Re: [Mailman-Users] Could not acquire qrunner lock

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Really it depends on the version of Mailman that you are running. In general, if you are *NOT* running v2.08, then you should upgrade immediately. For earlier versions, there were problems with some non-standard email formats. You might look at the messages that are awaiting processing and m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-15 Thread John W Baxter
At 23:25 -0500 3/15/2002, Jon Carnes wrote: >Now, the email stat's would be interesting! That would be fun to write up, >especially a top 10 user category, showing actual number of posts and % of >total posts. Should be fairly easy to do. I suspect that list populations would vary in their acce

[Mailman-Users] Could not acquire qrunner lock

2002-03-15 Thread Chris G Haravata
Hey everybody, What do I do if my ~mailman/logs/qrunner says this error: Mar 16 12:49:23 2002 (5192) Could not acquire qrunner lock What is this message? I know that this is the reason why my lists can seem to be sent for about 3 days now, and only when I browsed through the logs that I found

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Yes webalyzer (and many other open source products) work well at a documenting and showing you web usage. They are all designed to work primarily with Apache, but of course can be coerced into working for just about any webserver that records access in their logs. Now, the email stat's would

Re: [Mailman-Users] max size list

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
See the FAQ at the bottom of this message. The answer though, is that it really depends on the hardware and the network that are running the Mailman install, plus the frequency of posts to the list. My best guess on average server hardware that is less than 2 years old: 250,000 users. For an

Re: [Mailman-Users] send personalized mail to all members of the list

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
EZMLM -or wait for the next release of Mailman. --- Original Message: Friday 15 March 2002 09:18 am --- > Hello, > > I want to use the mailman list as a newsletter. > > How can I sent personalized Mail to the list. What we want to achieve is > that within the mail appears the E-Mail Adresse of t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Central address for handling requests?

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Not a problem... Use procmail. Setup your "listrequest" email address to parce the incoming mail based on the subject, and forward the request to each of the various "mylist-request" aliases. Have the default fall through rule be an auto-response with a general help message about the use of y

Re: [Mailman-Users] news_covered-house.net- multiple abuse

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Dude - get a clue. While you're doing that, have your mail manager (the guy running your iPlanet install) ban the domain(s) from access to your site. While you're at it, have him add the RBL "patch" so that this happens automagically in the future. If that mystifies him, then I would suggest

Re: [Mailman-Users] Python upgrade 'disables passwords'

2002-03-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Upgrading Python is commendable (and necessary to take care of some cookie problems...). Afterwards you may need to re-install Mailman. I had similar warnings (and some deprecation warnings) after upgrading Python as some of my sites. I simply re-installed Mailman right over the current ins

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on iPlanet

2002-03-15 Thread Ron Jarrell
At 02:39 PM 3/15/02 -0700, Bryan Kobler wrote: >Hello, > >I have successfully setup Mailman on Apache and Sendmail. I am now trying >to get it setup on iPlanet messaging server 5.1. I haven't been able to >find many resources on special settings in iPlanet I need to do for >Mailman to work.

RE: [Mailman-Users] Python upgrade 'disables passwords'

2002-03-15 Thread Jeff Klassen
Further info: When I create a new list using bin/newlist I get: Warning: problem with getpass. Passwords may be echoed. when I come to the point of entering the initial admin password. I am not a python expert, so am not sure where to start with resolving this. > -Original Message- >

[Mailman-Users] Mailman on iPlanet

2002-03-15 Thread Bryan Kobler
Hello, I have successfully setup Mailman on Apache and Sendmail. I am now trying to get it setup on iPlanet messaging server 5.1. I haven't been able to find many resources on special settings in iPlanet I need to do for Mailman to work. My attempts haven't resulted in a working setup. My

[Mailman-Users] Python upgrade 'disables passwords'

2002-03-15 Thread Jeff Klassen
Hi, I am having some trouble today after upgrading my Python from 1.5.2 to 2.0.1 I am running Mailman 2.0. Today I compiled and installed Python 2.0.1 in order to support some other software on this server. All of the Mailman functions appear to work fine after the update, except for the site ad

[Mailman-Users] Digest having attachments per message

2002-03-15 Thread Sam Williams
Hi folks, we just changed over from an old server to a new one. A couple users are telling me that they are receiving file attachments for each email sent. They are subscribed to receive the messages via the digest version. The old server didn't do this. Does anyone know if this is a setting in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> new users. I'm thinking that the default for >> DEFAULT_NEW_MEMBER_OPTIONS should be 0, not 256. This feels >> better to me as more in-line with existing behavior. Comments? MM> If you want to be really conservative, yo

[Mailman-Users] ./configure hangs on SuSE 7.1

2002-03-15 Thread Dan Boger
I'm trying to install mailman 2.0.8 on an alpha running SuSE 7.1. while running ./configure, the process hangs: ./configure --with-cgi-gid=nogroup loading cache ./config.cache checking for --with-python... no checking for python... (cached) /usr/bin/python checking Python interpreter... /usr/bin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:42:14PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > > "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MM> Ah, you want as a site owner to not have dupe removal enabled? > MM> Ok, then after installing mailman-cvs, make sure you set > MM> DEFAULT_NEW_MEMBER_OP

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Ah, you want as a site owner to not have dupe removal enabled? MM> Ok, then after installing mailman-cvs, make sure you set MM> DEFAULT_NEW_MEMBER_OPTIONS to 0 (or make sure it doesn't MM> contain 256). If you are a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mm friendly ISP/web host?

