Re: [Mailman-Users] Four simple questions not answered by the FAQ.[was: Re: Attachments Possible?]

Chas, In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:31:23PM -0500, schuetzen wrote: > what i want to delete is stuff which is ATTACHED to the body of the > message, As far as I can see, Mailman will do that for you. But first... You do not seem to understand how mail is constructed.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.2.6 with postfix

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerben Wierda wrote: > But what is not working is mail. No message is being sent, nothing > appears in postfix's logs nor in mailman's logs. Without clues I have > no idea on how to debug this. So you send mail to a list and there is nothing in the

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.2.6 with postfix

I hope this is the right address for this message. I have installed Mailman on my Mac OS X 10.2.6 system where a recent postfix is running. The administrative interface to mailman is working and the web interface to that admin interface as well. But what is not working is mail. No message is b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

Gee, maybe you should start writing code, eh? I used to until [troll deleted by moderator] As one of the admins here, I've just set [EMAIL PROTECTED] to moderated status, so all of his postings will be approved by one of the moderators before going to the list. Given where this discussion is r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

At 7:31 PM -0500 2003/07/30, schuetzen wrote: so, there IS a solution. just requires someone who wants to provide a product for about a hundred thousand listowners who are going to come boiling out of YHG when yhg starts charging for their services. Go to the Yahoo! people, pay them a billi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

chasm wrote: ... I am still looking for a single switch to turn off all attachments. If Yahoo, using this same software although blended with EZMLM and a mess of scripts, can do this one thing, then it should be able to be done by the programmers of this software. Mailman has been designed t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:37:27 -0500, you wrote: > > Gee, maybe you should start writing code, eh? I used to until I came down with cancer and started taking morphine for the pain. you probably know that morphine destroys logical thought progression. so now I just vaguely remember when I used t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:35:05 +0200, you wrote: > > But there isn't any "Big Red Switch", nor is there ever likely to be one. and yet there is one on Yahoogroups, which uses Mailman and EZMLM and a mess of other scripts. so, there IS a solution. just requires someone who wants to provide a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:27:51 +0200, you wrote: >HTML, the value for this header might be >"multipart/alternative". > > We need specifics. > >> it is quite obvious that you are baiting me but that you clearly understand what I am wanting and asking for. Why don't you readdress

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

At 1:27 AM +0200 2003/07/31, Brad Knowles wrote: For example, if a message is PGP signed, the "Content-Type:" header might be "multipart/signed", "multipart/mixed", or there might be no MIME headers or formatting at all, and the message is in plain ASCII with internal formatting that PG

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:59:44PM -0500, schuetzen wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:50:03 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > > > > >"Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave > >this field blank to skip this filter test.": > > > >multipart/mixed > >multipart/alternative > >t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

At 5:31 PM -0500 2003/07/30, schuetzen wrote: what i want to delete is stuff which is ATTACHED to the body of the message, a scond part of the message. it could be multipart or a part of the body. Attached in what way? If it's MIME, you can't embed an image in the body of a message bodypart.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble with @ character in archives

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:25:24 +0200 Kaja P Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a workaround to prevent this behaviour? Easiest is to use an external archiver. I suggest Eric Hood's MHonArc. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:56:43 +0200, you wrote: > > If you want a single big red switch to "Do What I Want", then you >had better define very precisely just what exactly it is that you >want. So far as I can tell, you haven't done that yet, and people >have been trying to point you at the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

At 4:17 PM -0500 2003/07/30, schuetzen wrote: if you will read the three or more requests to this list, you will see that I have stated that I have seen and read and done all of the above and that I am still looking for a single switch to turn off all attachments. What do you define as "attac

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:50:03 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: > >"Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave >this field blank to skip this filter test.": > >multipart/mixed >multipart/alternative >text/plain if you read the instruction, you want to remove the two multipart

