[Mailman-Users] wrong email address on "Welcome" page

[Darren]

Richard,

You have been very helpful in offering suggestions to fix my problem.  Yet,
I still can't seem to understand how to correct the situation where my email
address is reported as being mailman at www.usmstudent.com (instead of
mailman at usmstudent.com) on the page located at
http://www.usmstudent.com/mailman/listinfo.   I am running version 2.1.2 on
FreeBSD.  I have read and re-read your email and the notes in the
Defaults.py file.  Could help me a little further?

Here is an excerpt from my current mm_cfg.py file.

# Site-specific settings
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'usmstudent.com'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'http://www.usmstudent.com/mailman/'
PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL  = '/pipermail'
PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private'
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)

Thanks for all of your help.

Darren


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Barrett" <r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk>
To: "Darren" <alias2 at crotchett.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] wrong email address on "Welcome" page


>
> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:58  am, Darren wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the tip.  But, I'm sorry.  I don't see a reference to the
> > part
> > I'm having trouble with.  On my "welcome page", there is a link that
> > users
> > with questions should use.  Mine reports mailman at www.mydomain.com.  I
> > don't
> > see how to get the "www" out of it.  And, (while I may be blind) I
> > don't see
> > a reference to it on the FAQ.
> >
>
> Maybe I misunderstood your problem but I will plow on with further
> explanation which you can ignore if it is not relevant to you.
>
> Two list attributes affect what is displayed in the way of URLs and
> email addresses for any given list; the 'host_name' and 'web_page_url'
> attributes.
>
> These list attributes are set, when the list is created, from defaults
> acquired from $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py which may have been
> over-ridden by values in $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py.
>
> The FAQ page I cited deals with changing the defaults, which will
> affect al new lists subsequently created, and having those revised
> values propagated to modify existing lists' attributes.
>
> You do not say what version of Mailman you are running.
>
> I think the relevant section on the referenced FAQ page, which applies
> to MM 2.1.x, is the explanation under the heading 'Changing hostnames'.
>
> Based on your post you would want to add something like this to your
> $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to get the right values for new lists:
>
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.umstudent.com'
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'umstudent.com'
> VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
> add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>
> and then use $prefix/bin/fix_url to update your existing lists.
>
> You can change the email host for an existing list via the admin web
> GUI by changing the following list attribute:
>
>      'Host name this list prefers for email' - host_name
>
> but beware of changing this for a list without getting the information
> in mm_cfg.py correct also.
>
> If you are running MM 2.0.13 add something like this to your
> $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to get the right values for new lists:
>
> DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'umstudent.com'
> DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.umstudent.com/mailman/'
>
> and you can update existing lists from their admin web GUI by changing
> the following list attributes:
>
>      'Host name this list prefers.' - host_name
>
>      'Base URL for Mailman web interface ...' - web_page_url
>
> but be careful in changing the $prefix/Mailman/ attribute. Get that
> wrong and further access to the web admin GUI for the list may become
> problematic; which is why it was removed from the web admin GUI in MM
> 2.1.x
>
> > Darren
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Barrett" <r.barrett at ftel.co.uk>
> > To: "Darren" <alias2 at crotchett.com>
> > Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] wrong email address on "Welcome" page
> >
> >
> >>
> >> On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 03:45  am, Darren wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have Mailman running on a FreeBSD box.  On the "welcome" page
> >>> (http://www.usmstudent.com/mailman/listinfo/) the email address it
> >>> points
> >>> users to who have "questions or comments" is wrong.  It includes a
> >>> "www." in
> >>> the domain.  I can not figure out where to change this.  I did find a
> >>> file
> >>> that I can edit by hand.  But, I don't think hacking it is the
> >>> answer.
> >>>
> >>> So, can anyone tell me what the appropriate way change this to take
> >>> the
> >>> "www." out of the email address would be?
> >>>
> >> Check the FAQ Luke, check the FAQ:
> >>
> >> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.029.htp
> >>> TIA,
> >>> Darren
> >>>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Richard Barrett                               http://www.openinfo.co.uk
>