Re: [Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:34:09 -0600 Lil Peck wrote: > I would like to hear about solutions or work-arounds to avoid the html > code that appears in the digests. This is particularly a problem for > my subscribers who have aol addresses. I'm finding it nearly > impossible to train my subscribers

Re: [Mailman-Users] requesting lost password

2002-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:47:53 -0600 Drama Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I, as administrator sub a subscriber is there a password set or > is the subscription done with no password assigned, (in which case can > the subscriber get in with email address only?) The system assigns and emai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load generated by Mailman posts...

2002-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 23:49:32 +0530 (IST) Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For instance, if I send a 10K message to a 100-subscriber list, what > is the total load on the server? 1000K or less? Its not very predictable. It depends on the number of members on your list, the number

Re: [Mailman-Users] Saving pictures in the archives?

2002-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:15:04 -0500 Mike D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a list administrator and we just started using mailman. I would > like to know if there is a way that we can have jpegs and other > graphics that are sent to the list show up in the archives as the > picture itself inste

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to delete spam?

2002-03-19 Thread Jon Carnes
There is an FAQ that shows you how to setup a cronjob which deletes all the held messages for a list, and there is a patch that someone put on the list this month that changes the default for the Admindb page so that it is "discard". You would simply go to the Admindb page and hit process butt

Re: [Mailman-Users] requesting lost password

2002-03-19 Thread Jon Carnes
Just did this for a user today... Go to the "listinfo" page Put their email address in the "Edit Options" box at the bottom of the web page and click on the "Edit Options" button. On the User Options page, click on the button: Email My Password to Me --- Original Message: Tuesday 19 M

[Mailman-Users] Re: html in digests

2002-03-19 Thread Will Yardley
Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community wrote: > I would like to hear about solutions or work-arounds to avoid the html > code that appears in the digests. This is particularly a problem for > my subscribers who have aol addresses. I'm finding it nearly > impossible to train my subscribers

[Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-19 Thread Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community
I would like to hear about solutions or work-arounds to avoid the html code that appears in the digests. This is particularly a problem for my subscribers who have aol addresses. I'm finding it nearly impossible to train my subscribers to all send their posts as plain text to begin with.--Lil --

[Mailman-Users] output problem...

2002-03-19 Thread Ivan V. Kozhevnikov
Dear mailman developers, Problem in the format that the mail from the listserve arrives to our members. It looks very jumbled and not very user friendly for people who would just like to read the message. not very user friendly messages looks like this one: From: Nmptaor To: boardofficers Reply

[Mailman-Users] anither good tool (outside of overworked SamSpade)

2002-03-19 Thread Jay S Curtis
www.dnsstuff.com -- Jay S. Curtis -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

[Mailman-Users] how to delete spam?

2002-03-19 Thread Gabor Zalavary
hi, I've got a list and I would like to drop (delete) all mails which are spam:-) more precisely I'd like to delete all incoming mails which to: or cc: field doesn't contains the address of the list. currently all such mails goes under "Tend to pending administrative requests" and the administrato

[Mailman-Users] requesting lost password

2002-03-19 Thread Drama Share
As list administrator is there no way I can tell the subscriber what their password is when they have forgotten it? When I, as administrator sub a subscriber is there a password set or is the subscription done with no password assigned, (in which case can the subscriber get in with email address

Re: [Mailman-Users] two questions (fwd)

2002-03-19 Thread Phil Voris
> 1) looks like you are either missing the directory structure for archive: > ~mailman/archives > ../private > ../public > or the rights are such that Mailman cannot access them I don't think so. Everything's pretty much accessible to mailman group and

[Mailman-Users] HELP

2002-03-19 Thread Anna Fong
move_list doesn't update config.db correctly. Is this a known bug? If so, is there a patch? 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

[Mailman-Users] qrunner fails to start on 2.1b4

2002-03-19 Thread Brett Delmage
I updated from 2.1a4 to 2.1b1 this weekend. SuSE 7.3, python 2.1.1 A problem showed up during make install, where paths.py was not copied into the bin, scripts, cron directories. I copied it in manually and that cleared the initial problems: the Cgi parts seemed to work (without exhaustive testi

[Mailman-Users] bug

2002-03-19 Thread William A. Dunham
Ran into this message, so I copied it and am sending it to you. Kathy 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 fin

[Mailman-Users] Feedback... from South Asia

2002-03-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
A friend in Pakistan (Fawad Halim) had this feedback about Mailman. I hope Fawad doesn't mind me forwarding it to the Mailman list... FN On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Fawad Halim wrote: > Well, from the 'Mailman in the news' section of > www.lists.org, Mailman has some pretty major sites > under it's be

[Mailman-Users] GNU Mailman on an Ensim

2002-03-19 Thread Clark E. Morgan
I've got a relatively new Ensim Webppliance machine via RackShack and have been givng some thought to installing Mailman as I had on a RaQ from another, heretofore to remain nameless, provider. I figure inside the chrooted sites would be a great way to run it, removing the limitation on duplicate

[Mailman-Users] clone_member -rq not working?

2002-03-19 Thread David A Gilbert
Answer to my own question: Looks like the default in Defaults.py is SMART_ADDRESS_MATCH=1 When set to 0, my problem below no longer occurs. Doesn't seem very intuitive to me that the remove would take place after getting the MMAlreadyAMember error, but I guess since the addresses are considered eq

[Mailman-Users] questions

2002-03-19 Thread Peter, OL
Hi, do you have a german version for the manual of mailman? Especially the textes, which are send to the users who want to subscribe to a maillinglist? Gruesse aus Oldenburg Peter Leuenroth g24h ** Nur in stillen Wassern spiegeln sich die Stern

[Mailman-Users] Saving pictures in the archives?

