Mailman 3 June 2012 - Mailman-Users

looking for correct doc for configure
by H June 5, 2012

June 5, 2012

All, Pretty new to Mailman, trying to install it and looking for the correct documentation to go with mailman-3.0.0b1 After unpacking that package, there is supposed to be configure script which is not there, or, I have to create it but it is not explained how. Cannot find any instruction where to find or how to create configure. Tried to install via YUM, but then, the directory arrangement is different and the manual does not take that into account. Also, the manual in 6.3.2. describes a contrib directory in the package, which is not there either. Any tips here? H.

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Is there a limit as to the number of character for the name of a mailing list?
by Ma, Yuan June 5, 2012

June 5, 2012

Hi, 1. Is there a limit as to the number of character one can put in for the name of a mailing list? 2. Is there a limit as to the number of character one can put in for a member or subscriber of a mailing list? e.g "ColsDispatch: GILSON, Nancy; Arts Editor" ngilson(a)dispatch.com<mailto:ngilson@dispatch.com> Thanks. Yuan Ma

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9
by Fletcher Cocquyt June 4, 2012

June 4, 2012

We receive this error: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. When attempting to login to the admin interface and the logs say: May 24 17:32:05 2012 admin(20758): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(20758): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -----] admin(20758): [----- Traceback ------] admin(20758): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(20758): main() admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 251, in main admin(20758): mlist.Save() admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 565, in Save admin(20758): self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 241, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir admin(20758): makelink(privdir, pubdir) admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 49, in makelink admin(20758): os.symlink(old, new) admin(20758): OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied admin(20758): [----- Python Information -----] admin(20758): sys.version = 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 3 2009, 15:37:37) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] admin(20758): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(20758): sys.prefix = /usr admin(20758): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(20758): sys.path = /usr admin(20758): sys.platform = linux2 admin(20758): [----- Environment Variables -----] and the permissions are ls -ld /var/lib/mailman/archives/private drwxrws--x 471 mailman mailman 36864 May 24 17:27 /var/lib/mailman/archives /private Help! thanks

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maliman config problems
by H June 4, 2012

June 4, 2012

Thanks all for the advice. Downloaded version 2.1 which compiles like a charm. Will give it a second go, again reading through and following the docs. H.

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More missing files from installation
by H June 4, 2012

June 4, 2012

Further to my previous mail, the data/sitelist.cfg which is supposed to have a list template, cannot be found either. Neither the installation directory nor the other directories have a file like that. I used GREP to search for it, not there. The manual does not explain how to get it. Anybody having any tips here? H.

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A low level failure?
by H June 3, 2012

June 3, 2012

While trying to run the 'create' script from the webbrowser after configuring as much as possible, and spending all morning on it: ---- We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback for you. Please report this to the Mailman administrator at this site. ---- There you go. I think I will quit at this point. Enough wasting time. H.

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Personalization issue
by wilby June 1, 2012

June 1, 2012

Help please I'm a MM 2.1.12 user who uses the MM that runs on a server located at my ISP offices. I have no access to the server but am able to use MM as a "send only" email message delivery system. I manually add new subscribers and also manually unsubscribe them. Lately I've had a problem deleting someone in my mailing list because they forgot the address they asked me to use and I can't figure out what address to delete. I finally solved this the hard way. I then decided that "personalization = on", with "delivered_to" in the footer would solve the problem for me. Every message I sent to them would clearly state the address used to the receiving person. In trying this plan I find that it works well sometimes and other times the footer info is either placed in an attachment file, or simply missing completely. Trying to solve this I find that if I place any underline character, or a dash character in my message, the footer goes to attachment or wherever. There is probably much more to this. 1. There must be a way to get the footer to always show in the message, is there? 2. Maybe there is an easier way to get the "delivered_to" info to appear somewhere in my messages. 3. Maybe there is an entirely better way to do what I need, Help! Looking further, I see that if the email from the MM server I use is "text" then the "delivered to" dies appear in the footer. If the message is delivered in what looks like "rich text" then the footers are hidden, attachments, or missing. wilby -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Personalization-issue-tp33941589p33941589.html Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Pending messages
by Tomislav Luetić June 1, 2012

June 1, 2012

No matter what I do with my pending messages, they don't go away. All the options are there, available, but after submitting my choices everything reverts back. There are some FAQ entries related to this; but they all include having to re-enter passwd at some point. I have no problem with that and cookies are a-ok. thx in advance

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