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| - | ====== Mailing Lists ====== | ||
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| - | Basic web signup form [[https://acm.cs.uic.edu/mailsignup]] | ||
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| - | ====== Using ====== | ||
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| - | There are 3 types of lists used by the UICACM, | ||
| - | listserv, mailman, and google groups. listserv is hosted at listserv.uic.edu by the university. Google groups is hosted by google as part of UIC's gapps partnership. | ||
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| - | We host mailman on acm.cs.uic.edu. | ||
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| - | **acm OR acm-announce are the lists being referred to when told to sign up to the ACM mailing list** | ||
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| - | ===== ListServ ===== | ||
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| - | The UIC-ACM has several mailing lists. | ||
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| - | To subscribe to these lists, send an email to listserv@listserv.uic.edu with the contents “SUBSCRIBE listname FirstName LastName“ | ||
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| - | To send a message to a list, email listserv@listserv.uic.edu | ||
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| - | * acm (higher volume, announcements and discussions) | ||
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| - | * lug | ||
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| - | To un-subscribe to these lists, send an email to listserv@listserv.uic.edu with the contents “SIGNOFF listname“ | ||
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| - | ===== Mailman Lists ===== | ||
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| - | To subscribe to any of the lists, send a blank email to listname-subscribe@acm.cs.uic.edu or visit https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo | ||
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| - | * acm-announce (low volume, announcements only) | ||
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| - | see a list of lists here: [[https://acm.cs.uic.edu/mailman]] | ||
| - | subscribe either by going to the list web page or sending an email to //listname//-subscribe@acm.cs.uic.edu | ||
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| - | ====== Administration ====== | ||
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| - | Mailman has 4 password types | ||
| - | * List Creator - Single Password Needed to Create New Lists | ||
| - | * List Admin - The individual shared admin password for a particular list | ||
| - | * List Moderator - Shared password that only allows for a smaller subset of admin functions | ||
| - | * Poster - Require password for posters to list (rare) | ||
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| - | ===== Forgotten Mailman Password ===== | ||
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| - | Talk to a sysadmin, or email sigsysadmin AT acm.cs.uic.edu, they should have a up to date list of the passwords for the mailing lists, or can do a reset. | ||
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| - | ===== list password reset ===== | ||
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| - | cd /usr/lib/mailman/bin | ||
| - | sudo ./change_pw -l list-name | ||
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| - | ==== web interface ==== | ||
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| - | mailman can be administered from here: | ||
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| - | https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/admin | ||
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| - | ===== Shell Interface ===== | ||
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| - | Admins and ACM Officers should have access to admin the mailing list via the sudo command. | ||
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| - | The commands for managing Mailman from the command line are located in | ||
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| - | /usr/lib/mailman/bin | ||
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| - | the shell can be used to reset passwords for things | ||
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| - | resets sitepassword | ||
| - | mmsitepass | ||
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| - | add a user to a list, handy if you are not a list admin but have sudo access | ||
| - | echo myemailaddress@example.com | sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/add_members -r - acm-announce | ||
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| - | ===== Mailman not working ===== | ||
| - | If no posts are going out: | ||
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| - | - watch /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/maillog. These are the responibility of postfix. | ||
| - | - watch /var/lib/mailman/log/* These are the mailman log files | ||
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| - | If the mail is being delevired to `/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post sigsysadmin` but no email comes out: | ||
| - | systemctl stop mailman | ||
| - | ls -l /var/lib/mailman/locks | ||
| - | rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/locks/* | ||
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| - | ==== acm ==== | ||
| - | the acm list is not hosted on acm.cs.uic.edu, it is hosted at listserv.uic.edu | ||
| - | if you need admin access, ask an admin to add you as an admin. | ||
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| - | If there are no more admins around, I would email consult@uic.edu, and ask for it. They might require a faculty member make the request. | ||
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| - | [[http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/site%20managers/LSCommands.html]] | ||
| - | ==== acm-announce ==== | ||
| - | https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/acm-announce | ||
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| - | by default, everyone joins this list as moderated, meaning they cannot post to the list. if you need to be un-moderated, go to https://acm.cs.uic.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/acm-announce/members, find your email address, and make sure the **mod** column is __unchecked__. You can also select the option to add a sender to the Accept list/remove their mod flag when approving an email that has been blocked for moderator approval. | ||
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| - | ==== acm-officers ==== | ||
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| - | A private list for ACM's officers. It is open for anyone to email, emails are sent to acm-officers@uic.edu. | ||
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