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@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS does not match the one compiled into the C mail wrapper. To fix this you will need to re-configure Mailman using the - --with-cgi-gid and --with-mail-gid options. See INSTALL for - details. + --with-cgi-gid and --with-mail-gid options. See the INSTALL + file for details. These errors are logged to syslog and they do not show up in the Mailman log files. Problems with the CGI wrapper do get @@ -68,28 +68,13 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS to force byte compilation of a file, or just fire up the Python interpreter and try importing the module. -5. Other debugging aids - - If you get exceptions in the log and/or Web pages, and these are - complaining that files could not be opened, you might like to - see which files Mailman is trying to open! - - In Python 1.5.2, this will be a standard part of the exception - message. In Python 1.5.1 the best you can do is to comment out - the code in $prefix/scripts/driver where it is redefining the - built-in open function. This simulates what Python 1.5.2 will - do when it raises an IOError exception, however this only works - for open(). While this is the most common case, Python 1.5.2 - will handle many other cases where files are unsuccessfully - referenced. - -6. Why doesn't the archive link work? +5. Why doesn't the archive link work? Have any messages been posted to the list? This is a known buglet; the archive link doesn't work until at least one message has been posted. -7. Okay, the archive link works, but I can't access the public +6. Okay, the archive link works, but I can't access the public archives. If you are using Apache, you must make sure that FollowSymLinks @@ -100,6 +85,21 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1998-November/000173.html +7. Still having problems? Running QMail? + + Make sure that you are using "preline" before calling "wrapper": + + |preline /home/mailman/mail/wrapper post listname + + "preline" adds a Unix-style "From " header which the archiver requires. + You can fix the archive mbox files by adding: + + From somebody Mon Oct 9 12:27:34 MDT 2000 + + before every message and re-running the archive command + "bin/arch listname". The archives should now exist. See README.QMAIL + for more information. + 8. Still having problems? Running on GNU/Linux? See the README.LINUX file. @@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER=1 However, read the comments about this variable in the Defaults.py - file for a full discussion of the issues. + file for a full discussion of the issues. By default, Mailman 2.0 + relies on the From: header for doing address matching. 11. How secure are the authentication mechanisms used in Mailman's web interface? @@ -192,10 +193,10 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS be accessing the proxy from. * Getting access to the user's terminal: This is really just - another kind of cookie stealing. The short cookie expiry time is - supposed to help defeat this problem. It can be considered the - price to pay for the convenience of not having to type the - password in every time. + another kind of cookie stealing. The short cookie expiration + time is supposed to help defeat this problem. It can be + considered the price to pay for the convenience of not having to + type the password in every time. Local Variables: |