"L Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there are way to for this tired list admin to not allow posters to
> post attachments?
You can use stripmime --> http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html or
demime --> http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html
I have tested demime and it works fine.
G
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 10:30 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
> The patter I usually follow in such cases:
>
And people start to understand why I'm so hard-core about having test
machines. I'm very paranoid about making changes to a production machine
that I haven't already made to a test machin
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 10:43 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
>
> I have a long standing rule on how I reward such people: I
> unsubscribe them, immediately if not sooner.
>
I'm not that hard-@ss yet, but it's one reason why I have (and enforce)
a "don't try to be a list mom" rule. My rules are
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:57:38 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (we could, I guess, get into my position that e-mail is a horrible
> way to do this sort of stuff... After all, on a typical discussion
> list, what's usually the first thing that happens after a bunch of
> people g
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:39:32 -0400
bob > wrote:
> Hmm, can't say I've seen the long turnaround, but you could still
> play with the numbers, based on the fact that the mailbot will
> generate one reply for every message it receives. In other words,
> you could make a rule something like:
>
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 02:09:34 -0700
Deirdre Saoirse Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus, what I'd *really* like is the One True configure incantation
> for debian because I've been working on getting this system
> unbroken (without breaking my as-yet-ungraded grad school final
> project of cou
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:21:54 -0400
bob > wrote:
>> If you can find something the mailbot did that (a) would allow
>> mailman to recognize it as such, and (b) wouldn't cause false
>> positives by blocking legitimate messages, let us know. We'll
>> look at improving mailman to trap it.
> Relativ
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:21:20 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My problem is the false positive problem. You can tune it to catch
> 90% of the mail loops, but mail loops are generally pretty
> infrequent anyway. But can you tune it to do that AND not cause
> false positives wit
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:39:37 -0400
L Gallegos wrote:
> Is there are way to for this tired list admin to not allow posters
> to post attachments?
Configure the list to hole all messages which have a Content-Type
string of other than text/plain.
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, L Gallegos wrote:
> Is there are way to for this tired list admin to not allow posters to
> post attachments?
Set the maximum attachment size to 0KB?
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On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 09:41 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> I agree that false positives are bad. But let's take a look at the
> past few messages people have posted,
true -- but it's no excuse to fix it badly. Or simply create other
problems.
> I doubt even the most prolific poster is go
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 09:19 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> Nope, and I agree with everything you've said. What I was thinking of
> was flagging situations where you see 10 or 50 or 100 posts from the
> same address in the span of a couple of minutes.
But you won't see that, Barry. Think a
I agree that false positives are bad. But let's take a look at the past few messages
people have posted, saying, "I've got a massive autoresponder problem. How do I stop
it?!" We're talking about hundreds, maybe thousands of posts per day. I doubt even
the most prolific poster is going to b
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CVR> Could the new queueing system be set up with a timed-backoff
CVR> delay? you'd have to keep a fair amount of state, but the
CVR> minimum time between postings for a given user is, say, 30
CVR> minutes, and every ti
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 09:13 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> That was one wild autoresponder!
yeah. Made ME much more aware of why these things need to behave
properly. I try, although sometimes I fall short with my stuff.
> But I still maintain that having the two variables I mentioned, x
>
Hi Chuq,
That was one wild autoresponder!
But I still maintain that having the two variables I mentioned, x number of messages
in y minutes, this could be "tuned" per list to be 90% effective. On a high-volume
list (like this one), obviously you set the max number of messages higher than on a
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:47 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> One approachable suggestion: put a governor on the number of messages
> any one address is allowed to post to a list per time period.
>
Could the new queueing system be set up with a timed-backoff delay?
you'd have to keep a fair
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:39 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> Hmm, can't say I've seen the long turnaround, but you could still play
> with the numbers, based on the fact that the mailbot will generate one
> reply for every message it receives.
My worst case (and I swear this is true). I found
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It would be nice if Mailman was more resistant to these mail
>> loops [2].
