[Mailman-Users] Administrate mailman from shell

2001-11-29 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, Is there a way to configure mailman completely from the shell? It don't has to be compfortable, it only is for scripts etc... I've heard somewhere that it's possible. The cgi-bin-scripts also only can execute probrams, he? Is there a howto for administrate and configure mailman from the she

[Mailman-Users] postfix + mysql + mailman

2001-11-29 Thread John Indra
Hi all... I am very new to Mailman. I just finished setting up a machine to be a mailhub. The MTA is postfix. This machine will be a mailhub for a number of domains. After careful planning, I decide to use MySQL to serve the postfix alias and such. I have succeeded in configuring postfix to ser

Re: [Mailman-Users] install on RH7.2

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Wilder
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:40:44PM -0900, Andy Firman wrote: > Trying to install on RH7.2 and I am a beginner. > Follow all directions exactly except when > it says to make sure /home/mailman has > the setgid bit set (I have NO clue what that means) > > When I do ./configure I get this error: >

[Mailman-Users] install on RH7.2

2001-11-29 Thread Andy Firman
Trying to install on RH7.2 and I am a beginner. Follow all directions exactly except when it says to make sure /home/mailman has the setgid bit set (I have NO clue what that means) When I do ./configure I get this error: error: no acceptable cc found in $path please help --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Headers

2001-11-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:23:01 -0800 Thomas Chung wrote: > How do I remove following mail headers? FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.001.htp -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman for maillist, namazu for search

2001-11-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:24:24 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis wrote: > Just thought I'd point you'll to something I've done. While not > completely integrated yet, I've got a preliminary system where > mailman is used as the mailing list system, and namazu is used to > index and search the archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman for maillist, namazu for search

2001-11-29 Thread Jon Carnes
Looks cool. How did you do it, and what are the current problems with the way it's setup/working? Jon On Thursday 29 November 2001 13:54, Philip S Tellis wrote: > Just thought I'd point you'll to something I've done. While not > completely integrated yet, I've got a preliminary system where m

[Mailman-Users] Dumping Archived Mail / Upgrading to 2.0.8

2001-11-29 Thread Jeffrey M. Kenton
Hello. If I want to dump the old mail archives from a list, is there an easy way? Do I need to re-run a script to get the web interface to indicate that there is no archive anymoe? On another front, some people have asked recently about upgrading. I upgraded from 2.0.6 to 2.0.8 by downloading

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing and bouncing

2001-11-29 Thread Joel Webb
FOund out what it is. Please make sure your relaying is enabled for your localhost.localdomain. and also make sure your relaying is enabled for 127.0.0.1 Check it out in the /etc/mail/access file George Galang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Joel Webb wrote: > >> Does anybod

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing and bouncing

2001-11-29 Thread George Galang
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Joel Webb wrote: > Does anybody know where I could get some documentation on how to fix > a bouncing problem. > > It looks like every address except my own personal domain addresses > are being bounced. That is exactly the problem I am having. I haven't gotten an answer y

[Mailman-Users] Mail Headers

2001-11-29 Thread Chung, Thomas
How do I remove following mail headers? X-BeenThere X-Mailman-Version List-Help List-Post List-Subscribe List-Id List-Unsubscribe List-Archive Thank you Thomas Chung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://m

[Mailman-Users] Mailman for maillist, namazu for search

2001-11-29 Thread Philip S Tellis
Just thought I'd point you'll to something I've done. While not completely integrated yet, I've got a preliminary system where mailman is used as the mailing list system, and namazu is used to index and search the archives. You can see it at work at http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/search/linux

RE: [Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command

2001-11-29 Thread Grace, Terry
Title: RE: [Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command I'm running 2.0.6 -Original Message- From: Greg Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" comman

[Mailman-Users] How to open

2001-11-29 Thread PPP
I'm having difficulty opening the mailman setup file could you please tell me how? Phil.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman listinstallations

2001-11-29 Thread Dale Newfield
Sorry for this double intrusion, but I must apologize for the first unintentional one. I had intended to cancel that composition instead of sending it--sorry for filling your mailboxes with messages empty of content. -Dale Newfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman listinstallations

