Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments - PDF Issue

2003-11-04 Thread McKeever Chris
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:10 , Pablo Chamorro C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >I don't know how to do with pipermail. I use MHonARC as external >archiver. > >Pablo > >On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, McKeever Chris wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:58 , McKeever Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> >> >I am trying to

Re: [Mailman-Users] startup error

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Barrett
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 10:06 pm, Matthew Kitchin wrote: Hello, I have an older redhat box running mailman and sendmail that I am replacing. I have built a new redhat 9 box with postfix and mailman installed during the initial OS installation. I can't get mailman to startup properly.

[Mailman-Users] Moving Lists between Systems/versions of Mailman

2003-11-04 Thread Ken Scott
We presently have Mailman v2.0.13 installed, with several lists created. We're going to be moving shortly to a new system, on which I have installed v2.1.3. Can I: (a) copy all appropriate files and aliases, etc., to the new system and have the lists run successfully, without actually having

Re: [Mailman-Users] Remove Caps from Lists name and Prefix

2003-11-04 Thread Pablo Chamorro C.
Sorry, I already found the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06851.html for Mailman 2.1.1 I think it would be: Mailman/MailList.py # all lowercase # self.real_name = internalname[0].upper() + internalname[1:] self.real_name = internalname[0] + inte

[Mailman-Users] RE: Edit welcome e-mail text

2003-11-04 Thread Paul H Byerly
Alan Dawson wrote: I'm running mailman version 2.1.2 Is it possible to edit the Welcome e-mail on a per list basis? Easy. Copy subscribeack.txt from the template directory to /mailman/lists//en (assuming English) and edit as desired. If you are doing multiple lists get one the way you w

[Mailman-Users] AOL and spam reports

2003-11-04 Thread Paul H Byerly
If you really have to deal with this, then send a final notice that all AOL users will be set to nomail and must set themselves back if they want to be on the list. Include directions for resetting from Nomail. Send the message, generate a digest, then change all the AOL folks. It's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments - PDF Issue

2003-11-04 Thread Pablo Chamorro C.
I don't know how to do with pipermail. I use MHonARC as external archiver. Pablo On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, McKeever Chris wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:58 , McKeever Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > >I am trying to figure out how to resolve PDF's being converted into > .obj extensions in the ar

[Mailman-Users] Remove Caps from Lists name and Prefix

2003-11-04 Thread Pablo Chamorro C.
This question was posted one year ago: "When I create a list it is all lowercase (testlist) But when I go to the GUI it shows up with a cap as the first letter (Testlist) This happens to the real name and prefix sections. How to make it so when I create a list it doesn't change this, I have to go

Re: [Mailman-Users] The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error

2003-11-04 Thread Jim Cole
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:03 PM, patkins wrote: ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=mailman --with-username=mailman --with-groupname=mailman Isn't the --with-cgi-gid option suppose to take the group that your *web server* runs as? I would assume that group is something ot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Aliases email for new list

2003-11-04 Thread Jim Drash
It is a bad assumption. Mailman only sends and e-mail to the list owner. Raewyn Smith wrote: I have (apparently) successfully set up Mailman 2.1.3 on my server (RedHat, Sendmail). When I create a new list, a notification goes out to the list owner, and that's fine. However I assume another email

[Mailman-Users] Aliases email for new list

2003-11-04 Thread Raewyn Smith
I have (apparently) successfully set up Mailman 2.1.3 on my server (RedHat, Sendmail). When I create a new list, a notification goes out to the list owner, and that's fine. However I assume another email should be sent to me (as the mailman administrator) letting me know that the list was create

[Mailman-Users] Can't post to list

2003-11-04 Thread Foo, Randy
Hi, Another newbie question: Red Hat 9, apache web server 2.0.47, Mailman 2.1.2. compiled from both apache.org and the mailman site source. Sendmail is the MTA I've created a list called "connery," through the web interface, but cannot post to it. I entered the aliases for the list into /

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments - PDF Issue

2003-11-04 Thread McKeever Chris
>Name: x-4.pdf >Type: application/octet-stream >Size: 55233 bytes >Desc: not available >Url : >http://list.domain.com/pipermail/filefax/attachments/20031104/ea6ccb1e/x-4-0001.obj > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks One solution would be to just comment ou

[Mailman-Users] Attachments - PDF Issue

2003-11-04 Thread McKeever Chris
fax/attachments/20031104/ea6ccb1e/x-4-0001.obj Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Edit welcome e-mail text

2003-11-04 Thread Pablo Chamorro C.
I think the answer is in: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.11 How to create a customized welcome message that avoids mentioning how to post to the list: In Mailman 2.1.x you can customize the welcome message. Create a directory lists//en (assuming English :) and copy te

Re: [Mailman-Users] The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error

2003-11-04 Thread adamalex
> On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:03 PM, patkins wrote: > >> The user and group exist: >> >> group > mailman:x:506: >> passwd > mailman:x:506:506::/usr/local/mailman:/dev/null > ... >> Mailman CGI error!!! >> The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being >> stored in yo

