Hi,
I'm trying to follow the directions for integrating Mailman with
Sendmail, but I think they may be incomplete. It looks like there
were orginally some instructions directed at installations like mine
(a few users, a few mailing lists, *one* computer), and they were
entirely replaced by
David Abrahams wrote:
I'm trying to follow the directions for integrating Mailman with
Sendmail, but I think they may be incomplete. It looks like there
were orginally some instructions directed at installations like mine
(a few users, a few mailing lists, *one* computer), and they were
entirely
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide
you don't need to go the mm-handler route.
Mark, thank you! This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to
do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do
won't
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All that said, the follow-up post really gives me pause:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037543.html
Is that a legitimate worry?
Whoops, I now see that by this perl script he's referring to
mm-handler.
Thanks.
--
Dave
2006/12/2, Dustin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am reposting a request for help that I posted earlier in regards to
setting up Mailman with VPopmail and Qmail. So far, my request has gone
unresponded to and I would really appreciate some assistance.
I have been searching everywhere for like some
David Abrahams wrote:
Mark, thank you! This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to
do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do
won't work:
many people cannot use David Champion's mm-handler due to shared
use of domains
(what exactly does he mean by shared
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Mark, thank you! This looks a *lot* easier than what I was trying to
do, and perhaps the post even implies that what I was trying to do
won't work:
many people cannot use David Champion's mm-handler due to shared
use of domains
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide
you don't need to go the mm-handler route.
Heh, first hurdle:
The instructions at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037518.html
start with
Create
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide
you don't need to go the mm-handler route.
Heh, first hurdle:
The instructions at
David Abrahams wrote:
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look at the 'automated' method referred to in the FAQ. You may decide
you don't need to go the mm-handler route.
Heh, first hurdle:
The instructions at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037518.html
start with
Does the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox directory have to
contain just one file, or can I break it up by year or something to make
them more managable?
I had my mailman lists on my home server, but a few years ago I moved them
to a virtual private server. Because the disk space
David Abrahams wrote:
Heh, and even if I do that, I don't end up with a
/usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases.
You have to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute
permission and containing
/bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases
/usr/bin/newaliases
It seems like
Paul Tomblin wrote:
Does the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/listname.mbox directory have to
contain just one file, or can I break it up by year or something to make
them more managable?
It can contain as many files as you want organized however you want,
but the one named listname.mbox is
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
(which uses listname.mbox/listname.mbox by default). You could actually
do it in the other order, but the --wipe option needs to be on the
first command, or if the existing archives match the existing
listname.mbox, you could just do
bin/arch
Paul Tomblin wrote:
The problem is that I have 250,000 articles in this mbox file, so when I
tried to arch it, arch ended up using over 1Gb of swap space, and it
slowed my computer down to a crawl. I gave up and used the mbox splitter
awk program I found in the list archives and I'm now building
Hi,
If it can help. I had problems installing and integrating with sendmail.
Culprit was that it needs to know under which group sendmail is used.
So, look carefully in your sendmail.cf (DefaultUser) and make sure you
compile mailman with the switch to include this group for :
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Paul Tomblin wrote:
slowed my computer down to a crawl. I gave up and used the mbox splitter
awk program I found in the list archives and I'm now building the archives
500 messages at a time. Hope that works.
It should.
Also, you can
Hi,
I'm using postfix with mailman and I can't post mail to the mailing list.
I can subscribe to a list, both I and the owner of the mailing list get
an email notifications. But I do not receive email when
posting to any of the mailing list that I created.
I've checked the duplication email
Oh yeah, one other minor issue with arch - in January of 2000, my list got
some messages with a year of 100, as in ^Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 16:58:49
-0500 (EST). arch files them all under today's date. It would be nice if
arch could handle those, but I'm not holding my breath in expectation
since
Paul Tomblin writes:
Is there any way to make arch smarter about ^From lines?
Yes, but it's not a good idea to put it in the distribution, at least
not without a lot of careful hedging about and making it an option
defaulting to off. You can't even being sure that From_ lines will be
I noticed that the messages.html files only have 6 digits in them. Does
that mean that it will break when we reach 999,999 messages? I'm already
up over 300,000 on one of my lists.
I know, we'll all be communicating by neural implant by then.
--
Paul Tomblin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Heh, and even if I do that, I don't end up with a
/usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases.
You have to create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with execute
permission and containing
/bin/cp /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I think the better approach is to do just what you did, and make a
site-specific script to do From-munging. Of course there's nothing
wrong with putting them in a contrib section in the distribution; my
worry is about changing bin/arch.
Note that there is such a
David Abrahams wrote:
Uh-huh. But now I have all the products mentioned in step 5 except
for mailman.aliases.db. I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad, but... any
clues?
If /etc/mailman.aliases is properly referenced in the sendmail
configuration, the /usr/bin/newaliases command in the
Paul Tomblin wrote:
I noticed that the messages.html files only have 6 digits in them. Does
that mean that it will break when we reach 999,999 messages? I'm already
up over 300,000 on one of my lists.
It will go to 7 or more digits as required by the sequence number, but
even if it didn't, it
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Note that there is such a script already in the distribution. It is
bin/cleanarch which as Stephen notes, may or may not work for you.
Oh. I wish I'd discovered this about 8 hours ago.
Oh well, file it away for next time.
--
Paul Tomblin [EMAIL
Jana Nguyen wrote:
I'm using postfix with mailman and I can't post mail to the mailing list.
I can subscribe to a list, both I and the owner of the mailing list get
an email notifications. But I do not receive email when
posting to any of the mailing list that I created.
Do you receive other
Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Uh-huh. But now I have all the products mentioned in step 5 except
for mailman.aliases.db. I guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad, but... any
clues?
If /etc/mailman.aliases is properly referenced in the sendmail
configuration, the
Pierre Forget [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
If it can help. I had problems installing and integrating with sendmail.
Culprit was that it needs to know under which group sendmail is
used. So, look carefully in your sendmail.cf (DefaultUser) and make
sure you compile mailman with the switch
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yep. I was editing boost.mc so in /etc/mail I did
make boost.cf
cp boost.cf sendmail.cf
make restart
Problem solved: I was pointing sendmail at the wrong path for the
mailman.aliases file.
[/etc/aliases was just a symlink to
Jeff Salisbury wrote:
Mark, Ok, I added these lines at the end of the mm_cfg.py file:
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.domain1.net'
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.domain1.net'
VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST,
David Abrahams wrote:
Say, if I really want to distinguish lists.mydomain.com from
mydomain.com, is there any reason I can't still set up a virtual mail
host and tack an automated updating of the virtusers file as shown in
http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184413752?pgno=4 onto
David Abrahams wrote:
Pardon me, but isn't the GID with which to execute cgi scripts? Or
are you saying that mailman's CGI scripts need to execute with the
same GID as sendmail? If so, why?
Mailman's CGI scripts must run as group 'mailman' (or whatever is
specified as the mailman group).
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