Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:47:15 -0400 Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...he maintains on the elspy project on SF. You know, eslpy would make a wicked TMDA integration base... -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] un-subscription problems

2002-09-20 Thread Anthony Carmody
ok, list members who were automatically subscribed have no password, so how can they unsubscribe? I have tired sending mail to the request address without the password the subject field like so: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I only receive this: > You gave the wrong password. is there a

Re: [Mailman-Users] un-subscription problems

2002-09-20 Thread Jon Carnes
Are they sending the mail to @domain.com or to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 22:12, Anthony Carmody wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with users being able to unsubscribe from a closed mailing list I >run. [closed: admin can post, users > can't etc] > > basically whenever users try

[Mailman-Users] List hosting recommendations please?

2002-09-20 Thread ricksnyder
I'm looking for a reasonably-priced hosting service for an active 800-member discussion list. We'd really like to have a searchable web archive. I don't have the technical knowledge to set up or administer the site. Majordomo and LISTSERV are familiar to me, but I haven't yet run a Mailman

[Mailman-Users] un-subscription problems

2002-09-20 Thread Anthony Carmody
Hi, I have a problem with users being able to unsubscribe from a closed mailing list I run. [closed: admin can post, users can't etc] basically whenever users try to send mail to the list to 'unsubscribe' their mails are intercepted by the admin filter and consequently do not get removed from

[Mailman-Users] Re: Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread Will Yardley
Richard Hill wrote: > Apologies if this has been covered. I didn't find it in list threads or > FAQs. > > Is the a way to strip PGP signatures from messages? Will Mime stripping > software take care of this as well? Demime / stripmime etc. will strip PGP/MIME sigs but won't strip traditiona

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "GAVH" == G Armour Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GAVH> It sounded like Barry was running it, which meant that GAVH> Mailman would always work with Postfix! While I'd like to ensure that Mailman continues to run well with all the major mail servers, I do indeed run Postfix o

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner caught SIGINT. Stopping.

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
That qrunner log is completely normal. It's what you expect from a "mailmanctl restart". -Barry -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/f

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! --- Maria Garcia Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there! > > --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > > > > > Just a comment: as I saw those errors I didn't > > check > > > if everything was Ok, but after reading your > mail > > I > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
When I first was investigating Mailman I read enough of the site to see that Postfix was probably the best bet. It sounded like Barry was running it, which meant that Mailman would always work with Postfix! So I installed RedHat and Postfix, and then setup Mailman. I still run Sendmail for my mai

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > > > Just a comment: as I saw those errors I didn't > check > > if everything was Ok, but after reading your mail > I > > did, I went to $prefix and bin/check'ed_perms and > > system answered "No problems

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > Just a comment: as I saw those errors I didn't check > if everything was Ok, but after reading your mail I > did, I went to $prefix and bin/check'ed_perms and > system answered "No problems found" :-) That just checks for permissions. Based on your previous erro

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > > > /who really apologises for disturbing so much... > :-( > > and apreciates your help a lot > > You're not disturbing. You're asking for help - > anyone is allowed to do that. Ashley, thanks a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > /who really apologises for disturbing so much... :-( > and apreciates your help a lot You're not disturbing. You're asking for help - anyone is allowed to do that. > mv: no se puede efectuar `stat' sobre `/home/mailman/templates/*.html': No existe el >fichero

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > > > What's exactly $prefix? The place where I > uncompress > > the files or the place where the program will be > > installed? > > Where it will be installed. You don't have to > specify this UNLES

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > What's exactly $prefix? The place where I uncompress > the files or the place where the program will be > installed? Where it will be installed. You don't have to specify this UNLESS you do not want to install it into /home/mailman. If you don't specify a $pref

[Mailman-Users] qrunner caught SIGINT. Stopping.

