Re: [Mailman-Users] Posting messages on the web

2001-06-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:48:08 +0530 Akshay Guleria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a facility to allow postings on through the web ie post a > new message or reply to a message? Not in Mailman, no. > I have seen it on sourceforge and a couple of other sites too. You can accomplish this

[Mailman-Users] Posting messages on the web

2001-06-29 Thread Akshay Guleria
Is there a facility to allow postings on through the web ie post a new message or reply to a message? I have seen it on sourceforge and a couple of other sites too. I am using mailman ver.2.0 -Akshay Tel: +91-177-226275 -- Mailman-Users mailli

[Mailman-Users] re

2001-06-29 Thread Matt Martin
Hello, How do I make my list read only, so the members can't reply to the entire list. So it will act like a newsletter. Thanks, Matt Martin -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

RE: [Mailman-Users] messages pending approval

2001-06-29 Thread John W Baxter
Not necessarily: when you send in a message to the list, Mailman gets the address to which to send the notification that the message requires approval from your incoming message. When Mailman wants to send its list administrator(s) notice that a message has come in which requires approval, it se

[Mailman-Users] fix one problem, find another

2001-06-29 Thread Amanda
Grr. Now something else fishy is going on. (why oh why does it have to happen on a Friday?) I send a post to the list and it never arrives. It's not getting hung up in the qmail queue - but it seems to be going from testlist-admin to testlist-admin over and over, and I'm not entirely sure why. HP

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loop!

2001-06-29 Thread John W Baxter
Step 1 could be: pull the Ethernet connection out of the machine. Brutal, but effective...your digest recipients will probably appreciate it. Then...since clearing (sendmail's??) mail queue doesn't get rid of the problem, it must be mailman doing the repeated sending. See what you can figure o

[Mailman-Users] NNTP-Posting-Host not of the sender, in mail-news gateway

2001-06-29 Thread Giancarlo Pinerolo
I had< people complaining that, in a list that is a mail-news gateway, the NNTP_posting-host header does not contain the IP address of the sender, but rather the name of the server running the mail-news gateway. In practice I've been subtly accused of giving a way to spammers to forward messages

[Mailman-Users] Basic HTML form "Unsubscribe" help (please)

2001-06-29 Thread Bob Leonard
My situation is that my ISP makes Mailman available.  With limited knowledge (and limited talent), my objective is simple - have a web page where users can subscribe and unsubscribe simply and without a password.  Nor do I want to subject my users to the two-page unsubscribe process provided

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Amanda
OK, this is weird. As a what-the-heck measure, I erased the ScriptAlias line and retyped it. Restarted Apache. Problem solved. Best guess: I had a garbage character in there somewhere? ::shrug:: I don't get it. But it's working. So I won't complain. ::wonders for the millionth time why she ever

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Amanda
FYI, the Alias line didn't help. I had a ScriptAlias line that was nearly identical. That didn't help either. What'm I doing wrong here? anybody? =) Amanda Satya wrote: > On Jun 30, 2001 at 03:20, Satya wrote: > > >Note the paths. They're in Apache's web directory space, not in the > >filesys

[Mailman-Users] wrapper help

2001-06-29 Thread Chad
mailman-2.0.5.tar.gz Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 1 2000, 16:32:16) mta - right now Sendmail, will be iPlanet Messaging Server os - Linux I ran configure with --with-mail-gid and set correctly, after not doing that the first time. :) The problem I'm having is that mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Amanda
Satya wrote: > You mentioned ScriptAlias. I have this: > > Alias /mailman/ /home/mailman/cgi-bin/ > > Do you have a similar line? Is it correct? I don't have a mailman alias - but I didn't have one before. I have one for icons, and I have one for pipermail, but not for mailman. What the heck. Ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Satya
On Jun 29, 2001 at 12:06, Amanda wrote: >with them to the Other Place. (foo.net/mailman/admin/testlist gives a >404) [short recap: tried the usual, got nothing] Sounds like your Apache directory structure might be twisted. I didn't follow this completely, but if the document root for Apache is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Satya
On Jun 30, 2001 at 03:20, Satya wrote: >Note the paths. They're in Apache's web directory space, not in the >filesystem. Your path is in the filesystem. Borked Alias directive is >my guess. OTOH, our Apache versions differ. I don't know; please check anyway. Unless it's already fixed... -- Sa

[Mailman-Users] ? free Unix-server space?

