[Mailman-Users] MM 2.1rc1 Virtual hosting

2002-12-30 Thread David Gibbs
I'm trying to setup virtual hosting on a test install of MM 2.1 rc1 ... my default list host is "midrange.com", and the virtual is "lists.fallingrock.net". I've setup a virtual hosted list with the 'lists.fallingrock.net' domain, but when I send a message to the list I get odd results. Some of th

[Mailman-Users] Re: MM 2.1rc1 Virtual hosting

2002-12-30 Thread David Gibbs
"Barry A. Warsaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > DG> Any ideas why the reply-to, send, errors-to, etc, all have > DG> 'midrange.com' instead of 'lists.fallingrock.net'? > Your MTA is probably munging them. Thanks! That's what I needed t

[Mailman-Users] Re: upgrading plaintext patched 2.0.13 to 2.1

2003-01-03 Thread David Gibbs
"Dan Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I located "if self.data_version >= mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION:" at line > 611 of the /Mailman/MailList.py file. Is this what needs to be altered? > Do I just make the change to that file then run ./conf

[Mailman-Users] VERP_CONFIRMATIONS in 2.1?

2003-01-04 Thread David Gibbs
Anyone know if VERP_CONFIRMATIONS ever got expanded to support more than just invitation confirmations? david -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.pytho

[Mailman-Users] Re: Lotus Notes

2003-01-04 Thread David Gibbs
"John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:p05200f02ba3d1e2b4ec9@[192.168.1.50]... > (One has to believe IBM has improved Notes with respect to > the Internet since Lotus came under their wing.) One would be assuming a lot in that case. I run a number of IBM iSeries (AS/400) orient

[Mailman-Users] MM 2.1 qrunner crashed ...

2003-01-05 Thread David Gibbs
Here's the error log entry ... Jan 04 18:25:06 2003 (13623) Uncaught runner exception: unmarshallable object Jan 04 18:25:06 2003 (13623) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2003-01-05 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: The README.SENDMAIL has the following statement ... > Since Mailman usually connects via localhost (i.e. 127.0.0.1) to > the SMTP port of Sendmail, you should be sure to configure > Sendmail /not/ to do DNS verification synchronously for > localhost connections. I've got an instance of se

[Mailman-Users] Bounce handler for MM 2.1

2003-01-05 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I'm trying to extend some of the bounce handling features in MM 2.1 to work with some of the MTA's that I send to (Domino being one of the most prevelent). Does anyone have some information on how to write a bounce handler? I'm not a python programmer (RPG & Java) and, although it doesn't

[Mailman-Users] MM 2.1 -- admindb problem

2003-01-06 Thread David Gibbs
Has anyone else encountered this problem: I get my daily notification of pending posts that didn't go through (mostly spam), I click on the link and the admindb script is launched as normal. I see the summary of the held posts, but if I click on the details link, all the held posts go away. All

[Mailman-Users] MM 2.1 -- another qrunner crash

2003-01-06 Thread David Gibbs
Any thoughts on this? Jan 06 11:11:44 2003 (13289) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call Jan 06 11:11:45 2003 (13289) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lo

[Mailman-Users] MM2.1 yet another qrunner error ...

2003-01-07 Thread David Gibbs
Jan 07 19:25:22 2003 qrunner(1270): Traceback (most recent call last): Jan 07 19:25:22 2003 qrunner(1270): File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ? Jan 07 19:25:22 2003 qrunner(1270): main() Jan 07 19:25:22 2003 qrunner(1270): File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 230, i

[Mailman-Users] mm2.1 lost data files for filebase?

2003-01-07 Thread David Gibbs
Anyone know what this message means in the error log: Jan 07 20:22:06 2003 (9953) lost data files for filebase: 1041992497.529189+0825c00113b2b04e16abe6f914d3b764396f75da david -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pytho

[Mailman-Users] Re: Every day

2003-01-08 Thread David Gibbs
"Ivan Van Laningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > OK, I solved my other problem. But ever since I've installed and used > Mailman (three years), I've received these little notes from cron: > /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch: > error: failed to open /e

[Mailman-Users] Re: RedHat 7.3, Python 1.5 and Mailman 2.1

2003-01-08 Thread David Gibbs
"Ed Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Mailman 2.1 requires Python 2, and RedHat 7.3 has only 1.5. There is a > Python2 package on my RedHat 7.3 installation, so how can I make Mailman > use it? It's pretty easy ... > Documentation state

