Re: [Mailman-Users] Forced footer for all Mailman lists

2004-02-03 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Aron! On Di, Feb 03, 2004 at 05:39:37 -0500, aaron wrote: > We need to append a forced footer message (with unsubscribe info) to all of > the Mailman lists that we host. This needs to be done in a way that prevents > any list admins from changing or removing the message. We thought that we > co

[Mailman-Users] How do I stop members' replies from going to all other members?

2004-02-03 Thread Ken Adcock
I have a newsletter type of list that I set up for the first time last night. It looked like it worked fine so I blasted out a "Welcome to the List" message to all of the members. this morning they started replying with thank yous, but those replies are going out to everyone. I would like repli

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation Help needed

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
Check out FAQ 3.14, if that doesn't work (including posting the error logs to the list), then I'll be happy to help you as a consultant. Jon Carnes On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:32, Shad Young wrote: > Hello again all, > > I am in dire need of some installation help using MM 2.14 for a Mandrake 9.1

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT (fixed)

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:50, Mark Dadgar wrote: > On Feb 3, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Merle Reine wrote: > > It looks to have been a corrupted incoming message in the > > /var/lib/mailman/qfile/in directory. I could not have fixed this > > without Jon's expert knowledge. > > > > Did you file a bug on t

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT (fixed)

2004-02-03 Thread Mark Dadgar
On Feb 3, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Merle Reine wrote: It looks to have been a corrupted incoming message in the /var/lib/mailman/qfile/in directory. I could not have fixed this without Jon's expert knowledge. Did you file a bug on this? A corrupted incoming message should not take down the whole mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT (fixed)

2004-02-03 Thread Merle Reine
Thanks to the help of Jon Carnes, I was able to get mailman up and running again. If any of you need any assistance, I suggest you contact Jon as he is very knowledgeable and professional and knows mailman. It looks to have been a corrupted incoming message in the /var/lib/mailman/qfile/in dir

RE: [Mailman-Users] File Permissions on /var/lib/mailman/logs files... (FIXED)

2004-02-03 Thread Mike Burkett
So I finally figured out how you customize MSEC... thanks to Jon's link below... Specifically for making Mandrake 9.2 happy with MAILMAN I created the file /etc/security/msec/perm.local containing the following lines: /var/lib/mailman/logs mail.mail 2775 /var/lib/mailman

RE: [Mailman-Users] File Permissions on /var/lib/mailman/logs files...

2004-02-03 Thread Mike Burkett
It is MSEC... and I've gone in and modified the perm files (/usr/share/msec/perm.[0-5]) to add lines for the /var/lib/mailman/logs directory and files as well as the /var/log/mailman directory and its files... still some strangeness at times so I'm leaving the every minute cron jobs in as well to o

[Mailman-Users] RE: Forced footer for all Mailman lists

2004-02-03 Thread aaron
Brad: Thanks for your response. > It's easy enough to change the templates, but if any of your >mailing list owners have shell access to the server, they might be >able to change them back. We don't provide any shell access, but won't list admins be able to change the footer using the web

Re: [Mailman-Users] Forced footer for all Mailman lists

2004-02-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:39 PM -0500 2004/02/03, aaron wrote: We need to append a forced footer message (with unsubscribe info) to all of the Mailman lists that we host. This needs to be done in a way that prevents any list admins from changing or removing the message. We thought that we could do this using Decor

[Mailman-Users] Installation Help needed

2004-02-03 Thread Shad Young
Hello again all, I am in dire need of some installation help using MM 2.14 for a Mandrake 9.1 system using postfix and apache 2. Everything seems to be installed correctly; web interface works, mail seems to go to the right place... but for some reason MM is refusing to send out mail (no admin n

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Merle Reine
in /var/lib/mailman/logs/error: Feb 03 15:09:48 2004 (21315) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop File "/var/tmp/mailman-2.1.1-build/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefil

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Merle Reine
I deleted all files in shunt (backed up of course) restarted mailmanctl and still no mail coming through. Already ran check_perms and everything is ok. Jon, how much would you charge to look at this for me? email or call: 858-587-6700 ext 244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon Carnes wrote: Good call. So

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
Good call. Some systems run through a security check on boot and reset permissions. My guess is that the reboot caused a file being written to in one his queues to be incomplete or corrupt. (of course - we're all just dancing in the dark...) Jon Carnes On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:56, Richard Barr

