Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about account ownership, etc.

Richard Draves writes: > If we loose an employee with the password to mailman, how do we > carry on? The data is 'locked' behind a now lost password. How do > we reset the password, when the real password is gone? As long as you have shell access to the mailman installation, you can change the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

Rich Shepard writes: >Final question on installation: can I now delete /usr/local/src/? Yes, you can. I usually don't, as source trees often contain random bits of documentation and information that don't get copied to the install tree. Backup to a CD before removing would be a good compro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:22:02AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Is Mailman running (service mailman start or however you start it on > your machine)? See, I knew it was going to be something stupid that I forgot. I feel like an idiot. Thanks for your time. -- Henry -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Move that whole directory and all its contents to /usr/local/src/mailman. AIUI, Mailman is not designed to be run from the source directory, and by default it installs into /usr/local/mailman. So you're trying to overwrite the source with itself,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:01:35AM +0300, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > 08/18/2009 05:31 AM, Henry Hartley: > >When I send mail to a list, however, it seems to go into a black hole. I > >get no response that there was a problem delivering the mail, the server's > >maillog shows that the messag

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Move that whole directory and all its contents to /usr/local/src/mailman. AIUI, Mailman is not designed to be run from the source directory, and by default it installs into /usr/local/mailman. So you're trying to overwrite the source with itself,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: No way to ninstall it from you OS package manager? Unfortunately, no. I looked on the SlackBuilds.org Web site but they do not have a script for Mailman. Rich -- Mailman-Users mailing lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 18:25, Adrean Clark wrote: > I'm still having trouble with word wrap.  I send out messages in plain > text, and I don't have the message editor enabled.  I've pasted a sample > message below.  Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign > was added.  It's not i

[Mailman-Users] Bounces not resetting...

Folks, I have a problem in that user's bounces aren't resetting. The bounce_info_stale after value seems to be being ignored. I have users who's last bounce was in 2005 and we have sent literally thousands of emails to them since then. Th bounce_info_stale_after value is 7. But they are still show

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about account ownership, etc.

I can envision where the question is coming from - because we deal with the same fears. Our employees manage the lists and mailman software. Our other employees manage the servers and the network. If we loose an employee with the password to mailman, how do we carry on? The data is 'locked'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

Word wrap was forced. The text I pasted was not supposed to have line breaks, it was supposed to fit the width of the mail program. Plain text usually runs the width of the screen it's on -- that's what I want, not forced line ends. Hope I'm making sense. I checked the archives and the line b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Template Question

Jeff Grossman wrote: >I am moving my Mailman 2.1.12 installation from an old Mac OS X box to a >freshly installed Debian stable machine. I am running Mailman 2.1.12 >from testing. I copied over my lists directory and seem to have a >problem with the templates. I have some customized templates i

[Mailman-Users] Template Question

I am moving my Mailman 2.1.12 installation from an old Mac OS X box to a freshly installed Debian stable machine. I am running Mailman 2.1.12 from testing. I copied over my lists directory and seem to have a problem with the templates. I have some customized templates in the en directory of each

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd broken link after domain move

These are hard-coded into the archive files, $VAR_PREFIX/archives/private/[listname]/[index|author|thread|subject| date].html. You'll need to do a search and replace on all of these in order to fully convert the archives. On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:18 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Hi Python Mail G

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd broken link after domain move

These are hard-coded into the archive files, $VAR_PREFIX/archives/private/[listname]/[index|author|thread|subject| date].html. You'll need to do a search and replace on all of these in order to fully convert the archives. On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:18 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Hi Python Mail G

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd broken link after domain move

J.A. Terranson wrote: > > In the [now corrected] archives, at the very bottom of the page is >a broken link entitled: > > " More info on this list... " > >This is the only link that didnt convert to the new domain. Any way to >fix it without vi? Please reread the last paragraph of

[Mailman-Users] Odd broken link after domain move

Hi Python Mail Gurus! I followed the prior advice to move a list from domain.001 to domain.002, and except for one thing, everything appears *peefect*! In the [now corrected] archives, at the very bottom of the page is a broken link entitled: " More info on this list..

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade mailman

Lily Hewgley wrote: >Hi. We have version 2.1.11 and would like to upgrade, if possible. Can you >send me info and a link to your website, please. Start at or if you are running a vendor package, see if the vendor has an upgraded package available. -- Mark Sapiro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

On 8/17/2009, Adrean Clark (c...@clercscar.com) wrote: > Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign was added. > It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all > your help. > > ... > > >From Little Girls Point, we headed ... This is standard MBOX formatting rul

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about account ownership, etc.

