[Mailman-Users] mailman bug?

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?

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.

In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009191423300.23143-100000 at soda.csua.Berkeley.edu>,
Akop Pogosian writes:
Not at all. DEFAULT_HOST_NAME is the default host name that a list gets when
it's created. If DEFAULT_HOST_NAME overrode the list option, then you could
never have virtual domain list hosting at all. DEFAULT_HOST_NAME is not a
systemwide default for mailman, regardless of what you declare it to be in an
email. If you want it to be so, modify the code yourself.

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.

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?

IIRC.
pre-existing
that