Mailman 3 July 2004 - Mailman-Users

How can list admin unsubscribe user via email?
by Rick Maddy July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

I need a way for a list admin or moderator to be able to unsubscribe a user from the list via an email interface. I don't want the user to get a confirmation page first, just the notice that they have been unsubscribed. I'm sending this email from a Java program. I've tried sending the email from the person I'm trying to unsubscribe to list-unsubscribe(a)host.com - this results in the user getting the confirmation - not what I want. I've tried sending the email as the admin to list-request(a)host.com with the command 'unsubscribe [admin password] address=user.to.remove' This gives me a bad password email to the admin. I assume it is looking for the user's password, not the admin's password. I've read all the docs and FAQs and searched the archives but I can't find anything on this. Help. Rick

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Installation???
by Michael Schreyner July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hi! 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? Gott segne Dich God bless You Dios te bendiga Michael Schreyner Gestettengasse 17/6/4 A-1030 Vienna AUSTRIA (no Kangaroos!!!) Mobile: +4369918877393 Homepage: www.u-balance.at -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mailman-users-bounces(a)python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces@python.org] Im Auftrag von mailman-users-request(a)python.org Gesendet: Freitag, 02. Juli 2004 12:07 An: mailman-users(a)python.org Betreff: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 7 Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to mailman-users(a)python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailman-users-request(a)python.org You can reach the person managing the list at mailman-users-owner(a)python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mailman-Users digest..."

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Re: [Mailman-Users] List without moderation
by Kevin W. Gagel July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

----- Original Message Follows ----- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:56:50 +0530 (IST) ---snip--- > So I used the "config_list" command with the siteconfig.cfg file to have > default_member_moderation = 0 >From this point on your new members will not have the moderation bit set. Meaning they will not be moderated. > But still its not working? Is there anyway to make sure that member > moderation is turned off?? You still have not turned off the moderation bit for old members. Go to the members listing and set the mod bit off for all members. ==================== Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator (250) 561-5848 local 448 (250) 562-2131 local 448 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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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bug?
by iane＠sussex.ac.uk July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hi, Users have reported getting moderator messages like this: > Subject: -1 CGPE-internal moderator request(s) waiting > > The CGPE-internal(a)sussex.ac.uk mailing list has -1 request(s) waiting > for your consideration at: > > http://mail.sussex.ac.uk/mailman/admindb/cgpe-internal > > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. That's not 1 request, its "-1" request. There aren't any requests when they get there. I think this is a bug introduced in the last update (or the one before, I skipped a version). I've only seen it since I last upgraded. -- Ian Eiloart Servers Team Sussex University ITS

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mailman and courier
by fmouse-mailman＠fmp.com July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

I'm using mailman as a list server with courier as my MTA. The mailman user is in /etc/passwd as belonging to primary group 'mailman'. Mailman is compiled with --with-mail-gid set to the group of the mail user. This is set to 'courier' which works for most purposes, both posting and handling bounces from list posts. The one exception to this is the monthly password reminder postings which go out with an address of "mailman-bounces+<VERP address>@bailey.fmp.com" as the envelope sender, and if they bounce they come back to this address. Courier delivers them to the mailman account where I have a .courier-default file to pass them to a python script for processing. Unlike list posts and list post bounces, however, the delivering process runs as user mailman, group mailman, and mailman rejects them because the group id of the delivering process doesn't agree with the value of "courier" compiled into the wrapper. According to the mailman INSTALL document, one can configure mailman at build time to accept any one of a set of groups specified in the --with-mail-gid, but putting these in a quoted, space-spearted list as arguments to the configure script doesn't work, and reading the code, I don't see where such a multiple-name lookup is supported since the wrapper uses a single strcmp call for the comparison. Does this feature work? If so, what's the exact syntax for the target for --with-mail-gid required to make this happen? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | |

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval
by Benjamin Lotto July 1, 2004

July 1, 2004

On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Dan Phillips wrote: > Something just occurred to me (I can be pretty slow at times). Have > you posed these questions to the OS X server mailing list at > http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macos-x-server/ ? Since I > installed MM on 10.2, before Apple started providing it, I've never > thought to ask MM questions there, but if this is something related to > Apple's version, that should be a good place to start... Thanks to this very helpful suggestion, I poked around the archives of the Apple Mac OS X server list. Someone there suggested that deleting the troublesome config.pck.last files would do the job. So I tried deleting them and ... I got an error! rm: config.pck.last: Invalid argument After fiddling around, I discovered the renaming config.pck.last allowed me to delete it. Everything seems to be working fine (for now). Thanks for all of you who sent me helpful suggestions. -Ben

