[Mailman-Users] Problem with Administrative requests for MailingList

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Wed Oct 31 17:42:55 CET 2012


Tim Chesnutt wrote:

>I have enabled mailing lists under cPanel on my hosting package and am 
>doing my own testing to ensure I understand how it works before inviting 
>other users, and putting the system into service.


See the FAQs at <http://wiki.list.org/x/sYA9> and
<http://wiki.list.org/x/OIDD>.


>When I visited the "Administrative requests for mailing list" page I see 
>all the options, but none of them have any functionality.  That is no 
>matter what option or options I select, when I click "Submit All Data" 
>the page cycles, and returns with no change in the message status - no 
>messages get Accepted, no messages get Rejected, no messages get 
>Discarded, and no message is sent back to the author of the post (I have 
>tried all possible combinations to see if there were someway to trigger 
>action from this page, but to no avail.


See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/ioA9>.

Also, examine the source of the web page and look at the action= URL in
the form tag. Is this URL identical to the URL of the page?

Also, is there any message at the top of the returned page?


>In addition to not being able to administer these posts while signed in 
>as the List Administrator, I note that I also can not cancel these posts 
>from the email address they were originally submitted: When I follow the 
>link to  cancel the posting, I am asked for a "confirmation string (i.e. 
>/cookie/) that you received in your email message".  There is no 
>confirmation string received in the email system message telling me that 
>my post is awaiting moderation.


The URL in the message you receive should be of the form

http://host/mailman/confirm/list_host/xxxxxx

where xxxxxx is a string of 40 hex digits. If you go to that URL, you
shouldn't need to provide a confirmation string, but if the URL is
split by your mail reader, you might just be going to

http://host/mailman/confirm/list_host/

or something with less than the full 40 hex digits. In any case, the 40
hex digits are the confirmation string.


>The Mailman version provided is 2.1.14-1, and the hosting company has 
>been of no use to date in this question as they are unfamiliar with this 
>functionality.


You might consider trying to find a hosting service that is more
committed to serving its customers ;)


>(there is another quirk that I mention here in case it is in some manner 
>related, though I think not:  While in cPanel, looking under the heading 
>Mailing Lists, the resulting page allows me to set up mailing lists, but 
>for some reason the "modify" link with each mailing list does not take 
>me to the Mailing List Administration page but to a broken link.  I had 
>not worried about this lack of convenience as I can enter directly)


This is a cPanel feature which is not a part of GNU Mailman. I can't
help with cPanel's list maintenance features outside the standard GNU
Mailman web admin and admindb interfaces.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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