Re: [Mailman-Users] Forgot list admin password...

2002-03-25 Thread Dan Mick
> This is my first posting in this group. You'll want to read the FAQ before posting much more: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > The problem is, I have forgotten the listadmin's password. > How can I retrieve the passowrd?. Is there any way to get the same? http://www.python.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Forgot list admin password...

2002-03-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Madhu Srinivasa Desikan wrote: > The problem is, I have forgotten the listadmin's password. > How can I retrieve the passowrd?. Is there any way to get the same? Use the site admin password to log in to the list, then change the password at the bottom. -- H | "Life is the art of drawing wi

[Mailman-Users] Forgot list admin password...

2002-03-25 Thread Madhu Srinivasa Desikan
Hi all, This is my first posting in this group. In our network, we have installed mailman and is working fine. I am the owner of a list. The problem is, I have forgotten the listadmin's password. How can I retrieve the passowrd?. Is there any way to get the same? In mailman option's int

[Mailman-Users] Forgot list admin password...

2002-03-25 Thread Madhu Srinivasa Desikan
Hi,       This is my first posting in this group. In our network, we have installed mailman and is working fine. I am the owner of a list. The problem is, I have forgotten the listadmin's password. How can I retrieve the passowrd?. Is there any way to get the same?       In mailman option's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering message bodies

2002-03-25 Thread Dan Mick
Sounds like a job for a custom pipeline module. I don't know of any existing module that would do it. Modifying, say, Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py by some judicious boilerplating, and then adding it to your list's pipeline variable, is a relatively-correct-and-robust, if a bit tricky, way to get wh

[Mailman-Users] Filtering message bodies

2002-03-25 Thread James R. Hay
Hi folks, I asked previously but no one bit so I'll try again. I am using Mailman 2.1b1 and Sendmail. When I used majordomo I could have it serach the body of a message for "taboo" words and bounce the message for administrative approval. Is there a way to do this with Mailman or is this some

RE: [Mailman-Users] Help with Relay Spammers

2002-03-25 Thread Mohsenruddin Moonshi
Greg, login to your list server, and try the following; 1. su - mailman 2. cd /to-your-mailman-folder/bin 3. ./check_perms That should give you a message whether your permissions are right or wrong and if you need to fix it, just do a ./check_perms -f and that's all. Sincerely, Mohsenruddin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Desparation...

2002-03-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unfortunately, I cannot get the Mailman script to > accept incoming messages and distribute them... Messages are returned > with the statment "user unknown" for messages sent to the listserv, > just as though I had sent a message to the server with a random 30 > digit n

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI alternative?

2002-03-25 Thread Dan Wilder
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:31:45PM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: > For the individual irresponsible individuals you'll need some sort Urk. For irresponsible individuals ... - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI alternative?

2002-03-25 Thread Dan Wilder
There are gobs of abusive searchbots out there. I won't name names. Look at your logs and estimate hits/referrals. Not to mention email harvesters and college kids sitting behind an OC3, having nothing better to do with their dorm room computers than run a recursive wget on your site every te

[Mailman-Users] Desparation...

2002-03-25 Thread rjones
Hi, my name is Russ Jones and Im a student at UNC Chapel Hill. First off, I would like to say that your Mailman program is incredible and God sent. I love it. Unfortunately, I have been running into a rather difficult problem. Everything works for the most part, I can add new lists, administe

[Mailman-Users] Message Disposition Notification

2002-03-25 Thread brandon pearson (BITS)
Mailman 2.0.5 Is it possible to switch on Message Disposition Notification/Read Receipt for an individual list? Thanks, Brandon -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Relay Spammers

2002-03-25 Thread Greg Rees
Hi Ashley, Thank you for the reply. I've been doing some research on the relaying problem that I have to no avail. I have tried to verify the setup again and again but I cannot find anything wrong, except maybe the permissions, I don't know what permissions should be where. Can you point me in

[Mailman-Users] Fw: Mailman bug when handling multipart content

2002-03-25 Thread David Abrahams
This "bug report" was generated from boost's recent (rocky) transition from YahooGroups to Mailman. - Original Message - From: "Carl Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > One thing I noticed in the latest one though: Mailmain doesn't handle messages with HTML content correctly with regard > t

[Mailman-Users] Need assistance...

2002-03-25 Thread Matt Tourtillott
Hello Mailman Support, I have just installed mailman-2.1b1 on a FBSD 4.5 server running sendmail. It looks like all is good except for linking sendmails alias to the mailman program. In your example you show this in your mm-handler ## Simulates these aliases: ## testlist:"|/opt/

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI alternative?

2002-03-25 Thread Jon Carnes
Apache has some nice tools for limiting the number of connections on a specific resource. I believe that you can throttle on both requested resource and on destination IP. You probably want to cap the amount of connections from any single ip address to something like 20. There are also some nic

[Mailman-Users] CGI alternative?

2002-03-25 Thread kellan
Hi, I'm part of a team that works on maintaining lists.indymedia.org, we have a very large number of lists, a lot of traffic, and seemingly a lot of interest for robots, particularily badly behaved ones. Several times lately the server has started choaking and dieing, with loads of 70+ in respons

Re: [Mailman-Users] General Response Error... user not found...

