Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Jordan Brown
On 11/11/2017 11:04 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 2017-11-11 12:22, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Heh, I just looked at that myself.  How did such a useless tool ever >> become standard? > My guess is IIRC SunOS was on Solaris 8 by 2001, and it was *the* > grown-up 64-bit unix: every other unix vendor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/11/2017 03:58 PM, Hal via Mailman-Users wrote: > On 12/11/17 00:19, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Whatever is done, needs to be done by someone with write access to that >> directory. > > Would adding me as a member to the Mailman group be the "safest" option? > Safest meaning that the web-server o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Hal via Mailman-Users
On 12/11/17 00:19, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 11/11/2017 02:28 PM, Hal via Mailman-Users wrote: unfortunately I'm unable to access that location ("permission denied") for some reason, It is not uncommon for /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ to not be readable/searchable by other than the web ser

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/11/2017 02:28 PM, Hal via Mailman-Users wrote: > > I also tried to log into the server and believe they're located > somewhere here: /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ That's where they should be. > unfortunately I'm unable to access that location ("permission denied") > for some reason,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Hal via Mailman-Users
On 07/11/17 19:41, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 11/07/2017 01:29 AM, Hal via Mailman-Users wrote: I run a low-volume mailing list (using Mailman 2.1.12) and I see that a few spam-messages have gotten through, which also means they're archived. I would like to remove them but all the info I can find

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2017-11-11 12:22, Phil Stracchino wrote: Heh, I just looked at that myself. How did such a useless tool ever become standard? My guess is IIRC SunOS was on Solaris 8 by 2001, and it was *the* grown-up 64-bit unix: every other unix vendor's keeled over or was about to and x86_64 didn't ex

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/11/17 13:17, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Heh. You made me look. No, contrary to the popular belief LiGNUx did not > invent the world, nor did mailman invent "arch". Sunos had it since > forever, but it appears nobody else did. Somehow it made its way into > linux and apparently everyone's been

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2017-11-10 01:06, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Dimitri Maziuk writes: > well, given /bin/arch and its importance to packagers and such, you'd > have to agree that bin/arch was perhaps not the best choice of name. > ;) Yup, and pretty sure Mailman's was first. There's a reason why namesp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Funding Campaign for GNU Mailman

2017-11-11 Thread Hal via Mailman-Users
On 10/11/17 22:45, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 11/10/2017 11:56 AM, David Andrews wrote: I tried to make a donation -- but was unsuccessful. I am a blind screen reader user, tried with two different ones, there were accessibility problems with the page. I couldn't enter my state properly, for some rea

Re: [Mailman-Users] create lists in web interface

2017-11-11 Thread Mathieu R.
Thanks, it work perfectly 2017-11-11 11:48 GMT-05:00 Mark Sapiro : > On 11/11/2017 06:26 AM, Mathieu R. wrote: > > I just installed a fonctionnal mailman server. > > with command line interface, everything is ok, but when i try to use the > > web interface to create lists, i run into the followi

Re: [Mailman-Users] create lists in web interface

2017-11-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/11/2017 06:26 AM, Mathieu R. wrote: > I just installed a fonctionnal mailman server. > with command line interface, everything is ok, but when i try to use the > web interface to create lists, i run into the following error : > > > Nov 11 09:21:12 vps81550 postfix/postalias[6036]: fatal: op

[Mailman-Users] create lists in web interface

2017-11-11 Thread Mathieu R.
I just installed a fonctionnal mailman server. with command line interface, everything is ok, but when i try to use the web interface to create lists, i run into the following error : Nov 11 09:21:12 vps81550 postfix/postalias[6036]: fatal: open /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db: Permission denied