On Aug 17, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Dana Runkle wrote: If something should happen to the volunteer who runs our email lists and we, the remaining officers, do not have access to the lists, what would Python need from us to prove ownership of said email lists and to transfer administrative control

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists

Henry Hartley wrote: > >When I send mail to a list, however, it seems to go into a black hole. I get >no response that there was a problem delivering the mail, the server's maillog >shows that the message was received by the server, but the mail never seems to >go out to the list. There is no me

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

Adrean Clark wrote: >I'm still having trouble with word wrap. I send out messages in plain >text, and I don't have the message editor enabled. I've pasted a sample >message below. Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign >was added. It's not in the original -- where did that c

Re: [Mailman-Users] 32 vs 64bit

"Hicks, Robert CTR" wrote: >I am having to rebuild a mailman server. Are there any problems running >mailman under a 64bit system? I run Mailman on a Linux amd64 server. -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Divis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Running two list with same email prefix

Andrea Cappelli wrote: > >So I have to create the list with the original name plus a unique >trailing and after create mail alias and let postfix rewrite the >destination from the alias to the real name before passing the mail to >mailman, correct? You don't want Postfix to rewrite the name. That

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

On 8/17/2009, Adrean Clark (c...@clercscar.com) wrote: > Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign was added. > It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all > your help. Aside from the spurious '>' character (what client di you use to compose/send it?), what

Re: [Mailman-Users] exim4 + mailman on debian...unrouteable addresses?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:04:37PM -0500, shawn wrote: > i have a problem with this set up. i've searched and searched all over > and can't find a useful solution. > > i have followed these documents > > http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Mailman_and_Exim4 > http://www.debian-administra

[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

Rich Shepard writes: >I want to install Mailman here to replace majordomo for a few mail lists. > My system includes postfix-2.5.2 and httpd-2.2.12, as well as the latest > Mailman version downloaded at the end of last week. > >With the source in /usr/local/mailman Move that whole di

[Mailman-Users] Question about account ownership, etc.

Dana Runkle writes: > If something should happen to the volunteer who runs our email > lists and we, the remaining officers, do not have access to the > lists, what would Python need from us to prove ownership of said > email lists and to transfer administrative control of all our lists > to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists

08/18/2009 05:31 AM, Henry Hartley: When I send mail to a list, however, it seems to go into a black hole. I get no response that there was a problem delivering the mail, the server's maillog shows that the message was received by the server, but the mail never seems to go out to the list. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

08/18/2009 02:34 AM, Rich Shepard: With the source in /usr/local/mailman I ran './configure No way to ninstall it from you OS package manager? -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34

Re: [Mailman-Users] 32 vs 64bit

08/17/2009 09:45 PM, Hicks, Robert CTR:: I am having to rebuild a mailman server. Are there any problems running mailman under a 64bit system? We have no problems with 64 bit and Mailman. ~150 users subscribed. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme,

[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman Fails

I want to install Mailman here to replace majordomo for a few mail lists. My system includes postfix-2.5.2 and httpd-2.2.12, as well as the latest Mailman version downloaded at the end of last week. With the source in /usr/local/mailman I ran './configure --with-mail-gid=postdrop --with-cgi-g

[Mailman-Users] exim4 + mailman on debian...unrouteable addresses?

i have a problem with this set up. i've searched and searched all over and can't find a useful solution. i have followed these documents http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Mailman_and_Exim4 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/140 http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html exim4

[Mailman-Users] 32 vs 64bit

I am having to rebuild a mailman server. Are there any problems running mailman under a 64bit system? Robert -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.l

[Mailman-Users] upgrade mailman

Hi. We have version 2.1.11 and would like to upgrade, if possible. Can you send me info and a link to your website, please. Thanks. Lily Hewgley State Bar of Texas Web Designer - Sections (512) 427-1423 -- Mailman-

[Mailman-Users] Question about account ownership, etc.

Hi guys, I am an officer in a non-profit organization that currently uses your wonderful software for mailing lists for our members, officers, programs, etc. We've got a possible issue coming down the pike, and I am hoping someone there can give me some answers. If something should happen to t

[Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists

I have recently had a partial hard drive failure on my server. I installed CentOS 5.3 on a new hard drive and copied what I could from the old drive to the new, including, I think, everything that Mailman needs. I can get into the web admin interface for my lists, see the various settings for t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

I'm still having trouble with word wrap. I send out messages in plain text, and I don't have the message editor enabled. I've pasted a sample message below. Also notice in the first sentence of the article a > sign was added. It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all

Re: [Mailman-Users] Running two list with same email prefix

Il giorno mer, 12/08/2009 alle 08.24 -0700, Mark Sapiro ha scritto: > Andrea Cappelli wrote: > This feature, but not necessarily this implementation, will be in MM 3. Ok > The main thing you need to do is arange for mail delivery > (postfix-to-mailman.py in your case) to deliver mail addressed to