Re: [Mailman-Users] scalability + ldap

2012-05-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Anil Jangity wrote: > >Google's having a bit of a problem trying to find LDAPMemberAdaptor. What is >the link/page to this? The link >http://webserver.offal.homelinux.org/LDAPMemberAdaptor/ seems to be broken now. -- Mark Sapiro The hig

Re: [Mailman-Users] scalability + ldap

2012-05-29 Thread Anil Jangity
> > You'd need an LDAP member adapter -- basically, an LDAP database interface > driver for Python. There was some experimental work that was done in this > area for Mailman 2.1.x, but I don't think it ever got formally included in > the code base. This sort of thing should be relatively easy

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Drew Tenenholz
Mark, et. al. Got it! At 6:37 PM -0700 5/29/12, Mark Sapiro wrote: >Fixing it how? Do you know that it is a withlist script. It should be >saved in Mailman's bin/ directory as bin/reset_pw.py and run via a >command like > > bin/withlist -l -r reset_pw LISTNAME > >Is that how you're running it? If

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Drew Tenenholz wrote: > >So, I found a somewhat useful script out there on the internet, and I'm able >to save & run it, but it always generates a random password. I've made what I >think are a couple of simple changes that should allow me to set a specific >(unitary) password, but that's not w

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Drew Tenenholz
All -- So, I found a somewhat useful script out there on the internet, and I'm able to save & run it, but it always generates a random password. I've made what I think are a couple of simple changes that should allow me to set a specific (unitary) password, but that's not what the script repor

Re: [Mailman-Users] scalability + ldap

2012-05-29 Thread Brad Knowles
On May 29, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Anil Jangity wrote: > How does mailman scale to large lists? What about 200,000 members or more? I > know a large part of this has to do with the performance of the email > infrastructure. Questions like this are pretty well addressed by the FAQ Wiki. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Drew Tenenholz
Barry -- My situation is different, and I do need a solution to setting a global password that I know so I can have my webpage add & remove subscribers on their behalf. It's just the way we work. I'm actually trying quite hard to hide much of the guts of Mailman, my users aren't really intere

[Mailman-Users] scalability + ldap

2012-05-29 Thread Anil Jangity
How does mailman scale to large lists? What about 200,000 members or more? I know a large part of this has to do with the performance of the email infrastructure. Are there plans to make use of LDAP for storing Lists information (lists+members+lists configuration)? Right now, we have corporate

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 5/29/2012 4:23 PM, Drew Tenenholz wrote: All -- Sorry if this has been answered before, I don't have the time to go through the archives at the moment. Mailman 2.1.9/Red Hat Linux When migrating tens of thousands of users form an ancient Majordomo system to a new Mailman system, can I set

[Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Drew Tenenholz
All -- Sorry if this has been answered before, I don't have the time to go through the archives at the moment. Mailman 2.1.9/Red Hat Linux When migrating tens of thousands of users form an ancient Majordomo system to a new Mailman system, can I set the users' passwords when I upload their add