Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual domains

Thanks again, I will try this out - the server is down for a bit for maintenance... From what I gather, my scenario will require add_virtualhost('www.ourdomain.com', 'newdomain.com') Since our server name will not change... it will be: http://www.ourdomain.com/lists/user-discuss but the MAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual domains

Let me clarify my setup. Our list server is at http://www.ourdomain.com/lists. The default domain we want added to new lists is "ourdomain.com". However, we have another domain that we want to use for a special list that we need to add to this mix. In such a way that the domain name is prese

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual domains

irtualhost(): add_virtualhost('virtual.com', DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) ? Thanks... Hans-Juergen Beie wrote: >Forrest Aldrich wrote on 16.08.2005 20:57: > > > >>The Mailman instance I have installed runs under one primary domain - >>however, I want to set up a list

[Mailman-Users] Virtual domains

The Mailman instance I have installed runs under one primary domain - however, I want to set up a list that uses a different TLD (routed properly at our MX servers). What's the proper way to get this working under Mailman, where it respects the virtual TLD, not posting the default TLD onto it?

Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP errors

g 08 03:35:00 2005 gate_news(5366): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/nntplib.py", line 207, in getline Aug 08 03:35:00 2005 gate_news(5366): if not line: raise EOFError Aug 08 03:35:00 2005 gate_news(5366): EOFError Jim Tittsler wrote: > On Aug 6, 2005, at

[Mailman-Users] NNTP errors

I configured Mailman to perform NNTP gatewaying recently (v2.1.5). It appears to be working fine, however I'm seeing the following in the error log, and I'm not sure what to make of it: Aug 03 01:05:00 2005 gate_news(16582): Traceback (most recent call last): Aug 03 01:05:00 2005 g

Re: [Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

Along this line of discussion, the issue of DB backend integration is on the list of TODO - I wonder if there has been any discussion or exchange about implementation. This may help solve some of the scalability issues. _F Brad Knowles wrote: >At 3:07 PM +1000 2005-07-28, Iain Pople wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Low level bug: (solved)

setup! It seems to me that Mailman could probably provide better debugging output in this scenario. I don't know Python, but at the point where the mm_cfg.py file is parsed, any syntactical errors could be reported then. ? Has anyone been bitten by this before? _F Forrest Aldric

[Mailman-Users] Low level bug:

[ reposting as my initial message didn't hit the list, before part 2] I hit a bug today: From our link: http://www.mydomain.net/thelists/admin/testing/?VARHELP=gateway/news_prefix_subject_too Error message: We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level fail

[Mailman-Users] Low level bug: 2

I went to post the changes I made to the configuration and got the same error again: We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback for you. Please report this to the Mailman administrator at this site. --

[Mailman-Users] Low level bug:

I hit a bug today: From our link: http://www.mydomain.net/thelists/admin/testing/?VARHELP=gateway/news_prefix_subject_too Error message: We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback for you. Plea

[Mailman-Users] Posting from Mailman->NNTP to a moderated newsgroup

How are people handling the case of posting/gatewaying messages to a moderated newsgroup via Mailman? Is there a way to automatically inject an "Approved:" header . Does Mailman look at the Sender: or the From: envelope. Thanks. -- Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] lists/create screen

wrote: >Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > >>I have a new mailman instance set up - via a proxied connection. I've >>since found that doing it this way is more complex (but not my >>choice). Several items need to be addressed. Another one I found was >&

[Mailman-Users] lists/create screen

Hi there, I have a new mailman instance set up - via a proxied connection. I've since found that doing it this way is more complex (but not my choice). Several items need to be addressed. Another one I found was this on the screen for lists/create: our.internal.host.net:1 ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config problem - hostname issues

n to the internal host. The URLs showing up on the admin page (for example) are still reflecting the internal host name, which is incorrect for what we're needing. Thanks. Jim Tittsler wrote: > On Jul 19, 2005, at 03:39, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > >> I've s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config problem - hostname issues

No, not using virtual hosts should I? Poster wrote: >Forrest Aldrich said: > > >>I'm having a problem with the mailman (2.1.5) configuration. >> >>In our setup, we are utilizing an external proxy to serve the >>connections via an internal host.

