Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Hosting

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 08:45:35PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > True. We then migrated the list to another of their servers that already > existed, but the rejections > became even more. I'd still do a gradual ramp-up to N recipients with the 'standard' type of messages/headers/patterns for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Hosting

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 07:11:16PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > one of their co-lo facilities in the US closed down and they had to move to > another co-lo. This obviously involved migration of servers/ change of IP > addresses and this has not gone well for one of my mailing lists which has

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems unsubscribing from lists using email address?

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:45:11PM +1000, Adam Morris wrote: > in the footer of messages for lists I run I put a link for people to > unsubscribe. > > the link is > > listname dash unsubscribe@domain. > > If someone clicks on this link and sends a message there is no confirmation > and they stay

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:25:21AM -0700, Chris Nulk wrote: > On 3/23/2016 10:39 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/adamamyl/6909815#file-rename-list > > > >may be useful > > > >invoked as `rename-list old-list new-list` > > > Th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:02:10AM -0700, Chris Nulk wrote: > I have a copy of Mark's clone_list command and it will allow us to > rename lists. Which is great and not a problem for me. However, I > am not the person normally involved with list creation, etc. Another > group does it. Normally th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman on this server

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:22:15PM +, Adam McGreggor wrote: > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#run-time also springs > to mind. Although with a ScriptAlias, this may not be necessary (but for /pipermail/ etc probably useful). -- "MP3s are for people who dow

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman on this server

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 09:14:31AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 02/03/2016 02:09 PM, Peter W. Caton wrote: > > Forbidden [ … ] > Check /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. There should be a symlink https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#run-time also springs to mind. (as a side note, Peter, do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for a server

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:33:42PM +, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > Skip Montanaro wrote: > > I've not hosted a mailman list in a long while. I'm trying to help > > some folks migrate a list with ten years of archives and no current > > subscribers just to make the archives indexable by the various s

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange interaction between mailman and google docs

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:07:01AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 11/30/2015 02:48 PM, Ottoson Webmaster wrote: > > The problem is only *from google docs to non-google email in mailman list* > > It is difficult to even guess what might be happening without more > information. Someone needs to look

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman cgi error after server restart

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:25:23PM -0400, Kai Liu wrote: > Hi guys, > > My server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4. I installed mailman > 2.1.3 and postfix. It has worked for 4 years. Your version of Mailman is almost 10 years old. I'd be inclined to upgrade that. > Yesterday I restarted

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:07:25AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Perhaps a per-user login attempt limit would work for you. Each > (ab)user is different. But I don't think it's a good idea for a > supported feature of Mailman, it's too fragile and it would be an > invitation to an endless s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 11:43:55AM +0530, Aditya Jain wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2015 07:28 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > fail2ban runs on (in this case) the machine on which Mailman's web > > interface runs. It monitors the web server logs and looks for (in this > > case) a minimum number of 401 e

Re: [Mailman-Users] at Slayter 7pm TOMORROW Wed., FREE Beginner lesson, Live Band

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:43:17PM -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote: > Why won't this message send to my group? I have sent things before, > including a message that said "help" as the subject. I tried using "help" > as a subject but it didn't go. What do you all see? Is it a case of that wonderful gmai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restricting access to the pipermail archives

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:08:43AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 08/19/2015 11:43 PM, Billy Crook wrote: > > I want to give my users archives, but require authentication to access the > > archives. They should not be accessible to non-members. > > > > How can I tie mailman's existing authenticat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restricting access to the pipermail archives

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 01:43:27AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: > I want to give my users archives, but require authentication to access the > archives. They should not be accessible to non-members. > > How can I tie mailman's existing authentication (which can for example > conceal the member list

Re: [Mailman-Users] client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 09:17:55AM +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to get mailman to behave using this guide:https://www.howtoforg > e.com/how-to-install-and-configure-mailman-with-postfix-on-debian > -squeeze even though I'm on Jessie. > > I get the above error in /var/log/apa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:15:57PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's > E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription? > If you have shell access, https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py i