CVR> Suggestions on how?
One approachable suggestion: put a governor on the number of messages
any one address is allowed to post to a list per
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CVR> One reason why I never use a vacation message.
Same here. Plus the fact that I realized such a message really makes
no difference whatsoever. I'm still as unresponsive as ever to the
vast avalanche of email that continues un
Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>
> On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:21 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
>
> > Relatively easy. Set a limit on how many messages a user can post in
> > say a 10 minute period. Make it user editable. If you get >8, you've
> > got a loop!
>
> that slows it down, but doesn't catch
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:21 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> Relatively easy. Set a limit on how many messages a user can post in
> say a 10 minute period. Make it user editable. If you get >8, you've
> got a loop!
that slows it down, but doesn't catch any but the worst loops. It's just
a
I just had someone who knows Linux a great deal more than I, install
mailman. I just tried to create a new list through telnet and got to this
point and received these errors. Can I figure out what is wrong through
this? Or do I need more info?
[mailman@host here bin]$ newlist
Enter the name of t
> If you can find something the mailbot did that (a) would allow mailman
> to recognize it as such, and (b) wouldn't cause false positives by
> blocking legitimate messages, let us know. We'll look at improving
> mailman to trap it.
Relatively easy. Set a limit on how many messages a user ca
> Is there any way we can set the listserv up in a manner that would allow me to
> know who the person is who is signing up? I can't tell by E-mail address alone
> and this is causing us some problems.
http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm
Bob
> "/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd dezo". Command output: Failure to
> exec
> script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?)
>
> I checked /var/log/maillog:
> Jun 21 17:31:24 pc postfix/local[2504]: 2721FEB67:
GID (Group ID) 99 is usually for user nobody. This means
you
> Daniele wrote:
>
> Why that?
> Tanx, Daniele.
GID (Group ID) 99 is usually for user nobody. This means
your script
"wrapper" wanted to run with gid 12, but got run as 99
(user nobody)
(postfix for instance only run all piped commands as gid
nobody).
Reinstall with --with-mail-gid=99 or if yo
Lukasz Gruszczynski wrote:
>
Hi
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2:
> "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd lista". Command output: Failure to
> exec
> script. WANTED gid 555, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?)
GID (Group ID) 99 is usually for user nobody. This means yo
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 05:19 PM, John W Baxter wrote:
> I often wonder why people who would *not* hang
>"Owner away--burgle here"
> signs on their houses on these trips send out "burgle here"
One reason why I never use a vacation message. The other is, for better
or worse, that I'm n
I often wonder why people who would *not* hang
"Owner away--burgle here"
signs on their houses on these trips send out "burgle here" invitations in
email.
Ah, well. I guess it's a sliding scale of some sort...I do hear "we're
away for the weekend" on more answering machines than I should (at
Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> > Filter that.
>
> I have this mental image, which includes some very motivated finger
> gesturing. But that's probably not what you meant...
::snickering uncontrollably and wondering how she got caught::
Maaayybe. Maybe not. I certainly had plenty of other rude thing
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:02:11 -0400
padhp wrote:
> I digged through all mailman archives and i was not able to find
> how to subscribe and un-subscribe without password.
> Is there a way to do it?
Currently not possible. There are CGI hacks to do this -- see the
archives for any of several
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 04:22 PM, Amanda wrote:
> I now
> have a filter that reads something like this: "If this text appears in
> the
> subject or body of the message, send it to the trash mailbox: out of the
> office; [..etc...]
And once you've done that, add in german, french, russia
Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> Did the guy who set up the mailbot give mailman any way of telling this
> was a mailbot, or a loop? Did they include any keywords, like "out of
> the office" or "vacation" or "I am an idiot who's mailbot is going to
> make you crazy now"?
> [snip]
> If you can find somet
I downloaded a free copy of bcc55. But having great difficulty finding a way
of installing it. It seems more difficult than the usual cases.