[Mailman-Users] Config problem - hostname issues

I'm having a problem with the mailman (2.1.5) configuration. In our setup, we are utilizing an external proxy to serve the connections via an internal host. Therefore, the mailman configuration must reflect the external hostname for it to work properly. I've set up in the mm_cfg.py: DEFA

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

I received a few private messages about this, so I'll summarize the simple answer here. I moved ~mailman/cgi-bin to ~mailman/anothername, changed all references to this in the httpd.conf and also added a ScriptAlias for that path as for the former /mailman/->~mailman/cgi-bin directive. Seems t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

Are there any hard-coded dependencies upon the ~mailman/cgi-bin struct. John Dennis wrote: >On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:42 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > >>Right, exactly. But what' the best way to do this with Mailman. >> >> > >Pick a new loca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

Right, exactly. But what' the best way to do this with Mailman. Poster wrote: >Forrest Aldrich said: > > >>I've been asked to change the path from ~mailman/cgi-bin to >>~mailman/something-else, the claim being security (and avoiding skript >>ki

[Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

I've been asked to change the path from ~mailman/cgi-bin to ~mailman/something-else, the claim being security (and avoiding skript kiddies).Though, with the directory aliasing, I don't see where that makes a bit of difference. In my application, the httpd.conf is "embedded" such that it's r

Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP gatewaying

Really. This is interesting; anyone? I am setting up Mailman now, upon which we will *depend* upon the NNTP gatewaying feature to work. This could look very bad. Poster wrote: >Forrest Aldrich said: > > >>I just set up Mailman 2.1.5 with the intention of utilizing the

[Mailman-Users] NNTP gatewaying

I just set up Mailman 2.1.5 with the intention of utilizing the NNTP/Mailman gatewaying process. >From what I see, it doesn't use any authentication. The server we're using on the other side is Typhoon, and I've asked if it can just permit the IP; however, I'd just prefer to have authentication

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to specify alternate port in ./configure--mailhost= ?

wrote: >Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > >>We're running a special MTA on a different port, and I would like to >>point the mailman instance to that. Is it possible to specify this in >>the ./configure options or does it need to be input into mm_cfg.py &

[Mailman-Users] How to specify alternate port in ./configure --mailhost= ?

We're running a special MTA on a different port, and I would like to point the mailman instance to that. Is it possible to specify this in the ./configure options or does it need to be input into mm_cfg.py somewhere? Thanks. -- Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] Mailman functioning (writes)

I was asked how mailman handles I/O from the web page - is it via direct writes, direct open of configs - or is the process proxied somehow, etc. Thanks. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

[Mailman-Users] Integrated creation of mailing lists (automated or via API?)

The company I'm contracting for wishes to create some means to automatically create mailing lists. First, they want to interface LDAP such that the list config/content/membership (whatever) is stored there and then exported to Mailman. That would require understanding the various config formats t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman for High Volume Subscription Mailings... and High Availability

Brad Knowles wrote: [ ... ] In terms of doing high-availability, I think most people have been splitting the front-end web service from the back-end list processing, as well as splitting the MTA services onto separate machines. If you need the back-end Mailman-only stuff to also be hig

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Database....

It seems that many of the scalability issues could be addressed by changing the backend database that Mailman uses... to SQL. If we had the ability to store content in a backend SQL database - we could further scale this using standard mechanisms. Thoughts? -

[Mailman-Users] Using Mailman for High Volume Subscription Mailings... and High Availability

The organization I work for has a membership (list) base of in excess of 90,000 users. In the past, we've outsourced our mailings (not spam! but legitimate newsletter mailings that our users sign up for) to external companies that have sophisticated bounce handling, etc. etc. I have been aske

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding custom header widely

Brad Knowles wrote: At 12:02 PM +0100 2005-03-10, Sythos wrote: hi all, there is a way to add: List-Archive: List-Admin: to ALL list (both new and already created)? IIRC, the "List-" headers are hard-c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman High Availability Configuration andScalability

piro wrote: Forrest Aldrich wrote: Does Mailman provide an API that may enable hooks into/from other applications. You might be interested in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2005-January/017722.html -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is f

[Mailman-Users] Mailman High Availability Configuration and Scalability

I'm doing some research on deploying Mailman in a high availability configuration, covering scalability configuration, hardware/software enhancement, etc. Does Mailman provide an API that may enable hooks into/from other applications. I did some cursory searching on the net and didn't really f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Verbosity of confirmation messages...

ut of commands executed of a subscription/unsubscription -- it's just too much noise. Administrative commands other than that are different. Brad Knowles wrote: At 8:09 PM -0400 2004-07-08, Forrest Aldrich wrote: So, my question is: is there a way to selectively limit the verbosity of thes

[Mailman-Users] Verbosity of confirmation messages...

I'm setting up Mailman 2.1.5 on FreeBSD-4.10. The purpose of this installation will be, for the most part, to keep track of subscriptions/unsubscriptions that another privately-run list sends out (long story). A problem we're having with it is the verbosity provided by the confirmation messages

[Mailman-Users] Auto-discarded(part 2)

I did some tests, and it seems that a subject line like: Monster Resume #666 CC/CC - C/C++ Monster Job #565656565 Makes the current mailmain software auto-discard it. I tried turning the bounce processing off, but it still continues. Where can I disable or otherwise modify this behavior

[Mailman-Users] Auto-discarded

I'm trying to figure out why I keep getting this error: The attached message has been automatically discarded. I'm sending some textual content to my local mailman-2.1.1 list; and now matter how I submit it, I keep getting it returned as "The attached message has been automatically discarded."

