[Mailman-Users] Re: force plain text format mail

2002-09-26 Thread Will Yardley
Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Is there any way to configure mailman to convert HTML mail to plain text > format before delivery? If not, is there any patch available? See the FAQ. Either use the beta version or pipe mail through demime or stripmime first. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . ne

[Mailman-Users] force plain text format mail

2002-09-26 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there any way to configure mailman to convert HTML mail to plain text format before delivery? If not, is there any patch available? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatezplay.gpg -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on a shared server???

2002-09-26 Thread Roger Chrisman
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:06, you wrote: > Hello Mailman Users, > I've been a member of the list for about a week now and have not seen > anyone post this question: > > Can Mailman run on one of Alabanza's shared servers? Eric, I don't know about Alabanza, but Dreamhost.com offers free Ma

[Mailman-Users] apachectl configtest.. Syntax error: Group takes one argument,Effective group id for this server

2002-09-26 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi, I'm configuring Mailman for my first time (I installed v. 2.0.8 from my SuSE 8 Pro CD) and I have a problem with the Group setting in httpd.conf. I ran "apachectl configtest" and got the following Syntax error: P3a: # apachectl configtest Syntax error on line 403 of /etc/ht

[Mailman-Users] How to reject all messages from non-list members?

2002-09-26 Thread Akop Pogosian
One of our list managers is asking if it is possible to setup a list so that messages from people who are not subscribed are automatically rejected without having to reject them manually. I looked around and I couldn't find any relevant options in the mailman (we're running 2.0.9). Is there a way

Re: [Mailman-Users] Base URL Corrupted

2002-09-26 Thread Jon Carnes
The simplest solution is to go to the list config files (~mailman/lists//..) and: mv config.db bak.config.db cp config.db.last config.db Presto change-o the list will work again. On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 16:18, Warren Woodward wrote: > (second post, this time with the proper reply-to) > > >

[Mailman-Users] Base URL Corrupted

2002-09-26 Thread Warren Woodward
(second post, this time with the proper reply-to) Forgive me for bringing up what must be an old and common error, but I'll be damned if I can find any source for help. One of our users managed to change the base URL of his list to an invalid path, and has of course broken everything. The help

[Mailman-Users] Seperate CGI from Mailman

2002-09-26 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hello, since I don't have a 24-hour connection for my mail-server, I want to put some CGIs on the webserver to give users some frontend for subscribing, etc. Access to the Archive is not necessary (and can't work, I know). So the requests should be filled in a CGI form in the webserver and mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Name Guidelines

2002-09-26 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:46:53 -0400 (EDT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Raquel Rice wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:16:28 -0400 > > "Dave Warchol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In testing, I ran into some issues using a special > > > character (apostrophe) in the li

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Name Guidelines

2002-09-26 Thread mailman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:16:28 -0400 > "Dave Warchol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In testing, I ran into some issues using a special > > character (apostrophe) in the list name, this was in > > an earlier post. Any guidelines to follow when > > specif

Re: [Mailman-Users] Perms?

2002-09-26 Thread Dave Magill
Yup, been deleting locks, with cron every minute. Doesn't really help though. I've run the config_list -c -o and it doesn't show any problems. root@willow bin]# python -V Python 2.2.1 [root@willow bin]# ver [root@willow bin]# ./version Using Mailman version 2.0.13 Sorely confused. Thanks,

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Name Guidelines

2002-09-26 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:16:28 -0400 "Dave Warchol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > In testing, I ran into some issues using a special > character > (apostrophe) in the list name, this was in an earlier post. Any > guidelines to follow when specifying the list name? > > Tha

[Mailman-Users] List Name Guidelines

2002-09-26 Thread Dave Warchol
Hello: In testing, I ran into some issues using a special character (apostrophe) in the list name, this was in an earlier post. Any guidelines to follow when specifying the list name? Thanks Dave -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Just as a follow-up for those of you who were curious about the real cause of the problem: It seems that the guy who maintained this Linux box before me explicitly turned crond *off*. No wonder messages were never leaving the queue! Sheesh, I've never heard of a Unix box that wasn't running cron