[Mailman-Users] Re: RFE

2003-01-08 Thread David Gibbs
"Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > The import facility is critical to delivering targeted content within the > message distribution. Being able to import the results of a -HTTP GET- to > a URL goes a long way towards that, especially if it will

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM 2.1 -- another qrunner crash

2003-01-09 Thread David Gibbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > | IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call > Just that something's wrong with your mail server, or the connection > between it and Mailman, or something sent the qrunner process a signal > while it was in the middle of talking to your mail server. I kind of figured

[Mailman-Users] Re: Coerce Plain Text with Mailman 2.1

2003-01-09 Thread David Gibbs
"Webmaster ST Frontier Fleet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 043a01c2b63b$fb946f90$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:043a01c2b63b$fb946f90$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > - Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. > Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. [ Empty ] Try setti

[Mailman-Users] Re: MM 2.1 -- another qrunner crash

2003-01-09 Thread David Gibbs
"David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Try this patch; it won't avoid the interrupted system call, but it > > ought to handle the situation more gracefully (assuming it's a > > transie

[Mailman-Users] contents of qfiles/bad ?

2003-01-12 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I've got a lot of files in my qfiles/bad directory ... when I did a dumpdb on some of the files, they seem to contain valid messages. However, if I do an 'unshunt bad' command, I get the following log entry in vette... Jan 12 14:09:58 2003 (5922) Message discarded, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Mailman-Users] Re: contents of qfiles/bad ?

2003-01-12 Thread David Gibbs
"David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message avsico$sac$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:avsico$sac$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I've got a lot of files in my qfiles/bad directory ... when I did a dumpdb > on some of the files, they seem to contain valid messages. O

[Mailman-Users] Re: contents of qfiles/bad ?

2003-01-12 Thread David Gibbs
"David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message avskcn$3bt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:avskcn$3bt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Jan 12 14:46:01 2003 (1198) HTML->text/plain error: 256 To add to the mystery, here's what the messages on the list contain after they&

[Mailman-Users] Re: Re: contents of qfiles/bad ?

2003-01-12 Thread David Gibbs
"Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Does your process need to write a temp file? Dunno ... it's just lynks ... I don't use it that much. > Could you be running into > a file creation problem? Does the user mailman have a valid home > d

[Mailman-Users] VERP'ed delivery error

2003-01-14 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I've activated the occasional VERP message delivery feature (every 25 messages), and noticed the following log entry in smtp-failure ... Jan 14 09:55:05 2003 (30915) All recipients refused: (553, '5.1.8 ... Domain of sender address midrange-l-bounces+ellis?[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist

[Mailman-Users] Re: contents of qfiles/bad ?

2003-01-14 Thread David Gibbs
"John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:p05200f04ba4807d632c4@[192.168.1.50]... > If you become root using su - and then su - mailman, what happens? > Output of >whoami >pwd >ls -lad ~ /usr/local/home/david $su - Password: [root@linux root]# su - mailman /usr/local/ho

[Mailman-Users] Help with content filtering ...

2003-01-15 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I'm trying to get content filtering working, but have run into a jam ... I've got a subscriber that is using some weird email program called "Incredimail" (or something like that). His posts seem to come through as html only. I've got content filtering activated, and the following values

[Mailman-Users] Re: Genaliases script

2003-01-15 Thread David Gibbs
"Tom Maddox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I just recently tried to upgrade to Mailman 2.1, but I must have been doing > something wrong with genaliases. Genaliases spits out plaintext output > about the changes that need to be made, but it doe

[Mailman-Users] Re: Problems with content filtering

2003-01-18 Thread David Gibbs
"Paul Kleeberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:a05200f09ba4fc58a4544@[192.168.1.12]... > A message was sent out to the subscribers with the appropriate > subject line and list-specific header lines but this is what appeared > in the body of the message: >/root/hPnn4E: Permission deni

[Mailman-Users] Re: Problems with content filtering

2003-01-19 Thread David Gibbs
"David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b0d7d8$k5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b0d7d8$k5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I solved the problem by changing the HTML to Plaintext command to links... Actually, I found a simpler solution that doesn't require installi