2002-03-25 Thread Jon Carnes
Typically this happens when you do not set the aliases in the /etc/aliases file (for sendmail compliant servers), or you forget to run "newaliases" after adding the mailing list aliases to /etc/aliases. In short, you ran ~mailman/bin/newlist and mailman printed out a series of aliases that you n

[Mailman-Users] General Response Error... user not found...

2002-03-25 Thread rjones
I am running into the error below when trying to send messages to lists on my server... Basically, it returns that no user is found. Any ideas on what is going wrong? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks a million. Russ Jones -- The original message was received at Mon,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Challenges with Mailmain (--with-cgi-gid )

2002-03-25 Thread cls
>However, I am having problems with Mailman's --with-mail-gid and >--with-cgi-gid options. I used these options when I compile Mailman; >cgi-gid = >./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mailman --with-mail-gid=416 >--with-cgi-gid=99 [...] >and from my Linux client, hermes.moonshi.com send an email vi

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:16:45 -0500 Mark T Valites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my list admins just sent an email to her list, and the mail > sent out appended "=" to the end of each line, and a "=20" to the end > of the message. She was using outlook express as her email client. > I've

Re: Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] problems with confirmation

2002-03-25 Thread Christopher Adams
I checked the /usr/var/logs and this is the entry for the message that I sent to confirm the subscription. There are no error messages about wrong GID. In the Postfix configuration file, the default_privs = nobody which is GID 60001. The configure for Mailman shows that it is using 6001 as the GID

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread Mike Noyes
At 3/25/02 12:16 PM -0500, Mark T. Valites wrote: >One of my list admins just sent an email to her list, and the mail sent >out appended "=" to the end of each line, and a "=20" to the end of the >message. She was using outlook express as her email client. > >I've never seen this before. The e

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread John W Baxter
At 12:16 -0500 3/25/2002, Mark T. Valites wrote: >One of my list admins just sent an email to her list, and the mail sent >out appended "=" to the end of each line, and a "=20" to the end of the >message. She was using outlook express as her email client. > >I've never seen this before. The equa

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > There is no problem. Her "mail sending format" is set to something funky. It isn't something funky, it is quoted-printable. Most mail clients can parse it. alex -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread Mark T. Valites
I figured so much. Thanks! On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Jon Carnes wrote: > There is no problem. Her "mail sending format" is set to something > funky. > This is a mail client issue, not a Mailman issue. Try the following: > > Outlook Express - > Tools > Options > Send

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread Jon Carnes
There is no problem. Her "mail sending format" is set to something funky. This is a mail client issue, not a Mailman issue. Try the following: Outlook Express - Tools Options Send (tab) Mail Sending Format HTML settings Mime Message Format

[Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread Mark T. Valites
One of my list admins just sent an email to her list, and the mail sent out appended "=" to the end of each line, and a "=20" to the end of the message. She was using outlook express as her email client. I've never seen this before. The equal sign character didn't raise any flags to me right

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman suddenly eats mails

2002-03-25 Thread John W Baxter
It is also typical of cron's response to a sudden temporal anomaly (that is, an imprudent hand setting of the machine's clock). [This is semi-well-known. I found it out when the boss accidentally set one machine's clock to sometime in year 202X, waited a bit, and set it back. My every few minut

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman suddenly eats mails

2002-03-25 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, ...on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:37:30AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > This is typical of cron being stopped. Check to make sure that cron is > running and that the cron entries for user "mailman" are correct. Ouch! You're right - for some reason, cron was not running. After restarting it, a

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman suddenly eats mails

2002-03-25 Thread Jon Carnes
This is typical of cron being stopped. Check to make sure that cron is running and that the cron entries for user "mailman" are correct. If cron is not the problem, try running qrunner by hand (look at the cron entries for the proper format). - Original Message - From: "Alexander Bochman

[Mailman-Users] Challenges with Mailmain (--with-cgi-gid )

2002-03-25 Thread Mohsenruddin Moonshi
Hi guys, I need some help with Mailman. My HDD crashed beyond recovery so I have re-installed Mandrake 8.1 on a new HDD and restored the following; 1. Postfix 2. Apache However, I am having problems with Mailman's --with-mail-gid and --with-cgi-gid options. I used these options when I compile

[Mailman-Users] mailman suddenly eats mails

2002-03-25 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, we have here a mailman installation that used to work without problems, but since a few days, it doesn't deliver any mails. Also, there are no error messages whatsoever in mailman's log files, so I don't have the slightest idea what could be wrong (I'm not the only admin on that machine,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce only lists

2002-03-25 Thread Caleb Epstein
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 07:22:35PM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: > One common way to do this is use a shell script. To unsubscribe > from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" send any email at all with your "From: " > address set up correctly. In /etc/aliases: atc-remove: > "|/usr/lib/mailman/localbin/unsub.sh atc s

[Mailman-Users] Qmail and Mailman and relaying and source addresses

2002-03-25 Thread cls
My Qmail listens to port 25 though the usual tcpserver + rblsmtpd caravan. We use ORDB and SPEWS and SBL and it stops most of the junk. I allow relaying for my other two servers and localhost. When I telnet to port 25 on this host, qmail-smtpd records a connect from 127.0.0.1, the local interfa