Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Most of those kinds of messages, on my lists, and I have over 60, are > spam. You can set Mailman to discard all "held" messages, so you won't > ever see them. They will also discard member posts from different > addresses, etc., but this may be a small price to pay for not having to go > thro

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> > jc ok. in my first post i mentioned that this is mailman version 2.0.13. those options don't exist there... but thanks... > > -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] List within a list

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Kyle Kniepkamp wrote: > Do you have that backwards? > >No, when someone sends a mail to LIST2, even thought LIST1 is subscribed to >LIST2, LIST1's admin gets a 'please confirm' email. I was referring to your statement >I am guessing adding the list name of LIST1 to LIST2's 'accept these >

Re: [Mailman-Users] List within a list

2005-04-19 Thread Kyle Kniepkamp
Do you have that backwards? No, when someone sends a mail to LIST2, even thought LIST1 is subscribed to LIST2, LIST1's admin gets a 'please confirm' email. Depending on your settings for USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER and SENDER_HEADERS in Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py you may be able to acco

[Mailman-Users] Additional Subscription options

2005-04-19 Thread Will Nordmeyer
Hi, I'm doing some additional design for a client's website. They have a PHP based guestbook and want an option that will subscribe the user to their mailing list. I'm having difficulty doing the actual subscription. I tried tweaking add_members to allow a commandline parameter - it works

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Dan Phillips
On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:42 PM, JC Dill wrote: I think you are missing the big picture. There are many different ways that lists can be configured. The "only" term applies to the *automatic* handling by mailman, not to the choices made by the list owners and admins. Mailman automatically posts

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread JC Dill
kalin mintchev wrote: Those messages aren't approved -- they're held. ok, Brad. thanks. sure. they are held. held for approval. they are not "approved". true. are they from subscribed members? some. most are not. but the setting says members_postings_only = 'yes' (ONLY!) That is the setti

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Those messages aren't approved -- they're held. ok, Brad. thanks. sure. they are held. held for approval. they are not "approved". true. are they from subscribed members? some. most are not. but the setting says members_postings_only = 'yes' (ONLY!) ok. but there are about 60-70% mess

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen wrote: > >I wonder why the footer is always ISO 8859-1. And in the instances where >it only contains ASCII characters, it would be compatible with most >encodings, and could in theory just be appended to the body anyway, >couldn't it? I think the footer is always consi

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Yes, this means that I (or a moderator) needs to read through the > held queue and rescue any stray messages, but it only takes a few > minutes a day. > > I think holding questionable messages is the best default because it > allows the list-owner to remedy the situation. If the default was to

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Heather Madrone
At 6:17 PM -0400 4/19/05, kalin mintchev wrote: >thanks Dan. i disagree thought. i don't see how you'd recognize a member >of the list except by the email address. how'd you possibly know that the >email address that's in the From header on the message you are about to >approve belongs to one of th

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> > On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:42 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: >> right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i >> mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why >> is mailman holding messages for approval that's not coming from members at >> all? > > I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting list of nomail/bounce disabled users

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Loftis
Received a couple of responses immediately, thanks, sorry for asking what's probably a stupid question. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Submit field

2005-04-19 Thread John Fleming
Is it possible with mailman that I can put a field on my website, where people can submit to the in my case newsletter??? See FAQ 4.33 at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.33 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting list of nomail/bounce disabled users

2005-04-19 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 04:59 pm, Michael Loftis wrote: > IS there any pre-built way of getting a list of users disabled for bouncing > for a given list (CLI or web...)? Or am I just going to have to throw > something together using withlist? bin/list_members --nomail=bybounce [listname] > > TI

[Mailman-Users] Getting list of nomail/bounce disabled users

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Loftis
IS there any pre-built way of getting a list of users disabled for bouncing for a given list (CLI or web...)? Or am I just going to have to throw something together using withlist? TIA! -- GPG/PGP --> 0xE736BD7E 5144 6A2D 977A 6651 DFBE 1462 E351 88B9 E736 BD7E

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:46 PM -0400 2005-04-19, kalin mintchev wrote: Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to modify subscriber settings across all lists?

