Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about after setup

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
On Monday 12 November 2001 23:55, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Monday 12 November 2001 22:11, Joel Webb wrote: > > After the setup of mailman how do you subscribe to the list without > > adding in aliases into the /etc/aliases file? > > > > I already have mailman and mailman-owner but do I have to put i

Re: [Mailman-Users] yahoo spam filters

2001-11-12 Thread Derek J. Balling
At 8:04 PM -0800 11/11/01, J C Lawrence wrote: >On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 07:58:06 -0800 (PST) >Culley Harrelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? It seems shocking >> to me that the filter attached itself to her ip rather than to the >> mail server...

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about after setup

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
On Monday 12 November 2001 22:11, Joel Webb wrote: > After the setup of mailman how do you subscribe to the list without > adding in aliases into the /etc/aliases file? > > I already have mailman and mailman-owner but do I have to put in anything > else that points the email requests to the specif

Re: [Mailman-Users] I have to rename and give a new IP address to my machine ...

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
On Monday 12 November 2001 20:19, Paul L. Schumacher wrote: > I am running mailman with postfix. > > I have to rename my mailman machine and give it a new ip address, > forturnately a fixed ip like the old one. I have about 100 working > lists with their attendant web pages. > > What do I have t

[Mailman-Users] Question about after setup

2001-11-12 Thread Joel Webb
After the setup of mailman how do you subscribe to the list without adding in aliases into the /etc/aliases file? I already have mailman and mailman-owner but do I have to put in anything else that points the email requests to the specified list?? Somebody help me -- Respectfully, Joel Webb

[Mailman-Users] I have to rename and give a new IP address to my machine ...

2001-11-12 Thread Paul L. Schumacher
I am running mailman with postfix. I have to rename my mailman machine and give it a new ip address, forturnately a fixed ip like the old one. I have about 100 working lists with their attendant web pages. What do I have to do about changing names for these web pages, and anything else, etc?

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ and help

2001-11-12 Thread Satya
On Nov 12, 2001 at 15:44, Greg Ward wrote: >Great, thanks. I dug up the relevant RFC (2369) and am editing your >entry to refer to it. Goody. Yay! >Does anyone know which mail clients actually use the "List-*" headers? >Might be nice to mention them in the FAQ entry. Pine, for one. At least 4

Re: [Mailman-Users] using mailman with RPM

2001-11-12 Thread Joel Webb
That is what I am talking about. Using the source RPMS Jon Carnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >You would need to get the SRPMs (the source RPM's), which would be way more >trouble than just dropping down the tar-ball and doing it form that! > >Jon Carnes >- Original Message - >From: "Jo

Re: [Mailman-Users] using mailman with RPM

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
You would need to get the SRPMs (the source RPM's), which would be way more trouble than just dropping down the tar-ball and doing it form that! Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Joel Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 6:12 PM Subject: [

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing users without notification

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
First of all, you should let Mailman remove users who are bouncing excessively. Check out the admin options for this and modify if necessary. This is not a task that you should be worrying about - that is why you use Mailman... If you really want to catch the traffic for an unsubscribe then turn

Re: [Mailman-Users] a ? from United Nations Cyberschoolbus

2001-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
Although the display on the web page may show only an excerpt, when you approve you approve the entire message. You can change how much text appears on the web page independently. > Hi Mailman people, > > I have never used our Mailman before, and I'm the sort of asst. admin > person for it. My

Re: [Mailman-Users] Internal web pages vs external email users

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
The best solution I can think of using the current version of Mailman is to make two list - one for external folks and one for internal folks. Set up the lists separately so that the http info makes it to your internal folks and nothing goes out to the external folks. In your aliases file set em

[Mailman-Users] using mailman with RPM

2001-11-12 Thread Joel Webb
I have recently installed mailman and have gotten it working, however I would like to know how to get mailman working with RedHat's RPM'ed version of mailman. It looks like I have to reconfigure the source with the --with-mail-gid and the --with- cgi-gid tags. How would I do this with the RPM'd

[Mailman-Users] I had Mailman pre-installed on my last webhost server.

