[Mailman-Users] I am a new Mailman user

[Tim Litwiller]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Tim Litwiller wrote:
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>>I am running SME 6.0.1 and the mailman contrib package found at contribs.org
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>>It was quite easy to setup but after a week or so I found this in the archive 
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>What archive?? Do you mean the Mailman error log file?
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>>the list has been working ok but I'd rather learn something about it and not have errors
>>than just leave it.
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>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/opt/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 43, in ?
>>   from Mailman import mm_cfg
>> File "/opt/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 44, in ?
>>   from Defaults import *
>> File "/opt/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py", line 94
>>   DEFAULT_URL = 
>>                ^
>>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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>>I've looked at those files and am wondering what is wrong with the first two 
>>errors and for the third error should I remove that line. In my Defaults.py I have this
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>This is a traceback. There is only the one error. The lines above are
>how you got there.
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>>---cut---
>># DEFAULT_HOST_NAME has been replaced with DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST, however some
>># sites may have the former in their mm_cfg.py files.  If so, we'll believe
>># that, otherwise we'll believe DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST.  Same for DEFAULT_URL.
>>DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = None
>>DEFAULT_URL = None
>>---cut---
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>This looks correct. What happens if you do
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>cd /opt/mailman/Mailman/
>python   <- or whatever the command is to invoke python on your system
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>>>>from Defaults import *  <- ">>>" is python prompt
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>Then type control-D at the next prompt to quit.
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>If you get the same error, try
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>rm Defaults.pyc
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>and then do the above again.
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>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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judging by that :

 DEFAULT_URL = none
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'none' is not defined

should line 94 be set  to
DEFAULT_URL = "none" as that doens't give an error