2005-04-19 Thread Tamara Yoggev
Thanks Mark, Is there a way to have the 'set global' check box- checked (on a certain field) by default? All the best, Tamara - Original Message - From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tamara Yoggev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-

[Mailman-Users] Submit field

2005-04-19 Thread Casper Companjen
Is it possible with mailman that I can put a field on my website, where people can submit to the in my case newsletter??? Thank you. Casper Companjen www.hetsoet.nl -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] hostname instead of mx name - mailman.db warning

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Serge Hartmann wrote: >On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > >> > mm_cfg.py:add_virtualhost( 'lists.antipolis.fr' ) >> > where is my mistake ? >> >> mm_cfg.py:add_virtualhost( 'lists.antipolis.fr', 'lists.antipolis.fr' ) > >yeah it works ! >new lists and generated addresses are [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mailman-Users] invite hack

2005-04-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sean wrote: > >I'm trying to customize the invitations that get sent out by adding the >subject_prefix to the subject line so it looks like: > >Subject: LIST_subject_prefix confirm CONFIRM_STING. > >I made this change to MailList.py: > > sub_prefix = self.subject_prefix > subj = sub_pre

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is mailman holding messages for approval that's not co

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
hi... mailman version 2.0.13 Restrict posting privilege to list members? - yes. i get a lot of messages to go to the Administrative requests page to aprove messages that are from people who are NOT on the list at all. what's up with that? --

[Mailman-Users] invite hack

2005-04-19 Thread Sean
Hi all, I'm trying to customize the invitations that get sent out by adding the subject_prefix to the subject line so it looks like: Subject: LIST_subject_prefix confirm CONFIRM_STING. I made this change to MailList.py: sub_prefix = self.subject_prefix subj = sub_prefix + ' con

Re: [Mailman-Users] lynx html -> text question...

2005-04-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Nathan Stazewski wrote: > If I do indeed need to install lynx on a Mac, I have a few questions. I > searched on the net and it seems that lynx is some sort of a text-only web > browser.so is this what I am to install to get mailman to convert html to > text? I

[Mailman-Users] lynx html -> text question...

2005-04-19 Thread Nathan Stazewski
I posted previously about this, but was all of the sudden swamped with work so I was not able to keep working on this problem. Our mailman install works fine until it's time to convert a text/html e-mail to plain text. All mailman produces with such e-mails is a blank body with the footer attache

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2005-04-19 Thread Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen
Well, I discovered what was the matter. The footer is always sent as ISO 8859-1, even if it contains only US ASCII characters. To one list I usually write in Norwegian, so the body is also ISO 8859-1, and then the footer is appended to the body. To the other list I usually write only ASCII. In

[Mailman-Users] footer

2005-04-19 Thread Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen
On the same server I have two lists. When I post to one of them, the footer (with the list URL etc.) is attached as a separate mime part. When I post to the other list, the footer is just added to the single mime part of the e-mail. I do not understand what I might have done differently when co

Re: [Mailman-Users] hostname instead of mx name - mailman.db warning

2005-04-19 Thread Serge Hartmann
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > > mm_cfg.py:add_virtualhost( 'lists.antipolis.fr' ) > > where is my mistake ? > > mm_cfg.py:add_virtualhost( 'lists.antipolis.fr', 'lists.antipolis.fr' ) yeah it works ! new lists and generated addresses are [EMAIL PROTECTED] however, I can't send me

Re: [Mailman-Users] hostname instead of mx name - mailman.db warning

2005-04-19 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
mm_cfg.py:add_virtualhost( 'lists.antipolis.fr' ) where is my mistake ? mm_cfg.py:add_virtualhost( 'lists.antipolis.fr', 'lists.antipolis.fr' ) -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/ -- Mailman-Users mailin

[Mailman-Users] hostname instead of mx name - mailman.db warning

2005-04-19 Thread Serge Hartmann
Hi there, I'm new to mailman and trying to create a mailing-list for a team in my company (antipolis). the name should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I can't manage the official MX of antipolis.fr domain. so the emails should be directly managed by the host lists.antipolis.fr. I use mailman 2.1.5 o