[Mailman-Users] Blocking few features for listadmin

2002-04-09 Thread sunny
I am running mailman ver 2.08 on Solaris 8 with multiple listadmins the problem some listadmin's are changing The list admin's email address and also "Maximum length in Kb of a message body" to 0 which is choking the servers. Can i customize the mailman so that these fileds will not be ava

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posting from a web form

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 21:13:38 -0700 Ed Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to implement posting from a web form (for list members > authenticated with their passwords)? Yes, see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Has anybody done this? Yup. I've detailed

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:37 +0100 Rama Kesava BVTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) How large can the mailing list be? Is 9,000 too large? If not, is > there a way to tell Mailman not to send all the message all at once -- > I am thinking about this so that it all doesn't get bounced back > saying "

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple email addresses

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On 09 Apr 2002 10:03:07 -0400 Neal D Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to subscribe using my home email address, but also want to be > able to post messages from work. If the list is restricted to > subscribed addresses, how can I do this (or can I do this)? If not, > can mailman supp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reading email attachments

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:09:30 -0400 KEITH A WOLFE wrote: > 1) The Mailman features listed at http://www.list.org/features.html > indicate that it supports "Automatic web-based Hypermail-style > archiving". However our Mailman doesn't allow attachments such as > .pdf and .doc files to be readable

[Mailman-Users] Posting from a web form

2002-04-09 Thread Ed Greenberg
Is there a way to implement posting from a web form (for list members authenticated with their passwords)? Some of my members are asking for this. The list is an Recreational Vehicles list, and they want to read archives, and post message, from public Internet stations in cafes and libraries.

[Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-04-09 Thread Rama Kesava BVTS
Hi, I'm considering switching a list of around 9,000 subscribers to Mailman. Currently we are using eMerge and it's rather bad. I had a few questions, that I hoped you could answer: 1) How large can the mailing list be? Is 9,000 too large? If not, is there a way to tell Mailman not to send all

[Mailman-Users] Need help: Deleting post approvals from admindb

2002-04-09 Thread sztamas
I'd like to remove about 1000 approvals from a list. I've read the FAQ, and I bet the lines below won't solve my problem. remove $prefix/archives/private/listname edit $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox [optional] run $prefix/bin/arch listname I've seen the user list archiv

[Mailman-Users] Multiple email addresses

2002-04-09 Thread Neal D. Becker
I want to subscribe using my home email address, but also want to be able to post messages from work. If the list is restricted to subscribed addresses, how can I do this (or can I do this)? If not, can mailman support an option for email aliases? --

[Mailman-Users] mailman

2002-04-09 Thread Michal Marek Stefanczak
Hi! I have o small problem, and I hope you could help with it. Some days ago I installed mailman (version 2.0.9), all things work well, besides one. I have problemmes sending mail to users outside our network. (it has nothing to do with our firewall). It seems that SMTP is parsing all emails. It t

[Mailman-Users] Reading email attachments

2002-04-09 Thread WOLFE,KEITH A (HP-FtCollins,ex1)
Thank you for your assistance. I have two questions I was hoping you could answer: 1) The Mailman features listed at http://www.list.org/features.html indicate that it supports "Automatic web-based Hypermail-style archiving". However our Mailman doesn't allow attachments such as .pdf and .doc f

[Mailman-Users] Mailman: gid problem

2002-04-09 Thread Ricky YUEN
  i have install mailman 2.0.9 on my redhat 7.2. now i have the following problem: am i set gid correctly?   # Problem: cann't access : http://domain.name/mailman/listinfo/listname  and http://domain.name/mailman/admin/listname error: = err begin = Internal Serv

[Mailman-Users] problems with cgi-gid and mail-gid

2002-04-09 Thread Shlomit Afgin
  We downloaded and compiled mailman-2.0.8 on solaris 2.7 . The installation was done on mail server running solaris2.7. We tried to configure our web server (also solaris 2.7) to get the gui interface for mailman , using nfs mount disk from mail server onto web server. We have the cgi-gid on our

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up an announce only list

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Carnes
All that you ask is easily done with a little scripting... You'll need to turn off "Send mail to poster when posting is held". Then write a script that looks at the held messages for the specified list in ~mailman/data/.. grep for the first occurence of "From:" and isolate the senders email a

[Mailman-Users] Setting up an announce only list

2002-04-09 Thread Eric Sisler
Greetings! I'm new to Mailman and I've read the various documentation, FAQ's and scanned the archives, but I don't see a definitive answer to setting up an "announce only" type list. I can't quite come up with the solution I want, and perhaps there isn't with this version. Ideally what I'd l

[Mailman-Users] Re: Removing those extra List-* headers

2002-04-09 Thread tneff
Sorry, I missed this when it first appeared. John W Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One can patch the installation, if one manages the Mailman installation > and has or develops the skills. > > One can't, if one uses the Mailman installation managed as a service by > someone else. Suitable b