2001-11-12 Thread ochiba
However, I have a new webhost now who doesn't use mailman. I am not programming literate and I can barely install PHP and CGI scripts, but I would kill to have my mailman back. Is there an installation guide for dummies, or someone generous enough to help me set it up on my server? Any advic

[Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing users without notification

2001-11-12 Thread J. Frederick Ball OEF
Is there a way (running Mailman 2.0.7) to remove a user from a list *without* allowing a message to go out to that person? I have two instances where this would be helpful. One is a case where sendmail reports "Can not check MX records for recipient host domainname.com" and Mailman has been t

Re: [Mailman-Users] a ? from United Nations Cyberschoolbus

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
On 12 November 2001, Colleen Werthmann said: > I have never used our Mailman before, and I'm the sort of asst. admin > person for it. My question is this: The message I posted and want to send > out is quite long (a newsletter for our users). When I went to approve my > own message, I saw that t

[Mailman-Users] a ? from United Nations Cyberschoolbus

2001-11-12 Thread Colleen Werthmann
Hi Mailman people, I have never used our Mailman before, and I'm the sort of asst. admin person for it. My question is this: The message I posted and want to send out is quite long (a newsletter for our users). When I went to approve my own message, I saw that the message "Excerpt" cut off at a

[Mailman-Users] Internal web pages vs external email users

2001-11-12 Thread Dale Pace
Hello experienced users: I have just recently installed Mailman. So far so good. It seems to work as designed. My site has internal users and external users, an intranet and internet. We want to use Mailman web pages, currently just for internal users, but some of the list recipients are extern

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce: 0 more allowed over 166798 secs

2001-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
> Once again I will plug my favourite network debugging tool: Ethereal, a > fantastic GUI packet-tracing tool. ...and of course there are many other packet-tracing tools if you don't happen to have Ethereal that accomplish the same thing: etherfind, tcpdump, snoop just to name a few. One of t

[Mailman-Users] Re: Spam

2001-11-12 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
"T. Glen Haggard" wrote: > I see the Spam mail coming through this list. Is this something that is a > problem with mailman? I am setting things up but I don't want to have to > deal with the Spam or outside post on any of me list. Is there a way to get > rid of these things like limiting the pos

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ and help

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
On 12 November 2001, Satya said: > >Definitely an FAQ, but not in the new FAQ wizard AFAIK. > > It is now. Great, thanks. I dug up the relevant RFC (2369) and am editing your entry to refer to it. Does anyone know which mail clients actually use the "List-*" headers? Might be nice to mention t

Re: [Mailman-Users] List spam

2001-11-12 Thread Albert E. Whale
Yes, you can. It has been especially useful for limiting the distribution of the SPAM. Steve Dinn wrote: > I don't know if this has been brought up before, but can't we limit > posting to list members? > > -Steve. > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Bob C wrote: > > > > > HELLO FUTURE MILLIONAIRE

[Mailman-Users] Spam

2001-11-12 Thread T. Glen Haggard
I see the Spam mail coming through this list. Is this something that is a problem with mailman? I am setting things up but I don't want to have to deal with the Spam or outside post on any of me list. Is there a way to get rid of these things like limiting the post to subscribers only? Would like

[Mailman-Users] {Mailman-Users] Getting rid of the List Info in headers

2001-11-12 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How one would get rid of the long list of urls (List-Help etc.) ans addresses sent >with all posts (you know : See http://nleaudio..com/bnotes/mailman.htm -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information store

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
The information is stored in plain text inside a database. There are many scripts included with Mailman (in the ~mailman/bin directory) which allow you access to that information. Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information store

2001-11-12 Thread Jerry Feldman
In addition to this, I noticed that when email addresses are added to the list, only the bare email addresses appear to be captured:(eg. Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Is there any mechanism to capture the entire address in its various forms, above and [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce: 0 more allowed over 166798 secs

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
On 10 November 2001, Michael Deck said: > Ok, I think I have it figured out. Not knowing Python was a hindrance but > having the source sure helped. :) > > Turns out that SMTP was returning a 553. When I dug into it a bit on > Google, I saw that 553 was a rcpt host problem. Then I tried sending

Re: [Mailman-Users] Optimizing sendmail

2001-11-12 Thread Chad M. Stewart
Due to the nature of how sendmail works I find that a site can get messages out faster if they have multiple processes running delivering mail to a small number of recipients. When I was running sendmail and majordomo together I used a 3rd tool, bulk_mailer. majordomo submitted one message t

[Mailman-Users] Information store

2001-11-12 Thread jorge . llacer
Hello, I would like to know the way information about lists, subscribers and specific lists configuration is stored in the system and how it could be accessed to. Is this information stored in plain text? How could we (administrators) access to it? Thank you very much. Jorge.

