[Mailman-Users] Cookie patch?

2003-01-30 Thread barry
For folks having trouble with interoperability of Mailman 2.0 and 2.1 cookies, could you please try the following patch? -Barry snip snip Index: SecurityManager.py === RCS file: /cvsroot/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Doubts

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
I am amazed and astounded - and even more impressed with Cygwin! How well does the Exim install work? Does it handle email quickly? I've got to try this one out. On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:21, Matthew Davis wrote: > Check http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq05.002.htp > It's

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Bug] Cookie from older version

2003-01-30 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "WY" == Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WY> If you have an old cookie from Mailman 2.0.x, you'll have to WY> re-login for every page until you manually clear the cookie WY> from your browser (after upgrading to 2.1). WY> Is there any way to fix this in the future?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Doubts

2003-01-30 Thread Matthew Davis
* Shaju Nambiar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Dear sir > > i have certain doubts abt Mailman > can we installed this in windows based machine. If yes what are > the requirements we need and what will be status. > can we installed in servers (both unix bases and windows based) > if yes, please let

[Mailman-Users] Re: 'Pre-sales' questions...

2003-01-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:06:22PM +, Simon White wrote: > 29-Jan-03 at 09:32, Abbo Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > Before I consider Mailman as a newsletter mail list solution, I have a > > few questions. I hope you have time to answer them... I hope the 'Pre-sales' part is a joke..

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
Forgive my lack of exact language. To be more precise, you can turn on personalization for a list using the Web-Admin. Once you do that certain other features become available and you can then edit the Footer (using the Web-Admin) and put in variables that will be recognized and replaced by Mailma

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Bug] Cookie from older version

2003-01-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:14:05AM +, Simon White wrote: > 29-Jan-03 at 13:37, Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > If you have an old cookie from Mailman 2.0.x, you'll have to re-login > > for every page until you manually clear the cookie from your browser > > (after upgrading to 2.1

[Mailman-Users] Re: Which functions???

2003-01-30 Thread Samuel Tardieu
> "Mark" == Mark Rauterkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> How do you NUKE an address from ALL the lists on your server? ~mailman/bin/remove_members --fromall user@host Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Error: Incorrect padding???

2003-01-30 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
David Gibbs wrote: NOTE: I have applied patch [ 668819 ] improve plain-ness and i18n-ness of plain-text digest Please try upgrade to the most recent CVS. You may want to further add this patch. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=674401&group_id=103&atid=300103 -- Tokio K

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest message header filtering

2003-01-30 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
Jim Littlefield wrote: A number of the subscribers to my lists have complained about the "unimportant" headers (Message-ID, In-Reply-To, etc.) included with each post when receiving a plain digest. I am talking about headers within the digest. Has anyone figured out a good way to strip these out?

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread Fernando Schapachnik
En un mensaje anterior, Jon Carnes escribió: > It's Open Source - so there is always a way :-) Without hacking the source, I mean :-) > > In this case Barry made it easy for you. If you turn on personalization > then you can include certain elements in the footer (as is denoted by > the messages

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
It's Open Source - so there is always a way :-) In this case Barry made it easy for you. If you turn on personalization then you can include certain elements in the footer (as is denoted by the messages from thi list which indicate your individual email address) On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 17:57, Ferna

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread Fernando Schapachnik
En un mensaje anterior, Jon Carnes escribió: > You can edit the footer information directly via the Web-admin. Is there a way to include external commands output in the footer? Thanks! Fernando Schapachnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users m

RE: [Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread Kathryn Bassett
Wow, I'm a total novice (less than a week) but know this one since I just *added* something to the footer. Go to your admin area for the list in question, then click on "Regular-member (non-digest) Options" Down towards the bottom is "Footer added to mail sent to regular list members" Default in

Re: [Mailman-Users] ValueError: bad marshal data

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
It could be trying to process some waiting mail for one of your lists. You should run a ~mailman/bin/check_db on each of your lists. If the config file is corrupted too badly, you can replace the corrupt config.pck with an older one: config.pck.last And by replace, I mean stop mailmanctl and the

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
You can edit the footer information directly via the Web-admin. On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:58, jsingh wrote: > Which file do I need to tweak in order for me take out the url for list > info in the footer of the email ? > Thanks > jack > > > --