2002-09-20 Thread John Koenig
Hi, I am running 2.1b3... I am using list data recovered from a non-working 2.0.8-ish cvs installation... Fortunately, I am able to authenticate as the administrator of the Mailman installation. I can view the "LISTNAME mailing list administration" page. I can view memberships, etc... All see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 14:38, Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > Hi there! > > Many thanks for your reply. But I have a question... > > --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > > > > > I uncompress it to /home/mailman-2.0.13, cd to > > that > > > directory a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! Many thanks for your reply. But I have a question... --- "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > > > I uncompress it to /home/mailman-2.0.13, cd to > that > > directory and run (as root, as normal user I get > the > > same eror): > > You're

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Maria Garcia Suarez wrote: > I uncompress it to /home/mailman-2.0.13, cd to that > directory and run (as root, as normal user I get the > same eror): You're trying to install Mailman into the same directory that you've uncompressed it in. That's why you're getting errors. Uncompress the s

[Mailman-Users] Error installing 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread Maria Garcia Suarez
Hi there! Following Jon's advice about installing Mailman 2.0.13 from sources (instead of using version 2.0.11 packed in Debian Woody) I tried to :-) But I got another problem. I've created both user and group mailman. I changed rights as described in http://www.list.org/install-system.html and

RE: [Mailman-Users] An idea, what do you guys think??

2002-09-20 Thread Angel Gabriel
I see what you mean... hmm in that case, I better include email based unsubscribe procedures then, and hopefully people would use that, instead of the webbased interface, because your right, they'd all be fighting for the same bandwith at the same time. Hmm... more problems! -Original Mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] An idea, what do you guys think??

2002-09-20 Thread Harold Paulson
Angel, Actually, Mailman tends to work pretty solidly for sending out emails. It all likelihood, it will be faster than your net connection can handle. Mailman should be able to pass all of it's messages off to Postfix in a reasonable amount of time. Then Postfix will spend a few hours del

RE: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-20 Thread Jim Popovitch
Thanks Barry, That's great news for people running beta sites. ;) I run a production site. MM2.1 is looking good, and I am anticipating rolling it out as soon as it is released. -Jim P. > -Original Message- > From: Barry A. Warsaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > "JP" == Jim Popov

RE: [Mailman-Users] RE: [Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, John Jones wrote: > How does one strip MS Office vcard attachments that salespeople and others > tend to attach to -every- email as an attachment of 15kb-45kb? You know, > the thing that has very little in it except for an 'attachment signature' > and contact information? Wh

RE: [Mailman-Users] Was Does mailman support a MySQL backend? - Now MTA tweaking!

2002-09-20 Thread Angel Gabriel
I would like to know how I can check the performance of my mail server. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of J C Lawrence Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:08 PM To: Angel Gabriel Cc: Mailman (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Was Does mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Was Does mailman support a MySQL backend? - Now MTA tweaking!

2002-09-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:55:31 +0100 Angel Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's seems that it is a matter of personal prefrance as to the MTA to > use... which just left me stuck!! http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.002.htp http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?

[Mailman-Users] An idea, what do you guys think??

2002-09-20 Thread Angel Gabriel
Okay, I'm sorry i've posted so much to the list recently, please forgive me!! After some research, it's has been decidede that postfix is the best MTA, as in it has great security, and it has been recommended on quite a few webpages. Problem is, i'm not going to change everything over now. I'll do

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: [Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:36:48 +0200 p schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why do you want to stripoff privacy things? On some lists PGP wrappers and sigs are noise. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Mailman-Users] RE: [Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread John Jones
> -Original Message- > >> Is the a way to strip PGP signatures from messages? Will Mime > >> stripping > >> software take care of this as well? > > I don't think you want this. > > So why do you want to stripoff privacy things? > PGP is a good thing. Okay, lets put this another way, t

[Mailman-Users] message url in footer

2002-09-20 Thread Mark McEahern
It would be great if I could modify the footer of a mailing list to insert the archive URL of the current message. Is that easy/possible? I apologize if this is a FAQ. I read the FAQ and the wish list and couldn't find a reference to it. I also did at least a cursory google search and couldn't

[Mailman-Users] exim 4 configuration file, and mailman 2.0.13

2002-09-20 Thread B. Ash
Hi I am sure this has been asked before. I am having trouble getting Exim version 4 to work with mailman. I have it running with version 3.xx, and have used the conversion utility, but no dice. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks --bash -

RE: [Mailman-Users] Was Does mailman support a MySQL backend? - Now MTA tweaking!

