Mailman 3 December 2010 - Mailman-Users

Problems with Mailman set-up in Mac OS X Server and Server Admin.
by JRC Groups Dec. 15, 2010

Dec. 15, 2010

Dear all, I have been lucky enough to be helped by Mark Sapiro to get my installation of Mailman fixed and my mailing lists properly configured. His help has been crucial and I want to acknowledge publicly how grateful I am for his help. We have experienced a problem that seems to be created by Apple's implementation of Mailman and Mark suggested I contacted others more experienced with Apple's OS X Server to obtain help. In Mailman's mm_cfg.py file there are two lines that need to be as follows: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'domain.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.domain.com' The problem is that I have edited this file three or four times now and it seems Apple's Server Admin or another OS X Server application continues to change it back to the following: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'servername' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'servername' The problem with this is that every time someone looks at Mailman's listinfo web page to see what lists are hosted by our server the title on the top has the server name instead of the domain name for the lists. Instead of the listinfo page displaying the proper title that should be "www.domain.com Mailing Lists" it actually displays "servername Mailing Lists". Does anyone know what might be causing this and hot to have this problem fixed ? Thank you, Joe

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Removing "on behalf of"
by support team Dec. 14, 2010

Dec. 14, 2010

Dear How can I Remove "on behalf of" with outlook??? thanks

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the requested page could not be retrieved
by Umarzuki Mochlis Dec. 13, 2010

Dec. 13, 2010

Hi, I changed the hostname of my mailman server and ow it says "the requested page could not be retrieved". Where i should change other than /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf on rhel 5?

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please help me hide mailman lists from lists display and also help how to set lists email to user like this
by M.Vadivel Kumar Dec. 13, 2010

Dec. 13, 2010

Dear All users please help me hide mailman lists from lists display and also help how to set lists email to user like this From:testall-bounces@lists.mydomain.com<From%3Atestall-bounces(a)lists.mydomain.com> On Behalf Of: "user(a)mydomain.com To: testall(a)lists.mydomain.com -- Regards M.Vadivel Kumar

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solaris10 sparc, check_perms messages
by upen Dec. 12, 2010

Dec. 12, 2010

Hi, This is my first attempt to install Mailman-2.1.14 on solaris10/sparc. HAving installed pythin-2.6.2 and gcc4 I then successfull did y configure, gmake, gmake install. However, when I run bin/check_perms I receive below messages. -bash-3.00# ./bin/check_perms Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/check_perms", line 395, in <module> checkmail() File "./bin/check_perms", line 293, in checkmail mode = statmode(wrapper) File "./bin/check_perms", line 82, in statmode return os.stat(path)[ST_MODE] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman' Can someone throw some light on this issue? In addition, if there is any howto or install document on internet for Mailman on solaris 10 then please let me know that too. Thanks. Aero

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change privacy options globally
by fantome2024＠gmail.com Dec. 10, 2010

Dec. 10, 2010

Hi I have multiple administrator and I want to set the option under "Privacy Options" What steps are required for subscription? "Require Approval" to the default when the list is created. Does anyone know how to change this properly in the code for it to work? I've been trying to change it in Privacy.py with no success.

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authors
by Troy Knabe Dec. 10, 2010

Dec. 10, 2010

I have an administrator requesting a list of everyone who has sent an email to their list. Is there any way to quickly obtain that information? This is a public list that lots of non-members send to. Thanks -Troy

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DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION not working
by Roger D. Leonard Dec. 9, 2010

Dec. 9, 2010

Hi, I recently set up a mailman server for internal use and as list owner I am getting confirmation emails for every posting even though I set DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION = 0 in all the lists and restarted mailman. I'm missing something here. How do I get it to accept all emails from non-members without list owner intervention? Thanks

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Apache/Browser/Cookie-Problem?
by Tobias Koopmann Dec. 9, 2010

Dec. 9, 2010

Hello there, i'm relativ new to Mailman. Now I've got following Software working Apache + Mailman 2.1.13 + Postfix on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Apache-configuration: # Sample configuration for Debian mailman with Apache # We can find mailman here: #ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ # And the public archives: Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ # Logos: Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/ # Use this if you don't want the "cgi-bin" component in your URL: # In case you want to access mailman through a shorter URL you should enable # this: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ # In this case you need to set the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in # /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to http://%s/mailman/ for the cookie # authentication code to work. Note that you need to change the base # URL for all the already-created lists as well. <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /usr/share/images/mailman/> AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Now my Problem is the following: After a user subscribes to a mailinglist and opens the confirmation link and clicks the confirmation button hes got redirected to an "Enter confirmation cookie"-Page. But after entering the confirmation cookie nothing happens, the same page is shown again. Other ActionButtons also don't work. By the way I redirect all Requests on Port 80 to 443. So all actions happens over https. I hope that's no problem... Greetz. Tobias

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Search tool for Mailman Archives
by Liste Yoneticisi Dec. 9, 2010

Dec. 9, 2010

Hello; I am trying to implement a search tool for Mailman Archives. In our system, there are more than 400 lists, and the size of their archives vary, since there are more than 10 years old lists addition to new lists. There are several alternatives. htdig, xapian etc. Which one do you recommend? Is there a practical tool which I can just install and implement, or is there an additional patch need? Thank you very much. Evrim AKMAN

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