Re: [Mailman-Users] Web Admin Security Question
try an alias Alias http://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin https://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ https://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin https://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/ Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. On 5/21/2012 8:46 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I can't find any of this on the old server so I cannot understand what I did to make it work. I am not an Apache expert so I am having trouble with step 1 and hope someone can get me over this hump. I have SSL working as I can access the admin pages using https. However, I can also access it using http so I am not forcing SSL. I did not quite understand the looping caveat in option one so I tried the rewrite rule in option 2. That did not seem to do anything but there was no indication in the instructions where that should go. I have a .conf file that loads the SSL module and sets up the certificates. I added the rewrite code to that file. On 5/20/2012 8:17 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: After migrating my OS from Mandriva to CentOS I noticed that SSL mailman web access is no longer used. Is this something that is no longer necessary or do I still have more configuring to do? Do I really need SSL or is the management of web admin out of the box sufficient? If you care about sending your admin and moderator passwords in the clear over HTTP, you will want to use HTTPS. See The FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/7oA9 for instructions on how to set this up. Don't omit steps 2 and 3. these are important. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/frank.bell%40washburn.edu -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Web Admin Security Question
sorry about that Alias http://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin https://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. On 5/21/2012 9:30 AM, Frank Bell wrote: Alias http://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Web Admin Security Question
It does for us. Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. On 5/21/2012 3:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Frank Bell wrote: Alias http://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin https://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin Does this actually work? Apache documentation states the target of an Alias is a file path or directory path, not a URL path. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] CheckdB sending double msgs
Hi, We are running version 2.1.12 on Redhat. We have checkdbs running at 8AM each morning as mailman, it is not in the cron of root or any other user. We have alias-mgr set as administrator for a number of lists, and no moderator has been set. checkdbs is sending out double moderator requests for just those lists that alias-mgr is the admin for. Any thoughts as to how to troubelshoot OR an explanation. NOTE: all our settings and owners and moderators are exactly the same from the previous version. Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Some pending requests not showing up
Well, I'm still adjusting as a Application Systems Admin as opposed to a Systems Admin. It looks very much like the problem was that after migration to a new server the Sysadmin didn't shut the old server down, so the cronjobs were sending version 2.1.5 msgs to the newer 2.1.12 server. We will know for sure tomorrow when the cron jobs kick off on the new server. (we shouldn't get notifications that don't exist) Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. On 3/12/2012 8:12 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Frank Bell wrote: mailman 2.1.12 We have some notifications to the owners that are stating Post by non-member to a members-only list But when they follow the link, there are no pending requests. On one of these I as admin followed the same link the first time and the options were there, the second time I followed it, they weren't. Check Mailman's vette log to see what happened to these requests. Possibly they were discarded by the poster or another moderator. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Some pending requests not showing up
mailman 2.1.12 We have some notifications to the owners that are stating Post by non-member to a members-only list But when they follow the link, there are no pending requests. On one of these I as admin followed the same link the first time and the options were there, the second time I followed it, they weren't. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] A list is rejected by email server after migration
After an upgrade last night all our lists can send email except one. It is rejected by the smtp server it says that address does not exist. The mailman page for the list exists, the mbox file exists Any thoughts on what went wrong and how to fix it? (just happens to be the iss-directors list) -- Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] A list is rejected by email server after migration
All, within the last ten minutes my linux sysadmin discovered that the mailman-aliases file at /etc/mail did not for some reason contain one or two entries. (yes after migration I ran genaliases ) Solution was: He brought the old mailman-aliases from the old server, copied the missing entries into the new mailman-aliasesand then ran newaliases Thanks for the response!! Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .. On 2/29/2012 11:13 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Frank Bell writes: After an upgrade last night all our lists can send email except one. It is rejected by the smtp server it says that address does not exist. The mailman page for the list exists, the mbox file exists Any thoughts on what went wrong and how to fix it? (just happens to be the iss-directors list) While this is probably not the best place to get help for this problem -- it's almost surely *not* a *Mailman* problem -- we will give it a try. But we need to know what exactly was upgraded and migrated, from where to where? Especially, which MTA(s) is (are) used at your site by hosts involved in list post distribution. And what address is being rejected by what server. (Feel free to post the entire rejection message. That's best. If necessary you can redact information that needs to be private, but that may make diagnosis inaccurate.) Specifically, if the SMTP server says the address doesn't exist, the problem is in the MTA configuration. The first thing to do is to check for a typo in the aliases for the MTA. The second is that some MTAs (Exim, for one) support automatic aliases based on certain conditions that can include the presence of config files and the like. Perhaps a prerequisite for auto-aliasing is missing for that list. There are other possibilities but those are the first ones off the top of my head. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] password reminder for moderator?
I guess the payoff is that the software works well, is free, and maintained for free. Plus, we have Mr Sapiro who nicely answers our questions for free. Thanks Mark!! Sorry, the response just bugged me. On 1/11/2012 2:18 PM, Gerard Henry wrote: On 01/11/12 05:36 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Gerard Henry wrote: i'm using mailman 2.1.8. A user who acts as a moderator forgot his password. As administrator, i can reset a new password for the moderator, but is it possible to have a password reminder for the moderator? No. List admin and moderator passwords are kept in an encrypted form and the plain text password is not retrievable. i'm sorry if this is a newbie question, but why the moderator is not taken as a member of a list? in my opinion, this is often the case, isn't ? and if the moderator is also a member of the list, he has to remember two different password, not very friendly gerard -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/frank.bell%40washburn.edu -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting old msgs?
You did the work, so I'll just thank you very, very much!! Have a merry Christmas or Hanukkah or . Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin Information Systems and Services Washburn University Topeka, KS 66621 785-670-2334 On 12/2/2011 5:25 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Frank Bell wrote: Is there any easier way? I just took over our mailman server and we have several years worth of messages in 190+ mboxs totaling approx 130 gig and a few 100K msgs. You inspired me. I've created a script for pruning archives. See NOTE ON PRUNING OLD MESSAGES: in the FAQ athttp://wiki.list.org/x/2YA9 for links. Since this is a brand new process, I suggest you make backup copies of the LISTNAME.mbox files before starting. The script has a --backup option, but I would make separate backups to be sure until you've run the script successfully. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Archive folder for migration
A few hopefully simple questions for upgrade to a new server. 2.1.5 -- 2.1.12 1) Do I even have to move the Archives folder contents for a migration 2) Can't I just regenerate Archives if we need them? 3) Since Archives are just a set of folders, can I just right a script to selectively copy newer items based on date?? Thanks! -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Deleting old msgs?
I've seen a post on one method for removing old msgs involving copying a mbox to another location, opening it with a mail client, review/delete msgs, and then replace the mbox, run a process. I'm very very new to mailman, so forgive me. Is there any easier way? I just took over our mailman server and we have several years worth of messages in 190+ mboxs totaling approx 130 gig and a few 100K msgs. Thanks, Frank -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
