[Mailman-Users] Re: Deleting a list - Mac OS X

[demo]

Just to say that this actually does not work for Apple's OS X Server version
2.1.2 of Mailman ... Good heavens!

It does somethings but I am not sure if it is my shortcomings or the
proprietary version's.


Adding; OWNERS_CAN_DELETE_THEIR_OWN_LISTS = Yes to

/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py

Adds a new link to the General Options admin page that links to a new page;

http://yourdomain.com/mailman/rmlist/mailing

That offers you to delete the list and archive. [ n.b deleting a list in the
Apple GUI does *not* delete the archive ].

However, doing so brings up a bug report as below and deleting it via the
button does *not* delete the list;

In fact, I think the inclusion of that line screws up the install a bit,
although I am not asking for help here - only feeding back.

Doing so, I just tried this on a totally virgin OS X Server install, also
adds a new line that says, " If you have the proper authority,  you can also
create a new mailing list. " on the general list Admin page [
http://yourdomain.com/mailman/admin ].

Again, this looks like it might work but throws up a similar bug report.

*However*, 

it *does* create a List in the GUI *and* web interface. Is there another
line I ought to have written out to make this work? [ will check the FAQs
later but it is 2 am here and I have to time out ...

If anyone is interested in the second bug report I could post it ... I guess
it might be hackable.

The archives [ /var/mailman/archives/public  ] are created but not deleted
either way. 

This seems to be a bit of Apple weirdness for some reason. You seem to have
to go in there are manually exorcise them.


MA



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 Traceback:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/rmlist.py", line 91, in main
    process_request(doc, cgidata, mlist)
  File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/rmlist.py", line 126, in
process_request
    sys.modules[modname].remove(mlist, cgi=1)
  File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 296, in remove
    _update_maps()
  File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps
    raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias
/private/var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)




Python information:

Variable
Value

sys.version
 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc.
build 1495)]

 sys.executable
 /usr/bin/python

 sys.prefix
 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3

 sys.exec_prefix
 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3

 sys.path
 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3

 sys.platform
 darwin

 Environment variables:

Variable
Value

 HTTP_REFERER
 http://yourdomain.com/mailman/rmlist/mailing

 SERVER_SOFTWARE
 Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.2

 SCRIPT_NAME
 /mailman/rmlist

 SERVER_SIGNATURE
 Apache/1.3.29 Server at yourdomain.com Port 16080

 REQUEST_METHOD
 POST

 PATH_INFO
 /mailing

 SERVER_PROTOCOL
 HTTP/1.1

 QUERY_STRING

 CONTENT_LENGTH
 53

 HTTP_USER_AGENT
 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Safari/125.11

 HTTP_CONNECTION
 close

 HTTP_COOKIE
 mailing+admin=280200000069ea3ba54173280000006665306131373262626235356539633
4373031663964303933643234356532653636376530356230

 SERVER_NAME
 yourdomain.com

 REMOTE_ADDR
 192.168.1.2

 HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR
 212.18.232.35

 PATH_TRANSLATED
 /Library/WebServer/Documents/mailing

 SERVER_PORT
 16080

 SERVER_ADDR
 192.168.1.2

 DOCUMENT_ROOT
 /Library/WebServer/Documents

 PYTHONPATH
 /usr/share/mailman

 SCRIPT_FILENAME
 /usr/share/mailman/cgi-bin/rmlist

 SERVER_ADMIN
 admin at example.com

 SCRIPT_URI
 http://yourdomain.com:16080/mailman/rmlist/mailing

 HTTP_HOST
 yourdomain.com

 SCRIPT_URL
 /mailman/rmlist/mailing

 REQUEST_URI
 /mailman/rmlist/mailing

 HTTP_ACCEPT
 */*

 GATEWAY_INTERFACE
 CGI/1.1

 REMOTE_PORT
 54413

 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
 en-us, ja;q=0.57, ja-jp;q=0.71, en;q=0.86, fr;q=0.43, de-de;q=0.29,
de;q=0.14

 __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING
 0x46:0:0

 CONTENT_TYPE
 application/x-www-form-urlencoded

 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
 gzip, deflate;q=1.0, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0


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