[Mailman-Users] Re: Cleaning my mailing lists

2003-01-20 Thread David Gibbs
"Angel Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > The bit that intrested me, was the final part, how can I reconfirm all my > subscribers?? Simply sending the monthly password reminder should be sufficient. david --

[Mailman-Users] Re: Re: Cleaning my mailing lists

2003-01-20 Thread David Gibbs
"Dan Wilder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Simply sending the monthly password reminder should be sufficient. > Which confirms that the recipient email address exists. It does > not confirm that each subscriber wanted to be on your list. The

[Mailman-Users] Re: Reply-to

2003-01-20 Thread David Gibbs
"Rod Roark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > How come Mailman ignores reply-to headers of incoming > messages? Can you be a bit more specific? What do you mean 'ignores reply-to headers"? david ---

[Mailman-Users] Odd error in smtp-failure log

2003-01-22 Thread David Gibbs
Is this something I should be concerned with? > Jan 17 13:11:05 2003 (20133) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed > with code 250: 2.1.5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Recipient ok david -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pyt

[Mailman-Users] Re: Odd error in smtp-failure log

2003-01-22 Thread David Gibbs
limit/quota). I wouldn't worry about it. > > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:37, David Gibbs wrote: > > Is this something I should be concerned with? > > > > > Jan 17 13:11:05 2003 (20133) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Odd error in smtp-failure log

2003-01-22 Thread David Gibbs
At 04:45 PM 1/22/2003, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: DG> Ordinarily I would agree with you ... but this came from DG> mailman's smtp mailer, not my sendmail. Mailman uses your local smtpd to do the sending so it /is/ coming from your sendmail. Yes, so that begs the question ... why is mailman n

[Mailman-Users] Error: Incorrect padding???

2003-01-30 Thread David Gibbs
I'm getting a huge amount of these messages ... any ideas? Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) Uncaught runner exception: Incorrect padding Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgd

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error: Incorrect padding???

2003-01-30 Thread David Gibbs
NOTE: I have applied patch [ 668819 ] improve plain-ness and i18n-ness of plain-text digest "David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b1bs11$96s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b1bs11$96s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm getting a huge amount of these messages ... any i

[Mailman-Users] Mailman, Gmane, & "non-text attachements removed"?

2003-01-31 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I've got a problem with some of my subscribers that are using the gmane.org news server to read mailing lists. I run my lists with Mailman 2.1. These subscribers (myself included) post messages to the list via the news server, and the messages go out to the regular subscribers, and gmane.

[Mailman-Users] Re: HTML interface to set DEFAULT_URL

2003-01-31 Thread David Gibbs
"Barry A. Warsaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > MP> In Mailman 2.0 there was a setting for the default URL. I > MP> can't seem to find it in 2.1. > It was too dangerous to leave in the web interface. What was dangerous about it? I'm ju

[Mailman-Users] Re: master-qrunner.pid

2003-02-02 Thread David Gibbs
"VLists.Net Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > We've had several instances lately where Mailman 2.1 just dies silently and > no more mail goes out. I've resorted to putting a cron job in that > restarts mailmanctl but when that happens I ge

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman crashing

2003-02-12 Thread David Gibbs
"Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Setup: Mailman 2.1, running on Red Hat 7.3, with Sendmail 8.12.7. > For the umpteen time now, Mailman has mysteriously stopped it's > runners. I have attached a text file (qrunner.

[Mailman-Users] Re: A Known bug with confirmation string & excessive bounces

2003-02-17 Thread David Gibbs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > There is definitely something wrong with the bounce process > with regards to the Confirmation string. Yeah, I think I've seen something like that ... but I have no hard evidence to back it up. david --

[Mailman-Users] Re: A Known bug with confirmation string & excessive bounces

2003-02-18 Thread David Gibbs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have sent this in before but I guess the powers that be are NOT > interested. There is definitely something wrong with the bounce process > with regards to the Confirmation string. Now I can confirm this ... I'v

[Mailman-Users] Re: A Known bug with confirmation string & excessive bounces

2003-02-18 Thread David Gibbs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have sent this in before but I guess the powers that be are NOT > interested. There is definitely something wrong with the bounce process > with regards to the Confirmation string. Can anyone explain how confirm

[Mailman-Users] Re: A Known bug with confirmation string & excessive bounces

2003-02-20 Thread David Gibbs
"David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b2tjrj$r7a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b2tjrj$r7a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Can anyone explain how confirmation strings

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman and spamassassin

2003-02-26 Thread David Gibbs
"Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Seeing how others have asked about this, I've gotten an older version of > mailman (2.0.12) and spamassassin (2.1) working together. Let's say > the list in question is called mylist There is a pa

[Mailman-Users] Re: Converting html to text?

