[Mailman-Users] set up mailman, but no email notification

2009-08-02 Thread Scott Jones
I finally got mailman working to the point I created 'mailman' list successfully. Everything has worked correctly, but despite it showing that mailman has sent a notice to the administrator email account, that email has never made it into my email inbox. What would cause that email not to correctl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disable attachment scrubbing?

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Edward Harvey quoted me and wrote: >> >> If you mean replace the attachment with a link that preserves the >> original attachment file name and extension, put the following in >> mm_cfg.py >> >> SCRUBBER_DONT_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME = False >> SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION = True > > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disable attachment scrubbing?

2009-08-02 Thread Edward Harvey
> If you mean include an arbitrary binary attachment (say an executable > file) displayed inline in the archived message rather that removed and > replaced by a link, then no, there is no way to do that. > > If you mean replace the attachment with a link that preserves the > original attachment fil

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: > >Is the mailman user supposed to be passwordless? It doesn't matter. It's up to you and your own policy. >I know I'm running a non vanilla version, but my question is mostly >generic I think... > >Currently, the init script contains: > >su - mailman -c '/bin/m

[Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: > Is the mailman user supposed to be passwordless? AFAIK there is no need to log in as the mailman user, so that user should have no password (in the sense of "disabled", not in the sense of "zero-length string"). > When I do this from a non-root account: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

2009-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Adam McGreggor writes: > > As others have said, if an autoresponder is responding repeatedly to > > the same address in the course of a few days it is certainly behaving > > badly. Lotus Notes and Exchange autoresponders should not be allowed > > near the Internet. > > I'd rewrite th

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and group mismatch error

2009-08-02 Thread LuKreme
On 1-Aug-2009, at 12:43, Greg White wrote: To send the test message I sshd into my box as user, su - to root, and did: # /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as one of the following groups: [mail, postfix, mailman,