[Mailman-Users] Unadvertised Lists

2002-10-09 Thread Jeff Forrester
Is there a way for an administrator to view unadvertised lists he has had created if he has forgotten the names of some of them, without having the sys admin to do a list_lists? I know how to view advertised lists by going to the listinfo directory, but I don't know how to view all lists (ad

[Mailman-Users] [resend] problems after bungled re-installs with daily admindbreminders (fwd)

2002-10-09 Thread fingers
Hi I hate resending posts that are unanswered, 'cos it normally means nobody can assist. I'm hoping perhaps someone could give me atleast a suggestion, any takers? :) Regards --Rob -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:38:28 +0200 (SAST) From: fingers <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email duplicates

2002-10-09 Thread Jonathan Chum
I hate quoting myself, but I'm a bit frustrated with Mailman at the moment. I've checked the logs/smtp just to make sure I was giving qrunner enough time. Did some research on the archives of python and was not able to determine what other possible causes. The message ID was the exact ID in all 3

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to remove a list with spaces

2002-10-09 Thread Greg Westin
Dear Paul, I don't know if this would work or not, but have you tried something like: rmlist -a list\ name\ with\ spaces ? Maybe that would work. Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Paul Kiely wrote: >

[Mailman-Users] Configure Error - Can't Load Library

2002-10-09 Thread danko patrick
I'm attempting an install of mailman 2.0.13 on AIX 5.1. I'm using gcc 2.95.3.0, openssl 0.9.6.7, and python 2.1.1.0. I'm getting the error below when running a configure. I checked to make sure all libraries listed in the error are there and permissions are fine. I'm by no means a python guru.

[Mailman-Users] how to remove a list with spaces

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Kiely
i'm running mailman 2.0.11 on solaris. how do i remove a list with spaces in the name? i tried enclosing the list in both single and double quotes (which was suggested in the mailman-users archive) but no luck. can i just cd into /home/mailman/lists and just rm the list directory manually? any

[Mailman-Users] suspicious headers

2002-10-09 Thread Patrick
Hello, I have some real problem with mailman 2.0.11 I check require_explicit_destination : yes and add acceptable_aliases : myalias@armage\.org (both with web interface) then in my /etc/alias I add this line : myalias: [EMAIL PROTECTED] do newaliases, try to send a mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Mailman sending out email 3x

2002-10-09 Thread Jonathan Chum
Mailman on the last email l sent out mailed users 3 copies of the email to the entire list. I'm not why this started happening as we haven't changed any settings, and I'm not sure where to start as to why this email was sent out over a period of 3 days. Any ideas or suggestions on what could be h

[Mailman-Users] Make Mailman send confirmations from fully quallified hostname?

2002-10-09 Thread Jason Bodnar
My regular mail is handled by mail.broadq.com. I've got an mx record for lists.broadq.com pointing to the host running Mailman. In mm_cfg.py I have: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'lists.broadq.com' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.broadq.com/cgi-bin/mailman/' MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAUL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cached Name server - How does it speed upthings?

2002-10-09 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:39, Angel Gabriel wrote: > Does a cached name server have to be on the exact same machine as mailman? Depends on how your MTA (Sendmail) is setup. If it simply hands off all incoming mail to another mailserver, then no. If it actually tries to deliver the individual mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman getting behind (qfiles)

2002-10-09 Thread Andrew D. Clark
Same problems for me, and I am running a caching-only named on the box, with Exim. The only item in my qrunner log other than complaining about not being able to acquire a lock is newsyslog turning the log file over... Has anyone had luck in solving this problem through tuning the qrunner varia

[Mailman-Users] Postfix/mailman/aix/newlist probs

2002-10-09 Thread Stuart
OK, this is annoying me now.many years ago in a distant galaxy I installed Mailman 2 with Postfix and set up two mailing lists, which ran quite happily. Today I add another mailing list, using the newlist command and take the alias lines and add them to the rest. Run postalias as before and r

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

2002-10-09 Thread Chris Lawson
on 10/9/02 11:03 AM, Jon Carnes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > Just to remove any thought of rights issues, how about setting the > rights to that file so that it is read/writable to all. > > The current rights should look like this: > -rw-rw-r-- mailman mailman They do now. But they didn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cached Name server - How does it speed up things?

2002-10-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:39:44 +0100 Angel Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does a cached name server have to be on the exact same machine as > mailman? No, but you lose most of the benefits if its not. > I think it's pretty obvious that postfix seems to be the MTA of > choice... Postfix a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cached Name server - How does it speed up things?

