two problems with Mailman 2.1
I?m having a couple of problems with a Mailman 2.1 list.
I want to add several addresses as new subscribers so as a first step
I added one of them using the mass subscription facility in membership
management. Mailman accepted the data but when I subsequently checked
the subscriber list it wasn?t there. This has been the case for two
days now.
Today I checked manually that the recipient address was in fact
working and decided to resubscribe using the same method. I enter the
data in the text box (I?ve done this several times) then click on the
"submit your changes" button below and get this message, ?Error: The
form lifetime has expired. (request forgery check)?
This happens without any special delay on my part, not more than a few
minutes. Please advise.
Dave
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On 02/01/2018 12:41 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
I?m having a couple of problems with a Mailman 2.1 list.
I want to add several addresses as new subscribers so as a first step I added one of them using the mass subscription facility in membership management. Mailman accepted the data but when I subsequently checked the subscriber list it wasn?t there. This has been the case for two days now.
When you submitted the mass subscribe form the first time, did you get a response with a message at the top saying "successfully subscribed" or did it say something else.
Today I checked manually that the recipient address was in fact working and decided to resubscribe using the same method. I enter the data in the text box (I?ve done this several times) then click on the "submit your changes" button below and get this message, ?Error: The form lifetime has expired. (request forgery check)?
This happens without any special delay on my part, not more than a few minutes. Please advise.
You need to first get the form and then submit it within whatever the FORM_LIFETIME setting is in your installation. The default is one hour but could be different in your installation.
I suspect the issue is something else. I don't know what the issue might be, but one thing to check is to look at the HTML source of the admin/LIST_NAME/members/add page in your browser. The FORM tag in that source should be
<FORM action="../../../admin/LIST_NAME/members/add" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
If instead it is something like
<FORM action="http://example.com/mailman/admin/gpc-talk/members/add" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
And the URL in the address bar is different, i.e. a different domain or a different scheme (like https vs http) that might be an issue.
Is this your Mailman installation or a hosted installation?
Do other 'admin' and 'admindb' pages work? I.e. if you change something on the admin General Options page and submit, does it work or produce the same form lifetime error?
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:12:44 -0800 Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:
On 02/01/2018 12:41 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
I?m having a couple of problems with a Mailman 2.1 list.
fwiw this has now been deemed a bug by virtualimin whose installer put the list in place. After a recent VM upgrade this started happening. It's being worked on I'll post a fix if one develops
Dave
I want to add several addresses as new subscribers so as a first step I added one of them using the mass subscription facility in membership management. Mailman accepted the data but when I subsequently checked the subscriber list it wasn?t there. This has
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 15:12:44 -0800 Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net wrote:
On 02/01/2018 12:41 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
I?m having a couple of problems with a Mailman 2.1 list.
I want to add several addresses as new subscribers so as a first step I added one of them using the mass subscription facility in membership management. Mailman accepted the data but when I subsequently checked the subscriber list it wasn?t there. This has been the case for two days now.
When you submitted the mass subscribe form the first time, did you get a response with a message at the top saying "successfully subscribed" or did it say something else.
Today I checked manually that the recipient address was in fact working and decided to resubscribe using the same method. I enter the data in the text box (I?ve done this several times) then click on the "submit your changes" button below and get this message, ?Error: The form lifetime has expired. (request forgery check)?
This happens without any special delay on my part, not more than a few minutes. Please advise.
You need to first get the form and then submit it within whatever the FORM_LIFETIME setting is in your installation. The default is one hour but could be different in your installation.
I suspect the issue is something else. I don't know what the issue might be, but one thing to check is to look at the HTML source of the admin/LIST_NAME/members/add page in your browser. The FORM tag in that source should be
<FORM action="../../../admin/LIST_NAME/members/add" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
If instead it is something like
<FORM action="http://example.com/mailman/admin/gpc-talk/members/add" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
And the URL in the address bar is different, i.e. a different domain or a different scheme (like https vs http) that might be an issue.
Is this your Mailman installation or a hosted installation?
Do other 'admin' and 'admindb' pages work? I.e. if you change something on the admin General Options page and submit, does it work or produce the same form lifetime error?
Hi Mark,
I eventually found withlist, which I hadn't know about before and that allowed me to do what I needed, even though the GUI is still not functional. Thhanks very much for your help.
D
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