[Mailman-Users] closely related lists - using users from a different lists
I have two lists that are effectively low and high traffic lists designed to serve the same constituency. So that a large number of people do not need to be subscribed to announcements that go out on the low traffic list, the high traffic list is also subscribed to the low traffic list. The only problem is that this means almost no one is subscribed to the low traffic list, and virtually none of the people who might post to it are, so almost every message is moderated. Is there a way to allow people who are subscribed to a second list to be accepted as subscribers to the first? Cheers David -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Custom confirmation emails (verify.txt)
Howdy everyone. I'm looking for the directory to place my custom verify.txt file in so that Mailman will send it out for a particular list. I've read the FAQ and /var/lib/mailman/lists/name_of_list/en/verify.txt doesn't work. Is it then /usr/lib... ? I'm just wondering how the rest of y'all got it to work, because either I'm in the wrong place or the FAQ is now out of date... Thanks, ~Poster -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom confirmation emails (verify.txt)
At 4:44 PM -0400 2005-07-05, Poster wrote: Howdy everyone. I'm looking for the directory to place my custom verify.txt file in so that Mailman will send it out for a particular list. I've read the FAQ and /var/lib/mailman/lists/name_of_list/en/verify.txt doesn't work. Is it then /usr/lib... ? The standard Mailman location is /usr/local/mailman/lists/name_of_list/en/verify.txt. If someone has taken Mailman and modified it for your platform, they may have chosen a different directory structure. In that case, you should contact whatever group or person modified the Mailman installation for your platform. One thing to consider is that these files are only read on startup. You need to use bin/mailmanctl to stop and then restart the qrunner processes, in order to pick up changes in the template files. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See http://www.sage.org/ for more info. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman on Fedora Core 3 system
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 12:37 -0400, Matt Singerman wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks for posting this - I didn't even know this filed existed! I think I've located the problem - mailmanctl isn't running. However, when I try to start it (with /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start), nothing happens. I tried to su as user mailman to check the crontab and try and run it from there, but when I do, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su - mailman This account is currently not available. The user definitely exists, but it has no login. Any ideas here? Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I've been on vacation and just returned with the typical 3,000+ emails in my inbox after a week of absence :-( The doc in /usr/share/doc/mailman-* is your friend, in particular the file INSTALL.REDHAT. In there is information on starting the mailman service. FWIW, the install of the mailman RPM does not do the following for good reasons. * It does not start the service * It does not add mailman to the list of services * It does not create a mailman login account. Why? Because it is common practice for people to just install a bunch of RPM's because they want them available. The installation of an RPM is independent of wanting to run the service (if the rpm is a system service which mailman is). Red Hat policy is if you want to run a service you must make a conscious decision to run the service, this has a lot to do with security issues (the INSTALL.REDHAT doc will tell you how to run the service). When the rpm installs it creates a mailman user and group, this is necessary for mailman to run. It is not necessary for a mailman login account to exist to run mailman (it is sometimes a convenience). Along the same lines as why we don't start a service when a package is installed we don't create login accounts. This too is a security issue. What password would be given to the account? It would have to be the same for every installed mailman RPM on Red Hat systems, and this is a security hole wide enough to drive a truck through :-) If you want a mailman login account it's very easy using system-config-users to edit the mailman user and give mailman a login account. Finally, you do not want to be running mailmanctl directly. You do want to use the interface established for controlling system services (e.g. init scripts in /etc/init.d). The init script does important things you won't want to bypass. This also makes the mailman service on Red Hat consistent with every other system service, once again this is covered in the doc. Also, please note that as of mailman 2.1 cron is not necessary to run basic mailman, as of 2.1 mailman is a service (e.g. daemon). Also, the init.d script plays an integral role in managing cron usage for the parts of mailman that still depend on cron. HTH, if you still have problems feel free contact me. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom confirmation emails(verify.txt)
Brad Knowles said: At 4:44 PM -0400 2005-07-05, Poster wrote: Howdy everyone. I'm looking for the directory to place my custom verify.txt file in so that Mailman will send it out for a particular list. I've read the FAQ and /var/lib/mailman/lists/name_of_list/en/verify.txt doesn't work. Is it then /usr/lib... ? The standard Mailman location is /usr/local/mailman/lists/name_of_list/en/verify.txt. Well assuming that the lists directory is preexisting, then I'm putting it in the only lists directory I have, which is /var/lib/mailman/lists/name of list/en/ and that doesn't work. One thing to consider is that these files are only read on startup. You need to use bin/mailmanctl to stop and then restart the qrunner processes, in order to pick up changes in the template files. I know. :) I restart mailman with mailmanctl after modifying the files and there's no change. ~Poster -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Changing Reply-To settings don't work or ignored.
System: RH7.3, mailman-2.0.13-1 Using the web based administrative interface, I'm trying to change where replies to list messages go (ie: set the Reply-To header). Want to change it from an explicit address to Poster. Deleting the Explicit Reply-To address and submitting the changes doesn't change anything (ie: the Reply-To address is still there). Changing the Explicit Reply-To address to something else changes the value on the config page, but has no effect. Frustratingly, setting where replies to list messages are directed to Poster is completely ignored. I've done some googling and found the first part of this was a known bug in Mailman 2.0beta5 but, supposedly, fixed before 2.0 release. I think direct access to the config.db file for the list might be an answer, but it seems to be a binary file and I have no knowledge of what application creates/modifies it. Thought about taking ot it with a hex editor, but decided that would probably cause more problems than it cured. Any suggestions for a fix or a work around would be appreciated. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
