Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman won't deliver?

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:19:55 +1000 Nigel Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection refused') Almost certainly your answer is in either your MTA's logs, or in your TCP Wrappers/Firewall logs. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my met

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members by other users

2001-10-01 Thread Alain Chappuis
Hello Jon and thank you for your answer :-) > The program is open-source, so yes, you can make it do whatever you like. Great. > There is a binary called "remove_members" in ~mailman/bin/... it can > remove anyone from any list. Of course you need telnet or ssh access to > the server to use

[Mailman-Users] Mailman won't deliver?

2001-10-01 Thread Nigel Kersten
I'm sending this to the list cause my head is hurting from banging it at the same things over and over again. I'm just hoping someone can point me in a more productive direction preface: have read documentation, browsed archives etc. I'm running Mailman 2.0.6 under Mac OS X 10.0.4, with

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members by other users

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:18:33 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/1/01 2:10 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ouch. Please be aware of the implicit security hole you're >> opening here. > Implicit? That's like calling amputation a flesh wound. -- J C Law

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members by other users

2001-10-01 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 10/1/01 2:10 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ouch. Please be aware of the implicit security hole you're opening > here. Implicit? That's like calling amputation a flesh wound. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members by other users

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:01:30 +0200 Ben-Nes Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to be able executing remove_members by other users ( like > nobody ) Ouch. Please be aware of the implicit security hole you're opening here. To do this you'll need to write an SUID wrapper which changes it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Few questions for the Mailman list...

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:31:07 +1000 AE Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was particulalry interested in: 1. How your software stores and > accesses the mailing list information (List Members, > Administrators, Moderators, Members). Currently they are stored as a Python streamed object.

Re: [Mailman-Users] help with configuring mailman

2001-10-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > > i'm trying to follow the mailman config instructions, but am having > trouble. > > i'm on debian woody, using exim as the MTA. > > > > when i run check_perms, i get the following error message: > > > > # ./check_perms > > Traceback (innermost las

Re: [Mailman-Users] Few questions for the Mailman list...

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:55:13 -0400 Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, this holds for Mailman 2.0 and earlier. I believe Mailman > 2.1 uses "pickle" (another, more powerful persistence mechanism > for Python) for list config information. 2.1 implements a plugin and abstraction layer suc

Re: [Mailman-Users] post to a list via web

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:05:33 -0400 (EDT) dkh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of an add-on/extension/contribution that will allow > folks to post to a mailing list via the web interface, preferably > inside pipermail's display (ie reply to this message, post new > message kind of thing c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestions for Queuing bulk mailings?

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:22:40 -0400 Jim Kutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also can anyone give me hard times for qmail+mailman with a very > large list (> 30K members)? I've heard it's "really fast" but that > doesn't help me make the sale for qmail... Hard stats in the MTA field are difficult

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestions for Queuing bulk mailings?

2001-10-01 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:08:58 -0700 arandall wrote: > I recently made a post to the effect of the speed of qmail - I > have it running on a junk machine that nobody else wanted (see the > respect Linux gets around here?! geez); it's an old HP Vectra > workstation, p200 (233? I forget) with 64MB

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestions for Queuing bulk mailings?

2001-10-01 Thread Amanda
Hi Jim, I recently made a post to the effect of the speed of qmail - I have it running on a junk machine that nobody else wanted (see the respect Linux gets around here?! geez); it's an old HP Vectra workstation, p200 (233? I forget) with 64MB ram, and it queues up all thirty thousand messages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderator question

2001-10-01 Thread Jon Carnes
> A question: The postings I have set that they need moderator approval. But my > own postings are delayed, because they come back to me with needing moderator > approval. Can I set Mailman so that I, the moderator, can post directly. > > May God bless all of you on the list. > > Father Richard

[Mailman-Users] Suggestions for Queuing bulk mailings?

2001-10-01 Thread Jim Kutter
Hello, I know this really isn't the place for this kind of question, but I'm desperate :) I need to send a newsletter to ~37K people every Monday *night*. We were using Majordomo, and an editor would use a web tool that sent an e-mail to the webmaster (at like 10am monday morning), telling him

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages

2001-10-01 Thread Amanda
Greg Ward wrote: > You didn't "download a service", you joined an Internet mailing list > devoted to discussing Mailman, a mailing list management tool for Unix. > And those messages come from all over the world, BTW. > > It sounds to me like you're in the wrong place. Instructions for > unsubsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why https only works from remote hosts ?