Re: [Mailman-Users] View the Private mail lists from UI

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:53:46PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > I suppose there could be an authentication requiring the site password > (for various reasons, it couldn't be a list admin password) on the admin > and listinfo overview pages to see 'all' lists, but there is not such a > feature. > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 05:28:05PM +0100, Adam McGreggor wrote: > I have a couple of ACLS (for check_message): the 'magic' I use is > > condition = ${if >{$spam_score_int}{60}{1}{0}} http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-content_scanning_at_acl_

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:43:20AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Adam McGreggor > wrote: > > > > Drop/Discard/Reject mails at SMTP time, before they hit Mailman? > > Right, but it seems like James is saying Exim4 isn't doing that.

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 07:02:38AM -0700, James Nightly wrote: > How can I configure mailman on Debian to reject messages with > X-Spam-Score over 8? We are getting bombarded with spam, messages are > tagged by Spamassasin, but for some reason Exim4 still sends these to > Mailman. Drop/Discard/Rej

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0100, David Osborne wrote: > On 15/05/15 05:32, Bill Christensen wrote: > >I long ago routed real users to an alternative signup, but the spam > >keeps coming, unrelenting, and are now anywhere between 1k and 10k per day. > > One of our lists was spammed in a si

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:16:48AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/21/2015 09:42 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > > This makes me wonder if it might be useful to have two files in the > > Mailman source: > > > > mailman/cron/crontab.in-system > > mailman/c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:32:48AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > The bottom line is that it's best, as always, to install a component > such as a crontab using the supplied tools rather trying to second-guess > the tool set and copying files directly. This makes me wonder if it might be useful t

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 08:21:20AM -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > I'd say it was a much better example of not trimming content and > making it presentable; Along with making one's MUA put signatures at the bottom… -- "a difficulty for every solution" -- Samuel, on the Civil Service --

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:31:50AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > The Justice Department has already said that the web is a place of > > public accommodation, and the ADA applies. It is only a matter of > > time before they issue specific regulations. So, in the near > > future, anyone

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:22:24AM +1100, Peter Shute wrote: > Do we really need anything more than the ability to bold and > underline? Butterick (and I agree entirely with him here) is against underlining: http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html > I'd be happy with some of the bas

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with regular expression filters

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:46:39AM -0800, Marino Pascal wrote: > I have a filter to block the word "test" from Subject because some > people won't receive list mail for a few hours and think it's broken > so they post "test" People who send test mails to lists I manage usually find themselves mode

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman equivalent of Yahoo "Special Announcements"?

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:50:34AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to migrate a Yahoo Groups mailing list to mailman. Yahoo > Groups offers four delivery modes: > > - individual emails > - daily digests > - no mail > - special announcements only > > and I have list members set

Re: [Mailman-Users] New install of mailman -- web links point to non-working https address

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:43:10AM -0500, James Riemermann wrote: [ … ] > The Defaults.py config includes the following line: > DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' > rather than the folloowing: > DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/cgi-bin/' > > which was recommended on one web tuto

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple mailing list passwords

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 02:21:50PM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > I am one of the list administrator/moderator for several mailing > lists, most of which aren't based on my machine (a few are in > another continent), so I am not the site admin for them. > > In particular three of these are on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:31:14AM -0500, Bill Christensen wrote: > I've got a problem with one of my lists where it's being flooded > with spurious subscription requests. […] > About 12 hrs ago I switched it to require Admin approval. 500+ > subscription requests - mostly in batches of 5-10 fro

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:18:33AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I hate to say it, but the days of the kinder, gentler internet when > everyone played strictly by the RFCs are passing as operational control > of internet services comes increasingly under the control of fewer, > bigger players who

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:32:50PM -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 3/26/2014 3:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >I'd be inclined to chose Postfix over Exim simply because Postfix is > >more popular, and new things (e.g. Mailman 3) tend to be implemented > >first for Postfix. > > FWIW, I found postfix t

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman list questions about password and bounces-back for invalid emails

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:11:22AM -0600, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > As for passwords, I disabled the monthly password reminders. > Many of my lists were auto-subscribe lists (from HR), and the > subscriber almost never needed his/her password. I do not remember > a case where a subscriber needed as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing admins using command line