[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman 2.1.1

The documentation (INSTALL) should be updated to insert the "% bin/newlist mailman" information prior to issuing the "$ bin/mailmanctl start" - to the new user, this throws you off because it errors on the non-existence of the mailman list. In the mailman interface, it's not clear where to set

[Mailman-Users] File archive with a mailing list

I'm trying to solve a problem we have, which requires some pointer to a file archive (that must be authenticated to) which accompanies a Mailman list. What we've been doing is using "strings -a" to get the passwords out of config.db, then putting those into an .htpasswd file. Obviously very ha

[Mailman-Users] 2.0.7 installation problems

I've followed the installation directions and when go to create a new list, I get errors on the web page saying it can't find the directories. They are, in fact there, but "newlist" is doing this: /usr/local/home/mailman/archives/public: lrwxrwxr-x 1 mailman mailman 45 Nov 15 22:39 test

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Removing the X- headers

Thank you, Bob. I'm a new Mailman user, so I wasn't aware of the ongoing conversations, or where people stood on this. The archives are not searchable, otherwise I might have found this. Sigh. At 01:46 AM 7/12/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sigh. To remove the mailman headers, look

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing the X- headers

5:34:47 -0400 >Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am unable to find reference to this in the in the Mailman FAQ -- > > is there another location? > >I the CVS copy of the FAQ is considerably newer than the web >version: > > >http://cvs.sour

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing the X- headers

te: >On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:12:01 -0400 >Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where in the code can I remove the superfluous X- headers? > >Mailman doesn't add any X-headers. It adds a number of standard >headers per RFC 2369 however, which may be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing the X- headers

Sorry, I meant to refer to the List- headers (X- being a generic terminology). At 02:12 PM 7/11/2001 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >Where in the code can I remove the superfluous X- headers? > >Are there plans to make some of this configurable, on a list-by-list basis

[Mailman-Users] Removing the X- headers

Where in the code can I remove the superfluous X- headers? Are there plans to make some of this configurable, on a list-by-list basis? _F -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] Superfluous headers X-

Is there a way to, on a list-by-list basis, turn OFF the X- headers? For example: we want to use Mailman to manage our network (customer) outage and maintenance announcements. This would be a one-way, non-interactive list (ie: responses would either get bitbucketed or sent to the admin).

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

Oh, good point.  That didn't occur to me, so late at night :) You have to be able to edit your MTA's aliases file, and letting this be done via a web interface is a HUGE security risk.  Plus, you'd have to build in support for all the major MTAs. (example - with Postfix, its best to keep TWO alia

[Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

Can we not log in and _create_ lists through the www interface?   As it stands now, I believe you do a newlist (command line) and then edit the stuff via www (if you choose). Obviously, creating lists via www is a potential security problem, but it can be restricted. Or did I miss something in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Other www/mailman gatewaying options..... wwwthreads?

someone might have taken a stab at this, for use with (and in example) GNU Mailman. _F   At 09:21 PM 7/4/2001 +0100, Delfim Machadp wrote: to do what ?? plz explain more On 04 Jul 2001 15:09:44 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Has anyone hacked WWWThreads (for example) to accept messages from > M

[Mailman-Users] Other www/mailman gatewaying options..... wwwthreads?

Has anyone hacked WWWThreads (for example) to accept messages from Mailman?   That would be very useful. 

[Mailman-Users] Mailman logging options

Is it possible to get mailman to log it's information to a different location, or perhaps via syslog? _F

[Mailman-Users] Reject posts get posted anyway

I did a test post from an external address today, to my testlist.   I went in to the admin interface and rejected the posting. The posting got submitted to the testlist *anyways* AND a rejection message got sent back.   :-)   Something wrong? _F

RE: [Mailman-Users] list emails aren't being sent (me, too) FIXED?

ation back to the poster. Yeah, the crontab was a flagrant oversight -- but maybe the docs could emphasize this a bit, for those that might run into this. Thanks for everyone's help. At 10:16 PM 7/3/2001 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: Here is my crontab, per your request: # At 5PM every

RE: [Mailman-Users] list emails aren't being sent (me, too)

, 2001 at 19:36, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >I just installed Mailman today, by-the-book and double checked as much as I >could, and I'm having the same problems. >archive (even though I told it to archive the new private list), but I see >in the qfiles directory: > >4da4a

RE: [Mailman-Users] list emails aren't being sent (me, too)

Interesting. I just installed Mailman today, by-the-book and double checked as much as I could, and I'm having the same problems. /var/log/maillog shows that the message is sent (no errors) to "wrapper" which is symlinked (on FreeBSD) in /usr/libexec/sm.bin and has the correct permissions. The log