Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread Gerhard Killesreiter
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >I AM running firefox. > > > >Reread my post, please. Are you saying that someone (or program) > >hijacked my web browser and patiently waits for me to subscribe to this > >mailing list or any other mailman mailing list in

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread John W. Baxter
On 2/16/2005 16:04, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the second time now that I've subscribed to the mailman list > and, shortly thereafter, have received a "confirm" subscription mailman > email for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I subscribed a different address (by

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists are missing

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
Scot Condry wrote: Thanks. That got me in the right direction that I got mailman working again and postfix needed to know where the aliases had moved to. But now I have created a new list named the same as the old list and it is working. But I would like to move all the old users, password, arch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread John W. Baxter
On 2/16/2005 13:50, "Joshua Beall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, she has reported that people aren't getting her emails (she sends > only about one per month), and she's tried to send two so far. They show up > in the archives, so I know that they are at least being received by mailman. >

RE: [Mailman-Users] Lists are missing

2005-02-16 Thread Scot Condry
Thanks. That got me in the right direction that I got mailman working again and postfix needed to know where the aliases had moved to. But now I have created a new list named the same as the old list and it is working. But I would like to move all the old users, password, archives etc. to the ne

[Mailman-Users] Re: what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread Joshua Beall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This is the second time now that I've subscribed to the mailman list and, > shortly thereafter, have received a "confirm" subscription mailman email > for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. > > What is up? > > Thanks > -sea For whate

[Mailman-Users] Question regarding implementation, hostname vs. domainname

2005-02-16 Thread Albert Whale
I host a variety of Mailmain lists for Non-Profit organizations. One is for the Local Boy Scouts, the mailing list address is listed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not the real mailing list, but similarly configured). However posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the virtual name of the machine) does not work, but po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accepting postings from multiple domains

2005-02-16 Thread John W. Baxter
On 2/16/2005 8:23, "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:58 AM -0500 2005-02-16, Michael Steeves wrote: > >> At our site, we basically have several domains that all resolve to the >> same mailbox/location (ee.tufts.edu, ece.tufts.edu, cs.tufts.edu and >> eecs.tufts.edu). Is there

[Mailman-Users] mail not being sent/received

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm in the process of configuring my new mailman install. I'm able to access the mailman admin interface and set up a list and add new members. However, when I send mail to that list, I get no response. Furthermore, the mail archives do not contain any messages. My server is behind a router, but I'

[Mailman-Users] test

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubs

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave Dewey wrote: For what it's worth, I have received the exact same spanish-language-porno-confirmation email. However, it was some months after my initial subscription; doesn't mean it was or wasn't tied to my being a member of this list, but at least there are two of us that have received it.

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Sapiro wrote: Are you saying that your subscription to this list went as expected including the confirmation e-mail and then only after you posted you got a confirmation request from the other list? Yes, my subscription to this list went as expected, including the confirmation email. Then,

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I AM running firefox. > >Reread my post, please. Are you saying that someone (or program) >hijacked my web browser and patiently waits for me to subscribe to this >mailing list or any other mailman mailing list in order to then send me >a confirm mailman email for the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Accepting postings from multiple domains

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Steeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 16, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Wil Cooley wrote: On 2005-02-16, Michael Steeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At our site, we basically have several domains that all resolve to the same mailbox/location (ee.tufts.edu, ece.tufts.edu, cs.tufts.edu and eecs.tuf

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chuq Von Rospach wrote: sure it can. it's a porn site. you running IE on windows, right? try installing firefox on the same machine and see what happens. I AM running firefox. Reread my post, please. Are you saying that someone (or program) hijacked my web browser and patiently waits for me to su

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
sure it can. it's a porn site. you running IE on windows, right? try installing firefox on the same machine and see what happens. On Feb 16, 2005, at 4:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no way this can be due to a hijacked browser. -- Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Sapiro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the second time now that I've subscribed to the mailman list and, shortly thereafter, have received a "confirm" subscription mailman email for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I just submitted a subscribe request for another of my ad