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ and help

2001-11-12 Thread Satya
On Nov 12, 2001 at 11:38, Greg Ward wrote: >On 09 November 2001, mailman said: >Just last week, Barry announced the start of a new FAQ wizard for >Mailman. It already looks better than the FAQ on list.org. I can't >remember the URL; check the archive for this list. http://www.python.org/cgi-b

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ and help

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
On 09 November 2001, mailman said: > Is there a real FAQ somewhere (not the one on the official site), it's > almost useless? Just last week, Barry announced the start of a new FAQ wizard for Mailman. It already looks better than the FAQ on list.org. I can't remember the URL; check the archive

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems running 'configure' for Mailman 2.0.5

2001-11-12 Thread Dean J. Pompilio
I have set the perms according to the docs. The top-level dir is: /export/home/mailman The perms are: drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 512 Nov 2 14:16 mailman This is the output from 'check_perms': dpompilio# /export/home/mailman/mailman-2.0.5/bin/check_perms 'import site' failed; use -v for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting rid of the List Info in headers

2001-11-12 Thread Jon Carnes
See the recent archives (or the FAQ) for a complete discussion of this topic. In general, you must modify the source code (which is extremely easy to do in Mailman). There is one particular file that adds these entries, and you can easily edit that file: ~mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeader

[Mailman-Users] List spam

2001-11-12 Thread Steve Dinn
I don't know if this has been brought up before, but can't we limit posting to list members? -Steve. On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Bob C wrote: > > HELLO FUTURE MILLIONAIRES!!! > > ONLY $22 Instead Of $60 To Join An Easy No 72 Hr.NO Time Limit. NO WAY YOU CAN LOSE >A THING OR GET KICKED O

[Mailman-Users] TRI-MIRACLE $22-Not $60-SERIOUS MARKETERS ONLY!!

2001-11-12 Thread Bob C
HELLO FUTURE MILLIONAIRES!!! ONLY $22 Instead Of $60 To Join An Easy No 72 Hr.NO Time Limit. NO WAY YOU CAN LOSE A THING OR GET KICKED OUT!!! THIS IS THE LAST DOWNLINE YOU WILL "NEVER" HAVE TO BUILD YOURSELF!! YES YOU HEARD IT RIGHT THE ONE AND ONLY & BEST I MIGHT ADD LIGHT

[Mailman-Users] Getting rid of the List Info in headers

2001-11-12 Thread mailman
Hi, How one would get rid of the long list of urls (List-Help etc.) ans addresses sent with all posts (you know : List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: ,

[Mailman-Users] MM 2.07 and Konqueror (1.9.8 - 2.2.1)

2001-11-12 Thread Oliver Egginger
*** Changed topic, see my last mails *** (included on the end of this message). Before I switched to MM 2.07, Konqueror 1.9.8 was still working with MM 2.06 (whether with little difficulties) There was no cookie decoding failure. I would like to know, why "Konqueror" have this problem ? Are the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade MM 2.06 -> 2.07 : Answer

2001-11-12 Thread Oliver Egginger
Ok, this error seems only to occur in in conjunction with "Konqueror". I have now serval problems with this browser and Mailman. Because every browser (including "lynx") I have tried, is working perfectly with MM, I think this is a "Konqueror"-problem. Anyhow, if you know something about it, ple

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade MM 2.06 -> 2.07 : "error decoding authorization cookie"

2001-11-12 Thread Oliver Egginger
Aftter updating from 2.06 to 2.07 I get strong problems with the administrative interface of all lists (old and new). I can't submit any data to the administrative interface. I always receive the message: "error decoding authorization cookie" The login is the only thing which s