[Mailman-Users] qrunner and db errors.

2001-12-20 Thread Deanna Phillips
Hi, We recently moved our old Mailman list server (sendmail and Mailman 2.0) to a new machine (Postfix and Mailman 2.0.6). Since then I've noticed that qfiles seem to be getting corrupted: from ~mailman/logs/qrunner, lots of messages like this: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local

[Mailman-Users] html email

2001-12-20 Thread Joe Saladino
Hi: I have been using Majordomo for some time now and it is causing a problem with things like long html links. I was wondering if Mailman will work with HTML code or just plain text like Majordomo and if it will support attachments. Thanks for your help

Re: [Mailman-Users] loops with "out of office/vacation" autoresponders

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:18:33 -0500 Robert Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do I not see more of this on other lists that I participate > in? A more clueful user base? > How do listservers in general deal with "vacation" autoresponder > loops? Ultimately there is nothing you can do.

Re: [Mailman-Users] file attachments

2001-12-20 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, David Dow wrote: > Hi, how do you strip file attachments from messages sent to mailman? > I can't find that option in setup... You get a 3rd party tool which strips it, or you download the unsupported patches to do so from sourceforge. http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.pl

Re: [Mailman-Users] loops with "out of office/vacation" autoresponders

2001-12-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
[ ... 5000 "I'm away for the holidays" messages - what fun ... ] Robert> Why do I not see more of this on other lists that I participate Robert> in? I manage the Xforms list, using Majordomo. I've never seen Robert> such a loop on Xforms. What is happening that makes lists her

[Mailman-Users] html email

2001-12-20 Thread Joe Saladino
Title: html email Hi: I have been using Majordomo for some time now and it is causing a problem with things like long html links.  I was wondering if Mailman will work with HTML code or just plain text like Majordomo and if it will support attachments. Thanks for your help - Later,   Jo

[Mailman-Users] file attachments

2001-12-20 Thread David Dow
Hi, how do you strip file attachments from messages sent to mailman? I can't find that option in setup... thanks. David [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://gholam.ph.ucla.edu/~davidd/

[Mailman-Users] Limited Posting

2001-12-20 Thread Nissley_Ron/EMM
BDY.RTF Description: RTF file

[Mailman-Users] Is it possible??

2001-12-20 Thread Daniel Abad
Hi, I´m using mailman nowadays but what I really need is to authenticate an user without use password... could it be possible??? I wanna subscribe any users without password. Does anybody knows about some pacth?? Tks, Daniel Martins Abad

[Mailman-Users] loops with "out of office/vacation" autoresponders

2001-12-20 Thread Robert Williams
I've just been bitten by a "vacation" autoresponder setting up a loop with a mailman list I just started up. 5000 messages were sent to the members of the list before it was caught. This is not the first time that I've seen a massive loop response to an email listserver at our institution, (wher

RE: [Mailman-Users] Install Problem - Exim - Child Process Error

2001-12-20 Thread Chris Goh
hi marc. the logs are kept in the mailman/logs dirit will show that it has problem with gid.you need to reconfig with set-gid=mailmanthen make install again least that was what i did to fix it -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [Mailman-Users] Setting up a new list

2001-12-20 Thread Richard Idalski
I'm running a very similar setup with freeBSD 4.3/Postfix/mailman v2.08. In my opinion you'd be better off skipping the bsd port and just downloading the src for the latest stable mailman, ie: v.2.08. From there it should be a very clean and painless install. -Richard Idalski -Original Me

[Mailman-Users] Setting up a new list

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Legg
Running FreeBSD 4.4/Postfix/Mailman 2.0.5 I installed mailman via FreeBSD ports hierarchy a few days ago. I am playing around trying to get a test mailing list celled 'test'. Afterreading Chris Kolar's docs and the list.org docs, I got brave enough to try running the ./bin/newuser script. I got

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/20/01 11:56 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Really? I manage two larger than that (neither on mailman). > > Hurm. In my context above I'm assuming that "list" does not cover > marketing lists per se but only what we'd historically/'net-wise > consider a "mailing list" So

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:33:32 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/20/01 1:01 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Interesting. That is a suspiciously large number given that the >> second largest known list on the planet has just over 2 million >> subscribers.

