Re: [Mailman-Users] Group error message

2002-02-21 Thread tim
Bob Sully wrote: >Hey all - could someone tip me off as to the problem here? > >[mailman@firefox: ~]$ /var/mailman/bin/check_perms >Traceback (innermost last): > File "/var/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 50, in ? >MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0] >TypeError: illegal argument ty

[Mailman-Users] QMail documentation

2002-02-21 Thread Paul Burkett
Who do I contract concerning the README.QMAIL, I don't get it one bit and I need to ask a few questions. -- Paul Burkett ATG Intern http://www.red-fusion.org/ -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backups

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Carnes
Pretty much that's what I do, and it's worked well for over a year. Don't forget to back up the /etc/aliases file as well, and your /etc/httpd/conf directory. Jon Carnes === On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:00 am, Delpy wrote: > I can't find any reference to this possible issue: > > Is it OK t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-21 Thread John W Baxter
At 16:38 -0800 2/21/2002, Mike Noyes wrote: >Thanks for responding. The Mailman version is 2.0.5 patched by Marc MERLIN >on SourceForge. The Python version is 1.5. > >I'd like to use the (?!...) negative lookahead assertion, but I'm not >having much luck. :-( That version of Python is too old for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-02-21 16:06 -0800, John W Baxter wrote: >At 10:23 -0800 2/21/2002, Mike Noyes wrote: > >It appears that the Python re module is used. Does this mean we can > >use the Python re module extensions in "Hold posts"? > > > >ref. > >http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/re-syntax.html > >http://

[Mailman-Users] Berdmann! get MIMEDEFANG!!!

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Carnes
Mimedefang can be found at:   http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/   Get it!  Use it!   === For anyone else, I have a nice procmail script that auto responds to Berdmann's obnoxious auto response... I will gladly share it with folks.   Jon Carnes 

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-21 Thread John W Baxter
At 10:23 -0800 2/21/2002, Mike Noyes wrote: >It appears that the Python re module is used. Does this mean we can use the >Python re module extensions in "Hold posts"? > >ref. >http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/re-syntax.html >http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/regex/regex.html You ought to be ab

Re: [Mailman-Users] send digest command

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Carnes
POC! Copy the file ~mailman/cron/senddigests to ~mailman/cron/senddigest Next, edit the new file so that it only runs the digest for (get rid of the first "for" statement and in the second statement, change 'listname' to '""') I think that should work. If not play with it a bit on a test lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Question

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Carnes
mailman already supports subscribe and unsubscribe via email.  Users can also change their preferences via email.   Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Garrett Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:43 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Featur

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug

2002-02-21 Thread Jon Carnes
I've never put a "." in a mailing list name before... I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't take that, but has the list worked in the past? Do other lists on the site work? Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Rahul S. Johari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thurs

[Mailman-Users] Help Mailman

2002-02-21 Thread Ayrous
Necesito ayuda me esta saliendo el siguiente error a la hora que corro el siguiente comando: ./wrapper post soporte Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 0. (Reconfigure to take 0?) Thank`s -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTE

[Mailman-Users] Help Mailman

2002-02-21 Thread Ayrous
Necesito ayuda me esta saliendo el siguiente error a la hora que corro el siguiente comando Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 0. (Reconfigure to take 0?) Thank`s -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachments

2002-02-21 Thread Charles Sebold
On 9 Adar 5762, &Kgr;&agr;&mgr;&agr;&rgr;&igr;&agr;&ngr;&aacgr;&kgr;&eegr;&sfgr; &Ggr;&igr;&aacgr;&ngr;&ngr;&eegr;&sfgr; wrote: > Iam very satisfied but I can't find some option to disable sending > attachments! is there any ? please give me a piece of advice! http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Footer

2002-02-21 Thread Paul-Catalin Oros
Are you talking about the web pages or about the actual messages sent to lists? Paul On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Antonio Rocha wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to add my logo to the mailman footer, and how? > > Thanks > Tony > --- > Antonio Rocha

[Mailman-Users] Bug

2002-02-21 Thread Rahul S. Johari
Hi, I'm writing this just to report a bug in your Mailing List System. On trying to log on to my Administration page, i'm getting this error since yesterday : "Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceba

[Mailman-Users] attachments

2002-02-21 Thread Καμαριανάκης Γιάννης
hi Iam managing the Hellas Freediving List via mailman ver 2.0.3 Iam very satisfied but I can't find some option to disable sending attachments! is there any ? please give me a piece of advice! thanks a lot kamarianakis giannis athens -- M