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-26 Thread Henrik Larsson
>I've only seen this behaviour once, and I tracked it down to my >webserver issuing redirects from http://www.dom.ain/mm/... to >https://www.dom.ain/mm/... (i.e. HTTP to HTTP over SSL). The redirect >was eating the POST. > >I took the redirect out, and everything went back to normal. It was a re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Check Sendmail and make sure that it will accept any connection from your local box: netstat -na |grep 25 This is a *very* common problem with the RPM install. The install cannot reconfigure Sendmail for you so Sendmail is still stuck in its high-security mode... You can either check the archiv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
> "irwin" == irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: irwin> Did you set up the mailman cron file? Check to see if the irwin> messages are sitting in .../mailman/qfiles Aha! This seems to be the problem. There are a whole bunch of files in /var/spool/mailman/qfiles. So this is where th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread Stonewall Ballard
wrapper will ignore messages sent to it if the gid of sendmail isn't set correctly when configuring Mailman. On 9/26/02 10:55 AM, "Reuven M. Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed Mailman on a Red Hat 7.2 machine (with all > non-kernel updates). I used the RPM version (2.0.13-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread irwin
On Thursday 26 September 2002 07:55 am, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: > Sep 26 16:34:07 mail sendmail[32214]: g8QDY7j32213: > to="|/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post reuventest", > ctladdr=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30047, dsn=2.0.0, stat=

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread John Wards
Is there any files in your ~mailman/qmail/ dir? John On Thursday 26 Sep 2002 3:55 pm, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: > I've just installed Mailman on a Red Hat 7.2 machine (with all > non-kernel updates). I used the RPM version (2.0.13-1). We're > running the stock Sendmail version, also from an RPM

[Mailman-Users] Sending mail to lists gets stuck

2002-09-26 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
I've just installed Mailman on a Red Hat 7.2 machine (with all non-kernel updates). I used the RPM version (2.0.13-1). We're running the stock Sendmail version, also from an RPM (8.11.6-3). Everything seemed trivially easy until it came time to send mail to members of a list. The list members

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman List admin password not working anymore?

2002-09-26 Thread irwin
On Thursday 26 September 2002 06:53 am, Chris Joelly wrote: > Hello again! > > i habe also tried to login with the site password, and after i could not > login with that "global" password i reset and changed the password with > mmsitepass, but its all the same. mailman doesn't accept any password.

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I ...

2002-09-26 Thread mailman
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > configure the mailing list so that no users can post. > > I want is only as a vehicle for me to be able to distribute > information to people who subscribe to my list. Check the FAQ. How do you find the FAQ? Check your welcome message. - Andrew

Re: [Mailman-Users] Opt-In..

2002-09-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Move to the beta version. This is one of the features in the 2.1.x series. On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 07:26, John Wards wrote: > In membership management you have the option of mass subscribing users. > > Is their anyway of hacking this so that it sends out the confirm email > instead? > > If so w

[Mailman-Users] Mailman on a shared server???

2002-09-26 Thread Eric Rozón
Hello Mailman Users, I've been a member of the list for about a week now and have not seen anyone post this question: Can Mailman run on one of Alabanza's shared servers? I have a shared hosting account on one of those servers and I need a mail management system like Mailman. I was wondering if

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM Stats: Showing number of posts

2002-09-26 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 07:23, John Wards wrote: > Hi, > > If there a way of showing the number of posts each user has done on a list? > > If this is not in built can someone point me in the right direction of where > it start? > > I don't know any python but I am willing and able to learn. I kn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman List admin password not working anymore?

2002-09-26 Thread Chris Joelly
Hello again! i habe also tried to login with the site password, and after i could not login with that "global" password i reset and changed the password with mmsitepass, but its all the same. mailman doesn't accept any password... can anybody tell me whats f** wrong? thanks, Chris -- Chris Jo

Re: [Mailman-Users] log directories exceed 64K

2002-09-26 Thread Charles Sebold
On 19 Tishrei 5763, Mark Gillingham wrote: > Most of the files in /var/log/mailman/ are empty and I don't > understand why the format is of many directories with numbers (e.g., > post.5.4.3.2.1). This came to get me this weekend when our local telco > cut our line and many extra logfiles were cre

[Mailman-Users] Opt-In..

2002-09-26 Thread John Wards
In membership management you have the option of mass subscribing users. Is their anyway of hacking this so that it sends out the confirm email instead? If so where would I begin to hack? Cheers John Wards Sportnetwork.net -- Mailman-Users ma

[Mailman-Users] Asking users more questions

2002-09-26 Thread John Wards
Hi I need to ask users and store more things than just a users email address. So in sign up they get asked Telephone, Address, email etc. Is this possible and which files would I need to start hacking at? Cheers John Wards SportNetwork.net -

[Mailman-Users] Showing number of posts

2002-09-26 Thread John Wards
Hi, If there a way of showing the number of posts each user has done on a list? If this is not in built can someone point me in the right direction of where it start? I don't know any python but I am willing and able to learn. I know PHP could I do it using PHP? Cheers John Wards Sportnetwor

[Mailman-Users] Mailman List admin password not working anymore?

2002-09-26 Thread Chris Joelly
Hello all! i have problems with some of my list admin passwords. I cannot login on the admin page with my passwords, but i have dumpdb'ed the config.db files, and if i compare the hash code of the encrypted passwords (i recalculate them with perl's crypt) with the stored password then they appear