2002-03-19 Thread Mike D.
Hello, I am a list administrator and we just started using mailman. I would like to know if there is a way that we can have jpegs and other graphics that are sent to the list show up in the archives as the picture itself instead of just plain text. I though if I could find a way to set mailm

[Mailman-Users] Load generated by Mailman posts...

2002-03-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
I would like to understand the type of load (on the server) that is generated using Mailman software. For instance, if I send a 10K message to a 100-subscriber list, what is the total load on the server? 1000K or less? This information is crucial since a friend has offered to set up Mailman list

[Mailman-Users] clone_member -rq not working?

2002-03-19 Thread David A Gilbert
When I do the clone_member -r as below, all the mailing list subscriptions get removed for that user instead of cloned to the new address. Am using Mailman 2.0.6 on RedHat Linux 7.2. Is there any reason why this wouldn't work? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Logged in as mailman user: bas

[Mailman-Users] customize the pipermail

2002-03-19 Thread Andrew Watson
Is there a way to customize the pipermail archive index pages - for example the have a date printed for each message or to list them newest-first? More generally, can someone point me to pipermail documentation? -Andrew -- Mailman-Users mail

[Mailman-Users] Lists not getting emails....

2002-03-19 Thread Shannon Johnston
Hi, I've got my system running exim and mailman. Exim seems to be working alright, it sends emails out just fine. However, when I try to send email out via the mailing list, I find this in my maillog: Mar 19 12:08:49 mailer exim[22755]: 2002-03-19 12:08:49 16mSQi-00060k-00 ** mailman@: mail domai

Re: [Mailman-Users] wrong gid

2002-03-19 Thread Martin Schmitt
* lito a. lampitoc wrote/schrieb: >- Transcript of session follows - > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 2001. (Reconfigure to > take 2001?) > 554 5.3.0 "|/export/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"... unknown > mailer error 2 Same here, also on Solaris. And yes, I d

Re: [Mailman-Users] two questions (fwd)

2002-03-19 Thread Phil Voris
> 1) looks like you are either missing the directory structure for archive: > ~mailman/archives > ../private > ../public > or the rights are such that Mailman cannot access them I don't think so. Everything's pretty much accessible to mailman group and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-03-19 Thread Kelly Corbin
Changing it to an 'A' record from a 'CNAME' did it. That was an unbelievably easy fix considering I wasted a lot of time yesterday. This should be added to the FAQ. Thanks! Kelly Rabinowitz, Ari (Exchange) wrote: > It depends on how the virtual host name is defined. If it is a CNAME > poin

[Mailman-Users] Troubles upgrading 2.0.8->2.1b1

2002-03-19 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I tried to upgrade from 2.0.8 to 2.1b1, but I got troubles at make install. ./configure --with-mail-gid=25 --with-cgi-gid=www-data --prefix=/home/mailman Allready reported a warning: checking for Python Chinese Unicode codecs... not found configure: warning: * Python Unicode codecs for

RE: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-03-19 Thread Rabinowitz, Ari (Exchange)
It depends on how the virtual host name is defined. If it is a CNAME pointing to the actual host name then sendmail, and many other MTAs, will change the name to the actual host name in the envelope (and sometimes in the header) From address. If it is defined with an A record pointing to the sam

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-03-19 Thread Kelly Corbin
It appears to be a Sendmail question. I have the same problem, as well as many other people on this list. If someone has a simple answer, it should go in the FAQ. I did a lot of looking yesterday, but never found an answer. Surely _someone_ has figured this out... JvdW wrote: > I do have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-03-19 Thread JvdW
I do have the domain in "Host name this list prefers". Could this be a sendmail issue? l8r Jvdw On Tuesday 19 March 2002 16:50, Jon Carnes wrote: > Web-admin interface, General options page, "Host name this list prefers" > (near the bottom of the web page). > Put in "lists.anotherdomain.com" (t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2002-03-19 Thread Detlef Neubauer
"Farid, Tarek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed mailman recently on a RH 7.2 linux server with postfix > as my mta. Created a test list. I can get to it fine with my web > browser, except for the public archives (pipermail)! This is my first > problem. No message, no archive. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-03-19 Thread Jon Carnes
Web-admin interface, General options page, "Host name this list prefers" (near the bottom of the web page). Put in "lists.anotherdomain.com" (to use your info from message below). Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "JvdW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailman - Mailinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2002-03-19 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:12:35PM -0500, Farid, Tarek wrote: > I have installed mailman recently on a RH 7.2 linux server with postfix > as my mta. Created a test list. I can get to it fine with my web > browser, except for the public archives (pipermail)! This is my first > problem. Did you ad

[Mailman-Users] Requesting repost of sendmail advice (Mailman related)

2002-03-19 Thread Mitchell Marks
(I apologize for asking here what is mostly a sendmail question ... but it has come up on this list as part of advice about Mailman throughput.) Would someone please repeat the suggestion that has been posted here not too long ago about setting sendmail to be a little more lenient about allowi

Re: [Mailman-Users] wrong gid

2002-03-19 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi Lito, > 1. when confirming I received this error message. What should i do? > > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > "|/export/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" >(reason: 2) >(expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > - Transcript of session follow

[Mailman-Users] wrong gid

2002-03-19 Thread lito a. lampitoc
Hi, I have two questions: 1. when confirming I received this error message. What should i do? - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/export/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" (reason: 2) (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2002-03-19 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 2: >"/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test". Command output: Failure to > exec >script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) You probaly run into the following error described in the 'README.INSTALL' of Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-03-19 Thread JvdW
Hi I've just installed mailman and using sendmail as the mta. I created a testlist called [EMAIL PROTECTED](mylist.domain.com is what sendmail is set up with as the default domain) which works fine as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] As needed I added the lists.anotherdomain.com to the sendmail.cw f