Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Try Majordomo or Lyris... Majordomo is probably the easier of the two. On Saturday 13 October 2001 17:09, Emery Wang wrote: > Thanks Jon and JC for your answers. Unfortunately, that is too long a > process to put our customers through. I need something that people > can just click a link, and se

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Satya
On Oct 13, 2001 at 16:09, Emery Wang wrote: >So here's a possible feature request for mailman: a simplified >unsubscribe option. > >Anybody know of a good, non-cgi based email program that can do that? How about the mailman wrapper at http://satya.virtualave.net/download.html ? -- Satya. http

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Emery Wang
Thanks Jon and JC for your answers. Unfortunately, that is too long a process to put our customers through. I need something that people can just click a link, and send out an email, and they're automatically unsubscribed. Requiring people to look up name and password and type it in is way too

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
When you add the user manually, then Mailman generates a random password for them. If you let Mailman send the individual a Welcome message, then the password is included as a part of that message. Note: ALL users have passwords - even if you didn't set a password for the user. You can go t

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:46:04 -0500 Emery Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, for email addresses that have not be subscribed by the user, > but manually inputted by the admin, how do these guys unsubscribe? The system will have automatically assigned them a randomly generated password. They'

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Emery Wang
Thanks, Jon. One thing, however: there is no password involved here, because I am manually inputting a list of email addresses from customers who have been in my database before I started using mailman. So, for email addresses that have not be subscribed by the user, but manually inputted by t

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
The proper format for unsubscribe would be: unsubscribe mypassword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include your password with the request. You should also be able to unsubscribe using the listinfo web page. Jon Carnes On Saturday 13 October 2001 12:21, Emery Wang wrote: > Hi. I am testing mailman, and s

Re: [Mailman-Users] web interface not working...

2001-10-13 Thread Ralph Forsythe
Apache is run under 'httpd/httpd' (user/group). I compiled mailman using the --with-cgi-gid=httpd as I thought it was nobody at first and got 'expected GID xx, got GID xx' errors when viewing the pages. I think it's running with the right GID now however... - Ralph At 10:30 AM 10/13/2001 -0

[Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-13 Thread Emery Wang
Hi. I am testing mailman, and sending messages to another email account I have. But when I try to unsubscribe by sending a message to the unsubscribe email link, and putting "unsubscribe" in the subject line, mailman returns this error (the ellipses are where the actual addresses were): >This

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to personalize e-mails

2001-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
On Saturday 13 October 2001 00:47, Chris Gozdzik wrote: > Hi there! > > I'd like to switch to Mailman, but I'd like to maintain personalized e- > mails. Is it possible? I couldn't find any info on that. > My subscribers' list contains first name and e-mail. > I'd appreciate any help. > Chris > I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'm new - HELP

2001-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
On Friday 12 October 2001 23:18, Miss Lala wrote: > Ok, so I am just starting this email thing. I have a mailman list on my > site, and I list this address as the admin address. However,when I send a > message from this address, it got held up for an approval...from me!! How > do I send a message

Re: [Mailman-Users] web interface not working...

2001-10-13 Thread Jon Carnes
You might want to add the user "nobody" (or whatever you use to run Apache) to the group "mailman". Then make sure that the group mailman can write to that dir and those files. On Friday 12 October 2001 23:12, Ralph Forsythe wrote: > Permissions on the logs dir are admin:mailman. (admin was t