mailman notes

From setting up mailman on meter.eng:

stamp'd meter

added mailman account and group under uid and gid 12121.  Put dcs into
mailman group

Created /RAID1/dcs/mailman, chowned it to mailman, chgrp'd it to mailman,
	chmod 2775'd it

cob'd the sources (the build wants the mailman account, group and directory
	set up before it'll try to build)

cob'd fine, but even though dcs is in the mailman group, do-inst as dcs
is failing

groot -X, "pretend mailman" (since the shell is /bin/false)

do-inst again...

do-inst is mostly working, but three tar's are having problems: email,
JapaneseCodecs and KoreanCodecs

do-inst looked pretty good for a while, but then it error'd out importing a
python module called "japanese" - so I've put python 2.4 early on the
build's path, and am re-cob'ing

Editing misc/paths.py and commenting out import japanese and import
korean* and retrying do-inst

Then there was an error about email.Headers not being importable, so I
switched to python 2.3 from 2.2.1.  Then cob and do-inst succeeded :)

Rebuilding with --with-cgi-id=www, www already being allocated in the NIS
group map

Running $prefix/bin/check_perms.  It detected a bunch of localization
directory permissions problems.  Saved the output in a file, awk'd out the
pathnames, and chmod'd them en masse.

Added scriptalias to httpd.conf

Decided I didn't need to override icons directory

Defined correct (there already was one that pointed nowhere) alias for
/pipermail/

Created a "mailman" list with ./bin/newlist mailman, responded with a
password, was informed that I must add these to the SOE aliases database:

## mailman mailing list
mailman:              "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman"
mailman-admin:        "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman"
mailman-bounces:      "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman"
mailman-confirm:      "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman"
mailman-join:         "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman"
mailman-leave:        "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman"
mailman-owner:        "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman"
mailman-request:      "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman"
mailman-subscribe:    "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman"
mailman-unsubscribe:  "|/RAID1/dcs/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman"

added crontab entries to the "mailman" user.  "crontab -u" did not work.

copied rc script to /etc/init.d

Creating symlinks:
meter-root) ls -l */*mailman
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root other 1749 Oct  7 13:49 init.d/mailman
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root other   17 Oct  7 14:24 rc0.d/K12mailman ->
../init.d/mailman
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root other   17 Oct  7 14:24 rc1.d/K12mailman ->
../init.d/mailman
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root other   17 Oct  7 14:24 rc2.d/S98mailman ->
../init.d/mailman
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root other   17 Oct  7 14:24 rc3.d/S98mailman ->
../init.d/mailman
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root other   17 Oct  7 14:25 rcS.d/K12mailman ->
../init.d/mailman
meter-root) pwd
/etc
meter-root) 

Testing:
When I set up the "mailman" list, which I assume is the one that'll send
out reminders, I received a message from it almost immediately.

Trying to go to http://meter.eng.uci.edu/mailman/admin,
I'm getting:
	Mailman CGI error!!!
	The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry
	is being stored in your syslog:

	Group mismatch error.  Mailman expected the CGI
	wrapper script to be executed as group "www", but
	the system's web server executed the CGI script as
	group "nobody".  Try tweaking the web server to run the
	script as group "www", or re-run configure, 
	providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=nobody'.

So I'm going to rebuild.

Adding a bunch of users to a mailing list:

meter-dcs) ./add_members -r /tmp/address soe-support
Bad/Invalid email address: dmelzer
meter-dcs) finger dmelzer
^C
meter-dcs) ypcat passwd | grep melzer
dmelzer:ru1Tat46pt/Rk:18957:10:Dan Melzer:/mae/staff/dmelzer:/dcs/bin/tcsh
meter-dcs) vim /tmp/address
meter-dcs) ./add_members -r /tmp/address soe-support
Subscribed: dmelzer@eng.uci.edu
meter-dcs)

...that "Bad/Invalid email address" was because I'd left off the
@hostname.uci.edu

It should be one email address per line - that seems to be what mailman likes.