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
You probably have a corrupt message at the head of the queue. Stop Mailman from running: ~mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop Check the lock files: ls ~mailman/locks If there are any current lock files, then you'll want to check the processes (part of the lock file name is the process ID). If the pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Barrett
On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:47, Merle Reine wrote: Sorry for not giving more information, I am completely stressed. I have mailman v 2.1.x and qrunner is running. In /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt it is full of files. They appear to be filling up there. Any Ideas? If messages are being shunted, are

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
See FAQ 3.14. Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py The most common problem is that you didn't restart mailmanctl. If that doesn't get you going, I'll be happy to help (as a consultant). Jon Carnes On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:19, Merle Reine wrote: > my mailing lists have been wor

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Merle Reine
Sorry for not giving more information, I am completely stressed. I have mailman v 2.1.x and qrunner is running. In /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt it is full of files. They appear to be filling up there. Any Ideas? Richard Barrett wrote: On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:19, Merle Reine wrote: my mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Richard Barrett
On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:19, Merle Reine wrote: my mailing lists have been working for many month and all of a sudden after a reboot, fail to send. I get no errors and in the /var/log/mail is shows: Feb 3 14:10:40 mail postfix/local[12282]: 8C5AD18EC02: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay

[Mailman-Users] Forced footer for all Mailman lists

2004-02-03 Thread aaron
We need to append a forced footer message (with unsubscribe info) to all of the Mailman lists that we host. This needs to be done in a way that prevents any list admins from changing or removing the message. We thought that we could do this using Decorate.py, but can't seem to figure it out. Ideall

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on Sendmail

2004-02-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:37 AM -0500 2004/02/03, James Ralston wrote: For my Mailman server, I wrote a script to extract the mailman alias entries and merge them with my master aliases file. I run this from cron every 10 minutes. Usually, by the time the list owner gets done fiddling with the config for his new

[Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

2004-02-03 Thread Merle Reine
my mailing lists have been working for many month and all of a sudden after a reboot, fail to send. I get no errors and in the /var/log/mail is shows: Feb 3 14:10:40 mail postfix/local[12282]: 8C5AD18EC02: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent ("|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> Looks that way. RH 7.3 comes with Python 1.5.2 which definitely >> doesn't have the print >> fd gimmick. I believe Mailman needs at >> least 2.1. Just download the Python 2.3.3 tarfile, extract it and >> execute Todd> That's not really a bad idea, but you could also just

Re: [Mailman-Users] message

2004-02-03 Thread Dan Phillips
On Feb 3, 2004, at 4:06 PM, jsingh wrote: I wanted to take the url address out of the email footer when email is sent out . I commented out the line in Defaults.py #%(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s but still the url is going out, what am I doing wrong ? Two problems with that

[Mailman-Users] Subscribe problem

2004-02-03 Thread John Poltorak
I get the following error when trying to subscribe to a newly created list:- - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe g-force" (reason: 1) (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session follows -

[Mailman-Users] message

2004-02-03 Thread jsingh
Hi I wanted to take the url address out of the email footer when email is sent out . I commented out the line in Defaults.py #%(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s but still the url is going out, what am I doing wrong ? thanks Jaskaran Singh University Systems & Securit

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skip Montanaro wrote: > Chris> I get the following error when I run change_pw > > Chris> File "./change_pw", line 90 > Chris> print >> fd, _(__doc__) > Chris>^ > Chris> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] File Permissions on /var/lib/mailman/logs files...

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
What level is your MSec set to? It could definitely be doing this. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php Jon Carnes On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 15:44, Todd wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike Burkett wrote: > > I've just upgraded to V2.1.4 and am having some prob

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail problem

2004-02-03 Thread Eric Pridham
You might also want to check the moderation flags. First go to see if there are any pending moderator requests for the list in the backend. If you see those test emails in there, then check to see if you have default_member_moderation set to Yes (Privacy->Sender Filters). Crume, Michael W wrot

[Mailman-Users] To Domain Is Wrong

2004-02-03 Thread PNIXON
Hello, I've setup a list server inside my dmz, and I want all the emails to appears to be coming from lists.somerville.ma.us, but they keep showing up in the To and From Headers as from rosie.somerville.ma.us rosie.somerville.ma.us is the actual hostname for the box. Any suggestions or things I

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
Chris> I get the following error when I run change_pw Chris> File "./change_pw", line 90 Chris> print >> fd, _(__doc__) Chris>^ Chris> SyntaxError: invalid syntax Chris> I am unsure as to which version of mailman I have installed. I Chris> also

Re: [Mailman-Users] File Permissions on /var/lib/mailman/logs files...

2004-02-03 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Burkett wrote: > I've just upgraded to V2.1.4 and am having some problems with file > permissions on the /var/lib/mailman/logs files. [...] > Something keeps resetting the permissions to 0600 and then the web > interface dies with the info below.

