Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread RoB-O
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Christopher Kolar wrote: Yes!!! I agree with 100%... I think it is quite a bother to download a tarball, untar it, to then read the install notes to find i need to take many addtional steps to even begin to untar the files again ( and most times in a different lo

Re: [Mailman-Users] weekly digests?

2001-03-06 Thread Davide G. M. Salvetti
> TdH == Teo de Hesselle [2001-3-5] TdH> Lee Samuel Finn wrote: >> Is there a way to adjust the digest frequency for some lists? TdH> Have you tried editing the crontab so teh digest stuff runs weekly TdH> instead of daily? Let us k

[Mailman-Users] Footer error tracebacks

2001-03-06 Thread Doug Alcorn
I'm pretty new to Mailman, but have about half a dozen lists running. I'm not actually the admin on all of them though; just the site admin. Anyway, I keep getting this message in my logs/errors: Mar 06 23:09:28 2001 (18944) Delivery exception: illegal argument type for built-in operation Mar 06

[Mailman-Users] ? about an error

2001-03-06 Thread vierita
I have an error that pops up everytime I log in that says " Unable to authenticate user" I've checked to make sure that my ICQ account is the UIN and not the nickname. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thanks for your help. Vierita Moore ---

[Mailman-Users] Multiple installations still having trouble

2001-03-06 Thread Dave Melton
A few days ago, I asked for ideas on a problem I'm having setting up multiple installations on the same machine. The one recommendation I received was to set up all of the installations under the "mailman.mailman" UID.GID, rather than creating separate users and groups for each domain's installa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Altering Message Footer

2001-03-06 Thread Teo de Hesselle
It's in the headers of the message, as of mailman-2.0 and above. Check the headers of this message. "Harry L. Styron" wrote: > > Federal law will or does require information in mass mailings on how to > unsubscribe from lists. Can the footer in Mailman be altered to include > text to conform w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Altering Message Footer

2001-03-06 Thread Phydeaux
At 04:19 PM 3/6/2001 -0800, Harry L. Styron wrote: >Federal law will or does require information in mass mailings on how to >unsubscribe from lists. Can the footer in Mailman be altered to include >text to conform with this requirement Yes. http://www.aurora.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administ

[Mailman-Users] Altering Message Footer

2001-03-06 Thread Harry L. Styron
Federal law will or does require information in mass mailings on how to unsubscribe from lists. Can the footer in Mailman be altered to include text to conform with this requirement? Thanks, Harry Styron [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help - "No such user here"

2001-03-06 Thread Teo de Hesselle
Andrew Pattison wrote: > > I get the error "no such user here" back in my email when I try to send mail > to the test list. I have done all the obvious stuff it says in all the > documentation I could find. Can anyone give me some pointers? I switched the > /etc/aliases hacking back on if this

[Mailman-Users] Help - "No such user here"

2001-03-06 Thread Andrew Pattison
I get the error "no such user here" back in my email when I try to send mail to the test list. I have done all the obvious stuff it says in all the documentation I could find. Can anyone give me some pointers? I switched the /etc/aliases hacking back on if this makes a difference. Cheers Andrew

[Mailman-Users] Help needed: Mailman v1.1 doesn't recover lockfile

2001-03-06 Thread Anna Fong
I have two lists running with Mailman. One works, the other broke. The one that is broken seems not able to recover a lockfile. I've sent a bug report to SourceForge but I need to get the list running again ASAP. Has anyone seen this before? Bug in Mailman vers

[Mailman-Users] Slow, but enought

2001-03-06 Thread Leonardo Boselli
On 5 Mar 2001, at 9:54, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > not archive the postscript. I am also working on a Mailman prefilter > which strips MIME and makes the attachments available as URLs on the > mailing list machine - I have a working version of this in perl but its > dog slow the rewrite i

[Mailman-Users] Qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Susanne Bullo - Personal
I know this has been asked millions of times but the readme.qmail is less than helpful. I run a linux redhat system utilizing qmail. I need to have a clearer idea of what needs to be configured in order to have my lists work (I moved from a sendmail server to a qmail server). I'm using the late

[Mailman-Users] Qmail

2001-03-06 Thread Susanne Bullo - Personal
I know this has been asked millions of times but the readme.qmail is less than helpful.  I run a linux redhat system utilizing qmail.  I need to have a clearer idea of what needs to be configured in order to have my lists work (I moved from a sendmail server to a qmail server).  I'm using th

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Christopher Kolar wrote: Oh, and I guess people aren't supposed to expect stupid answers to their stupid questions.     That depends on several variables.     I will admit it's not very clear on the website where the instructions are.  You click on one and get presented with, 'read this' and 'mak

