Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval
I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message.
On Jul 1, 2004, at 9:00 AM, mailman-owner@math.vassar.edu wrote:
As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting:
List: Mailman@math.vassar.edu From: mailman@math.vassar.edu Subject: Cron <mailman@math> /usr/bin/python -S/usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list
At your convenience, visit:
http://math.vassar.edu/mailman/admindb/mailmanto approve or deny the request.
From: mailman@math.vassar.edu (Cron Daemon) Date: July 1, 2004 9:00:01 AM EDT To: mailman@math.vassar.edu Subject: Cron <mailman@math> /usr/bin/python -S /usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled", line 209, in ? main() File "/usr/share/mailman/cron/disabled", line 202, in main mlist.Save() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 515, in Save self.__save(dict) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 487, in __save os.unlink(fname_last) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/private/var/mailman/lists/boardconfidential/config.pck.last'
From: mailman-request@math.vassar.edu Subject: confirm b9c1ca65ffe21fe79d376ba3a7b21dfd3b785ae3
If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply.
Attempting to visit http://math.vassar.edu/mailman/admindb/mailman and typing in the password leads to an error. Attempting to login to the admin page for the mailman list or the boardconfidential list leads to errors as well:
Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 194, in main mlist.Save() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 515, in Save self.__save(dict) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 487, in __save os.unlink(fname_last) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/private/var/mailman/lists/boardconfidential/config.pck.last'
Can someone give me a clue as to what's going wrong and what I need to do to fix it? Thanks thanks thanks!!!
-Ben
At 1:06 PM -0400 2004-07-01, Benjamin Lotto wrote:
I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message.
There's not really much support that we can provide for MacOS X Server. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.021.htp>.
I'm sure that someone will try to help, but you really need to talk to Apple. They provided the software, and they customized it in ways that they have not informed us about.
-- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
On Jul 1, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 1:06 PM -0400 2004-07-01, Benjamin Lotto wrote:
I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X
Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message.There's not really much support that we can provide for MacOS X
Server. See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py? req=show&file=faq01.021.htp>.I'm sure that someone will try to help, but you really need to talk
to Apple. They provided the software, and they customized it in ways
that they have not informed us about.
Perhaps a pointer to some general information about how mailman works
would be helpful? I might be able to apply that knowledge to the apple
setting.
I've noticed that there are a zillion files in qfiles/shunt. All of
them seem to be related to the once-a-month reminders that mailman
sends out. check_db told me that everything is OK. Trying to access a
couple of lists via the web page interface results in errors. Others
seem to work fine.
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks, -Ben
At 3:41 PM -0400 2004-07-01, Benjamin Lotto wrote:
Perhaps a pointer to some general information about how mailman works would be helpful? I might be able to apply that knowledge to the apple setting.
Pretty much all the documentation for Mailman will be linked from the page at <http://www.list.org/docs.html>. There is also the FAQ wizard at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py>, and the archives of the mailman-users mailing list at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/>. The archives are searchable, see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.018.htp>.
-- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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