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> > Your fixes certainly helped. I think I've
> > actually got it working.
>
> Glad to hear it! From the looks of it, just
> about all of them have made it into the latest
> Sympa mdk.rpm (4mdk I think). This should make
> future installs for everyone easier.
>
Yes!
> > Unfortunately, now that I do, I'm not
> > convinced I like it :-(. I'd still have to
> > do some tweaking - the pages were badly
> > translated from French to English and there
> > are some phrases in French, and some phrases
> > in bad English. Hunt around wwsympa and
> > you'll quickly see what I mean.
>
> Yup, found quite a few myself. I plan on going
> to the Sympa people directly on this one.
> Added myself to all their mailing lists earlier.
>
This isn't my problem then. :-P
> > The file /etc/sympa.conf also needs to be
> > protected from world read access, but that
> > will cause some havoc for the web browser
> > so some thinking needs to be done here. The
> > conf file has a database username/password
> > in it, so world read is not appropriate.
>
> Yes, I stumbled across this one late last night
> or early this morning (I can't remember) while
> I was trying to hack it into submission. I had
> set the permissions to 750 and sympa.sympa,
> which apparently didn't work. I have a feeling
> I don't have suexec working properly.
> Supposedly suexec is supposed to make the web
> server run as sympa.sympa for that virtual
> host. Gonna look at this a little harder
> later on.
>
I hope that it would be possible to set it 600 in /etc, sympa.sympa for
owner and group. This will be fixed once things get sorted out.
Or, I can do this now, and let you sort out the problems later.
> > There's no doubt that the package needed
> > fixing, and I did see a request from someone
> > on the cooker list asking for a web
> > interface to remove, so it looks like
> > you can use the fixes.
>
> WWSympa has a really functional and pretty nice
> (from what I've seen so far) interface. The web
> addition works quite well, haven't tested the
> removal yet.
>
> > I think I'll be uninstalling this and going
> > with Mailman for my lists on my lowly P100
> > web/list server. I really do thank you for
> > your help.
>
> I haven't really looked around at the
> competition, I just figured that if Mandrake is
> using it, it must be decent. I may have to if I
> can't get my current problem solved. I did all
The best thing about Sympa is that it has got good i18n, plus some features
that Majordomo does not have.
> this work to get the web interface up and
> running, and I kinda forgot about the mailing
> list itself. Right now, it's non functional.
> /var/log/mail.log just shows all the mail as
> being deffered. Not sure what's going on at the
> moment.
>
That would be strange, but you use the same mail server for your smtp mail
right? ok i really have no idea why this happens. :-(
--
Geoff
