Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a no-password no-corfirmation unsubscribeoption anywhere?

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Edward Muller wrote: >Is there a no-password, no confirmation unsubscribe option anywhere in >Mailman? I have a client that wants this despite my protests. Apparently >since we put Mailman in place he is getting a lot of complaints (and rude >comments) about their unsubscription process. He c

Re: [Mailman-Users] spamming of my list

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Louis Headley wrote: >I have started to receive spam to my list. While my members are not recieving >them (all posts must be approved), is there a way to discard all requests at >once? Mailman 2.1.5 and up have a "Discard all messages marked defer" checkbox on the admindb page. There is a bin

[Mailman-Users] Is there a no-password no-corfirmation unsubscribe option anywhere?

2006-04-10 Thread Edward Muller
Is there a no-password, no confirmation unsubscribe option anywhere in Mailman? I have a client that wants this despite my protests. Apparently since we put Mailman in place he is getting a lot of complaints (and rude comments) about their unsubscription process. -- Edward Muller - Interlix [E

[Mailman-Users] spamming of my list

2006-04-10 Thread Louis Headley
I have started to receive spam to my list. While my members are not recieving them (all posts must be approved), is there a way to discard all requests at once? At the moment, I must go thru the list one by one. THere as many as 40 per week. How can i stop people from spam my list? Help? ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:06 PM -0700 2006-04-10, Allan Hansen wrote: > Well, I was just trying to help the poor soul who was struggling with the > web interface, assuming that he could not get to the command-line tools. As I said, for some people what you've suggested is a perfectly valid option. If that

Re: [Mailman-Users] delivery problems and digests?

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hal Huntley wrote: >One mailman instance that I work with is running 2.1.2 on a linux >2.4.20-20.9 kernel. > >Mail to a specific list is not getting delivered, but other lists on the >same instance are being delivered fine. > >Is there a command or a set of procedures that I can run to make the

[Mailman-Users] delivery problems and digests?

2006-04-10 Thread Hal Huntley
One mailman instance that I work with is running 2.1.2 on a linux 2.4.20-20.9 kernel. Mail to a specific list is not getting delivered, but other lists on the same instance are being delivered fine. The error message one person got back when they tried to send a message to the list was: sta

Re: [Mailman-Users] Synchronizing listserv members via the web

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jonathan Milam wrote: > >I wanted to know if it is possible to synchronize listserv members via the >web, instead of using the list_members process? If so, is there a FAQ that >outlines this process? And did you see the reply at

[Mailman-Users] Synchronizing listserv members via the web

2006-04-10 Thread Jonathan Milam
Hello! I wanted to know if it is possible to synchronize listserv members via the web, instead of using the list_members process? If so, is there a FAQ that outlines this process? Thanks, Jonathan Milam Computer Consultant Wake Forest University ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Ed
THANK you, Allen!! <> Which IS what I said!!! My ONLY "mailman access" is the web interface, which IMVHO is "lacking" BUT I am biased!! Ed -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] followup

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Does anyone know how I can setup permission as far as who can post? >ie. I don't want anyone who isn't subscribed to be able to post to the >list, or is that just a default setting? Look at Privacy options...->Sender filters -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Mailman-Users] followup

2006-04-10 Thread spamuser2
Thanks, I got it working. I just had to create the file manually and change the permissions but it seems to be running, I have few lists up and running, archived etc. One more question: Does anyone know how I can setup permission as far as who can post? ie. I don't want anyone who isn't sub

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Allan Hansen
Well, I was just trying to help the poor soul who was struggling with the web interface, assuming that he could not get to the command-line tools. Allan -- _ | Allan Hansen, Ph.D. | |

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Allan Hansen
At 14:53 -0500 4/10/06, Brad Knowles wrote: >At 2:40 PM -0500 2006-04-10, Brad Knowles wrote: > >> On the >> other hand, bin/find_member can search through all the lists hosted >> on python.org pretty quickly. > > There's another

Re: [Mailman-Users] capitals in list address'

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Matthew Clarkson wrote: >I know that having capitals in a email address is not standard, and it >seems as though mailman will not allow it; Although, what I need is a >set of lists with the roman numerals 2 (II) in them, without the address >showing up with ii's. Is there any way to do this?

