Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stat's

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Dang it! I've got another script that does exactly that... I should have included it. I'll dump it on the list when I get done with this job (sometime - hopefully - tomorrow). It's a fairly simple script that I run monthly - only it uses the log entries and isolates the entries that indicate a u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pure moderator option

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Version 2.1.x of Mailman is setup this way. The description in the Web-admin is very clear on the separate powers of admins and moderators. - Original Message - From: "Staff di Netribe - ReggioNET" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:17 AM Subjec

RE: [Mailman-Users] Disabling VERP

2003-02-06 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "TM" == Tom Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think there is some confusion here about what is meant by >> VERP'ed address. TM> Evidently, you are correct. :-/ TM> So, that's not my problem, then, but my problem remains TM> unresolved. In a nutshell, here's what

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in the digest emails

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is being rectified in version 2.1.1 - or at least it is a current concern. - Original Message - From: "Moo-Lah Ranch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] HTML i

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature query

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
No... but it is coming. Once the SQL connector is finished those items can be maintained outside of Mailman. Future versions will be even more extensible, but we take things one step at a time! (Note: I'm not speaking for Barry, just relaying my understanding of things uttered via email across th

Re: [Mailman-Users] [URGENT][SUBSCRIBERS VANISHED, No entries in LOG]

2003-02-06 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "ganeshh" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ganeshh> I am running 30 lists on mailman 2.0.8 You should upgrade at least to Mailman 2.0.13. -Barry -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is python doing?

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 06:43, Gareth Hopkins wrote: > On 3 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > > JC>Some guesses (since no information was provided): > JC> Mailman 2.0.x > JC> IDE disk subsystem > JC> Archiving turned on for list > JC> > JC>If that is the case, then Mailman is doing a lot of writing t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation and Configuration help on Mailman

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
This is not a problem. If you look at the cron jobs that you faithfully put in for Mailman you will see that one of them is specific to gating mail over to a news server. Comment this particular script out of the cron (then uncomment it later should you change your mind about News servers!). The

Re: [Mailman-Users] foamembers

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
No problem. Login to the server and cd on over to ~mailman/lists/.. Then rm -rf Once you remove the list directory and it's contents (the config.pck file) then the list will no longer exist... There is an FAQ about this (and it tells you how to get rid of the Archives as well). To get the su

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin messages

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
You might try defining the virtual server portions of mm_cfg.py (see ~mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py for the proper syntax...) OTOH, both postfix and qmail have the ability to modify the "From" of a locally sent email. So does Sendmail if you set up the Generics tables... - Original Message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delay?

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Hmm, without more detail we can't really help. There are a lot of things that affect speed. One item is what version of Mailman that you are using: v 2.1 is faster. Also in version 2.0.x some folks don't run the qrunner every minute, some folks only run it every 5 minutes (or worse). You could be

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members without notification?

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
+1 I've used ~mailman/bin/sync_members in several scripts for a few years now. It works great! And you can turn off the notices so folks don't know that you are mucking about with the list membership. Good Luck - Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Sebastian Talmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Python upgrade problems - Mailman 2.0.13

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Your best bet all around is to install Mailman via source. It's easy to do and if you did install previously using the rpm you can query the rpm for the proper setup to install via source. Since you were having problems and you were nervous about it, I'm assuming you used the rpms... could be wro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Subscriptions -- HELP

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Yes to both questions (see below) - Original Message - From: "Warren Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:06 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mass Subscriptions -- HELP > 1. We're migrating ~1500 users from Lyris - and half of them have dige

Re: [Mailman-Users] Another upgrade problem (2.0.13 -> 2.1); pending admin request page hosed

2003-02-06 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "EO" == Ed Osinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EO> I upgraded from 2.0.13 to 2.1, and I run into a problem when EO> trying to access the "Tend to pending moderator requests" page EO> of a pre-existing list. I get: EO> ValueError: unpack tuple of wrong size I believe I fin

Re: [Mailman-Users] after 2.0.13->2.1 upgrade, files needed?

2003-02-06 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JAE" == Jeff A Earickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JAE> I've noticed that mailing lists that I've created after the JAE> upgrade only contain config.pck, config.pck.last, and JAE> request.db. Can I assume that the config.db and html files JAE> are left over from 2.0.x an

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE;Cron/senddigests bug

2003-02-06 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "DP" == Dan Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DP> Tried that and it reported no problems. The problem definitely DP> seems to be in digest.mbox, although I can't see anything DP> wrong. If it isn't too late, can you submit a bug report with the mbox file attached? If you do

[Mailman-Users] [URGENT][SUBSCRIBERS VANISHED, No entries in LOG]

2003-02-06 Thread Ganeshh
Dear Lists I am running 30 lists on mailman 2.0.8 and out of which 20 to 25 of them are really active. The mailing system is working fine , but i like to share with you a strange behaviour with mailman, or maybe i dunno it could an human error. I added my 31st list on 23rd January and please f

[Mailman-Users] [URGENT][Subscribers Vanished, No entries in the log]

2003-02-06 Thread Ganeshh
Dear Lists I am running 30 lists on mailman 2.0.8 and out of which 20 to 25 of them are really active. The mailing system is working fine , but i like to share with you a strange behaviour with mailman, or maybe i dunno it could an human error. I added my 31st list on 23rd January and please f

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

2003-02-06 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "DG" == David Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> I'm getting a huge amount of these messages ... any ideas? Not off hand, but I have an idea. Can you please submit a bug report and include one of the shunted messages? Thanks, -Barry ---

[Mailman-Users] [Urgent][Subscribed members vanished]Looks to be simple Problem,though Strange]]

2003-02-06 Thread Ganeshh
Dear List The below mail is critical for me, let me know the possible cause. Warm Regards Ganeshh -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Losing text from Outlook emails.