[Mailman-Users] ValueError: bad marshal data

2003-01-30 Thread Jiri Demel
Hi. After a crash of my server I am not able to start Mailman. When I start it, it 11-times reports the following: File "/net/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ? main() File "/net/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 230, in main qrunner.run() File "/net/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", lin

[Mailman-Users] footer

2003-01-30 Thread jsingh
Which file do I need to tweak in order for me take out the url for list info in the footer of the email ? Thanks jack -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi-user / create.py

2003-01-30 Thread Vivek Khera
> "f" == friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: f> No, running postalias as user www generates a "Permission denied" error on the aliases f> file. Hence my question: should I change the file ownership, it's permissions or is there a f> way to run postalias under the user mailman? I just s

[Mailman-Users] Re: Error: Incorrect padding???

2003-01-30 Thread David Gibbs
NOTE: I have applied patch [ 668819 ] improve plain-ness and i18n-ness of plain-text digest "David Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b1bs11$96s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b1bs11$96s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I'm getting a huge amount of these messages ... any ideas? > > > Jan 30 12:47:18 2003

RE: [Mailman-Users] Changing list headers

2003-01-30 Thread Tom Maddox
> > Sorry you didn't include all the previous message in your reply, so I'm > guessing that you are talking about the digest messages...? Sorry about that. No, I was referring to a message from a few days ago, in which I had asked how to alter the From: header from the default, which displays "-b

[Mailman-Users] Error: Incorrect padding???

2003-01-30 Thread David Gibbs
I'm getting a huge amount of these messages ... any ideas? Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) Uncaught runner exception: Incorrect padding Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgd

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi-user / create.py

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But I don't understand at which end this is wrong. Was the cgi-gid set wrong? Or > > > do I need to change the ownership of the aliases files? check-perms renders no > > > errors. Do I need to tell mailman/create.py to run postaliases as user mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi-user / create.py

2003-01-30 Thread friedrich28
> > But I don't understand at which end this is wrong. Was the cgi-gid set wrong? Or > > do I need to change the ownership of the aliases files? check-perms renders no > > errors. Do I need to tell mailman/create.py to run postaliases as user mailman, >and > > if so, how do I do that? > > Does

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribing mailman via mail?

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 06:15, eSeL wrote: > hi, > > i am runing a few lists on mailman, > and i want users to subscribe via email. > > 1. > a) what is to be written in the subject-line of a mail if a user wants > to subscribe via mail (without web-interface?) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sub

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help text

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
Look at the bottom of every email to this list for the locations of several nice On-line aids. On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 05:02, Vanessa Dobbins wrote: > Are there on-line 'help' documents available for Mailman, other than > consulting members of a newsgroup? Thanks. > > > V

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full headers in archive

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
There is no configuration switch to do this, but you can edit the Source Code to add additional headers. I was just looking at that code this morning and adding additional header info would be very easy. Jon Carnes On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 19:01, Gareth Hopkins wrote: > Howdie, > > Is there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Doubts

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
29-Jan-03 at 08:24, Shaju Nambiar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > i have certain doubts abt Mailman > can we installed this in windows based machine. If yes what are > the requirements we need and what will be status. > can we installed in servers (both unix bases and windows based) > if yes, pleas

Re: [Mailman-Users] 'Pre-sales' questions...

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
29-Jan-03 at 09:32, Abbo Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Before I consider Mailman as a newsletter mail list solution, I have a > few questions. I hope you have time to answer them... > > - Does Mailman allow you to create custom headers/footers? That is, > can I write specific text and ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filtering

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:36, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:47, Robin Rowe wrote: > > Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted > > mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power. > > > > Can anyone answer my question as asked? Is it p

[Mailman-Users] header configuration in Mailman 2.1

2003-01-30 Thread Alfred
Hi, i try long time to configure the mailman 2.1 but i get no result :-( i like to configure Mailman that every mail look like this: FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: nothing what i get when i send a mail to the list: FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; im Auftrag von; root [[EMAIL PROT

[Mailman-Users] Multiple Copies of templates

2003-01-30 Thread nero one
Hey, Is it easily possible to create completely different versions of template files (ie verify.txt) per listserv? That is to say that listserv 1 would load verify-listserv1.txt, listserv 2 would load verify-listserv2.txt and so on. Or, anything that would create the same result. Curr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest message header filtering

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Littlefield
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:04:14PM +, Simon White wrote: > 30-Jan-03 at 10:56, Jim Littlefield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > A number of the subscribers to my lists have complained about the > > "unimportant" headers (Message-ID, In-Reply-To, etc.) included with > > each post when receiving a

RE: [Mailman-Users] Nothing gets archived...

