Mailman 3 September 2005 - Mailman-Users

List all members?
by Bill Moseley Sept. 27, 2005

Sept. 27, 2005

In 2.1.5 there's that nice membership display by first letter of their email address. How do I display all members on the same page? Or maybe 20 at a time? I've got a bunch of small lists that are less than 50 members. I tried searching for just a dot (.) that doesn't work for some reason. Wish list: separate first and last name fields. Have each column click-able for sorting (and reverse sorting) and paged display with rows/page adjustable. -- Bill Moseley moseley(a)hank.org

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Tailor List specific RFC mail headers?
by Tom Combs Sept. 27, 2005

Sept. 27, 2005

Hi, I would like to remove the List-Subscribe and List-Unsubscribe for some announcement only type lists where the memebers cannot subscribe or unsubscribe. Is there a way to customize this behavior for individual lists? Thanks. -- Tom Combs E-mail: combs(a)magnet.fsu.edu National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Phone: (850) 644-1657 1800 E. Paul Dirac Drive Tallahassee, FL 32310

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Automatically reject posts by non-members
by Alias Sept. 27, 2005

Sept. 27, 2005

Hi guys, Recently lots of people have started to try spamming my mailing lists - this is not such a problem as because they're non-members the posts get held for moderation - however, it's distinctly annoying that I have to keep deleting them, and also getting mail alerts for them. Could anyone direct me towards the configuration screen that manages moderation options? Thanks in advance, Alias

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No public lists
by Michel R Vaillancourt Sept. 27, 2005

Sept. 27, 2005

Greetings to the list. I've been happily running Mailman now on a Slackware box for several years. I'm in the process of reorganizing my domain, so changed the name the server that is hosting my half-dozen lists from "www.wolfstar.ca" to "lists.wolfstar.ca". Mail is still moving properly to the list server. However, the web interface died almost immediately. Specifically, if you go to http://lists.wolfstar.ca/mailman/listinfo.cgi it says: "There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists on lists.wolfstar.ca." I'm stumped. I've verified that my settings in Mailman/mm_cfg.py reflect the new environment. I've even gone through with bin/config_list and ensured that 'advertised = 1' is set for all lists. Any suggestions on how to correct this? -- -- Michel Vaillancourt Wolfstar Systems

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changing config.pck values? (I'm in a pickle)
by David Herron Sept. 26, 2005

Sept. 26, 2005

I've been using mailman for a few years to manage a couple mailing lists, but I just now subscribed to this list. Over the weekend I moved my lists from one server to another. The process was fairly painless ... I just packed up the archives and lists directories and copied those over to a new server. I even upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6 at the same time. And the lists are functioning great in the new location but for one thing. The new server is configured using Plesk, and Plesk sets up the mailman admin pages on http://lists.mydomain.xyz On my old server I'd done it all myself, and they were set up on http://mydomain.xyz This means the config.pck file from my old server has this value: 'web_page_url': 'http://healership.com/mailman/', Whereas the config.pck file generated on my new server has this value: 'web_page_url': 'http://lists.healership.com/mailman/', I want to use the old config.pck because that's the one that has all my members and other settings. It looks to me that all I have to do is change the web_page_url value. One can easily dump the .pck file using this dump command, but I don't know how to "undump" it. I searched in the archives and found this answer: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-May/020222.html But the bin/move_list script doesn't exist. So, as that guy asked 3 yrs ago, how the heck do you undump one of these .pck files??? Oh, and I know nothing about Python ... so when the usage message for the dump command says it dumps a "python pickle" that doesn't tell me anything, and only makes me think of the old Arlo Guthrie song about "I don't wanna die, I just wanna ride my motorcy-le" ... Maybe there's something in python to deal with them pickle things, but I sure as heck don't know what it would be. - David Herron

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Permissions problem/symlinks on a RAQ4
by mailman＠yingtong.co.uk Sept. 25, 2005

Sept. 25, 2005

Hi, I have installed a partially working version of Mailman 2.1.6 with Python 2.4.1 on a RAQ4 THe actual lists are working but the problem is with the web interface reporting a permission problem, and the httpd error log reporting "Symbolic link not allowed" THe background to it is that I've run usr2home (which does does what it says, and moves the files to create more space and symlinks the usr folder.) RAQs have limited space in /usr. I ran the ./configure with mailman mail and httpd gids as normal and it all installs, set up lists via command line etc, but try as I might the web interface refuses to display In httpd.conf Snipped ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/" Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"> Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks </Directory> </VirtualHost> (Tried with and without quotes btw) Nothing gives. I tried installing to /home/mailman and there I got the gui up but for the life of me couldn't get the mail to work! Also the gui displayed but then no values submitted entered the database and retained???? Users and groups are AFAICT set correctly, and check_perms is fine. (THough I don't pretned to understand the finer details of how permissions work) Please, can anyone give a pointer, (and in return I'll do a FAQ for installing on a RAQ!) Tim

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urgent and challenging problem mailman export
by Jimmy Pierre Sept. 25, 2005

Sept. 25, 2005

Greetings, I spent an interesting time looking for information on how to export mailman list emails to a text file and import in the new domain. The issue is that I am not root on the dedicated server, so there are a few python scripts that will not work. (access denied et al) Tried http://www.thepeters.org/mailmanBackup.htm and I have a few pages per alphabetical letter... Any help greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Jimmy http://www.conceptinteractiveservices.com

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Lost list admin password
by Bill Moseley Sept. 25, 2005

Sept. 25, 2005

2.1.5 on Debian Stable "mailman admin password" are not very good search words. Is there a way for list admins to get the *list* password sent to them? That is, if they forget the list's password (not their password) can they have mailman send it to them? Any reason why admins are not managed along with all the other list members? And just have an additional role for "admin"? -- Bill Moseley moseley(a)hank.org

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Email rejected with un-quoted From with a dot
by Bill Moseley Sept. 24, 2005

Sept. 24, 2005

On an old Debian Woody machine running mailmain 2.0.11 Mailman rejects mail with an un-quoted name part that includes a dot. From: Foo B. Baz <foo(a)invalid.com> Mailmain then reports: post from foob.bar requires approval. While these work fine: From: "Foo B. Bar" <foo(a)invalid.com> From: Foo Barr <foo(a)invalid.com> I'm sure I've seen this mentioned someplace before but not having luck finding it now. Can anyone point me to info on this. It would be nice to get a patch until the machine can be upgraded to Sarge. Thanks. -- Bill Moseley moseley(a)hank.org

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recommendations for adding conditional search form to archive template?
by michael dunston Sept. 24, 2005

Sept. 24, 2005

I would like to add a search form to some, but not all, of the archive TOC pages. It looks like the most logical place to add the search form code would be the $prefix/templates/*/archtoc.html file, but I'm not sure how I would make this list-specific. I thought I might try an IF statement <http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/ref/if.html> to only include a form when %(listname) matches a desired list, but I cant seem to get the syntax right. Another idea that I though was to change the indexer so that: $prefix/templates/*/archtoc.html -> $prefix/archive/private/*/index.php rather than $prefix/templates/*/archtoc.html -> $prefix/archive/private/*/index.html which would also allow me to dynamically include search forms dynamically with PHP but I'm not sure if/how that would be done either. Any suggestions or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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