[Mailman-Users] Install Problem

2001-07-05 Thread Ian Scott
I've just finished installing Mailman, and I am sure I followed instructions to a 'T'. I've reached the point where I created the first list, 'test' and all seemed fine. I received my email, and this is where things seem to go strange for me. The email asks me to go to http://lists.pairowoodies

[Mailman-Users] checkdbs

2001-07-05 Thread J.D. Bronson
Before anyone flames me on this, there was nothing in the searchable archives for this...and I am using the version 2.0.5 .. Never got an error until I added a few more groups. Everything seems to work fine except the execution of this command. # /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/mailman/cron

Re: [Mailman-Users] exim/mailman problems

2001-07-05 Thread Jeffrey A Schoolcraft
I did a search through the exim archives and it was suggested that this be done: If you still have trouble, try: exim -d 9 -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] and look in the debugging output for where it is running the "list_director" director (should be at the end, just before it decides to send an error m

[Mailman-Users] exim/mailman problems

2001-07-05 Thread Jeffrey A Schoolcraft
I'm running Debian unstable, exim, mailman 2.0.5, and kernel 2.4.5. I followed the mailman install docs to the T, except, I used the exim howto use mailman lists before setting up a new list. I am having problems sending mail to lists, lists-request, etc. I'm getting returned 2 from transport

Re: [Mailman-Users] OpenBSD Trusted Path Execution (TPE) compatibility?

2001-07-05 Thread Joshua Jore
Oh right, I had forgotten completely that mail/wrapper does that. Darn, so I guess mailman has to be a trusted user. Thanks. Josh On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:37:00 -0500 (CDT) > Joshua Jore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Prevents interpreters from reading f

Re: [Mailman-Users] best MTA to use with mailman?

2001-07-05 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 17:13:30 +0100 (BST) lee bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > by "best" I mean fastest, issues of setting up etc are not a > problem. MTA performance is mostly an issue of configuration, both of the MTA, system, and MLM. It is something of a black art. Minimally it is incr

Re: [Mailman-Users] OpenBSD Trusted Path Execution (TPE) compatibility?

2001-07-05 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:37:00 -0500 (CDT) Joshua Jore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prevents interpreters from reading from STDIN Of necessity Mailman's processes read inbound mail from stdin. -- J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] -(*)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:42:59 -0500 (CDT) Keith Howanitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you don't mind sending your password clear text over your > networks??? In the presence of VPNs (eg IPSec) or a fully switched network with controlled/trusted roots and switches/routers this is not always an

[Mailman-Users] Installing mailman on a server running plesk hosting package.

2001-07-05 Thread Wayne Ringling
I have a RH7.1 server running plesk virtual hosting software, it uses qmail to do the email part of the server. Does anybody here run or know of a how to for running a mailman install on a server running plesk server administrator. I know it's the simple way to do vhosting but I can't keep

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread Chad M. Stewart
At 12:01 PM 07/05/2001, Amanda wrote: >Karl, > >Most of the information you need is included in the documentation. :-) > > >From experience, I can tell you that Drake 8 doesn't (easily) install with a >lot of the stuff that, IMO, should've been included. Also some of the stuff >that comes with the

[Mailman-Users] how to use CSS style sheets for listinfo and archives

2001-07-05 Thread mi.mailman
I would like to customize the look of the mailman and pipermail pages. The easiest way would seem to be to use style sheets. Is there a way to specify a style sheet link to be added to the headers of pages? It may be have been discussed many times, but web searches don't work on "style sheets"

[Mailman-Users] Help Needed

2001-07-05 Thread designs_creatorsdesign_com
If I manually subscribe someone to my mailing list, they do not have an opportunity to choose a password.  How, then, can they unsubscribe themselves?  Is there a way to configure the list so that people can enter their email address WITHOUT NEEDING A PASSWORD AT ALL, and have Mailman unsubs

[Mailman-Users] attachments

2001-07-05 Thread Donald Grant
Hi, I'm an administrator on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we are using mailman to run the list. We have a problem in so far as we need to be able to ban attachments being sent with emails but don't seem to be able to do it. This is required primarily to prevent the possible spread of viruses and also to c

[Mailman-Users] Installing mailman

2001-07-05 Thread Mariela Rocha
Hi, I´m Mariela Rocha of Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Argentina) and I have a problem when I run the command ./configure with the version of the Python program. This is the response of the command: castor:/usr/local/bin/mailman-2.0.5# ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/Python-1.5.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Other www/mailman gatewaying options.....wwwthreads?

2001-07-05 Thread Delfim Machadp
to do what ?? plz explain more On 04 Jul 2001 15:09:44 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Has anyone hacked WWWThreads (for example) to accept messages from > Mailman? That would be very useful. > -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECT

[Mailman-Users] Please help with this error message

2001-07-05 Thread Ww4477
I am running Mailman from my web site it was working OK until yesterday, I cant send any messages to any of my 4 mailing list I get the same error message, if anyone can please give me detailed instructions on how to fix the problem. This message was created automatically by mail delivery soft

[Mailman-Users] Error decoding authorization cookie

2001-07-05 Thread Christian Billette
Hi ! When I go the authentification page of a list, this error appear on top of the page, Error decoding authorization cookie. Thank you ! Christian B. Network Administrator Visuaide, inc. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] list not sending to juno.com or hotmail.com users

2001-07-05 Thread postmeister
I recently set up a list by importing in about 280 names from a defunct listbot list. I noticed that the welcome message bounced to all addresses at juno.com and hotmail.com. Would this be a problem on my end (dns, etc) or some kind of anti spam measure on those domains? I have noticed that messag

[Mailman-Users] OpenBSD Trusted Path Execution (TPE) compatibility?

