Mailman 3 February 2007 - Mailman-Users

Change All Members to nomail
by Karl Zander 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Is there a command I can run to change all members of a list to a "nomail" setting? And then change it back? I didn't see anything in the FAQ. I do have root access on the server. Running MM 2.1.8. --Karl

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Change moderators and owner password from command line or email interface
by Cat 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hello, I've been asked to do some modifications on 100 mailing lists, to implement a new owner/moderator policy for all those lists. There is 1 owner for the 100 lists, and the previous owners of each list become moderators. The owner of the 100 lists wants the same owner password of the 100 lists, and they also want the same passwd for moderators. I have written a shell script to do most of the list owners and moderator changes, but I can't find how to change the moderator and owner password. change_pw and withlist seems to change only a user's password (but I might have missed something there as I'm not fluent in Python() can the admin and moderator password be changed with a command line? or an email command that I could include in my shell script? Thanks in advance, -- Cat Burning Man Sysadmin Team

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(no subject)
by Bob Minor 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I cannot seem to get the list to print out to me, I am this list admin and it only prints out the folks who don't have their hide bit set. Since that is everyone, almost, I don't get my list. Is there another way to export my list of users the html interface is a bit unwieldy for 30k users. If there is a command line to print it to a file that would be nice too! TIA for the help.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords and Conversion from Majordomo
by Barry Finkel 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Mark Sapiro wrote, in response to my mail: >Also, you may or may not realize it, but even if one is a member of >multiple lists with the same email and password, one still has to log >in to each list separately to visit that list's private archive and/or >member options page. But the process is easier if the user has only one Mailman password to remember instead of a different one for each list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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Permissions Problems
by Jay Chandler 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Did a make install from the FreeBSD Ports tree with the following options set (as per a Postfix install): MM_USERNAME=mailman The username of the Mailman user. MM_USERID=91 The user ID of the Mailman user. MM_GROUPNAME=mailman The group to which the Mailman user will belong. MM_GROUPID=MM_USERID The group ID for the Mailman user. MM_DIR=mailman Mailman will be installed in /usr/local/mailman. CGI_GID=www The group name or id under which your web server executes CGI scripts. IMGDIR=www/icons Icon images will be installed in /usr/local/www/icons. However, I attempt to mail the test list I created, and get the following error: Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. The permissions on /usr/local/mailman/data/ are: total 56 -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Jan 26 13:33 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 4540 Feb 5 11:26 aliases -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 16384 Feb 5 11:26 aliases.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 13948 Feb 5 11:25 english252.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 10 Feb 5 11:43 last_mailman_version -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6 Feb 5 11:57 master-qrunner.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 14114 Feb 5 11:47 sitelist.cfg The alias exists nowhere else on this box. Postfix is set to run as the user postfix. Does anyone have a clue? Cookies for solutions-- it's approaching crunch time! -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler(a)chapman.edu Today's Excuse: We're upgrading /dev/null

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mailman mailing lists and spam filter
by dhottinger＠harrisonburg.k12.va.us 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

I just setup a new mailserver because my old one went south. I got mailman up and running but from the number of posts awaiting approval it doesnt look like my mailman stuff is running through my procmail scripts that filter my emails. Im using an older version of mailman right now. Is there someway I can look and see if these posts are routing correctly? -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools

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User Passwords and Conversion from Majordomo
by Barry Finkel 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

I have to convert all of our Majordomo lists to Mailman. I have some questions about the subscriber passwords. For each list I convert, I will be taking the existing Majordomo list subscriber e-mail addresses and doing a "Mass Subscription" via the Mailman list administrator web page. 1) If I send welcome messages to the subscribers, then each subscriber will get a randomly generated password in the welcome message. If I choose not to send the welcome message, then is there a password generated? If so, how does the subscriber authenticate to the web page in order to update his/her subscription options? 2) In the initial lists I will be converting, there are persons who are subscribed to multiple lists. These subscribers will receive a different password for each list, if I send welcome messages. Is there a way of synchronizing the passwords? From my reading of the FAQ and looking at the web page, a subscriber can use one of the lists and the randomly generated password in the welcome message, go to the web, and globally change the passwords for all of his/her lists. I would prefer to have some way of generating a random password for a user for the first list to which he/she is subscribed, and then to use the same password for the subsequent lists, as I convert them. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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Editing values in a lists's config.pck file?
by Daniel Clark 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

I need to change the gate_news watermark on one of my mailing lists, as it got incremented without a message actually being gatewayed from the usenet newsgroup to the mailing list (because of something to do with the "list" user's password having expired and cron). I am using mailman 2.1.5-8sarge5. I found that this information is contained in the list "config.pck" file: # /var/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname>/config.pck \ | grep -i watermark 'usenet_watermark': 10, What I want to do here is change usenet_watermark to 9; however I haven't been able to find any information on how to modify the config.pck file - anyone know how that would be done? Thanks, -- Daniel Clark # http://dclark.us # http://opensysadmin.com

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separate mailman and web servers
by Peter Matulis 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Can someone explain to me how mailman and the web server can exist on separate machines? I am new to mailman and I'm having a hard time understanding how mailman communicates with its web server. I have a new client that connects to an external web server to add list members but mailman (and postfix) runs on a local system. I see that in /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py mailman is pointed to this external web server with DEFAULT_URL_HOST. Any pointers on how postfix fits into this communication are also appreciated. The online docs at list.org for Site Administrators do not explain much. What my client appears to have is a simple diffusion setup. They use it as a means to send info to multiple people. So members do not contribute. P

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Re: [Mailman-Users] OT: Firefox Crashing on Admin Pages
by Kenneth Jacker 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

Hank: Just thought I'd let you know that recent updates to Firefox and extensions (and maybe something else) solved the problem of FF crashing on Mm admin pages. I can again access those pages without problems ... Thanks for your ideas to fix it as well! -Kenneth

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