Re: [Mailman-Users] help with cron message from mailman

2004-02-03 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Chason Hayes schrieb: > I get this message and don't know what to do with it. Read the installation instructions. Read the FAQ. -thh -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailm

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-i18n] Corrupted foreign fonts.

2004-02-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 08:40, Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote: > Hi! > > In monthly reminders send by mailman in Polish, Polish fonts are > corrupted. Code page in the header of the message is correct i.e. iso- > 8859-2, but instead of Polish fonts there are only some numbers displayed > as can be seen

[Mailman-Users] Re: subscribing per email

2004-02-03 Thread Paul H Byerly
Ken Adcock wrote: This is probably such a basic question that it didn't make it into the documentation. If someone wants to subscribe per email to my list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] what do they write in the email? I tried "subscribe" in the subject line, but the admin settings though that the person wan

[Mailman-Users] Annoying auto-response to everything sent to this list

2004-02-03 Thread Paul H Byerly
I am sure everyone who submits to this list is getting a blank e-mail from lrz-muenchen.de following each post. Relevant headers below: X-ClientAddr: 129.187.254.102 Received: from mailrelay2.lrz-muenchen.de (mailrelay2.lrz-muenchen.de [129.187.254.102]) by svr01.thcwd.com (8.11.6/

[Mailman-Users] File Permissions on /var/lib/mailman/logs files...

2004-02-03 Thread Mike Burkett
I've just upgraded to V2.1.4 and am having some problems with file permissions on the /var/lib/mailman/logs files. Something keeps resetting the permissions to 0600 and then the web interface dies with the info below. I have a temporary workaround by adding a cron job to reset the perms to

[Mailman-Users] mailmanctl

2004-02-03 Thread jsingh
Hi I just installed mailman-2.1.3 on a solaris 9 box and when I go to run mailmanctl start I get the following errors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 77, in ? from Mailman.i18n import _ File "/home/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 18, in ?

[Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread cprice
I get the following error when I run change_pw File "./change_pw", line 90 print >> fd, _(__doc__) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I am unsure as to which version of mailman I have installed. I also looked at upgrading to the most recent version, but my Redhat 7.3

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dynamic subscriber lists

2004-02-03 Thread Jon Carnes
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 13:47, Simon White wrote: > 02-Feb-04 at 12:09, Chris Barnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > This is a repost of a question I asked last week. NOBODY replied - even > > just to say "can't be done". > > Maybe nobody has a setup like that already, so they have nothing to say.

Re: [Mailman-Users] help with cron message from mailman

2004-02-03 Thread John DeCarlo
Chason, Just curious - why are you running Mailman if you aren't running any mailing lists? Chason Hayes wrote: I don't run a mailing list on this server. Please help -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAI

[Mailman-Users] Re: Dynamic subscriber lists

2004-02-03 Thread Chris Barnes
Detlef Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since today we do this with sync_mebers. Befor today we does it with > remove_members and add_members. The old method makes the log/subsribe > so big. I think the sync_members option will do well enough for what we want. Thanks for all the replies (I'll

Re: [Mailman-Users] list creators password and aliases problem

2004-02-03 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Arpadffy Zoltan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. how to set list creators password (version 2.1.4) in order to use cgi > interface for list creation? mmsitepass > 2. is there any substitution/workaround for old 2.0 versions newlist option > -o /etc/aliases that inserted automatically required a

[Mailman-Users] list creators password and aliases problem

2004-02-03 Thread Arpadffy Zoltan
hello, I have two questions: 1. how to set list creators password (version 2.1.4) in order to use cgi interface for list creation? 2. is there any substitution/workaround for old 2.0 versions newlist option -o /etc/aliases that inserted automatically required aliases into aliases file? Seems 2

[Mailman-Users] Problems seeing pipermail archive.

2004-02-03 Thread Mike Gifford
Hello, I'm confused by why the pipermail archive directories aren't being set up.. I checked for an error here: /var/log/mailman The rest of the script seems to be running fine, just no archives [EMAIL PROTECTED] cron]# ls -la /usr/share/mailman/archives/public/ total 8 drwxrwsr-x2

RE: [Mailman-Users] More on Sendmail

2004-02-03 Thread Brian Haines
Newbie Alert!!! I just installed Mailman 2.1.4 and created a new list via the Web based interface. This is a nice feature, but it does not give you the aliases to create like the command line does. It says it sent them via e-mail, but the email that was sent did not include the needed aliases. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail problem