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:49:50AM -0600, Ben Malin wrote: > Is there any way to remove an admin from a list from the command line > similar to the remove_members command? I have to remove old users from > 150+ lists and am not looking forward to doing it one at a time from the > web interface :-/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternative authentication mechanisms for Mailman

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 02:51:48PM +0100, Rainer Hoerbe wrote: > Does anybody have a link to answers on questions like this: > - How to do container-bases authentication for mailman? (e.g., use apache > authentication like mod_ssl or mod_auth_kerb) If you're still after a reply, this mail I sent

Re: [Mailman-Users] Protect seeing the list of mailing lists, using htaccess, or similar?

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:27:57PM +0100, Peter Heitzer wrote: > >>> On 1/7/2014 at 22:51, Mark London wrote: > > Hi - I want to hide our list of mailing lists from the public, but still > > make the list viewable to administrators. Is this possible, i.e. > > through an htaccess file, or perha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reporting messages counts/size by user

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:12:00AM -0800, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > This came up on another list I read- is there any relatively simple > way to (a) report individual message activity to a user and (b) > temporarily moderate a user when a count is exceeded? > > The first would send an email to the use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman cannot deliver email to a particular domain

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 11/19/2013 02:24 PM, Hung Phan wrote: > > ... it seems that Mailman thinks canby.k12... domain is hosted at > > 10.30.xxx.xx, which is our internal DNS service. Is there a tool for us to > > trace the email sending route? You cou

Re: [Mailman-Users] unable to start Mailman

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:51:32AM -0600, c cc wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Adam McGreggor > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:43:55AM -0600, c cc wrote: > > > I just moved our mailman to a new server, but I can't start mailman--I > > keep >

Re: [Mailman-Users] unable to start Mailman

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:43:55AM -0600, c cc wrote: > I just moved our mailman to a new server, but I can't start mailman--I keep > getting the following message: > > Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman > > I do have a list named mailman moved over, and have moved over about 30 > li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing list name

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:49:22PM -0400, William McQueen wrote: > I've been asked to change a list I manage to a different name. How is that > done? https://gist.github.com/adamamyl/6909815 may be helpful to you; it's what I use. http://wiki.list.org/x/mYA9 may be of interest. > If that can't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman has a mobile version too?

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 08:05:08PM -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > The mailman web pages are just web pages so they CAN be accessed while > mobile. The command line tools can be accessed via a SSH app while > mobile (much nicer to have a real keyboard though). If you use an Android device, the Hacke

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I know what I joined the mailing list ?

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:49:07PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 09/09/2013 09:02 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > > There's a third-party plugin -- first hit for me on Google with > > "Mailman ldap" (and then one link to click) > > https://bugs.launchpad.net

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I know what I joined the mailing list ?

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:39:37PM +0200, Mailman Admin wrote: > You will at least for mailman-users get a monthly reminder email. Unless you've switched those off (I do). > > And, Mailman and OpenLDAP can integrate？ > > No, mailman uses its own authentication. There's a third-party plugin -- f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing disclaimers/specific text in body

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:42:21PM +0100, Tim Walter wrote: > Recently the NHS email service has in its wisdom decided to add a couple of > disclaimers to every message that passess through its service and I can't > seem to get a way of removing them and was hoping for some advice. I'd > rather

mailman-users@python.org

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:07:29AM -0400, Jason Fayre wrote: > I've submitted the form that at&t tells you to in order to get your > IP removed from the blacklist. I then get a response back saying > that the IP is not blacklisted. Usually, there's a contact address to use here. > However, I've

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:33:31AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > I can also tell you that in the three cases just mentioned, it doesn't > matter what your footer says. All three have terms of service that > allow them to decide what is spam based on any driteria they like. > AFAIK, having an

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:06:28AM -0700, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Another very useful tool for analyzing mail issues is swaks. > > Now that's a tool I had not heard of before. I'm assuming you mean the tool > at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman for Newsletters

