Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Sims
The headers all look great after doing what you suggested ... there is no white space after the password. -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:08 PM To: Greg Sims; 'Patrick Bogen' Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: RE: [Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Greg Sims wrote: >OK Mark -- Will do. > >The bash script generates the approve header line in the newsletter header >with the following command: > > echo 'Approved: password' >>newsletter > >This seems pretty straightforward with respect to trailing spaces. It certainly does. If you change

Re: [Mailman-Users] Scaling Question

2006-07-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:45 PM -0400 2006-07-18, Ki Song wrote: > Anyways, I just wanted to hear some feedback as far as the scalability of > mailman. I have a mailing list of approximately 50,000+ subscribers. I just > wanted to know if mailman would be able to handle it without any issues. See FAQ 1.15. > I a

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:12 PM -0400 2006-07-18, Ki Song wrote: >> On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there a web interface built into mailman that allows me to post these >>> HTML messages to the list? >> No, but there /are/ some fairly easy to use webmail solutions around. > > What are some g

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:07 PM -0400 2006-07-18, Ki Song wrote: > Is there a web interface built into mailman that allows me to post these > HTML messages to the list? No. See FAQ 1.26. > The reason I ask is because I was using a program called Listserv by LSoft > that allowed me to post message via a web inte

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Sims
OK Mark -- Will do. The bash script generates the approve header line in the newsletter header with the following command: echo 'Approved: password' >>newsletter This seems pretty straightforward with respect to trailing spaces. The password is 12 characters long and contains upper and l

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Greg Sims wrote: > >I found /var/log/vette and see an entry that matches the time the newsletter >cron was run. Here is the log entry: > >Jul 18 04:23:01 2006 (8553) Message discarded, msgid: ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I hope this gives you more clues. Is there some way for mailman to be >verbose in

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Sims
Guys, I found /var/log/vette and see an entry that matches the time the newsletter cron was run. Here is the log entry: Jul 18 04:23:01 2006 (8553) Message discarded, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hope this gives you more clues. Is there some way for mailman to be verbose in the logs? With res

Re: [Mailman-Users] listinfo page

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dany Cuyt wrote: > >If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >How can I change the mail address at the end to contact in case of >trouble using the lists. [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be >[EMAIL PROTECTED] The rest of mailman is workin

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogen wrote: >On 7/18/06, Greg Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We did not use "<" and ">" around the password. It seems like we still need >> to figure out why the newsletter was not distributed this morning and why >> the moderation bit is not being set for new subscribers. > >Can you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?

2006-07-18 Thread Dragon
Dewhirst, Rob sent the message below at 05:03 PM 7/18/2006: > > My suggestion to minimize impact is to create a copy of the > > .mbox file in another directory, edit it as needed. Shut down > > mailman, move the file over to where it needs to be using the > > mv command. Restart mailman. > > > > B

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not sending password reminders, subscription confirmations

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Helmut Schneider wrote: >From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> You might try setting up another test_list with an underscore in the >> name and see if that fails too. > >Does no fail. Is there a way to backup everything and then recreate those >two lists? A combination of bin/config_list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?

2006-07-18 Thread Dewhirst, Rob
> My suggestion to minimize impact is to create a copy of the > .mbox file in another directory, edit it as needed. Shut down > mailman, move the file over to where it needs to be using the > mv command. Restart mailman. > > Better safe than sorry. that very close to my plan -- I've already d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Quick spam regex question

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jason LaMar wrote: >Thanks for helping me out with this. As a follow-up question, because >(obviously) I'm a regexp newbie: If I wanted to use this statement as a >basis ... > >\nfrom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@(?!fubar.com[>\s]) > >... BUT I also wanted to allow messages from any fubar.com sub-domain >(ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?

2006-07-18 Thread Dragon
Dewhirst, Rob sent the message below at 16:05 7/18/2006: >I am importing about 66MB worth of converted mail into an active list >.mbox file. Should I shutdown mailman while I do this? Basically I >want to know what mailman will do if the listname.mbox file is gone for >a few minutes.

[Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?

2006-07-18 Thread Dewhirst, Rob
I am importing about 66MB worth of converted mail into an active list .mbox file. Should I shutdown mailman while I do this? Basically I want to know what mailman will do if the listname.mbox file is gone for a few minutes. -- Mailman-Users mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Scaling Question

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyways, I just wanted to hear some feedback as far as the scalability of > mailman. I have a mailing list of approximately 50,000+ subscribers. I just > wanted to know if mailman would be able to handle it without any issues. > > I am on a business

[Mailman-Users] Scaling Question

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
First, I'd like to thank everyone for helping me through this installation. I made it so much harder than it needed to be (made 2 installations at the beginning, and forgot about the first installation)! Anyways, I just wanted to hear some feedback as far as the scalability of mailman. I have a ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Ki Song wrote: > Question: Does Horde and/or Squirrel Mail send HTML Mail that is sent as > source code? I've found that these programs allow me to send HTML email that > is already FORMATTED, but I want to be able to just copy/paste HTML code > from an HTML edit

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
> On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What are some good webmail solutions? > > We use Horde, but there might be something more straightforward. If > you have someone that knows a bit of PHP, it's pretty trivial to have > a page that generates an email. > Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are some good webmail solutions? We use Horde, but there might be something more straightforward. If you have someone that knows a bit of PHP, it's pretty trivial to have a page that generates an email. -- - Patrick Bogen

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
> On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a web interface built into mailman that allows me to post these >> HTML messages to the list? > No, but there /are/ some fairly easy to use webmail solutions around. What are some good webmail solutions?