2003-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Skip> I've been using Mailman for a couple years to run several small Skip> private, non-archived mailing lists. Today, I tried creating a Skip> public, archived mailing list for the first time. The list mail Skip> comes and goes just fine, but nothing turns up in the archives as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest message header filtering

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
30-Jan-03 at 10:56, Jim Littlefield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > A number of the subscribers to my lists have complained about the > "unimportant" headers (Message-ID, In-Reply-To, etc.) included with each > post when receiving a plain digest. I am talking about headers within > the digest. Has an

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filtering

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Noyes
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 15:47, Robin Rowe wrote: > > Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses > > SpamAssassin. > > Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted > mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power. > > Can anyone answer

[Mailman-Users] Help text

2003-01-30 Thread Vanessa Dobbins
Are there on-line 'help' documents available for Mailman, other than consulting members of a newsgroup? Thanks. Vanessa Dobbins Supervisor, CNR Services College of Natural Resources University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1130 Phone: 208-885-6581; Fax: 208-885-6226 http://

[Mailman-Users] 'Pre-sales' questions...

2003-01-30 Thread Abbo Peterson
Before I consider Mailman as a newsletter mail list solution, I have a few questions. I hope you have time to answer them... - Does Mailman allow you to create custom headers/footers? That is, can I write specific text and have it be inserted before and after the body of each email? You know, "Y

[Mailman-Users] subscribing mailman via mail?

2003-01-30 Thread eSeL
hi, i am runing a few lists on mailman, and i want users to subscribe via email. 1. a) what is to be written in the subject-line of a mail if a user wants to subscribe via mail (without web-interface?) b) ...to subscribe the "daily digest-option" 2. who to send it to? [EMAIL PROTECTED]? i c

[Mailman-Users] Doubts

2003-01-30 Thread Shaju Nambiar
Dear sir i have certain doubts abt Mailman can we installed this in windows based machine. If yes what are the requirements we need and what will be status. can we installed in servers (both unix bases and windows based) if yes, please let me know the requirements waiting for ur earliest reply w

[Mailman-Users] Nothing gets archived...

2003-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
(Please cc me on any replies, as I'm not subscribed to this list.) I've been using Mailman for a couple years to run several small private, non-archived mailing lists. Today, I tried creating a public, archived mailing list for the first time. The list mail comes and goes just fine, but nothing

[Mailman-Users] Is Mailman right for my app?

2003-01-30 Thread Bobby and Denise
I'm building a web application in PHP to upload multiple mailing lists via text files and merge the addresses (eliminate duplicates) to create a single list. This final list will reside in my web db, and can have up to 50,000 email addresses. Up to this point is no problem, but... I need to then

[Mailman-Users] Full headers in archive

2003-01-30 Thread Gareth Hopkins
Howdie, Is there anyway to get the full headers of messages added when messages are archived? At the moment only the senders address is shown. This is using mailman 2.1 Thanks --- Gareth Hopkins Server Operations UUNET South Africa (o) +27.21.658.8700 (f) +27.21.658.8552 (m) +27.

Re: [Mailman-Users] archive and .htaccess

2003-01-30 Thread Justin Georgeson
Now it all works. Thanks! Richard Barrett wrote: At 00:30 30/01/2003, Justin Georgeson wrote: Richard Barrett wrote: At 18:21 29/01/2003, Simon White wrote: 29-Jan-03 at 12:11, Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Aha! I just noticed that the archive link from > > https:///mailm

[Mailman-Users] Digest message header filtering

2003-01-30 Thread Jim Littlefield
A number of the subscribers to my lists have complained about the "unimportant" headers (Message-ID, In-Reply-To, etc.) included with each post when receiving a plain digest. I am talking about headers within the digest. Has anyone figured out a good way to strip these out? -- Jim Littlefield

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1 list creation

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
30-Jan-03 at 10:46, Jon Carnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > An alternative way to eliminate the handling of aliases is to move to > Postfix and use the Mailman/Postfix integration. Now that is a win-win > situation. > > You can actually mimic this integration with Sendmail if you use a cron > sc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1 list creation

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
An alternative way to eliminate the handling of aliases is to move to Postfix and use the Mailman/Postfix integration. Now that is a win-win situation. You can actually mimic this integration with Sendmail if you use a cron script (or modify the new-list app to include the script commands), to ru

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending.pck - what does this file do?