Re: [Mailman-Users] list statistics

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Carnes
Okay, here is the addition of size to the scripts. I also filter on "success", as some lists reject mail that is too large. SIZ=`grep -i "post to $LISTNAM" ~mailman/logs/post |grep success | \ cut -f2 -d= |cut -f1 -d,` j=0; for i in $SIZ; do j=$(( i + j )); done; echo "Total bytes" = $j I'll

Re: [Mailman-Users] list statistics

2002-04-09 Thread Jon Carnes
I'll have to add size to it, but how's this for a start: Weekly === LISTNAM="your list name" echo -n "Total post to the list $LISTNAM": grep -i "post to $LISTNAME " ~mailman/logs/post |wc -l echo " " echo "Top 10 posters to the list:" grep -i "post to $LISTNAM " ~mailman/logs/post |cut -f 10 "-d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Removing those extra List-* headers

2002-04-09 Thread John W Baxter
At 20:51 -0700 4/8/2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >On 4/8/02 6:19 PM, "John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> One can't, if one uses the Mailman installation managed as a service by >> someone else. Suitable bribes to that person might help, though. I think >> I remember the OP saying t

[Mailman-Users] Re: editing pending messages

2002-04-09 Thread tneff
You can edit pending messages in Mailman 2.0.8 with the following patch. I have not tested it on 2.0.9 yet. This method will probably never make the official FAQ, but it will always be online in gzipped form at http://www.panix.com/~tneff/mailman20_edit_patch.gz First, increase ADMINDB

[Mailman-Users] Postfix and Mailman 2.0.8

2002-04-09 Thread Galatoulas Emmanuel
Hi all I would like to set up a list server for our organisation using Postfix as MTA and Mailman I have experimented with Mailman 2.1b1 and found that it integrates very well with Postfix. However I can't say the same for Mailman 2.0.x !!! Any ideas or tips on how to ease the task of using Mail

[Mailman-Users] transports not working

2002-04-09 Thread Rantanen, TC1
I am not able to build the lists via email but I can build it with a the add_member command. Also the pipermail/test has an error when it comes up. Does mailman use pipermail? I copied the config section from the howto into the exim.conf file. Also copied the info from creating a list into /etc

Re: [Mailman-Users] editing pending messages

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:04:42 -0700 Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:46:53AM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:05:27 -0400 (EDT) sean pambianco >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, Is it possible to edit messages that are held for approval in

Re: [Mailman-Users] editing pending messages

2002-04-09 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:46:53AM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:05:27 -0400 (EDT) > sean pambianco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, Is it possible to edit messages that are held for approval in the > > administrative interface? The header and the text? > > Please see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting Member listing

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:58:20 -0400 Tod and Deanna Mascle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul's method works just dandy except my e-mail program is slow and if > your list is large the e-mail is also. What I've been doing to backup > my lists is view subscriber list with my admin signin from interf

[Mailman-Users] Re: customizing mailman V2.08

2002-04-09 Thread sunny
hello List, I am running mailman ver 2.08 on Solaris 8 with multiple listadmins the problem some listadmin's are changing The list admin's email address and also "Maximum length in Kb of a message body" to 0 which is choking the servers. Can i customize the mailman so that these fileds will not b

[Mailman-Users] Re: customizing mailman V2.08

2002-04-09 Thread sunny
hello List, I am running mailman ver 2.08 on Solaris 8 with multiple listadmins the problem some listadmin's are changing The list admin's email address and also "Maximum length in Kb of a message body" to 0 which is choking the servers. Can i customize the mailman so that these fileds will not b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting Member listing

2002-04-09 Thread Tod and Deanna Mascle
Paul's method works just dandy except my e-mail program is slow and if your list is large the e-mail is also. What I've been doing to backup my lists is view subscriber list with my admin signin from interface (making sure that addresses are formatted to include the @, so I have to remember to ma

[Mailman-Users] Feature Query...

2002-04-09 Thread ajit k jena
Hi, About a week back I had posted a query about configuring Mailman to co-exist with QMAIL. I got a few answers and finally took the easy option of setting up a virtualdomain under QMAIL. Now things are working fine. I have another issue: We have a majordomo setup. There we have a lis

[Mailman-Users] editing pending messages

2002-04-09 Thread sean pambianco
Hi, Is it possible to edit messages that are held for approval in the administrative interface? The header and the text? Sean -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] Mail looping between two mailman lists' request addresses

2002-04-09 Thread Ian Jackson
It looks like a spammer sent a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In any case, the result was each -request bot mailing the other repeatedly with error messages. How should I prevent this from recurring ? (I posted a similar message yesterday but it got caught by the 40K maximum m