Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
Mark Sapiro wrote: As far as running the a web server is concerned, You don't have to, but that's the GUI list administration and user interface. No web server -> no GUI for even these functions. I've figured that out, and I can certainly see why it makes sense when the list administrator is not d

[Mailman-Users] Re: Problems with relocating a list

2004-09-21 Thread Anthony Chavez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:37:22 -0700 "Kevin W. Gagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You probably followed some of my instructions. I've not had a chance to get > back to update them. In the mailman list directories you'll find that there > are links to t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Roland >Thanks, Mark, for taking the time to respond. > >Mark Sapiro wrote: >> It is unclear to me where you are at this point. Have you read the >> INSTALL file in the top level of the source distribution and done all >> of that? > >I have now. It was not in the /var/mailman directory tree,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
Thanks, Mark, for taking the time to respond. Mark Sapiro wrote: It is unclear to me where you are at this point. Have you read the INSTALL file in the top level of the source distribution and done all of that? I have now. It was not in the /var/mailman directory tree, but in the /usr/share/doc/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman setup

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Andy Morris wrote: >Okay, I have mailman running and created the initial list 'mailman'. My >questiong is, do i actually have to keep this list for mailman to run or >can i hide this list from the actual lists page? You have to keep the list, but normally, you designate it as "private" (not ad

[Mailman-Users] mailman setup

2004-09-21 Thread Andy Morris
Okay, I have mailman running and created the initial list 'mailman'. My questiong is, do i actually have to keep this list for mailman to run or can i hide this list from the actual lists page? thanks, Andy -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Re: How can I do this?

2004-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:36 AM -0500 2004-09-21, Chris Barnes wrote: In other words, in MM in the Privacy/Sender section under where it says "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted" can I specify another list? No. Do I understand from the lack of responses that this type o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Roland wrote: >This is my first message to the list. I have used listservs for years as an >ordinary subscriber, but the time has come to set one up on my local Linux >machine, running Fedora Core 2. I have the latest Mailman installed, by default >in /var/mailman, but after wending through

[Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-21 Thread Jon Roland
This is my first message to the list. I have used listservs for years as an ordinary subscriber, but the time has come to set one up on my local Linux machine, running Fedora Core 2. I have the latest Mailman installed, by default in /var/mailman, but after wending through the volumes of online

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: How can I do this?

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Chris Barnes wrote: > >In other words, in MM in the Privacy/Sender section under where it says >"List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically >accepted" can I specify another list? > > >Do I understand from the lack of responses that this type of ability is >not available in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cloning a list

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Cullum wrote: >After much trial and error I have created a set of list settings that works >very well. Now, I would like to create others that are essentially the >same. Is there any way that I can clone all of the settings from the >correctly configured list? Go to >Searchable Archives: h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed...

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I created a small list of about 10 members to start and tested it for a couple of >days... changing settings to make sure all goes the way It should. >Then I finished loading the email address and I have almost 5000. >I tried today to send my first newsletter and it l

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual host

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hong Jiang Tian wrote: > >I also can send the emails from the members of test list to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] But the members of test list received the emails still >from land.its.org, not mailman.its.org. The mail header didn't change from >land.its.org to mailman.its.org. I want any email will use th

RE: [Mailman-Users] APACHE: any issues if "disallow the showing of directory listing"

2004-09-21 Thread Franco, Ruben
Well, I have tried it and the listserv has NOT developed any problems so far. -Original Message- From: Richard Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:21 PM To: Franco, Ruben Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] APACHE: any issues if "disallow th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with relocating a list

2004-09-21 Thread Kevin W. Gagel
You probably followed some of my instructions. I've not had a chance to get back to update them. In the mailman list directories you'll find that there are links to the archives. I had the same issue after I did mine, it took a bit to figure it out but simply deleting the links and making new ones

Re: [Mailman-Users] APACHE: any issues if "disallow the showing of directory listing"

