Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Knowles
On 4/17/08, Jim Popovitch wrote: > I think the process needs to change and have security issues handled > outside of normal releases. Which is what normally happens in the process as it currently exists. It's just that, in this particular case, this bug wasn't exposed until an earlier 2.1.10b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Barry Warsaw writes: > > > BTW, it's not our responsibility to do anything other than patch the > > Mailman source distribution. > > I think you've missed at least part of Jim's point ... > > > > Then you can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: > There is some validity to the complaint that new releases are blocked > on translation updates. Our translators do a wonderful, and greatly > appreciated job, but they're disadvantaged by our suboptimal > translation process. Fixing that won't help security relea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: > BTW, it's not our responsibility to do anything other than patch the > Mailman source distribution. I think you've missed at least part of Jim's point ... > Then you can decide which of our changes to cherry pick into your > own running servers, and easily merge in y

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email response very slow using Mailman and sendmail

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patil, Manjiri S wrote: > >We have internal Mailing List server running Mailman 2.1.9 and SENDMAIL >8.13.8. Whenever someone sent email to particular mailing list >([EMAIL PROTECTED])consisting app 300 users recipients receive >it after several hours. E.g see the following Email I sent on Apr14th a

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer to the bottom of the email message

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Knowles
Kevin Hicks wrote: > Hi, a very elementary question. I cannot find out how to add the footer > to the bottom of the email message. It is being added as an attachment. > Can you help? Search the Mailman FAQ Wizard at for "footer". Pay special attention

[Mailman-Users] footer to the bottom of the email message

2008-04-16 Thread Kevin Hicks
Hi, a very elementary question. I cannot find out how to add the footer to the bottom of the email message. It is being added as an attachment. Can you help? Footer added to mail sent to regular list members (Details for msg_footer) Cheers, Kevin --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Again on HTML emails

2008-04-16 Thread Cyndi Norwitz
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:54:27 +0100 (BST) From: "Giulio Troccoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I need to send HTML email, or better I need to be able to do so. I've read a lot of posts that say how to prevent HTML emails to be sent, but I can't seem to be able to set mailman to accept them

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need capability of link to archived messages

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Darren G Pifer wrote: > >The owner of the list wanted to know, as I do, is it >possible to get the e-mail of the message but the message contain an >embedded URL to the stored archive instead an e-mail message with the >log? This is not possible in current Mailman. In Mailman 3, now in alpha exp

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachments

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Con Wieland wrote: > >On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> If you want to accept any text/plain parts from the message or an >> attached (forwarded as attachment) message and likewise for PDFs and >> not accept anything else, set filter_mime_types empty and >> pass_mime_types to >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Simple question

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Baumann > >The instructions for users who need help type help on the subject line >with a blank message > >They get back an email that there message may contain "administrivia" > >Do I have a setting wrong? No. Your members are sending the help command to the list posting address. It nee

[Mailman-Users] Simple question

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Baumann
Sorry if this has been asked before but I am new to this list The instructions for users who need help type help on the subject line with a blank message They get back an email that there message may contain "administrivia" Do I have a setting wrong? Thanks Mikeß --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Knowles
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > [1] True, with some effort you can shut those aliases off, but that > will invalidate many of the information web pages, and for that reason > the secure configuration has not been made default, and probably that > will be postponed to Mailman 2.2. I'd be really surp

Re: [Mailman-Users] RegEX for banning

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mel Sojka wrote: >I have a client that want to ban all subscriptions from .pl and .ru what >would be the regex under 2.1.9. ^.*\.pl$ ^.*\.ru$ You could combine it in one ^.*\.(pl|ru)$ but it's probably clearer to leave it as two. See . -- Mark Sap

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > >> I really am faced with only two choices. Commit my fixes to the >> publicly available source tree so they can be exposed and tested in a >> wide variety of environments during the beta release pha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Better to get a release out asap after that and let the community >> know >> that there are important fixes contained