2001-11-29 Thread Dale Newfield
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > [S]o I mail them. No trust models required other than the fact that > I'm implicitly exposing the tarballs en-route to interception, and > thus the password/membership base as well. Well, that would be a > problem except that the root account on that bo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-29 Thread Jon Carnes
You might want to include your site link in the FAQ-o-matic to point folks to your solution for grabbing extra information and storing it. Jon - Original Message - From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday,

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Geoffrey King
That appears to of fixed the problem. Thanks :) -Original Message- From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 November 2001 08:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Try: ./

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Try: ./configure --prefix=/home/mailman --with-mail-gid=65534 --with-cgi-gid=nogr oup Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:10

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-29 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
"Bob Puff@NLE" wrote: > You mean like the script I posted at: > http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman You forgot the .htm after that: http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-29 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks Greg! It's useful information. > > Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and > it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that > collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that > CGI will then email Mailman to start the

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Geoffrey King
No change :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Tomblin Sent: 29 November 2001 07:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix Quoting Geoffrey King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The cgi's are working fine. > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Geoffrey King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The cgi's are working fine. > > I've checked the main.cf and it reads as follows. > > default_privs = nobody In my main.cf, that line is commented out. Try that. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not speaking for anybody Any sufficiently advanc

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Geoffrey King
The cgi's are working fine. I've checked the main.cf and it reads as follows. default_privs = nobody so.. I reran configure with the --with-mail-gid=nobody But it complained that nobody is not a group. Indeed it isn't. The group that servers that funcion on SuSE is 'nogroup'. I tried that too.

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachments ... HELP!

2001-11-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:58:20 -0600 (CST) Paul L Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I set up mailman list to remove attachments on posts? FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.008.htp > Is there an effective virus/worm scanner for mailman on a linux

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Geoffrey King
I've changed the gid of wrapper to postfix. The error is unchanged. Is there anyway I can stop postfix from doing this check? -Original Message- From: Paul Tomblin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 November 2001 06:23 To: Geoffrey King Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce Options

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Wilder
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:35:21AM -0500, Clark Cooper wrote: > I am running Mailman 2.0.8 and am wondering how the Bounce Options in > the Admin menus work. Basically, I would like to automatically disable > an account for X number of bounces. My testing does not show any such > actions taken f

[Mailman-Users] attachments ... HELP!

2001-11-29 Thread Paul L. Schumacher
How do I set up mailman list to remove attachments on posts? Is there an effective virus/worm scanner for mailman on a linux box with postfix? thanks in advance!, Paul L. Schumacher Winona State University Computer Science Department -- Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
[original problem] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd hlmods". Command output: Failure to > exec script. WANTED gid 51, GOT gid 65534. (Reconfigure to take 65534?) [my suggestion] > Read the error message again. Then read this entry

Re: [Mailman-Users] sudden mailman problem

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 29 November 2001, Kory Wheatley said: > Mailman 2.0.7 has been working fine on a RED HAT 7.2 machine without a > configuration change and all of a sudden it's not delivering messages, > all of the messages have been just setting in the /home/mailman/qfiles > directory. [...] > SMTP file > Nov 2

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Geoffrey King
Attempting to do that gives the following error. checking for mail wrapper GID... configure: error: * No existing group found for the mail_wrapper program. * This is the group that your mail delivery agent runs under, and * uses to run filter programs. You might want to specify an **

[Mailman-Users] sudden mailman problem

2001-11-29 Thread Kory Wheatley
Mailman 2.0.7 has been working fine on a RED HAT 7.2 machine without a configuration change and all of a sudden it's not delivering messages, all of the messages have been just setting in the /home/mailman/qfiles directory. No configuration changes have been made. I stopped sendmail and restart i

[Mailman-Users] Bouncing and bouncing

2001-11-29 Thread Joel Webb
Does anybody know where I could get some documentation on how to fix a bouncing problem. It looks like every address except my own personal domain addresses are being bounced. Any suggestions?? -- Respectfully, Joel Webb WebbGroup Network Systems LLC www.webbgroup.net 336.841.7241 --

Re: [Mailman-Users] [OT] Digests in general (was: MIME Digests)

2001-11-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:28:04 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this is straying off topic. I really have one problem with > the Digests, MIME or otherwise, which is that someone almost > always seems to reply to a message in a digest, and includes the > entire digest in their

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:08:47 -0600 Thomas T Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My only problem with this is that it still leaves config.db for > each list in a binary format. Yup, this is for backups, not inter-system portability. > So, I can not simply place it on a Linux platform and m

[Mailman-Users] Slows down takes days to send the mail.