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

schuetzen said: > if you will read the three or more requests to this list, you will see > that I have stated that I have seen and read and done all of the above > and that I am still looking for a single switch to turn off all > attachments. If Yahoo, using this same software although blended wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:50:16 -0400, you wrote: > >I think you need to look into the "content filtering" section of the web >interface. There are two options: filter_mime_types and >pass_mime_types. They'll allow you to explicitly control what mime >types to allow through in Mailman 2.1.x. > >Als

Re: [Mailman-Users] default action on administrative requests

Richard and Heath, Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. You got me to the correct file and looking at the right places. However, it wasn't at this location in the admindb.py file, but further down. Working with this part of the code: > > radio = RadioButtonArray(id, (_('Defer'), >

[Mailman-Users] HTML-Tags ins listaddress :-(

Hiho! If HTML-tags were used in a description for a MM-list, in some cases this tags apear in the listaddress. Example: I have a local list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the webinterface I added the following for the listdescription: beschreibung If I write a mail to the list everything with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

> yes, the question still unanswered by this list, is where the switch is to turn > OFF attachments. I think you need to look into the "content filtering" section of the web interface. There are two options: filter_mime_types and pass_mime_types. They'll allow you to explicitly control what mime

Re: [Mailman-Users] version 2.1.2 of mailman ... problem

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 07:55 pm, Nyx Wolfwlaker wrote: Greetings Everyone, My server just upgraded to version 2.1.2 of mailman and i'm getting ever few days all mylists are bouncing ... according to the server admin this is a bug in Mailman, and that there is no patch out there as y

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

Well, I'm a newbie to mailman, but AFAIK, you can turn attachments off (or just some kinds), change html to text, etc. by either editing Mailman/Defaults.py or else doing it on the admin webpage under "content filtering". Have you looked at either of those? On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:23:24PM

[Mailman-Users] web create interface

Hi All, I'm having trouble with the web create interface, in that unless I set the data/aliases and data/aliases.db to be owned by apache:mailman, I'll get an error after I use the web interface to create a list. The list is still created, and the aliases added to the data/aliases file, but t

[Mailman-Users] version 2.1.2 of mailman ... problem

Greetings Everyone, My server just upgraded to version 2.1.2 of mailman and i'm getting ever few days all mylists are bouncing ... according to the server admin this is a bug in Mailman, and that there is no patch out there as yet for this problem. If there is a patch, can you please let me

[Mailman-Users] Question: [Fwd: The results of your email commands]

Hi everyone... I just upgraded to 2.1.2 recently, I have Postfix running, and postfix-to-mailman.py ... this used to work in 2.1, and is now broken.. :( WhatdidIdowrongnow? :-/ I did a search for "unprocessed" and "confirm" in the mail archives, but didn't see anything come back that looked like

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:40:15 -0400, you wrote: > >We are currently researching mass-emailing options. Is it possible to >send attachments through mailman? yes, the question still unanswered by this list, is where the switch is to turn OFF attachments. I assume that by the total silence that this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 04:40 pm, Essence Ward wrote: To Whom It May Concern: We are currently researching mass-emailing options. Is it possible to send attachments through mailman? Yes Essence Ward Office Manager National Immigration Law Center 1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 410 Washingt

[Mailman-Users] Attachments Possible?

To Whom It May Concern: We are currently researching mass-emailing options. Is it possible to send attachments through mailman? Essence Ward Office Manager National Immigration Law Center 1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-216-0261 Fax: 202-216-0266 -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail Aliases Setup

hmm I seen to have lost my notes on this, but look for something called mm-handler. I think it is in the contrib section of the mailman tarball. That is what I use for my sendmail aliases. Craig. Wendall Cada wrote: Ok, I figured out the parameters. Is there a utility that will configure my a

[Mailman-Users] moving a list from one server to another?

I am trying to move a mailman list from a gentoo linux box to a freebsd box. I have installed exim, apache13, mailman, and added the user mailman on the freebsd box. I have moved the old list and placed it in the proper location for freebsd (/usr/local/mailman/. Here's my trouble... If I open a b

[Mailman-Users] Can Mailman Names be Exported?

