Re: [Mailman-Users] Update notification?

2002-01-15 Thread Jon Carnes
This is not a feature of Mailman, however there are various services on the internet that do this. You can set it up yourself fairly easily using things like lynx and diff. Jon Carnes On Tuesday 15 January 2002 16:42, Tahnee Hutchens wrote: > Hi...I'm curious as to whether or not a mailing l

Re: [Mailman-Users] cant get into admin screen

2002-01-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Check the ~mailman/locks/.. directory. If you have existing locks, look at the number on the end of the lock file and search your processes for that process number. ps aux Kill the processes that are running. Most likely you will have several lock files and only the last one will have an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Mailman to another Machine

2002-01-15 Thread Osmo Kujala
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: ... > ... if the paths are not the same on both machines, you'll have to > run ~mailman/bin/move_list on each list ... Move_list doesn't recreate public archive links (they have old path). This can be corrected by changing public archives private for a while. regards

[Mailman-Users] prefix

2002-01-15 Thread Martin Skjoldebrand
I installed mailman in /chroot/home/mailman by using ./configure --prefix=/chroot/home/mailman but when I now try to access the list home page (listinfo) as directed by the mailman server I get "There is no such page domain/mailman/listinfo/test. What to do? mvh/ Regards, Martin S. CTO, Forum

[Mailman-Users] After updrading to Rh 7.2

2002-01-15 Thread Islam, Sharif
I just upgraded to Rh 7.2 and am getting the infamous error: Mailman error: post got bad listname: test 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 My web interface was working fine. However, i went ahead and did a ./config --with-mail-gid=2 then i started getting the cgi-error in the web and

Re: [Mailman-Users] 'Sendmail' vs 'SMTPDirect' in RH7.2 RPM

2002-01-15 Thread Mike Gifford
Hi Barry, Thanks for your response on this.. I was able to get Sendmail to send me mail, but didn't receive anything with SMTPDirect On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 18:14, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > "MG" == Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | That the RH7.2 rpm sets the default to: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "aw" == alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: aw> Huh? Microsoft Exchange 2000 (you didn't specify a version, aw> assuming you are talking about the latest version) sends RFC aw> 1894 complaint NDRs. Dunno, but I'll have to look more closely when [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A special place in hell is reserved for the authors of MSExchange who > not only decided to roll their own, but also made the brilliant > decision to include absolutely nothing in the bounce message which > even hints at the remotest morsel of a clue

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCL> I knew I should have added an "in practice" there, but by the JCL> time I thought of that I got distracted by a phone call, hit JCL> send, and, well... Yeah, I knew you knew, JC. :) JCL> auto-bounce all Exchange conn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:22:19 -0500 Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The problem is that Mailman attempts the parse the body of a >> bounce to determine subscriber address. As the message body >> format is not standardised thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCL> The problem is that Mailman attempts the parse the body of a JCL> bounce to determine subscriber address. As the message body JCL> format is not standardised this is an error prone process JCL> (which also explains the

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> I would find it helpful if mailman distinguished addresses for users >> asking to go "no mail" and bouncing addresses mailman disabled. Dan> Part of 2.1 Praise ! Thx, Skip -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: [Mailman-Users] 'Sendmail' vs 'SMTPDirect' in RH7.2 RPM

2002-01-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MG" == Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | That the RH7.2 rpm sets the default to: | # DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' | DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' MG> So I just needed to switch this around and uncomment the MG> Sendmail and I can now send messages withou

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Dan Mick
> I > would find it helpful if mailman distinguished addresses for users asking to > go "no mail" and bouncing addresses mailman disabled. Part of 2.1 -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/m

[Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
I run a mailman-managed mailing list with about 250 subscribers. In December, through no fault of mailman's I f*cked up my sendmail installation. Consequently, lots of mail to this list bounced and mailman obligingly disabled the bouncing addresses (about 140 addresses all told). Once my sendm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:18:36 -0500 Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some email systems send "bounces" from some weird addresses (as > apposed to Mailer-Daemon, or some such address). A bounce is sole identified by having a null return address in the envelope, and by nothing else. None

Re: [Mailman-Users] cant get into admin screen

2002-01-15 Thread tdavis
This is bothering me. I removed this list, not the archives. Added back in. Tried getting to the admin page, can't. Like I said, I can still get to any other lists' admin page. Help please as I need to do some work to this list. :) -- Terry Davis Systems Administrator BirdDog Solutions,

[Mailman-Users] cant get into admin screen

2002-01-15 Thread tdavis
I have several lists but I cant seem to get into one of the lists' admin screens. I get to the password screen but it hangs after I type in my password. There is a process that is started after this but I dont know what is going on to fix it. web 25869 0.6 0.7 4540 2968 ?S

[Mailman-Users] Update notification?

2002-01-15 Thread Tahnee Hutchens
Hi...I'm curious as to whether or not a mailing list can automatically send an e-mail to its subscribers whenever a certain website is updated?  If so, how do I do that?

Re: [Mailman-Users] no require password for unsubscribe?

