE by putting "Scrubber" as the first handler to be used, but the content filter options must be looked at first, before scrubber can put the attachment in the archives, because I'm having the content filter strip out any image attachments, but I would like this image attachments to be viewable in the archives. Basically, I want the email messages to be stripped from attachments, (because of size reasons), but have the attachments still be viewable in the archives, using scrubber. Is this possible? I don't have much Python programming experience. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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