Is it possible to export a mailman v 2.1 list of names and email addresses to a csv (comma delimited) format file. ie. export so that names come out like Tom Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Rogers,[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. or Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. would work also. Regards

[Mailman-Users] Getting a mailman (python?) variable into a jsvariable

Hi all, I don't even know if this is possible, and I don't know enough about it to run a Google search that gives me what I need to know. Is there a way, in html, to get the contents of %(subject_html)s into a javascript variable? Paul --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble with @ character in archives

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaja P. Christiansen wrote: > > In the internal code for (La)TeX system, the control sequences > use the @ character as a text character; on TeX related lists > there are often examples of such internal code. Unfortunately, > the archiver (mailman 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] default action on administrative requests

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 03:06 pm, Heath Raftery wrote: Hi Hal, On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Hal Huntley wrote: I have a list that gets more spam than legit email. I would like to have the "Action to take on all these held messages" on the "admindb/" page to have a default

[Mailman-Users] Internal server error

I have installed Mailman 2.1.1 on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE machine with Apache 1.3.27. It's installed from ports with this line: make MM_USERNAME=mailman MM_USERID=91 MM_GROUPNAME=mailman \ MM_GROUPID=91 CGI_GID=80 install This is a new server, and I moved all the files from the old server whic

[Mailman-Users] moving a list to new server

I am trying to move a list (archives intact) to a new server. Trouble is that when I call up the listinfo page, the old server name is still intact. But, setting up a new testlist on the new server shows the correct servers name in listinfo/testlist. I tried a grep for the two server names and got:

[Mailman-Users] moving old archives from topica and riseup

this might have been mentioned in past emails so please send me to the archives if need be... We are looking for an easy way to install all past list archives into a central location - meaning our mailman mail list. the archives are located at topica and riseup.net - any suggestions here? - Noah

Re: [Mailman-Users] default action on administrative requests

Hi Hal, On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Hal Huntley wrote: I have a list that gets more spam than legit email. I would like to have the "Action to take on all these held messages" on the "admindb/" page to have a default of "discard" instead of "defer". This way I can quickly scan th

[Mailman-Users] Trouble with @ character in archives

In the internal code for (La)TeX system, the control sequences use the @ character as a text character; on TeX related lists there are often examples of such internal code. Unfortunately, the archiver (mailman 2.1.2) converts a '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' pattern to an email address. So, if a posting h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail Aliases Setup

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:47, Wendall Cada wrote: > Ok, I figured out the parameters. Is there a utility that will configure my > aliases file for my users when setting up lists? If not, I'll surely have to > use another list manager...it pretty much makes it so i have to babysit my > site users

[Mailman-Users] Advertise list on list overview page

Hi all, I'm having several lists on my server. However on the listoverview page appears only one of them. Does anyone have an idea how I can make that all of these lists appear on this page? I compared all the options of the list that appears with those of the lists that do not appear and I di

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail Aliases Setup

At 6:47 PM -0700 2003/07/29, Wendall Cada wrote: Ok, I figured out the parameters. Is there a utility that will configure my aliases file for my users when setting up lists? IIRC, this is in the FAQ. The "newlist" command can be modified so that it makes these changes directly. For security

Re: [Mailman-Users] default action on administrativerequests

At 6:36 PM -0700 2003/07/29, Hal Huntley wrote: I sent this question a while back and had no reply. I didn't see my own message come back to me by way of the mailing list, so I presume it did not get out. I recall seeing your question. If not yours, then one very much like it. I have a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages stuck in/var/spool/mailman/qfiles

At 6:13 PM -0700 2003/07/29, Abigail Marshall wrote: There was a bug in some versions of 2.0 that causes problems because of some character created by some email programs. See and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman/PostFix on different Machines

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 07:48 am, Rupak Mohan wrote: Hi All, We Have installed Suse Linux & the prerequisite packages for Mailman Python 2.2.1or later, WebServer (supporting CGI/1.1 API), GNU C Compiler gcc 2.8.1 or higher, Perl 5, Browser. Now we have PostFix (MTA)