Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman performance

2001-02-02 Thread Christopher Lindsey
> I just discovered/downloaded/installed mailman yesterday, and am > getting horrible performance with it, so I hope this is an easy one. > > Any mailman operation takes > 5 secs; even bin/list_lists takes 7 > secs. Is it normal for it to take so long? I use list_lists as an > example because I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman performance

2001-02-02 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:04:03 -0800 Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't surprise me. It's an interpreted language, so loading up > the interpreter, then the code, then executing is going to take a > certain fixed startup time. It will be completely dwarfed by mail > connection time wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Mick
> For what it's worth. The Approve.py handler in mailman does seem to check > for the Approved: header and will compare it's value to the mail list > admin password. It looks like this should work fine from what I've found > in the source. However, it doesn't seem to. > > Is there any way t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread James Thompson
For what it's worth. The Approve.py handler in mailman does seem to check for the Approved: header and will compare it's value to the mail list admin password. It looks like this should work fine from what I've found in the source. However, it doesn't seem to. Is there any way to make mailm

RE: [Mailman-Users] error

2001-02-02 Thread Scott Brown
> > So, if sgid CGIs don't run, but non-sgid CGIs do (but can't work), > is your Apache config such that sgid CGIs aren't permitted > by a mere ScriptAlias, like, are you using suEXEC or something? > I don't see this error in my Apache source, so maybe the ability > to run sgid CGIs by default ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] error

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Mick
> this is the error in my elog: > [Thu Feb 1 23:08:29 2001] [error] (1)Operation not permitted: exec of > /opt/home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo failed > [Thu Feb 1 23:08:29 2001] [error] [client 213.224.83.70] Premature end of > script headers: /opt/home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo > > i tried takin

Re: [Mailman-Users] error

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Mick
gid CGIs don't run, but non-sgid CGIs do (but can't work), > > is your Apache config such that sgid CGIs aren't permitted > > by a mere ScriptAlias, like, are you using suEXEC or something? > > I don't see this error in my Apache source, so maybe the ability > > to run sgid CGIs by default has cha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman performance

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Disser
Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't surprise me. It's an interpreted language, so loading up the > interpreter, then the code, then executing is going to take a > certain fixed startup time. It will be completely dwarfed by > mail connection time when you start running an actual li

Re: [Mailman-Users] error

2001-02-02 Thread test
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > > > this is the error in my elog: > > [Thu Feb 1 23:08:29 2001] [error] (1)Operation not permitted: exec of > > /opt/home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo failed > > [Thu Feb 1 23:08:29 2001] [error] [client 213.224.83.70] Premature end of > > script headers: /o

Re: [Mailman-Users] error

2001-02-02 Thread Tony Abbott
Sounds very much like permissions to me. check permissions further up the tree. Make sure that all the parent directorys are at least o+x. If you're running redhat and used useradd to create your mailman user I'd start with ls -lad /opt/home/mailman -t On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:39:31PM +0

[Mailman-Users] new user switching from majordomo/majorcool

2001-02-02 Thread Peter Dominguez
I am using postfix as the MTA. Can someone briefly describe how to set up aliasing for 'new-list-name'. Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:26:33PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Does majordomo remove the Approved header while forwarding messages? If not, > > finding out the password is even more trivial than forging From:. > > Yes, it does. In that case, I stand corrected. Thanks for straightening

Re: [Mailman-Users] error

2001-02-02 Thread test
drwxrwsr-x 18 mailman mailman 4096 Feb 1 23:53 /opt/home/mailman/ all dirs hight (/opt/home and /opt are also o+x) check_perms says that all is peachy keen On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Tony Abbott wrote: > Sounds very much like permissions to me. check permissions further up the > tree. Make

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:24:07PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:01:25PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > No, this is not the case. Approved headers, while perhaps slightly > > inelegant, are more secure (FSVO "secure") than simply allowing a set of > > posters to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:01:25PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > No, this is not the case. Approved headers, while perhaps slightly > inelegant, are more secure (FSVO "secure") than simply allowing a set of > posters to post. Anyone can trivially fake a "From" header in an email > address,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman performance

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Mick
Doesn't surprise me. It's an interpreted language, so loading up the interpreter, then the code, then executing is going to take a certain fixed startup time. It will be completely dwarfed by mail connection time when you start running an actual list. Dave Disser wrote: > > I just discovered

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner (?) probs

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Mick
Jozsa Kristof wrote: > > File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 41, in process > footer = string.replace(mlist.msg_footer % d, '\r\n', '\n') > TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation This points directly at msg_footer. Suspect extra "%d"-or "%(field)"

