[Mailman-Users] Check_perms reports invalid syntax?

2009-04-05 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, I'm setting up a new server with Mailman. After installing I tried bin/check_perms -f and got: file "bin/check_perms", line 44 ''' ^ Syntax error: invalid syntax I'm running Python 2.5.1. My existing server, running Mailman 2.1.11/Python 2.3, has th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to receive Zimbra-generated mailforwarded by Mailman

2009-04-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >on 4/3/09 1:50 PM, Pete Smith said: > >> I have one such set of e-mails, with full headers, available for anyone >> who is interested in this problem, but I won't clog up the list with it. > >Feel free to send me a copy and I'll see if I can figure out what went >wrong. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] New to the List Serve - responding to posts issue

2009-04-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: > There are ways to force all replies to go back to the mailing list, yes. To expand a bit on what Brad said, there is a general, standard way to set the address(es) that will be used for a basic reply. I forget where in the Mailman interface it is (I wouldn't touch it wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to receive Zimbra-generated mail forwarded by Mailman

2009-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
on 4/3/09 1:50 PM, Pete Smith said: I suspect that this might not be the right list for this question, but I have an odd problem that seems to be Mailman related. In a nutshell, the body of an e-mail sent by a Zimbra Webclient through a Mailman list server is unreadable with Eudora 7.1. In

Re: [Mailman-Users] New to the List Serve - responding to posts issue

2009-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
on 4/3/09 1:29 PM, Robert McGuire said: I just setup a list serve for my community's board of directors. I have all of the permissions set correctly and only the board are members. Everyone in community are non-members where their posts are held for approval. Someone is going to say it, so I

Re: [Mailman-Users] [-0.5] Re: Soft bounces....

2009-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
on 4/3/09 9:34 AM, Charles Gregory said: Further to this topic, another suggestion from Yahoo would be to use different IP addresses for different classes of mail. Short of running the mail on a separate server, I was thinking I might try running a separate instance of postfix to send mail fro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Soft bounces....

2009-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
on 4/3/09 8:50 AM, Charles Gregory said: I use postfix, so the performance of yahoo delivery doesn't really impact other mail, other than the impact of the extra load of retries... If you're using postfix, then that makes things even simpler -- by creating a separate queue for only mail to ya

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderator and Admin emails not being sent...

2009-04-05 Thread Todd Giles
> > It appears that the problem is that your alias for sandia-owner is > > sandia-owner: "|/home/gileszone/mailman/mail/mailman post sandia" > > instead of > > sandia-owner: "|/home/gileszone/mailman/mail/mailman owner sandia" > > > Thus mailman sends the notice to sandia-owner and instead of bei

[Mailman-Users] New to the List Serve - responding to posts issue

2009-04-05 Thread Robert McGuire
I just setup a list serve for my community's board of directors.  I have all of the permissions set correctly and only the board are members.  Everyone in community are non-members where their posts are held for approval.   My issues is:  When someone on the list responds to a post, their respons

[Mailman-Users] Unable to receive Zimbra-generated mail forwarded by Mailman

2009-04-05 Thread Pete Smith
I suspect that this might not be the right list for this question, but I have an odd problem that seems to be Mailman related. In a nutshell, the body of an e-mail sent by a Zimbra Webclient through a Mailman list server is unreadable with Eudora 7.1. The same e-mail, sent by the same sende

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't change host name preference

2009-04-05 Thread Mike Flaherty
Thanks for the detailed reply.   That fixed everything!!   - Mike --- On Fri, 4/3/09, Mark Sapiro wrote: From: Mark Sapiro Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't change host name preference To: mflahe...@tidewise.com, mailman-users@python.org Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:46 AM Mike Flaherty wro

Re: [Mailman-Users] [-0.5] Re: Soft bounces....

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you're getting "bounces" like "message undeliverable after 4 hours; will keep trying until message is 5 days old" Mailman should be ignoring those. I apologize for not thinking through the fact that a 4xx would have to continue for 4 hours before mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Soft bounces....

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Brad Knowles wrote: Yahoo expects me to respond promptly to 5xx bounces, disabling any subscriptions, otherwise it starts generating 'greylist' 4xx bounces for my mail. Unfortunately, if I try to lower the bounce threshold, the now-daily occurence of 4xx bounces guarantees