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:31, Marc Perkel wrote: > What does the pending.pck file do? > The pending file is well documented in: /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py Take a look in there for all the functions it performs. Jon Carnes -- Mail

[Mailman-Users] Re: Subscribing problems

2003-01-30 Thread delilah
I think I found the problem, I changed the permissions for the ~mailman/data/pending_subscriptions.db file to 664 and the error went away. What should the permissions be for the pending_subscriptions.db file? Sean On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running mailman 2.0.6

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error: Illegal list name: test@mail

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:29, Alfred wrote: > Hi, > > i upgrade from 2.0 to 2.1 the command /var/mailman/bin/newlist > can not create a new list, So you installed Mailman v2.1 in /var/mailman instead of /usr/local/mailman? If the newlist command does not work then something is deeply wrong with

RE: [Mailman-Users] Changing list headers

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
Sorry you didn't include all the previous message in your reply, so I'm guessing that you are talking about the digest messages...? For the Digest's you should look at one of the Handlers: ~mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py It looks like this is going to be a very simple hack for you to make

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't admin pending messages

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
Are you allowing cookies in this browser? What happens if you enter the admindb via a different browser? On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:19, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > Richard Barrett wrote: > > > At 19:44 29/01/2003, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > >> I think it was working and quit. I upgraded to Mailman 2.

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about reply-to munging

2003-01-30 Thread Jon Carnes
This isn't quite a feature of Mailman. If you wanted to hack into Mailman and make that change, then it looks like a good place to start would be: ~mailman/Mailman/MailList.py Another of the usual suspects would be: ~mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py You will find most of Mailman's sou

[Mailman-Users] Subscribing problems

2003-01-30 Thread delilah
Hi, I'm running mailman 2.0.6 and have run into an issue with subscriber members using the listinfo page. When ever it is used it give the 'we hit a bug' page. If one of the field is left blank the script excutes correctly stating that one of the fields in empty. I check the error logs and this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1 list creation

2003-01-30 Thread Richard Barrett
At 21:51 29/01/2003, Jon Carnes wrote: If you can get shell access to the server you can use the ~mailman/bin/genaliases command to generate the aliases for your created lists. You could simply redirect the output of that command into a local aliases file and then include that aliases file in you

[Mailman-Users] Archive configuration and graphics not appearing

2003-01-30 Thread Adam
Apologies for lumping two problems in to one mail, but it'll save time if I try to address both in one go. Running mailman 2.1 on apache 1.3.23 with mandrake linux 9. Firstly, my pipermail archives aren't showing up. I've configured httpd.conf to have Alias /pipermail/ "/var/lib/mailman/a

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi-user / create.py

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
30-Jan-03 at 00:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Hi there, > > this may seem to you as a simple question, but I'd appreciate some help. I've run > mailman's configure-script with the option --with-cgi-gid=www and --with-mail-gid=- > 2. Now when I'm trying to create a list via w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1 list creation

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
29-Jan-03 at 16:51, Jon Carnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > If you can get shell access to the server you can use the > ~mailman/bin/genaliases command to generate the aliases for your created > lists. You could simply redirect the output of that command into a > local aliases file and then inclu

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Bug] Cookie from older version

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
29-Jan-03 at 13:37, Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > If you have an old cookie from Mailman 2.0.x, you'll have to re-login > for every page until you manually clear the cookie from your browser > (after upgrading to 2.1). > > Is there any way to fix this in the future? With some browsers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't admin pending messages

2003-01-30 Thread Simon White
29-Jan-03 at 13:19, Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Richard Barrett wrote: > >At 19:44 29/01/2003, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > >>I think it was working and quit. I upgraded to Mailman 2.1 and I > >>can't admin pending messages. It shows the pending messages with the > >>choices - but if I

Re: [Mailman-Users] archive and .htaccess

2003-01-30 Thread Richard Barrett
At 00:30 30/01/2003, Justin Georgeson wrote: Richard Barrett wrote: At 18:21 29/01/2003, Simon White wrote: 29-Jan-03 at 12:11, Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Aha! I just noticed that the archive link from > > https:///mailman/listinfo// > > is > > http:///pipermail// > > This