[Mailman-Users] mailman-2.1b3

2002-08-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am running 2.1b3 but I seem to have missed a point. How do I make sure the qrunner is 'alive' all the time? I run on FreeBSD. cheers - wash +--+-+ Odhiambo Washington, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . WANANCHI ONLINE

Re: [Mailman-Users] Add Security Features in PHP

2002-08-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Wang, Mary Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020815 00:16]: wrote: > Hi, > Is there anyway that Mailman can interface with PHP? I have some php > security code that I would like to add for accessing the Mailman pages. Hi Mary, What do you feel is lacking (so far) in terms of the security that mailman

[Mailman-Users] Cron /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/qrunner

2002-08-14 Thread Kyle Krieg
I'm starting to get these errors every min in my mailbox. Anybody know what is going on, or how to fix this??? Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 83, in ? from Mailman import mm_cfg File "/var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 50, in ? MAILMAN_UID = pw

[Mailman-Users] Editing the archives HTML pages

2002-08-14 Thread Anclo
Hello, I would like to edit the HTML of the archives HTML pages. How can I do this? Many thanx, Anclo -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cg

[Mailman-Users] multiple domains with sendmail directions/HOWTO

2002-08-14 Thread B. Cook
Hello, I was looking through the lists and can't seem to find out how to do this. I already host idsi.net in my Mailman setup, but I would like to host some lists for some of the other domains that I host. Without giving up all the private lists that I have on the box. What I'm looking for is

[Mailman-Users] creating list takes forever

2002-08-14 Thread Luis Julian Dominguez Perez
Hello: Recently when trying to create a new list after asking me for a password the programs hangs, if I press ^C i got this: File "./newlist", line 220, in ? main() File "./newlist", line 169, in main mlist.Create(listname, owner_mail, pw) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py",

[Mailman-Users] How to modify listinfo and admin pages (HTML)

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Crouch
I have created templates consistent with our styles for any new lists that get created. However, I cannot find a way to modify the listinfo/admin pages as they seem to be dynamically created. Is there any way to modify these pages globally? Thanks again! -- Tim Crouch Manager, Computer Operati

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem accessing the admin pages for a list-Type Errror:not enough arguments for format string

2002-08-14 Thread Victoriano Giralt
> maketext admin(5878): text = template % SafeDict(dict) -^--^ > admin(5878): TypeError: not enough arguments for format string ---^ > > could someone please help me with this, I have been struggli

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple unsubscribes

2002-08-14 Thread MISTER Support Desk
Log in to: [ List Administration | Membership Management ] Membership List ... "UN"check the boxes under "subscr" column, corresponding to each member you want to nuke; then: [ Submit Your Changes ]. SD - Original Message - From: Davin Dahlgren To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, Au

Re: [Mailman-Users] queue runner keeps crashing

2002-08-14 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:53:19PM +0200, Franz Georg Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:12:49PM +0100, Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > At 15:35 12/08/2002 +0200, Franz Georg =?iso-8859-15?Q?K=F6hler?= wrote: > >>All of the sudden, Mailman V. 2.0.11 sto

RE: [Mailman-Users] Welcome message has too many blank lines

2002-08-14 Thread Woodie Sayles
I don't think that is what's happening because I tried typing the text in manually and still ended up with 3 blank lines in between each paragraph. I read something in the archives that caused me to try putting a couple of spaces at the beginning of each paragraph, but no blank line. Sure enough,

[Mailman-Users] Add Security Features in PHP

2002-08-14 Thread Wang, Mary Y
Hi, Is there anyway that Mailman can interface with PHP? I have some php security code that I would like to add for accessing the Mailman pages. Thanks in advance. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Mailman-Users] Multiple unsubscribes

2002-08-14 Thread Davin Dahlgren
Does anyone know if there is a way to unsubscribe several subscribers at one time? Is there a web interface for this, or perhaps a way to set one up?   Thanks…

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to automate newlist

2002-08-14 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:35:28 -0600 Tim Crouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked this once before and got no response, so I thought I'd ask > again. Is there any way to have newlist read a file with the > arguments of the lists in it? I have 547 lists to create (migrate > acutally) and I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to automate newlist

2002-08-14 Thread Chris Hedemark
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 16:35, Tim Crouch wrote: > I asked this once before and got no response, so I thought I'd ask > again. Is there any way to have newlist read a file with the arguments > of the lists in it? I have 547 lists to create (migrate acutally) and I > have a file with the listname,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-14 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 8/14/02 12:55 PM, "John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never use those "forward to a friend" (or soon to be former friend) > things, and cringe when friends aim them at me. I'm too lazy to look into > privacy policies deeply enough to know what's going to happen to the > addresses a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help - Error