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 07:04:47AM +0100, Peter D Sparkes wrote: > Hi > > I am currently using exim4 on Linux Debian and intend to install Mailman. > > Mailman Requirements:: > > * Collect email addresses > * Send out newsletters > * No subscriber to have access to the list > * administrat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives for Yahoo Groups like Web Features

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 11:16:22AM -0500, Jason Glazer wrote: > I am looking for some suggestions on how to provide some Yahoo Group > like web features for some existing mailing lists. I run a variety > of mailings lists related to building energy performance on the > onebuilding.org web site usin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:31:41PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > That sounds good, but evidently, judging from the number of > Debian/Ubuntu packge users who come to this list with mail delivery > issues because they have ended up with some Postfix configuration that > combines Mailman aliases and po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:37:20PM -0700, Barry Warsaw wrote: > - Probably the best way to get authoritative answers is to contact the Debian >Mailman packaging team: > >pkg-mailman-hack...@lists.alioth.debian.org > >I don't know whether anyone from that team is on this list, or >

Re: [Mailman-Users] which firewall ports does Mailman require to be opened?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31:04PM -0400, David wrote: > On an Ubuntu 10.04 server that does nothing but run Mailman (with Postfix) > in a completely standard installation, which ports should be opened in > iptables? Everything except Mailman and SSH is going to be denied. I'd enable DNS, NTP, HTT

Re: [Mailman-Users] finding moderators of a list

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 02:22:25PM -0500, Hone, Don wrote: > Is there a way as list owner or as system admin, to sort a mailman > membership list based on whether someone's moderation flag is set, or > perhaps export that list into a format that includes all of the > various option columns that cou

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to show Human Name but not email address

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:52:58AM -0500, Gregory Beyer wrote: > I would like for my users to be able, in the Web Admin interface, to be > able to see the HUMAN name of subscribers, but not the actual email > address. For example, if I mass add addresses, in this format Bob > Smith I would like

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change of member address via web fails

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:11:24PM -0500, Rob McLear wrote: > just amazing how many users won't even bother to click a > confirmation link to finalize an address update! Spam-trapping may, partially, be to blame. -- "There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. Whil

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

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] identifying moderator that approved a post

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:03:57PM +, Bruce Harrison wrote: > Is there any way to identify which moderator approved a post. > I've looked thru the /logs files and didn't see anything. Check your web-server logs for the IP address, and work from there? Or if by email, look at headers? -- "I

Re: [Mailman-Users] identifying moderator that approved a post

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:42:52PM +, Bruce Harrison wrote: > I don't think the headers show who the moderator would be. Message-ID, perhaps? -- "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing" -- The Importance of Being Earnest ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] contact email incorrect

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0600, Eric Hansen wrote: > Installed mailman and have confirmed that everything works fine…except the > “If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact > mail...@example.com.” doesn’t send an email that I can find anywhere on the > server or in my acco

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing archives and deleting archive messages.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:47:43PM -0800, JRC Groups wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I am experiencing two problems with my Mailman lists and wanted to ask if > any of you know the solutions. > > Question 1: > > Two (2) out of the five lists I created on my Mac OS X server are not > displaying the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for a new Mailman host

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:39:30AM -, Malcolm Austen wrote: > I have several lists hosted (just the lists, nothing extra) by Mythic > Beasts (based in Cambridge, UK) - see down at the bottom of: >http://www.mythic-beasts.com/other.html> > > Apart from the matter of them still running Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server request addresses not active

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:39:41PM -0500, Carlos Palomino wrote: > I'm new to mailman and have recently installed the software on my CenOS > server. > > All is working quite well, accept for the specified join & leave dedicated > addresses for members to subscribe/unsubscribe. > > When sending

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to turn off plain text passwords?

