[Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

2006-08-22 Thread Matt England
This is the best email I have yet to find describing how mail.python.org proactive kills spam: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/332443.html I'm also considering adding these capabilities (which may or may not be implicit in the above description) to combat spam: * Don't

Re: [Mailman-Users] system generated emails date/time missing

2006-08-22 Thread Steven Settlemyre
cool, thanks! Mark Sapiro wrote: > Steven Settlemyre wrote: > > >> Where does mailman get it's date/time from? Whenever I create a new >> list, the confirmation email shows date/time of Jan 1 1970. So i'm >> guessing it is missing, and defaulting to 0. The server's date is >> correct and whe

Re: [Mailman-Users] system generated emails date/time missing

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steven Settlemyre wrote: >Where does mailman get it's date/time from? Whenever I create a new >list, the confirmation email shows date/time of Jan 1 1970. So i'm >guessing it is missing, and defaulting to 0. The server's date is >correct and when I send mail from command line, the time is corre

[Mailman-Users] system generated emails date/time missing

2006-08-22 Thread Steven Settlemyre
Where does mailman get it's date/time from? Whenever I create a new list, the confirmation email shows date/time of Jan 1 1970. So i'm guessing it is missing, and defaulting to 0. The server's date is correct and when I send mail from command line, the time is correct. Any ideas? -- Steven Se

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi-bin permissions problems

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jana Nguyen quoted an off list post. > >Jason Novotny wrote: > >> >>but I still seem to get: >> >> [Mon Aug 21 14:48:06 2006] [error] [client 132.239.132.180] >> (13)Permission den >> ied: exec of '/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create' failed >> [Mon Aug 21 14:48:06 2006] [error] [client 132.239

Re: [Mailman-Users] cgi-bin permissions problems

2006-08-22 Thread Jana Nguyen
Have you created the site password? /usr/local/mailman/bin/mmsitepass Jason Novotny wrote: > > Hi, > >Thanks everyone for your suggestion-- I did run bin/check_perms and > discovered the permissions needed updating. check_perms -f seemed to > fix those. >However, I'm still getting a

Re: [Mailman-Users] sending messages after problem gone

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Imre Gergely wrote: > >i had some problems with one of my lists, when i sent a message to the list, it >didnt get delivered, because some incorrect member adresses. >the mails landed in /var/spool/mailman/out. now, that the problem is resolved, >how can i resend the messages from out? >i have fedor