[Mailman-Users] Configuring mailman

2005-03-02 Thread Don
Hi everyone; I am a new user of Mailman on my web site. If all goes as planed, numerous mailing lists will need to be set up that will all probably need to be configured identical except for the names of each list. Instead of using all the original default settings, I'd like to customize. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting a list - how is this possible?

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Graham Leggett wrote: > >I figured the rmlist option in the cgi-bin directory might do what I >want, but all it gave me was the cryptic and meaningless message "You're >being a sneaky list owner!", which leaves me no nearer to enlightenment >on what method should be used to delete a list. bin/r

RE: [Mailman-Users] Deleting a list - how is this possible?

2005-03-02 Thread Bruce N. Audie
This was Dan Phillips' answer to my question about this: Put "OWNERS_CAN_DELETE_THEIR_OWN_LISTS = Yes" in your mm_cfg.py and run bin/mailmanctl restart This will add a delete option to the web GUI. Bruce N. Audie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission problems cause postfix postalias error

2005-03-02 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graham Leggett wrote: > After creating a list, mailman v2.1.5 bombs out like so: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main > main() > File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in

[Mailman-Users] Permission problems cause postfix postalias error

2005-03-02 Thread Graham Leggett
Hi all, After creating a list, mailman v2.1.5 bombs out like so: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/

[Mailman-Users] Re: Deleting a list - how is this possible?

2005-03-02 Thread David Gibbs
Graham Leggett wrote: I now want to delete the list so that I can try and create it again - but this functionality seems to be missing from mailman, I cannot find a delete list option anywhere, or I'm looking in the wrong place. Try using the rmlist command. --

[Mailman-Users] Deleting a list - how is this possible?

2005-03-02 Thread Graham Leggett
Hi all, I created a list using my new mailman installation, and due to permission problems it did not create the list correctly. I now want to delete the list so that I can try and create it again - but this functionality seems to be missing from mailman, I cannot find a delete list option anyw

[Mailman-Users] Need help with "content filtering"

2005-03-02 Thread Pete Holsberg
I would like for members of the list I run to be able to send HTML-encoded emails and any attachments except pictures. "Remove message attachments that have a matching content type" contains: image "Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type" contains: multipart/mixed m

[Mailman-Users] Attachment URL question in Archive Page

2005-03-02 Thread Brian Carpenter
Hi All: I am running Mailman 2.1.5p1 under cPanel. I have question on the URL that shows up for a scrubbed attachment on the Archive page. Right now the URL shows up in this format: Url : /pipermail/listname/attachments/20050302/b37e3e52/0001.gif How can I change this to: Url : http

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 initial config problems SOLVED

2005-03-02 Thread FH
-- Original Message -- Received: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:47:27 PM EST From: Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 initial config problems (virtual hosts andpermissions) > > Unfortunately, check_perms won't catch the permission problem with the > alias database file(s). You

[Mailman-Users] Sender Filters

2005-03-02 Thread karlkras
I'm configuring a 'newsletter' list so all of the standard members are flagged as moderated and, since I don't want to allow them to post messages to the list, I would like such messages to be sent to the moderator to be considered while sending a "rejection" notice back to the member notifying

[Mailman-Users] Non-members allowed to post!

2005-03-02 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I have a serious problem here that I can't seem to figure out. I've been running Mailman for a very long time and have never seen this behavior before. A person is posting messages via GMane, but they are not subscribed to the list. However, their messages are being allowed to post! I

[Mailman-Users] Safe Archive Clean

2005-03-02 Thread Young, Darren
Couple questions on archiving. First, have some lists that archives exist for that I need to remove. We don't support archiving so I need to blast them. What's the "safe" way to do this? On that note (we don't support archiving), I've disabled archives on all lists on our server (via withlist), h

Re: [Mailman-Users] performance tuning for sendmail and local users

2005-03-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:30 PM +1100 2005-03-02, Iain Pople wrote: I am setting up a Mailman instance that will deliver to around 10,000 local users. Can anyone suggest appropriate settings for Mailman and Sendmail to optimize performance? There are far too many variables in the equation to be able to simply thr

[Mailman-Users] mailman/data directory

2005-03-02 Thread Young, Darren
What are the heldmsg files in the Mailman data directory? They all seem to be held messages for lists, yes? On that note, the file in the lists/ directory, called request.pck, is that a pointer to all of those files specific to that list? Reason I ask, the data directory on our server has 147,000

[Mailman-Users] Inconsistent post approval options

2005-03-02 Thread David Abrahams
Hi, We have Mailman set up to moderate everyone's first posting. Normally, the approval screen has a checkbox at the bottom that says something like "uncheck this poster's moderation bit." Normally, moderators check that box as they approve each poster's first posting. But occasionally, I see so