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
Looks like you have some problems with OpenSSL. I'd advise taking a look at what you've changed there. > ImportError: /usr/lib/libssl.so.2: Undefined symbol "OpenSSLDie" > > Mike Mills > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1(510)537.8960 -- TJW: Head tech,

[Mailman-Users] How to automate newlist

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Crouch
I asked this once before and got no response, so I thought I'd ask again. Is there any way to have newlist read a file with the arguments of the lists in it? I have 547 lists to create (migrate acutally) and I have a file with the listname, listadmin-addr, and a default password. I would like t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Welcome message has too many blank lines

2002-08-14 Thread John W Baxter
At 0:31 -0400 8/14/2002, Woodie Sayles wrote: >I added a message to be prepended to the welcome message. It does that just >fine, but although the message only has 1 blank line in between paragraphs, >there are 3 blank lines in between each paragraph when it gets received. > >I only saw one other

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-14 Thread John W Baxter
At 8:17 -0700 8/13/2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >On 8/13/02 1:29 AM, "Nigel Metheringham" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So "Wile E Spammer" of "Evil Spammers Incorporated" writes a little >> script that does an invite subscribe of a few hundred throusand of his >> "friends" with an invitation

Re: [Mailman-Users] some details

2002-08-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Jeroen Valcke wrote: > I 'instructed' mailman to use lists.mydomain.com as default hostname. > Seems to work, when the lists sends out a message the from is indeed > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> However the confirmation message sent > after a subscription request does not comply with this rule. The > 'con

[Mailman-Users] subscriber's choice - html or plain text?

2002-08-14 Thread Davin Dahlgren
Does anyone know if there is a way to set Mailman up so that subscriber’s can choose (or have their profile configured) to receive messages as either HTML or plain text?   We have a newsletter that we are sending out which uses graphics and font style/color changes. Several of our subscri

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1b3 and htdig

2002-08-14 Thread Richard Barrett
I have just uploaded to sourceforge new versions of the following patches which are MM 2.1b3 compatible: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444879&group_id=103&atid=300103 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444884&group_id=103&atid=300103 I have made

Re: [Mailman-Users] New User looking for unsubscribe details

2002-08-14 Thread MISTER Support Desk
To unsubscribe: (watch for wrapping, link needs to be all on one line!) ( mailto:LIST_NAME-request@YOUR_DOMAIN?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe%20 YOUR_PASSWORD ) Substitute your list name for: LIST_NAME Substitute the server name where list is run for: YOUR_DOMAIN Substitute the member's pa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To in 2.1b3 changed

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Bengtson
Excellent - thanks for the info! / Peter "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote: > > > "PB" == Peter Bengtson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PB> The design team has for some reason decided to include the > PB> Description of the list (entered on the General Options page) > PB> in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist.py error after a debian install

2002-08-14 Thread Patrik Wallstrom
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, bear wrote: > I used apt-get to install mailman (2.0.12-2) and when I run newlist I get > the following: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/sbin/newlist", line 223, in ? > main() > File "/usr/sbin/newlist", line 171, in main > mlist.Create(listn

Re: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:11:33 +0800 Wolfram Knipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a better alternative to sendmail then? Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EM

[Mailman-Users] Archive handling "^From .*" within email

2002-08-14 Thread Federico Sevilla III
Hi everyone, I hope I am sending this to the right list. I do not know if this can be classified as a bug, or if it should get clarified first so I'm not filing a bug right away on the SourceForge bug tracking system. Please cc me replies, as I am not on the list. Thank you very much. I had rece

RE: [Mailman-Users] iPlanet and Mailman/Pipermail issue

2002-08-14 Thread Jon Carnes
Interesting... That error in Solaris typically means that the server cannot find the executable that is supposed to run a CGI. However, "pipermail" should simply be a web alias and not a script alias. Do you have it setup as a CGI? "pipermail" is generally a shortcut to ~mailman/archives/public

Re: [Mailman-Users] GID (again but archives don't help)

2002-08-14 Thread Roelf Schreurs
Thanks that helped. I thought the problem was with the "--with-username=1086" but indeed it was with "--with-mail-gid=6". Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Roelf Schreurs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20020813 00:36]: wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I just installed mailman 2.1b3 >> >>uid=1086(mailman) gid=1086(mai

[Mailman-Users] Pipermail and Mailman

2002-08-14 Thread Ryan Pratt
I have iPlanet 6.22 webserver running with Mailman 2.0.13. I have the admin cgi scripts working fine, but the pipermail archives are getting a cgi error. I have set the follow sym links set and an alias to /pipermail/ to /opt/mailman/archives/public but I still get this error. for host x.

