Re: [Mailman-Users] regular expressions/wildcards in remove_members?

2004-08-24 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Aug 25, 2004, at 13:22, Adam Steer wrote: tried that already, with abysmal failure. I couldn't generate a regular expression that would work with 'withlist' either - some hand-editing of the condig.db revealed that the address was malformed very badly - $ bin/withlist -l mylist >>> deletions =

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

2004-08-24 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Aug 25, 2004, at 06:13, Allen Watson wrote: You need shell access to use withlist. If all you have is the web interface I suspect you'd have to go through and do it manually. That's the case AFAIK. I'll have to inquire at Pair.com to see if I can get access. bin/withlist is the best solution.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archives

2004-08-24 Thread Adam Steer
If check_perms works fine, then look at permissions where your mbox files live. If they're all good, then try using the '--wipe' option when rebuilding archives: /[path.to]/mailman/bin/arch --wipe [list] /[path.to]/mailman/archives/private/[list].mbox/[list].mbox ...a bit of a clean up before r

Re: [Mailman-Users] regular expressions/wildcards in remove_members?

2004-08-24 Thread Adam Steer
Thanks Jim tried that already, with abysmal failure. I couldn't generate a regular expression that would work with 'withlist' either - some hand-editing of the condig.db revealed that the address was malformed very badly - interpreted about four different ways. Homage to Mailman's valiant attempts

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spaces in Email Addresses

2004-08-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >At 9:55 AM +0100 2004-08-24, Ian Eiloart wrote: > >>> Moreover, space >>> characters are not allowed in e-mail addresses. >> >> Huh? there were no spaces in the email address mentioned. > > See the original message. The OP was complaining about spaces in >e-mail add

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archives

2004-08-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jared Nyland wrote: >In trouble shooting this issue a little bit more. It >looks like the lists that I had to move from one >server to another the archives are not working >correctly. If I create a new list on the new server >everything seems to work just fine. > >Is there a step I forgot when mi

Re: [Mailman-Users] regular expressions/wildcards in remove_members?

2004-08-24 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Aug 24, 2004, at 15:21, Adam Steer wrote: I'm wondering if it is possible to use regular expressions in 'remove_members'. I have a subscriber who has a curly quote in their subscribed address - which has thrown the web membership management interface for the relevant list off the planet, and I h

[Mailman-Users] Mailman discarding messages with no reason.

2004-08-24 Thread Simon Attwell
Hi all, We've got a situation here where mailman is vetting messages with no reason. Aug 24 09:08:57 2004 (12506) Message discarded, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, reason: Aug 24 10:07:16 2004 (12506) Message discarded, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, reason: Aug 24 10:29:52 2004 (12506) Message discard

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

2004-08-24 Thread Allen Watson
On or near 8/24/04 11:42 AM, Jeff Barger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > > On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Allen Watson wrote: > >> On 8/24/04 11:34 AM, I wrote: >> You can do this using 'withlist'. >>> I don't see "withlist" in the documentation I've been able to find. >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archives

2004-08-24 Thread Jared Nyland
In trouble shooting this issue a little bit more. It looks like the lists that I had to move from one server to another the archives are not working correctly. If I create a new list on the new server everything seems to work just fine. Is there a step I forgot when migrating lists over to a new

[Mailman-Users] Installation/configuration problem

2004-08-24 Thread Eron Armour
Hi folks, I've set up a Fedora box, installed apache and mailman and set up a list with not much problem. When I try to send to my list I get a bounce: There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. < localhost.loca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

2004-08-24 Thread Jeff Barger
On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:37 PM, John W. Baxter wrote: On 8/24/2004 10:36, "Glenn Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

2004-08-24 Thread Jeff Barger
On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:45 PM, John W. Baxter wrote: I think there is little choice for the future but to make more of the bin/xxx capabilities, and archive management, available by means other than shell access. While I'm all for such additions I doubt you'll see anything like that soon. Maybe wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

2004-08-24 Thread John W. Baxter
On 8/24/2004 11:17, "Jeff Barger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Allen Watson wrote: > >> When I populated a list with hundreds of addresses, I inadvertantly >> set the >> default of all users to "Hide". I want to unhide all of them. Is there >> any >> way I can do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

2004-08-24 Thread John W. Baxter
On 8/24/2004 10:51, "Jeff Barger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Glenn Black wrote: > >> I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the >> re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my >> virtual hosted server for security reas

[Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

2004-08-24 Thread Glenn Black
I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting host server personnel to do it is impossible ("we don't do that, you have to self manage."). Is there no oth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

2004-08-24 Thread Jeff Barger
On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Allen Watson wrote: On 8/24/04 11:34 AM, I wrote: You can do this using 'withlist'. I don't see "withlist" in the documentation I've been able to find. I should clarify; I am a list admin, but I don't have command line access to the system on which Mailman is running.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

2004-08-24 Thread John W. Baxter
On 8/24/2004 10:36, "Glenn Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the > re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my > virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting host server > personnel to do it is impossibl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

2004-08-24 Thread Jeff Barger
On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Allen Watson wrote: When I populated a list with hundreds of addresses, I inadvertantly set the default of all users to "Hide". I want to unhide all of them. Is there any way I can do this en masse, rather than individually unchecking "Hide" for every user in the we

[Mailman-Users] Mass settings

2004-08-24 Thread Allen Watson
When I populated a list with hundreds of addresses, I inadvertantly set the default of all users to "Hide". I want to unhide all of them. Is there any way I can do this en masse, rather than individually unchecking "Hide" for every user in the web interface? -- Your companion on the journey, Allen

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

2004-08-24 Thread Jeff Barger
On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Glenn Black wrote: I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting host server personnel to do it is impossible ("we don't do tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Translation problem

2004-08-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:55 AM -0300 2004-08-24, Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: None of the changes I´ve made seemed to appear on the Mailman web interface. Do someone know what am I doing wrong? Did you stop and restart mailman via the mailmanctl utility? -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would gi

[Mailman-Users] Translation problem

2004-08-24 Thread Luis Fernando C. Talora
Friends, I´m using some lists in Brazilian Portuguese and noticed some translation errors. Trying to correct some of those errors, I´ve made a few changes on the file /var/mailman/messages/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po None of the changes I´ve made seemed to appear on the Mailman web inte

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spaces in Email Addresses (the nightmare continues)

2004-08-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:20 PM -0500 2004-08-23, John Price wrote: If they were going to obsolete RFC822, why would they leave all this in there??? Who needs control characters in any email, period? Gack! I'm sorry, I hadn't fully read that part of the spec yet. I do not know why they decided to take a bad

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spaces in Email Addresses

2004-08-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:55 AM +0100 2004-08-24, Ian Eiloart wrote: Moreover, space characters are not allowed in e-mail addresses. Huh? there were no spaces in the email address mentioned. See the original message. The OP was complaining about spaces in e-mail addresses. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spaces in Email Addresses

2004-08-24 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On Monday, August 23, 2004 10:03 pm +0200 Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:14 AM -0400 2004-08-20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have and address that is too long. How do I get my address book to take it. Address book? There is no address book in Mailman. Moreover, space charac