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 07:52:08AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Its the first of the month, and I'm receiving my passwords from Mailman > servers. Happy Mailman Day! (I disable Mailman-day crontab entries.) > I don't want my passwords stored in the plain text, and I don't want > them stored w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman lists are set up but posts to the lists arenot arriving

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:45:39AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20, jhock wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 22:07 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > jhock wrote: > > > Did you read the note at the beginning of section 6.2 which says in > > > part "The updated document

Re: [Mailman-Users] Domain problem in post action on admindb forms for multi-domain mailman

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:41:18PM +0100, Martin Brampton wrote: > I'm running Mailman 2.1.13 from the Debian Squeeze repositories (on > Debian Squeeze) to provide mailing lists across several domains. The > domains that are not the primary mailing list domain have 301 redirects > of URLs su

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on windows?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:40:28PM +0530, dhruv kumar wrote: > hello, > I have a windows xp machine. the wiki discusses about windows 2000. Try it out, and report back with your experiences? > any another idea? VirtualBox / VMWare? -- "Minister if you are going to promote women just because th

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Management

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:01:18PM -0300, Douglas D. J. de Macedo wrote: > My problem is that I have more than 50 lists and every time time that one of > the users go out of the company I have to go one per one list removing this > user. remove_members ? (-a is useful) > And the other way, when

Re: [Mailman-Users] exim says 'unrouteable' on new list [SOLVED]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:44:41AM +0100, Rich Lott wrote: > Thanks for patient explanations. That'll be Mark ;o) > I've changed my config to the Mailman Official Way, because it seems > slightly cleaner than Debian's (only have to edit exim config to add a > new sub domain). Seems to be wor

Re: [Mailman-Users] exim says 'unrouteable' on new list

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Rich Lott wrote: > Hi > > I have exim4 and mailman running successfully on my server. I have a > working list that runs at somelistn...@artfulrobot.com and a working web > admin iface. All good. > > I looked at the output from this command: > $ exim4 -d

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman problem with exim

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 07:29:50AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Lorenzo Coronati wrote: > > > >what I understand is that exim (which is configured to manage the email > >addresses stored in a mysql database) tries to expand the mailing list > >looking for subscribers via sql, instead of letting ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade question

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:40:44AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > You could try 'locate mailman'. And/or 'dpkg -L mailman' -- "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today" -- David, Vice-Admiral Beatty (re: the Battle of the Jutland) ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade question

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:53:47PM -0700, Maria Mckinley wrote: > However, mailman is missing some stuff that happened while I was > upgrading the new machine, so I must be rsyncing the wrong directory. I > thought it should be /var/lib/mailman/, but I think this must not be the > directory t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:53:39AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > bin/withlist -a -r add_banned -- '^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$' Thanks for the heads-up. Only hit one of the five sets of lists I maintain, but still killed off. -- "Jim Hacker: What appalling cynicism." "Sir Humphrey: We call it dipl

Re: [Mailman-Users] sharing userbase with WordPress

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:43:12AM +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: > Is there a way to share the userbase of Mailman with WordPress? In-part, I'd suggest... > What I need is that the "master" database is Mailman and I would like to > replicate (also via script) the accounts and passwords to WordPress.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing latest Mailman updates via automaticbash script file possible?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:19:46AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > René Linke wrote: > >In one of a short news of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 is the latest > >Mailman version available then. My provider don't accept any Kernel > >upgrades. > > This is really a Debian/Ubuntu question and not a mailman qu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Run mailman web interface as another user

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:46:49PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > If you install Mailman from source, you can set the expected group with > the --with-cgi-gid= option to configure. Debian/Ubuntu may or may not > provide a package specific way to do this for their Mailman package. "apt-get source mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives Link

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:50:47PM -0400, Dennis Putnam wrote: > For reasons unknown I am suddenly not at to access list archives (as > admin). I ran check_perms but it found no problems and there is nothing > in the logs. Which logs? > Can someone suggest a course of action to debug this? TIA.