[Mailman-Users] Edit welcome e-mail text

2003-11-04 Thread Alan Dawson
Hi, I'm running mailman version 2.1.2 Is it possible to edit the Welcome e-mail on a per list basis? The problem is, of the lists we host some are announce only, and so cannot be posted to. But the welcome message says "To post to this list, send your email to:" which is incorrect

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives Apache Config Problem

2003-11-04 Thread Iain Bapty
Can anyone help me with this? Or am I doing something obviously wrong? Thanks Iain Iain Bapty wrote: Hey, I'm having problems getting to the archives on my localmachine after setting up a new machine. Getting a 403. Inspect the log shows that apache is missing a / in the path to the archives

[Mailman-Users] startup error

2003-11-04 Thread Matthew Kitchin
Hello, I have an older redhat box running mailman and sendmail that I am replacing. I have built a new redhat 9 box with postfix and mailman installed during the initial OS installation. I can't get mailman to startup properly. It appears to me running 2.1 running [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# /sbin/ser

[Mailman-Users] Re: personalization

2003-11-04 Thread Ricardo Kustner
sorry for the lack of quoting, but I was subscribed to the digest version of mailman-users, so I can't easily reply to individual messages. Anyway I just found out that personalization will only solve half my problem: the list also does digest delivery, and personalization only works for non-dig

[Mailman-Users] Authorized subscribers get their messages on hold

2003-11-04 Thread Alexis
Mailmain 2.1.3 RedHat 9 Qmail installed from source Ive created some distribution lists and configured those lists like the faq shows, in a test list everything works fine. In production lists, when an authorized (non moderated) subscriber sends an email, this messages keeps on hold waiting for a

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Ricardo Kustner
thanks for all the suggestions... yes I'm aware of the personalization option in 2.1; I'm already using it for a lower volume list. my ISP is especially jumpy about this because they had a recent experience of being blocked by AOL for 12 hours with AOL refusing to explain the exact reason. I'm n

[Mailman-Users] AOL Issues

2003-11-04 Thread M Ondercin
Hallo, I've seen some discussion problems with AOL in the archives that mentions other people having problems with bouncebacks from AOL. I am randomly getting this back from AOL at which point 90% of my AOL listers are bounced off of my list. --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (reason: 5

Re: [Mailman-Users] List of Subscribers

2003-11-04 Thread Pablo Chamorro C.
bin/list_members -h Pablo On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ellen wrote: > How can I get a list of subscribers from my mailing list? I can see the > names in the membership list management, but I don't know how to print > them out so I can see all the names at one time. > > Can you help? > > Thanks, > Ellen

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Not Found after upgrade to newest version

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Barrett
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 01:25 am, Scott Berkman wrote: Hello, I run mailman on a Redhat machine, installed by up2date. Everything seems to work fine, including web interfaces, and listing the lists. When a message is sent to a list, an error mail is bounced back saying: - The

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
bad assumption. On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:58 AM, Will Yardley wrote: I'd like to assume (perhaps wrongly) that most people on *this* list can figure out what address a message was sent to by looking at the headers of the email -- Mailman-User

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread John Swartzentruber
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:58:05 -0800, Will Yardley wrote: >> > Do we *really* need this "feature" on the mailman-users list? Does >> > anyone actually find it helpful? > >I'd like to assume (perhaps wrongly) that most people on *this* list can >figure out what address a message was sent to by looking

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:55:43AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Will Yardley wrote: > > Do we *really* need this "feature" on the mailman-users list? Does > > anyone actually find it helpful? > god, yes. Please don't assume everyone on your lists is a geek with >

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Will Yardley wrote: Do we *really* need this "feature" on the mailman-users list? Does anyone actually find it helpful? god, yes. Please don't assume everyone on your lists is a geek with perfect memory of which email address got signed up for what list when. -

[Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:36:58AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:54 AM, Ricardo Kustner wrote: > > I wish I could do that: my current mailman setup doesn't put the > > user's address in the "To:" address and since those wonderful AOL > > reports only include the origina

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:33:57PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > Ricardo Kustner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So my current situation is that my ISP is risking to get blacklisted and > > I can't do anything about it except for shutting down the lists or > > remove & block all AOL users :( >

[Mailman-Users] List of Subscribers

2003-11-04 Thread Ellen
How can I get a list of subscribers from my mailing list? I can see the names in the membership list management, but I don't know how to print them out so I can see all the names at one time. Can you help? Thanks, Ellen -- Mailman-Users mailing

[Mailman-Users] List Not Found after upgrade to newest version

2003-11-04 Thread Scott Berkman
Hello, I run mailman on a Redhat machine, installed by up2date. Everything seems to work fine, including web interfaces, and listing the lists. When a message is sent to a list, an error mail is bounced back saying: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/usr/

[Mailman-Users] Can't Subscribe To My List

2003-11-04 Thread Rejean Proulx
I just installed mailman and set up a mailing list. When I try to send a subscribe message locally, here is what I get. What have I forgotten to do? The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subjec

