Mailman 3 December 2005 - Mailman-Users

Way to reset list Admin password?
by Thomas Waters 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I replaced an older server today with a new Mac OS X XServe. I moved my mailman lists and I see then in the Server Admin. but when I try and access them via the Mailman web page UI, I get a " Authorization failed" error when I try to enter my list moderator password. I found this in the archive and willing to give it a try, but wanted to see 1) Is this the right way to go? 2) Other suggestions? http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg34242.html Old Server: Mac OS X Server 10.4.4/ G4 tower; Mailman 2.1.5 New Server: Mac OS X Server 10.4.4/ G5 XServe; Mailman 2.1.5 NOTE: new email address -- Thomas Waters Director of Information and Communication Services University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy 412-383-7471 waterstc(a)pitt.edu http://www.pharmacy.pitt.edu

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scrubbing/posting attachments?
by Ben Bolker 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

(Don't know whether this post belongs in the development list or not ...) (I know very little about Mailman at this point, am just trying to gather some information.) We would very much like to be able to configure Mailman to strip certain attachments, but rather than deleting them entirely have them posted to a temporary or archived location and have the attachment replaced by a link to that location. (The point would be to allow users to send useful attachments to the list (e.g. Excel files etc.) without hammering the mail server.) It seems that Mailman already does something very much like this for archiving purposes. Is it imaginable that the existing code could be hacked/adapted to allow this behavior? sincerely Ben Bolker

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Strange Email
by Jess Mooers 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I recently started receiving the following email: ====== Forwarded Message ====== Date: 12/20/05 1:45 PM Received: 12/20/05 2:12 PM -0600 From: Cron Daemon <root(a)landmannassoc.com> To: root(a)landmannassoc.com /usr/bin/python: can't open file '/Applications/mailman/cron/gate_news' ====== End Forwarded Message ====== I understand why I am getting the message, as the path is invalid, but I have a few questions. 1. Where is the email generated? 2. Can I change the address it is sent to (my domain has changed)? 3. Where is the path defined as 'Applications/mailman/cron/gate_news' so I can change it? Thanks in advance. Regards, Jess Mooers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Landmann InterActive 1423 S. Park St., Madison, WI 53715 W 608-257-1558 F 608-257-8705 www.landmanninteractive.com

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Topics & wildcards
by smielke＠famsi.org 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Can any type of wildcards (*) be used in the topics Regexp: area? I would like to add a topic to include all message that do not belong to a topic, how can I do this? S

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can moderators add moderators?
by smielke＠famsi.org 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Is there a way that a moderator can change the current moderator? For example, if I have 3 moderators and current moderator is going out of town, can the current moderator assign the moderator job to one of the other moderators? Thanks, S

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Problems with archiving
by Josh Greenberg 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I have just recently installed mailman and I am trying to get the archiving feature to work. I have gone into the archiving settings on two different test lists that I set up and told them both to do archiving. I set one to public and one to private, just to see how each one reacted. So far, not one message that I've sent to the list has been archived. I followed the setup instructions for getting the archiving to work but I think I must have missed something. I also found something in the FAQ that I added to the httpd.conf file but it still doesn't work. At first I think it was a permissions problem but I think I fixed that. Originally, the public directory was owned by root:other and the private was owned by nobody:nobody (the user/group that runs apache). I left the private alone and chown'd the public dir to mailman:mailman. In the httpd.conf file, I have the following lines: ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/path/to/mailman/cgi-bin/" Alias /pipermail/ "/path/to/mailman/archives/public/" <Directory "/path/to/mailman/archives/public/"> AddDefaultCharset Off Options FollowSymLinks </Directory> Does this seem correct? Am I missing something? Thanks. Josh

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Where's my mail?
by Ben Ostrowsky 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I sent mail to suntalk(a)lists.tblc.org a few minutes ago, but it hasn't appeared on the list, it's not in the archives, and I haven't gotten any error messages, either. And I've tried mailq | grep suntalk, but it returns null. How should I troubleshoot this problem? Ben

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help file
by smielke＠famsi.org 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I've read in the Mailman FAQ that there is a help file that you can retrieve by requesting through email. Does this have to be set up separately? I've sent mail to the request address, with help in the subject line, but I do not receive any mail with the help instructions in them. Did I misunderstand something? Thanks in advance, Sandy

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current moderator in a perl command
by smielke＠famsi.org 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Is there a way to retrieve the current moderator through a perl command?