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
BTW, the *real* problem here is that we *really* need to free up Mark for doing more development. Whether he likes it or not. ;-) Jim Popovitch writes: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There are two security issues mentioned in the announceme

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need capability of link to archived messages

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Knowles
Darren G Pifer wrote: > We have a list that we use for keeping backup logs and sometimes these > logs get rather large. The list is moderated and sometimes the size of > the message goes beyond the "Maximum length in KB of message body" which > requires approval. The owner of the list wanted to k

[Mailman-Users] Need capability of link to archived messages

2008-04-16 Thread Darren G Pifer
Hello, We have a list that we use for keeping backup logs and sometimes these logs get rather large. The list is moderated and sometimes the size of the message goes beyond the "Maximum length in KB of message body" which requires approval. The owner of the list wanted to know, as I do, is it pos

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email response very slow using Mailman and sendmail

2008-04-16 Thread Hank van Cleef
The esteemed Patil, Manjiri S has said: > > Hi, > > We have internal Mailing List server running Mailman 2.1.9 and SENDMAIL > 8.13.8. Whenever someone sent email to particular mailing list > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])consisting app 300 users recipients receive > it after several hours. E.g see the foll

[Mailman-Users] RegEX for banning

2008-04-16 Thread Mel Sojka
I have a client that want to ban all subscriptions from .pl and .ru what would be the regex under 2.1.9. Mel -- System Janitor/Network Plumber http://www.nwla.com Linux User #25446Linux 2.6.20 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Again on HTML emails

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Knowles
Giulio Troccoli wrote: > I need to send HTML email, or better I need to be able to do so. I've read > a lot of posts that say how to prevent HTML emails to be sent, but I can't > seem to be able to set mailman to accept them. Mailman filters stuff. If you don't set it to filter out HTML e-mail,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Third party unsubscribe request

2008-04-16 Thread Brad Knowles
Dave Hillam wrote: > But - other than tell him to ignore the unsubscribe request, what can > I do as listadmin in these circumstances? I suspect this may be a > one-off (it's a friendly list), but I'd like to know just in case we > have someone messing around. There's not much you can do. You mi

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachments

2008-04-16 Thread Con Wieland
On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Con Wieland wrote: >> >> On Apr 15, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >>> Con Wieland wrote: >>> My questions are, why am I getting the html attachments? >>> >>> >>> Because the sender's MUA is sending them and your content >>> filte

[Mailman-Users] Email response very slow using Mailman and sendmail

2008-04-16 Thread Patil, Manjiri S
Hi, We have internal Mailing List server running Mailman 2.1.9 and SENDMAIL 8.13.8. Whenever someone sent email to particular mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED])consisting app 300 users recipients receive it after several hours. E.g see the following Email I sent on Apr14th at 3:19PM that came in at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Again on HTML emails

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Giulio Troccoli wrote: > >Without any content filtering set up in mailman the email is delivered as >an HTML attachement, which is sort of alright. Presumably, the message 'body' in this case is your msg_header. If you remove the msg_header - i.e. make it empty, not just blank - it won't be added

Re: [Mailman-Users] Third party unsubscribe request

2008-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dave Hillam wrote: > >But - other than tell him to ignore the unsubscribe request, what can >I do as listadmin in these circumstances? I suspect this may be a >one-off (it's a friendly list), but I'd like to know just in case we >have someone messing around. Anyone can request unsubscription for

[Mailman-Users] Again on HTML emails

2008-04-16 Thread Giulio Troccoli
I need to send HTML email, or better I need to be able to do so. I've read a lot of posts that say how to prevent HTML emails to be sent, but I can't seem to be able to set mailman to accept them. I used to use another system to manage my mailing lists that didn't have any problems with HTML email

[Mailman-Users] Third party unsubscribe request

2008-04-16 Thread Dave Hillam
Hi all A different theme from the usual malicious subscription request, one of my list members has just received a confirmation e-mail generated by someone else. He is adamant it is not him, he is a long-standing list member and I am inclined to believe him. Now, the response includes the standar