2001-07-05 Thread Joshua Jore
Hi folks, I'm new to mailman so please bear with me. I've got Mailman installed and working successfully on my OpenBSD+Postfix machine. I'm also installing the TPE patches which do a few things: Prevent execution of binaries that are in directories not owned by root Prevents interpreters from rea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread Keith Howanitz
So you don't mind sending your password clear text over your networks??? -- -Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Amanda wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Suggestion - do not use telnet, better to have it disabled or not even > > installed on your machine. Use SSH instead, provi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread Amanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Suggestion - do not use telnet, better to have it disabled or not even > installed on your machine. Use SSH instead, provides the same > functionality but over an encrypted connection. Take a look at > http://www.openssh.org/. Good point. I forget too often that the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wrong email addresses leading to mail-loops

2001-07-05 Thread Michael Dosser
* J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010705 17:10]: > Your MTA is ... crappy? Hm, sendmail works fine for us (app. 6-8000 emails/day) and it's fast and reliable (apart from the problem we have in conjunction with mailman). I'm sure there is something about in between sendmail and mailman which c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread Chad
At 12:01 PM 07/05/2001, Amanda wrote: >Karl, > >Most of the information you need is included in the documentation. :-) > > >From experience, I can tell you that Drake 8 doesn't (easily) install with a >lot of the stuff that, IMO, should've been included. Also some of the stuff >that comes with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

2001-07-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 05 Jul 2001 08:30:37 -0700, John W Baxter wrote: > > Unfortunately, the Exim site resists posting URLs...go to > http://www.exim.org funny - oh I guess you haven't worked round the frames - try http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PRO

[Mailman-Users] best MTA to use with mailman?

2001-07-05 Thread lee . bolding
wanted your opinions on the best MTA to use with mailman. by "best" I mean fastest, issues of setting up etc are not a problem. At the moment I'm using sendmail that comes with FreeBSD, although sendmail is robust it lacks some features, and is actually quite slow. I've used postfix before,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread Amanda
Karl, Most of the information you need is included in the documentation. :-) >From experience, I can tell you that Drake 8 doesn't (easily) install with a lot of the stuff that, IMO, should've been included. Also some of the stuff that comes with the distribution is a little out-of-date, has sec

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

2001-07-05 Thread John W Baxter
At 1:50 -0500 7/5/2001, Bill Bradford wrote: >On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:50:14PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >> Can we not log in and _create_ lists through the www interface? As it >> stands now, I believe you do a newlist (command line) and then edit the >> stuff via www (if you choose). >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wrong email addresses leading to mail-loops

2001-07-05 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:18:52 +0200 Michael Dosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Problem description: Whenever a members email address is wrong, >> e.g. bla@.bla.org or whenever a local email adress has no mailbox >> qrunner tries to deliver x-times to all members, which it has >> reached until th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

2001-07-05 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Oh, good point.  That didn't occur to me, so late at night :) You have to be able to edit your MTA's aliases file, and letting this be done via a web interface is a HUGE security risk.  Plus, you'd have to build in support for all the major MTAs. (example - with Postfix, its best to keep TWO alia

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman for Windows

2001-07-05 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
>Then, to my frustration, I read that Mailman is not available for Windows >(98 in my case). Really sad. Question: would you know of share/freeware >that does more or less the same as Mailman, and that is available for Windows? You might want to try sourceforge freshmeat or tucows. Or .. try

[Mailman-Users] Re: Adding a search function to archives...

2001-07-05 Thread Jean-Sebastien Morisset
By the lack of response to my question, can I assume there's no way to modify the generated HTML for the search page (for example: http://lists.mvlan.net/pipermail/rcf-users/)? Thanks, js. On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:54:03PM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote: > I'd like to add a search functio

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wrong email addresses leading to mail-loops

2001-07-05 Thread Michael Dosser
Dear list members! I know that it's not very polite to reply to my own email just to point out that it has not been answered. Please help, we still have the same problem! What we did until now: I made a script to test whether a subscribed email is part of one of our domains and if it is to check

[Mailman-Users] Mail server

2001-07-05 Thread Karl Carlile
I have downloaded mailman and hope to turn my p3 pc into a mailserver. What else will i need to accomplish this task in the form of software. I have linux mandrake 8 and have successfully installed it. The mailing list will be a low volumed list so this should make the demands even less. Karl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

2001-07-05 Thread Pug Bainter
Bill Bradford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > You have to be able to edit your MTA's aliases file, and letting this > be done via a web interface is a HUGE security risk. Letting it happen by anyone is a HUGE security risk. So *if* we trust anyone to do it, it's no less s

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail-wrapper: GID_MISMATCH error *** again ***

2001-07-05 Thread Oliver Egginger
I wrote: > I have the sense that I am doing something very stupid, ... Yep, I can answer now to my own stupid question. I had set my exim-configuration to do a "su" for every delivery for the analogs user. (Exim runs under "root" rigths.) Thereby exim calls the mail-wrapper with mailman-rigths.