Hello,
I am new to the list so if I miss something or is improperprotocol, please let me know.
Recently, we upgraded our mailman software from 2.0.13 to 2.1.6b4and moved from a Solaris to Linux platform (RedHat AS 3 Update) on a different machine. The Apache Web server we are running is 2.0.52. We are successfully sending mail through the list server and the web server is generally working, except for a couple of issues. The first issue is that the software is sending unsubscription notices to user's e-mail addresses, even though the "Send unsubscription acknowledgement to the user" is set to No, under "Membership Management", "Mass Removal". Secondly, when I try to change one of the configuration settings on a list as the mailman administrator for any of the radio buttons under "Mass Subscription" or "Mass Removal" and click on submit, the settings revert back to the default setting.
We were planning on installing the stable release of 2.1.6 but itdid not appear that this version addressed any of the problems that we are having.
Has anybody seen these problems? What can I check for? Is there anyother information you need from me to get an answer for these issues?
Regards,Darren Pifer Old Dominion University UNIX systems admin
At 11:24 AM -0400 2005-06-28, Darren G Pifer wrote:
Secondly, when I try to change one of the configuration settings on a list as the mailman administrator for any of the radio buttons under "Mass Subscription" or "Mass Removal" and click on submit, the settings revert back to the default setting.
Hmm. Did you look in the Mailman FAQ Wizard? In particular, the entry at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.045.htp sounds like it might be useful.
We were planning on installing the stable release of 2.1.6 but itdid not appear that this version addressed any of the problems that we are having.
There were other important fixes in the 2.1.6-release version. You should install it to get those, if nothing else.
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Darren G Pifer wrote:
The first issue is that the software is sending unsubscription notices to user's e-mail addresses, even though the "Send unsubscription acknowledgement to the user" is set to No, under "Membership Management", "Mass Removal".
This setting only affects that particular mass removal. In general, this is controlled by 'send_goodbye_msg' on the general options page.
If the issue is that notices are sent for a particular mass removal even though send acknowledgement is set to No for that removal, this may be a case of 'post' data being lost as Brad suggested in another reply, but that usually results in nothing working at all.
Secondly, when I try to change one of the configuration settings on a list as the mailman administrator for any of the radio buttons under "Mass Subscription" or "Mass Removal" and click on submit, the settings revert back to the default setting.
Any settings you make to the radio buttons on the mass subscribe/remove pages affect that particular action only. Defaults for these buttons are as follows:
Mass Subscribe Subscribe/Invite = Subscribe (can't change default w/o hacking code) Send Welcome = send_welcome_msg setting from general options Notify list owner = admin_notify_mchanges from general options
Mass Remove Send Ack to user = No (can't change default w/o hacking code) Notify list owner = admin_notify_mchanges from general options
Arguably, the default for
Mass Remove Send Ack to user
should be send_goodbye_msg from general options, but it has been 'No' at least since 2.1.4.
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Thanks to all for the answers. After some testing I realized this was the case for the specific list I was using. It worked as was expected.
We will upgrade to 2.1.6 at our first opportunity to take advantage of some fixes.
Darren Old Dominion University
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:49, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Darren G Pifer wrote:
The first issue is that the software is sending unsubscription notices to user's e-mail addresses, even though the "Send unsubscription acknowledgement to the user" is set to No, under "Membership Management", "Mass Removal".
This setting only affects that particular mass removal. In general, this is controlled by 'send_goodbye_msg' on the general options page.
If the issue is that notices are sent for a particular mass removal even though send acknowledgement is set to No for that removal, this may be a case of 'post' data being lost as Brad suggested in another reply, but that usually results in nothing working at all.
Secondly, when I try to change one of the configuration settings on a list as the mailman administrator for any of the radio buttons under "Mass Subscription" or "Mass Removal" and click on submit, the settings revert back to the default setting.
Any settings you make to the radio buttons on the mass subscribe/remove pages affect that particular action only. Defaults for these buttons are as follows:
Mass Subscribe Subscribe/Invite = Subscribe (can't change default w/o hacking code) Send Welcome = send_welcome_msg setting from general options Notify list owner = admin_notify_mchanges from general options
Mass Remove Send Ack to user = No (can't change default w/o hacking code) Notify list owner = admin_notify_mchanges from general options
Arguably, the default for
Mass Remove Send Ack to user
should be send_goodbye_msg from general options, but it has been 'No' at least since 2.1.4.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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