2004-02-03 Thread Simon White
03-Feb-04 at 08:19, Jerry Feldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Did you set up the aliases correctly? What MTA are you using. The format > of the aliases for Sendmail and for Postfix are slightly different, and > for postfix, you must remove the colons (:). Other than that they are > the same. >F

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail problem

2004-02-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:08:20 -0600 "Crume, Michael W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to mailman and to UNIX so forgive any stupidity here. I have > set up mailman to run several Listserv's. I created a new list called > "test" to learn with.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail problem

2004-02-03 Thread Rob
- Original Message - From: "Crume, Michael W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:08 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mail problem I am new to mailman and to UNIX so forgive any stupidity here. I have set up mailman to run several Listserv's. I cre

[Mailman-Users] Mail problem

2004-02-03 Thread Crume, Michael W
I am new to mailman and to UNIX so forgive any stupidity here. I have set up mailman to run several Listserv's. I created a new list called "test" to learn with. It seemed to go well, I am able to created the list and to set it up via the web. It will mail me a confirmation of the created list

RE: [Mailman-Users] How to purge correctly old messages ?

2004-02-03 Thread BERTHOLD Jean
Yes, you are right ... at first I tried to add swap After that I tried to modify vi settings: set directory=/another_dir it was not sufficient ... Finally I used the split command: split -b 25m file.mbox result file1 file2 file3 ... edit files to delete old emails cat file1 filefile3 > new.m

RE: [Mailman-Users] Common admin password

2004-02-03 Thread Arpadffy Zoltan
Detlef, thank you very much. mmsitepass works. Regards, Z -- 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 Archives: http://

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 3

2004-02-03 Thread Roger D Medlin
I can't seen to open the attachment you are tying to send Please advisee Major Roger Medlin - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:02 PM Subject: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 3 > Send Mailman-Users mailing list sub

Re: [Mailman-Users] Common admin password

2004-02-03 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Arpadffy Zoltan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran successfully mailman 2.0.x and I decided to upgrade to 2.1.4. Upgrade > went very well and seems it is functional, but I miss very much the common > administrative password. The old one does not work and as a mailman host > admin I lost the possi

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on Sendmail

2004-02-03 Thread Kevin McCann
For my Mailman server, I wrote a script to extract the mailman alias entries and merge them with my master aliases file. I run this from cron every 10 minutes. Usually, by the time the list owner gets done fiddling with the config for his new list, the alias file entries have already been genera

RE: [Mailman-Users] How to purge correctly old messages ?

2004-02-03 Thread gebser
First, increasing the size of your swap won't solve the problem with vi. It needs disk space, probably in your /tmp directory. If you just want to edit this file without reconfiguring your system for vi, you could try using emacs. I use both vi and emacs every day, but prefer emacs for most th

[Mailman-Users] Common admin password

2004-02-03 Thread Arpadffy Zoltan
hello, I am terribly sorry if I ask trivial questions, but I haven's seen any solution for my problem so far. I ran successfully mailman 2.0.x and I decided to upgrade to 2.1.4. Upgrade went very well and seems it is functional, but I miss very much the common administrative password. The old one

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on Sendmail

2004-02-03 Thread James Ralston
On 2004-01-18 at 20:52:50-0800 "T. Glen Haggard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the multiple post on this. In researching more it seems > that Mailman must create an alias in the /etc/aliases file. The alias entries for the new list must be added to the aliases file. Mailman doesn't do t

RE: [Mailman-Users] Memory error when running arch

2004-02-03 Thread BERTHOLD Jean
Hello, Finally, it was an swap problem. I made a mistake, my SunFire as only 256 MB RAM ... I added more swap and now everything work fine ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] # mkfile 2000m /export/home/swapfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] # swap -a /export/home/swapfile [EMAIL PROTECTED] # swap -l swapfile

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dynamic subscriber lists

2004-02-03 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Chris Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I need a MLM that can make an LDAP query and get all of the "faculty", > > then send the message out. It needs to do this for EVERY message for > > that list. > > We do this by generating the lists using a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up virtual domains -- docs??

2004-02-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:59 AM -0400 2004/02/03, Bruce Dienes wrote: I am trying to set up Mailman 2.1.4 to work with 7 domains on a Slackware Linux box, using qmail. All the domains are owned by the same user, and mailman is set to work under the same user. Did you read the README.QMAIL file that comes with Mai

[Mailman-Users] Setting up virtual domains -- docs??

2004-02-03 Thread Bruce Dienes
Hello, There seems to be no documentation or FAQ as to how to set up one instance of Mailman to work with several virtual domains on a server. I am trying to set up Mailman 2.1.4 to work with 7 domains on a Slackware Linux box, using qmail. All the domains are owned by the same user, and mailma