[Mailman-Users] Cgi form/email for unsubscribing

First let me say that I know nothing about python, cgi scripts, or any sort of code (as will probably become clear!) It seems to me that when a person subscribes to my list using the "subscribe" form, the file in Mailman which comes into play is "/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py" - Yes?... And I know

[Mailman-Users] Request help: MM 2.1.5 Install on BSD; setGID errors.

Hello folks: I'm coaching a friend on installing MM on a BSD server. I use and administer a Debian box myself here at the office. While I administer (in the sense of creating lists and assigning moderators) an installation of MM on someone else's Debian machine that I do not administer, I have n

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:03:21 +0200 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 6:47 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote: > > > In this case, you're mistaken. The double quotes work fine for > > this purpose (though the '-w' should be removed). > > If it's in double quotes, the shell will still try to

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

At 6:47 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote: In this case, you're mistaken. The double quotes work fine for this purpose (though the '-w' should be removed). If it's in double quotes, the shell will still try to interpret the wildcard. If you want to protect it from that, you need to put

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cancel Subscription Request broken - 2.1.5

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:03:13PM -0700, Russell Mann wrote: > On Mailman 2.1.5, with a few customizations, I have run into a situation > where "Cancel Subscription Request" doesn't work. The files that appear to [...] > > Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 [...] > File "/home/mailma

[Mailman-Users] Cancel Subscription Request broken - 2.1.5

Hello, On Mailman 2.1.5, with a few customizations, I have run into a situation where "Cancel Subscription Request" doesn't work. The files that appear to be affected, confirm.py, Pending.py don't have any customizations in them, so I'm finding it difficult to trace this error.

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:32:40 +0200 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:21 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote: > > > Remember "deferred" is the default. I bet that selecting that > > checkbox justs adds a simple key/value pair like "all=yes" to the > > cgi request. The origin of the "discard all d

[Mailman-Users] Subscribing to Multiple Lists Simultaneously

Hello, Thanks for the help on the template question. Next thing I want to do is allow the users to subscribe to multiple lists from one signup page. The reason is we don't want our customers to have to go through more hoops just to get our information! I see a couple questions on the list poste

Re: [Mailman-Users] Basic sending message help needed

At 6:04 PM -0400 2004-08-11, rtara wrote: Help of the most basic kind is needed here. Have you gone over the troubleshooting tips at ? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purcha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsupported charset=GB2312

At 4:34 PM -0400 2004-08-11, Bruce Embrey wrote: I recently had several messages come into my listserv (Mailman 2.1.5) that was using charset=gb2312. As a result they were not delivered but were place in my qfiles/shunt directory. The mailman log showed it wasn't delivered due to an unrecognize

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

At 3:21 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote: Remember "deferred" is the default. I bet that selecting that checkbox justs adds a simple key/value pair like "all=yes" to the cgi request. The origin of the "discard all deferred items" (or whatever the wording is) can likely be found with:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using BCC

At 2:11 PM -0400 2004-08-11, Brian York wrote: I have people sending messages to lists using BCC field. They used BCC on the old server we had and it needs to work without holding the message. How can this be done? Had you bothered to search the Mailman FAQ Wizard for "bcc", you would have tur

[Mailman-Users] Using BCC

I have people sending messages to lists using BCC field. They used BCC on the old server we had and it needs to work without holding the message. How can this be done? Thanks Brian -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pyt

[Mailman-Users] Basic sending message help needed

Am I missing something? I set up a list - it sent subscribe messages (I think) People complained that they received many "nuisance" messages I tried to change the set-up I tried to send a message and nobody but I gets it. Help of the most basic kind is needed here. Help Robin Tara -

[Mailman-Users] KNOWN SPAMMERS OPTION

Question, I've modified the KNOWN_SPAMMERS option to discard any emails that contain the following text from these headers below. KNOWN_SPAMMERS = [ ('subject', r'.*e-mail.*'), ('from', r'.*software-for-education.*'), ] The first one works great (e-mail), but the second filter is not

[Mailman-Users] Unsupported charset=GB2312

Mailman List: I recently had several messages come into my listserv (Mailman 2.1.5) that was using charset=gb2312. As a result they were not delivered but were place in my qfiles/shunt directory. The mailman log showed it wasn't delivered due to an unrecognized charset. From what I found out, de

[Mailman-Users] Using BCC

I have people sending messages to lists using BCC field. They used BCC on the old server we had and it needs to work without holding the message. How can this be done? Thanks Brian -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:38:52 -0400 Robert Echlin wrote: ...[snip]... > #2 sounds useful, but it may not be. It almost certainly requires that > you pass a lot of parameters to provide the identities of all the > requests (some multiple of 11000 or so parameters) that need to be > discarded. Reme

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help me Please!!!

At 3:40 PM -0300 2004-08-11, Euler Ricardo Rodrigues Ribeiro wrote: Hello. I want the problem that don´t find solution If you had bothered to search the Mailman FAQ Wizard for the terms "group mismatch", you would have found the single entry returned by

[Mailman-Users] anyone want to do a quick job fixing our mailman?

