Re: [Mailman-Users] News Gateway not spam

2002-02-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Jon" == Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> Take a look at the code. It's very easy to read and edit. Not only that, but remarkably often the obvious change is the correct one. So-o-o-o-o cool! -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac

Re: [Mailman-Users] News Gateway not spam

2002-02-22 Thread Jon Carnes
Mailman is Open Source so you should be able to modify the news to mail gateway and change the sender so that it is always -admin. Yes, yes, yes. You believe it is beyond your abilities or it will take a monstrous amount of work on your part, alas, but you are wrong. Take a look at the code.

[Mailman-Users] bulk Membership changes

2002-02-22 Thread Fred Randall
IS there a tool that allows the modification of the membership database remotely so a new copy of the file can be uploaded. What tools are available for membership management besides the admin page and the local command line utilities? thanks for any help

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

2002-02-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Frank Baillie wrote: > Can I delete members from the list instead of ticking the 'nomail' button ? Tick the 'subscr' instead. Or use ./bin/remove_members -- H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner +---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help?

2002-02-22 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Eris wrote: > I need some assistance if possible i get the following errors after reading your >trouble shooting i still have no idea what im doing wrong. * Installation >directory /home/mailman is not configured properly! > * Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /home/mailman > *

Re: [Mailman-Users] send digest command

2002-02-22 Thread Terry Davis
This works perfectly. I thank you very much for responding to my email! I think I need to learn a bit of python. On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 18:06, Jon Carnes wrote: > POC! Copy the file ~mailman/cron/senddigests to > ~mailman/cron/senddigest > Next, edit the new file so that it only runs the digest

[Mailman-Users] Mailing List Problem

2002-02-22 Thread Onar Art & Design Web Dep.
Hello   I would like to create a mailing list for my web site but all i would like to do is to ask for the users e-mail and hold it so i can notify him regarding the changes that i make to my web site. I don;t want to allow them to send messages to the whole list :-)   I can hide the messase

[Mailman-Users] Mailman

2002-02-22 Thread Frank Baillie
Hi:   Can I delete members from the list instead of ticking the 'nomail' button ?   Frank Baillie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Help?

2002-02-22 Thread Eris
I need some assistance if possible i get the following errors after reading your trouble shooting i still have no idea what im doing wrong.   # ./configure&[1] 21167[root mailman-2.0.6]# loading cache ./config.cachechecking for --with-python... nochecking for python... /usr/bin/pythoncheckin

[Mailman-Users] Mailman running berzerk ... :-(

2002-02-22 Thread Garry Glendown
OK, before I start - I had Mailman 2.0beta something set up for quite a while, running several lists without any problems ... yesterday, I moved a list with 650+ members to this machine ... so far, so good - I sent a mail out, which worked fine, too ... except that after it was sent, it was sent a

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.0.8 problems

2002-02-22 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Thomas Hillson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first involves qrunner, what happens is that a list gets locked and no > mail will go through it. Tom, when I first moved my 1800-member list to mailman, it had upwards of 200 dead addresses. Those 200 dead addresses caused a lot of bounces, and f

[Mailman-Users] News Gateway not spam

2002-02-22 Thread MikeT
I am curios how to stop a news group poster from getting spammed by my list server. When he writes the news group that is connected to my list server via "Mail-to-News and News-to-Mail gateway services." Does that make sense? In the case a list member of the suspect group is not reachable.

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.0.8 problems

2002-02-22 Thread Thomas Hillson
I have two problems happening right now with MailMan 2.0.8 The first involves qrunner, what happens is that a list gets locked and no mail will go through it. This is what is shown in the log. The lock is created in the locks directory, the qrunner process is no longer running and the message

[Mailman-Users] request for help with archiving again

2002-02-22 Thread Matthew Pieklik
I recently changed my smtp MTA from sendmail to courier-mta, now web archiving no longer works using mailman 2.0.8. >From what I can tell it has to do with the differences in the headers between the two MTAs. Does anyone know if this would be considered a problem with Courier, or pipermail? An

