On 1/6/20 10:13 AM, Erwin Schmitz wrote:

Mailman Administrator Authentication page (.../cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman)

After entering password and clicking on "Let me in" this message appears :

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.23

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.

The log (error) contains : admin(9779): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.23 -----] admin(9779): [----- Traceback ------] admin(9779): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(9779):   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main admin(9779):     main() admin(9779):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 239, in main admin(9779):     show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata) admin(9779):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 465, in show_results admin(9779):     otherlinks.AddItem(Link(mlist.GetBaseArchiveURL(), admin(9779):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 143, in GetBaseArchiveURL admin(9779):     hostname = re.match('[^:]*://([^/]*)/.*', url).group(1)
admin(9779): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

The web_page_url attribute of the mailman list does not look like http(s)://host.name/...

Via listinfo (left below screen shows : List     Description Mailman     [no description available]    (Why should this be a list?)

Every Mailman 2.1 installation must have a site list, usually named mailman.

click on Mailman (lnks to .../cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman)

admin(9744): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.23 -----] admin(9744): [----- Traceback ------] admin(9744): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(9744):   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main admin(9744):     main() admin(9744):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 77, in main admin(9744):     list_listinfo(mlist, language) admin(9744):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 181, in list_listinfo admin(9744):     replacements = mlist.GetStandardReplacements(lang) admin(9744):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 400, in GetStandardReplacements admin(9744):     '<mm-archive>'   : self.FormatArchiveAnchor(), admin(9744):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 336, in FormatArchiveAnchor admin(9744):     return '<a href="%s">' % self.GetBaseArchiveURL() admin(9744):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 143, in GetBaseArchiveURL admin(9744):     hostname = re.match('[^:]*://([^/]*)/.*', url).group(1)
admin(9744): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' admin(9744): [----- Python Information -----]

Questions: Why is the link "Mailman" shown on the screen, only public lists should be shown

The mailman list is probably public.

Why is this shown as "Mailman", which is not a 'normal' mailinglist.

Yes it is. It is the site list which is a list like any other. See <https://www.list.org/mailman-install/site-list.html>

How to solve this.

Possibly running fix_url will fix this.

/path/to/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url mailman

That should allow you to access the listinfo and admin pages for this list and you can then set its Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> advertised to No. You will probably need to use the site password to log in to the admin page. If you don't have one, you can set it via

/path/to/mailman/bin/mmsitepass PASSWORD

or you can set a list password via

/path/to/mailman/bin/change_pw -l mailman -q -p PASSWORD

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