Mailman 3 December 2005 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounces are going to my old mail server
by Ben Ostrowsky 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

> The domain in the -bounces and other addresses comes directly > from the list's host_name attribute which is visible on the > list's General Options page OK, I found that; is there an easy way to change that to lists.tblc.org for all existing lists? Ben

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Archive browsing question
by Elvis Fernandes 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

>From a web browser, non-members of a mail list can browse the archives. Is this a correct statement? For example, if I am NOT a member of mail-list, I can still go to http://mailman/pipermail/mail-list and browse the archives. Now, there must be a way to block non-members to browse the archives of mail-list In todays security world there sure must be a way. I would like to know others experiences. Thanks Elvis

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounces are going to my old mail server
by Ben Ostrowsky 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

> OK, I found that; is there an easy way to change that to > lists.tblc.org for all existing lists? Hey, dummy, (he said to himself), this one's in the FAQ! http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.38 Ben

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Bounces are going to my old mail server
by Ben Ostrowsky 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I've created a mailing list called bentest. My bounce messages are going to bentest-bounces(a)snoopy.tblc.org, but I don't remember telling this new mailman server about a host named "snoopy". I did copy the list data over from snoopy (which is our general email server, but not our mailing list server). Several mailing lists' config.* files contain the string 'snoopy', but bentest's config.* files do not, so I think I can rule that out. What's going on here, and how can I fix it? Ben

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Next step, Announce Only
by Julia Frizzell 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Okay, I've fixed the SMTP problems, and my lists are working, yay! But now my boss wants to make two announce-only lists, and we're trying to follow the directions in the FAQ: >In Mailman 2.1.x you can customize the welcome message. Create > a directory lists/<yourlist>/en (assuming English :) and copy > templates/subscribeack.txt to this directory. Then edit this file > for your specific wording. Mailman will use this specialized > template for the English welcome messages. We've found where Mac OS X Server keeps these files ... /private/var/mailman/ ... and we see that there is already a lists directory there. So we went into the specific list and created the /en directory, and then /templates in there, and put the subscribeack.txt file into it, all edited as he wants it. But it's still not working. I'm afraid that I'm getting confused with the wording in the FAQ above. The new file is located in /private/var/mailman/lists/<listname>/en/templates/subscribeack.txt. Is this the proper location? And if so, then is there another step I'm missing to make this work right? Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated by me and my boss! -- Julia Frizzell Systems Administrator/Help Desk Manager The Education Alliance 222 Richmond Street, Suite 300 Providence, Rhode Island 02903-4226 julia_frizzell(a)brown.edu 401.274.9548 x311 or 800.521.9550 x311 401.421.7650 (fax) http://www.alliance.brown.edu

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Date stamp in pipermail is GMT
by Elvis Fernandes 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello, I setup mailman-2.1.6 with date stamp patch (date-in-archive-index-1.patch) on Solaris8. Now the date and time show up against every msg in pipermail archives. However, the date and time in pipermail is in GMT. The same mail I receive in my mail reader in PST. Is there some place I can update the pipermail timezone to PST? Elvis

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Majordomo to mailman list conversion for MM2.1?
by Wingert, Charlene LCS:EX 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hi Mailman'ers, I'm wondering if anyone has actually come across a conversion program for Majordomo to Mailman for MM2.1? I have been informed by Heikel that his majordomo2mailman.pl upgrade is not happening anytime soon... Thanks all, Charlene Wingert Charlene.Wingert(a)gov.bc.ca

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Configuring Apache for Mailman - /pipermail/ is redirecting in a way I don't like
by Ben Ostrowsky 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I can't see the archives because Apache is redirecting requests for pipermail: [root@www2 httpd]# telnet lists.tblc.org 80 Trying 64.128.136.9... Connected to lists.tblc.org (64.128.136.9). Escape character is '^]'. HEAD /pipermail/ipac/ HTTP/1.1 Host: lists.tblc.org HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:20:34 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Location: http://lists.tblc.org/mailman/listinfo Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Connection closed by foreign host. These Apache directives are in play: In conf/httpd.conf: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName lists.tblc.org DocumentRoot /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ RedirectMatch /index.html http://lists.tblc.org/mailman/listinfo TransferLog /var/log/httpd/lists.tblc.org/access_log ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/lists.tblc.org/error_log </VirtualHost> In conf.d/mailman.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> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://lists.tblc.org/mailman/listinfo Can anyone spot where I'm going wrong? Ben

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"There are no pending requests"
by Ben Ostrowsky 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

As you may remember from our last thrilling episode, I've upgraded from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5. Our users are trying to send messages that are being held for review, which is fine. But when we try to release the messages, Mailman says that there are no pending messages. I've tried deleting the request.* files as suggested in a previous discussion ( http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-June/045075.html ) but that didn't solve the problem. What do you think might be going wrong here? Ben

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[Mailman] Cron <mailman@college> /usr/bin/python -S, /usr/share/mailman/cron/gate_news
by Michael Bonanno 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

I have been get an this email message, as a member of the "mailman" list on my server, every 5 minutes. subject: [Mailman] Cron <mailman@college> /usr/bin/python -S /usr/share/mailman/cron/gate_news body: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: Permission denied I have run check_perms -f, but to no avail. I'm sure there is some kind of permissions issue with the mailman user. I'm using Mac OS X server 10.3.9 and the using the Apple built-in mailman server. Anyone have any ideas? Or is this a problem with the cron daemon? Michael

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