2001-10-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 01 October 2001, Oliver Egginger said: > Hello, > > from remote hosts everything works fine. > > I'am using mailman 2.0.6 (with Apache 1.3.20 and OpenSSL 0.9.6b in the back). > List subsciption (and so on) works very well (remote and local), > but when I visit the list-owner admin page (via h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Scaling Mailman

2001-10-01 Thread Amanda
Hi, qmail is PDQ as well - when we run the newsletter, we queue up 30,000 messages at once in a matter of minutes; after fifteen minutes the queue is down to a few hundred, and the vast majority of those are international and/or busted receiving hosts that are failing connect on the first try (an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Few questions for the Mailman list...

2001-10-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 01 October 2001, Jon Carnes said: > > I was particulalry interested in: > > 1. How your software stores and accesses the mailing list information > > (List Members, Administrators, Moderators, Members). > > The information for each list is stored in a large database file called > "config.db" w

[Mailman-Users] post to a list via web

2001-10-01 Thread dkh
Anyone know of an add-on/extension/contribution that will allow folks to post to a mailing list via the web interface, preferably inside pipermail's display (ie reply to this message, post new message kind of thing coming from the person logged in and not via a single gateway address). Have a us

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer doesnt appear

2001-10-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 01 October 2001, Ben-Nes Michael said: > I noticed that when I send HTML page to a mailing list the footer does not > appear. Look closer at the raw HTML landing in list members' mailboxes. I'll bet you'll see the Mailman footer appended after the "". If mail clients don't render that, there'

[Mailman-Users] qrunner: "ValueError : bad marshal data"

2001-10-01 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, Since some days I see the following errors appearing in the error file every time qrunner runs (and all messages stay in the queue since then): Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): Traceback (innermost last): Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in

Re: [Mailman-Users] help with configuring mailman

2001-10-01 Thread Jon Carnes
> i'm trying to follow the mailman config instructions, but am having trouble. > i'm on debian woody, using exim as the MTA. > > when i run check_perms, i get the following error message: > > # ./check_perms > Traceback (innermost last): > File "./check_perms", line 280, in ? > check

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages

2001-10-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 29 September 2001, JT Whitlock said: > Since downloading your service last night I have received at least a > dozen letters from all over the nation with questions on how to best > use your service. You didn't "download a service", you joined an Internet mailing list devoted to discussing Mail

[Mailman-Users] Moderator question

2001-10-01 Thread Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT)
Hello Mailman User List: My name is Father Richard Gant, and I am webmaster of http://www.solt3.org I also have a Catholic news list at CIN, the Catholic Information Network. CIN just a few days ago began using the Mailman program. A question: The postings I have set that they need moderator a

[Mailman-Users] Why https only works from remote hosts ?

2001-10-01 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, from remote hosts everything works fine. I'am using mailman 2.0.6 (with Apache 1.3.20 and OpenSSL 0.9.6b in the back). List subsciption (and so on) works very well (remote and local), but when I visit the list-owner admin page (via https) from my local machine ( https:///mailman/admin/te

[Mailman-Users] help with configuring mailman

2001-10-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm trying to follow the mailman config instructions, but am having trouble. i'm on debian woody, using exim as the MTA. when i run check_perms, i get the following error message: # ./check_perms Traceback (innermost last): File "./check_perms", line 280, in ? checkcgi()

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing archives

2001-10-01 Thread Jon Carnes
> I'm in the process of migrating from another list > server, Mercury by David Harris. One of the important > things in the old mailing list is the archives. So, I'd like > to convert them or migrate them. The existing archives > are flat text files, not even mime. There are delimiters > at th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Few questions for the Mailman list...

2001-10-01 Thread Jon Carnes
> I'm currently compiling a list of prospective MLM software for the QUT > Messaging Project (redesigning the Queensland University of Technologies > email systems). > > We are running a mail system for approx 53,000 users supporting approx > 1,500 lists. The lists are generated by the Universitie

[Mailman-Users] footer doesnt appear

2001-10-01 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi I noticed that when I send HTML page to a mailing list the footer does not appear. What can be done ? Is it a bug with mail formating ? -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 http://sites.canaan.co.il --