[Mailman-Users] admin features via email vs web

2002-02-12 Thread Mike Chambers
Can an admin do mailman functions via email, like approve emails on a moderated list, instead of using the web? Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY Netlyncs -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

2002-02-12 Thread Jon Carnes
Interesting. That wouldn't be too hard to write up... For my purposes I just toss anything that gets held and I like that setup, but I can see your point. Still the real solution here is to stop spam from entering your site period. You should look at using the RBL and a few other anti-spaming t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error decoding authorization cookie

2002-02-12 Thread Jon Carnes
That's a browser specific problem.  What browser are you using?   Also, I have seen this problem with some IE installs where the standard security is properly set (note, it is NOT set too high).  To get IE to work in this circumstance you will have to mark the site as a trusted site in your

[Mailman-Users] Minor Mailman problem

2002-02-12 Thread Bob Sully
I received the monthly reminder from mailman earlier this month regarding the two mailing lists that I administer. I noted an error in the message, as follows: "If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks!" ^ There'

[Mailman-Users] new list now shown in admin list

2002-02-12 Thread Thomas Maier
Dear all, I have created a new mailing list but it is not listed in the admin interface. But typing in the mailing lists directory name in the URL works fine. So the list exists, we are even using it for two weeks now, but it simply doesn´t show up in the admin interface. Help would be appriciate

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderated list and administrator

2002-02-12 Thread Matthias Jaenichen
At 11:11 11.02.02 +0100, Solignani Tiziano wrote: > How come in moderated list posts from administrator needs > approval from the >administrator itself? Do you know if there is a workaround for this? I have >a list which I would like to use for announcement only, so that I set it to >mode

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enforcing ASCII in a list

2002-02-12 Thread Alan L. Waller
Content-Type: .*multipart Content-Type: .*mixed Content-Type: .*rich >I want to look at your solution, but in the meantime, what could be placed >in the "Hold posts with" area to stop HTML and attachments?? -- Mailman-Users maillist -

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Newbie Questions

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Gray
I'm new to Mailman and I couldn't find answers to these questions easily in the documentation: (1) I'm concerned about mailstorms. What storm prevention mechanisms are in place? I can see that if we checked not metoo for every subscriber, that would prevent mailstorms. I have the sense, though, t

[Mailman-Users] Feature requests

2002-02-12 Thread Rich Salz
It would be nice to search the membership list for a text string, to find a particular bouncing member. It would be nice to be able to download the mailing list. -- Zolera Systems, http://www.zolera.com Information Integrity, XML Security -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature requests

2002-02-12 Thread Dan Mick
> It would be nice to search the membership list for a text string, to > find a particular bouncing member. 1) find_member does that from the command line 2) 2.1 has a feature like that on the web page (regexp, in fact) > It would be nice to be able to download the mailing list. You mean the

[Mailman-Users] changing to plain text

2002-02-12 Thread cathy munro
I hope you can help. we're using mailman for two lists for greyhound rescue and adoption. we would like to have the lists only accept plain text but we can't seem to make it work that way. there is an option to check for plain text in the membership options and everyone has that checked - w

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing to plain text

2002-02-12 Thread Dan Mick
> I hope you can help. we're using mailman for two lists for greyhound > rescue and adoption. we would like to have the lists only accept plain > text but we can't seem to make it work that way. there is an option to > check for plain text in the membership options and everyone has that >

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and qmail and vpopmail, oh my..

2002-02-12 Thread Robbie Honerkamp
Fast question: Can I configure mailman to recognize two mail UIDs? Long version: I'm running qmail and vpopmail. vpopmail is a virtual domain system that works with qmail. Both programs have their own UIDs: Qmail uses 1012, vpopmail uses 89. Both interact with Mailman. Obviously this causes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search the archives?

2002-02-12 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > Heiko Rommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about using MHonArc > > > > http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html#whatis > > MHonArc just archives. Wilma wraps MHonArc and Glimpse to get you > search-able archives: > > http://www.hpc.uh.e

[Mailman-Users] Mailman

2002-02-12 Thread Eric Baker
I've just had a number of sites migrated to a new server using the Mailman list software. The new software has a lot of nice features, but I'd like a more basic list program. I just need for people to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe. I'd like the list administrator to be the ONLY one to

[Mailman-Users] Error decoding authorization cookie

2002-02-12 Thread Martin
Every time I try to admin the site I receive  "Error decoding authorization cookie" Any suggestions on how to fix this.   Martin Gnyp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search the archives?