2002-03-15 Thread James R. Hay
While we're in the shameless plug department my own firm, Hay-Net Networks can now also offer this service to our e-mail and web hosting clients. Jim. James R. Hay[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hay-Net Networks P.O. Box 46051 Pointe Claire, QC H9R 5R4 On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Will Y

[Mailman-Users] still need help - filter/alias problem

2002-03-15 Thread danix
I've narrowed things down I think. I am seeing posts fail to lists that look like this in the alias file: quattro:"|/home/mailman/scripts/post quattro" but not these: marketplace: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post marketplace" The obvious answer is to use filter, but the

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman error

2002-03-15 Thread Catherine Mannix
Hello, Could someone help me figure out what happened? I was adding subscribers to a list this morning in bunches of 50-100 at a time when the program displayed this error message: >Bug in Mailman version 2.0.7 > >We're sorry, we hit a bug! > >Please inform the webmaster for this site of

[Mailman-Users] Reply-To: munging (was Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback ...)

2002-03-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "CVR" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CVR> The other thing I'd like like to see is an option to 'strip CVR> all reply-tos' so that a reply-to that is set as it enters CVR> the mailman system is removed and not propogated. Allowing CVR> and end-user's reply-t

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman error

2002-03-15 Thread Catherine Mannix
Hello, Could someone help me figure out what happened? I was adding subscribers to a list this morning in bunches of 50-100 at a time when the program displayed this error message: Bug in Mailman version 2.0.7 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this probl

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2-0.8 question

2002-03-15 Thread Kory Wheatley
For some reason I'm not able to create a mailing list in uppercase letters. I have not modified the scripts at all. This is the first mailing list in mailman 2-.0.8 that I have tried uppercase letters in. I have created uppercase mailing lists in the past versions of mailman and thats worked fine.

[Mailman-Users] BUG? move_list doesn't correctly update config.db

2002-03-15 Thread Anna Fong
Recently tried migrating lists from Mailman 1.1 on one server to Mailman 2.0.8 on different server. Noticed that move_list was not correctly updating path in config.db for archives which causes the list not to post mail. (Mailman 2.0.8 on different server) When doing `strings config.db` on old c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: set up the mailman list as a newsletter ?

2002-03-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:07:17AM -0600, Catherine Mannix wrote: > Or you can set the Reply-to to Poster. Hint: setting Reply-To does _not_ let you redirect answers reliably. Reply to all with reply to the list and the original sender regardless of what Reply-To is set to. Your best bet if you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mm friendly ISP/web host?

2002-03-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
Chris> Hi all. I am soon going to lose my broadband (moving to the Chris> countryside), which means that the server in my office is going Chris> to disappear. I was wondering if you all could suggest an ISP or Chris> web hosting company whose accounts allow you (both technically

Re: [Mailman-Users] forbidden_posters option

2002-03-15 Thread Detlef Neubauer
"Fachschaft Biologie, Wuerzburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But we also have big problems with spam! In the "privacy options" I cannot found > the "forbidden_posters option". > Could you please tell me, where this is to be found? Try under Privacy Options Restrict posting privilege to list

[Mailman-Users] Re: To www or not www, why am I getting an subsc*ibing error?

2002-03-15 Thread Catherine Mannix
At 09:36 AM 3/15/2002 -0500, Elaine Miller wrote: >I'm getting an intermittent-but-common failure when people access my >Mailman subscription form from the "www.vancouverleather.com" version of >"vancouverleather.com". > >Is there a way for me to set it accept both of these as "good" domains? You

[Mailman-Users] need help with a broken installation

2002-03-15 Thread danix
I'm running mailman on a Sun, under solaris 2.6. A few factors have my system broken at the moment: - switched from sendmail to postfix - some services mysteriously no longer work at boot time - mailman is having issues The switch to postfix was done some time ago, but I'm not sure if I had rebo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman can't handle MIME: Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable?

2002-03-15 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JM" == James Madill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> Notes, the originating Mailer of the message in JM> question is also ESMTP. My MTA, sendmail 8.12.1, is an ESMTP JM> mailer, and able to correctly handle a lone period on a line JM> in the middle of an E-mail mes

[Mailman-Users] Re: set up the mailman list as a newsletter ?