2003-02-26 Thread David Gibbs
"Matt Minahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "The attached message matched the odnet-coach mailing list's content > filtering rules and was prevented from being forwarded on to the list > membership. You are receiving the only remaining copy of the > discarded messa

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman + spamassassin

2003-03-12 Thread David Gibbs
"Jonas Meurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > I asked already two times, but no answer, now the third try ;) > I have mailman set up from debian/testing (2.0.13), and spamassassin > also. Now I would like to configure mailman to filter every incoming > mail t

[Mailman-Users] Re: html/text email

2003-03-17 Thread David Gibbs
"matthew reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I seem to recall a setting on the admin screens that controlled whether > the list would send posts in html or text format. i see the setting for > digest users, but that's not what i'm referring to. What version? If

[Mailman-Users] Re: Reply-to list

2003-03-23 Thread David Gibbs
"John Poltorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there a way to set it as the default so that new list will be created > with this setting? Set in mm_cfg.py ... # Mailman can be configured to "munge" Reply-To: headers for any passing # messages. One the one hand,

[Mailman-Users] List statistics?

2003-03-30 Thread David Gibbs
Has anyone put together a statistics package for Mailman? I've had requests for some statistics like ... 1. Most prolific poster 2. Least prolific poster 3. Histogram of posts by day/month/year Thanks! david -- Mailman-Users mailing list [

[Mailman-Users] Re: List statistics?

2003-03-31 Thread David Gibbs
"David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Has anyone put together a statistics package for Mailman? Doh! Ignore this ... I just found Jon's script in the archives. david -- Mailman-U

[Mailman-Users] Notify member when post is held for moderation?

2003-08-25 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: Anyone know if there is a way to send a member when their post is held for moderation? I've had a few problems with people subscribing to one of my lists, posting an advertisement, then unsubscribing ... so I enabled "New subscribers are initially moderated" feature. Unforunately, sometim

[Mailman-Users] ban_list example?

2003-10-13 Thread David Gibbs
Anyone have a simple example of using a regex in the ban_list setting? Say I want to ban everyone from xyz.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] from subscribing? I tried ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... but got an invalid value error. I'm using MM 2.1.3 Thanks! david --

[Mailman-Users] Re: ban_list example?

2003-10-13 Thread David Gibbs
Scott Lambert wrote: Not knowing anything about mailman's use of these values: Well, that's kind of important, don't you think? The "^.*something" regex is equivalent to just "something". Since the caret "^" means that this entry in the ban_list setting is a regular expression, and not part of

Re: [Mailman-Users] help me!!!

2001-12-27 Thread David Gibbs
At 09:12 AM 12/23/2001, you wrote: >The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed >incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close >attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This entry is being >stored in your syslog: >Failure to exec script. W

[Mailman-Users] Conditionally strip headers?

2001-12-28 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: Does anyone know of a way to get Mailman 2.0.8 to strip some headers from messages? I get a lot of Lotus Notes/Domino users on my list and their mail systems tend to add a LOT of garbage to the messages ... all of them prefixed with "X-Notes". Thanks! david

Re: [Mailman-Users] list server and mailman

2001-12-29 Thread David Gibbs
At 10:40 AM 12/29/2001, Joe Wise wrote: >Is there anyone using mailman as a list-server who can help a newbie? I am >a physics teacher at a school in Santa Monica and I want to have my class on >a list. Not to be too obvious, but just about everyone here is using mailman as a listserv ... and w

Re: [Mailman-Users] list-serve

2001-12-29 Thread David Gibbs
At 11:09 AM 12/29/2001, Joe Wise wrote: >I thought so. Here goes. I set up a new list and it sends me a >confirmation e-mail that I have a new list set up. I go to the website to >configure my list as the administrator. I then try to join my list. I get >an e-mail saying that I have to respon

Re: [Mailman-Users] create script missing in 2.0.8 installation

2001-12-30 Thread David Gibbs
> I just installed mailman 2.0.8, and was able to use the command-line to > create a test list, and also a functioning (non-test) list. However, > there seems to be no "create" script as the documentation seems to > suggest. Is this right? Or is my install broken? Check in the bin directory

Re: [Mailman-Users] rung 2.1 and 2.0.8 in parallel??