[Mailman-Users] capitals in list address'

2006-04-10 Thread Matthew Clarkson
I know that having capitals in a email address is not standard, and it seems as though mailman will not allow it; Although, what I need is a set of lists with the roman numerals 2 (II) in them, without the address showing up with ii's. Is there any way to do this? Thanks in advance. -- Matthe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:04 PM -0700 2006-04-10, Allan Hansen wrote: >>> On the >>> other hand, bin/find_member can search through all the lists hosted >>> on python.org pretty quickly. >> >> There's another factor here -- we have plenty of subscri

Re: [Mailman-Users] get members list

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: >Daniel Carvalho wrote: >> >>the scripts didn't work - they always return empty lists... Maybe it's a >>problem with the python instalation iin my computer. > > >What version of Python do you have? Do the scripts issue any error? >Note that if you mistype either the list name or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:40 PM -0500 2006-04-10, Brad Knowles wrote: > On the > other hand, bin/find_member can search through all the lists hosted > on python.org pretty quickly. There's another factor here -- we have plenty of subscribers who

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:44 AM -0700 2006-04-10, Allan Hansen wrote: > Yes, of course, as I am interacting with Mailman after all, but > my setup has one BIG advantage: speed. Using my setup I can search > through all the lists in 1 second (the same subscriber may be on multiple > lists and want to get off them

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accessing lists

2006-04-10 Thread Allan Hansen
At 11:08 -0500 4/10/06, Brad Knowles wrote: >At 8:57 AM -0700 2006-04-10, Allan Hansen wrote: > >> Instead of looking up subscribers by address, use their names. > > You can also use the Mailman search function, which will work >with partial names and e-mail addresses, either by user part o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman isn't working: see /var/log/mailman/post

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Will Twomey wrote: >This is what I see in smtp-failure > >Apr 10 02:41:41 2006 (23791) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with >code -1: (-2, 'Name or service not known') See -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The h

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 4/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there was any mailman documentation that is more > detailed. I ran through the setup instructions and as far as I can tell. > it's just not doing anything... added the aliases etc. The owner is not > getting notified..

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating a jump to various topics - possible?

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jewel wrote: >A subscriber emailed me asking if the information in a listserv can be >organized to be able to jump to the various topics so one doesn't have >to scroll down. I assume you are talking about reading a digest. Depending on your user's MUA, the user may be able to get close to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:57 AM -0700 2006-04-10, Allan Hansen wrote: > Instead of looking up subscribers by address, use their names. You can also use the Mailman search function, which will work with partial names and e-mail addresses, either by user part or domain part. If the comment field in their su

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread Allan Hansen
>In this gents case I KNOW of SIX, repeat SIX e-mails accounts he uses. Do I >know the very FIRST letter of the account he uses for his subscription?? No. >So I have to go thru entire ALPHABET [page per letter at a time] to find it >instead of just being able to scroll down a 60 member page.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Description text not appearing in "To:" header?

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Brudenell wrote: > >I had, incorrectly by the sound of it, assumed Mailman worked the same way >because: > >1) Mailman's built-in help text for the 'description' setting says: > >description (general): A terse phrase identifying this list. >This description is use

Re: [Mailman-Users] "Other subscriptions" page is not showingsubscriptions for one particular list

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > >However, can't mailman remove spaces (which are not allowed in hostnames >anyway according to the RFC) itself? Or simply ignore them when comparing >host names. Yes. Apparently, up to now, no one thought of this problem. I think at least leading and trailing spaces

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman isn't working: see /var/log/mailman/post

2006-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Will Twomey wrote: >I don't see anything wrong coming up in /var/log/mail.log, >/var/log/mail.err nor /var/log/mailman/error > >/var/log/mailman/post shows this, however. Any ideas? > >I'm using Debian stable, everything was working (havn't touched it). > >Apr 10 02:15:23 2006 (21439) post to tes

[Mailman-Users] creating a jump to various topics - possible?

2006-04-10 Thread Jewel
A subscriber emailed me asking if the information in a listserv can be organized to be able to jump to the various topics so one doesn't have to scroll down.I personally can't think of how this could be done but wanted to run it by the experts. Also, is there a setting in Mailman which wil

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2006-04-10 Thread spamuser2
Hi all, I'm running postfix with virtual host and mysql. I mainly followed the following guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml I was wondering if there was any mailman documentation that is more detailed. I ran through the setup instructions and as far as I can tell. it's ju

Re: [Mailman-Users] Description text not appearing in "To:" header?

2006-04-10 Thread Mike Brudenell
Greetings - --On 9 April 2006 17:17:37 -0700 Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Brudenell wrote: >> >> Things have been going very well, except I've just noticed that messages >> I'm sending out to my test list are coming through with the header: >> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Becaus

Re: [Mailman-Users] "Other subscriptions" page is not showingsubscriptions for one particular list

2006-04-10 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 10. April 2006 04:21 schrieben Sie: > Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > >Any ideas what might be the problem? > >Are there any "hidden" settings (not available in the web UI), which > > causes the lists to appear disconnected (although the name an

[Mailman-Users] Mailman isn't working: see /var/log/mailman/post

2006-04-10 Thread Will Twomey
I don't see anything wrong coming up in /var/log/mail.log, /var/log/mail.err nor /var/log/mailman/error /var/log/mailman/post shows this, however. Any ideas? I'm using Debian stable, everything was working (havn't touched it). Apr 10 02:15:23 2006 (21439) post to test from [EMAIL PROTECTED], si