[Mailman-Users] Feature Question

2002-02-21 Thread Garrett Smith
I checked the wish list and features page of your Web site, and couldn't find any mention of whether Mailman support subscribing and unsubscribing via e-mail.  For example, can a user subscribe by simply sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?   Thanks, Garrett

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman information

2002-02-21 Thread Bill Phillips
Hi Chris and Jon, Thanks very much for getting back to me. Jon, I'm hoping you can tell me a bit about Mailman and its limitatins. If we could use it the way we desire, I would contract you to set it up for us. Can we impliment Mailman for up to 100 lists with with up to 30,000 subscribers? So

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-21 Thread Paul-Catalin Oros
Well, that's the solution with the current Mailman. Something stronger (digital signatures) would, of course, be desirable but I don't think it's going to happen in the very near future. Thinking about it, maybe such a solution can be implemented with procmail and gpg. Mailman would accept everyt

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Footer

2002-02-21 Thread Antonio Rocha
Hi, Is it possible to add my logo to the mailman footer, and how? Thanks Tony --- Antonio RochaVoice 610-566-0980 CrafTech Computer SolutionsFax 610-566-9340 113 Old State Road[EMAIL PROTECTED] Media, PA 19063 htt

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mail Threads

2002-02-21 Thread doug . harris
I am having the same problem, but only from Outlook. If the mail is sent via sendmail it threads fine. I am having our SysAdmin people look at our Exchange Server to determine if it is stripping headers from the email posts. See the link below: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/20

[Mailman-Users] Need Help

2002-02-21 Thread David Henkin
Folks, 2 months ago I requested a reply from "consultants" unfortunately I deleted the list. If you can help me with mailman on a consulting basis please advise. David Henkin o) 703-793-3180 f) 703-793-3381 2 way pager [EMAIL PROTECTED] email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[Mailman-Users] Backups

2002-02-21 Thread Delpy
I can't find any reference to this possible issue: Is it OK to simply tar the Mailman directory and call that a backup? I ask because I'm not sure what the issues are surrounding this while the Mailman cron entries may or may not be running at the moment of tar. In the end, I'd like to be in a po

[Mailman-Users] Problem

2002-02-21 Thread Nilza Penha Silva
I use Postfix for my MTA and when I send mail to the list I get back mail saying:     The Postfix program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2:     "/usr/local/mailman/mail/wrapper post prodemge". Command output: Failure to     exec script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 600

[Mailman-Users] send digest command

2002-02-21 Thread Terry Davis
Is it possible to force a digest somehow? Like with a command either sent over email or directly out of cron on the box? -- Terry Davis Systems Administrator BirdDog Solutions, Inc. (402) 829-6059 www.birddog.com -- Mailman-Users maillist -

RE: [Mailman-Users] send digest command

2002-02-21 Thread Michael Johnson
No idea. I'd check the documentation. I believe (and I haven't researched this) that it will trigger digests for all lists on that particular Mailman system. I'm sure if I'm wrong someone will pipe in that knows a bit more about it. >From: "Terry Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Thank you and e

[Mailman-Users] Logging

2002-02-21 Thread Charlie ROOT
Hi all, I'm trying to correlate posts logged in logs/post with messages sent in logs/smtp. The idea is to be able to say, "subscriber W posted a message of size X to list Y which was delivered to Z subscribers", allowing the generation of some per-list and per-site statistics. Question: Aug 05

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Scott Spence wrote: > If I change it i think I have to reboot (or re-mount) for it to take > effect - right? Just remount should do. Unless it's the root drive (/) > i made it as myself- not root (I see what you are getting at) - I made > sure I (as a normal user) had write access to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Scott Spence wrote: > > > This INSTALL file *MUST* be wrong - surely?? > > They are misleading... i.e. Misname a feature of the ./configure utility? - very misleading! ;-) > > > > Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/logs/error' > > > > I go

[Mailman-Users] MailMan and Iplanet!

