Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration

2004-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brian York wrote: > >Could i put the config.pck file from a list that i have created with the >settings that I want for a open list and paste it over the config.pck list >after it has been created or is there a way to use some kind of templates >with mailman. > Use $prefix/mailman/bin/config_

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie probs v2.1.4 on Debian

2004-07-14 Thread John Fleming
> > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/mailman/logs/error' Thanks Brad. I just decided to try using apt-get remove mailman, and then apt-get install mailman to do a reinstall, after being [fairly] reassured that my config files would stay intact. IT WORKED PERFECTLY! I hav

[Mailman-Users] Migration

2004-07-14 Thread Brian York
I am doing a migration from PMDF listservs running on openVMS. We have four types of lists (open, open-moderated, closed, closed-moderated). I have several hundred lists to move from that to mailman. Any ideas on creating lists automatically and changing settings so they fit into one of the four

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

2004-07-14 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 01:11:14PM -0700, Christopher Adams wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I guess I am a bit confused. From the previous > message from Jim Tittsler, he says: "The regular expression should not > be trying to match the > Keywords: or Subject: field name... only the "content" of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie probs v2.1.4 on Debian

2004-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:24 PM -0500 2004-07-14, John Fleming wrote: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/mailman/logs/error' Looks to me like this is the problem. Try creating this file, with the correct permissions and ownership. You may need to restart mailman. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderators Managing Subscriptions

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Mike Cullum wrote: Greetings, We are just getting Mailman 2.1.5 up and running. A number of the lists that we are converting have individuals who manage the subscription lists. I have seen in several places that moderators may, "... manage list subscriptions and post

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Christopher Adams wrote: Thanks for your reply. I guess I am a bit confused. From the previous message from Jim Tittsler, he says: "The regular expression should not be trying to match the Keywords: or Subject: field name... only the "content" of those headers, or "l

[Mailman-Users] Moderators Managing Subscriptions

2004-07-14 Thread Mike Cullum
Greetings, We are just getting Mailman 2.1.5 up and running. A number of the lists that we are converting have individuals who manage the subscription lists. I have seen in several places that moderators may, "... manage list subscriptions and postings." I have been successful in getting a moder

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Adams
Thanks for your reply. I guess I am a bit confused. From the previous message from Jim Tittsler, he says: "The regular expression should not be trying to match the Keywords: or Subject: field name... only the "content" of those headers, or "licensing" in your example." To me, that meant that if

[Mailman-Users] making a replica

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
I've got a mm2.0.12 running just fine on a sol8 host with sendmail8.12.10 The software, aliases file and web tree are all automounted from elsewhere. I've replicated the above as well as mount points onto another machine for the purpose of testing migration (I Know, just update over the original b

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Christopher Adams wrote: Thanks for your reply. According to what you are saying, if I have a topic called 'Licensing' and I define the topic with the regexp 'Keywords:Licensing', I should be able to just include Licensing on the first line (or within the first 5 lin

[Mailman-Users] Newbie probs v2.1.4 on Debian

2004-07-14 Thread John Fleming
First time here - go easy on me. Mailman was working fine on Debian unstable for a month or so since installation, and then I started seeing the below errors when browsing any of the mailman web pages. My lists themselves are working - just not the webpages, and I therefore cannot reate new lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Adams
Thanks for your reply. According to what you are saying, if I have a topic called 'Licensing' and I define the topic with the regexp 'Keywords:Licensing', I should be able to just include Licensing on the first line (or within the first 5 lines) of the message, and the Topic match should be met

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prevent archive?

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jul 14, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Young, Darren wrote: Is there any way to prevent list administrators from turning on archives? I know I can set the default to off for new lists and go through all the lists and turn them off, however all the list admin has to do is go in the web page and flip the swit

[Mailman-Users] Prevent archive?

2004-07-14 Thread Young, Darren
Is there any way to prevent list administrators from turning on archives? I know I can set the default to off for new lists and go through all the lists and turn them off, however all the list admin has to do is go in the web page and flip the switch. Darren Young Senior UNIX Administrator Univers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Variables in lists?

