[Mailman-Users] Configuration (virtual domains) doesn't work - problem found

[Jos Elkink]

Hi all,

Apparently, the problem was just the read/write permissions on the
files. Check_perms was the whole solution. Sorry to bother you! ;) ...

Jos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailman-users-bounces+jelkink=yahoo.com at python.org
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+jelkink=yahoo.com at python.org]On
> Behalf Of
> Jos Elkink
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 6:10 PM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Configuration (virtual domains) doesn't work
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a bit at a loss what is going wrong, especially because there is
> nothing reported in any log files. When I send an email, the
> mail/wrapper exits with 1, without any other info on what goes wrong,
> and when I go to the webpages of my mailman, it tells me there's a bug
> and I should look into the log files, which do not say anything.
>
> Below is my mm_cfg.py file - is there anything wrong with it?
>
> Note that the binaries with mailman work fine - e.g. I can
> create a list
> or add members, using 'addlist' or 'addmembers', after setting the
> DOMAIN environment variable.
>
> The documentation of Exim 4, which is what I use, says that Exim does
> set the DOMAIN variable. And a PHP script to read HTTP_HOST also works
> fine. So those environment variables also should not be the
> problem. But
> what then is? :)
>
> What could be wrong?
> And is there a way to have mailman report much more in the logs? Some
> debug setting?
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated!
>
> Jos
>
> ---------------------mm_cfg.py-------------------------------
>
> #######################################################
> #    Here's where we get the distributed defaults.    #
>
> from Defaults import *
>
> #########################################################
> # Get domain-specific settings.                         #
>
> import os
> import string
>
> def loadDomainDefaults ( name ):
>         definition = ""
>         module = '/var/mail/' + name + '/DomainDefaults.py'
>         hFile = open ( module, "r" )
>         for line in hFile.readlines():
>                 definition = definition + line
>         definition = definition + "\n"
>         exec definition in globals()
>
> if os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') :
>         junk, domain =
> tuple(string.split(os.environ['HTTP_HOST'], '.',
> 1))
>         loadDomainDefaults(domain)
> elif os.environ.get('DOMAIN') :
>         loadDomainDefaults(os.environ['DOMAIN'])
>
> ##############################################################
> # Put YOUR site-specific configuration below, in mm_cfg.py . #
> # See Defaults.py for explanations of the values.            #
>
> IMAGE_LOGOS       = '/doc/mailman/images/'
> USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 1
> DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = 0
>
> MAILMAN_OWNER     = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
>
> PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail'
> PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/cgi-bin/mailman/private'
>
> LIST_DATA_DIR   = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
> + '/lists')
> LOG_DIR         = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
> + '/logs')
> LOCK_DIR        = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
> + '/locks')
> DATA_DIR        = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, DEFAULT_HOST_NAME
> + '/data')
> QUEUE_DIR       = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, DEFAULT_HOST_NAME +
> '/qfiles')
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -----
>
> A sample DomainDefaults.py would be:
>
> #########################################
> # Domain specific defaults for Mailman. #
>
> DEFAULT_HOST_NAME   = 'cantr.net'
> DEFAULT_URL         = 'http://cantr.net/mailman/'
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> -----
>
>
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