2002-01-02 Thread David Gibbs
Tom Perrine said: > Has anyone tried running the 2.1 and 2.0.8 version on the same host at > the same time? Yep, works fine. Just install 2.1 in a different location and point your aliases to the new location. Might not be a bad idea to create a new userid & group for the new mailman version, b

[Mailman-Users] SSL oddity

2002-01-03 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I've been playing around with using Mailman in a self-signed SSL enabled Apache server on my RH 7.2 system. Nothing seems to work properly ... the pages display fine, but no input is processed. It works fine when I use standard web access. Any suggestions? Thanks! david --

[Mailman-Users] Re: 2.1 upgrade - fails on "topics"

2002-05-09 Thread David Gibbs
"Jay S Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hmmm... the upgrad fails on attribute: topics when trying to update the > existing list... any ideas??? I think there are some problems with the update code ... I've sent some sample data to Barry. We'll see what com

[Mailman-Users] Re: New list web interface

2002-05-09 Thread David Gibbs
"Ben Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I've been using Mailman for some time now, and would like to know > if it's possible to make new mailing lists from the web > interface. You see, I now have mailman on a remote server > with no ssh access. You will be

[Mailman-Users] Re: Remove a list

2002-05-12 Thread David Gibbs
"Jim Updegraff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 000601c1f9e2$38754860$6501a8c0@ws1">news:000601c1f9e2$38754860$6501a8c0@ws1... > Can anyone explain the procedure for removing a list? I've tried the > rmlist command but that does not seem to work. That's how you do it. What about the rmlist

[Mailman-Users] qrunner getting stuck on very large files

2002-07-08 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I'm running into a problem where qrunner will get stuck when it's trying to process very large message files in the qfiles directory. Usually, it appears, that it's the result of someone trying to send klez to a list (not deliberately, of course) ... but the end result is, qrunner stops a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Creating reports

2002-07-14 Thread David Gibbs
"Heather J. Lubinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 0b8a01c22b14$27267fd0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:0b8a01c22b14$27267fd0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > We have about 60 lists and 10,000 people -- Every month I need to report how > many on each list. I've got a couple of scripts I hacked together to

[Mailman-Users] Re: Double Opt-In?

2002-07-14 Thread David Gibbs
"Michael Keukert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm using Smartlist at the moment, but I need a mailing list manager > which provides double opt-in features. What is "Double opt-in"? david --

[Mailman-Users] Re: Everything stopped after upgrade

2002-07-14 Thread David Gibbs
"G. Armour Van Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Interestingly, this started at 08:52 in the morning, a time that I > guarantee does not coincide with the upgrade, which would have been > closer to noon. My error log is now 750KB in size, I d

[Mailman-Users] Re: Double Opt-In?

2002-07-14 Thread David Gibbs
"Michael Keukert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm using Smartlist at the moment, but I need a mailing list manager > which provides double opt-in features. > Does Mailman has it? Based on the definition of double opt-in that someone pointed

[Mailman-Users] Virtual hosting overview?

2002-08-04 Thread David Gibbs
Anyone know of a good overview or how-to for setting up Mailman 2.0.x with Virtual hosting? Thanks! david -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python

[Mailman-Users] Block messages with klez?

2002-10-10 Thread David Gibbs
Anyone know of a way to easily block messages that contain the Klez virus in 2.0.13? I've got a attachment stripping patch on my install of Mailman, so the Klez payload isn't delivered, but the blank messages are still being sent through. Thanks! david -

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman and Domino; can't get mail back to mailman

2002-10-20 Thread David Gibbs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:OFB5BBE51F.9DD18BD3-ON86256C58.004CE976@;mctires.com... > I have mailman on a slackware box with sendmail.ww1.mydomain.com > The mailserver for ww1 is mx.mydomain.com. It is a WinNT box running Domino > Mail Server. Seems like a pretty basic problem to

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML from email appearing in archives?

