Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple emails to lists

2002-04-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:22:23PM -0700, Philip Rowe wrote: > Hey, > > I've been going through the documentation in order to stop > Mailman from sending multiple emails to users for lists that > contain another list name. You cannot do this with mailman 2.0 Mailman 2.1 could almost do this, b

Re: [Mailman-Users] newbie question

2002-04-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:24:02PM -0600, Brian Noecker wrote: > Update on this: > > Seems that the problems with the "admin(21776): OSError: [Errno 1] Operation > not permitted" error stem from the following observations: > > the /opt/mailman/lists and /opt/mailman/lists/test/config.db file has

[Mailman-Users] Password Help

2002-04-11 Thread Krishna Rao SN
After changing the List Administrator password from the general page, now I can login with both old as well as new password. If I change the password using mmsitepass command, it works only with new password. Any comment? --Krishna -- Mailm

[Mailman-Users] Password help

2002-04-11 Thread Krishna Rao SN
After changing the List Administrator password from the general page, now I can login with both old as well as new password. If I change the password using mmsitepass command, it works only with new password. Any comment? --Krishna j)fju,z»&j)bž b²ÓŠYšK®Êr¶'¢¸!¶Úþf¢–œ­†‰è®æj)fjåŠË

Re: [Mailman-Users] Whay are all my messages sitting in the qfiles dir??

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
Because your cron has stopped running. - Original Message - From: Rob Morin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Whay are all my messages sitting in the qfiles dir?? Hello... all my messages sent to the lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] email subject

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
Interesting It's not available currently, but it should be an easy hack... I'll look at that once I get the by-list-welcome hack working. - Original Message - From: "Corporal Pisang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:42 AM Subject: [Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password?

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
Direct them to go to the listinfo page for the list, enter their email address at the bottom of the page and press the submit button. On the next page there is a link to have their password mailed to them. The default listinfo page is poorly laid out. Several folks have suggested much nicer layo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Peronalize postings ?

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
You want ezmlm. Harder to install and manage, but it does allow you to personalize each message. - Original Message - From: "Marcel Hicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:20 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Peronalize postings ? > Hi folks > >

[Mailman-Users] Some items for the Wish list

2002-04-11 Thread Arlen . P . Walker
1) Allow users to change the email address the list is being sent to 2) Add an "expiration date" to membership which, if enabled, will automatically unsub member after it passes. If the "to" could be the person it's addressed to that would be good, but Since I can't think of a clean way to imple

[Mailman-Users] Please Help

2002-04-11 Thread ViroGen
Title: Please Help I am using RH 7.2, mailman, and sendmail as my MTA. I can get to the mail list online and am able to signup. When I hit subscribe.. I never get an email. I see no errors in my mail log.. No entries at all from mailman in there either. Sendmail is working, I can send a messa

[Mailman-Users] tsk tsk

2002-04-11 Thread Mike Murray
By the way, Mailman is brought to you by the Mailman cabal with a capital leading M and a lowercase c leading cabal. It is incorrect to spell it "Mailman Cabal" (i.e. you should not use StudlyCaps).

[Mailman-Users] Adding bulk members & passwords

2002-04-11 Thread Infostat Staff
I just moved my mailing list to Mailman and have several hundred members without passwords. I added these members in bulk. Is there an easy way to assign them all an initial password that they can then change? I don't want to give them the list admin password. Thanks! Chip Harvey ---

[Mailman-Users] email subject

2002-04-11 Thread Corporal Pisang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is it possible to put the mail number to add to the subject header ? eg: [ListName-8999] for the 8999th posting to the list ?? ive seen some mailing list doint that ... im wondering whether mailman is capable to do such a thing ??? If there a

[Mailman-Users] Override From: header ?

2002-04-11 Thread Marcel Hicking
Hi folks How do I override the From: header of postings? For a announcemnet-only list I want the postings to apear to come from the list. Any hints? TIA, Marcel -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/

[Mailman-Users] Peronalize postings ?

2002-04-11 Thread Marcel Hicking
Hi folks Is there a way to personalize postings? I'm thinking of something like a search and replace within the posted message. Say, for an "announcement only" list, a message like |Hello <> | |This is an announcement bla bla | |To read on, click |http://www.somewhere.org/news?id=22&user=<>">her

[Mailman-Users] Password?

