Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-27 Thread Brad Knowles
on 1/27/09 9:07 AM, Tim Ferguson said: Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until I get that fixed I just thought I'd ask. If y

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe a list to a list

2009-01-27 Thread Brad Knowles
on 1/27/09 10:40 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby said: I meant subcribing a list to another list. I dont know why they want to, but they just want... Umbrella lists do this, but they don't exactly work the way you would think they work, and unless you have a decent idea of what you're doing and

[Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-27 Thread Tim Ferguson
Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until I get that fixed I just thought I'd ask. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions, Ti

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe a list to a list

2009-01-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Mark Sapiro wrote: What would be the surprising effects if I subscribe a list to a list? It's just a customer whish, and I never did it and wonder what could happen... Why do they want to do this? There is loop protection, I meant subcribing a list to another list. I dont know why they want t

[Mailman-Users] Retaining HTML in archives

2009-01-27 Thread David Lubkin
It was easy enough to tweak settings so that messages sent in HTML are distributed to a list as HTML, including embedded images. But I'm not clear, after googling around the Mailman-Users archives and checking the FAQs, how to have the same effect when a list's archives are browsed. Where a mult

[Mailman-Users] Additional scripts and web forms

2009-01-27 Thread David Lubkin
Are there Internet repositories of Mailman scripts and customization beyond what comes with the distribution? I keep having ideas for obvious capabilities that are missing, e.g., - an inverse of add_members (instead of an input file of users to add to a single list, have an input file of lists t

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced addresses stays there

2009-01-27 Thread Kirke Johnson
At 08:54 AM 1/27/2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Kirke Johnson wrote: (-- snip --) If bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings is 0, cron/disabled is not involved in removing the bouncing member. The member should be removed immediately. The fact that you received an unsubscribed notice and the subsequent m

[Mailman-Users] mailman with postfix and virtual mailbox domains

2009-01-27 Thread Gerd Moritz
Hello, I have a postfix server running which can handle mail for 3 domains via "virtual mailbox domains". Now I want to use mailman to offer mailinglists for those 3 domains. I read the documentation and found http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html but this seems o

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/27/09 13:19, Lindsay Haisley wrote: It is not a misconfiguration of a MTA for for the envelope sender to be of the form "@.." as long as this is a working address. Agreed. I was referring to the common question on MTA support lists along the lines of "Why is sending emails out as '@.

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:51:48PM -0600, Barry Finkel wrote: > I was surprised to learn last week that RFC 2822 has been made > obsolete by RFC 5322, and 2821 by 5321. I think that the major > changes wre to clear up sections where there were differences of > interpretation. I saw the update/obs

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:25 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > Though I think that the MTA sending out as > @.. is a mis-configuration on the MTA's part. It should be noted as well that it's not the MTA's job to set the envelope sender address, nor is there any configuration in a proper MTA to default

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
>Please see Sec. 3.6 of RFC 2822 for a full discussion of various e-mail >header fields and their proper uses and meanings, and RFC 2821 for a >discussion of the trace fields, such as Return-Path. It is not a >misconfiguration of a MTA for for the envelope sender to be of the form >"@.." as long a

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:25 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I can see how altering your From (depending on where you are sending to) > could be a possibility. Though I think that the MTA sending out as > @.. is a mis-configuration on the MTA's part. > As far as the Sender: header, I can see that,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Icelandic: Digest character set problem

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mordur Ingolfsson wrote: > >Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> Did you restart Mailman after making that change in mm_cfg.py? >> >> >Yes, I did. Adding this to mm_cfg.pydid induce some change. Before the >advent of these lines some users got the accented letters in their >direct, non-digest mail all garb

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced addresses stays there

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Kirke Johnson wrote: >I have been attempting to test out the bounce processing on a test >list and am confused by the results so far. We are running Mailman >2.1.9 on RHEL, installed with the OS. > >The test list (tsstst) has the following settings: > >bounce_score_threshold: 1.0 (originally 5.0

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.pck get changed back from correct values...

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
john espiro wrote: >On the web interface, every day, the ownership for config.ock gets changed: > >/var/lib/mailman/lists/MYLIST/config.pck gets set to mailman:mailman, while >all other files and fodlers remain webadmin:mailman. When ever the list is updated, the process creates a new, temporar

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriberonly list

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/26/09 21:13, Brad Knowles wrote: Even if they were infected with malware, those programs could easily use a different outbound route than the normal mail sent by that person. So, such a test might turn up something interesting, but then again it doesn't prove anything if it doesn't. Agr

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Taylor
On 01/26/09 20:30, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Sure. Anybody who uses a single host to send mail but alters their From according to the venue (me, for example). Anybody whose MTA identifies the envelope sender as u...@actual-host.example.com, but whose MUA identifies them as u...@example.com i

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced addresses stays there

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Kirke Johnson wrote: >I have been attempting to test out the bounce processing on a test >list and am confused by the results so far. We are running Mailman >2.1.9 on RHEL, installed with the OS. > >The test list (tsstst) has the following settings: > >bounce_score_threshold: 1.0 (originally 5.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Icelandic: Digest character set problem

2009-01-27 Thread Mordur Ingolfsson
Mark Sapiro wrote: > Mordur Ingolfsson wrote: > > >> Hi, thanks for your reply Mr. Sapiro. I had already tried this: >> >> >> # CODE ### >> def _(s): >>return s >> >> add_language('en',_('English (USA)'), 'iso-8859-1') >> >> del _ >> # CODE >

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to asubscriber onlylist

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:03 -0600, Barry Finkel wrote: >> We had a case last week when someone sent mail with a spoofed >> >> "From: " >> >> line that contained the e-mail address of the list owner. I also wrote: >> In our case, the list owner temporarily moderated his e-mail address.