Re: [Mailman-Users] nomail users

2001-05-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 04 May 2001 14:51:40 -0600 Ashley M Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When Mailman sets a user's 'nomail' option, there is no way that > user would know, except for realizing after the fact that they're > no longer receiving mail. Is there any sort of mechanism (even > third party)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery Problems

2001-05-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 4 May 2001 14:19:25 -0700 Ondercin Paul-O wrote: >Is there a way to tell mailman to send a seperate email to each > recipient? (Yes, I know this means more processor load). MAX_RCPT_TO in mm_cfg.py -- J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] -(

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to Back Up Lists

2001-05-04 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 04 May 2001 16:25:48 -0400 Christopher VanOosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I make backups of my lists? What files are critical? ~mailman/lists//config.db ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py Any templates you've edited. -- J C Lawrence [EMAIL

RE: [Mailman-Users] Delivery Problems

2001-05-04 Thread Ondercin Paul-O10322
Wow, I'm the guy with the problem, the audience AND the guy with the answer! :> :> :> The answer is In your mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file add these entries: SMTP_MAX_RCPTS=1 MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS=20 That will give you up to to delivery threads running at a time, probably not the real answer

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to Back Up Lists

2001-05-04 Thread Dan Mick
> After some review of the list archives I do not find an answer to what I > think will be a pretty simple question. > > How do I make backups of my lists? What files are critical? Everything under "lists" should do most of the job. If you need archives too, then "archives". I'd probably al

Re: [Mailman-Users] nomail users

2001-05-04 Thread Dan Mick
> When Mailman sets a user's 'nomail' option, there is no way that > user would know, except for realizing after the fact that they're no > longer receiving mail. Is there any sort of mechanism (even third > party) that can periodically probe those that have 'nomail' set? Maybe > once every

RE: [Mailman-Users] Delivery Problems

2001-05-04 Thread Ondercin Paul-O10322
All, I have come closer to figuring out my problem! Mailman is batching the mail with multiple recipients. One of them probably has a bad address, so until that address is resolved all of the mail waits. Is there a way to tell mailman to send a seperate email to each recipient? (Yes, I kno

[Mailman-Users] Delivery Problems

2001-05-04 Thread Ondercin Paul-O10322
Hello, all, I've gotten mailman working with some test lists on my Linux server, and all of my tests worked great. Then I created a real list and added ~130 subscribers to it, and now it looks like some(I haven't counted exactly what percentage) of the subscribers never get mailed, including t

[Mailman-Users] nomail users

2001-05-04 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
When Mailman sets a user's 'nomail' option, there is no way that user would know, except for realizing after the fact that they're no longer receiving mail. Is there any sort of mechanism (even third party) that can periodically probe those that have 'nomail' set? Maybe once every 48 hours?

[Mailman-Users] How to Back Up Lists

2001-05-04 Thread Christopher VanOosterhout
After some review of the list archives I do not find an answer to what I think will be a pretty simple question. How do I make backups of my lists? What files are critical? I want to back up the email addresses that are no the list as well as configuration information related to a specific l

[Mailman-Users] trouble with wrapper

2001-05-04 Thread Peggy Wilkins
i have recently installed mailman version 2.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.3-RC via the ports. i use sendmail 8.11.3 and Apache 1.3.19. the web interface works great, but i can't get anything sent to mailman via email to work; the mail disappears, and no errors are logged anywhere. it looks to me like everyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the error html page

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Burnett
Are you doing this as a Malman installation admin or as a list admin? Do you want your changes to be sitewide, or per list? You can't do this as a list admin. And, you can't do this per list as an installation admin either. If you want to make sitewide changes to the error page you can do this

[Mailman-Users] correct configure options

2001-05-04 Thread Steven Kroeger
Hiya, I'm trying to install mailman on a redhat 7.1 machine. So far I've got everything to install and created a test list. When I tried to access this list I got the follwing error. Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by t

RE: [Mailman-Users] smrsh oddity

2001-05-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>I would check to make sure the link is right and that the directory >where the wrapper is located you can get to it as the user mail. I suspect >that some where there is a permission problem getting to the wrapper program. #su - mail sh-2.04$ whoami mail sh-2.04$ ls -l /usr/local/mailman/mail t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris8

2001-05-04 Thread Len Merikanto
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > > "LM" == Len Merikanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > LM> Retried everything if i do everything from the scratch. > LM> ie install mailman and do not upgrade it. > LM> just install from scratch it works. > > LM> then when i c

RE: [Mailman-Users] smrsh oddity

2001-05-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>mine points like this >wrapper -> /usr/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper >your is pointing to /usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper >I checked (now that I am back at my desk) and mine is owned by >root:root. sorry for the wild goose chase. >did you install from mailman rpm? No, I got the TGZ. There's an RPM!

