Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't othe people see the listinfo/ page?

- Original Message - From: "Dan Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This, by the way, is explicitly and completely documented in > the files you should have read before installing Mailman, and > reread before asking the mailing list... > Indeed it is Dan. In fact over half the questions I see are

Re: [Mailman-Users] sorting based on To address

Here's a couple of ideas... Have each of the TO addresses go to a separate account and run a Procmail script for each account. The .procmailrc would append the TO:"..." field to the beginning of the Subject field - then each script would forward the mail onto the Mailman list for delivery to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] sorting based on To address

Dear All, a small correction. i would like to sort based on TO address and not based on from address as wrongly said in my earlier mail thanks k.deepak --- Deepak K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am running mailman 2.0.6 on a RedHat 7.0 machine. > I > have couple of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

> I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted > mailing list. The only way I see to do that is to delete > it and start over, but I really don't want to do that. > > Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list? > > Thanks, > Mike > -- > Mike Avery You could just change the aliases and setu

RE: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

I'm not one to fuel arguments, but I think sometimes people get a little short when the same questions appear over and over again and people don't even try to help themselves before seeking help from others. I'm not saying that's what's happening here. I really don't think RFTM is rude--it's real

[Mailman-Users] sorting based on To address

Dear All, I am running mailman 2.0.6 on a RedHat 7.0 machine. I have couple of questions I have 16 list running in this machine. Let me take the example one of these list named config-tech. Mails sent to the alias config-issues, config-features,config-doc,config-usability,config-uet,conf

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

> > It's not, eh? > > > > Then what do you call this, in crontab.in? > > # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. > > 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds > > > > "RTFM" indeed! Which M did you have in mind? > > THAT, is for *every si

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

Dan Mick wrote: > It's not, eh? > > Then what do you call this, in crontab.in? > # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. > 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds > > "RTFM" indeed! Which M did you have in mind? THAT, is for *every sing

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

> Dan Mick wrote: > > > It's a crontab entry, right? > > No. RTFM. It's not, eh? Then what do you call this, in crontab.in? # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds "RTFM" indeed! Which M did

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

Dan Mick wrote: > It's a crontab entry, right? No. RTFM. -- H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner + Ashley M. Kirchner . 303.442.6410 x130 Director of Inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] check_perms after RPM installation

What directory are you in when you run bin/check_perms? > Hello. I installed Mailman on a RH7.1 box with the RPM from Rawhide > (Mailman version 2.0.6). When I run check_perms, I'm getting the following > error: > Traceback (innermost last): >File "bin/check_perms", line 50, in ? > MA

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems installing 2.1a2

mimelib 0.6 doesn't really work; current CVS uses a site package called 'email'. If you want to be that bleeding edge, I'd use current CVS; it's more stable. > Hi, > > I'm trying to run a "make install" on 2.1a2 on a Redhat 7.1 box, > but am running into an error before the 'make install' compl

Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't othe people see the listinfo/ page?

This, by the way, is explicitly and completely documented in the files you should have read before installing Mailman, and reread before asking the mailing list... > THAT WAS IT... actually, one of my colleagues and I got together and > figured it out.. but thanks a million Jon.. HUGELY helpful!

[Mailman-Users] "list-announce" digest goes to subscribers of "list"

I'd like "list-announce"'s messages to be mailed to the subscribers of "list", "list-announce" to be in digest form only. I was envisioning "list-announce" having just one subscriber, "list", with the membership options ticked for digest and notmetoo, then have "list-announce-admin" be in "lis

[Mailman-Users] Approve from CLI?

I've just upgraded my OS X box to 10.1, breaking apache badly in the process. While I'm rebuilding it all, is there any way that I can approve list messages from the command line? Cheers, Nigel -- N i g e l K e r s t e n Systems Administrator ph.9385 0672:fax.9385 0624 College of F

[Mailman-Users] Problems installing 2.1a2

Hi, I'm trying to run a "make install" on 2.1a2 on a Redhat 7.1 box, but am running into an error before the 'make install' completes. Here is the last few lines of the output: Compiling /var/mailman21/Mailman/pythonlib/StringIO.py ... Compiling /var/mailman21/Mailman/pythonlib/__init__.py ... C

Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't othe people see the listinfo/ page?

THAT WAS IT... actually, one of my colleagues and I got together and figured it out.. but thanks a million Jon.. HUGELY helpful! cheers, J. On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote: > Sounds like a rights issue for the website. "mailman" is a cgi-bin for your > Apache... > > # Added for use by

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

It's a crontab entry, right? > Is there? -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman - unwanted subscriptions.