2004-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:16 PM -0400 2004-07-13, Jim Provost wrote: I looked through the sites and the documentation and couldn't find anything on this, so I thought I'd ask you. I was wondering if Mailman has support for variables in mass mails. Mailman has some pretty extensive list personalization features. G

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to export memberlist to file

2004-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:24 PM +0200 2004-07-13, Nick vd Kloor @ FOR-Nation wrote: not sure anymore if there is a function or parameter to get your whole memberlist in a textfile. Does anyone know? See the FAQ. Specifically, . -- Brad Knowles

Re: [Mailman-Users] Where to set href URL strings on admin form pages?

2004-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:29 PM +1000 2004-07-13, James Sinnamon wrote: Would someone tell me where the ''http:" part is set (doesn't appear to be mm_cfg.py)? I would like to be able change it to "https:". See the FAQ. Specifically, . -- Brad

Re: [Mailman-Users] Copy a mailing lkst

2004-07-14 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:23:44PM -0600, Corky Seevinck wrote: > After some pretty wild experimentation I managed to arrive at a list that is > exactly the way I want it. Now I want to make more lists that act the same > way. Is there an easy way to duplicate the options on a given list into a > n

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing List Name

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since v2.1.5, the FAQ's are no longer correct in changing a list name. The Realname cannot be changed - error occurs and tells you are not allowed to change ral name. Any idea how to do so now? Cannot change/import setting through config_li

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with JapaneseCodecs-1.4.10; unable to execute gcc: No suc h file or directory

2004-07-14 Thread Kraa de Simon
Jim, Thanks. I decided to delete the JACODECSPKG and KOCODECSPKG packages from the PACKAGES in $prefix/misc/Makefile. The line now looks like: PACKAGES= $(EMAILPKG) And commented all "import japanese" and "import korean*" from the $prefix/misc/paths* files. Regards, Simon. -Original Messa

[Mailman-Users] Changing List Name

2004-07-14 Thread lists
Since v2.1.5, the FAQ's are no longer correct in changing a list name. The Realname cannot be changed - error occurs and tells you are not allowed to change ral name. Any idea how to do so now? Cannot change/import setting through config_list either. Same error cannot change real name. --

[Mailman-Users] Rejected RCPT - Sender Verfy Fail

2004-07-14 Thread lists
I am now receiving this error with any new list created - when an attempt to post or who or anything. Does not happen with old lists. Even tried copying one list to another - no difference. See no answer in archives. Running v2.1.5 and was on 2.1.3. Old lists created on that.

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to export memberlist to file

2004-07-14 Thread Detlef Neubauer
"Nick vd Kloor @ FOR-Nation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > not sure anymore if there is a function or parameter to get your whole > memberlist in a textfile. > Does anyone know? $ list_members -o out.file listname Mit freundlichen Gruessen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyser

[Mailman-Users] How to export memberlist to file

2004-07-14 Thread Nick vd Kloor @ FOR-Nation
Hi all, not sure anymore if there is a function or parameter to get your whole memberlist in a textfile. Does anyone know? Thanx in advance, Nick -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mail

[Mailman-Users] Variables in lists?

2004-07-14 Thread Jim Provost
Hi all, I looked through the sites and the documentation and couldn't find anything on this, so I thought I'd ask you. I was wondering if Mailman has support for variables in mass mails. We're considering using Mailman to help send out messasges to applicants and students, but we would have to

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to export memberlist to file

2004-07-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:24:11 +0200 Nick vd Kloor <@ FOR-Nation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > Hi all, not sure anymore if there is a function or parameter to get > your whole memberlist in a textfile. Does anyone know? ~/bin/list_members. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, osc

[Mailman-Users] Where to set href URL strings on admin form pages?

2004-07-14 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear List, This snippet of html: \ [General Options] ... is generated from https://(hostname)/mailman/admin/wcdb-discuss . Would someone tell me where the ''http:" part is set (doesn't appear to be mm_cfg.py)? I would like to be able change it to "https:". TIA, James -- James Sinnamon