[Mailman-Users] Re: Archiving problems ...

[Charlie Watts]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Charlie Watts wrote:

> I've got mailman 2.0.5 installed on a FreeBSD4.3-stable system.
>
> The administrative and user E-mail and web interfaces are working
> superbly.
>
> E-mails to the list go out promptly and smoothly.
>
>
> But I can't get it to archive anything to save my life. It doesn't seem
> to so much as -touch- the filesystem.

Well, I don't think I'm a -total- idiot anymore, but I'm still confounded.

I cvsupped rebuilt the world, and everything is working.

Apologies for wasting your time ...

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[Mailman-Users] URGENT REQUEST FOR HELP

[Jacques Leurs ET&C ag-sa]

Urgent request
for help

 

 

We recently set
up Mailman version 2.00.

 

We did several
trial set-up’s and test’s till we where confident with the programme. We chose
it for the various ways of set-up and the respect of the subscribers.

 

Than we started
hosting lists coming from YAHOO where the have been kicked out for various
reasons.

 

At the present we
host 3 lists with 29000 members. 

 

The transfer has
been done very easy and smoothly the first E zine with an attached cartoon has
been handled by our server. Since that day we are unable to send the daily list
again no matter what we try or how we try or worse how hard we try.

 

Problem is that
we have other lists to start among them the Jokes with the world wide largest
Dbase 165.00 jokes in 4 languages.

 

So it is for us
of a capital importance to solve our problem as soon as possible.

 

 

Are there check
lists for such cases?

Has any one had a
similar problem and a suggestion?

None of the 3
active lists is sending mail out

The test list is
no longer worker since the day the active lists have been used once each.

 

Thank you in
advance for your cooperation and reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

 

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent request for assistance

[Dan Mick]

Is there a question here?  I can't find a problem description or
question in your mail.

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[Mailman-Users] Urgent request for assistance

[Jacques Leurs ET&C ag-sa]

Urgent request
for assistance

 

 

We recently set
up Mailman version 2.00.

 

We did several
trial set-up’s and test’s till we where confident with the programme. We chose
it for the various ways of set-up and the respect of the subscribers.

 

Than we started
hosting lists coming from YAHOO where the have been kicked out for various
reasons.

 

At the present we
host 3 lists with 29000 members. 

 

The transfer has
been done very easy and smoothly the first E zine with an attached cartoon has
been handled by our server. Since that day we are unable to send the daily list
again no matter what we try or how we try or worse how hard we try.

 

Problem is that
we have other lists to start among them the Jokes with the world wide largest
Dbase 165.00 jokes in 4 languages.

 

So it is for us
of a capital importance to solve our problem as soon as possible.

 

 

Are there check
list for such cases?

Has any one had a
similar problem and a suggestion?

None of the 3
active lists is sending mail out

The test list is
no longer worker since the day the active lists have been used once each.

 

Thank you in
advance for your cooperation and reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

 

Re: [Mailman-Users] What does this error mean?

[Bernhard R. Erdmann]

> OK, that seemed to work.  As soon as I checked my /etc/hosts file I noticed
> my localhost entry missing.

RedHat is known to forget "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts.

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[Mailman-Users] Urgent request for assistance

[Jacques Leurs ET&C ag-sa]

Urgent request
for assistance

 

 

We recently set
up Mailman version 2.00.

 

We did several
trial set-up’s and test’s till we where confident with the programme. We chose
it for the various ways of set-up and the respect of the subscribers.

 

Than we started hosting
lists coming from YAHOO where the have been kicked out for various reasons.

 

At the present we
host 3 lists with 29000 members. 

 

The transfer has
been done very easy and smoothly the first E zine with an attached cartoon has
been handled by our server. Since that day we are unable to send the daily list
again no matter what we try or how we try or worse how hard we try.

 

Problem is that
we have other lists to start among them the Jokes with the world wide largest
Dbase 165.00 jokes in 4 languages.

 

So it is for us
of a capital importance to solve our problem as soon as possible.

 

 

Are there check
list for such cases?

Has any one had a
similar problem and a suggestion?

None of the 3
active lists is sending mail out

The test list is
no longer worker since the day the active lists have been used once each.

 

Thank you in
advance for your cooperation and reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

 

 

[Mailman-Users] Using alternate password repository?

[Tom Emerson]

I am maintaining several mailing lists associated with an organization
that includes password-protected access to certain areas of its
website. I do not like the idea of having separate passwords for
mailing list preferences access and website access.

Ideally both the http server and Mailman would share authentication
information. This can be accomplished by either writing an Apache
authentication module that makes use of the Mailman information (but
which if the user belongs to multiple lists?) or Mailman authenticates
against another mechanism that is used by the server, such as a MySQL
table.