2001-09-13 Thread David Gibbs
There's a great patch on the sourceforge project site that will allow you to strip out HTML from the list on a per list basis. > This seems like it should be an FAQ but I couldn't find the question > answered anywhere. I'm running an archiving list using Mailman but > some users post email wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filter Attachments

2001-10-02 Thread David Gibbs
> Do you know a way to filter any kind of attachments in Mailman v.2.2? I > would like that members of the list could receive only > text email . Check out Jeff Dairiki's great HTML filter patch ... http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=413752&group_id=103&atid=300103 david

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list question

2001-10-02 Thread David Gibbs
> Can we add email addresses to the database without having to confirm > their address? add_members command in the bin directory > Is there a way to export the addresses? Export? What format? For a simple plaintext dump of the membership try using the list_members command, also in the mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to disable attachments?

2001-10-23 Thread David Gibbs
Check out patch #413752 at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=413752&group_id=103&atid=300103 > > > Is there a way to disable attachments sent to a Mailman list? Id like to > use it as a security feature and also to prevent possible screwups with > those on digest. > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to disable attachments?

2001-10-23 Thread David Gibbs
> I need to clarify what Im looking for. Disabling attachments altogether is > a great option to have, but what Id like to do is be able to disable > attachments ONLY for those members on digest mode on my mailman list. Is > this possible as well? Ah, not with the patch I refered you too. That

Re: [Mailman-Users] from majordomo to Mailman ... questions, please help.

2001-10-30 Thread David Gibbs
At 05:27 PM 10/30/2001, you wrote: >1. I have a lot of lists on majordomo to transfer to Mailman ... any > suggestions on how to do this easily and quickly without sending a > million notices to the addresses moved to Mailman. (I want the change > to be transparent to the users, othe

Re: [Mailman-Users] stripping out HTML

2001-11-22 Thread David Gibbs
At 09:06 AM 11/22/2001, you wrote: >yes, I know this is a frequently asked question and I know it's mostly >sendmail related. Not really sendmail related (IMHO). >I want to strip out HTML/attachments from incoming mail messages. I've >done some research and settled on using stripmime.pl until

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman - unwanted subscriptions.

2001-10-10 Thread David Gibbs
> > Is there a way to ban a certain e-mail from subscribing to a list? > Yeah, but it's a waste of time and effort for > determined troublemakers. It takes about a minute to > get a new email account on any of a bazillion free email > servers. So, I block [EMAIL PROTECTED], and your next > m

[Mailman-Users] Re: /root/6lcnGM: Permission denied

2003-10-21 Thread David Gibbs
"Timothy Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > For some reason, when half the people on my list send a message to the > list, it comes through like this: > /root/6lcnGM: Permission denied Redhat right? Check out http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg1458

[Mailman-Users] Re: tokens for confirmations are too long

2003-12-27 Thread David Gibbs
Thomas Hochstein wrote: The problem is that any URL longer than 80 characters will be chopped by many mail clients- Eudora, for example. Perhaps one should rather fix such broken clients? If only that were feasable. :) Far easier to change one product, to provide a more compatible token, than

[Mailman-Users] Invalid reactivation tokens?

2003-12-27 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I've had a number of people mention to me that, when their mailing list subscription gets deactivated due to mail bounces, when they try to reactivate their subscription using the mailed token, Mailman tells them that the token is invalid. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a f

[Mailman-Users] Re: Automatically reject Spamassassin Tagged Spam?

2004-01-02 Thread David Gibbs
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: How can I configure Mailman to automatically discard Mails that have "*** SPAM ***" in the subject header? I'm only beginning to investigate this option, but check out the new header_filter_rules (in the Privacy / Spam Filters category). david --

[Mailman-Users] Re: Automatically reject Spamassassin Tagged Spam?

2004-01-02 Thread David Gibbs
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I'm only beginning to investigate this option, but check out the new header_filter_rules (in the Privacy / Spam Filters category). Or do I need 2.1.4? Yes, sorry, I was imprecise. This is a new feature in 2.1.4. Right now I'm trying to improve the logging when a message is

[Mailman-Users] Re: Automatically reject Spamassassin Tagged Spam?

