[Mailman-Users] Re: install on OS X
Thanks to Joe, Greg David. Changing the name of the python executable back from the recommended python.exe to python let the mailman installation checks work. (Sorry for the double post; a bounce message made me think it hadn't gotten posted the first time.) Now, I'm looking at security issues WRT configuration. You want to be very sure that the user id under which your CGI scripts run is *not* in the 'mailman' group... But I don't see any words indicating how the username which executes the CGI scripts is controlled (other than merely controlling what users have access to the CGI directories in write mode). Do I need to set up one or more usernames for that purpose, or will nobody serve, or?? John G. Otto, Eagle Scout, Knight, Cybernetic Praxeologist Existence, Consciousness, Identity, Life, Liberty, Property, Privacy, Justice -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
[Mailman-Users] few questions
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[Mailman-Users] few questions
Dear All, I am a newbie to mailman. I have configured mailman version 2.0.6 in a RedHat 7.0 machine. I am quite satisfied by the intial results. However, i have following questions a) Can i have 30 to 40 different mailing list on a single machine. I have exclusively reserved a machine for this. the hardware configuration of the machine is PIII , 800 MHZ, 128 MB Ram. whether it is advisable to have 30 to 40 different mailing list having atleast 30 members in each list in a single machine. if no, please tell me how to proceed in this case by giving the changes or tuning i have to do in terms of the hardware and software configuration. I have around 100 email transactions per day in each mailing list. whether mailman performance will get affected or will it become slow if i have 30 to 40 mailing list on a single machine and have 100 email transactions per day thru each mailing list. b) How i can change or edit the default page that comes for each mailing list ( ie. http://server-name/mailman/listinfo/listname). I need to put my own images as footer instead of mailman and gnu images which comes default as footer. Moreover, i would like to add some more links in this default page. for e.g, i have developed a search option to search the mail archives. but as of now, i am not able to edit this default page so that i can inculde the url for this search utility. Any ideas as to how to do this. Any constructive suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks K.Deepak __ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] questions about your software
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:51:20 -0400 Erin McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I'm researching possible software to use to manage all of the listserves our office has. One of the options software I've found that I can buy has is the ability to query users from a database. Can Mailman software do this? The upcoming 2.1 allows external storage of the membership roster via a plugin architecture. You (or someone) would need to write the (very simple) plugin adapator to your DB/whatever of choice. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
[Mailman-Users] setting up new list-Cobalt RaQ4
Hi, I have completed the setup process of mailman just now on a Cobalt RaQ4...I think. All went well until I attempted to set up a list test-my first list. I ran the newlist program, entered in test and my e-mail address and password, then copied the output lines and put them in Sendmail's aliases file. I then ran newaliases, and hit enter to have Mailman e-mail me a confirmation. Nothing happened. The list was set up, but I never got a confirmation. I looked in /var/log/maillog, and there is no log of Mailman/Sendmail even *attempting* to send me a confirmation. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up new list-Cobalt RaQ4
At this point, you don't know whether test works or not. Mailman does not send a confirmation of list creation. It has no idea when you will get around to adding the aliases and updating them, so it wisely chooses to wait. Now login to the admin site (or listinfo site) and add your email address to the list as a user and make sure you have send welcome message checked. If you get the welcome message your halfway to knowing that your list works just fine. The next test is to send an email to the list and see if you get it. Done. Jon Carnes All went well until I attempted to set up a list test-my first list. I ran the newlist program, entered in test and my e-mail address and password, then copied the output lines and put them in Sendmail's aliases file. I then ran newaliases, and hit enter to have Mailman e-mail me a confirmation. Nothing happened. The list was set up, but I never got a confirmation. I looked in /var/log/maillog, and there is no log of Mailman/Sendmail even *attempting* to send me a confirmation. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] setting up new list-Cobalt RaQ4
More info I found while poking around my system: When I try to set up my first list-test, it's Sendmail on the RaQ that doesn't seem to want to cooperate. When you set up a list in Mailman, it outputs a few lines which you should put in /etc/aliases (/etc/mail/aliases on the RaQ) for Sendmail. They look something like this: test:|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test test-admin: |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test test-request:|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test test-owner: test-admin So, I guess you're supposed to copy those into /etc/mail/aliases and run the command newaliases from root. Done. However, I got this in Mailman's log: Oct 06 19:15:32 2001 (600) All recipients refused: (553, '5.3.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... No such user here', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]') I have tried completely deleting the list test and re-creating it, and doing a full reboot of the server (several times) Then, I had the idea: Why not make an alias file for Mailman? Majordomo has its own alias file, found at /etc/mail/aliases.majordomo. Why not do the same for Mailman? So, I deleted the entries I put in /etc/mail/aliases, created the file (as root) /etc/mail/aliases.mailman, and put a line in sendmail.cf: O AliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases.mailman I ran newaliases and it processed aliases.mailman fine. However, Sendmail STILL DOES NOT want to link with Mailman! I get the same errors as before, even after a full reboot!! Thanks, Paul -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
[Mailman-Users] Filter messages that contain mainly quotes?