We can't get our Mailman to work, we think everything's working except Qmail, which needs some touching up. It's Mailman 2.1 on Redhat 9. Anyone up for a quick paid gig? We can send over funds via paypal. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailma

[Mailman-Users] Help me Please!!!

Hello. I want the problem that don´t find solution Help me please ___ - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post gerleca" (reason: 2) (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) - Transcript of session foll

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

- Original Message - From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem > Hi Robert, > > We're way beyond my knowledge of mailman at this point ! However, I've > got some alternate ide

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

> Sorry, guy. This kind of thing gets back to the same > sorts of issues regarding complete and total customization > such as discussed in > > and > 03

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to hold missing subject line

Thank you Jim, but... I started with those before realizing that these regular expressions assume that the subject line is included in the header but that the contents after the word "Subject:" are blank. The messages we are receiving have no subject line at all -- at least they are getting p

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

At 11:50 AM -0400 2004-08-11, Robert Echlin wrote: So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I had to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too long" message bit me. In these kinds of cases, what you can usually do is something like this:

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:50:06 -0400 Robert Echlin wrote: ...[snip]... > The page timed after about 15 minutes, and the python process > disappeared. > > So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I > had to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too > lon

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

Robert Echlin wrote: The page timed after about 15 minutes, and the python process disappeared. So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I had to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too long" message bit me. And now I tried again and it timed out again

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

- Original Message - From: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem > - Original Message - > From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

- Original Message - From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:22:06 -0500 > Eric Schmitz wrote: > > > Go to the mailman/data directory, and delete

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security

At 3:28 PM +0100 2004-08-11, Ian A B Eiloart wrote: I guess you'd still need to ensure the kids used good passwords and didn't share them. Then there's the spyware issue. I mentioned this privately in e-mail to Johnathan, but I'll also copy the relevant paragraphs here: Recent reports are th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security

--On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:23 pm +0200 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 2:58 AM -0700 2004-08-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of the safety/vulnerability of these lists? Are these appropriate to use for kids? It depends on how much security you want/need. Ev

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

At 12:34 PM +0100 2004-08-11, PeteBell wrote: I read the replies with interest. As I do NOT have any access to the config files for the copy of Mailman which I use (because Mailman is a single copy shared across all the domains on the server where I have my site hosted), That's a typical m

Re: [Mailman-Users] danish language support

At 8:37 PM +0900 2004-08-11, Jim Tittsler wrote: It looks like there is an 's' missing in the Danish mailman.po file: According to the Internationalization page at , the Danish language champion for Mailman is Soren Bondrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please contact So

Re: [Mailman-Users] danish language support

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Sean wrote: > Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 > > We're sorry, we hit a bug! [...] > Traceback (most recent call last): [...] > File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py", line 813, in loginpage > table.AddRow([_("""In order to change your membership op

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

On 11 Aug 2004, at 12:12, Brad Knowles wrote: I've updated the FAQ on this subject. See . I read the replies with interest. As I do NOT have any access to the config files for the copy of Mailman which I use (because Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security

At 2:58 AM -0700 2004-08-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of the safety/vulnerability of these lists? Are these appropriate to use for kids? It depends on how much security you want/need. Even if you run a closed list, anyone can spoof the sender address of a subscribed user, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] perplexed by gate_news errors

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:47:29PM -0700, Gary Merrick wrote: > My gate_news cron job is spewing out these errors: > > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/nntplib.py", line 564, in quit > resp = self.shortcmd('QUIT') If you telnet to port 119 of your news server and give it the 'quit' command do you g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

At 3:53 PM -0700 2004-08-10, Russell Mann wrote: Any help would be appreciated. I've Googled and searched the mailing list for the last week, and havn't been able to find the answer. I've updated the FAQ on this subject. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security

--On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:58 am -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone aware of the safety/vulnerability of these lists? Which lists? Are these appropriate to use for kids? That'll depend on who subscribes to the list. The list administrator can control access to the lists. Thanks, Jon

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

At 3:53 PM -0700 2004-08-10, Russell Mann wrote: The problem is there are several pages which still are visible to the end user which are not apparently editable. Yup. Some pages are generated internally by the Python code. How can I change the look and feel on these pages, or globally?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

At 6:41 AM +0100 2004-08-11, PeteBell wrote: ...And further to this, (which might help solve Russell's problem), is it possible to get Mailman returned pages (like the roster, archives, members list, subscription results, options, password log in, etc, etc, etc) to appear inside an existing lay

Re: [Mailman-Users] introducion and asking newsletter features

At 11:31 AM +0700 2004-08-11, Willy Mularto wrote: my company would like to add a service for our clients, it's about newsletter. does mailman support this features? as i know mailman is servising mailing list not a newsletter, correct me if im wrong :) Please see the Mailman FAQ Wizard at

[Mailman-Users] Security

Is anyone aware of the safety/vulnerability of these lists? Are these appropriate to use for kids? Thanks, Jonathan -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.p