2001-06-29 Thread Diane Meves
Hi there. I am new user to Mailman, and loving it as a list administrator for DigitalEve Columbus... I was also a list administrator for 4 personal lists on Microsoft's Listbot. But now they want to charge for it so i am looking to move these I am curious to know if... a) Python or Mailm

[Mailman-Users] Digest mode wish

2001-06-29 Thread Ryan Hyma
I think it would be extremely useful to be able to click on an index entry at the top of the digest and have it take you down to the place in the digest where that mail starts. Some of my digests are very large and I only care about a couple of the messages. They can be very cumbersome to find.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Amanda
Actually the Mailman software *is* installed into /home/mailman. I didn't change the default, and the files all appear to be right there in /home/mailman where they're supposed to be. The document root for *Apache,* however, is /usr/local/apache/www/htdocs. (And the server root for Apache is /usr

[Mailman-Users] mail loop!

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Powe
Hello, Panic! My digest mail seems to be stuck in a loop and has sent the same mail at least 50 times. It's still going. I've deleted everything from /var/spool/mqueue, but it just repopulates. The header is below. What can I do to short-circuit this thing? Thanks! [ note this is the only

[Mailman-Users] Qmail - huge performance increase (fwd)

2001-06-29 Thread claw
I'm not a QMail user and so can't verify or confirm the truth of this. However, we have enough performance and scalability discussions here that it may help someone: http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp-0106/msg00221.html To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Qmail - huge performanc

[Mailman-Users] RE: Nothing happens!

2001-06-29 Thread Firas R.
Thanks for the advice, I upgraded to sendmail-8.9.3-20 (I didn't make any of the other changes) and I found the source of the problem. It turned out that the relay options must be specified in the /etc/mail/update_pop.conf file not the /etc/mail/access file because this keeps getting overwriten

[Mailman-Users] Web interface went to Brazil for summer vacation?

2001-06-29 Thread Amanda
Augh! Rassenfrassendagnabbitstupidpieceof... Oh, sorry... Just when I thought I had it all figured out, my web interface disappeared. It was there the last time I looked at it, but apparently a band of Little People snuck in during the night and spirited it away with them to the Other Place. (fo

[Mailman-Users] Where's the CHANGELOG?

2001-06-29 Thread matt mcparland
Is there any place that I could find a changelog for Mailman? I just want reasons to upgrade to incremental version changes. -- Matt McParland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Error decoding authorization cookie

2001-06-29 Thread Christian Billette
Hi ! On the upper part of the administrative authentification page of a list, this message appear "Error decoding authorization cookie". http://mail.visuaide.com/mailman/admin/test Merci ! Christian B. Gestionnaire de réseaux Visuaide, inc. -

[Mailman-Users] Re: gate news

2001-06-29 Thread John S. Pinnow
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:44:13AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > Under 2.0.5 I am having trouble getting news->mail to work. > > (Since no one ever answered my previous email) :( > > I think that I have it all configured correctly, but when cron runs the > gate news (or if I do it manually) not

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1?

2001-06-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:41:35 -0500 J D Bronson wrote: > How do I go about getting a copy of 2.1? CVS on Sourceforge. -- J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] -(*)http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ I never claimed to be hu

Re: [Mailman-Users] thttpd?

2001-06-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I also run a e-commerce program called Interchange (Red Hat), and it uses a CGI very similar to Mailman (i.e., http://server.com/cgi-bin/cgifile/parameter) So I would agree with Barry, if your other webserver program doesn't let this work, I would tend to point the finger at the webserver, not

RE: [Mailman-Users] messages pending approval

2001-06-29 Thread Andreas Freyvogel
when I send a message to a list that needs to have approval prior to its being sent out, I do receive a response email telling me that it has arrived and is waiting approval. Now, does it make sense to conclude that if it can send me an email this way that it should by all accounts be able to send

Re: [Mailman-Users] gate news

2001-06-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JDB" == J D Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDB> Under 2.0.5 I am having trouble getting news->mail to work. JDB> (Since no one ever answered my previous email) :( JDB> I think that I have it all configured correctly, but when JDB> cron runs the gate news (or if I do

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1?

