Hi!
I'm new on this list, and sorry if my english sound funny but I'm french and my english is far to be perfect ;)
I plan to use Mailman to set up a Newsletter system. I'll have to define 2 or 3 differents Newsletters. I'm able to use Mailman as his first function, a powerfull mailing list system :)
I've check the FAQ (http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.11) but I have some questions.
I'm running Mailman version 2.1.4 (taken from backports.org) on a Debian Woody.
1/ I've created a list with the command "newlist mynewsletter" 2/ I've copy and paste the aliases block in my /etc/aliases and ran newaliases 3/ Once my list is created, what email address will I have to use to register on the Newsletter ? With what subject ? When I'll got it running, I'll create a form on my website to subscribe/unsubscribe on the newsletter.
Actually, when I send an email on mynewsletter@list.mydomain.com with the subject "subscribe", I see the mail arriving on my server through Postfix logs but I don't receive any confirmation mail back and no new entry in the Membership List.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards, Sylvain
Sylvain wrote:
I plan to use Mailman to set up a Newsletter system. I'll have to define 2 or 3 differents Newsletters. I'm able to use Mailman as his first function, a powerfull mailing list system :)
I've check the FAQ (http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.11) but I have some questions.
Thanks for checking the FAQ first.
I'm running Mailman version 2.1.4 (taken from backports.org) on a Debian Woody.
1/ I've created a list with the command "newlist mynewsletter" 2/ I've copy and paste the aliases block in my /etc/aliases and ran newaliases 3/ Once my list is created, what email address will I have to use to register on the Newsletter ? With what subject ? When I'll got it running, I'll create a form on my website to subscribe/unsubscribe on the newsletter.
Actually, when I send an email on mynewsletter@list.mydomain.com with the subject "subscribe", I see the mail arriving on my server through Postfix logs but I don't receive any confirmation mail back and no new entry in the Membership List.
To subscribe via e-mail send "blank" e-mail to mynewsletter-join@list.mydomain.com or to mynewsletter-subscribe@list.mydomain.com or send e-mail eith subject "subscribe" to mynewsletter-request@list.mydomain.com.
mynewsletter@list.mydomain.com is the posting address of the list, i.e. the address to which you send to have the mail resent to all the list members. Since your list has no members yet, this mail is essentially ignored.
If you have set up your web server properly, you should also be able to subscribe by going to something like http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/mynewsletter and you should be able to adjust the various list settings at http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mynewsletter
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Le Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:56:02PM -0800, Mark Sapiro ecrivait :
Thanks for checking the FAQ first.
No problem ! I usualy prefere to find the solution by myself :)
To subscribe via e-mail send "blank" e-mail to mynewsletter-join@list.mydomain.com or to mynewsletter-subscribe@list.mydomain.com or send e-mail eith subject "subscribe" to mynewsletter-request@list.mydomain.com.
Ok, it works when I send an email at mynewsletter-join@list.mydomain.com ! I can see the mail passing in my Postfix logs and the bounce from Mailman arrives, and I appear in the Members List. So everything works fine.
My problem was a permission problem :/ I've just tail -f the error log file of Mailman and I got this :
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/rtcw-tux/config.pck'
Well, I think my installation of Postfix is not very clean. It has been installed from the sources and I had a lot of problems to make Mailman working fine with acting as a Mailing-List manager.
Anyway, this is a 'test' server. I'll try to set this system on a clean installation :)
mynewsletter@list.mydomain.com is the posting address of the list, i.e. the address to which you send to have the mail resent to all the list members. Since your list has no members yet, this mail is essentially ignored.
Ok, this step is working to. If, as a simple member of the list, I send an email on mynewsletter@list.mydomain.com, it's rejected with the error message I've defined, so that's ok!
If you have set up your web server properly, you should also be able to subscribe by going to something like http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/mynewsletter and you should be able to adjust the various list settings at http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mynewsletter
Yep, this step is working just fine too.
Thanks for your help!
cheers, Sylvain
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