Mailman 3 February 2010 - Mailman-Users

Questions
by Boston-McCracken, Meghan 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

I am the administrator of the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Promotion (MNCHP) listserv. 1. My info page says it is "temporarily disabled". How can I change this? 2. A listserv member forgot her password. How can she get it? I thought it was through the info page? Meghan Meghan Boston-McCracken, MSW, RSW Bilingual Information Specialist / Spécialiste bilingue d'information Best Start Resource Centre / Meilleur départ Health Nexus Santé (formerly Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse/anciennement Centre ontarien d'information en prévention) Sault Ste. Marie, ON Telephone: (705) 254-3463 / 1-800-397-9567 ext. 2345 Fax: (705) 254-7503 m.boston-mccracken(a)healthnexus.ca <mailto:m.boston-mccracken@healthnexus.ca> www.healthnexus.ca <http://www.healthnexus.ca/> www.beststart.org <http://www.beststart.org/> Join over 1,600 service providers that are part of the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Promotion Network (MNCHP) to share and receive up-to-date information, guidance, and strategies. Subscribe at http://www.beststart.org/services/information.html

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Question
by Don Sunshine 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

I am a small ministry and I'd like to be able to send 1-2,000 people an email once a month or so. I use a PC running Vista and I have the lists in a spreadsheet right now. Will this work with your product? Blessings to you... Don Phone - 610-898-4277 Cell - 607-346-3761 Email - don(a)donsunshine.org www.donsunshine.org "Let yourself be overwhelmed by the God you serve and you'll find that nothing but Him is truly overwhelming." - Ron Hutchcraft

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.htaccess protection of archives
by Phil Ewels 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi all, I'd like to protect my mailing list archives behind some .htaccess protection, but my mailman installation is a central one which serves a number of different websites. I was thinking I could get around this by using a script to automate a log in to the archives and then scraping the results back to my .htaccess protected folder. I'm using GET variables to use the subscription page at the moment (adding &adminpw=PASSWORD onto the end of the url) and was wondering if there was anything similar that I could do with the archives? Alternatively, if anyone can think of another way to get the archives behind a .htaccess wall I'd be keen to hear! Thanks all, Phil

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post and smtp logs?
by Mark J Bradakis 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Can anyone tell me at what point in the process of delivering list messages does information get written to logs/post and logs/smtp ? Currently a message comes in, postfix hands it off to mailman and the message is written to the qfiles/out directory within a second or so. But it isn't until two, maybe two and a half hours later an entry for the message is made in the logs when the message is finally sent out. What is mailman doing in that long interval? The outgoing queue runner is running, staying mostly idle. Mail that is not routed through mailman behaves normally, getting processed quickly. Two+ hours seems like a long time for mailman to be twiddling its thumbs. mjb.