2002-01-15 Thread tdavis
I was pondering this idea. Great idea it is too. But is there a way to get the email address from the FROM headers rather than have them explicity put it in the subject line ? I see a problem in the FROM headers where they can have a bunch of stuff in there like name and whatever else like "Fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving Mailman to another Machine

2002-01-15 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Tina Harshbarger wrote: > I need to move my lists to another machine. Can I simply copy over the > /lists directory? Or is there another "approved" way to do this? I don't > want to have to setup these 30 lists again and try to get subscriber > lists, etc. You can copy your ~mailman/lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread Jon Carnes
> > > Other bounces (that come back in a non-standard format that Mailman can't > > interpret), will be posted to the admin for handling (assuming you have the > > list set so that only members or admin's can post). These messages are > > stored in ~mailman/data/.. > > How do you define "other bo

[Mailman-Users] HTML Email

2002-01-15 Thread Tom Warfield
Yeah I know ...yuk yuk don't send me any html emails. But I just noticed something in MailMan that is strange. If I send a HTML email to the lists it sends it on perfectly fine to all the list subscribers. But the footer that I want attached to all emails sent to the list doesn't show up at all

[Mailman-Users] Prob: Porting Mailman to an another Host

2002-01-15 Thread Robert Einsle
Hy * I've set up Mailman on our Testing Host, and now i copyed the Lists to our produktion host with config_list -o .. and config_list -i But on the Produktion-System i cannot set the Admin-Password on the List. I've run check_db, check_perms with no errors. I set the Password with the Site-Pass,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman & Htdig integration (with external archiver)

2002-01-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:13:33 +0100 (CET) Sasa Janiska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a newbie for Mailman and have to setup Mailman with external > archiver... http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.003.htp http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.004

[Mailman-Users] Help with INSTALL Step 4

2002-01-15 Thread Tim Legg
This thread was formally titled as below. I thought it was vague, so here continues my quest for mailman. Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] I don't really know what is right or wrong Here is my update to everybody out there who has helped me. Everybody's info was very helpful! I have apa

[Mailman-Users] 'Sendmail' vs 'SMTPDirect' in RH7.2 RPM

2002-01-15 Thread Mike Gifford
Hello, Answering my previous question, I just found in: Mailman/Defaults.py That the RH7.2 rpm sets the default to: # DELIVERY_MODULE = 'Sendmail' DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' So I just needed to switch this around and uncomment the Sendmail and I can now send messages

[Mailman-Users] Troubles with lists....

2002-01-15 Thread Ramon F. Tecolt G,
Hi everybody. I installed last version of mailman in a Solaris 8 operating system everything it's ok i can generate newlists, i put the aliases onto my /etc/aliases file... i can suscribe to the list, it arrives the first message, but when i do the reply to the message it's when i have tro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Performance Question (or is it a bug ?)

2002-01-15 Thread Richard Barrett
At 14:06 15/01/2002 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi there. > >I think I have a little problem with my Mailman >installation. >I used the standard SuSE package from an 7.3 installation >on a little Pentium I 166MHz. > >My Problem : >Little attachments to my messages are queued quite well. >But

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman & Htdig integration (with external archiver)

2002-01-15 Thread Richard Barrett
At 14:33 15/01/2002 +0100, Sasa Janiska wrote: >On Today, -, Richard Barrett wrote: > >Hi Richard! >Thank you very much for your reply. > > > This is a straight htdig configuration issue. At the minimum you will have > > to add start_url directives to htdig's conf file for each of the list > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] users on a page

2002-01-15 Thread mark_fried
Oh, and I don't have access to the server or anything. Sorry, I should have added that. Mark Fried AlphaCadia Plc http://www.alphacadia.co.uk - End of message text The information contained in this communiqué is confidential, and is intended only for the

Re: [Mailman-Users] users on a page

2002-01-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could anyone tell me if there is any way of getting more than 30 > people on my membership management page at one time. I'm running > 2.0.5, and having 30 at a time for over 3000 email addresses is a > tad annoying! hehe. Look at the variable DEFAU

[Mailman-Users] users on a page

2002-01-15 Thread mark_fried
Hi All,   Could anyone tell me if there is any way of getting more than 30 people on my membership management page at one time. I'm running 2.0.5, and having 30 at a time for over 3000 email addresses is a tad annoying! hehe.   Regards,   Mark Fried AlphaCadia Plc http://www.alphacadia.co.uk

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman & Htdig integration (with external archiver)

2002-01-15 Thread Sasa Janiska
On Today, -, Richard Barrett wrote: Hi Richard! Thank you very much for your reply. > This is a straight htdig configuration issue. At the minimum you will have > to add start_url directives to htdig's conf file for each of the list > archives or ensure that links from one of the start_url d

[Mailman-Users] Performance Question (or is it a bug ?)

2002-01-15 Thread thomas . minor
Hi there. I think I have a little problem with my Mailman installation. I used the standard SuSE package from an 7.3 installation on a little Pentium I 166MHz. My Problem : Little attachments to my messages are queued quite well. But with big attachements, that is 4 MBytes an up, it performs mis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread Morten Brix Pedersen
Hi Jon, * Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-01-14 19:00:41]: > So the problem is that you want a list of the email addresses that are > undeliverable, so they can be removed from the database (either manually or > via a script). Right. > Mailman does some of this. You can read the ~mailman/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman & Htdig integration (with external archiver)

2002-01-15 Thread Richard Barrett
At 12:13 15/01/2002 +0100, Sasa Janiska wrote: >Hi! > >I'm a newbie for Mailman and have to setup Mailman with external >archiver (which one goes better with Mailman: Mhonarc or Hypermail?) and >Htdig search engine for one non-profit web-oriented educational >institution. > >The search engine shou

[Mailman-Users] Mailman & Htdig integration (with external archiver)

2002-01-15 Thread Sasa Janiska
Hi! I'm a newbie for Mailman and have to setup Mailman with external archiver (which one goes better with Mailman: Mhonarc or Hypermail?) and Htdig search engine for one non-profit web-oriented educational institution. The search engine should serve searching of the whole site + different mailin