Re: [Mailman-Users] qfiles building up + (111, 'Connection refused')

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:45:22 +0100 imagine media Simon wrote: > I am sure that both localhost + the list domain are relayed > through sendmail. How would you suggest I best test this to closly > mirror the way qrunner trys to mail? Telnet to "localhost smtp" and then manually drive SMTP to sen

[Mailman-Users] Shell Error 2 ???

2001-12-20 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm having problems installing mailman. I installed it but I get this error (running with exim) This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following addre

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/20/01 1:01 AM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names >> mailman can handle at a single time? > > Explicitly no. In terms of runtime resource consumption, yes. I'd be very wary, unless you have really large iron. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email Traffic Count

2001-12-20 Thread Jon Carnes
You should be able to write something up fairly easily that uses the logs and sends you a daily running tally. - Original Message - From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:14 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Email Traffic Count

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Jay S Curtis
It *used* to be Art Bell's list... On Thursday 20 December 2001 08:48 am, you wrote: > J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Dec 2001, at 1:01: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:47 -0800 > -- > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Marcel Hicking
J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Dec 2001, at 1:01: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:47 -0800 > Kevin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of > > names mailman can handle at a single time? > > Explicitly no. In terms of runtime reso

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish List Addon - strip all put photos?????

2001-12-20 Thread Jay S Curtis
Will any of these allow a one specific type of attachment (like JPG) and filter out or strip all others?? (Listserv did this a while ago) On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:29 pm, you wrote: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.013.htp > > > Is there away to have mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating from majordomo

2001-12-20 Thread Michael B. Weiner
No i have 4.2G free on the disk Jon Carnes wrote: >Are you out of disk space? > -- Michael B. Weiner, Linux+, Linux+ SME Systems Administrator/Partner The UserFriendly Network (UFN) -- Linux Registered User #94900Have you been counted? http://counter.li.org PGP: 30 1D CC BA 30 30 63 35 C

Re: [Mailman-Users] Got the bug screen

2001-12-20 Thread Martin Skjoldebrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >You will need to modify a setting in your >~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file >(see the Defaults.py file for information). I think the >setting is: > ># When set, the listinfo web page overview of lists on the >machine will be ># confined to only those lists whose web_page

Re: [Mailman-Users] qfiles building up + (111, 'Connectionrefused')

2001-12-20 Thread Simon, imagine media
I am sure that both localhost + the list domain are relayed through sendmail. How would you suggest I best test this to closly mirror the way qrunner trys to mail? simon * Simon Lorenz Systems Modelling Imagine Media Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kennel House, Hammersley Lane, Penn, Bucks

Re: [Mailman-Users] qfiles building up + (111, 'Connection refused')

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:26:12 +0100 imagine media Simon wrote: > Which is not too helpful. Thoughts please?! Will you relay messages received from localhost? Will your MTA relay for the domain the list is sending from? (check your MTA logs). Note: Please do not send HTML to mailing lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] qfiles building up + (111, 'Connectionrefused')

2001-12-20 Thread Simon, imagine media
Title: Re: [Mailman-Users] qfiles building up + (111, 'Connection refused') The problem is definitely related to the interface settings for python to sendmail mailing. PHP and Pine both send email successfully to both locally and remotely hosted addresses. For interest I have found similar error

Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:37:47 -0800 Kevin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names > mailman can handle at a single time? Explicitly no. In terms of runtime resource consumption, yes. > Our company has a list of several million op

[Mailman-Users] Capacity

2001-12-20 Thread Kevin Phillips
Hi, I'm Kevin and new to this list. Love mailman - it's great! Are there any capacity limitations as far as the number of names mailman can handle at a single time? Our company has a list of several million opt-in names that we want to transfer to mailman. So I guess it's two questions: 1)Can m