[Mailman-Users] posting mails are not reaching

2001-12-13 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Title: posting mails are not reaching Dear all I have configured Mailman. From the browser am able to subscribe to the list and i also get acknowledgment/confirmation mail to appropriate mail id for subscribing. Later, after do a reply mail , i am unable to receive any mails from the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] attach file

2001-12-13 Thread John W Baxter
At 15:46 -0300 12/13/2001, Luciana Meneghel wrote: >How can I reject automaticly a message with attach file? >And How can I reject automaticly a message write in html? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.008.htp Why do I find it ironic that this query came with an attach

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
marina> We are running a list using Mailman 2, where most of the members marina> are totally computer illiterate, and cannot be bothered marina> understanding why or how to change their email settings. marina> As a result, this list digests include huge portions of HTML marin

[Mailman-Users] domain isn't in list of allowed rcpthosts

2001-12-13 Thread Ron Parker
Hello, Installed mailman 2.0.8 on Linux 7.2 system running qmail+vpopmail. Install appeared to work. Created list. I can access list admin. However, when I try to subscribe to list, the user doesn't get anything back. Looking at the logs, I see this (mail list is host4.scbbs.com, user trying t

[Mailman-Users] Questions about MailMan

2001-12-13 Thread David Steiner
Hi, I'm very impressed with your software and I would like to implement it on our Site, however, one of the features that our users are looking for is the ability to post an reply to messages from the Web interface. (YahooGroups has this functionality).  My questions are:   1) Will future ver

[Mailman-Users] attach file

2001-12-13 Thread Luciana Meneghel
How can I reject automaticly a message with attach file? And How can I reject automaticly a message write in html? Thanks. begin:vcard n:Meneghel;Luciana tel;home:http://www.ead.unicamp.br tel;work:Equipe EAD - Unicamp x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:CCUEC - UNICAMP;(19) 37882287 adr:;; version:2

[Mailman-Users] sendmail to posfix - stumped

2001-12-13 Thread Camel - Jay S . Curtis
Well, nothing is ever as easy as it seems... Anyone have any wisdom on completing the mailman conversion from sendmail to postfix? I guess I just don't understand the brief instrustions regarding getting mailman to work w/postfix -- Jay S. Curtis Camelid Listowner Alpacas Listowner member info

Re: [Mailman-Users] Editing Welcome-message

2001-12-13 Thread Tjalling Kikkert
On 12-12-2001 23:56 Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hey ho, > Can I change the messages from mailman? At the confirm-mail: That's not too difficult: edit verify.txt (/templates directory) the way you want it. Maybe even leave it empty. Same for userpass.txt. Use strings like: %(user)s %(listname)s %(passw

[Mailman-Users] posting to list getting dropped

2001-12-13 Thread Leonard Jacobs
I am running Mailman 2.0 under python 2.0 on a solaris system. The last two posts to my moderated only lists are not getting placed in the data directory, and they are not getting logged in the vette file. The messages are getting into the qfiles directory, and the only possible clue I can find

[Mailman-Users] Failure to exec script

2001-12-13 Thread Ron Parker
I finally got mailman working, somewhat. I can get to admin and listinfo pages with no problem. listinfo page sends subscription confirmation e-mail. However, when user replies to confirmation e-mail, I get this error in maillog: Dec 13 17:53:52 host4 Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec scri

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, marina wrote: > That's exactly it, Paul. Thank you for explaining it so clearly. > Sure, Python is easy to use and Mailman is well written, but we run > our list on a huge hosting server and we don't have admin privileges. > > Unfortunately, I'm afraid this also means we canno

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread marina
At 11:43 AM -0500 13/12/01 [dmy], you wrote about [Subject] Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?: >Or more likely, he has no control over the installation of the software on >the machine he's running the mailing list. If I let somebody set up a >mailing list on my site, using the copy of m

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to suppress List- info?

2001-12-13 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/13/01 2:35 PM, "William H. Sterner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a new list manager and haven't been able to figure out how to > suppress the following List- lines in each message from the > Administrator's manual. It's in the FAQ. ---

[Mailman-Users] SUMMARY: mailman v2.0.5 fails

2001-12-13 Thread pelicancomputers
A: several problems found and repaired: 1. DNS turned off 2. mm_cfg.py's SMTPHOST pointed to an alias only valid on the DNS server! 3. /etc/hosts' 127.0.0.1 not pointing to localhost 4. /etc/hosts' incorrectly paired hosts' hostname with its' IP address, nor was a valid alias paired correctly.

[Mailman-Users] how to suppress List- info?

