mailman

If you use the Mailman Widget as an important design element, you might be annoyed by the fact it disappears once you registered your e-mail. A quick hack to this behaviour is to modify ns_widget_mailman.class.php (see comments):

 public function widget ($args, $instance) {
     extract($args);
     // Patch to continue showing block even if registered in this session
     //if ((isset($_COOKIE[$this->id_base . '-' . $this->number]) && $this->hash_mailing_list_id($this->number) == $_COOKIE[$this->id_base . '-' .

To reset a mailman admin password on Debian, the easiest way is to locate the mailman's proper bin directory (use dpkg -L mailman), generally: /usr/lib/mailman/bin There, you'll find an executable script called change_pw. Use this one. If you want to change the password of all lists at once, use: sudo ./change_pw --all --password=newpassword Ref: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg34242.html

Mailman is a very flexible and powerful mailing-list manager written in Python. We use it to communicate internally, as well as with partners and customers. It's fully managable by e-mail or web interface.

This article was first written in August 2003 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/56)