Mailman mailing list administration URLs not working.

Virtualmin
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I have a 2 day old virtualmin on a Ubuntu trusty server.

The problem is when I try to use the mailman admin URLs the server isn’t found.

If I hit the “Tend to pending moderator requests” within the mailman module it takes me to http://mail.mydomain.com/virtualmin-mailman/admindb.cgi/thelist
There I get a “Server not found Firefox can’t find the server at mail.mydomain.com.”
Of course mydomain = my real domain name which works.

It seems the mail subdomain is not set up. The rest of the URL seems sensible.

I think mailman came bundled with the virtualmin package but I’ve installed so much stuff in the last few days I could be mistaken.
Thanx in advance for clues.

2

Howdy,

Is DNS being hosted at a third party?

If so, you would need to manually setup those DNS records at your DNS provider.

That is, you would need to create a DNS ‘A’ or ‘CNAME’ record for “mail.mydomain.com” that points to your server.

-Eric

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Thanx.
That got me further. The server is now found but the URL is not.
The requested URL /virtualmin-mailman/admindb.cgi/list was not found on this server.

admindb.cgi lives in /usr/share/webmin/virtualmin-mailman

I tried modifying some of the settings in the mailman module but I haven’t found much info on what they should be.

I’ve done back to the defaults apart for Mailman base directory = /var/lib/mailman because the default didn’t work. The default is /usr/local/mailman

.php works fine on my server but I’m not sure .cgi has been tested.

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Hmm, I believe it would usually be accessing that URL via Virtualmin… what happens if you add port 10000 to that?

For example, does this URL here work for you:

http://mail.mydomain.com:10000/virtualmin-mailman/admindb.cgi/thelist

5

Nice try but no that doesn’t work.
I needed to change to https but it then just gives a login prompt.
Trying again I got a unknown referers error.
Yes that was the link used went trying to get to the admin page from inside virtualmin

The link that would normally be used is
http://mail.domian.com/mailman/admindb/list
It also gives -
The requested URL /mailman/admindb/list was not found on this server.

6

The problem seems to be related to the migration of the lists from the old server.
If I create a fresh list it works perfectly.
The new list URL doesn’t use the mail subdomain but does use cgi-bin
cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/testlist

Removing the “mail.” from the “bad” url lets me see the admin page but hitting “submit” data fails.

I suspect the old server had a properly configured mail subdomain which is now lacking.

The solution may lie in a local config file - I’ve been hunting in the global config up to now.
–later–
The problem appears to be in the local config.pck file.
http://vuksan.com/linux/mailman_moving_lists.html

7

Finally I found the systax for “withlist” here.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-September/053606.html

In my case I’d cd to /var/lib/mailman/lists
and run
withlist -l -r fix_url mylistname -u eddiem.com

Restarted mailman and the admin URLs from the webmin mailman module worked.
Any old links in list emails were still broken and new list messages now have working links.