2003-02-06 Thread David Eisner
Yep. See: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-February/026082.html -David On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Pat Finnerty wrote: > I've noticed that emails that are sent from Outlook with embedded > objects lose any text when archived by pipermail. > -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stat's

2003-02-06 Thread Larry Hansford
At 09:08 PM 2/5/2003, you wrote: Here is a stat's script that we use. It sends out monthly status reports to the Mailman admins as well as to each lists admin. #For the number of lists: ~mailman/bin/list_lists -b |wc -l #For the number of users in each list: for i in `~mailman/bin/list_lists

[Mailman-Users] installation problem

2003-02-06 Thread Stoyan Angelov
hello all, i have just installed Mailman 2.1 for the first time and i have the following problem. i followed the instructions in the INSTALL file and everything went ok to the point i had to create my first maillist. accessing the www.mysite.org/mailman/create gives me the following error: Imp

[Mailman-Users] Mass Subscriptions -- HELP

2003-02-06 Thread Warren Hoffman
1. We're migrating ~1500 users from Lyris - and half of them have digest specified. We have two files of subscribers - one with digest subscribers and one with everyone else. Can we 'import' the digest users in a way that the digest option is pre-selected (short of clicking each one on the memb

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Security.

2003-02-06 Thread Keith Mastin
>On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:47:48 + >Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:44:10 - >> "dino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Actually he did it this way: >> > >> > Noticed that mydomain/mailman was browsable. >> > >> > Telneted to port 80 and sent a get request from th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Security.

2003-02-06 Thread Keith Mastin
>Hi All, > >I was just wondering what kind of security mailman offers, as far as >protecting user passwords goes? > >A techy friend of mine has just kindly emailed me a list of all users >and their passwords! Looking at my server logs it would appear that he >snuck in somehow via anonymous ftp. >

[Mailman-Users] Solaris 9

2003-02-06 Thread jsingh
Dear Users I wanted to know if anyone had successfully installed python/Mailman on Solaris 9 OS. Thanks Jack -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] htaccess-Restriction does not work

2003-02-06 Thread Keith Mastin
>third time i am trying to get an answer: is there no url or whatever, where >i can read, how to get this htaccess-restriction to work? > >please help me! http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATusing-htaccess.html -- Mailman-Users mailing list [E

[Mailman-Users] Python upgrade problems - Mailman 2.0.13

2003-02-06 Thread John Masterson
System: Redhat 7.2, Mailman 2.0.13, webservers (for web-interface) and Postfix mailserver (for crons/processing) nfs-mounting Mailman installation. After upgrading Python 1.5 (as per RHSA), public web-subscription to mailman lists no longer worked ("We've hit a bug!" -> ImportError: cannot import

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is python doing?

2003-02-06 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On 6 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: JC>I have no idea what a truss is (besides something you wear when you have JC>a hernia). JC> JC>What kind of a system are running on (cpu, ram, amount of virtual memory JC>currently in use)? How many messages/minute are you seeing pass through JC>your system? JC>

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove_members without notification?

2003-02-06 Thread Sebastian Talmon
Hello Warren Woodward, > One of our hosted lists has ~5500 members, and > the list admin needs to upload a whole new, audited list of addresses. > Seeing as most of the members will be readded immediately, we'd like to > avoid the confusion of having them all sent unsubscription notices. may

[Mailman-Users] Lotus Notes not threading in Archive

2003-02-06 Thread Adam
Can anyone pinpoint the factor that Lotus Notes (or Bloatus Croaks) has with email which prevents it from threading emails in the archive? Is it a case of a missing header? thanks in advance. adam -- GPG public key:- www.monkeez.co.uk/public_key.asc -

[Mailman-Users] [Subscribed members vanished]Looks to be simple Problem, thoughStrange]

2003-02-06 Thread Ganeshh
Dear Lists I am running 30 lists on mailman 2.0.8 and out of which 20 to 25 of them are really active. The mailing system is working fine , but i like to share with you a strange behaviour with mailman, or maybe i dunno it could an human error. I added my 31st list on 23rd January and please f

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is python doing?

2003-02-06 Thread Gareth Hopkins
On 3 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: JC>Some guesses (since no information was provided): JC> Mailman 2.0.x JC> IDE disk subsystem JC> Archiving turned on for list JC> JC>If that is the case, then Mailman is doing a lot of writing to the disk. Howdie, I have switched off archiving and the

[Mailman-Users] Delay?

2003-02-06 Thread detemple
Hi, when I sent an email to a mailman list it takes some minutes to even a hour until all emails are sent. On the list are about 40 people. What is the reason for the delay? Can it be reduced by changing some settings? Regards Ralf -- Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Outlook issue? (was Disabling VERP)

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Barrett
This looks as though there may be a compatibility problem between mail coming from Mailman and way the Outlook MUA displays it that is worse with MM 2.1 than with MM 2.0.x. Anyone out there with experience of Microsoft products that can explain what's described below and how to correct it? >

RE: [Mailman-Users] How to change 'from' address for admin messages

2003-02-06 Thread Harwood, AS (Andrew)
I'm using Mailman 2.1 and the sendmail that comes with Tru64 Unix (it seems to have the version number 8.8.8). > -Original Message- > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 February 2003 01:24 > To: Harwood, AS (Andrew) > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [Mailman-User

Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with umbrella lists

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Umbrella lists are a great concept that have not yet been fully implemented in Mailman. There is an FAQ about Umbrella lists in Mailman that basically describes what they can do and some of their limitations. - Users on more than one list inside the Umbrella will receive multiple copies of an ema

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing a strange email address

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
There are examples in the file On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 23:25, alex wetmore wrote: > The web-admin doesn't work either. > > Is there a guide to using withlist anywhere? > > alex > > On 5 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > > > Can you remove him using the Web-admin? > > If not, then you may need to use

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem after upgrading to 2.1

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Have you tried a ~mailman/bin/dumpdb on the config.pck for the list. It would dump out the users - multiple times: once for language, once for members, once for passwords, and once for user options. You might even be able to pin-point the problem point. Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Wed, 2003-02-05

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing a strange email address

2003-02-06 Thread alex wetmore
The web-admin doesn't work either. Is there a guide to using withlist anywhere? alex On 5 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > Can you remove him using the Web-admin? > If not, then you may need to use ~mailman/bin/withlist > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:30, alex wetmore wrote: > > One of my users subsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem after upgrading to 2.1

2003-02-06 Thread Scott R. Every
--On Wednesday, February 5, 2003 10:41 PM -0500 Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suggest that you need to check the configuration of the file (~mailman/bin/check_db). I believe the error indicates that while this was done for both the original db and the newly imported db created from

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing a strange email address

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
Can you remove him using the Web-admin? If not, then you may need to use ~mailman/bin/withlist On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:30, alex wetmore wrote: > One of my users subscribed with the address mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > when I was running 2.0.13. Now I'm running 2.1 and he wants to > unsubscribe. 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer (fwd)

2003-02-06 Thread Fernando Schapachnik
Remember the thread about getting external footers? Here is where I got stuck. The only remaining issue is how to add an attribute to existing mailing lists. Any ideas? Thanks! En un mensaje anterior, Tom Neff escribió: > If you have the ability to patch your Mailman installation, you could > a

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem after upgrading to 2.1

2003-02-06 Thread Jon Carnes
I suggest that you need to check the configuration of the file (~mailman/bin/check_db). I believe the error indicates that while reading the config.pck file (and dumping out the member names) that it found values that are not Ascii. The list is large enough that you could have had a problem in the

[Mailman-Users] foamembers

2003-02-06 Thread PRISCILLA FERAL
While trying to create Mailman list [EMAIL PROTECTED], I there was a problem when I attempted to mass subscribe members. I deleted the list, but a welcome message was sent out, and replies received. I cannot access the replies, because the list doesn't exist, and I can't recreate the list unde

[Mailman-Users] Installation and Configuration help on Mailman

2003-02-06 Thread Prasad Tadi
Hi, I am using MAILMAN 2.0.13 and installed and configured every thing ( I hope). I can browse the archives and can send mails to Archive. But none of the list members gets any notification. When looked further I found the following LOG message to my mailman (root) account. I am NOT planning to

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1

2003-02-06 Thread Daniel Fraga
Bug in Mailman version 2.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/d

[Mailman-Users] feature query

2003-02-06 Thread root
Friends, In reading the web site and scanning the documentation, it appears that subscribers provide only their names and email addresses. Is there a facility in mailman to collect additional demographics, such as job title (pull down list), opt-in buttons, and company name (fill in)? Thanks,

[Mailman-Users] HTML in the digest emails

2003-02-06 Thread Moo-Lah Ranch
I just set up a list and I love the mailman service.. but on Digest plain some of the messages come through with HTML mixed in with the text of the email.. Can anyone help me stop this?? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mai

[Mailman-Users] Pure moderator option

2003-02-06 Thread Staff di Netribe - ReggioNET
Hello, Is it possible to setup a list so that a particular user with a particular password can only moderate the list, but cannot modify other options (like subscribe/unsubscribe, general options, privacy options, etc.)? Thank you for attention. Regards. -- ___

[Mailman-Users] Losing text from Outlook emails.

2003-02-06 Thread Pat Finnerty
I've noticed that emails that are sent from Outlook with embedded objects lose any text when archived by pipermail. Example. This appears in the archive: _ Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-- next part -- A non-