[Mailman-Users] pending users

[vodka at intoxicate.us]

One more thing.  I do get some errors; my error log says:

May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538): Traceback (most recent call last):
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):   File
"/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ?
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):      main()
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):   File
"/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):      process_lists(lock)
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):   File
"/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):      mlist =
MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):   File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):      self.Load()
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):   File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 892, in Load
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):      dict, e = self.__load(dbfile)
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):   File
"/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 869, in __load
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538):      fp = open(dbfile)
May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538): IOError :  [Errno 13] Permission
denied: '/home/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db'

Some other info:

% ls -la /home/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db
-rw-rw----  1 nobody  mailman  2853 May 14 16:44
/home/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db



> Hi,
>
> I installed mailman and everything seems to work fine up until a user
> gets the confirmation message.  After that, mailman puts the person
> into a "pending" status.    Unfortunately this status doesn't get
> updated and users won't get subscribed to the list.
>
> I've tried almost everything, and I can't come up with a solution.  In
> administration -- privacy setings, I selected "confirm".  There might
> be a permissions problem, because when I do chmod -R a+rwx
> /home/mailman the pending status turns into "new" in the subscribe log,
> and users get their welcome email.  But when I do that, everything
> breaks and mailman says it encountered a bug.
>
> Does anyone know what's wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>