2002-03-15 Thread Catherine Mannix
Or you can set the Reply-to to Poster. Regards, Cat Mannix At 09:36 AM 3/15/2002 -0500, Mihail Tsagidis wrote: >I am setting up a mailman list that will be only a newsletter. So the >subscribers should not be able to sent mail to the list. > >Therefore I have checked to YES the option "Must post

[Mailman-Users] Personal Footers

2002-03-15 Thread Paul Croft
Hey Is there anyway to include a personal footer on the emails which could include the subscribers email address? Something like: You are subscribed with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This would make it easier to manage subscribers who can't figure out how to read header info. TIA Paul -

[Mailman-Users] Mm friendly ISP/web host?

2002-03-15 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hi all.  I am soon going to lose my broadband (moving to the countryside), which means that the server in my office is going to disappear.  I was wondering if you all could suggest an ISP or web hosting company whose accounts allow you (both technically and as part of the TOS) to install and run M

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman can't handle MIME: Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable?

2002-03-15 Thread James Madill
        Notes, the originating Mailer of the message in question is also ESMTP.  My MTA, sendmail 8.12.1, is an ESMTP mailer, and able to correctly handle a lone period on a line in the middle of an E-mail message.  What MTA does Mailman use when DELIVERY_MODULE is set to 'SMTPDirect'?  Internal c

[Mailman-Users] Old problem, AGAIN!

2002-03-15 Thread Brian Teal
OK, this happened to me a while ago and I've included some of your previous answers at the bottom of this post, but here is the problem. I run a hosting company that is subcontracting the servers we use from another larger company (resellers, yes). They are not quite "dedicated" but we do have our

[Mailman-Users] Central address for handling requests?

2002-03-15 Thread AnDy
Is there a way to setup Mailman for a single email address (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED])? My company used to run listproc, which has a single email address to handle all incoming subscription requests, which is very nice when the email interface needs to be as user-friendly as is possible. Is there a w

[Mailman-Users] news_covered-house.net- multiple abuse

2002-03-15 Thread Jody Dresner
PLEASE DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO GET RID OF THIS MAIL NET AS IT'S CAUSING CONSIDERABLE HASSLE BY LOPPING HUNDREDS OF EMAILS! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A mailing list is being irresponsibly operated by an imhosted.com domain name registrant. This list is sending unsolicited email to hundreds of recip

[Mailman-Users] send personalized mail to all members of the list

2002-03-15 Thread Mihail Tsagidis
Hello, I want to use the mailman list as a newsletter. How can I sent personalized Mail to the list. What we want to achieve is that within the mail appears the E-Mail Adresse of the recipient, like "Dear Subscriber. You have subscribed with E-Mail Address to this list" Can someone point m

[Mailman-Users] set up the mailman list as a newsletter ?

2002-03-15 Thread Mihail Tsagidis
Hello, I am setting up a mailman list that will be only a newsletter. So the subscribers should not be able to sent mail to the list. Therefore I have checked to YES the option "Must posts be approved by an administrator?". Is this the right way if you want to set up the list as a newsletter? be

[Mailman-Users] max size list

2002-03-15 Thread Catherine Mannix
Hello, Can someone tell me what is the maximum size (number of subscribers) that the Mailman program can comfortably handle? Thanks in advance, Cat Mannix -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

[Mailman-Users] Preserve message for site administrator works?

2002-03-15 Thread Patrick Aland
I can't seem to get the Preserver Message for system adminsitrator function to work, on the admindb pages. I've tried it with Reject, Defer and Approve and it still gets rid of the message from the DB. Does that funtion work/do I need to turn it on somehow? Running 2.0.8, had the problem in 2.0.

[Mailman-Users] Re: Search Faclity for mail archive in mailman

2002-03-15 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Hi Richard I am running 2.0.8, where do i need to patch it.. can u give me some tips.. thanks Ganeshh >> Original Message << On 3/15/02, 6:24:58 PM, Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Search Faclity for mail archive in mailman: > At 12:34

[Mailman-Users] Re: Search Faclity for mail archive in mailman

2002-03-15 Thread Richard Barrett
At 12:34 15/03/2002 +, Ganesh HariHaran wrote: >Hello List > >How to configure search facility for mail archive in mailman. > >Please let me know more on this. > >Thanks and regards >Ganeshh The following patches integrate the htdig (http://www.htdig.org/) search engine with Mailman. http:/

[Mailman-Users] Search Faclity for mail archive in mailman

2002-03-15 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Hello List How to configure search facility for mail archive in mailman. Please let me know more on this. Thanks and regards Ganeshh -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-15 Thread Frederick Noronha
Yes, I guess so. I'm a non-techie. Could webalyzer be linked up with Mailman? What about email stats? Number of messages sent? Activity levels? Average length of messages? Most number of postings -- from whom? Etc... On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > So all you really want *is* webalyze

[Mailman-Users] Making Mailman even more useful...

2002-03-15 Thread Frederick Noronha
Guys, Excuse me if I stray off the point. I'm a journalist, not techie. I've used mailing lists since 1995 and know their power. Mailman is a great software. Makes one wonder why a number of general books on mailing-lists fail to talk about Mailman while introducing mailing-list software like Lis