Mailman 3 July 2004 - Mailman-Users

Aliases problem
by Foo, Randy July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hi, I'm running postfix 2.0.16 with mailman 2.1.2., on Red Hat 9. When I try to create a new list via the web interface, the aliases file does not get updated. My postfix main.cf has these entries: Alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases,hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases Both /etc/aliases and /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases are owned by mailman, group mailman. I tried rearranging the order of the two entries, as such: Alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases,hash:/etc/aliases But … [View More]that broke the list creation entirely, and returned the error below. Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this alias problem? BTW, the permissions on the files are rw-rw---- for /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases and rw-r---- for /etc/aliases Which would seem ok if the scripts execute as mailman, and the documentation seems to indicate they do. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Randy Foo Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11) [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 Environment variables: Variable Value CONTENT_LENGTH 141 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_REFERER http://lis SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux) SERVER_ADMIN root@localhost SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/2.0.40 Server at listlnx.vcd.hp.com Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST HTTP_HOST list SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0 QUERY_STRING REQUEST_URI /mailman/create HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.11 9000/785) HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_COOKIE HP-ESC-GEO=americas_ap; HP-BCO-PRODMEMID=537c87ce-24c4-4383-8575-eb1507845584 SERVER_NAME list REMOTE_ADDR 15.***.***.** REMOTE_PORT 62056 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en UNIQUE_ID hBPu7A-8GrIAAClZQm4AAAAB SERVER_PORT 80 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip SERVER_ADDR 15.xxx.xx.xxx DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html [View Less]

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"from" column question--how can we get our name to appear instead of the email address?
by Avi M. Spiegel July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hello: We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column? When I send messages from my Outlook account to any other address its says my name in the From box. When I send messages to the mailman listserv it lists the email address of the listserv in the From box. Please help! Thanks

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What is wrong???
by Richard B. Pyne July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Jul 02 03:28:26 2004 (2458) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 3717: ordinal not in range(128) Jul 02 03:28:26 2004 (2458) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/… [View More]

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translate email commands
by Ralf Hildebrandt July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hi! Some of our users are slightly english-agnostic. So how can I change (or rather ADD!) the email commands: help / hilfe password / passwort Adding these two as synonyms for help/password would totally suffice. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 IT-Zentrum Standort Campus Mitte AIM. ralfpostfix

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reply-to problems
by Nick Cotter July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hi I recently installed mailman and have been quite happy with it. However, for no apparent reason the reply-to munging I was doing has disappeared. I had set reply-to to "this list", and it did work. However, now it doesn't, and in fact no combination of settings that I can think of does work. I can't imagine what's changed. Does anyone have any ideas why the reply-to header should suddenly become unchanged from the original sender's address? Cheers Nick Cotter

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messages locked in "shunt" directory
by Hartmut Steffin July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

hi guys, short question: why are my messages shunt? long description: since a few days the archives are not updated. everything else works, i.e. you can send messages, subscribers receive a.s.o. the archive does not reflect changes since a week or so. i looked into the directories. not only the html files are unchanged, but mboxes too. investigating further, i found a directory ~mailman/qfiles/shunt which seems to hold all messages since the last update. is there a cronjob missing? did i do … [View More]

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mass subscription options
by Charles Sprickman July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hello, I'm really happy with Mailman; I recently upgraded an install that was at least a year or two old, so I basically took ownership of the project. Nice stuff, especially with the htdig patches. I have one more little question. I don't want to let people do mass subscriptions via the web interface without an invite. Basically I figure if someone is going to go that route, I'd like to have the opportunity to catch any "spammy" activity, and I'd rather have the invite trigger that than … [View More]

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bogus archive directory messages to mailman list
by Kai Schaetzl July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

This is Mailman 2.1.5rc on Linux. I have seen this happen with 2.1.4 as well. Each night nightly-gzip creates a complaint about this: List kunden-alle has a bogus archive_directory: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kunden-alle I'm not sure what it means. There's a symlink from private pointing to a non-existant directory in public. I removed that symlink but it still creates the same message. So, what does it want? Do I need to change configuration somewhere? (archiving = no) Or … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation???
by Brad Knowles July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

At 2:42 PM +0200 2004-07-02, Michael Schreyner wrote: > Can anybody give me a clue how to install mailman on my homepage/server. > > I already copied the files in a directory but how do I get it running? > > Is there a installation manual somewhere? The installation instructions are included in the tarball you downloaded from <http://www.list.org/download.html>. If you got the files from someplace else (e.g., a binary package created by your OS vendor) and the … [View More]

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Control over who can become listmember
by Peter Huesser July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hello Is it possible for a listowner to have complete control over who can become a listmember and who not ? So nobody can really subscribe to the list. Only the listowner can add new members. Thank's in advance for any help Pedro

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