Re: [Mailman-Users] Email Subscription

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
> And does the sysadmin have to have set up a username > listname-request > for this to work? Otherwise, wouldn't it just get > rejected with user not found or some such? > No. If your MTA is sendmail or sendmail compatable then it checks first in /etc/aliases for any aliases (or address transl

RE: [Mailman-Users] Email Subscription

2001-11-20 Thread jgo
> sure, just send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject "subscribe" And does the sysadmin have to have set up a username listname-request for this to work? Otherwise, wouldn't it just get rejected with user not found or some such? [Taking great glee in adding spamsters to the list in m

[Mailman-Users] Re: MacOSX and BSD

2001-11-20 Thread Nigel Kersten
I have it all running, but on Mac OS X 10.1.1, not Server. What's going wrong? You need to carefully read the Mailman docs. I had to run through the configure/make process several times until I got the right options. This is the configure command I used to get Mailman to install. ./configure

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail-aliases make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:45:55PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: >configured and installed incorrectly. Please >read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close >attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure >option. This entry is being stored in your syslog: > So re-install from the sou

Re: [Mailman-Users] recovering from faulty base url for mailman web interface

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
You are probably going to need the site admin to help you out. There are two easy ways to recover from this: - replace the config.db with the config.db.bak (the last known good version of the database...) The files are in each lists directory: ~mailman/lists//... - Create a link (or series

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Virtual Hosting

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i found this on the archives while searching for something else. thought it was useful, so i cut-n-pasted it to a file for future keeping. might be (part of) what you're looking for. pete > The feature list mentions support for virtual domains. And how does one > make mailman aware of virt

[Mailman-Users] recovering from faulty base url for mailman web interface

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, i'm a list manager (not site administrator). i fsck'ed up and put the wrong url for the base mailman url. i noticed a file /home/mailman/lists/vox/config.db, which i don't have read or write permissions to. is this where list configs are stored? is it a berkeley db file? is there a w

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Virtual Hosting

2001-11-20 Thread Joel Webb
I am trying to move an old Mailman list to a virtual host. Is there a way to have a virtual list serve?? I have the virtual email addresses working with the Mailman aliases in the /etc/vmail/ file I also wanted to the regular /etc/aliases to point to the new virtual host aliases in order to

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail-aliases make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:45:55PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > That message my friend comes from the mailman wrapper itself. To change it > you will have to recompile... Here is more of the message (straight from the > code of the wrapper program): Mhm, no problem... >The expected gid of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
The lock files all end with the process ID. Which makes it easy to stop the processes and remove the locks. Here's a small script that does just that: #!/bin/bash # Kill current Mailman processes and then remove lock files # Jeff B is running a misconfigured browser and locks up the admin inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wierd alias problem

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
My guess is that he has some sort of spam filter setup. In the web admin on the General Options page, try removing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the Admin list and instead put the email addresses of each of the individuals (one per line). That should work just fine, and then Mailman will be mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wierd alias problem

2001-11-20 Thread Andres L. Figari
Hi Randi, I'm kind of new. But I think the problem is that your list-admin needs to look more like this n the aliases (example of one of mine): wbmutbb-digest-admin:"|/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner wbmutbb-digest" Perhaps plaining with the meaning of "mailowner" or via the web i

[Mailman-Users] MacOSX and BSD

2001-11-20 Thread Victor Spadaro
Has anyone, besides apple, installed mailman on an Mac OSX Server BSD box? If yes how? Help! TIA Vic -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with cookies in Mailman 2.0.7

2001-11-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Oliver Egginger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011120 18:08]: > Maybe this is a "Konqueror" or "KDE" problem. Mailman 2.0.7 > don't work with the "Konqueror" browser. I have successfully > tested MM 2.0.7. for Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, MS-Explorer and > Lynx. Yes, that was it. In Links it works fine. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

2001-11-20 Thread Dan Wilder
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:49:08AM -0800, Harold Paulson wrote: > > >Nov 15 21:51:02 2001 (5617) Could not acquire qrunner lock > > This is probably normal behavior. qrunner starts up from cron once a > minute. If there is a lock file laying around, it knows that an > older qrunner is still

[Mailman-Users] Wierd alias problem

2001-11-20 Thread Randi Tanner
Ok, I'm new to mailman, so if I'm missing something big, try to explain it in small words. ;) I'm installing mailman to handle 2 mailing lists for a webhosting company. I need to have 3 admins for each list. One of the lists is called linux-security. When I created this list, I gave it the admin

Re: [Mailman-Users] list archive question

2001-11-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:24:19 -0800 Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i noticed that *searchable* archives are on the wishlist. They are searchable -- you just need to use external (to Mailman) search tools. > is there an ETA for this feature? Nope. -- J C Lawrence -(*

Re: [Mailman-Users] a question about umbrella lists

2001-11-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:15:34 -0800 Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > some people like to subscribe only to vox, some only to vox-tech > and some to both vox and vox-tech. but in all of these cases, > they should only receive one copy of an email sent to > vox-announce. You are mis

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

2001-11-20 Thread Harold Paulson
>Nov 15 21:51:02 2001 (5617) Could not acquire qrunner lock This is probably normal behavior. qrunner starts up from cron once a minute. If there is a lock file laying around, it knows that an older qrunner is still active, and shuts itself down. That being said, this message worried me too