2002-02-12 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Heiko Rommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about using MHonArc > > http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html#whatis MHonArc just archives. Wilma wraps MHonArc and Glimpse to get you search-able archives: http://www.hpc.uh.edu/majordomo/#wilma I have set up a large archive that is i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search the archives?

2002-02-12 Thread Heiko Rommel
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Damon Linkous wrote: > Are the Mailman generated archives searchable? I've looked through the list.org site >and don't see > any reference, and the Mailman list I'm on doesn't have that feature. Can it be >added? > > Second, the list I'd like to move to Mailman is a group a

Re: [Mailman-Users] goodbye_msg problem?

2002-02-12 Thread Heiko Rommel
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Charles Sebold wrote: > On 26 Shevat 5762, Charles Sebold wrote: > > > When one of our lists has the following as goodbye_msg, it breaks the > > unsubscribe message. Some of the headers are inserted _after_ the > > goodbye message. Any ideas? Running Debian's Mailman 2.0.8

Re: [Mailman-Users] wrapper seems to not be sgid'ing..

2002-02-12 Thread Heiko Rommel
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Mark Ash wrote: > Am trying to run mailman v2.0.8 with postfix on SuSE v7.2. Am getting > the error at the bottom of the page. I've rebuilt, installed and > configured mailman. I built it using the correct gid values for mail > and cgi. > I ran the check_perms and when it

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

2002-02-12 Thread Heiko Rommel
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, WJCarpenter wrote: > [[This is so irritating (after a while) that I can't believe it's not > a more popular gripe. Feel free to rub my nose in the obvious > solution.]] > > I help run a very low volume mailing list. Most days, there are no > postings. Sometimes weeks can g

Re: [Mailman-Users] goodbye_msg problem?

2002-02-12 Thread Charles Sebold
On 26 Shevat 5762, Charles Sebold wrote: > When one of our lists has the following as goodbye_msg, it breaks the > unsubscribe message. Some of the headers are inserted _after_ the > goodbye message. Any ideas? Running Debian's Mailman 2.0.8 from > woody. No responses from the list, but I fou

[Mailman-Users] wrapper seems to not be sgid'ing..

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Ash
Title: wrapper seems to not be sgid'ing.. Am trying to run mailman v2.0.8 with postfix on SuSE v7.2. Am getting the error at the bottom of the page. I've rebuilt, installed and configured mailman. I built it using the correct gid values for mail and cgi. I ran the check_perms and when it's

[Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

2002-02-12 Thread WJCarpenter
[[This is so irritating (after a while) that I can't believe it's not a more popular gripe. Feel free to rub my nose in the obvious solution.]] I help run a very low volume mailing list. Most days, there are no postings. Sometimes weeks can go by with no postings. Every day, though, we get lo

[Mailman-Users] Search the archives?

2002-02-12 Thread Damon Linkous
Are the Mailman generated archives searchable? I've looked through the list.org site and don't see any reference, and the Mailman list I'm on doesn't have that feature. Can it be added? Second, the list I'd like to move to Mailman is a group at Yahoo, at least half the list uses the web interfa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Install Question

2002-02-12 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:45:30AM -0600, Tim Legg wrote: > FreeBSD 4.4, Postfix > > I am preparing to install mailman-2.0.8 on my system according to my > INSTALL document. In step 1, I was told to create user and group mailman > by modifying the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. > > Is it goo

[Mailman-Users] DOS security issue.

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Lay
This is probably the wrong place to raise this, sorry, but I wonder if anybody else has had the same trouble we've just had. We're running 2.0.8 with exim and recently a user sent a message with the following sort of "To:" header.. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Notice the trailing '>' character. Mail

[Mailman-Users] value of Sender: field for outgoing member postings

2002-02-12 Thread Heiko Rommel
Hi, I would like to set the Sender field for outgoing messages to Sender: owner-@some.domain instead of Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can this be accomplished ? What kind of problems will I have to face (if any) ? Heiko BTW: Mailman version 2.0.8 -

[Mailman-Users] [Beginner] Moving a mailing list to another machine

2002-02-12 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[Warning: I begin with Mailman but I've read the documentation.] I'm trying to move many lists from one machine to another. Is it sufficient to move /var/lib/mailman/lists and /var/lib/mailman/archives and the aliases file or are there other things I should take care of? I noticed in the Site Ad

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL & SMTP_MAX_RCPTS

2002-02-12 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 00:01, Rene Churchill wrote: > I'm getting what I think is an odd response from AOL. > My client is sending a large (too bloody large) HTML email > newsletter out. It runs 40-50k each week. If I attempt to set > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to anything higher than one, AOL appears to di