RE: [Mailman-Users] smrsh oddity

2001-05-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>Who owns the symlink in smrsh. that might be the problem. You might >be able to run it as root:root but not as mail:mail. I just finished >working on a network firewall logging program using sendmail and smrsh >and saw this error several times until I got all the permissions right. Owner of

RE: [Mailman-Users] changing the error html page

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Neel
Okay, first understand 2 things - I'm new to mailman and I don't know python. That being said, here's what I did... Mailman seems to not use a template for error pages - not even a global one (I could be wrong) so I changed the errors to use the subscribe results template. Please note - I have

Fw: Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Burnett
Hey Moderators, I posted this message below from a Joydesk MUA installation that makes my sending address benwa(AT)ocentrix.net. This address IS NOT subscribed to this list. Joydesk doesn't allow me to change this. It does allow me to set my Reply-To address to benwa(AT)ocentrix.com which IS s

[Mailman-Users] smrsh oddity

2001-05-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have Mailman installed on a RH7 box (sendmail 8.11.0-8 & python 1.5.2.-27). I can create lists and see the administrative pages. I have a sym-link in /etc/smrsh to /usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper, I can smrsh -c wrapper and I get a message "Usage: /etc/smrsh/wrapper program [args...]" so I thi

[Mailman-Users] changing the error html page

2001-05-04 Thread Elise Bonneville
Is there a way to modify the error page that is displayed after a user enters an non-subscribed email address on the listinfo page when trying to modify their options? I modified the four html pages (listinfo, subscribe results, options, options results) from the admin interface, but I cannot find

[Mailman-Users] "exception reading qfile"

2001-05-04 Thread Bill Bradford
Seeing a lot of these lately, but everything seems to be working okay . . running 2.0.4 / Python 2.1 under Postfix.. May 04 11:09:03 2001 (3140) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/130461b8dcdde46a1be4468a21cdd61dea444deb [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/q

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris8

2001-05-04 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "LM" == Len Merikanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LM> Retried everything if i do everything from the scratch. LM> ie install mailman and do not upgrade it. LM> just install from scratch it works. LM> then when i copt all files from mailman dir on freebsd move LM> them

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris8

2001-05-04 Thread Len Merikanto
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > > "LM" == Len Merikanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | choose_boundary > | hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) > | error: host not found > > LM> Hostname is ok. domain name is ok. > > LM> What can th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris8

2001-05-04 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "LM" == Len Merikanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | choose_boundary | hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) | error: host not found LM> Hostname is ok. domain name is ok. LM> What can this problem be? gethostname or gethostbyname is misconfigured? ;

Re: [Mailman-Users] to prevent unsubscribing

2001-05-04 Thread Kevin McCann
At 09:38 AM 2001/05/04 +0300, Murat Balkas wrote: >Hi, > > how can I prevent members to unsubscribe from lists? Hello Murat, List management software doesn't generally allow you to keep people on lists when they don't want to be. There are probably ways you could hide unsubscribe inst

[Mailman-Users] Mailman on Solaris8

2001-05-04 Thread Len Merikanto
After succesful transfer from freebsd to solaris8 i started getting this type of error: Apr 23 09:22:14 2001 (37539) Delivery exception: host not found Apr 23 09:22:14 2001 (37539) Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mail/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline

Re: [Mailman-Users] Loooooonnnnnnnngggggg archive conversion...

2001-05-04 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > How long would one expect a 116M mbox to convert? Are there thoughts > > on improving performance of this conversion? > Pipermail is very inefficient and very memory hungry (I've had it run out or > Ram on a 512MB machine).

Re: [Mailman-Users] "members-only"

2001-05-04 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
>So the "please, please, please stop all the spam, I can't take any >delete key action" whining babies have lost you two answers to your >questions. Good job, guys. Think you're missing the point here. You could subscribe with your new address and remove the old. /me is getting enough spam wi

[Mailman-Users] browser compatibility of admin interface?

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Dunston
Has anyone used the OmniWeb 4.0 rc1 browser with the admin pages? Tonight I used it to remove a single user (by unchecking their 'subscr' option in the membership management section) and it unsubscribed every user (all 30) in that chunk of the membership list. Thanks. . . . . . . ..