Do you know what I must do to install it.
Karl
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> "PS" == Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> The listinfo page requires subscribers hit in a password when
PS> joining. I feel this is counter-productive.
PS> IMO, it would be better to _always_ generate passwords. This
PS> way they're truly random, aren't "valua
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 11:02 AM, Gunnar Evermann wrote:
> Some guy send a request to list-request and left for holidays
> activating some stupid vacation feature in his Mailer (Outlook). When
> Mailman replied to the request message Outlook sent back not one but
> two vacation messages [1]
I am running Mailman 2.0 and today had a slight problem with the
installation
AFAICT what happened is:
Some guy send a request to list-request and left for holidays
activating some stupid vacation feature in his Mailer (Outlook). When
Mailman replied to the request message Outlook sent back not
[this didn't make it through when I sent it yesterday]
For reasons that have to do with grad school and having started my
final project for The Class From Hell on another platform, I upgraded
(hand-compiled) Python 2.1 on my debian system (the only weirdness is
that I'm running sendmail rather
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CVR> I'm not list mom, but I play one on TV. Speaking for Barry, I
CVR> can only say "let's cut this out and get back to talking
CVR> about mailman"
Yes, please. Thank you Chuq.
way-behind-in-my-mailman-users-folder-routi
> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I am going to start a Mailman-based list. The tool looks very
>> convenient, but I am stuck with the following problem: the list
>> owner-to-be insists on knowing names of the list members in
>> addition to their email ad
How can the list administrator delete some or all messages from the Archives?
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it in the FAQ
or the list manager's documentation, and the mailman-users archives
aren't searchable.
I'm a list admin using 2.0beta6. While making various attempts at
working
around the lack of a user name attached to an email address, on
Hi,
How do users sign up to a mailing list by sending and email?
I've tried using 'Subscribe' in the subject line although it does not work
Thanks
Robert Kerry
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Hi your mail list software are great , but a try to
found a feature that permit moderate list readonly like a distribucion list that
check the from of the sender and a password that permit only autorized user
ditributed news .
thanks and sorry my
english.
Why that?
Tanx, Daniele.
This message was created automatically by mail
delivery software (Exim).A message that you sent could not be delivered
to one or more of itsrecipients. This is a permanent error. The following
address(es) failed: pipe to
|/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mai
Hi there, I was wondering whether you can help me with a simple problem. I
am using your Mailman list manager to provide my site with a mailing list.
Some time ago I came upon the idea to make a script to archive the messages
that were sent to the list. After doing some research I stumbled upon th
I think JB is looking for a way to get rid of pending admin requests for
held postings. I posted a python script to the list at the end of April
(around then i think!) that did just that.
Have a look through the archives (I think they are searchable now) for
"clear_requests" or something similar
Title: spam filter?
Hi,
I just want to say I love your Mailman program ever since I tested it. Just one thing though, I notice you said it does integrated spam filters... how do you enable this feature? Is it on by default? Also I had created several list for my known address such as po
Hi,
Just installed Mailman for the first time, 2.0.5.
1)
The listinfo page requires subscribers hit in a password when joining. I
feel this is counter-productive.
IMO, it would be better to _always_ generate passwords. This way
they're truly random, aren't "valuable" and the user doesn't hav
Turn off Moderator Must Approve, Turn On members Only?
Cal
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- Original Message -
From: "Phydeaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "J B Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday,
For reasons that have to do with grad school and having started my
final project for The Class From Hell on another platform, I upgraded
(hand-compiled) Python 2.1 on my debian system (the only weirdness is
that I'm running sendmail rather than exim, but otherwise it's a
pretty stock lightweig
Hello,
> Specifically I want to remove the line that says "To post to this list, send
> your email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" I don't want members to post, only
> the moderator.
[vizisz@tatooin vizisz]$ rgrep -r "To post to" /home/mailman/templates/
/home/mailman/templates/subscribeack.txt:To post
Hi!