[Mailman-Users] Removing Umbrella-Like List Approvals for Moderated List

2003-11-04 Thread Mark T. Valites
(Please cc me on reply as I am not currently a list member...) Here at my institution, I have one list that is periodically synched from cron with all staff member e-mail addresses. Any request or subscription attempt from a non-staff e-mail address is rejected. All posts to the list must be appro

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:54 AM, Ricardo Kustner wrote: I wish I could do that: my current mailman setup doesn't put the user's address in the "To:" address and since those wonderful AOL reports only include the original message, I can't tell from who it is coming!! upgrade to 2.1, turn on persona

[Mailman-Users] Mailman not forwarding

2003-11-04 Thread Kevin Schroeder
Hello, I've run into an issue that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I installed Mailman using the RPM file on a RedHat Linux machine. The install went fine except that I was getting a "Group Mismatch Error". Since I didn't want to change the group that Sendmail ran under I decided

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Vivek Khera
> "RK" == Ricardo Kustner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RK> So my current situation is that my ISP is risking to get blacklisted and RK> I can't do anything about it except for shutting down the lists or RK> remove & block all AOL users :( Yes, they are at risk. You had better find a way to

Re: [Mailman-Users] optionsurl not using full domain

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Alberghini
I figured out what was going wrong. If I go to http://mailbox.gsu.edu/mailman/create to create a new list, then the links sent out in the emails are correct and have the full domain name. however, if I go to http://mailbox/mailman/create, then the lists will only have mailman as the domain name

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Ricardo Kustner
Hi, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: anyone on any of my lists who files a spam complaint against my mail list gets unsubscribed. when they resubscribe and complain about being dropped, they get The Lecture and The Warning. If they send a second round of spam complaints, they get unsubscribed and banne

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
don't bother. I've had that discussion. The folks who deal with the TOS messages are trained at the "if the user says it's spam, it must be spam, so what are you going to do about it?" level. they don't want justice, they want quiet. (and I can sympathize at some level, but what a way to run an

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
anyone on any of my lists who files a spam complaint against my mail list gets unsubscribed. when they resubscribe and complain about being dropped, they get The Lecture and The Warning. If they send a second round of spam complaints, they get unsubscribed and banned. Funny, AOL users learn qui

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Vivek Khera
> "RK" == Ricardo Kustner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RK> My ISP has been forwarding me a batch of complaints from AOL users, RK> which apparantly are complaints about receiving spam. I guess it's What kind of quantities are you talking here? >From my experience, AOL's alarms don't really

[Mailman-Users] mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Ricardo Kustner
Hi, My ISP has been forwarding me a batch of complaints from AOL users, which apparantly are complaints about receiving spam. I guess it's coming dumb AOL users who have no idea that they subscribed to the discussions at their own request so that they should take care of it themself if they wa

[Mailman-Users] ongoing problem with pickle file

2003-11-04 Thread Fuzzy
Every night when the daily jobs run I get this error from everything using 'list_lists'. This also fails when run from the console, (logged in as the mailman user). How do I repair the file, so the scripts will run correctly? FreeBSD 4.7-release Mailman 2.1b5 Python 2.2.1 Sendmail 8.12.6 Apache

Re: [Mailman-Users] The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error

2003-11-04 Thread patkins
Jim, Thanks for the help! I changed all the files in the cgi-bin to both root and mailman just to see if I could execute the files properly and neither worked. I compiled three different times using various flags to set guid, user, group etc. Nothing I do seems to fix this problem. Keep in mind

[Mailman-Users] Umbrella lists && approvals

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Huston
I have a mild inconvenience here, and was wondering if there's a simple way around it. For our department, I have setup lists for each class of users (undergraduates, grad students, faculty, etc), and an umbrella list to cover all the users. There are some mails that are sent out to the all u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving to mailman from ezmlm

2003-11-04 Thread Daniel S. Reichenbach
Hi Simon, I have a tool I cooked up in PERL to convert a Maildir-like format (some proprietary webmail format akin to maildir) to mailbox; there are probably other tools out there but if you're stuck I'd be happy to send it on to you, you would be able to alter it easily if you needed to cover any

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newlist Automation scripts

2003-11-04 Thread Simon White
03-Nov-03 at 17:09, Kory Wheatley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > I left out some details from my last message about creating a list > automatically from a file with no manual process involved. > > I'm running Mailman 2..1.2 on RED HAT 9 using postfix. I've setup > postfix to automatically add th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: Can't Subscribe To My List

2003-11-04 Thread Simon White
03-Nov-03 at 16:51, Rejean Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > I just installed mailman and set up a mailing list. When I try to > send a subscribe message locally, here is what I get. What have I > forgotten to do? > > The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was > reje

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving to mailman from ezmlm

2003-11-04 Thread Simon White
03-Nov-03 at 21:58, Daniel S. Reichenbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > >Pipermail (the archiver used in Mailman) creates its html archives from > >an Mbox style mailbox file. If ezmlm has a similar format, then it's > >easily done. > actually it's not an mbox file. It uses the Maildir+ format. > S