[Mailman-Users] New User looking for unsubscribe details

2002-08-14 Thread Nathan Allan
Excuse me for the simple question, I have read all the documentation I can find, however I cannot find how a user can unsubscribe EXCEPT through the web site interface. Can a user simple reply to the email and have subscribe in the subject line? I want to make it as simple as possible for my use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To in 2.1b3 changed

2002-08-14 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "PB" == Peter Bengtson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PB> The design team has for some reason decided to include the PB> Description of the list (entered on the General Options page) PB> in the Reply-To and To headers. This is, IMHO, a Bad PB> Idea. Furthermore, there seems to

[Mailman-Users] Problem accessing the admin pages for a list-Type Errror:not enough arguments for format string

2002-08-14 Thread Raghuveer Polavarapu
Hi guys I had everything up and running for mailman untill I encountered this problem yesterday. I am trying to access the admin pages for one of the lists that I created. It prompts me for a password and then I enter the admin password for that list and then it gives me the error: Bug in Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Debuging problem..

2002-08-14 Thread Juan Carlos Guel Lopez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Good morning list!! Recently I've installed Mailman 2.0.13 with python 2.2.1 and everything works great, but, when access to the admin page (admindb) below of the web page I can see a message which says "bug in mailman 2.0. 13" The strange here is that I can

[Mailman-Users] some details

2002-08-14 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, After a second attempt I succeeded in installing MailMan, version 2.0.11 I created a test mailing list and took MailMan for a test drive. All seems to work perfect. Just a small detail and something I don't understand. I 'instructed' mailman to use lists.mydomain.com as default hostname.

Re: [Mailman-Users] iPlanet and Mailman/Pipermail issue

2002-08-14 Thread Ryan Pratt
It is mailman:mailman. I opened it up with 777 and this is the error that I get now... [14/Aug/2002:09:06:45] failure (10535): for host x.x.x.7 trying to GET /pipermail/test3/index.html, cgi_start_output reports: cannot execute CGI script /opt/mailman/archives/public/tes

[Mailman-Users] Help - Error

2002-08-14 Thread Mike Mills
This morning I started receiving the following error message. Nothing that I know of has changed. Since it is coming from qrunner it is occurring once a minute. Suggestions on what to look for and how to correct it please? Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrun

RE: [Mailman-Users] iPlanet and Mailman/Pipermail issue

2002-08-14 Thread Jon Carnes
Could it really be a rights issue? Who has rights to read /opt/mailman/archives/public/test3/index.html -Original Message- From: Ryan Pratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:32 AM To: mailman-users Subject: [Mailman-Users] iPlanet and Mailman/Pipermail iss

[Mailman-Users] iPlanet and Mailman/Pipermail issue

2002-08-14 Thread Ryan Pratt
So I am able to see all of the admin pages/cgis for mailman, but I cannot see the public archives. The private archives work fine. This seems like a cut-and-dry "Follow symbolic links" issue on the webserver, but I have triple checked that it is enabled. Is there any other possiblility? Fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Matthias Jänichen
At 06:11 14.08.2002 -0500, Tom Whiting wrote: >Qmail.. It's just easier to administrate, and, believe it >or not more secure. Agreed! ;-) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To in 2.1b3 changed

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Bengtson
Tom Whiting wrote: > > This is something that was enabled by you. > To change that, go through the config pages of your individual list, and find > out how to change it back to what it should be. > By default, mailman sets the reply to the USER that posted the mail. Anyhing > other than that is

Re: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 06:11 am, Wolfram Knipp wrote: > is there a better alternative to sendmail then? > > > - > Wolfram Knipp Personally, I prefer Qmail.. It's just easier to administrate, and, believe it or not more secure. Although, you'll hear quite a few other responses from quite a f

RE: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Wolfram Knipp
is there a better alternative to sendmail then? - Wolfram Knipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Whiting Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:52 PM To: Wolfram Knipp Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To in 2.1b3 changed

