[Mailman-Users] Initial Setup Issues

[Jon Carnes]

Not to be too obtuse but what happens when you look at the admindb
web-page for the list?  Are the subscribes waiting there to be
confirmed?

What subscribe settings in the admin web-pages?

 On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:31, dino wrote:
> Well everything seems to be OK, however here are the contents of my
> /home/mailman/logs/subscribe file
> 
> Feb 03 18:13:31 2003 (16112) chico: pending testuser1 at dino.me.uk
> 213.78.79.150
> Feb 03 18:15:07 2003 (16423) chico: pending dinouk at orange.net
> 213.78.79.150
> Feb 03 18:16:14 2003 (16755) chico: new kljlkj at dino.me.uk
> Feb 03 18:28:52 2003 (17982) chico: pending testuser2 at dino.me.uk
> 213.78.79.150
> 
> User kljlkj at dino.me.uk is the one that I added manually via the web
> interface, the others I subbed via the user page.
> 
> It looks like user requests are being held for some reason if they are
> submitted by potential users, but getting thru if me as the admin
> submits them...
> 
> Argh!
> 
> Again any help would be gratefully received!
> 
> Dino
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com] 
> Sent: 03 February 2003 14:20
> To: dinouk at orange.net
> Cc: Mailman users Mailing list	
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Initial Setup Issues
> 
> 
> Check the aliases that you created and make sure that they are pointing
> to mailman post scripts (with your list name as one of the inputs).
> 
> Also take a look at the steps in FAQ 3.14.  This was written
> specifically to help new installers of Mailman v2.0.13 who are having
> problems getting mail to go to the lists.
> 
> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> 
> 
> Jon Carnes
> 
> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 05:10, dino wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > 
> > Great product and good list, but...
> > 
> > I had some issues installing 2.1 so on advice from ISP installed the 
> > last stable release before that 2.0.13.
> > 
> > Everything works fine during the setup stage and I can create the list
> 
> > properly with no issues, and the adding of aliases seems to go OK too.
> 
> > Once done I can view my list from the web and everything.
> > 
> > However, if a user goes to the web to subscribe they do get the 
> > initial subscribe message, but replying to that doesn't generate the 
> > final confirmationation email. Rather, I, as list admin, seem to get a
> 
> > copy of their confirmation, and no user is created.
> > 
> > But, manually adding subscribers from the web myself seems to work 
> > fine.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Dino
> > 
> > 
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