Re: [Mailman-Users] installing mailman and sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Shams Fantar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hank van Cleef wrote: I'm going to jump in here as I run Mailman with sendmail on a Solaris system. I can't comment on pecuiliarities of a Linux precompiled distribution. The Mailman installation manual goes through the steps of enabling a

[Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with Sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Honneus (honneus)
Hi, I'm a little confused about something regarding setting up Mailman to run using Sendmail. The following are instructions for how to create the mailman user. My first question is, why is the user created with no shell and no home? The documentation does not explain the reason why this is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with Sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Dragon
Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote: Hi, I'm a little confused about something regarding setting up Mailman to run using Sendmail. The following are instructions for how to create the mailman user. My first question is, why is the user created with no shell and no home? The documentation does not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with Sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Brad Knowles
Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote: I'm a little confused about something regarding setting up Mailman to run using Sendmail. The following are instructions for how to create the mailman user. My first question is, why is the user created with no shell and no home? The documentation does not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with Sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Dragon
Brad Knowles wrote: Neither sudo nor a plain su need to have a shell for the user. All you're changing is your effective UID (EUID), but the rest of your environment comes from your real UID that you used to log in with. End original message. - Hmm...

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with Sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Brad Knowles
Dragon quoted me: Neither sudo nor a plain su need to have a shell for the user. All you're changing is your effective UID (EUID), but the rest of your environment comes from your real UID that you used to log in with. End original message. - Hmm...

Re: [Mailman-Users] installing mailman and sendmail

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Shams Fantar wrote: Hank van Cleef wrote: [...] Additionally, you'll need to enable the sendmail smrsh capability. You need to do this by adding a line in the main.mc file for sendmail and rerunning the M4 process to recreate the sendmail.cf file. The line to add is: = FEATURE(smrsh,

Re: [Mailman-Users] local ip in links

2008-05-01 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:37:15PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Hans Gubitz wrote: Overview of all ... mailing links points here to the local ip of the server, where all other links point to the right url. If you mean the actual target of that link contains the IP, I don't understand

Re: [Mailman-Users] local ip in links

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hans Gubitz wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:37:15PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Hans Gubitz wrote: Overview of all ... mailing links points here to the local ip of the server, where all other links point to the right url. If you mean the actual target of that link contains the IP, I

[Mailman-Users] Mail/News duplicates problem

2008-05-01 Thread NFN Smith
I'm not sure if this is a problem with Mailman or INN, but I'll start on the Mailman side. If it's an INN problem, I'll be happy to redirect my question to the appropriate forum. I'm in the process of adding a news/mail gateway to a server that's running Mailman 2.1.9-7 on a Debian 4.0 box.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail/News duplicates problem

2008-05-01 Thread Brad Knowles
NFN Smith wrote: Where I'm having problems is with messages posted from the news side -- they're gated into Mailman, and distributed correctly to mailing list subscribers, but then a copy of the message goes back through to the INN server, and INN isn't recognizing the message as having been

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail/News duplicates problem

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: INN does rely on the Message-ID to track whether or not it has seen this particular message, but an article being gatewayed in via USENET should not then be gatewayed back out to USENET by Mailman. The pipeline of routines within Mailman should be set up to avoid precisely

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail/News duplicates problem

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
NFN Smith wrote: Exactly. When cron/gate_news polls the news group and posts messages to the Mailman list, it puts a fromusenet flag in the message's metadata. The ToUsenet handler looks for this flag and will not process the message if it is present. OK, that makes sense. Any idea why

[Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Honneus (honneus)
Hi, I just completed the mailman setup instructions and was able to create a mail list with the command line option and receive an email notification. However, the Apache web browsing part doesn't seem to work as I get a permissions error page when I attempt to browse to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

2008-05-01 Thread Dragon
Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote: Hi, I just completed the mailman setup instructions and was able to create a mail list with the command line option and receive an email notification. However, the Apache web browsing part doesn't seem to work as I get a permissions error page when I attempt to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bill Honneus wrote: I just completed the mailman setup instructions and was able to create a mail list with the command line option and receive an email notification. However, the Apache web browsing part doesn't seem to work as I get a permissions error page when I attempt to browse to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Honneus (honneus)
Hi Mark, That was the problem. I added that directory statement and I now get an error page showing the following: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

2008-05-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bill Honneus That was the problem. I added that directory statement and I now get an error page showing the following: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Honneus (honneus)
Thanks, Mark. It looks like this is working now. Much appreciated! Bill -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:55 PM To: Bill Honneus (honneus); mailman-users@python.org Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache