Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.0.11 to 2.1.1 (Thoughts?)

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:29, Warren Woodward wrote: > > And this makes me wonder if anyone here has thoughts about what specific > changes have had the most impact on their lists. I mean, I'm aware of the > changes through watching this list and messing with my own test install, > but I'm partic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Member settings

2003-03-06 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonnie wrote: > I co-own a list that is run on a mailman server. I'd like to know what the > email addresses are for members to change their settings. The address for sending email commands would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send a message with 'help' in the

[Mailman-Users] Member settings

2003-03-06 Thread Bonnie
I co-own a list that is run on a mailman server. I'd like to know what the email addresses are for members to change their settings. I can't seem to find this in the admin pages. For a member to go from individual mail to digest, would it be ... digest- followed by the list addy What if someo

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem restarting with stale pid file

2003-03-06 Thread Rob Brandt
Quoting Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This has happened twice as the result of a system crash (loss of power). > Any ideas on making mailman start after a crash even if there's a stale > pidfile? This has happened to me several times as well, but I wasn't going to complain until I updated

[Mailman-Users] error from news server

2003-03-06 Thread Con Wieland
Hello I get the following error from the cron script accessing the news server but I can telnet to port 119. Any ideas? I do not have direct access to the news host. Your "cron" job on maillists.nac.uci.edu /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/users/mailman/cron/gate_news produced the following outpu

[Mailman-Users] Attachments WithOUT Extensions

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Butler
I've set up content filtering on Mailman 2.1.1 mainly to catch attachments, BUT I do want to accept some attachments--particularly Word documents. My problem? Some of my subscribers--Mac users--send in attached files withOUT extensions and with spaces in the file names. For example, a file mi

[Mailman-Users] 2.0.11 to 2.1.1 (Thoughts?)

2003-03-06 Thread Warren Woodward
:We're about to update our Mailman from 2.0.11 to 2.1.1. It's a production server with about 200 individually operated lists (no, we don't charge for the service). I'll be generally handling the list owner support during the upgrade, and you can imagine my fears. Everything seems to suggest that

[Mailman-Users] password and confirmation email questions

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Poretsky
2 hopefully simple questions. 1. (yes i know this opens up security problems)...Is there a way to set a standard/default password. this would be so our subscribers would not have to remember their password and we can set a mailto with the unsubscribe information. 2. Where do i edit the subscripti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives and Attachments

2003-03-06 Thread Jon Carnes
You are not stuck with using Pipermail as your archiver. While Pipermail comes built into Mailman it is very limited in its abilities. Look into using an external archiver like Mhonarc. You can use both at the same time. On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:02, Staven Bruce wrote: > We are using Mailman 2.

Re: [Mailman-Users] install problem

2003-03-06 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kimsey Pollard wrote: > System is Redhat 8 > (I must be overlooking the obvious) > No errors are reported during configuration [...] > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" > (r

Re: [Mailman-Users] 8-bit email address

2003-03-06 Thread Jon Carnes
See if this note from the archives clears up your problem: == I suppose some member having latin-1 character in his fullname and your list preferred language is english. You may want to override the list preferred charset by putting following lines in mm_cfg.py def _(s): return s LC_DESCRI

Re: [Mailman-Users] nightly_htdig error

2003-03-06 Thread Will Froning
Found it. /usr/local/share/htdig/common /usr/local/share/htdig/database Were root:wheel, once I changed them and the dir contents to mailman:mailman all worked as planned. Thanks for the help. Will On 06 Mar 2003 15:44:37 -0500 Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing list name - any scripts or utilities?

2003-03-06 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Thanks!!! The perl script works! Cool. No problem. > You have now cut my job down from over 1 hour a list to about 10 minutes a > list. Excellent. Should I expect a kickback? ;-) Let the list know if future archives get created with the proper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Investigating Mailman and have several requests

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:52, G Halley wrote: > Howdy! > > Currently we are using a perl based mailing list manager. A recent > hardware change has made it appealing to use Mailman, but I would like > to investigate its features more fully. If you can help, please email > me directly at [EMAIL PR

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Tags

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Actually, I'm pretty sure the original poster was referring to the tokens that are replaced when editing the HTML for list pages, such as . Here's an answer found by searching the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg13321.html (Folks please notice that the link to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing list name - any scripts or utilities?

2003-03-06 Thread Heather J. Lubinsky
Thanks!!! The perl script works! I am just learning perl and all of this stuff so I didn't have a clue how to do a script to change something in the files. You have now cut my job down from over 1 hour a list to about 10 minutes a list. Thank you! Heather From: Todd Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users]

[Mailman-Users] problem restarting with stale pid file

2003-03-06 Thread Will Yardley
Mailman 2.1.1 installed from source on FreeBSD 4.6 (with the same options as the port uses) roland# /usr/local/mailman/bin/version Using Mailman version: 2.1.1 roland# diff /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl roland# [ from /usr/local/mailman/logs/ ] roland# ../bin

Re: [Mailman-Users] create a mailing list with mailman

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:33, antoine wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a mailng list. > I have not an own server. > My site is lodged on a Internet Provider : > So, is it possible to use the robot M.L. "Mailman" > from my site lodged on a internet provider ? > You will need to contact your Inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] nightly_htdig error

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:17, Will Froning wrote: > /usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied > htmerge: Word sort failed Notice that the error is coming from the "sort" program which apparently is being called by htdig. Do your /tmp or /var/tmp directories exist and have proper permissions?

[Mailman-Users] install problem

2003-03-06 Thread Kimsey Pollard
System is Redhat 8 (I must be overlooking the obvious) No errors are reported during configuration The apache cgi portion works fine however an email to a new group gets the following error message. I have run configure with the -gid option several times. I have an older version of mailman running

[Mailman-Users] Re: Archives and Attachments

2003-03-06 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:02:45PM -0800, Staven Bruce wrote: > We are using Mailman 2.0.13 with Sendmail 8.12 on a RedHat Linux 8.0 system. > > We send 'Word' and '.pdf' documents once a month or so to our mailing list. > Is there a way for these files to be retained as separate attachments in >

[Mailman-Users] Archives and Attachments

2003-03-06 Thread Staven Bruce
We are using Mailman 2.0.13 with Sendmail 8.12 on a RedHat Linux 8.0 system. We send 'Word' and '.pdf' documents once a month or so to our mailing list. Is there a way for these files to be retained as separate attachments in their respective e-mails in the archives, so the entire original e-mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Tags

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Hilburn
If I read this right... Easiest way is to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject of 'help' (no quotes), you will get an email reply from Mailman explaining all of the available email command options... Quoting Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > where can I get a documentation a

[Mailman-Users] create a mailing list with mailman

2003-03-06 Thread antoine
Hi, I want to create a mailng list. I have not an own server. My site is lodged on a Internet Provider : So, is it possible to use the robot M.L. "Mailman" from my site lodged on a internet provider ? If yes, can you indicate some informations to do that or a HowTo. Thanks Best regards antoine

[Mailman-Users] Investigating Mailman and have several requests

2003-03-06 Thread G Halley
Howdy! Currently we are using a perl based mailing list manager. A recent hardware change has made it appealing to use Mailman, but I would like to investigate its features more fully. If you can help, please email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) How much control does the list-owners have

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Tags

2003-03-06 Thread Klaus
Hi, where can I get a documentation about the mailman-tags? Like ... Klaus -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Ar

[Mailman-Users] 8-bit email address

2003-03-06 Thread David Birnbaum
Folks, Running Mailman 2.1.1, works just dandy. However, one of my lists has somehow gotten an 8-bit character in one of the addresses, and I can't seem to delete it. It breaks list_members as follows: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/httpd/DOMAINS/mailman.chelsea.net/bin/l

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and home pages

2003-03-06 Thread Brian W. Kinne
Greetings; This may be more apache related, but am hoping someone else has already succeeded at this. I'm trying to set up mailman so that the listinfo page is the default homepage for the virtual server. The closest I've come is displaying listinfo as a binary. I'm running redhat 8, apache 2.0

[Mailman-Users] nightly_htdig error

2003-03-06 Thread Will Froning
/usr/bin/sort: mkstemp error: Permission denied htmerge: Word sort failed I get this error every night on a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box with Mailman 2.1.1 with htdig patches. I found mention of it in the archives From Aug 2002, but no followup on the message. I have done a "chown -R mailman:mailman /usr/lo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Files that contain list of subscribed users...

2003-03-06 Thread Bill Hilburn
These are in the ~/mailman/lists/: > I am trying to switch from Majordomo to Mailman. I have Mailman working now. > Does anybody know where mailman stores its list of subscribed users for each > list? I'd like to be able to "look" in a file and be able to manipulate the > listing from an external

[Mailman-Users] Files that contain list of subscribed users...

2003-03-06 Thread James Jones
I am trying to switch from Majordomo to Mailman. I have Mailman working now. Does anybody know where mailman stores its list of subscribed users for each list? I'd like to be able to "look" in a file and be able to manipulate the listing from an external program (I deal with students that add an

Re: [Mailman-Users] web site

2003-03-06 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:23, Julian Chang wrote: > Hi, > > I'm completely lost with this MailMan program. It came pre-installed with the > hosting I've purchased recently. Does anyone know how to set it up so that there > will be a SUBSCRIBE button on my web site (without asking for passwords

[Mailman-Users] web site

2003-03-06 Thread Julian Chang
Hi, I'm completely lost with this MailMan program. It came pre-installed with the hosting I've purchased recently. Does anyone know how to set it up so that there will be a SUBSCRIBE button on my web site (without asking for passwords)? That way people interested in getting news from my webs

Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix logging question

2003-03-06 Thread JvdW
Managed to find the answer to my own question. 2 mail. entries in /etc/syslog.conf. :-) On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:20, JvdW wrote: > Hi all > > This is probably a little off topic, but I hope someone else has > experienced this. I run MM V2.1 with postfix 2.0.2. I noticed that in my > logs I h