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail-aliases make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
That message my friend comes from the mailman wrapper itself. To change it you will have to recompile... Here is more of the message (straight from the code of the wrapper program): The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server. The most likel

Re: [Mailman-Users] a question about umbrella lists

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > This question should be in the FAQ. It is certainly in the archives enough. heh. the first thing i did was look at the FAQ. :-) went to the archives, but to be honest, searching through 20 or 30 months for something which may not be there seemed

Re: [Mailman-Users] a question about umbrella lists

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
This question should be in the FAQ. It is certainly in the archives enough. Umbrella list don't do what you are looking for. Look through the archives and you will find a nice little script that does exactly what you want. The script uses the ~mailman/bin/sync_members to move users from various

[Mailman-Users] list archive question

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i noticed that *searchable* archives are on the wishlist. imho, an archive is almost useless without some kind of search mechanism. is there an ETA for this feature? pete -- "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their prod

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail-aliases make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey ho, Ok, I've changed the entry's in /etc/aliases, and made newaliases, but now I get an error-message per mail: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.4K --] The original message was received at Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:54:02 +0100

[Mailman-Users] a question about umbrella lists

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi all, my linux user group runs 3 mailing lists: vox, vox-tech and vox-announce. i would like all subscribers of vox and vox-tech to also be subscribed to vox-announce (which only officers can post to). the trouble is, if vox-announce is an umbrella list for both vox and vox-announce, then peo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with cookies in Mailman 2.0.7

2001-11-20 Thread Oliver Egginger
Hello, Maybe this is a "Konqueror" or "KDE" problem. Mailman 2.0.7 don't work with the "Konqueror" browser. I have successfully tested MM 2.0.7. for Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, MS-Explorer and Lynx. Everyone works pretty good. Only "Konqueror" gives the named error (see my posts to this list). I h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with cookies in Mailman 2.0.7

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
What browser are you running? Have you tried it with different browsers? I ask, because some browsers are known to *not* store cookies properly. Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Björn Lindström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:49 AM

[Mailman-Users] Invoking an external script when creating a list

2001-11-20 Thread Armstrong, Scott Mr CECOM RDEC NVESD
I'm in the process of switching from pipermail to an external archiver. I've been trying to determine what program would need to be modified to call a local script when a new list is created. I need to do some additional housekeeping above and beyond that which is normally done. I believe I've ide

[Mailman-Users] Problem with cookies in Mailman 2.0.7

2001-11-20 Thread Björn Lindström
I recently upgraded from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7. I am running Mailman with Python 2.0 under OpenBSD. The problem is that in the web interface, Mailman gives the error message: "Error decoding authorization cookie" after _each_ pageload, and asks for the password again. When I try to change an option, I

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
I've seen this happen when the Admin has the database for a list locked while they make changes via the Web-interface. Once they log out and release their lock on the database then qrunner can access the list and send the waiting messages. I think it also happens when you send out to a large lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] wildcard for member_posting_only ?

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
Straight from the archives.. a solution using a procmail filter in ~mailman/filters/... Thanks to: Jo Brooks === Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Is there a simple way of only allowing posters > from a given domain or domains? > Eg can I use wildcards (eg *@*.tcd.ie) when specifying allowed posters? I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Domain-Aliases from bind make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
Check your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file (and your Defaults.py file) for your site. === # When true, Mailman will consider [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be the same address as # user@domain. If set to 0, Mailman will consider [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be the # same address as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but differen

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail-aliases make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jon Carnes
When you create a list in Mailman it prints out the aliases that you need to copy and then paste into your /etc/aliases file. Here is an example of a list called HR: hr:"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post hr" hr-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner hr" hr-request:

[Mailman-Users] mail-aliases make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey ho, In the mailman-documentation I've read that I should put mailman:root mailinglist:mailman mailinglist-request:mailman etc. in /etc/mail/aliases. But now, if so. sends a mail to mailinlist-request, the mail is in the end forwardet to root, and mailman can't process it. What can I do? Bye

[Mailman-Users] Domain-Aliases from bind make problems

2001-11-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey ho, I've installed mailman on my local server (server.server0.de). But I've also declared aliases for server in bind, like mail.server0.de, www.server0.de, etc. But now, when I go to http://www.server0.de/mailman/admin it's no problem, but http://www.server0.de/mailman/listinfo showes no list

[Mailman-Users] wildcard for member_posting_only ?

2001-11-20 Thread Peter Conrad
hi, is there a way to allow for example a complete domain to a list, while "member_posting_only" is set? I like to have all people from my domain posting to a list, but only a few others. Thanks Peter -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROT

[Mailman-Users] the mailman cookie

2001-11-20 Thread Oliver Egginger
How is mailmans authentification cookie encoded ? Is it encrypted ? - oliver -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] PHP integrating mailman

2001-11-20 Thread Francis Yap
Hi, Anyone has the slightest idea on how i can integrate mailman into a php system. As in i have a full portal developed in PHP, and in order to maintain the look and feel i need it to be able to integrate. Changing the UI of mailman is too tedious. So i am wondering if there is anyway that i ca

[Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

2001-11-20 Thread Lucas Hofman
Nov 15 21:51:02 2001 (5617) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 15 21:52:01 2001 (5619) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 15 21:53:02 2001 (5621) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 15 21:54:02 2001 (5623) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 15 21:55:03 2001 (5625) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov