Hi all,
Quick question: I've looked through most of the options available to a list admin, and I can't find one to disable the monthly password reminders. I know this sounds like a bad idea, but we have a secretary who maintains quite a few mailing lists for out department, and we'd like to switch her over to mailman. However, we probably don't want students to be able to unsubscribe themselves from certain of our announcement-type mailing lists. Any ideas? Am I missing something simple?
Thanks much,
Josh Lothian System Administrator University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science
On 05 November 2001, Josh Lothian said:
Quick question: I've looked through most of the options available to a list admin, and I can't find one to disable the monthly password reminders.
In the "General Options" page is an option "Send monthly password reminders or no?". Just turn it off.
I know this sounds like a bad idea, but we have a secretary who maintains quite a few mailing lists for out department, and we'd like to switch her over to mailman. However, we probably don't want students to be able to unsubscribe themselves from certain of our announcement-type mailing lists.
Those pesky students can still get their password any time they like by visiting the listinfo page. So stupid students won't be able to unsubscribe, but those with a clue will.
Greg-- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org
Hi, had installed mailman. I am having rpm installation of apache. The gid of mail is 12 and gid of nobody is 99. I gave the nobody gid for the cgi-gid. Then i got the following error
Can you help me out.
Thanks
Venkat Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server. The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This entry is being stored in your syslog:
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 48. (Reconfigure to take 48?)
"V.S.Mony" wrote:
Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 48. (Reconfigure to take 48?)
Seems your cgi-gid is 48, not 99.-- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.
To stop unsubscribers --
How about this script from another member of this list, if you use his script, which adds a password on the subscribe and then _don't_ allow users access to config, you have an unsubscribe-able list. Sounds like a 'bad thing' to me, but... schlad3, do you think we could have a snippet from your subscribe/unsubscribe script? You don't embed the password in the page, do you?
Sounds like these scripts would be a nice thing for me for another reason, my list members are already in password protected area, I hate to create a second set of passwords.
Sheryl Coe (see below)
From: "Christopher Johnson" <schlade3@home.com> To: "'Kip DeGraaf'" <Kip@aadl.org>, <mailman-users@python.org> Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Possible to allow web-unsubscribe without a password? X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal Sender: mailman-users-admin@python.org X-BeenThere: mailman-users@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 (101270) List-Help: <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:mailman-users@python.org> List-Subscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Mailman mailing list management users <mailman-users.python.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 23:12:11 -0700
I was able to get around this by setting the same password for each addition to the list when they sign up, using a script, and then using another cgi script to send the unsubscribe emails with that same password.
Its transparent, the user never knows the difference.
=== Christopher Johnson schlade3@home.com
At 11:19 AM 11/05/2001, Josh Lothian wrote:
Hi all,
Quick question: I've looked through most of the options available to a list admin, and I can't find one to disable the monthly password reminders. I know this sounds like a bad idea, but we have a secretary who maintains quite a few mailing lists for out department, and we'd like to switch her over to mailman. However, we probably don't want students to be able to unsubscribe themselves from certain of our announcement-type mailing lists. Any ideas? Am I missing something simple?
Thanks much,
Josh Lothian System Administrator University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science
Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
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