Mailman 3 - Mailman-Users

Cron and list not found
by Nathan Stratton 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

I am getting a mail sent to me at night from cron with a error that it can't find the list. I know the list is there, if I go to lists.robotics.net/admin and /listinfo I can see the list and users have been using it for the last week. So why is cron giving me this error? Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 45, in ? list = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 55, in __init__ raise Errors.MMUnknownListError, 'list not found: %s' % name MMUnknownListError: list not found: cleclist Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_log_files' in <method MailList.__del__ of MailList instance at 99590> ignored -- Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec ><> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting www.robotics.net nathan(a)robotics.net

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traceback while sending digests
by Greg Stein 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

I sent this once before and didn't hear anything. I just got my third copy of this. Looking at the mailman-developers archive, it appears that others are getting it to. Can we get some kind of word on what the problem is? thx -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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list member email address format issues
by John Lewis 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

Greetings, I am running mailman 1.0b6 on a redhat 5.2 intel box. I added several members to a mailing list using the following format: John Doe <john.doe(a)anon.com> Which appears to work in regard to sending out mail etc, However, it upsets the html parsing of the membership configuration page in the administration settings. The brackets around the email address wreak havoc with the checkboxes for the user options. Perhaps this needs to be stated in the instructions for adding new users... just add their email addresses, not names etc. Which gets me to: Is there a way I can edit the current subscribers to remove the above syntax and replace it with just their email addresses without having to unsubscribe them then resubscribe? Is there a text file of subscribers that I can edit? Thanks. -John Lewis

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Configuring Apache
by Matt Paladino 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

Hi Users- I've installed Mailman without any problems, but I can't seem to figure out how I should setup Apache. My document root for mailman is /www/htdocs/mailman. I've tried the following: <Directory /www/htdocs/mailman> ScriptAlias /mailman/ /www/htdocs/mailman/cgi-bin/ </Directory> and <Directory /www/htdocs/mailman> Options ExecCGI </Directory> They don't seem to work. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks in advance. Matt -- | || ||| || r a z o r f i s h , los angeles matt paladino [ senior developer ] >> 310.581.3616 x 160

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Archive Issues
by George Reese 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

I have definitely found that the problems I was having come from incompatibilities between 0.95 archiving and 1.0b6 archiving. Archiving does have the following issues howver: * there is no default archive page associated with a new list--no archive is created until the first email is sent to the list * i have not found a meaningful way to upgrade existing archives--i had to do a lot of manual stuff to make my current archives even available -- George Reese (borg(a)imaginary.com) http://www.imaginary.com/~borg PGP Key: http://www.imaginary.com/servlet/Finger?user=borg&verbose=yes "Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie." -Orson Welles

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archives
by Michael Ghens 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

I was looking through the achives. This may be a bug. </i> Apache does not recoginize this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael Ghens Small Planet Connections Internet: michael(a)spconnect.com Santa Barbara, CA http://www.spconnect.com/~michael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unix is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:57:24 -0500 (EST) > From: Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw(a)cnri.reston.va.us> > To: Darren Henderson <darren(a)jasper.somtel.com> > Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] 1.0b6 private archives, a typo, etc > > > >>>>> "DH" == Darren Henderson <darren(a)jasper.somtel.com> writes: > > DH> The package still fails to compile under freebsd unless gmake > DH> is used. > > Unfortunately, we only have Solaris and Linux here to test on, so if > you could give more details (and patches? :-) I'd really appreciate > it. I just fixed a problem with the top level Makefile, so you should > try to do a CVS update and ./config.status to regenerate the Makefile. > > AFAICT, our Makefiles should be compatible with both stock Solaris 2.6 > make (/usr/ccs/bin/make) and GNU make 3.76.1. > > DH> There is a typo on the general list page, under Using > DH> MAILLIST... "You can post a message to the all the list > DH> members..." > > DH> I'm relatively new to mailman (and python) but out of > DH> curiosity... is there a reason to have _all_ the > DH> subdirectories under mailman sgid? Its probably valid just at > DH> first glance it seems a bit excesive. > > Setgid on the directories means that any files created in those > directories will inherit the group ownership, presumably `mailman'. > This is critical for the directories that Mailman writes files into, > but it's very convenient for the other directories as well (since > we're creating new files in there occasionally). > > -Barry > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >

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Subscribe users from command line?
by Peter Gervai 15 Nov '98

15 Nov '98

Hello, Is it possible to add email addresses to a list's subscriber base from command line (from a shell script)? I had a script 'echo email@addr >> ~majordomo/lists/mylist' but mailman uses databases, so it should be done calling python routines, somehow... Thanks, Peter ps: btw isn't it possible to see list archieves older than one month..? I tried to look this info up but only last month's archieves were available.

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admin requests on the lists
by Gergely Madarasz 12 Nov '98

12 Nov '98

Hello! I've upgraded to 1.0b6 and it seems that the admin request filtering doesn't work. For example unsubscribe messages to the list don't get caught. Any ideas ? -- Madarasz Gergely gorgo(a)caesar.elte.hu gorgo(a)linux.rulez.org It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/

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biggest practical mailman list?
by John Harkin 12 Nov '98

12 Nov '98

I'm using Mailman now for a small mailing list, less than 1000 addresses so far. A friend of mine needs to move a large list, over 32K addresses, to something new. I've been talking up Mailman, but began to wonder if there are scale issues with Mailman. Has anyone run a list that big? Does the database bog down loading a huge flat file for every request? Are there integer size limitations? My friend's current mailing list's editor broke with more than 2^15 addresses! John -- John Harkin Internet Network and Systems Consulting jh(a)harkin.net voice: 415-472-2452 fax: 415-472-2454

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Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied to archives dir with apache
by John Lewis 11 Nov '98

11 Nov '98

At 03:06 PM 11/11/98 -0500, Corbett J. Klempay wrote: >Hmm...looks right to me, and matches with how mine are set up now. Also, >in your srm.conf file (you said you had it modified), do you have a > >Alias /pipermail/ /home/mailman/archives/public/ > >Note, there should _not_ be a ScriptAlias line involving pipermail. (I >forget if that's how the documentation is worded or what, but for a while >I had both, and Scott said there should only be 1, and it should be the >Alias) Yes, only the alias entry. I believe Scott, in his infinite wisdom and patience, is looking into it now. I will keep you all posted. -JL

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