Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Geoff Mayes
Larry, I think you closed our security hole! You're right that someone else getting their hands on your mailman password is incredibly minor. The issue is when individuals subscribe to lists using their central LDAP/AD password as their Mailman list password. In that case password intercepti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Larry Stone
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Geoff Mayes wrote: If Mailman provided a way around the passwords in the clear issue, I'm pretty sure we'd go with Mailman ... My personal opionion is Mailman passwords are so insignificant that it really shouldn't be an issue. On the other hand, I recognize that you may

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 19, 2012, at 06:32 PM, Geoff Mayes wrote: > Mailman is more mature (the max bug ID for mailman in its issue-tracking > system is ~913,400; the max bug ID for Sympa is 8,117 and there is still no > bug category for Sympa's latest version -- 6.1.7 -- even though it has been > out for over 4 m

Re: [Mailman-Users] E-Mail Interface Documentation

2012-01-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sascha Rissel wrote: > >is there a documentation of the email interface available somewhere? >I found: http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node10.html >but that page seems to be offline. Yes, www.list.org appears to be currently off line. It is mirrored at an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread C Nulk
On 1/20/2012 10:06 AM, Geoff Mayes wrote: > Thank you everyone for your help and sharing all of this information. I > found it very useful and further proof of the active and supportive Mailman > community. > > It sounds like, to summarize, the Mailman2 branch can lock down its passwords > by:

Re: [Mailman-Users] slow "out" queue

2012-01-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Anil Jangity wrote: >We just moved a very old mailman infrastructure mailman to Solaris and >sendmail. >It seems, when a message is posted, the "out" directory doesn't seem to clear >out fast enough. > > 1K archive > 1K bounces > 1K commands > 1K in > 1K news > 403K out >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Geoff Mayes
Thank you everyone for your help and sharing all of this information. I found it very useful and further proof of the active and supportive Mailman community. It sounds like, to summarize, the Mailman2 branch can lock down its passwords by: 1. disabling cron password reminders 2. increasing the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread C Nulk
On 1/20/2012 8:48 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 1/20/2012 1:05 AM, Mailman Admin wrote: >> On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: >>> Does anyone know a way around the emailed passwords issue in Mailman, >>> clever hacks, certain plugins, or a timeline for Mailman 3's release? >>> >> You can stop t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 1/20/2012 1:05 AM, Mailman Admin wrote: On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: Does anyone know a way around the emailed passwords issue in Mailman, clever hacks, certain plugins, or a timeline for Mailman 3's release? You can stop the cronjob used to email reminders. With this you don't e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:05:20AM +0100, Mailman Admin wrote: > On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: > > > > I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future > > direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for > > this list. > > > > The University of Oregon is m

Re: [Mailman-Users] E-Mail Interface Documentation

2012-01-20 Thread Mailman Admin
Hello Sascha Rissel On 2012-01-20 09:04, Sascha Rissel wrote: > > is there a documentation of the email interface available somewhere? > I found: http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node10.html > but that page seems to be offline. You can send an email to any list with activated processing of em

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Mailman Admin
On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: > > I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future > direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for > this list. > > The University of Oregon is migrating away from Majordomo. We > decided on Sympa because Mailman sends pa

[Mailman-Users] E-Mail Interface Documentation

2012-01-20 Thread Sascha Rissel
Hello there, is there a documentation of the email interface available somewhere? I found: http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node10.html but that page seems to be offline. Regards, Sascha. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org