2001-11-29 Thread SpookyPlaces
Does anyone have any ideas why all of my mailman mailing lists have slowed down and takes days for them to send the mail out ? I have several on two different domains and they have all slowed down. At last check it was taking 3 to 4 days for them to send the mail. I have a feeling it may be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "GW" == Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GW> Mailman ".db" files, despite the name, are *not* Berkeley DB GW> files. They are Python marshall files. (In Mailman 2.1, they GW> will be called ".pck" and become Python pickle files.) GW> In any event, I'm pretty sure th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 29 November 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse said: > If that is the case, then are these files portable between Python > implementations and versions? Yes, with the proviso that the format for Python bytecode (which is also stored in marshal files -- you see them as .pyc files) usually changes with e

Re: [Mailman-Users] [OT] Digests in general (was: MIME Digests)

2001-11-29 Thread Jon Carnes
Some things we manage via technology, others with a big stick... This is a "big stick" item. Jon === On Thursday 29 November 2001 08:28, Bill Moseley wrote: > Ok, this is straying off topic. > > I really have one problem with the Digests, MIME or otherwise, which is > that someone almost always

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Jon Carnes
Feel free to create such a script. It should be fairly easy - if tedious to do: ../bin/config_list will easily dump out the entire list configuration in text format, and it will also easily dump it right back into a list... ../bin/list_members will let you dump out the user lists into groups

[Mailman-Users] Bounce Options

2001-11-29 Thread Clark Cooper
I am running Mailman 2.0.8 and am wondering how the Bounce Options in the Admin menus work.  Basically, I would like to automatically disable an account for X number of bounces.  My testing does not show any such actions taken for X bounces for an invalid list member email address.    I have

[Mailman-Users] Problem with checkdbs script

2001-11-29 Thread Gedaliah Wolosh
Hi This script produces the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 92, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 43, in main count = mlist.NumRequestsPending() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 96, in Nu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
> Mailman ".db" files, despite the name, are *not* Berkeley DB files. > They are Python marshall files. (In Mailman 2.1, they will be called > ".pck" and become Python pickle files.) > > In any event, I'm pretty sure they are platform independent. If that is the case, then are these files porta

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 29 November 2001, Thomas T. Veldhouse said: > My only problem with this is that it still leaves config.db for each list in > a binary format. So, I can not simply place it on a Linux platform and move > the list from a FreeBSD platform which was running a different version of > Python and a di

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 29 November 2001, Geoffrey King said: > This has probably been answered a thousand times before but I have a problem > with postfix+mailman on Suse 7.2 Linux. At *least* a thousand times. ;-) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd hlmods".

Re: [Mailman-Users] help

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 28 November 2001, Matt Garman said: > Currently, the way the list is configured for us, we only have email > addresses listed. I would like to have a field for names to be included as > well, in tandem with the addresses; this way we can easily determine by > member's names whether someone

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 November 2001, Grace, Terry said: > Anyone have any idea why I started getting these during the daily digest run > and/or how to fix? Thanks for any help. > [...] > File "/opt/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 313, in Present > lines.append(self.__mlist.digest_footer % self.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
My only problem with this is that it still leaves config.db for each list in a binary format. So, I can not simply place it on a Linux platform and move the list from a FreeBSD platform which was running a different version of Python and a different version of Berkley DB. So -- I need a script t

Re: [Mailman-Users] [OT] Digests in general (was: MIME Digests)

2001-11-29 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I really have one problem with the Digests, MIME or otherwise, which is > that someone almost always seems to reply to a message in a digest, and > includes the entire digest in their reply, and often with a worthless subject. > > I can catch some of th

[Mailman-Users] [OT] Digests in general (was: MIME Digests)

2001-11-29 Thread Bill Moseley
Ok, this is straying off topic. I really have one problem with the Digests, MIME or otherwise, which is that someone almost always seems to reply to a message in a digest, and includes the entire digest in their reply, and often with a worthless subject. I can catch some of those with message li