I find mailman an astonishingly useful tool on the mail.gnome.org
web-site, but there is one feature that I really miss - attachments
show the file-name as a URL within the mail message, but they
are saved as bin.bin files. If they were saved as
bin.extension, they would be easier to open in
Dear all,
I have a RedHat-7.1 box with postfix. I tried to set up mailman
(mailman-2.0.1-2.rpm) ... I installed it with rpm -Uvh mailman-2.0.1-2.rpm,
than folow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.0.1/INSTALL . When I
run bin/check_perms I got:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "bin/che
Technical Support,
I spoke to soon. I can add and delete names. However, when I try and send a
letter to my members it seems to go nowhere. Before the problem, it was
going to Pending Administion Requests, now there is nothing there when I
send a letter to the address below through ifriendly.com.
Hi,
We are experiencing a strange problem with some of the mailing lists that we
host and seen as I couldn't find an easy way to search your archives I
thought I would email.
The error occurs when someone tries to subscribe to a list, once they have
subscribed they get the confirmation email bac
Has anyone else had a problem with the archives not showing the "RE:" in
the list of messages? Am using Mailman2.04 and Postfix. I found another
message regarding this problem in the archives which is shown below. Any
suggestions appreciated. Please reply to me directly. Thank you.
David Gilbe
To whomj it may concern
Thank you for reparing the MailMan 1.1. It is up and running.
God Bless,
Rosario Abate CEO
Scriptures(tm)
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hello, when i post a message to all the list with [EMAIL PROTECTED] the
members never receive the message but the email admin have got it. What
the matter please
For information i use Apache, Exim on RedHat 7.0.
Thank You
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:46:57 -0500
Joel Votaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm, the README says that script only currently works with
> unsubscribe requests, but does not handle subscribe requests. Is
> there any way to subscribe without supplying a password?
If you subscribe by mail as versu
I am receiving this error message for any of the distribution lists that I have tried
to join.
Bug in Mailman version 1.1
We're sorry, we hit a bug!
If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to
the webmaster for this site with a description of what happ
helou
i have a small problem witch mailman config
i get allways this msg:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2:
"/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd lista". Command output: Failure to
exec
script. WANTED gid 555, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?)
after instal with
./confi
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:04:00 -0700
Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and passwords on unsubs are silly (sorry, Barry). Users who want
> to unsubscribe want off. they don't want to play games, they just
> want to leave. I have, in the last decade, seen ONE instance of
> forged unsubs
I rolled my system our for the first time this morning and I am having
problems. The system jams up. I can't access the "administer" area; my
mailing list people can't access their "options" page and people can't
subscribe. It appears that his happens a few minutes after I forward a
message and th
To whomit may concern,
WHY is it taking this long to correct the problem with may MailMan 1.1
account?
God Bless,
Rosario Abate,
Scriptures(tm)
---Original Message--
Bug in Mailman version 1.1
We're sorry, we hit a bug!If you would like to help us identify t
Can I edit the archive for a Mailman mailing list? I was trying to test the
system, and posted a message, but now I would like to remove it, but I don't
know where to go. It would be helpful if you offered that option in your
admin interface.
Thanks-
Wendy Wulff
I've got mailman 2.05 up and running with a couple
of lists on it. Everything seems to be working fine but when you view a
message in the archives, it does not wrap.
I checked the faq and browsed some of the archives
but didn't see anything on this.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Amy
Hi,
I digged through all mailman archives and i was not able to find how to
subscribe and un-subscribe without password. Is there a way to do it?
We have home grown list server (Written Perl). On one list we have 95,000
e-mails, i am trying port all these e-mails to MAILMAN. What is the limi
After an update to the most recent sendmail version, mailman receives but no
longer distributes e-mail, it has run perfectly up until now.