2002-09-20 Thread Angel Gabriel
Thanks for the prompt reply, and I'm talking to all the personal emails I've recieved!! It's seems that it is a matter of personal prefrance as to the MTA to use... which just left me stuck!! So, I'm gonna stick with sendmail, and add a little hack to stop all the DNS lookups. Hopefully that shou

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: [Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread Christian J Hedemark
+1 PGP is a good thing. On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Apologies if this has been covered. I didn't find it in list threads >> or >> FAQs. >> Is the a way to strip PGP signatures from messages? Will Mime >> stripping >> software take care of this as

[Mailman-Users] RE: [Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread p . schoenfeld
>Apologies if this has been covered. I didn't find it in list threads or >FAQs. >Is the a way to strip PGP signatures from messages? Will Mime stripping >software take care of this as well? I don't think you want this. So why do you want to stripoff privacy things? bye Patrick _

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:18:25 +0100 Angel Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be a better MTA to use? Any recommendations? Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py As stated there I generically recommend both Exim and Postfix, for the reasons stated there. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-20 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:14:05AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Sure, but that's why other packages confirm unsubs as well as subs. If I > can completely take over a users' account, Mailman will tell me the > password. Again, there is no valid reason for requiring a password to unsub > via emai

RE: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread Angel Gabriel
Version 2.1? Okay, what I'm going to do is have a look around the net for more info on this. Having a MySQL backend should ease a few performance issues. Also I got a mail from someone saying that sending out about 100k mails with a few bad ones would bring my server to it's knees... hmm... that i

[Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread Richard Hill
Apologies if this has been covered. I didn't find it in list threads or FAQs. Is the a way to strip PGP signatures from messages? Will Mime stripping software take care of this as well? Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Su

RE: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JP" == Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> Again, there is no valid reason for requiring a password to JP> unsub via email other than to eliminate confirmation emails. JP> At the end of the day more of my users would prefer JP> confirmation emails over having to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digests: "From" address and topics

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "NA" == Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NA> I'm using Mailman 2.1b2 and digests are going out with a NA> "From" header with the -request address, rather than the list NA> address. I found a closed bug for this NA> (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Amount of messages in a .mbox file

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "DT" == Danny Terweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DT> I have a .mbox file of 890Mb in size. I want to know how many DT> messages are in it and how much messages per month. Take a look at bin/cleanarch in the MM2.1 source. It does more than you're asking for here, but should provi

RE: [Mailman-Users] Blocking Unsubscribe?

2002-09-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "TR" == Tom Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TR> Sorry, I should have clarified that.. however, doesn't Barry TR> need at least *some* people to run the beta under load to help TR> iron out the problems :) TR> Needless to say, I am one of those persons :) Yes! And greatl

RE: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-20 Thread Jim Popovitch
Sure, but that's why other packages confirm unsubs as well as subs. If I can completely take over a users' account, Mailman will tell me the password. Again, there is no valid reason for requiring a password to unsub via email other than to eliminate confirmation emails. At the end of the day m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searchable archives

2002-09-20 Thread Richard Barrett
On Thursday 19 September 2002 19:34, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > Richard, > > Perhaps you could take a minute to sketch the advantages of the options > mentioned, the FAQ tells me that there are three but gives no clue as to > establishing a preference among MnoGoSearch, HT:Dig, and Pipermail its

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:37:38 +0100 Angel Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using RH 7.3 and I have a DSL line @ 256k upload - I havn't even > attempted to send messages to list anymore, because I can't even get > the web interface to come up, it times out. I adjusted the cf files > manual