Mailman 3 December 2005 - Mailman-Users

mailman watchdog - status report
by Con Wieland Dec. 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005

Hello, I recently had some (more) problem's that Mark Shapiro helped me out with. In that exchange I asked about a watchdog type program to help in early problem detection. Mark pointed me to: Brad's "daily status report" <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1123383&group_id=103&atid=300103> This looks like exactly what I've been looking for and since I hadn't found it on my own I thought it would be helpful to share with the list, figuring I'… [View More]

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/mailman/ part of URL
by Ronald Nissley Dec. 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005

What needs to be changed in httpd.conf and/or mm_cfg.py so that my lists can be accessed via http://lists.mydomain.tld instead of http://lists.mydomain.tld/mailman? The relevant part of my httpd.conf: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public> … [View More]

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problems with mailman and dyndns host
by fvgi242ss Dec. 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005

I run gissmoh.kicks-ass.net (dyndns) and mail.wlanhacking.de which is an alias to gissmoh.kicks-ass.net. I have existing CNAME/MX entries: mail.wlanhacking.de. CNAME gissmoh.kicks-ass.net *.wlanhacking.de. MX 100 gissmoh.kicks-ass.net wlanhacking.de. MX 100 gissmoh.kicks-ass.net My postifx uses smtp.wlanhacking.de as relay host which is a mailserver from my provider. Several recipients get messages like this: -----Original Message----- From: wlanhacking-bounces(a)gissmoh.kicks-ass.… [View More]

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Using mailman for one-time use special demographic lists...
by Bill.Costa＠unh.edu Dec. 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005

Dear mailman Folks, We're planning on moving off our our creaky old ListProc MLM and moving to something with a web interface and an active community. I'm seriously looking at mailman as future MLM for all our mailing lists (~600). I was hoping somebody could describe, in broad arm-waving terms, how Mailman could be used as a back-end for doing mailings to one-time use distribution lists. Here's the scenario: The sender will identify the desired demographic, say "left handed liberal … [View More]arts majors with blue eyes", by creating an SQL WHERE clause that selects those folks from our Student Information System. (We use a commercial product called Banner that sits on an Oracle DB engine.) So what I'll have to work with are unique user IDs which I can then turn into a set names and e-mail addresses that exist within our various e-mail and alias systems. And of course I'll be handed a message to be distributed and the e-mail address of the sender. After this particular list is built and the message has been sent, that particular demographic may not ever be used again. Finally, there is the possibility that I would have the unique ID, name, and e-mail address for all possible users stored in an LDAP. But the LDAP would contain no other selector information, such as eye color. :-) In other words the demographic selection process would always have to be made in Oracle. Now as a point of comparison, here is how I currently handle the above situation with ListProc: I have a standing generic list, configured for one-way announcements, let's call it "UNH.Announce". I use a Perl script to take the IDs and map them to names/e-mail addresses and use that data to build a flat file subscriber list in the exact format that ListProc builds for itself. I then run a command that causes ListProc to re-cache the list. I make the sender the temporary owner of the list (to have exclusive posting permission), post the message as that user, and then flip the ownership back and zero out the list to prevent accidental re-use. I see that Mailman has a mass subscription function, so I could do something similar using that facility. But at this point I don't know enough about mailman to know if there would be a more proper mailman-ish solution to this problem. Thanks in advance for any insights. And to all here's wishing you a safe and happy holidays. ...BC -- +-------------------------[ Bill.Costa(a)UNH.EDU ]---+ | Bill Costa | No good | 1 Leavitt Lane Voice: | deed... | CIS/Telecom -- 2nd Floor +1-603-862-3056 | | University of New Hampshire | Goes | Durham, NH 03824 USA | unpunished. +---------------[ http://pubpages.unh.edu/~wfc/ ]--+ [View Less]

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Archives
by Raquel Rice Dec. 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005

I've searched the FAQ and cannot find the answer to a problem I'm having. I have Mailman 2.1.5 installed on a server running Debian Sarge. All the lists work wonderfully, except for archives, or more correctly, access to the archives. The archives are created but they cannot be accessed because the appropriate "archive variables" don't seem to be "picked up" from Defaults.py or mm_cfg.py, or they don't seem to exist. Any pointer in the right direction would be terribly appreciated. Thanks. … [View More]

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[mailman-users] receiving list mail from account to which mail cannot be delivered
by webster＠lexmark.com Dec. 21, 2005

Dec. 21, 2005

So, I have a made-up 'bot' account which needs to send e-mail to some of my lists, but any e-mail delivered to its address will bounce. I see two ways to do this: 1) Make it a list member with 'nomail' checked. 2) When this account first tried to send e-mail to a list, it was not a member, the note was held, & the moderator was notified. On the moderators html page (/admindb/), I can check the box 'Add ... sender' & select the radio button 'Accepts' . So, now a few questions: 1)… [View More]

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can root start qrunners? backups and disaster recovery ???s
by Hugh Esco Dec. 21, 2005

Dec. 21, 2005

Hello all: Thanks (particularly Mr. Sapiro) for the help yesterday. I'm working on a server which is expected to host multiple instances of mailman in the next week or so. In the interest of privilege separation, each instance is being built to run as a distinct system user, specific to that instance of the mailman installation, but distinct from each other. I just debugged an issue which had stacked up mail in the mta's que for forty-some hours before it was caught (yes, I'm checking … [View More]

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help: web interface broken "Mailman Administrative Database Error"
by Kevin Callahan Dec. 21, 2005

Dec. 21, 2005

Hello All, This is my first post and I'm new to the list; apologies if this has been addressed already, though I didn't find any references in the archives or via google. Here's the issue. I'm administrating 9 domains on a Verio VPS. Each domain has its own install of Mailman and have been running flawlessly for months. Last night, the physical server was taken down for a memory upgrade; today 6 of the 9 domains no longer list email lists at http://domain.tld/mailman/ or http://… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives
by Raquel Rice Dec. 21, 2005

Dec. 21, 2005

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:19:21 -0600 Dan Phillips <dhphllps(a)memphis.edu> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Raquel Rice wrote: > > On the list info page, > > http://lists.thericehouse.net/mailman/listinfo/myfriends , this > > is where the link "MyFriends Archives" points: > > http://lists.thericehouse.net/mailman/private/myfriends/ > > rather than to: > > http://lists.thericehouse.net/pipermail/myfriends/ > > > >> … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives
by Raquel Rice Dec. 21, 2005

Dec. 21, 2005

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:51:14 -0600 Dan Phillips <dhphllps(a)memphis.edu> wrote: > > http://lists.thericehouse.net/mailman/private/myfriends/ IS the > correct URL for private archives. > > Dan And that's the problem. It goes nowhere. -- Raquel ============================================================ A man cannot utter words or sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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