2002-02-21 Thread Sergio Sousa
Hi there,    I’ve been installing MailMan on a SunSparc/Solaris Machine.  My MTA is an Iplanet Messaging Server 4.15  I’ve compiled Mailman without errors. Created a list called humor. Redirected all mail to humor@myhost to be run on /usr/local/mail/mailman/wrapper post humor  Now I se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-02-20 06:34 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: >What type of regexp does Mailman use in Privacy Options - Hold posts? I think I found the answer after digging through the code. It appears that the Python re module is used. Does this mean we can use the Python re module extensions in "Hold posts"?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-21 Thread Paul-Catalin Oros
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Marcel Hicking wrote: > Paul-Catalin Oros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Feb 2002 at > 13:16: > > > Hi, > > > > http://www.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html describes > > "Posting privileges explained" somewhere. What you should do is to have > > "Posting restr

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8 ? more info

2002-02-21 Thread Alex Chavez
I got mailman 2.0.8 installed but can't access it through the web. I did this: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib/ and I even did this export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6 here is the "set" printout: root@elvis logs $ set BASH=/usr/sbin/bash BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="2" [1

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8 ?

2002-02-21 Thread Richard Barrett
At 09:20 21/02/2002 -0700, Alex Chavez wrote: >What does this mean and how do I fix it? Respectively: Mailman code hit an exception when it was executed. Depends on what went wrong. What does it say in the $prefix/logs/error file about the time the error was reported? And what were you doing w

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8 ?

2002-02-21 Thread Alex Chavez
What does this mean and how do I fix it? Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Scott Spence wrote: > This INSTALL file *MUST* be wrong - surely?? They are misleading... > Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/logs/error' > > I go though changing these permissions and get the same problem (ie > basically SGID is not working..).I think it must have 'defaults' set no

[Mailman-Users] masthead.txt

2002-02-21 Thread Mark T. Valites
After going to the mm-2.0.8 this weekend, one of our list admins whined that their digested lists were now having the information from the masthead.txt file prepended to their messages. Apparently the last site admin had previously made the file an empty file so no information would be passed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Welcome letter

2002-02-21 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Paul Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyway to edit the standard welcome letter that goes out with > Mailman subscriptions? $EDITOR $MAILMANHOME/templates/subscribeack.txt Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyserver.net/ Oo. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I custumize the ROOT listinfo page ...

2002-02-21 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Jeffrey Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to custumize the root listinfo page > (http://studentorgs.utmb.edu/mailman/listinfo) > > Our institution requires a standard header and footer. > http://studentorgs.utmb.edu/mailman/listinfo/fpsa > I have made the individual listinfo pages

[Mailman-Users] Re: owner of config.db

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
Hi Gerald, I wish I could say that is my solution - I am still having problems and am sure it is to do with the httpd or python binary not running on a suid partition - therefore I am going to ask for further info from the list and if required make changes later (when I am closer to the machine)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
I got --with-ownername and --with-ownergroup from the INSTALL file: --8<--- - Add a new user called `mailman'. Typically this is added to your /etc/passwd file. If username `mailman' is already in use, choose something else unique and see the --with-ownername fla

Re: [Mailman-Users] More problems

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Spence
Could be a permissions problem (I know these well!) check your webserver and mail logs too!! Scott On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Rees wrote: > > Yes, I ran check_perms and it reported "no problems found" > > The /home/mailman/logs/error are clean (empty). No problems there. > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002

Re: [Mailman-Users] Terms, was: Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-21 Thread Marcel Hicking
jgo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21 Feb 2002 at 0:39: > > At 2002-02-20 13:16:37 -0500 Paul-Catalin Oros wrote: > >> On Wed, 2002-02-20, Marcel Hicking wrote: > >> I'd like to have a moderated (here: announcements only) > >> list where I have an additional admin ("moderator") who > >> would be allowed not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-21 Thread Marcel Hicking
Paul-Catalin Oros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20 Feb 2002 at 13:16: > Hi, > > http://www.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html describes > "Posting privileges explained" somewhere. What you should do is to have > "Posting restricted to members" set to No, and have some Implicitly approv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-21 Thread jgo
> At Wed, 2002-02-20 12:32:06 -0800 John W Baxter wrote: >> At 2002-02-20 13:16 -0500, Paul-Catalin Oros wrote: >> Implicitly approved people. I just tested this and it works fine. > Implicitly approved people (addresses) can be forged. Easily. > Over on the developer list, I recently suggeste

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-21 Thread jgo
> At 2002-02-20 13:16:37 -0500 Paul-Catalin Oros wrote: >> On Wed, 2002-02-20, Marcel Hicking wrote: >> I'd like to have a moderated (here: announcements only) >> list where I have an additional admin ("moderator") who >> would be allowed nothing but approve or reject postings >> (which usually wo

[Mailman-Users] Group error message

2002-02-21 Thread Bob Sully
Hey all - could someone tip me off as to the problem here? [mailman@firefox: ~]$ /var/mailman/bin/check_perms Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 50, in ? MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0] TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operatio