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
This is something that was enabled by you. To change that, go through the config pages of your individual list, and find out how to change it back to what it should be. By default, mailman sets the reply to the USER that posted the mail. Anyhing other than that is a result of an administrative e

[Mailman-Users] Reply-To in 2.1b3 changed

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Bengtson
In 2.1b3, as opposed to 2.1b2, the Reply-To and To fields now include the _entire_ description of the list as configured on the General Options page. See below: > Subject: Re: [Blah] Question >Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:34:28 +0200 >From: Peter Bengtson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
More than likely yes it is the problem, if you're using a distribution that has been released in, say, the past year or so, and haven't touched the config files. As far as where your config files are, look for 'em in /etc/mail (on most distributions). If they're not there, grab a big ol cup of

RE: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Wolfram Knipp
yes I'm using sendmail. later versions of sendmail disallow relaying? ugh... this could be the issue then. where is the sendmail configuration file (default) on the server? i was unsuccessful at trying to find it earlier on thanks - Wolfram Knipp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
Well, check to make sure you've actually set up sendmail, or which ever MTA you ARE using correctly then. Relaying being prohibited usually means you have NOT set up your MTA on the server correctly. Remember, by DEFAULT the later versions of sendmail deny relaying. This is something you're goi

Re: [Mailman-Users] --with-mail-gid using postfix

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
So, check relays, make sure they're enabled. Read not ONLY your mailman logs, but your SYSTEM logs (please, don't send those to this list). Mail, everything. Chances are you're going to find that your problem is in there somwehere. I'm not sure how postfix is enabled, but you're having problem

RE: [Mailman-Users] "relaying prohibited by admin" error

2002-08-14 Thread Wolfram Knipp
hi, on my DNS server i set lists.mydomain.org to point to the IP addy of the server Mailman is on. I'm required to use LISTS.mydomain.org, because mydomain.org is already being used for another server. as for Qmail, nope I'm not using it... - Wolfram Knipp -Original Message- From: [

RE: [Mailman-Users] --with-mail-gid using postfix

2002-08-14 Thread Thomas Spellman
Okay, I finally got an error message with the --with-mail-gid=nobody: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: "/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post testing1". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 12. (Reconfigure to take 12?) so I recompiled with --with-

Re: [Mailman-Users] mm_cfg.py doesn't appear to be working

2002-08-14 Thread Richard Barrett
At 16:01 13/08/2002 -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > "RB" == Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > RB> fyi: all the Mailman code imports mm_cfg.py which in turn > RB> imports Defaults.py. Hence the definitions in mm_cfg.py are > RB> evaluated following evaluation of Def

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1b3 and htdig

2002-08-14 Thread Richard Barrett
At 08:27 14/08/2002 +0200, Roelf Schreurs wrote: >Hi > >I just installed the mailman 2.1b3 and would like to use htdig to search >the archives. But the 2 plugins needed only has up to version 2.1b2. Any >idea when the plugins will be available for beta 3? Or are they available >somewhere apart

RE: [Mailman-Users] --with-mail-gid using postfix

2002-08-14 Thread Thomas Spellman
I downloaded the RPM version, which didn't run because of the --with-cgi-gid problem. I downloaded the SRPM and made sure the .spec file had the correct configure options. this time the username and groupname were already set as "mail" and the mail-gid=nobody. I made an rpm and installed, but t

RE: [Mailman-Users] --with-mail-gid using postfix

2002-08-14 Thread Thomas Spellman
okay, I cleaned the directory, reinstalled the source, ran ./configure --with-mail-gid=943 (mailman) --with-cgi-gid=584 (apache). The configure script I noticed though converted my named gids to their numbers, so either way works. I moved the mailman aliases file to the mailman home folder, ran

Re: [Mailman-Users] --with-mail-gid using postfix

2002-08-14 Thread Tom Whiting
> --with-mail-gid=nobody --with-cgi-gid=apache > --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=apache > > mail-gid=nobody is the only one that doesn't give the "wanted 953 / got 99" > error, but none of the mailman aliases work. I put some other test aliases > in the same file as my mailman aliases and pos

[Mailman-Users] --with-mail-gid using postfix

2002-08-14 Thread Thomas Spellman
I'm trying to compile mailman 2.0.13 to run with postfix. The following are the relevant lines from my postfix main.cf: mail_owner = postfix default_privs = nobody Apache is running as "apache:apache". I tried --with-mail-gid=nobody --with-cgi-gid=apache --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=apa