Re: [Mailman-Users] stripmime and aliases **SOLVED**

2002-02-22 Thread Alan L. Waller
That's interesting as I run RH7.2 and it works as advertised on the stripmime web site Al >1. Create a small script in /etc/smrsh (e.g. call it >"/etc/smrsh/strip" or whatever): > >#!/bin/bash >/usr/local/bin/stripmime.pl | /home/mailman/mail/wrapper "$@" > > 2. C

[Mailman-Users] Install error

2002-02-22 Thread Alex Chavez
I'm trying to install python 2.2 on solaris 7 os 5.7 sparc. the configure --with-gcc seemed to go well. but I get this err msg when I run make: root@elvis Python-2.2 $ make gcc -c -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I./Include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o Modules/python.o Modules/python.c gc

[Mailman-Users] "Delivery exception: EOF read where object expected" <-- I need help for this!

2002-02-22 Thread Roger Wagner
I need help for run the mailman. The error: " Delivery exception: EOF read where object expected traceback (innermost last): File: "./usrlib/mailman/Mailman/handlers/Hold.py", line 177, in process File: "./usrlib/mailman/Mailman/handlers/Hold.py", line 218, in in

Re: [Mailman-Users] stripmime and aliases **SOLVED**

2002-02-22 Thread Maurice Lafleur
Just to keep you up to speed with the most recent findings on stripmime.pl running unde RH7.2, here's the scoop. As presented on the stripmime web site, the alias does not work. I had to do the following workaround (helped by a linux guru from another list I am a member): 1. Create a small sc

[Mailman-Users] I need help

2002-02-22 Thread Roger Wagner
I need help for run the mailman. The error: " Delivery exception: EOF read where object expected traceback (innermost last): File: "./usrlib/mailman/Mailman/handlers/Hold.py", line 177, in process File: "./usrlib/mailman/Mailman/handlers/Hold.py", line 218, in in hold_for_approval

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group error message

2002-02-22 Thread Bob Sully
Thanks, Tim - that fixed it. On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, tim wrote: > Yes... you are probably using a crudded up Defaults.py. > I've found that some RPMs of mailman seem to have MAILMAN_UID = 'mailman', > and MAILMAN_GID = 'mailman', which clearly breaks the Python code. > > If you open Defaults.py a

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

2002-02-22 Thread Smith, Albert C
I had this same problem. You will need to upgrade to Python 2.2 to get it to work. Albert Smith Unix Administrator Quest Diagnostics Inc. Work: 610-454-4320 Pager: 800-946-4646 pin 1723803 Mobile: 215-498-6829 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1201 S. Collegeville Rd. Collegeville, PA 19426 -

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.0.8 ?

2002-02-22 Thread Alex Chavez
I'm running mailman 2.0.8 with python 2.1.1 on a solaris 7 spac. and I keep getting these messages in my error log when I try to view the mailman webpage. admin(25778): import Mailman.pythonlib.cgi admin(25778): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/cgi.py", line 31, in ? admin(25778)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-22 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-02-21 17:05 -0800, John W Baxter wrote: >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 > >h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need Help

2002-02-22 Thread Norbert Bollow
> 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. I can :-) Also, since this seems to be such an FAQ, I've added it as question 1.5 to the "Mailing List FAQ" which I'm startin

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail Delay and domain problems.

2002-02-22 Thread sunny
Hello All, I have mailman ver 2.0.8 running on Solaris 2.8, I run sendmail 8.11.3(which came along with the OS) I am having the problems in delay in getting the email sent when i create an mailling list or when i send a group mail, I have set the DS entry in sendmail.cf to mailrelay.domainname.c

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

2002-02-22 Thread Marcel Hicking
Paul-Catalin Oros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 21 Feb 2002 at 13:18: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Marcel Hicking wrote: [...] > > Hmm, sort of. I was thinking about using the implicit email > > adress posting allowed thing, but since From etc header can > > be most easily faked, I don't think this is very secur