Mailman 3 August 2005 - Mailman-Users

Mailman CGI Error in chroot
by Fabian Werner 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hello everybody. Im writing to this list, because i want to get Mailman's web interface to work. The problem is: Mailman works in a chroot (in partnership with exim). Mail delivery and everything works fine, but when i want to use the web interface i get the following error: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: No such file or directory There is nothing reported in the syslog, but that may be a fault of my chroot... Anyway, Mailman has everything it needs to function in the chroot (/var/lib/mailman complete and /usr/lib/mailman complete). Those two mentioned paths contain a symlink called "wrapper". Question is: Where does mailman search for this wrapper? Why cant he find it on my system? Thanks (in advance) for your help!! Regards, Fabian Werner (germany).

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emailhost vs urlhost
by Michael Schaarwaechter 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi, I had to configure different DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST from DEFAULT_URL_HOST. That works for the lists and for the admin pages of the lists. It doesn't work for the general overview pages like /mailman/admin and /mailman/listinfo. The link on the admin page to the listinfo page and vice versa contains the email_host, not the url_host. Bug or feature? ;-) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Schaarwaechter http://www.schaarwaechter.de http://www.inetbib.de http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de

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Just Joined
by David 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hello people I just joined this list as I am just starting to mess around with Mailman as yahoo groups blow big chunks. I'm not a complete web idiot but somethings are still a tad too techy for me at times. -- Smoking Stinks! Http://www.nicodemon.info - NO Smoking Community! FireFox - The Browser That Ate IE! Thunderbird - The Email Client That Ate OLE! AIM=Ice Boy 32 YIM=MI_Z0mbie_13

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Questions on 'List Renaming' & Misc.
by Joe Espinoza 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Regarding an earlier question on changing the headers; I guess something similar can be achieved by; - Changing the name of the list, to something less obvious - Enabling the 'Moderated' option for all users by default, so that way anyone that attempts to post to the list...will not be able to. It will sit in queue instead and wait for me to release it Does this sound ok? Is there a better way to achieve something like this? What are your thoughts? Also, can I easily "change the name of the list" from the Mailman UI or do I have to create a new one? One more thing, since I'm still a big n00be on email related stuff; What are the advantages of setting up a mailing list such as this, instead of copying and pasting tons of email addresses in the 'bcc' field? I've noticed that when I have done the 'copy & paste' method, I get delivery failures/bounce messages, because I'm sending to way too many recipients. Is this one way how a mailing list provides a greater advantage? Just sending to one email address instead of many? Sincerely, J.

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Filter vacation messages?
by Michael Schaarwaechter 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Hi, my problem: I can't recognize a vacation message going to a mailman list just by taking a look at the header. The Mime type filtering doesn't help, too. I just need a possibility to filter by the content of the message. I want to hold back messages saying "am not in the office" and so on. Has anybody done this already and can give me a hint? TIA and cheers, Michael -- Michael Schaarwaechter http://www.schaarwaechter.de http://www.inetbib.de http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails with a Subject in Chinese to a Mailing List
by Ivan Fetch 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Hi, Ah exactly - I believe this is what we've got on our test box. Thanks - Ivan. On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Bruce Wang wrote: > On 8/27/05, Ivan Fetch <ifetch(a)du.edu> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We've encountered this issue, and (long story shorter) it is fixed in >> Mailman 2.1.6 if you install the codecs for Python (I believe they come >> with Python 2.4). > and if you are using Python prior to 2.4 say, 2.3.4 etc, you can try cjkcodecs > http://cjkpython.i18n.org > -- > simple is good > >

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Emails with a Subject in Chinese to a Mailing List
by game lover 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

I am currently using Mailman 2.1.5 provided by a hosting service. When I send emails with a subject in Chinese to a mailing list that I created in Mailman, the emails are always discarded without any notice to the senders and recipients. Would anyone please help me to solve this issue? I will appreciate any information on this issue Thanks. --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

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subscribers list
by Con Wieland 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Does anyone know how to get a list of subscribers and the optional name for a list? TIA Con WIeland

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Notice Digest
by Jane Hermanson 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hi As the list admin I'm getting a lot of notices about non-subscribers (mostly spam) being sent to the lists. Is there anyway that I can configure mailman to send me a digest of these notices once a day? Thanks Jane

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Some users do not get emails
by Tim Howes 26 Aug '05

26 Aug '05

Hi I am reasonably new to using mailman and I have a problem that I cannot trace. I have setup a list which is essentially private. I have managed to test the list by subscribing myself - however the main users of this list at Company A do not get any emails i.e. the initial confirmation email hence are not able to use the list. I have made sure that the different types of emails are in their spam program to be by passed i.e. listname-owner or listname-request@ I have also test by using hotmail accounts and gmail accounts and they seem to be fine. The only clue I have at present is that the log /var/log/mailman/bounce appears to have entries for this failed attempts. But I cannot be sure if it my setup that is preventing the emails are their system. Example log entry Aug 25 12:00:35 2005 (32397) bounce message with non-members of listname: someone(a)companyA.com My mailman version is mailman-2.1.1-5 on RHE3 Thanks in advance for any pointers on this. Tim

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