I've heard of list servers that bounce messages if the new content (non-quoted text) is fewer lines than the quoted material. We've got some clueless subscribers that persist in quoting entire threads while adding only a paragraph or two. Has anyone modified Mailman to do this? Margy Levine Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coauthor of The Internet For Dummies http://net.gurus.com and Poor Richard's Building Online Communities http://www.topfloor.com. Looking for kids' videos? Check out http://www.greattapes.com -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] few questions
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:07:52PM -0700, Deepak K wrote: Dear All, I am a newbie to mailman. I have configured mailman version 2.0.6 in a RedHat 7.0 machine. I am quite satisfied by the intial results. However, i have following questions a) Can i have 30 to 40 different mailing list on a single machine. I have exclusively reserved a machine for this. the hardware configuration of the machine is PIII , 800 MHZ, 128 MB Ram. whether it is advisable to have 30 to 40 different mailing list having atleast 30 members in each list in a single machine. if no, please tell me how to proceed in this case by giving the changes or tuning i have to do in terms of the hardware and software configuration. I have around 100 email transactions per day in each mailing list. whether mailman performance will get affected or will it become slow if i have 30 to 40 mailing list on a single machine and have 100 email transactions per day thru each mailing list. Lessee, that's 4,000 emails/day. A friend used to handle 70,000 emails/day on a 75 mHz Pentium, which served as a hub for several organizations. We have several lists, the largest of which is 20,000 members but which gets only about one post a week, running under Mailman on an AMD K6-350 with 128M RAM. The MTA is Postfix, tuned for large peak volumes. With 150 SMTP processes, it handles the bulk of the 20,000 member delivery within perhaps three or four hours of submittal time. The machine never really raises a sweat. It does choke up the SDSL line the mail goes out through! I'd think a 486-66 with adequate RAM would be more than enough to handle the load you mention. -- - Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Manager Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ - -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
[Mailman-Users] message never makes it.
Hi, I am running mailman 2.0.6 (and sendmail). I have set up a test list with one user. Everything works (subscribe, unsub, web interface, welcome messages) except that I never receive the actual messages sent to the list. I believe I checked everything (mailman log, pending administrative requests, syslog, mailq) and could not find anything. Sendmail seems to have delivered the message (with the mailman wrapper) but I never receive it. --- syslog --- Oct 7 01:38:08 step sendmail[19925]: f975c6419924: to=|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman_wrapper post testmailman, ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=prog, pri=30139, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent --- It's like if it never resolved the actual names in the list. . . Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Robert Walker -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Re: [Mailman-Users] message never makes it.
On Sun, 2001-10-07 01:49:52 -0400, Robert Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am running mailman 2.0.6 (and sendmail). I have set up a test list with one user. Everything works (subscribe, unsub, web interface, welcome messages) except that I never receive the actual messages sent to the list. I believe I checked everything (mailman log, pending administrative requests, syslog, mailq) and could not find anything. Sendmail seems to have delivered the message (with the mailman wrapper) but I never receive it. Do you have a cron job for getting all your mails out of maiman again? This is my /etc/cron.d/mailman file. The 2nd line is the important one: # */5 * * * * list[ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news * * * * * list[ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner ] /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . +49-172-7608481 -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