2002-04-11 Thread Hannes Hofer
Hi If a user have been subscribed by a list administrator, how does he/she obtain a password? I am the administrator of a list and I initially mass-added the subscribers but opted not to send out the "canned" welcome message (I wrote a welcome message on my own). Now I am getting complaints t

[Mailman-Users] Whay are all my messages sitting in the qfiles dir??

2002-04-11 Thread Rob Morin
Hello... all my messages sent to the list I have are sitting in the ~mailman/qfiles dir?  Why is this?   I have delivery set for immediate not digest... I am using 2.0.8 and latest Python and Solaris 2.7   any ideas? Rob Morin(Mr.Legacy)System AdministratorMontreal, Canada  

[Mailman-Users] is it possible to unsubscribe with mailman ?

2002-04-11 Thread Eric Seigne
Hello World, i've installed mailman, an today some users want to unsubscribe ... and it's impossible by web interface ! here is my installation: view-source:http://lists.abuledu.org/mailman/listinfo/support and this is a problem: The subscribers list is only available to the list member

[Mailman-Users] newsletter-list

2002-04-11 Thread pilsl
I'd like to set up a mailinglist where only the list-owner can send messages. It should merely be kind of a "newsletter". Can this be done easily with mailman or is there much better software to do this ? thnx, peter -- Mailman-Users mailing l

[Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_URL, DEFAULT_HOSTNAME

2002-04-11 Thread Jason Signalness
I have a problem. Some of the email being sent out by mailman (password reminders, etc.) are coming from an incorrect DEFAULT_URL. For example, mail has a "from" field of dsl1234.bti.com, which is outdated. It should be set to cyclend.org. The URL they are coming from is the same as the one

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing datas in config.db

2002-04-11 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:24:41AM -0700, Anna Fong wrote: > #!/bin/sh > > newroot='/var/mailman' > > for list in `ls $newroot/lists/detente` What does this line do? I don't understand it, and also I have no lists/detente. Bye Jonas -- We'll try to make different mistakes this time --

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the Welcome message on a per list basis... a shot in the dark

2002-04-11 Thread Eric Sisler
At 03:12 PM 04/11/2002 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: >Thanks for testing it! I'll give it a run tonight myself and tweak it. Thanks for the sample code. If I knew more about python I'd try and fix it myself. (Learning python is on my "list of things to do", I just haven't gotten there yet.) It

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the Welcome message on a per list basis... a shot in the dark

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
Thanks for testing it! I'll give it a run tonight myself and tweak it. Shouldn't be too hard to make it work, though it might work better if I used a file in the ~mailman/templates/.. directory. It also doesn't need to be a function - I just thought I would get fancy. It should be easy to play

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the Welcome message on a per list basis... a shot in the dark

2002-04-11 Thread Eric Sisler
At 12:28 PM 04/11/2002 -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: >Okay, here is the deal... > > - You can simply change the text in subscribeack.txt and you are done. >This changes every welcome message from every list, or [snip] >def specwelcome(listname): > """Return special welcome file for `listname' i

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing datas in config.db

2002-04-11 Thread Anna Fong
François, Try this from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-August/002009.html ---snip--- #!/bin/sh newroot='/var/mailman' for list in `ls $newroot/lists/detente` do python -i $newroot/bin/withlist -l $list < m.private_archive_file_dir m.private_archive_file_dir='$newroot/arch

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the Welcome message on a per list basis... a shot in the dark

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
Okay, here is the deal... - You can simply change the text in subscribeack.txt and you are done. This changes every welcome message from every list, or - You can edit the file ~mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py and change the following block of text so that it will check for an existence of an alte

[Mailman-Users] add_members

2002-04-11 Thread Steven Sobol
If using add_members and typing in a list of addresses on stdin, how do you specify end of list? EOF/ctrl-D doesn't work for some reason. (weird!) -- Steven J. Sobol Lead Developer/Tech Support ROI Supply, Inc. Helping manufacturers and distributors to improve service and reduce costs Phone: (

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual hosting

2002-04-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:35:27 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:31:34PM -0700, J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote a message of 27 lines which said: >> Please see the FAQ: >> >> http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Remember that there i

RE: [Mailman-Users] How do I suppress ?

