Mailman issues

Dennis Ristuccia dristuccia at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 01:30:16 EST 2013


Excellent.

Thanks for the play-by-play, Mark. Good work.

On 12/5/2013 1:28 AM, Mark Doliner wrote:
> Ok, I believe this is fixed now. I'm using this email as a test.
>
> BACKGROUND
> Last week (Wednesday or Thursday) I spontaneously decided to try to
> change mailman-related links (email footers, links to and from the
> pipermail archives, etc) to point to the https versions of pidgin.im
> and imfreedom.org instead of http.
>
> I changed DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN and PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL in
> /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py from http to https. This didn't seem to be
> quite sufficient. The Internet suggested running this command:
>> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url
> That updates the URLs for all mailing lists to use the default values
> from the config files. This was correct for our pidgin.im lists, but
> was incorrect for our imfreedom.org lists. Sorry.
>
> THE FIX
> I ran these commands:
>> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url board -u imfreedom.org
>> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url discussion -u imfreedom.org
>> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url messagestyles -u imfreedom.org
>> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url openim -u imfreedom.org
> I also added this line to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py:
>      add_virtualhost('imfreedom.org', 'imfreedom.org')
> I think it's not necessary and I'm not sure where that would help us
> (maybe only if we wanted to create a new imfreedom.org mailing list
> via a web interface?), but I don't think it hurts us and it should be
> more correct.
>
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