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

2001-06-30 Thread Giancarlo Pinerolo
In practice, for using mailman as a mail-news gateway, there should be an 'X-author:' or an 'X-Mail-From:' or a 'NNTP-Posting-Host:' header that somehow contains the IP of the original mail message, otherwise the gateway becomes an 'anonymizer', as the message that gets to the newsgroup looks as f

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

2001-06-30 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "i" == iso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i> In practice I've been subtly accused of giving a way i> to spammers to forward messages to a newsgroup through i> the use of mailman. LOL! Why would spammers try to forward their messages through Mailman, when it's so much easier to

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2001-06-30 Thread dcuming
If you could help me, I want a program that sends my email list out and not show other email addresses in the mail to each of the members.  Does outlook do this.  Do you know of a program. I have windows.  I also want it to send html.   Best Regards deane cuming

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

2001-06-30 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Saturday, June 30, 2001, at 03:38 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote: > How about having the process which puts messages into the queue > send a SIGUSR (or whatever) signal to qrunner? Do what biff or INND do. Create a socket somewhere, and when you want to signal qrunner, write to it. qrunner's idle

Re: [Mailman-Users] Where's the CHANGELOG?

2001-06-30 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "mm" == matt mcparland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> Is there any place that I could find a changelog for Mailman? mm> I just want reasons to upgrade to incremental version changes. All the gory details... http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/mailman/NEWS?rev=

[Mailman-Users] permissions on 'error' log file?

2001-06-30 Thread J.D. Bronson
Bug in Mailman version 2.0.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. When trying to go to t

Re: [Mailman-Users] restricting post to members in a mail-news gateway

2001-06-30 Thread Pug Bainter
Giancarlo Pinerolo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > How can I restrict relaying to the newsgroup only to > messages sent by memberrs, but not the other way > round? I've never looked at this and prefer not to. The volume of SPAM that comes from newsgroups is high enough tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] restrict_pst_to_members in mail-news GW side effects

2001-06-30 Thread Pug Bainter
Giancarlo Pinerolo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > Everyone that post to the newsgroup by his on way (not > via the list address) gets that message too! That is correct unless they are list members. Those that prefer to use USENET news I tell to sign up and set their setti

[Mailman-Users] restrict_pst_to_members in mail-news GW side effects

2001-06-30 Thread Giancarlo Pinerolo
The formentioned settings (that is setting 'restrict_post_to_members' in a mail-news gateway list) has a very undesirable effect: not only messages sent by non-members to the list address gets a message that alerts he's been trying to post to a list without being member of it. Everyone that po

[Mailman-Users] restricting post to members in a mail-news gateway

2001-06-30 Thread Giancarlo Pinerolo
What is the effect of 'restrict_post_to_members' in a mail-news gateway list? It seems that it not only requires that posters to the list be member of it, but also posters to the newsgroup be member of the list. In practice I get a 'posting by a non-member' error-reply to every post sent to the n

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

2001-06-30 Thread Norbert Bollow
> It has to do this, or it'll busy loop. I don't know of a good, > portable way to wait on new files showing up in a directory. How about having the process which puts messages into the queue send a SIGUSR (or whatever) signal to qrunner? Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, C

[Mailman-Users] RE: : Nothing happens !

2001-06-30 Thread Firas R.
Sorry about that last posting, I guess I was a little trigger happy Looking at the error found in apache's suexec_log I'd assume that /home2/mailman/cgi-bin would have permissions rwxrwsrwx but as you can see below, only the owner and mailman's group have write permissions to the cgi-bin

[Mailman-Users] RE: : Nothing happens !

2001-06-30 Thread Firas R.
error_log : [Sun Jul 1 05:43:18 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Sun Jul 1 05:43:19 2001] [error] [client 146.115.26.14] Premature end of script headers: /home2/mailman/cgi-bin/admin acces_log : -Original Message- From: Chuq Von Rospach [mailto:[EMA