2004-01-02 Thread David Gibbs
David Gibbs wrote: Right now I'm trying to improve the logging when a message is discarded. Python is hard when you're used to RPG and Java :) FWIW: I just uploaded a patch that improves the logging when a message is discarded due to a spam filter rule. It can be found at http://sourc

[Mailman-Users] Re: Spam Issue

2004-01-03 Thread David Gibbs
Lee Murrah wrote: Is there any way to simply discard all non-member email or check Discard for all messages? Check out http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=810675&group_id=103&atid=300103 or http://tinyurl.com/2ta25. I just applied this patch and love it. david

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Spam Issue

2004-01-05 Thread David Gibbs
Fernando Barajas wrote: Check out http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=810675&group_id=103&atid=300103 or http://tinyurl.com/2ta25. How do you apply this patch? Try: patch -p0 < discard-all-defers.patch david -- Mailman-Use

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail to Postfix

2004-01-21 Thread David Gibbs
T. Glen Haggard wrote: What would I have to do to switch from Sendmail to Postfix? Would have to re-install Mailman or can I just switch remove Sendmail and install Postfix? Mailman doesn't really care what MTA you are using. So, yes, you should be able to just remove sendmail and install postfix

[Mailman-Users] Re: Discarding all held mail

2004-04-24 Thread David Gibbs
John Poltorak wrote: I have let me posted by non-members accumulate over months and now there is quite a bit of it. Can I get rid of it all in one go, or do I need to discard each post individually? Check out this patch: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=810675&group_id=10

[Mailman-Users] Force a probe message?

2004-05-18 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: Anyone know if there is a way to force a probe message to go out for a subscriber? I have a subscriber who's mail appears to be bouncing ... but it's going back to the original author of the message and not the list address. I'd like to force their subscription into such a state as a pro

[Mailman-Users] Surpress probe messages?

2004-06-07 Thread David Gibbs
Anyone know if there is a way to suppress the probe messages that go out when a subscriber starts bouncing? Thanks! david -- When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. -Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The

[Mailman-Users] Re: Tuning mailman and sendmail

2004-06-08 Thread David Gibbs
Sasa Stupar wrote: I have installed sendmail 8.12.11 and Mailman 2.1.5 on RH8. The problem is that it takes a long time to send messages to all subscribed users (1+). So I am wondering if there is something I can configure in sendmail or mailman to run faster? Check out http://www.python.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM Control

2005-11-07 Thread David Gibbs
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > If you aren't already, DNSbl's to block connects from dynamic IPs, known > infected networks, spammers, etc. We're using combined.njabl.org, > sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, and list.dsbl.org In addition, I've found that greylisting the -admin, -join, -owner, -request, an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (using VPN)

2006-01-03 Thread David Gibbs
Tristan Colson wrote: > Mailman works fine from directly within our network, it just doesn't > work when I am using the VPN. Any chance there's a web proxy being used that is intercepting web requests and doing some kind of filtering or translation? david --

[Mailman-Users] SpamDetect loop?

2006-01-11 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: Since I upgraded to MM 2.1.7 I've noticed something odd in my admin queue ... it appears that messages coming through the SpamDetect pipeline for the owner-address are getting into a loop. Basically, if I get a message in my admin queue for 'out of office' (simple spam filter), I get dozen

Re: [Mailman-Users] SpamDetect loop?

2006-01-11 Thread David Gibbs
Mark Sapiro wrote: > There are a few things going on. Did you upgrade from 2.1.6 or from > pre-2.1.6? 2.1.5 with some custom patches (nothing major, just text changes & the like). > Starting in 2.1.6, header_filter_rules are applied to the > headers of sub-parts which might cause a problem if th

Re: [Mailman-Users] SpamDetect loop?

2006-01-11 Thread David Gibbs
Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > I've coded that bug in the last minute of releasing. :-( Doh! > I think I can generate a patch, but in the meantime, please copy the > SpamDetect.py file from 2.1.6 distribution and restart. I've temporarily removed the SpamDetect module from the owner pipeline and it seem

Re: [Mailman-Users] SpamDetect loop?

2006-01-11 Thread David Gibbs
> Can you test this patch? Ok. > Removing SpamDetect from the owner pipeline means spams pass through to > the list owner. This should be inconvenient. Eh ... I'm not 100% sure that particular module is all that effective. I've been using one of the SpamAssassin integrations (from the patches r

Re: [Mailman-Users] SpamDetect loop?

2006-01-15 Thread David Gibbs
Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > Can you test this patch? Seems to be working fine. david -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Se

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