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How to avoid authorization request?
by alexander＠nautae.eti.br 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi. Every message that I sent using my mailman requires my approval (I have to go in "Tend to pending moderator requests"). So, is there any way to avoid that? []s AlexanDER ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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2.1.13 install dir permissions
by me＠electronico.nc 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello everyone, Please excuse-me for this question but I haven't been able to find the answer in archives ... I try to install 2.1.13 on a new server. (2.6.28-18-server #59-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:23:52 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux) I have used the --prefix option to install mailman in a different directory : ./configure --prefix=/home/mailman I can't (and make install neither) mkdir in choosen directory. Here are the permissions for /home/mailman : drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4,0K 2010-02-08 08:18 mailman Here are the groups for the user 'serveur' (the one I launch make install from) : id serveur uid=1000(serveur) gid=1000(serveur) groupes=1000(serveur),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),117(sambashare),118(admin),20006(mailman) Thanks in advance for your help.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive did not 'roll over' to 2010
by Mark Sapiro 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Jim Clauson, Breakthrough Systems wrote: > >My list has been running fine and archiving for 2+ years. When we >hit 2010 -- no more archives. > >Location: >http://deming-network.org/mailman/listinfo/den.list_deming-network.org >Archives: http://deming-network.org/pipermail/den.list_deming-network.org/ >Version: 2.1.12.cp3 > >I have not seen anything on the Mailman site, nor in the GUI to resolve this. > >I have sent test messages and the distribution is working fine. I >have held the 30 or so postings - waiting to find an archive fix >before I release them. You say you are holding postings. Have any posts with 2010 dates actually been delivered to the list? I see in your December archive Last message date: Mon Dec 21 17:40:25 CST 2009 Archived on: Mon Jan 4 04:13:14 CST 2010 Perhaps you approved some December messages on Jan 4 and expected to see them in the January archive and have been holding messages ever since. >I am not a programmer, do not have command line access, do everything >thru the GUI interface and do not have any access to the Pipermail >directory where the archives reside. In any case, if the above is not the issue, and the list's Archiving Options -> archive setting is Yes, you will have to contact your hosting provider as there is nothing more that can be done without the kind of access that you don't have. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Mails to list missing in clustered environment.
by Guy 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi, I've managed to set up Mailman now (thanks Igor and Mark for all the help) clustered and with the vhost patch. But I'm having an odd problem. I'm not seeing a pattern to this, but some messages go through Postfix and are delivered to mailman and then nothing. Nothing in the Mailman logs and the message just disappears. Those that do go through are delivered to all members of the list and are archived. They are also logged as per normal. I was wondering whether the shared qfiles might have something to do with it? I've got the section below in my mm_cfg.py: QRUNNERS = [ ('ArchRunner', 5,0,5), # messages for the archiver ('BounceRunner', 5,0,5), # for processing the qfile/bounces directory ('CommandRunner', 5,0,5), # commands and bounces from the outside world ('IncomingRunner', 5,0,5), # posts from the outside world ('NewsRunner', 5,0,5), # outgoing messages to the nntpd ('OutgoingRunner', 5,0,5), # outgoing messages to the smtpd ('VirginRunner', 5,0,5), # internally crafted (virgin birth) messages ('RetryRunner', 5,0,5), # retry temporarily failed deliveries ] The other 2 servers I've installed so far (the 2 mail gateways) are 5,3,5 and 5,4,5. The other 2 web servers don't have mailman installed yet. Is that config correct for 5 servers? -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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empty archive listinfo link + skinning mailman
by Guy 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi, Everything looks to working properly with my clustered set up now. Just noticed one thing. The page that comes up when you've got an empty archive includes a link to the listinfo page for the list. That link seems to always use the DEFAULT_URL_HOST rather than the URL of the virtual host for that list. I've run fix-url on the list, so it doesn't appear to be amongst the things that are fixed by that. Is there anything I can do to fix that? I've also had the boss asking me whether it is possible to skin mailman now that he's seen it. Basically he'd like to be able to put the company logo on and also limit the number of options visible to users managing their own lists. He basically wants a dumbed down interface for list admins apart from us. Can this sort of skinning be done? And if not, is there an easy way for us to find out the variables used on the admin forms? We could then create our own php pages that call the forms already being posted to by mailman, at least I think that should be possible? Thanks Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

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Archive did not 'roll over' to 2010
by Jim Clauson, Breakthrough Systems 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

New subscriber with a problem over my head. My list has been running fine and archiving for 2+ years. When we hit 2010 -- no more archives. Location: http://deming-network.org/mailman/listinfo/den.list_deming-network.org Archives: http://deming-network.org/pipermail/den.list_deming-network.org/ Version: 2.1.12.cp3 I have not seen anything on the Mailman site, nor in the GUI to resolve this. I have sent test messages and the distribution is working fine. I have held the 30 or so postings - waiting to find an archive fix before I release them. I am not a programmer, do not have command line access, do everything thru the GUI interface and do not have any access to the Pipermail directory where the archives reside. Ideas? TIA, jc <>=====================<><><>===================<> Jim Clauson --------------------- jim(a)jclauson.com Breakthrough Systems ----- http://jclauson.com "Life is very short, please investigate it closely." - Gautama Buddha <>=====================<><><>===================<>

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