David Gibbs wrote: > > > Is there a way to ban a certain e-mail from subscribing to a list? > > Yeah, but it's a waste of time and effort for > > determined troublemakers. It takes about a minute to > > get a new email account on any of a bazillion free email > > servers. So, I block [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing some lines in normal emails (mailman2.0.6)

On 12 October 2001, Spades said: > How do I get rid of all these headers on the mailman 2.0.6 mailing list mail? AFAIK there are only two options: * hack Mailman to not emit those headers * tweak your MTAs config to remove them Pick your poison... Greg -- Greg Ward - software devel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

Mike Avery wrote: > I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted > mailing list. The only way I see to do that is to delete > it and start over, but I really don't want to do that. > > Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list? I've never tried this, however others have claimed to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archived Message Attachements

On 11 October 2001, Timothy M. Brauch said: > Is there an easy way to get attachments of messages from an archive of the > sent messages. For example, another group I am on has their messages > archived. Someone sent a Word document as an attachment. I would like to > be able to get that Wor

[Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted mailing list. The only way I see to do that is to delete it and start over, but I really don't want to do that. Is there a clean way to rename a mailing list? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] mysql and mailman

There is no true integration with Mysql (though rumor has it that this may change in the near future...); however, you can use a couple of procedures to build a "bridge" between Mailman's database and your Mysql database. If you check the archives for the past month, you'll see some suggestions.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Life lock

split the list into sub lists, use an umbrella list to send to them all. Get a machine with a faster processor and better disk subsystem. The problem could be due to some built in timeouts, and anything that speeds up the process is going to aid you. For now, you will have to use your sendmail l

[Mailman-Users] Output from "cron" command (fwd)

I get the following output from the checkdbs script. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks _ Gedaliah Wolosh, Ph.D. 973 596-5437 New Jersey Institute of Technology Fax 596-2306

Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't othe people see the listinfo/ page?

Sounds like a rights issue for the website. "mailman" is a cgi-bin for your Apache... # Added for use by Mailman scripts ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/home/mailman/cgi-bin/" AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all The rights to that directory should be: d

[Mailman-Users] Q: Sendmail error: Wanted Gid 12, Got Gid 2

I'm a new user of mailman, and need help. I run mailman with Sendmail 8.11.6. Now when I try to reply the subscribe confirm mail to mailman, I get error with the following log of sendmail: Oct 11 13:58:18 www sendmail[3357]: f9BKwIr03357: from=jimmy, size=428, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PR

[Mailman-Users] Mailman stopped working entirely -- "NameError: y"

I installed Mailman 2.0 in November of last year and it has been working reliably since then -- until this morning. The error log complains of "insecure string pickle", "NameError: y" and corrupt archives. I can't send mail to any of our lists or view any of the archives. Mailman has been rende

[Mailman-Users] removing some lines in normal emails (mailman2.0.6)

How do I get rid of all these headers on the mailman 2.0.6 mailing list mail? Thanks, please let me know. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: ,

[Mailman-Users] Life lock

Hi Today i tried to send a mail to a mailman mailing list containg about 100'000 members. It failed miserably. After about 100 Mails the first bounces returned. Because the list was still locked by qrunner, mailowner blocked. Apparently it waited for the release of the lock using busy waiting. Af

Re: [Mailman-Users] internationalization

En Wed, 2001-10-10 a 09:29, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY escribio: > > Hi all, > > Is there a new about the mailman internationalization ?(particularly i > would be interested on a french version) > subscribe mailman-i18n at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users -- Rodo

[Mailman-Users] why can't othe people see the listinfo/ page?

OK. I'm at my company, working all day on our remote server at rackspace. With help from a couple people here, I get Mailman up and running... I'm able to send emails to the list and the emails get distributed. but something REALLY WIERD is occuring. I can go to http://www.mysql.org/mailman/l

[Mailman-Users] Archived Message Attachements

Is there an easy way to get attachments of messages from an archive of the sent messages. For example, another group I am on has their messages archived. Someone sent a Word document as an attachment. I would like to be able to get that Word document from the archives, but the archives print

Re: [Mailman-Users] searchable archives?