2001-12-13 Thread William H. Sterner
I'm a new list manager and haven't been able to figure out how to suppress the following List- lines in each message from the Administrator's manual. My group is a small group of technical people, and I really want to eliminate this visual clutter, not to mention the wasted storage and bandwi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Looks like a possible bug in 2.0.8. When I get a chance, I'll test out a 2.0.8 site that I run and see if it does the same. If it does, I'll compare the code and see if I can isolate it... There was a message about two weeks ago that outlined the use ~mailman/bin/withlist. You should be able to

RE: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Idalski
And My very grievous oversight becomes apparent... well aside from hanging my head in embarrassment, I now see that the db is not corrupt after all: [root@lists bin]# ./check_db affiliates /home/mailman/lists/affiliates/config.db is fine /home/mailman/lists/affiliates/config.db.last is fine So,

RE: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Dan Mick
> Whoa... me thinks you're on to something, I'm running v2.08 which I upgraded > a few days ago. when i run chec_db on that particular db I get : > > > root@lists bin]# ./check_db ../lists/affiliates/config.db > /home/mailman/lists/../lists/affiliates/config.db/config.db cannot be > opened: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gateway a news group doesn't get first dozen messages

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
I probably didn't understand the question (or the problem...), but it sounds like you had a simple problem that some of the posts were ignored, but now everything is working fine.  This delay could have been a simple matter of when cron started up the proper scripts.    The current version o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Doesn't work: ./configure --with-mail-gid=12

2001-12-13 Thread Dan Mick
> When I try to send it commands, I get this bounce message from Sendmail: > >- Transcript of session follows - > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2. (Reconfigure to take > 2?) > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2 > > I understand what's happening here, but my attempts

Re: [Mailman-Users] Doesn't work: ./configure --with-mail-gid=12

2001-12-13 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Huh.. that worked, thanks! I guess I had my mental frame of reference wrong. I thought it was sendmail saying it Wanted 12, but I guess it was from Mailman's point of view. Thanks... Bryan On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 13:29, mel wrote: Well I thought the error message said it Wanted gid 12 and GOT

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
I still use tar. I had some problems with it 4 years ago, but it was easily fixable, and the next release corrected the problems. The main mis-belief about tar is that if one part goes bad (or is bad during the creation) then you can't get to the rest of the data. I'm sure this was true at one t

RE: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Idalski
Whoa... me thinks you're on to something, I'm running v2.08 which I upgraded a few days ago. when i run chec_db on that particular db I get : root@lists bin]# ./check_db ../lists/affiliates/config.db /home/mailman/lists/../lists/affiliates/config.db/config.db cannot be opened: Not a dire

Re: [Mailman-Users] domain isn't in my list of rcpthosts

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Here is a qmail newbie guide to relaying... http://www.palomine.net/qmail/relaying.html I'm not a q-mailer so can't tell how useful it is... - Original Message - From: "Ron Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:48 PM Subject: [Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
This is either a bug or an error in your config file. What version of Mailman are your running? Have run ~mailman/bin/check_db ~mailman/lists//config.db ??? Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Richard Idalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mailman-Users] document root

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
The list index page is created from a cgi-program called listinfo that is in the directory ~mailman/cgi-bin/.. An easy solution for you would be to write a small cgi that redirects to a static page or to another site, and call the cgi "listinfo" so that it replaces the current one. Jon Carnes --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
To stop sending mail to a bouncing address Mailman simply actives the nomail option for the offending address; however, at that point Mailman *does not* erase or zero out the bounces from the database. The bounce record is still in the database in the bounce_info{ } section. So it is likely that

RE: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Idalski
Thanks for the idea, I tried that and after removing them from the list and looking at the db dump, the addres is still in the bounce info section, but not in the members section... I know you can't edit the db's dirctly, so how would I go about taking this address out of the bounce info? Than

[Mailman-Users] Doesn't work: ./configure --with-mail-gid=12

2001-12-13 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Hi, I'm using Sendmail 8.12.1. I'm new to Mailman, just trying to get it working today. When I try to send it commands, I get this bounce message from Sendmail:    - Transcript of session follows - Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2.  (Reconfigure to take 2?)