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to remove badly formed email address fromlist

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Mick
Rachel Willmer wrote: > I tried ... > > ~/bin/remove_members news "myname@home"@isp.co.uk > > This came back with a "User `myname@[EMAIL PROTECTED]' not found." error. because the shell ate those quotes before they ever got to remove_members. > But then I tried ... > > ~/bin/remove_members

[Mailman-Users] CGI problems and lock files

2001-02-02 Thread Ray Gardener
Hi, I have recently upgraded to version 2.0.1 of mailman running on Solaris 2.7 with Python 1.5.2. This seems to work much more efficiently that the old version but every so often I am locked out of the web interface of certain lists. On inspection there appears to be a large amount of lock f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:11:14AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:46:42AM -0600, James Thompson wrote: > > First, Mailman doesn't seem to allow a user to type > > Approved: Password > > > > as the first line of the mail to the list to bypass the approval by the > > adm

[Mailman-Users] phyton

2001-02-02 Thread Sebastian
Hi, Can I install phyton in a cobalt raq3 server? thanks, sebastian. _ Do You Yahoo!? Obtenga su dirección de correo-e gratis @yahoo.com en http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com -- Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:46:42AM -0600, James Thompson wrote: > First, Mailman doesn't seem to allow a user to type > Approved: Password > > as the first line of the mail to the list to bypass the approval by the > administrator. The user doesn't want to maintain the list of posters that > by

[Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread James Thompson
My last majordomo user has decided to move their lists to Mailman. Yea! However they had some questions I couldn't answer. First, Mailman doesn't seem to allow a user to type Approved: Password as the first line of the mail to the list to bypass the approval by the administrator. The user do

[Mailman-Users] Subscriber stops receiving messages by email

2001-02-02 Thread Larry Nguyen
Hi all, Mailman was working fine until yesterday morning I noticed that message posted to list does not get delivered by mailman to subscribers' mailboxes, but it did post to the web site. I read my logs/smtp and it gave: Feb 01 21:52:02 2001 (891) All recipients refused: host not found Feb 01

[Mailman-Users] Install problems

2001-02-02 Thread Nene Romanova
I get a error message when I try to install Mailman 2.0, My system is a 486, 16 megs of ram. It runs SuSE Linux 6.1. Python 2.0 I get the following error message, Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... env: python: No such file or directory Nic Pedersen System Admin for: Viking Inter

[Mailman-Users] Install problems

2001-02-02 Thread Nene Romanova
I get a error message when I try to install Mailman 2.0,   My system is a 486, 16 megs of ram. It runs SuSE Linux 6.1. Python 2.0   I get the following error message,   Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... env: python: No such file or directory     Nic Pedersen System Admin for: Vi

[Mailman-Users] Re: distribution list

2001-02-02 Thread Fil
@ Fil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) : > Hi everybody [...] > The alias in /etc/aliases is > listname: "| /home/sympa/bin/queue listname" ooops !! sorry I meant to send this message to sympa-users, not mailman-users (I use both). -- Mailman-Users mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Speeding up delivery

2001-02-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > My mailer (Exim) delivers a message for multiple recipients > sequentially. As well as the mailman tweaks, you can tell exim to do parallel delivery - see the documentation for 'remote_max_parallel' at:- http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_11.html#SEC33

[Mailman-Users] qrunner (?) probs

2001-02-02 Thread Jozsa Kristof
Hello, I'm a relative new mailman admin with some knowledge to python but basically zero admin experiences with mailman itself. I've set up a few (~10) lists with mailman (v 2.0final-1, from deb package) and they seem to work fine, except one list. This one spams /var/log/mailman/error like thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to remove badly formed email address fromlist

2001-02-02 Thread Rachel Willmer
>> I've got a user on one of my lists who's subscribed himself with the >> email address with a form of "myname@home"@isp.co.uk. >> >> Of course, this address is completely undeliverable, and every mail out >> to the list bounces. So I'd like to remove this guy. But I can't figure >> out how! >

[Mailman-Users] distribution list

2001-02-02 Thread Fil
Hi everybody This is about send-only mailing-lists. Here list is send-only. It has 120 000 subscribers, many addresses bounce, and many people reply. So properly sorting all these messages is vital. * What do I have? When a mail comes back from subscribers, it can be either a bounce or a repl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Speeding up delivery

2001-02-02 Thread Florian Weimer
Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My mailer (Exim) delivers a message > > for multiple recipients sequentially. Of course, this is more > > efficient in terms of network usage, but processing several batches in > > parallel is faster (and network bandwidth isn't an issue here). > > Oh, d