2002-04-11 Thread Mark Moshe Kaye
Mark, yes ! I made the HTML change without a problem. I am trying to modify the "Welcome To" email that is sent to new subscribers so that is is list specific. Moshe --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > don't you change the html via the web interface? > >

RE: [Mailman-Users] Override From header?

2002-04-11 Thread Marcel Hicking
Ah, yes, interetsing idea, I'll check this! Thx, Marcel --On Donnerstag, 11. April 2002 15:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > can't you do this with your mta? i have exim and in the smtp transport > section i just have a few remove-header lines. and a few add-header lines > too, for the peop

RE: [Mailman-Users] Override From header?

2002-04-11 Thread mark . l . johnson
can't you do this with your mta? i have exim and in the smtp transport section i just have a few remove-header lines. and a few add-header lines too, for the people how are too nosey for their own good! > One more question on this topic: > Any chance to remove other headers > like X-Mailer, Recei

Re: [Mailman-Users] Override From header?

2002-04-11 Thread Marcel Hicking
One more question on this topic: Any chance to remove other headers like X-Mailer, Received etc. as well? Maybe something like a "header kill filter" in a "before send to list" handler ? TIA, Marcel --On Donnerstag, 11. April 2002 14:19 +0200 JvdW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go to "Privacy Op

RE: [Mailman-Users] How do I suppress ?

2002-04-11 Thread mark . l . johnson
don't you change the html via the web interface? > unsure where to put that change and would rather not > hack without knowing what I am hacking. * Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I suppress ?

2002-04-11 Thread Mark Moshe Kaye
Jon, Thank you ! As i am just learning Linux/mailman I would appreciate it if you could tell me what file I need to edit. I already fixed the list specific HTML pages but I am unsure where to put that change and would rather not hack without knowing what I am hacking. Thanks, Moshe > > Well t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Override From header?

2002-04-11 Thread Marcel Hicking
Thx! It's on the spam filter page in 2.1b1. Not quite where I expected it ;-) Marcel --On Donnerstag, 11. April 2002 14:19 +0200 JvdW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go to "Privacy Options" Right at the bottom set the"Hide the sender of a > message" option to yes. > > l8r > JvdW > > On Thursday 11

Re: [Mailman-Users] Override From header?

2002-04-11 Thread JvdW
Go to "Privacy Options" Right at the bottom set the"Hide the sender of a message" option to yes. l8r JvdW On Thursday 11 April 2002 14:08, Marcel Hicking wrote: > Is it possible to override the From: header of postings? > For an announcement-only list I'd like to have the message > to apear to

[Mailman-Users] Override From header?

2002-04-11 Thread Marcel Hicking
Is it possible to override the From: header of postings? For an announcement-only list I'd like to have the message to apear to come from the list itself or from a default adress. Any hints? TIA, Marcel -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PR

[Mailman-Users] Read-only lists--how to create them??

2002-04-11 Thread Joseph Wheatley
I'm new to MailMan, and have really enjoyed it, but I've been unable to set-up a read-only mailing list. Are there any installation preferences that I must select to get one started?   Thank you for your time and assistance.   Kind regards, Joe Wheatley

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I suppress ?

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Carnes
--- Original Message: Wednesday 10 April 2002 08:07 pm --- > Jon, > > Can you help me find the reference to the work around as the only > post i found(see below) is a post from Greg Stein in 1999 stating > that it can't be done but I am hopeful something has been updated. > > http://mail.python.o

[Mailman-Users] changing datas in config.db

2002-04-11 Thread François Chenais
Hello, I would like to change datas in config.db file specialy transform 'archive_directory': '/opt/mailman/archives/private/detente', 'private_archive_file_dir': '/opt/mailman/archives/private/detente.mbox', 'public_archive_file_dir': '/opt/mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual hosting

2002-04-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:31:34PM -0700, J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > Please see the FAQ: > > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Remember that there is absoutely no pointer to this second FAQ, from Mailman's official home page... > Sho

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2002-04-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:47:37 -0400 Dene Ulmschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone assist in fixing my install? I was trying to get SSL > working and in attempting that I moved my "data" Directory and played > with the permissions. My install has stopped working. Can someone > tell