Re: [Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This is the second time now that I've subscribed to the mailman list >and, shortly thereafter, have received a "confirm" subscription mailman >email for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. I just submitted a subscribe request for another of my addresses on the web pag

Re: [Mailman-Users] Making sense of SMTP log

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Joshua Beall wrote: > >I am looking at logs/smtp, and I'm not sure how to decode what I'm seeing. >Here's an example: > >Feb 16 16:35:53 2005 (12550) ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp >for 1 recips, completed in 1.707 seconds > >Presumable that deals with a message sent to or from the >[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Mailman-Users] Re: Accepting postings from multiple domains

2005-02-16 Thread Wil Cooley
On 2005-02-16, Michael Steeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At our site, we basically have several domains that all resolve to the > same mailbox/location (ee.tufts.edu, ece.tufts.edu, cs.tufts.edu and > eecs.tufts.edu). Is there a way in mailman that you can set it up so > that an e-mail fro

[Mailman-Users] what gives?

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is the second time now that I've subscribed to the mailman list and, shortly thereafter, have received a "confirm" subscription mailman email for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. What is up? Thanks -sea -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman when accessing Private Archives

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
Mark Sapiro wrote: Christopher Adams wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/lists/scripts/driver", line 80, in run_main pkg = __import__('Mailman.Cgi', globals(), locals(), [scriptname]) File "/lists/Mailman/Cgi/private.py", line 43 parts = path.split(SLASH) ^ SyntaxError: in

Re: [Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman when accessing Private Archives

2005-02-16 Thread Christopher Adams
Both answers mentioned a poor patch job. You are correct. Since I was unaware that the patch job had been done, I didn't know what to look for. I guess some text was simply pasted into the private.py file and it resulted in spaces rather than tabs. The intention was to manually do exactly what

Re: [Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman when accessing Private Archives

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Christopher Adams wrote: > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/lists/scripts/driver", line 80, in run_main > pkg = __import__('Mailman.Cgi', globals(), locals(), [scriptname]) > File "/lists/Mailman/Cgi/private.py", line 43 > parts = path.split(SLASH) > ^ > SyntaxError:

Re: [Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman when accessing Private Archives

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
Christopher Adams wrote: Has anyone seen this problem? Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (mo

[Mailman-Users] bug in Mailman when accessing Private Archives

2005-02-16 Thread Christopher Adams
Has anyone seen this problem? Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): F

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hunter Hillegas wrote: >What is the largest known MM list out there? See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.015.htp Also, see the thread at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-February/042502.html for an idea of the kinds of problems you run into with l

[Mailman-Users] Making sense of SMTP log

2005-02-16 Thread Joshua Beall
Hi All, I am looking at logs/smtp, and I'm not sure how to decode what I'm seeing. Here's an example: Feb 16 16:35:53 2005 (12550) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 1.707 seconds Presumable that deals with a message sent to or from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but how do I m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
What is the largest known MM list out there? I can go to about 50K, on moderately slow hardware (sun E250). An xserve can handle that without breaking a sweat. We're thinking of using it for a list that currently contains 400,000 entries, though probably about 20% of those should be discarded/a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Feb 16, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Joshua Beall wrote: I have a client who wants to setup a very *large* mailing list. Right now she has about 4500 people on the list (including myself). 4500 is not large. I've run lists on mailman over 40K. I run lists where the testing group is probably 4500... Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Hunter Hillegas
What is the largest known MM list out there? We're thinking of using it for a list that currently contains 400,000 entries, though probably about 20% of those should be discarded/are dead. > From: Carl Zwanzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:04:07 -0800 (PST) > To: Joshua Beall <[

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Joshua Beall wrote: > >I have a client who wants to setup a very *large* mailing list. Right now >she has about 4500 people on the list (including myself). This is not particularly large for a Mailman list. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.015.htp >However, she

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Joshua Beall wrote: > I have a client who wants to setup a very *large* mailing list. Right now > she has about 4500 people on the list (including myself). Which actually qualifies as only a moderate size, there are 15k+ lists using MM. > However, she has rep

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Excellent -- that seems to have been the problem. Now, I have another problem... but I'll create a new post. Thanks. jim On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:04:11 -0500, John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is no

[Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Joshua Beall
Hi All, I have a client who wants to setup a very *large* mailing list. Right now she has about 4500 people on the list (including myself). However, she has reported that people aren't getting her emails (she sends only about one per month), and she's tried to send two so far. They show up i

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is not consistent with yours. I'm running apache2, and I seem to remember installing it from source (although I'm not sure about that). hehe ... I'll bite my tounge :-) :-) BTW, we've been shipping apache 2 for

[Mailman-Users] Python/mailman Consultant needed, DC/N VA area

2005-02-16 Thread Richard Hill
Please reply off-list I have about 40 mailman lists running on a Linux server. We are looking for an email expert with solid Linux/Postfix/Mailman experience to maintain, make recommendations and tweak the software. Please recommend others, or yourself, for this as-needed position. We are lookin

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is not consistent with yours. I'm running apache2, and I seem to remember installing it from source (although I'm not sure about that). Here's the only User and Group entry in the file: # # If you wish httpd to run as a different us

RE: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
The default user and group for apache if not set in the apache config file is -1. The user and group must be set in the apache config file to be "apache" (/etc/httpd/conf/http.conf), you should see lines like this: User apache Group apache If you don't set apache's user and group the cgi scripts

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The really odd thing is that getgid is apparently returning ~0 (gid's > are unsigned, but the error message prints it as an int, hence the -1). > I just looked at my groups and the only group with a large number is > nfsnobody. Are you trying to run this across NFS? If so I'm guessing > your moun

Re: [Mailman-Users] Please help...

2005-02-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
JC Dill wrote: >C) You can set an explicit reply-to which applies to all sent messages >not just the digests, see the General Options section on the admin page: > Explicit reply-to and the other reply-to options apply only to individual messages, not to digests. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original error is as follows: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Please help...

2005-02-16 Thread JC Dill
Mark Sapiro wrote: Brian G. Altman wrote: I am trying to prevent people from replying directly to a Digest that is sent from the mailing list. Why? There are many different reasons why you might want this, and the best solution for your situation will depend on the why. The Reply-To fiel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accepting postings from multiple domains

2005-02-16 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:58 AM -0500 2005-02-16, Michael Steeves wrote: At our site, we basically have several domains that all resolve to the same mailbox/location (ee.tufts.edu, ece.tufts.edu, cs.tufts.edu and eecs.tufts.edu). Is there a way in mailman that you can set it up so that an e-mail from [EMAIL PROTE

[Mailman-Users] Accepting postings from multiple domains

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Steeves
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running into a problem with mailman, and am hoping that someone has found a workable solution to this. At our site, we basically have several domains that all resolve to the same mailbox/location (ee.tufts.edu, ece.tufts.edu, cs.tufts.edu and ee

Re: [Mailman-Users] python errors executing scripts

2005-02-16 Thread Sean
> Mark Panahi wrote: > > >Well, I tried 'check_db -a -v' and it complains that there are no > >config.pck and config.pck.last files for each list. The thing is, I > >had moved the lists and archive directories from an older installation > >(we had upgraded everything in our server). Seems like the

RE: [Mailman-Users] Lists are missing

2005-02-16 Thread John Dennis
> I recently upgraded (*not* a fresh install) from Fedora 2 to > Fedora 3. > Seems as though everything came over OK except my Mailman is > messed up now. > Emails to my list are not being distributed and when I go to > the mailman listinfo page it says I have no lists, when I had > three.

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glenn, My /etc/group file has the following entry: mailman:x:41: I don't have an /etc/groups file on my system. I'm assuming you mean /etc/group. bash$ id mailman uid=41(mailman) gid=41(mailman) groups=41(mailman) (as root) bash$ ./check_perms -f No problems found Hmm... sitll the same proble

Re: Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread Glenn Sieb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 2/16/2005 8:26 AM: Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original error is as follows: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the

Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

2005-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm still having trouble with installing Mailman. The original error is as follows: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to lookup via getgrgid() the group info for group id -1 that this Mailman CGI wrapper