2004-09-21 Thread Richard Barrett
So far as I am aware, none of the Mailman generated pages depend on auto-indexing, using explicit URLs in all cases. Try it and see. On 21 Sep 2004, at 18:37, Franco, Ruben wrote: I was wondering if it would cause any issues with the Mailman software if I configure my Apache web server to no lon

[Mailman-Users] Problems with relocating a list

2004-09-21 Thread Anthony Chavez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moving a Mailman list from one server to a new one has been a *very* smooth process for the most part, but I'm noticing some small quirks in the wake. Here's an account of how I accomplished this. 1. Installed Mailman 2.1.5, Postfix 2.1.4, and Apache

[Mailman-Users] APACHE: any issues if "disallow the showing of directory listing"

2004-09-21 Thread Franco, Ruben
I was wondering if it would cause any issues with the Mailman software if I configure my Apache web server to no longer allow showing the directory listings of directories that do not have a default web page by changing the "Indexes" option to "-Indexes"? EXAMPLE: Options -Indexes FollowS

[Mailman-Users] messages from "checkdbs" cron job

2004-09-21 Thread Franco, Ruben
Hello, I recently installed Mailman 2.1.5 and have loaded up the mailman crons that came with the install. I have noticed the following messages everday when the "checkdbs" cron runs and I was wondering what the message meant. Is something wrong with my configuration or is there a prob

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed...

2004-09-21 Thread Kevin W. Gagel
What version of Mailman? What OS and version? What MTA are you using? Version? What does the error log indicate? - Original Message Follows - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed... Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:32:52 +1000 > H

[Mailman-Users] [RESEND] what is a basic apache2 config for mailman?

2004-09-21 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
mailman 2.1.5-1 (debian) I've gotten mailman installed and working, but I can't figure out how to set up the web interface. I'm using apache2. I'm sorry to post what must seem like a stupid question, but I've spent a few hours searching the FAQ, mailing lists, and documentation. The answer is no

[Mailman-Users] Re: How can I do this?

2004-09-21 Thread Chris Barnes
Last week I posted another question from a former Lsoft Listserv user: I want to know if this function is available using MailMan, and if so, how: Using Listserv, if you had 2 lists (ListA & ListB), you could set things up such: ListA: Send= Editor Editor= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editor= (ListB) Doin

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual host

2004-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:54 AM -0400 2004-09-21, Hong Jiang Tian wrote: I have questions about using the virtual host with Mailman 2.1.5 on RHEL 3. For example the hostname of my mailing server is land.its.org. I created an DNS alias that is named mailman.its.org. As a CNAME alias? Don't do that. The RFCs say th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed...

2004-09-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:32 PM +1000 2004-09-21, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I spend several hours on this and cannot figure out why it isn't working... Go to the Mailman FAQ Wizard at , and search for "troubleshooting" and "no mail". -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Mailman-Users] Cloning a list

2004-09-21 Thread Mike Cullum
After much trial and error I have created a set of list settings that works very well. Now, I would like to create others that are essentially the same. Is there any way that I can clone all of the settings from the correctly configured list? Thanks, -

[Mailman-Users] virtual host

2004-09-21 Thread Hong Jiang Tian
Hi, I have questions about using the virtual host with Mailman 2.1.5 on RHEL 3. For example the hostname of my mailing server is land.its.org. I created an DNS alias that is named mailman.its.org. Then I did as follows: $ nslookup mailman.its.org mailman.its.orgcanonical name = land.its.org N

[Mailman-Users] Email not being distributed...

2004-09-21 Thread jean
Hello, I created a small list of about 10 members to start and tested it for a couple of days... changing settings to make sure all goes the way It should. Then I finished loading the email address and I have almost 5000. I tried today to send my first newsletter and it looks like it's not being

[Mailman-Users] Re: HTML Assistance

2004-09-21 Thread demo
> Can anybody assist me in this regard ??? You must have a webdesigner to have put together your website. They will be able to figure it out in a second. It could not be more simple. Alternatively, if all you want is a simple subscription page - or code to add to your website - you could use som