I have a couple more questions before I start trying this out. The mailman server is an internal server and cannot be accessed from the outside world so I plan to push the archives outside the firewall every night. If I install mailman with the htdig patch on my web server (and not run sendmail

[Mailman-Users] Life lock

Hi Today i tried to send a mail to a mailman mailing list containg about 100'000 members. It failed miserably. After about 100 Mails the first bounces returned. Because the list was still locked by qrunner, mailowner blocked. Apparently it waited for the release of the lock using busy waiting. Af

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem is #%$ me off

On 11 Oct 2001 at 0:38, Jon Carnes wrote: > BTW: I have subscribed up to 600 folks in single go (using the Admin > interface) with no problems. Next time, you might find it easier to > use the command line: sync_members (but its all good!) I hadn't thought about the sync_members, so I just re-

[Mailman-Users] problem solved

DOH! I was forgetting the '=' sign in my --with-mail-gid argument to ./configure. I think things are working fine now... Thanks! cheers, J. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Joshua S. Freeman | preferred email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] default hostname

At 17:15 + 10/11/2001, Oliver Egginger wrote: >Only set this value in Default.py had the desired effect. >But is overwitten by every new instalation. Which is why the file mm_cfg.py is provided. Its contents override the stuff in Defaults.py, and it is left alone by the Mailman-recommended i

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

I recently had a problem pop up with sending out digests. Some of my mailing list users receive multiple copies of the same digest. I have not had this problem before now. Does anyone know what causes this? Can I reset something to stop it and then start it back up? Thanks! _

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive issue - more info needed

Camel wrote: > does someone have a specific example of the correct settings > or lines in the httpd.conf file (v.8x or v.9x) - I have a feeling there needs > to be a secondary directive beyond just Alias /listname/pipermail/ > "/var/www/mailman/archive/[public or private]/" > > the physical archi

[Mailman-Users] mysql and mailman

Is there anyway to tie in the userlist for a mailing list with mysql? I need to keep track contact information, along with the email address/name. when a user deletes themself from a list, I need to also delete them from the database. I'm sure this issue has been dicussed before, so If someone wo

Re: [Mailman-Users] slight technical hitch...

Thanks David, Unfortnately, looking at our sendmail.cf file, DefaultUser is not set.. # default UID (can be username or userid:groupid) #O DefaultUser=mailnull Is there a UID or GID that sendmail uses, that mailman might want in cases like this where sendmail.cf does not indicate a specific

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman thinks accounts are invalid

Incidently, I had installed mailman before having compile the latest sendmail. The list I was testing with was also created before the latest sendmail was installed. Creating a list after the sendmail install automatically picked up the preferred host name, and hence, it did not need to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] slight technical hitch...

As the error message indicates, it's not thrilled with the GID that it you're running the mail wrapper with. Fixing this requires that you rerun ./configure with the --with-mail-gid= and set it to the same GID that your mailer uses (check your sendmail.cf...look for DefaultUser= and use t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive issue - more info needed

does someone have a specific example of the correct settings or lines in the httpd.conf file (v.8x or v.9x) - I have a feeling there needs to be a secondary directive beyond just Alias /listname/pipermail/ "/var/www/mailman/archive/[public or private]/" the physical archives are where they belon

[Mailman-Users] slight technical hitch...

Hi, I have been through the FAQ and the README.SENDMAIL document and have not found the solution I need. I have successfully installed mailman on my linux box. I am using sendmail. I can create lists and hit their web pages and subscribe people and receive subscription messages, etc. I CANNOT

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman thinks accounts are invalid

Jon, thanks again for your quick response. This did in fact fix the problem. Time to fix the problem I set this machine up to test for... Jon Carnes wrote: >On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:14, Mark T. Valites wrote: > >>I have recently set up solaris 5.8 machine with mailman 2.0 to do some >>t

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman thinks accounts are invalid

On Thursday 11 October 2001 10:14, Mark T. Valites wrote: > I have recently set up solaris 5.8 machine with mailman 2.0 to do some > testing for an older mailman system I use here. Today I installed > sendmail -8.12.1 as my MTA. I can send mail fine to listname-owner and > other aliases, but I a

Re: [Mailman-Users] default hostname

On 11 October 2001, Oliver Egginger said: > This isn't a big problem ... > > I need to change the default Hostname. > The Configure options: > --build > --host > --target > didn't what is requested. What does "./configure --help" say about those options? > Only set this value in Default.py had

[Mailman-Users] default hostname

This isn't a big problem ... I need to change the default Hostname. The Configure options: --build --host --target didn't what is requested. Only set this value in Default.py had the desired effect. But is overwitten by every new instalation. - oliver -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Quick text format question

tags didn't do it...they just show up in the text now... Jon Carnes wrote: > > You might want to try using the html tags that specify "leave the text and > formating alone. I think that is : > > > Thank you, > Embrace Networks, Inc. > Sunnyvale, CA 94086 > 408-585-5600 > www.embracenetworks

[Mailman-Users] mailman thinks accounts are invalid

I have recently set up solaris 5.8 machine with mailman 2.0 to do some testing for an older mailman system I use here. Today I installed sendmail -8.12.1 as my MTA. I can send mail fine to listname-owner and other aliases, but I am having problems sending mail to the list alias. I have a te