Topic: Ezmlm Questions

[edlentz]

I am really new to mailing lists, so I found "HOWTO install and configure ezmlm-web on sme server:"  I followed it to the letter and I even am able to send an email to the list group name and it emails out.  The issue I have so far is how do I send the email from the list.  Like, the from address is the address from the email address I originally sent the email from.  I want the from address to be newsletter @ mycompany.com.  Did that make sense?  This is probably something simple that I am just overlooking.

Thanks in Advance!

[edlentz]

I figured out a solution

[haymann]

Could I bother you to post your solution? This is something that we might be interested doing in the near future.
Thanks,
Ryan

[edlentz]

Sure, sorry about that.  Well what I did was create a user on the system that had a name that I could live with for the From address.  My mailing list name is newsletter.  The new user is cqi-newsletter.  What I figured out was to go to the Webmail and send the email from there to the list.  Now my From says cqi-newsletter and I can send the attachments just fine.  If you use the How To I found pay attention to the msgsize file on the last pages.  I had to change the size (no prob), but for some reason it reverted back to the original size today and wouldn't allow my attachment to go through,(it worked yesterday).

HTH

[grattman]

Hey all,

I did the 7.0 contrib (http://santechiro.free.fr/ezmlm/index.htm) to the letter and I keep getting a 550 error for my newsletter name. I had set this up previously on a 6.01 box and it worked fine.

Did I miss a huge step in the install?

Thanks,
Brian

[raem]

grattman

Try the version from here
http://www.gormand.com.au/smeserver/WIP/smeserver-ezmlm/

See  bugzilla for known bugs and you can also report any more you may find during testing.

http://bugs.contribs.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__all__&product=SME+Contribs&content=smeserver-ezmlm

[grattman]

Ray,

Thanks for the heads up. While that one works, it seems to have conflicted with the previous version. I reomved the old "buggy" version. post-upgrade and reboot. I then installed the ones you recommended, post-upgrade and reboot. I am then able to create, but encounter a 404 when I try to modify and the following error when I try to delete:

Insecure dependency in system while running with -T switch at /etc/e-smith/web/panels/manager/cgi-bin/mailinglists line 401.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

I posted to the bug tracker my encounter and read your comments and am trying it one more time to see if I missed something.

Thanks,
Brian

[raem]

grattman

> Insecure dependency in system while running with -T switch at /etc/e-
> smith/web/panels/manager/cgi-bin/mailinglists line 401.

That's a known bug, search the bugtracker.
The contrib is still a "work in progress", and Gordon has been very busy getting 7.0 final released.
I think you can put up with "deletions not working" for the time being.

[raem]

grattman

>... but encounter a 404 when I try to modify...

I think that's bug #976
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976

do
signal-event remoteaccess-update
signal-event email-update

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

Hello,

HAve you tried this version I released 6 monthes ago wainting Gordon to be free to make a better job.

http://santechiro.free.fr/ezmlm/

It runs successfully on all boxes i installed on.

Unnilennium

[grattman]

This is the version I tired first, but it did not work at all. I would be more than happy to know of any steps outside of that how-to you did to make it work. And it worked on SME 7.0 Final?

[cactus]

I had to change the size (no prob), but for some reason it reverted back to the original size today and wouldn't allow my attachment to go through,(it worked yesterday).

HTH

Did you modify the configuration file itself or did you modify the configuration database or the templates? Modifying the configuration file directly is not a good option as changes are overwritten on system events and updates. See the Devolper Guide for details:

• Chapter 6. Configuration database
• Chapter 8. Configuration file templates

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

This is the version I tired first, but it did not work at all. I would be more than happy to know of any steps outside of that how-to you did to make it work. And it worked on SME 7.0 Final?

I am it workin on three sme boxes 7 final , explain me what do you understand by "I keep getting a 550 error for my newsletter name"

HAd you uninstall every rpm before installing another?

[grattman]

Hopefully someone can tell why this is. After I do a "complete uninstall" as Ray writes on the bugtracker, the next time I reinstall it, it already has the old newsletters I created in it, and they are not configurable at all. I have looked high and low where to purge those, but I cannot seem to find it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks again,
Brian

[raem]

grattman

rm /home/e-smith/files/ezmlm

[grattman]

Ray,

I tired that mutliple times and still the "old" lists show up when I reinstall.

Brian

[grattman]

Ray,

I have tried that multiple times, and yet it still displays the old lists when I reinstall.

Brian

[raem]

grattman

> ...it still displays the old lists when I reinstall.

Look in
/home/e-smith/accounts
the mailing lists are probably still there.
You need to remove that information if the uninstall process does not do that.
After uninstalling & deleting everything in
/home/e-smith/files/ezmlm
do
signal-event post-upgrade
reboot
to see if that empties the database of those entries.
If not then manually delete them and do another
signal-event post-upgrade
reboot
then do a fresh reinstall again

[grattman]

Thanks Ray...I'll give that a shot and report back...