2001-06-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JDB" == J D Bronson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDB> How do I go about getting a copy of 2.1? Currently, 2.1a1 is availble on the SourceForge files page. I've gotten backed up with other stuff so I haven't made an alpha 2 release yet, but hope to do so shortly. -Barry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Optimizing configuration

2001-06-29 Thread Harold Paulson
Hi, I have actually seen similar behavior. I'm running Mailman on a FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE box, Python 2.0. It doesn't particularly slow things down, but Python is the only thing on the machine that regularly uses CPU above about 10%. Python can occasionally be seen in `top` hogging 75-95% of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman & Sendmail problems

2001-06-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "B" == Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: B> Thanks for the info on how 2.1's "cron" works... So does it B> still wait until the next minute to check for messages if it B> isn't currently processing any, or do they get processed B> immediately? In MM2.1, if a particular qrun

Re: [Mailman-Users] thttpd?

2001-06-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JS" == Justin Sheehy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> I'll go bother the thttpd people instead, and figure out why JS> they don't do things that way. Okay. >> What does thttpd actually set SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO to when >> given a url like http://mysite.com/mailman/lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] thttpd?

2001-06-29 Thread Justin Sheehy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > Really? I think the CGI/1.1 "spec" (which really never got past draft > status) description of SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO definitely allow for > Apache's behavior here. You're right, it does allow it. It certainly doesn't require it, but it doesn't

[Mailman-Users] renaming a list?

2001-06-29 Thread jimmy mcdonald
Hi, I'm new to mailman and but its already in place and I've been asked to rename a list. I can't find any documentation on this. Can someone either point me to a doc or give me a basic outline of the steps needed. I don't understand how to update the config.db entries for things like the loca

[Mailman-Users] gate news

2001-06-29 Thread J.D. Bronson
Under 2.0.5 I am having trouble getting news->mail to work. (Since no one ever answered my previous email) :( I think that I have it all configured correctly, but when cron runs the gate news (or if I do it manually) nothing happens and there is no errors. There is also no traffic going in/ou

[Mailman-Users] 2.1?

2001-06-29 Thread J.D. Bronson
How do I go about getting a copy of 2.1? It sounds as if there is enough changes that I wont mind using 'bleeding edge' software. Jeff -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Systems Milwaukee Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.8282 ---

[Mailman-Users] Re: how to know in which lists I have subscribed ?

2001-06-29 Thread Vizi Szilard
Eric Gerbier wrote: > any possibility via a mail request I suppose ? No, you can get the subscribers of a given list with the email command 'who'. You should put this in a message body then send to the list request address. Szilard Vizi - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN:1067

[Mailman-Users] Re: how to know in which lists I have subscribed ?

2001-06-29 Thread Vizi Szilard
Hello, Eric Gerbier wrote: > as an admistrator, I can play with find_member command > > but as a simple user ? Not so easy this one. You need at least on listname where you are listmember. Then go to that list listinfo page, log in to that list susbcribers list and there choose list my other su

[Mailman-Users] how to know in which lists I have subscribed ?

2001-06-29 Thread Eric Gerbier
hello as an admistrator, I can play with find_member command but as a simple user ? ps : if I compare with majordomo, there is a "which" mail command to do that. -- Eric Gerbier -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.py

[Mailman-Users] Re: Nothing happens !

2001-06-29 Thread Vizi Szilard
Hello, Firas R. wrote: > * run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass to create the mailman administrator > password Good. > * edit /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py to customize mailman's > configuration for your site That is ok. > * add these lines: > ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi

[Mailman-Users] Re: I fell so stupid! Can you please help me?

2001-06-29 Thread Vizi Szilard
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, I just set up a mailing list, subscribed myself to be on > regular mail, got the welcome message... then sent several tests to the list This means that the Mailman is working correctly with the given MTA. That is good. > to see if it was operati