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a web interface built into mailman that allows me to post these > HTML messages to the list? No, but there /are/ some fairly easy to use webmail solutions around. > I'm guessing the best method to do what I want to do (send HTML newsletters

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
>> How do I send an HTML formatted e-mail to all the subscribers to my mailing >> list? > > You generate an HTML-formatted message, and then submit that to the > list. Whatever program you use to generate that HTML-formatted > message doesn't really matter as far as Mailman is concerned, because

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Greg Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We did not use "<" and ">" around the password. It seems like we still need > to figure out why the newsletter was not distributed this morning and why > the moderation bit is not being set for new subscribers. Can you check your vette log to see

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:24 PM -0400 2006-07-18, Ki Song wrote: > How do I send an HTML formatted e-mail to all the subscribers to my mailing > list? You generate an HTML-formatted message, and then submit that to the list. Whatever program you use to generate that HTML-formatted message doesn't really matter

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Sims
Patrick, We did not use "<" and ">" around the password. It seems like we still need to figure out why the newsletter was not distributed this morning and why the moderation bit is not being set for new subscribers. Thanks again, Greg -Original Message- From: Patrick Bogen [mailto:[EMAI

[Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
How do I send an HTML formatted e-mail to all the subscribers to my mailing list? Basically, I'm trying to use Mailman to send a monthly newsletter to all of our customers. This newsletter will only be an announcement list, where only the administrator can post to the list. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] SOLVED Mailman Group Mismatch Error

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
> On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I have a Group mismatch error, where my postfix server is trying to >> execute a script as "web2" but mailman is trying to execute it as group >> "mailman", can I simply run configure and provide the command line option >> --with-mail-gid=web2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Group Mismatch Error

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Ki Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have a Group mismatch error, where my postfix server is trying to > execute a script as "web2" but mailman is trying to execute it as group > "mailman", can I simply run configure and provide the command line option > --with-mail-gid=web2 > > OR

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Group Mismatch Error

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
If I have a Group mismatch error, where my postfix server is trying to execute a script as "web2" but mailman is trying to execute it as group "mailman", can I simply run configure and provide the command line option --with-mail-gid=web2 OR do I have to run configure again with ALL of my custom c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists not shown on "listinfo"-site

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The mailman listinfo-site is available, but the lists are not shown. Ah, sorry, that wasn't very clear. Have you tried following FAQ 4.62 ? -- - Patrick

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists not shown on "listinfo"-site

2006-07-18 Thread IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt
Patrick Bogen schrieb: > On 7/18/06, IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> we had some problems with apache2 and mailman - after upgrading the >> server the lists are not shown anymore on the listinfo-site >> >> http://myserver/mailman/listinfo >> >> Under /var/lib/mailman/

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Greg Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (2) I sent the newsletter to myself. Here are the last few lines of the > header: > Cc: > Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" > Approved: Just in case... the password shouldn't be in angle brackets. I.e., if the p

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Sims
Patrick, I did two things as a result of your request: (1) I logged in as moderator to verify the password is correct. (2) I sent the newsletter to myself. Here are the last few lines of the header: Cc: Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Approved: I removed the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists not shown on "listinfo"-site

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we had some problems with apache2 and mailman - after upgrading the > server the lists are not shown anymore on the listinfo-site > > http://myserver/mailman/listinfo > > Under /var/lib/mailman/list my lists are still there - i

Re: [Mailman-Users] subject filtering

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My server is behind a router, and all the mails coming via that router. THAT > router tag the mails with a SPAM* subject line when it reaches a > limited spam score. > > ANd now comes my problem: i cannot filter it out via the mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 7/18/06, Greg Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the feedback on this issue ... I wanted to give you an update > about the newsletter this morning. The newsletter was generated by the > server but it was never distributed to the mailing list. Can you double-check that the bash scr

[Mailman-Users] listinfo page

2006-07-18 Thread Dany Cuyt
Our listinfo page looks as follows: Welcome! Below is a listing of all the public mailing lists on maillists.psb.ugent.be. Click on a list name to get more information about the list, or to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change the preferences on your subscription. To visit the general informatio

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error: You are not authorized tocreatenew mailinglists

2006-07-18 Thread Ki Song
> Ki Song wrote: >> >> I FOUND A SECOND INSTALLATION! How do I uninstall this second installation >> safely? > > > How was it installed? By whom? You might try 'rpm -q -a' to see if it > was installed via rpm, in which case you can try to remove it with > 'rpm -e ...' > > If it was not installe

[Mailman-Users] FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Sims
Thank you for the feedback on this issue ... I wanted to give you an update about the newsletter this morning. The newsletter was generated by the server but it was never distributed to the mailing list. My first action was to get the newsletter out. I added the server mail id and the "From: " m

[Mailman-Users] Lists not shown on "listinfo"-site

2006-07-18 Thread IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt
Hello, we had some problems with apache2 and mailman - after upgrading the server the lists are not shown anymore on the listinfo-site http://myserver/mailman/listinfo Under /var/lib/mailman/list my lists are still there - i guess the databaseconfig isn't read properly or could it be missconfigu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not sending password reminders, subscription confirmations

2006-07-18 Thread Helmut Schneider
From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Helmut Schneider wrote: >> >> I have 2 other lists which were not used anymore and checked them, they >> also work fine and notifications are sent. The only difference is that >> the concerned lists (the 2 which aren't sending notifications) contain >> an