My questions, then, are these:

1) Has anyone else handled this?

2) If so, how?

3) If not, what would the Mailman intelligencia recommend?

I have not spent a lot of time reading the Mailman code, but it would
seem that it would be relatively straightforward to write a
replacement to SecurityManager.py that authenticates against something
other than the marshalled dictionary.

Thanks in advance,

-tree

-- 
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Sr. Sinostringologist  http://www.basistech.com
  "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"

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Re: [Mailman-Users] browser compatibility of admin interface?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

> "JWB" == John W Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

JWB> [Because of the lateness of this response, I'll note that
JWB> OmniWeb 4.0 final is out for Mac OS X, and a 4.0.1 is
JWB> expected "soon."  http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/
JWB> is where this is found.  I'll also note that issues like this
JWB> are surprising, given that Omni has been doing web browsers
JWB> since roughly the time that the Netscape crowd left NCSA.]

Did they at one time build a browser for NextStep?  I seem to remember
using OmniWeb years ago when I was hacking on NS.  I never tried it
with Mailman though.

I would be surprised if this bug hasn't been discovered before for
other OmniWeb users.  I think the HTML that Mailman spits out is
pretty pedestrian.

-Barry

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent request for assistance

[Barry A. Warsaw]

> "JL" == Jacques Leurs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

JL> We recently set up Mailman version 2.00.

First of all, upgrade to Mailman 2.0.5.  May or may not fix your
specific problem, but it does have some important patches.

JL> The transfer has been done very easy and smoothly the first E
JL> zine with an attached cartoon has been handled by our
JL> server. Since that day we are unable to send the daily list
JL> again no matter what we try or how we try or worse how hard we
JL> try.

Have you looked in the logs/error file, or your MTA's syslog file?  If
the system is generating errors, they'd likely show up in one of those
two files.  Is Mailman's qfiles/ directory just filling up with the
messages you're trying to send out?  If so, maybe qrunner isn't
running.  Do you have stale locks in the locks/ directory?  Usually
those are only going to occur because of some other error, so again
the log files are your friends.  Is the message getting through
Mailman but choking on your MTA, or the remote MTAs?

Lots of questions, and I'm sure there are plenty of people on this
list who would be willing to help, but we'll need more information!

-Barry

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Re: [Mailman-Users] browser compatibility of admin interface?

[Dave Klingler]

Unfortunately, several years ago Omni somehow contrived to write huge, buggy,
bloated code under a development system where that wasn't supposed to happen,
and they've been doing it ever since.  They're a nice bunch of guys, but
their libraries actually have the ability to crash my NeXTStep and OpenStep
machines with nasty bus errors.  Nobody at Omni has ever had time to figure
out what was happening (OmniWeb's a mostly free product), so there it sits.
Interestingly enough, Omni's other apps are equally evil, which is why I 
decided that it was the libraries.  Omni's libraries are used in all their 
custom, contracted apps as well, which is interesting.

The original OmniWeb 1.0 by Will Shipley was small, elegant, relatively bugfree
and intuitive to use, but the followon 2.0 was totally rearchitected by Ken
Case to occupy more disk space, confuse the users, and use more machine cycles.
Current versions of OmniWeb are based on the Case codebase, so far as I know.

Apologies to any Omni employees who read this some day and feel insulted.
I found out the hard way that it's a good idea to save my work before running 
any Omni apps, so I carry a little bit of extra bile around with me regarding
OmniGroup.  Without running Omni apps my uptimes tend to be right around 3-5
months.

Dave "I sent in my bug reports" Klingler

> > "JWB" == John W Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> JWB> [Because of the lateness of this response, I'll note that
> JWB> OmniWeb 4.0 final is out for Mac OS X, and a 4.0.1 is
> JWB> expected "soon."  http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/
> JWB> is where this is found.  I'll also note that issues like this
> JWB> are surprising, given that Omni has been doing web browsers
> JWB> since roughly the time that the Netscape crowd left NCSA.]
> 
> Did they at one time build a browser for NextStep?  I seem to remember
> using OmniWeb years ago when I was hacking on NS.  I never tried it
> with Mailman though.
> 
> I would be surprised if this bug hasn't been discovered before for
> other OmniWeb users.  I think the HTML that Mailman spits out is
> pretty pedestrian.
> 
> -Barry
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Re: [Mailman-Users] browser compatibility of admin interface?

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Sunday, May 20, 2001, at 09:03 PM, Dave Klingler wrote:

> Apologies to any Omni employees who read this some day and feel 
> insulted.

I'll simply say not everyone agrees with Dave, and leave it at that.



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Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh
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