[Mailman-Users] document root

2001-12-13 Thread Martin Skjoldebrand
If I want to make an alternative list index page what should be the document root? I've had a look in /home/mailman but can't see the correct page there anywhere. That is - I want users to go to http://lists.forumsyd.net; rather than http://www.forumsyd.net/mailman/listinfo So I need to give t

[Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Idalski
Alright, I've got a problem here with an email address bouncing that shouldn't be. Here are the results of the bounce log: Dec 13 10:35:49 2001 (7197) List-Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - exceeded limits Dec 13 10:35:49 2001 (7197) List-Name: already disabled [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alrig

[Mailman-Users] domain isn't in my list of rcpthosts

2001-12-13 Thread Ron Parker
Linux 7.2. mailman+qmail+vpopmail. An update from previous post. I took localhost.localdomain out of /etc/hosts. The ehlo changed from "localhost.localdomain" to "host4.scbbs.com" (64.233.20.66). In /etc/tcp.smtp: 1.2.3.6:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 64.233.20.66:allow,RELAYCLIENT="" 127.:allow,RELA

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:06:06PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /export/home2 > > Or my personal favourite > > tar cvfB - . | (cd /export/home2; tar xvBPf -) I've always stuck with cpio because I've heard that ta

[Mailman-Users] MM 2.1a3 compatible mailman-htdig patches

2001-12-13 Thread Richard Barrett
I have today posted revised versions of the following patches on sourceforge. These revisions address the significant changes in the Mailman source code from 2.0.X to 2.1a3. The patches should apply without complaint to the code published in mailman-2.1a4.tgz on sourceforge. Hopefully the revi

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:33:01AM -0600, Alex Sammons wrote: > >I have a question(a Unix question), what´s the best > > way to transport the files and directories of the > > users located in a ufs /export/home to another called > > /export/home2,

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:33:01AM -0600, Alex Sammons wrote: >I have a question(a Unix question), what´s the best > way to transport the files and directories of the > users located in a ufs /export/home to another called > /export/home2, i mean considering home directories, > passwords, etc

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Greg Ward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Please consider we have no access to the source code. > > Yes you do! Mailman is open source; everyone has access to the source > code. You may not have the expertise or resources to hack on it, but > that's *not* the same thing. Or more likely, he ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] two instances of mailman

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 December 2001, Rick Francis said: > i'm running 2.0.5...i want to install 2.0.8 in a seperate directory... > > how to i get the lists/databases into 2.0.8 while preserving 2.0.5?? Did you try copying the files in ~mailman/lists? That should work. Or if this is just for a "just-in-case" b

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 December 2001, marina said: > As a result, this list digests include huge portions of HTML coding - > which is perceived as extremely annoying by several users (including > some who choose to use HTML mail, of course). That's a FAQ: see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&

[Mailman-Users] Bounce recipient loop encountered

2001-12-13 Thread Carl Sweetland
Greetings, My Mailman has stopped sending messages. Everything has been working fine for months...but has stopped sending. It looks like all the mail recipients are bouncing. Snippit of Bounce Log: Dec 13 07:52:47 2001 (30096) Seattle_branch: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - exceeded limi ts Dec 13 07:52:

[Mailman-Users] Just a quick Q

2001-12-13 Thread Cagri Yucel
Hi all, I've configured mailman on the server a.blah.org, however I would like to use hostname b.blag.org for mailman operation. I set the hostname for the list to b.blah.org, so everything goes perfect, only the delivered messages Are coming from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I fix this ? I'm usi

[Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Alex Sammons
Hi there!!! I have a question(a Unix question), what´s the best way to transport the files and directories of the users located in a ufs /export/home to another called /export/home2, i mean considering home directories, passwords, etc??? Thanks!

[Mailman-Users] Gateway a news group doesn't get first dozen messages

2001-12-13 Thread Dean_Roberts
Hi folks, I have mailman 2.0.6 and when I gateway a news group the first couple of dozen messages are not gatewayed even though I have the "CatchUp" option set to No.  New incoming messages get gatewayed just fine. Both news groups are on the same news server and are configured the same.  Does a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman refusing to send remote emails.

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Not a qmail runner, so I can't be much help, still when I read your original message I thought you had a qmail problem with relaying. There is probably some switch or toggle you need to play with to allow qmail to relay when the incoming message is from localhost. If that isn't it, then I have n

[Mailman-Users] Speaking of spam... nice article

2001-12-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Mandrake Forum has a nice article on dealing with spam.  Though the articles focus is on Mandrake, the info is applicable to all linux distro's. The article focus is on Postfix and Qmail.   http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/spam.php

[Mailman-Users] two instances of mailman

2001-12-13 Thread Rick Francis
i'm running 2.0.5...i want to install 2.0.8 in a seperate directory... how to i get the lists/databases into 2.0.8 while preserving 2.0.5?? thanks. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, marina wrote: > Is there a way to tell Mailman to strip the HTML portions? There are a few different programs which can be installed along with Mailman (or one set of patches for Mailman) that strip HTML and attachments from messages before they are sent to the list. One tha

[Mailman-Users] hi

2001-12-13 Thread doug
hello:) I've success in mailman working with sendmail. Now I want to try mailman go with postfix. After I install postfix,and try to subscript a list for test. The mail send to my mail address as usual . I reply the mail and hope it's ok Unfortunately, my postfix reply a message very quickly: -