Mailman 3 October 2009 - Mailman-Users

Apache Configuration for Mailman
by Carlos Williams 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

I am trying to install / configure MailMan on my mail server which is running Postfix 2.6 & Apache 2 on CentOS 5 x64. I am following the guide on the MailMan page labeled "5 Set up your web server". I am confused here because it advises me to do the following: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ When I add that line into my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, I get this error when I restart Apache: [root@mail conf]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [OK] Starting httpd: [Tue Oct 06 14:51:49 2009] [warn] The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf at line 565 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier ScriptAlias. [ OK ] So now I am wondering if this means I placed it in the wrong section of my httpd.conf file. I really don't know so I am asking you guys what I am doing wrong? In my httpd.conf file in CentOS, I placed it on line 565 in the section that looked appropriate: # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client. # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to # Alias. # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/" # # "/var/www/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. # <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

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how to change host servers for mailing list ?
by Cathleen McGuire 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi -- I am helping one of your users with her Mailman mailing list. Her web site is called vijali.net and it is hosted on Lunarpages. We are currently developing a new web site with a new domain on a new server hosted by GoDaddy.com. We need to keep the vijali.net mailing list, but in June the web site expires and so I need to figure out a solution for how to continue to use the Mailman mailing list software in our new environment. Or in the alternative, if you can't service us at our new host, how can I import the email data even to something like a cvs file? I looked on your web site and on your wiki for FAQs that deal with these issues, but I didn't find anything that could help me. Any and all help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cathleen McGuire

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help.
by Greg 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

I am lost! I need step by step instruction on launching the Mailman system. I need to be able to send a lot of emails at once and have no idea on how to even get started. I have read and checked out every link provided and still can't figure it out. Can you help please?

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Problems with Hotmail
by Adrià 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hei, We have problems with sended emails to Hotmail. Hotmail users dont receive emails from mailman lists, please help us to solucionate the problem. Thanks. Adrià espaivirtual

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My question is: Is there a way to remove an archive?
by A.J. van den Berg 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hello, My question is: Is there a way to remove an archive? Greetings André vd Berg Hofstedenlaan 18 9301RW Roden 050-5013733 avdb18(a)kpnplanet.nl

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expost user list as csv
by Svante Tidholm 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi all, I've been using a shell script to compile a list of all subscribers on a list for our intranet at a site I'm taking care of. This is done with the mailman-subscribers.py script and some smart commands that parse the csv file in different ways. I run this as a cron script hourly on the server so that the subscriber list is updated. Then suddenly I realized this is weird way to do it, it must be smarter to use the list_member command in bin/, but I can't get a nicely formatted CSV file as with mailman- subscribers.py. Has anyone a smart idea on how to fix this? Or maybe I should add it as a feature request somewhere for the list_members script? See these pages for more info what I'm talking about: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030569 http://www.msapiro.net/mailman-subscribers.py Thanks, Svante

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Reply to all
by Geral - Alta Densidade 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi. I m trying to configure a mailing list where I want that only the moderator or administrator receive the reply to the messages. But when someone of the list do reply to all, all the other members receive it. How can I prevent it? Thank you. Paulo Geada Alta Densidade - Informática, Lda

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List Administrator
by Kimberly Kopplien 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

One of my List Administrator lost their password how do I re-set it for them? Thanks, Kimberly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kimberly Kopplien Linn-Benton Community College Information Services Hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. M-F 541-917-4491

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upgrading from 2.1.9 to 2.1.12
by Troy Campbell 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

I'm considering upgrading from a current installation running 2.1.9 to a new server running 2.1.12. Do I need to upgrade the 2.1.9 version on the existing server first? I saw this note about 2.1.9 which I think I can safely ignore but wondering if there are any other upgrade issues: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030623 My preference is to make a copy of everything on the new server and try a cutover so I would have the old server to fall back to in case there are any issues since it's a relatively important mail server (production like qualities). Secondly, how do I move the "lists" to the second server? Is there a way to export the lists and re-import to another server such that all the password information is retained or do I have to move or copy the "var-prefix" directory over and other parts? I'm looking for a tool that's a bit more robust than just "list_members". I looked at this link but "step 1" did not seem to apply to my installation..my current configuration is alot more like "step 3": http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+move+a+list+to+a+different+server…. Appreciate your answering my preliminary and I'm sure basic questions while I do some googling to hopefully get some better questions. Regards, Troy

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How to configure a mailman list so mailman to not send any messages to this list?
by anebi＠iguanait.com 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, i created a list, but i want to configure mailman to not sent any messages to members of this list. I want to use this list as a backup list where to keep all my members. The members must not able to send messages and also mailman must not send messages to them. How can i do that? Thanks in advanced!

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