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Released: Mailman 2.1.7b1
by Tokio Kikuchi 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi all, I've just released Mailman 2.1.7b1 for beta test and i18n translations. I'm tempted to jump into RC because the 2.1-maint branch is so stable and 2.1.7 is mainly for bug fixes, but we need more translations before the final release. Please download it from SF or: http://mm.tkikuchi.net/mailman-2.1.7b1.tgz Cheers, Tokio ------------------------------------------------------- Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman. 2.1.7b1 (20-Dec-2005) Security - The fix for CAN-2005-0202 has been enhanced to issue an appropriate message instead of just quietly dropping ./ and ../ from URLs. - A note on CVE-2005-3573: Although the RFC2231 bug example in the CVE has been solved in mailman-2.1.6, there may be more cases where ToDigest.send_digests() can block regular delivery. We put the send_digests() calling part in try - except clause and leave a message in the error log if something happened in send_digests(). Daily call of cron/senddigests will notify more detail to the site administrator. - List administrators can no longer change the user's option/subscription globally. Site admin can change these only if mm_cfg.ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES is set to Yes. - Script tag is disallowd in edithtml script. - Since probe message for the disabled users may reach unexpected persons, the password was excluded from sendProbe() and probe.txt. Note that the default value of VERP_PROBE has been set to `No' from 2.1.6., thus this change doesn't change the default behavior. New Features - Always remove DomainKey (and similar) headers (1287546) from messages sent to the list. - List owners can customize content filter behavior as not to collapse multipart/alternative to its first content. This allows HTML part to pass through after other content filtering is done. Internationalization - New language: Interlingua. Bug fixes and other patches - Fix Scrubber.py mungs quoted-printable bug with introducing 'X-Mailman-Scrubbed' header for marking that the payload is scrubber-munged. The flag is referenced in ToDigest.py, ToArchive.py, Decorate.py and Archiver. Similar problem in ToDigest.py where the plain digest is generated is also fixed. - Fix Syslog.py to write quopri encoded message when it fail to write 8-bit characters. - Fix MTA/Postfix.py to check aliases group permission in check_perms and fix mailman-install document on this matter (1378270). - Fix private.py to go to the original URL after authorization (1080943). - Fix bounce log score messages to be more consistent. - Fix bin/remove_members to accept no arguments when both --fromall and --file= options are specified. - Change cgi-bin and mail wrapper "group not found" error message to be more descriptive of the actual problem. - Apply the list's ban_list to address changes and admin mass subscribe and invite and to confirmations/approvals of address changes, subscriptions and invitations. - Decode quoted-printable and base64 encoded parts before passing to HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND (1367783). - Remove Approve: header from post - treat as Approved: (1355707). - Stop removing line following Approve(d): line in body of post (1318883). - Log post in post log with true sender, not listname-bounces (1287921). - Correctly initialize and remember the list's default_member_moderation attribute in the web list creation page (1263213). - Add PEP263 charset in config_list output (1343100). - header_filter_rules get lost if accessed directly and needed authenti- cation by login page (1230865). - Obscure email when the poster doesn't set full name in 'From:' header. - Take preambles and epilogues into account when calculating message sizes for holding purposes (Mark Sapiro). - Logging/Logger.py unicode transform option (1235567). - bin/update crashes with bogus files (949117). - Bugs and patches: 1212066/1301983 (Date header in create/remove notice)

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