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 01:48 PM 3/6/2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >Christopher Kolar wrote: > > > When there is a link that says Installation the user expects > > information about installation, not about where to find the information > > about installation. > > Click on Installation, then look at the left menu

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Christopher Kolar wrote: > When there is a link that says Installation the user expects > information about installation, not about where to find the information > about installation. Click on Installation, then look at the left menu, second section: Installing Mailman. Everything you ever

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 01:16 PM 3/6/2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >Christopher Kolar wrote: > > > I run W2K on my office machine, > > so downloading and untarring stuff on my server still does not give me > > something that I can print right away. > > Why not? I run Win98, I download, untar the file (through W

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Christopher Kolar wrote: > I run W2K on my office machine, > so downloading and untarring stuff on my server still does not give me > something that I can print right away. Why not? I run Win98, I download, untar the file (through WinZip), open the INSTALL files up in whatever word processo

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Christopher Kolar
At 01:05 PM 3/6/2001, Ashley Kirchner wrote: >Zack Exley wrote: > > > Where is there info about how to instal MailMan? I looked and looked and > > couldn't find any instructions. > > From the mailman tar ball: > [] > And there's this list. What more do you want? He probably wants

Re: [Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Zack Exley wrote: > Where is there info about how to instal MailMan? I looked and looked and > couldn't find any instructions. From the mailman tar ball: INSTALL README README.BSD README.EXIM README.LINUX README.NETSCAPE README.QMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] More Errors ...

2001-03-06 Thread kotrach
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Stanton Schell wrote: > First, don't try to run the wrapper from the shell, it is not designed to be done. > The first error message occurs because you are trying to run the wrapper as > root, which has a gid of 0. when you recompile with gid 0 and then try to send > emai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with error - Mailman 2.0.1 / Python 2.0 /Exim

2001-03-06 Thread Orion (Steve Pirk)
Check the /home/mailman/logs/error file. I think you will see that the wrappers failed because of "GID" problems (the group that mailman runs as). Someone earlier posting the same kind of problem. As far as I can tell, When it reports "wanted N, got N1", you need to rebuild mailman (./configure -

[Mailman-Users] Help with error - Mailman 2.0.1 / Python 2.0 / Exim

2001-03-06 Thread Craig Savage
Hi all, Having a very vexing problem with getting my new list server running - Can send mail from the web interface to subscribe users, gets to them fine. Users can't respond to that email. Also can't post to the list. Both generate the following error: A message that you sent could not b

[Mailman-Users] Help with error - Mailman 2.0.1 / Python 2.0 / Exim

2001-03-06 Thread Craig Savage
Title: Help with error - Mailman 2.0.1 / Python 2.0 / Exim Hi all, Having a very vexing problem with getting my new list server running - Can send mail from the web interface to subscribe users, gets to them fine. Users can't respond to that email. Also can't post to the list. Both ge

[Mailman-Users] one list won't accept posts

2001-03-06 Thread David Minor
I have several lists working just fine. I added a new list that will not accept posts. When I send a test post to it, the message just gets passed through to the catchall account. The mail log doesn't ever show to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post listname" like it does on the working lists.

[Mailman-Users] stupidest question of all

2001-03-06 Thread Zack Exley
Where is there info about how to instal MailMan? I looked and looked and couldn't find any instructions. -Zack _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --

[Mailman-Users] How do I advertise and event I am holding for developers?

2001-03-06 Thread AndreaG
Kind Regards Andrea Graham ComponentSource 30 Greyfriars Road Reading Berks RG1 1PE http://www.componentsource.com Tel : +44 118 982 2102 Fax : +44 118 958 The Definitive Source of Software Components -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAI

[Mailman-Users] Still looking for help with wrapper problem.

2001-03-06 Thread Pete Phillips
Hi I haven't had any replies to my post from last Friday (enclosed at end). Is there something straightforward I have missed ? Any help greatly appreciated. Pete - Hi I too am experiencing problems with 2.0.1 mailman and the wrapper GID problem. Enclos

[Mailman-Users] Hi.

2001-03-06 Thread efernandezor
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[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1067 - 16 msgs

2001-03-06 Thread David Herren
Title: Re: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1067 - 16 msgs on 3/6/01 3:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unbelieveable  this wont work: clone list [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] it says the person is alreay a member! Actually I just went through a similar issue and so

[Mailman-Users] Confused!

2001-03-06 Thread Tomas Belcik
NoMonthlyFees.com, the host of my website suddenly switched to the Mailman list software. Although I appreciate some of the features, web interface for users as well as administrators, I did have a list that worked with a simple "subscribe" unsubscribe" email messages, no password powered co