2002-10-09 Thread Dan Wilder
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:39:44PM +0100, Angel Gabriel wrote: > Does a cached name server have to be on the exact same machine as mailman? No. > Or can I add it to another machine on my network? I'm thinking that if it's > on the same subnet as my mailman machine would the performance increase

[Mailman-Users] Cached Name server - How does it speed up things?

2002-10-09 Thread Angel Gabriel
Does a cached name server have to be on the exact same machine as mailman? Or can I add it to another machine on my network? I'm thinking that if it's on the same subnet as my mailman machine would the performance increase be negligable if I installed a cache nameserver on the same machine as mail

[Mailman-Users] 2.1b3 Language Choice - Bug???

2002-10-09 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am running 2.1b3 on a production box. I created a list and made the default language FRENCH. Later I changed my mind and disabled all languages except ENGLISH only. Howevere, when this list sends notices to the moderator, it sends them in French. This language is not available to the moderator a

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman getting behind (qfiles)

2002-10-09 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 06:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Wayne Walker wrote: > > > QRUNNER_PROCESS_LIFETIME = minutes(15) > > QRUNNER_MAX_MESSAGES = 300 > > > > So, this thing sits for 15 minutes and reduces the qfiles dir (180 to > > 118 in 15 minutes). Any ideas why it would

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to access admin area

2002-10-09 Thread Jon Carnes
Check to see if the configuration file was corrupted: ~mailman/bin/check_db ~mailman/lists//config.db If not, see if you can access the configuration via the command line: ~mailman/bin/list_members ~mailman/bin/add_members Some larger lists take too long to load on slower servers, so the m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about disabling due to bouncingnotification...

2002-10-09 Thread mailman
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Matt Goebel wrote: > Running Mailman 2.0.13 on Tru64 4.0G with sendmail 8.11.6 and > have hopefully a simple question. > > I've had a couple of list owners complain that when their users > (mostly on yahoo.com or hotmail.com) are disable because of > bouncing, they - the

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

2002-10-09 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 00:37, Chris Lawson wrote: > admin(8367): fp = open(self.__filename, 'w') > admin(8367): IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: > '/home/mailman/lists/test/request.db' > Just to remove any thought of rights issues, how about setting the rights to that file so that it is

[Mailman-Users] Question about disabling due to bouncing notification...

2002-10-09 Thread Matt Goebel
Hello, Running Mailman 2.0.13 on Tru64 4.0G with sendmail 8.11.6 and have hopefully a simple question. I've had a couple of list owners complain that when their users (mostly on yahoo.com or hotmail.com) are disable because of bouncing, they - the list owners - are not notified by email.

[Mailman-Users] Re: mass subscribing users WITH real names

2002-10-09 Thread Greg Westin
I believe Mailman will accept a number of different conventions for entering real names, but it makes no distinction between 'first' and 'last' names. For example: Will-Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Main, Will ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Will Main" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To quote a message from Barry, found

Re: [Mailman-Users] Install frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Alls well that ends ... I cured the problem, finally, by deleting all the aliases in my virtual domain setup, which I had created following one of the explanations in the README.POSTFIX file. Of course I was then running Mailman 2.0.13. If anyone has a better checklist of things to do to setup

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman getting behind (qfiles)

2002-10-09 Thread mailman
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Wayne Walker wrote: > QRUNNER_PROCESS_LIFETIME = minutes(15) > QRUNNER_MAX_MESSAGES = 300 > > So, this thing sits for 15 minutes and reduces the qfiles dir (180 to > 118 in 15 minutes). Any ideas why it would take longer than that? Is it the same messages always sitting arou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:33, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > I discovered from the /var/log/maillog file that I had a problem with my aliases, and > came to figure out that I was editing /etc/postfix/aliases but newaliases was using > the /etc/aliases file to create an aliases.db file I now have adde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Well, at the time I had a permissions issue. So I chowned the whole tree to mailman:mailman, and went back and did "config.status" and "make install" to ratify it. Then I did a couple of other little things I had overlooked in the INSTALL file. Nothing is being logged in the mailman/logs to spea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 03:19, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > > Okay, now I have sent the first test message, and it is returned to me with this > text: > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Action: failed > Status: 5.0.0 > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 1: > "/ho

[Mailman-Users] Password frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Barry hit the nail on the head regarding python2-devel being needed for RedHat users. I installed that package and 2.1b3 compiled in just a few minutes, and ran the first time. (Well, at least I can get to the admin interface.) I went to setup a new list, ran newlist from the mailman/bin collecti

[Mailman-Users] Unable to access admin area

2002-10-09 Thread The Traveller
Hi: I have set up mailman (2.0.10 on FreeBSD) and have been using it for several weeks now without problems. I have a list that has approximately 50,000 subscribers which I am moving from one list provider to my local list. All was going very well until I tried to import users using the mass su