This is an excerpt from the log:
Jun 14 00:26:48 mail sendmail[32528]: f5DMQmK32528:
from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=1268, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[EMAIL PR
I'am using Mailman 2.3 over RedHat 6.2. All comed very fine until I
tried to do a list of lists. I want to do a new list with many others
lists. This lists are moderated and only the subscribers can post in. I
defined user's e-mail in "Privacy Options" field "Addresses of
members..." but Mailman c
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:48:49AM +0200, David Jacobson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Is there a way to mass unsubscribe users? eg from the bounce log file?
~mailman/bin/remove_members
Marc
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We have a unique circumstance in which a mail message was posted, approved and sent to a list which turned out to have erroneous information in it. Management would like to remove the message from the archive which is public. Anyone know how to do this without killing the archive?
Any help would
Hi,
When I running my MTA (postfix) and web server(mailman) on different
machines.
How can I make sure the mailinglist is added to the postfix aliases
database.
Thanks,
grace
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Is there any way we can set the listserv up in a manner that would allow me to
know who the person is who is signing up? I can't tell by E-mail address alone
and this is causing us some problems.
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
>Your authorization is required for
Hello MailMan users,
I'm a new user of MailMan, and I've to convert some old archives
for a different (customized) mailing list manager to a new
mailing list created with MailMan.
Now the problem is that the archive is about 3 MB and I wouldn't
like to send this as a message to all the subscribed
Hi
I have the following situation :
Mailman 2.0.5
Python 2.0
MTA : postfix
I set Mailman up, created a test list and played with it
for a while.
Then I send it a big "whopper" 5MB e-mail. I watched the
logs and saw
postfix running the wrapper. The cron started qrunner and
all hell broke
lose
From: "Jean-Luc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
> I can't have an E-mail going out on the
> mailing list without approval, see the E-mail you receive if you post on the
> ML. Can somebody tell me why?
...
> The reason it is being held:
>
> Message has implicit destination
...
"Implicit destination
This one? "Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only)
".
-Original Message-
From: Enriko Groen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:22 AM
To: 'Jean-Luc'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits moderato
On 11:55 PM 6/24/01, Dan and Robby Grether wrote:
>Dear Mailman-Users,
>
>We are again having the problem of multiple (100s) of emails coming from
>our mailing list. The regular emailings are working fine, but the vol 17
>msg 4 of our daily digest is spewing out 100s of copies to those who we
Set "allow members to post" (or somthing alike) which is near the "must post
be apporved" option to YES.
> -Original Message-
> From: Jean-Luc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 16:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog
Hi.
I don't know what to do anymore, I can't have an E-mail going out on the
mailing list without approval, see the E-mail you receive if you post on the
ML. Can somebody tell me why? The "Must posts be approved by an
administrator?" is checked NO. I don't understand anymore.
Please help.
JLC
---
I am running Mailman 2.0.1 on Redhat 6.2 and I am
having difficulty with the Subscribe Results Page
(/mailman/subscribe/listname). More specifically, I have edited the HTML
and whenever I view the page, mailman appears to be prepending the following to
the source:
which I'm sure you can
Hello dear list members!
We were running mailman 2.02beta and moved to new a new server (FreeBSD
4.3-STABLE, sendmail 8.11.4 and mailman 2.03). all lists are working fine.
Problem description:
Whenever a members email address is wrong, e.g. bla@.bla.org or whenever a local
email adress has no m
Hell yeah it supports 386.
If you don't have alot of HDD don't install things you don't need. I used
to run mailman, a webserver and a mailserver on my 486.. (hows that for
"propaganda") heck you would be amazed with what you can do with a stripped
down kernel on a floppy disk.
But hopefully if
On Sunday, June 24, 2001, at 11:55 PM, Dan and Robby Grether wrote:
> How can they be stopped? How can this problem be prevented in the
> future.
>
first thing you need to do is find out where the duplicates are coming
from. that means going into the logs to find them.
Don't assume mailman's
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