[Mailman-Users] mailman bug?

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

You are probably using a linux machine and it probably has hostname set
incorrectly (as most linux distributions do) as a non-FQDN.  In a shell,
type 'hostname'.  What is the output?  I bet it is "foo" and not
"foo.domain".  That is probably what happened.  It grabbed this value.

In the list admin, general options, there is also this option:

"The list admin's email address - having multiple admins/addresses (on
separate lines) is ok. "

That should be reset to the email address you want.  After that, close your
browser and go back to that page and see if that fixes it (make sure you
aren't viewing a cached page).

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Akop Pogosian" <akopps at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: "Gregory Leblanc" <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 5:21 PM
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] mailman bug?


>
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Akop Pogosian [mailto:akopps at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]
> > >
> > > This doesn't have to do with a particular list option.
> > > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME is a systemwide default for mailman.
> > >
> > > This option is configured through Default.py and mm_cfg.py files in
> > > ~mailman/Mailman directory.  Like I have mentioned, mailman does not
> > > always honor DEFAULT_HOST_NAME set in mm_cfg.py although it should.
> >
> > Default hostname doesn't override lists that you've already created,
IIRC.
> > Any NEW lists that you create should have the name changed, but
pre-existing
> > lists won't.  It's only sort-of a bug (in my mind).  Or are you saying
that
> > it doesn't honor that for new lists as well?
> > Greg
> >
>
> I wasn't talking about the list configuratioin. I was taking about the
> mailman-admin address which is shown incorrectly when you go to
> http://listserver/mailman/listinfo.
>
> Basically we have a server known as "foo.domain" but it is also known
> as just "domain" for mail puposes and since DEFAULT_HOST_NAME =
> 'domain' in mm_cfg.py all lists are configured properly. However if
> you go to http://listserver/mailman/listinfo it says "Send questions
> or comments to mailman-owner at foo" which is not what we want (it does
> not show even the domain part). It seems that to get that URL to be
> generated correctly you have to edit Default.py.
>
>
> > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > >
> > > > You need to edit the particular list configuration as well.
> > >  General Options
> > > > I believe.
> > > >
> > > > Tom Veldhouse
> > > > veldy at veldy.net
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Akop Pogosian <akopps at CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
> > > > To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:02 PM
> > > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] mailman bug?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Mailman/Defaults.py lists some variables that control the
> > > behavior of
> > > > > mailman.  The users are expected to leave this file alone and edit
> > > > > mm_cfg.py in the same directory. One thing that I have
> > > noticed is that
> > > > > in some cases DEFAULT_HOST_NAME set in mm_cfg.py does not
> > > override the
> > > > > value of the same variable in Defaults.py. For example
> > > > > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME= 'foo'
> > > > > in Defaults.py while I want it to be "baz". So, I added
> > > > > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME= 'baz'
> > > > > in mm_cfg.py.  However http://listserver/mailman/listinfo
> > > still says
> > > > > "Send questions or comments to mailman-owner at foo"
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Akop
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > > > > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > > > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> > >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
>