Mailman 3 September 2004 - Mailman-Users

mailman setup
by Andy Morris 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Okay, I have mailman running and created the initial list 'mailman'. My questiong is, do i actually have to keep this list for mailman to run or can i hide this list from the actual lists page? thanks, Andy

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Cloning a list
by Mike Cullum 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

After much trial and error I have created a set of list settings that works very well. Now, I would like to create others that are essentially the same. Is there any way that I can clone all of the settings from the correctly configured list? Thanks, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Cullum Director of Infrastructure and Instructional Technologies Northshore School District 3330 Monte Villa Parkway Bothell, WA 98021-7215 Telephone: (425)489-6322 Fax:(425)489-6317 Email: mcullum(a)nsd.org -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Email not being distributed...
by jean＠dancecentral.com.au 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Hello, I created a small list of about 10 members to start and tested it for a couple of days... changing settings to make sure all goes the way It should. Then I finished loading the email address and I have almost 5000. I tried today to send my first newsletter and it looks like it's not being distributed (I know because I have several addresses that I own and that I keep checking). I made sure the maximum kb per email was set high enough also the recipient filter is set to 10000 recipients..... so it should work just like when I sent the test emails to 10 people. I spend several hours on this and cannot figure out why it isn't working... Any ideas... ? Thanks . Jean-Luc

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virtual host
by Hong Jiang Tian 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Hi, I have questions about using the virtual host with Mailman 2.1.5 on RHEL 3. For example the hostname of my mailing server is land.its.org. I created an DNS alias that is named mailman.its.org. Then I did as follows: $ nslookup mailman.its.org mailman.its.org canonical name = land.its.org Name: land.its.org Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx $ vi mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mailman.its.org' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mailman.its.org' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) $ bin/withlist -l -r fix_url test -v $ bin/mailmanctl restart I added the virtual host of mailman.its.org on Apache. The URL of http://mailman.its.org/mailman/admin/test is working. I also can send the emails from the members of test list to test(a)mailman.its.org. But the members of test list received the emails still from land.its.org, not mailman.its.org. The mail header didn't change from land.its.org to mailman.its.org. I want any email will use the alias name of mailman.its.org, not land.its.org. Does anyone know how to resolve it? Thanks for your help. Hong

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How can I do this?
by Chris Barnes 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Another question from a former Lsoft Listserv user: I want to know if this function is available using MailMan, and if so, how: Using Listserv, if you had 2 lists (ListA & ListB), you could set things up such: ListA: Send= Editor Editor= primaryeditor@host Editor= (ListB) Doing this allowed all of the subscribers of ListB to be able to send their messages to ListA without moderation. In other words, in MM in the Privacy/Sender section under where it says "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted" can I specify another list? -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes(a)tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

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APACHE: any issues if "disallow the showing of directory listing"
by Franco, Ruben 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

I was wondering if it would cause any issues with the Mailman software if I configure my Apache web server to no longer allow showing the directory listings of directories that do not have a default web page by changing the "Indexes" option to "-Indexes"? EXAMPLE: <Directory "/usr/local/mailman"> Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

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Problems with relocating a list
by Anthony Chavez 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Moving a Mailman list from one server to a new one has been a *very* smooth process for the most part, but I'm noticing some small quirks in the wake. Here's an account of how I accomplished this. 1. Installed Mailman 2.1.5, Postfix 2.1.4, and Apache 2.0.50 on the new server. These versions exactly match the ones on the old server. 2. Went through the process dictated in FreeBSD-post-install-notes, INSTALL, README, and README.POSTFIX, which essentially involved editing main.cf, httpd.conf, adding MTA = 'Postfix' to mm_cfg.py and creating the "mailman" list. 3. Under the direction of section 3.4 in the FAQ Wizard, I copied the data, archives and lists directories from the old server to the new one. But rather than clobbering the pre-existing directories, I copied only the *relevant* directories from archives and lists (i.e. archives/private/listname* and lists/listname). Nothing was copied from data and the "mailman" list was not copied. 4. Ran withlist -l -r fix_url listname && genaliases 5. Started postfix and qrunner. 6. Configured Apache on the old site to proxy and Postfix to relay to the new server while DNS changes propagated. Now, the aforementioned quirks: 1. The old lists are not advertised on the new Web site. 2. Apache will not let me access the public archives (that were private before the move) and I get a 403. I'm sure this has to do with Apache 2's default deny policy, but not entirely sure how to deal with it (I'm still somewhat of an Apache 2 newbie, but I've had a few years experience with 1.x). Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Cheers! - -- Anthony Chavez http://www.anthonychavez.org/ mailto:acc@anthonychavez.org jabber:acc@jabber.anthonychavez.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBUHesbZTbIaRBRXERAoIGAJ0fYE5OA0qsowSA8C15dZ+J/dlGdQCeNbEQ M0fmXySbfdTfpReNuH3/2hw= =kfs3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed...
by Kevin W. Gagel 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

What version of Mailman? What OS and version? What MTA are you using? Version? What does the error log indicate? ----- Original Message Follows ----- From: <jean(a)dancecentral.com.au> To: <mailman-users(a)python.org> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed... Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:32:52 +1000 > Hello, > > I created a small list of about 10 members to start and tested it for a > couple of days... changing settings to make sure all goes the way It should. > Then I finished loading the email address and I have almost 5000. I tried > today to send my first newsletter and it looks like it's not being > distributed (I know because I have several addresses that I own and that I > keep checking). I made sure the maximum kb per email was set high enough > also the recipient filter is set to 10000 recipients..... so it should work > just like when I sent the test emails to 10 people. > > I spend several hours on this and cannot figure out why it isn't working... > > Any ideas... ? > > Thanks . > > Jean-Luc > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ==================== 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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[RESEND] what is a basic apache2 config for mailman?
by Joshua N Pritikin 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

mailman 2.1.5-1 (debian) I've gotten mailman installed and working, but I can't figure out how to set up the web interface. I'm using apache2. I'm sorry to post what must seem like a stupid question, but I've spent a few hours searching the FAQ, mailing lists, and documentation. The answer is not there, at least not in a form which I could easily pluck. Can someone just send me a working apache2 config, pretty please? -- A new cognitive theory of emotion, http://openheartlogic.org

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Messages stuck in qfiles
by Ralf Laue 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Hello, It should help to patch the /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py file, line 163, as follows: if (subject == None): subject = '' splitsubj = string.split(subject) Ralf mhurley wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------ Hey, I found some more info on my problem, but haven't cracked the case yet: in ~mailman/logs/error, since Aug 31 qrunner has been choking as follows: ... Aug 31 16:18:01 2004 qrunner(11238): return s.split(sep, maxsplit) Aug 31 16:18:01 2004 qrunner(11238): AttributeError : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

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