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Cron <mailman@phcweb> /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/mailpasswds
by Raymond Mills July 1, 2004

July 1, 2004

Hello folks, I am new to a lot of this and I have a question. I saw a post regarding missing mailman but I am using plesk so I am not sure how to proceed I got a message with the subject line above that stated: Site list is missing: mailman I set up and run mailman from a plesk 6/linux interface. Any idea what this means or what has happened? Raymond

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval
by Benjamin Lotto July 1, 2004

July 1, 2004

On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:23 PM, Dan Phillips wrote: > On Jul 1, 2004, at 3:11 PM, Benjamin Lotto wrote: >>> Did you run 'check_perms -f'? >> >> Yes (as root). Followed by unshunt (as mailman) as Dan Phillips >> suggested. I didn't get any errors. However, I still get the same >> error when I try to login to some of my lists webpages, but not >> others. I'm including what shows up immediately below. I get >> similar errors when some of the cron jobs run. >> >> Could this have anything to do with the fact that I (naively) set up >> a mailman list called mailman, so any e-mail to mailman goes to that >> list? I tried to delete the mailman list (using rmlist) but I got an >> error similar to the others I've been describing. >> > > Certainly, errors in sending the password reminders could be due to > messing with a list called mailman, since that is the default "site > list" name which is the address of record for sending out those pw > reminders, although I don't know what Apple uses. Take a look at the > top of mailman/data/sitelist.cfg; the first line should tell you the > name of the site list. Another check to make is to run "bin/check_db > mailman" and see what it tells you. After running unshunt, is > qfiles/shunt now empty? The "site list" is, in fact, "Mailman". I ran the commands "check_db -v mailman" and "unshunt" as root. The results of check_db -v mailman: List: mailman /private/var/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck: okay /private/var/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last: okay [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/var/mailman/lists/mailman/config.db' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/private/var/mailman/lists/mailman/config.db.last' As far as unshunt is concerned, the result was to reduce the number of files in qfiles/shunt to a small number. There are now some files in qfiles/in and lots in qfiles/virgin.

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Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval
by Benjamin Lotto July 1, 2004

July 1, 2004

I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message. On Jul 1, 2004, at 9:00 AM, mailman-owner(a)math.vassar.edu wrote: > As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the > following mailing list posting: > > List: Mailman(a)math.vassar.edu > From: mailman(a)math.vassar.edu > Subject: Cron <mailman@math> /usr/bin/python -S > /usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled > Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list > > At your convenience, visit: > > http://math.vassar.edu/mailman/admindb/mailman > > to approve or deny the request. > > From: mailman(a)math.vassar.edu (Cron Daemon) > Date: July 1, 2004 9:00:01 AM EDT > To: mailman(a)math.vassar.edu > Subject: Cron <mailman@math> /usr/bin/python -S > /usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled", line 209, in ? > main() > File "/usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled", line 202, in main > mlist.Save() > File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 515, in Save > self.__save(dict) > File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 487, in __save > os.unlink(fname_last) > OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: > '/private/var/mailman/lists/boardconfidential/config.pck.last' > > > > From: mailman-request(a)math.vassar.edu > Subject: confirm b9c1ca65ffe21fe79d376ba3a7b21dfd3b785ae3 > > > If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, > Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is > spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header > with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting > to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line > of the body of the reply. Attempting to visit http://math.vassar.edu/mailman/admindb/mailman and typing in the password leads to an error. Attempting to login to the admin page for the mailman list or the boardconfidential list leads to errors as well: > Traceback: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main > main() > File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 194, in main > mlist.Save() > File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 515, in Save > self.__save(dict) > File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 487, in __save > os.unlink(fname_last) > OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: > '/private/var/mailman/lists/boardconfidential/config.pck.last' Can someone give me a clue as to what's going wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks thanks thanks!!! -Ben

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Extract list of lists with population?
by Brendan Chard July 1, 2004

July 1, 2004

Is there a command I can run that will quickly tell me the name of each list on a server AND the number of members in that list? If not, what's the quickest way to check list membership totals? Thanks -Brendan

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