Re: [Mailman-Users] AV/AS on lists

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:02:48PM +, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 20:40, Andrew Hodgson > >wrote: > >> Hi, > >> What is the best practise for doing AV/AS on lists? I do strip out > >> attachments which works well enough, but we are getting so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman to manage a voting process?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:15:57AM +, Peter Hitchmough (Twokan) wrote: > I am investigating approaches to manage a lightweight process to approve > documents for a shortlist. This process takes place several times a year > and has 20-30 interested parties and 1 administrator. > > A mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Explicit destination causes implicitdestination bounce

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:26:29PM -0600, Larry Stone wrote: > The lesson in this is that SMTP, like almost all > computer command sets, is very intolerant of even the slightest mistake. > It does exactly what you tell it to do and has no idea what you meant > when you get it wrong. Using Teln

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber Counts - daily report

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:11:33PM -0500, Drew Tenenholz wrote: > In our majordomo (yikes!) system, someone created some PERL and a *cough* http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#What%27s-the-difference-between-%22perl%22-and-%22Perl%22%3f > cron to send a daily message to the list admins (

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search tool for Mailman Archives

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:49:47AM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > I looked at a few archive searchers, but it appears they all > either make the list archives public, or you can do a htaccess thing > which will require you to change the password every time somebody > leaves the list and tell all the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying again from the start -- Re: Help inunderstandingMailmansetup

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:31:27PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > [Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] IOError: [Errno 13] > Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error' Is probably what I'd fix first, from that Trackback. -- "a moat is an effective barrier, especially if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying again from the start -- Re: Help in understandingMailmansetup

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:21:53PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 12/06/2010 02:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> What exact Mailman related directives do you have in this VirtualHost >> block? > >ServerName mailman change that to a FQDN (mailman.example.org). > ScriptAlias mailman.htt-con

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin help

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:30:56AM -0500, Gary Mort wrote: > I'd say it should also be fairly important to him as well considering > current spam legislation and the penalties associated with not providing an > opt out mechanism. Your Jurisdiction May Vary. (YJMV) -- "In this world there are on

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin help

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 11:15:04PM -0500, Christian Lefler wrote: > I just started a new mailing list and its great. I would like to know how > to keep subscribers from getting to any screen by "screen" I'm assuming that you mean "web page". > where they can manage their settings or post to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phrase count

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 04:02:51PM +, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > I don't believe you should be able to directly download the mbox files like > that. Why ever not? What's so different about grabbing one mbox at once, rather than however many iterations/scraping? -- "They accused us of suppress

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phrase count

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:43:37AM -0500, David Doria wrote: > Is it possible to download the entire archive as one file? > I see that they are broken down into months: > http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/ http://lists.example.org/mailman/private/example-list.mbox/example-list.mbox, perhaps?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved message is discarded

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:12:18PM +0100, Andre van Kan wrote: > - cluster 1: runs the MTA (Postfix) and MM > - cluster 2: runs Horde and the MM-webinterface > - cluster 3: runs Cyrus-imapd > > Cluster 1 and 2 share - via NFS - the MM-lists etc. I found out however > that data/heldms* was only

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving / upgrading Mailman from Solaris to Linux

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:23:17PM -0700, Ivan Fetch wrote: > At this point, even though I prefer to use packages when possible, I am > leaning toward compiling Mailman from source because of: > 1. Red Hat packages are typically more ancient > 2. Ubuntu packages seem to include non-standard patche

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frequent use of clone_member

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:31:26PM -0600, Ivan Fetch wrote: > Ivan Fetch writes: > > > One possibility we're exploring, is to change a student's mailing > > list subscriptions, when they change their forwarding address. We > > would iterate through these address changes and run clone_member, >

Re: [Mailman-Users] API version 1012-module hangul 1011 runtime error

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:46:15AM -0400, Williams, Theona wrote: > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/u004/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck > > How do I go about resolving this problem? The clue might be in there ("IOError..."). What are the permissions on that file/directory. Maybe look

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Alessandro Bruchi wrote: > Do you know when mailman 2.1.14 will be included as package in some debian > distribution? The XSS patch, per 2010-September's announcement, seems to now be in Debian's repositories: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai

Re: [Mailman-Users] one line command to change generic_nonmember_action

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Steff Watkins wrote: > bin/config_list -o /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt SomeList > Which dumps the config into a file /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt > > Then save the text file and read the configuration BACK to the list: > bin/config_list -i /usr/tmp

Re: [Mailman-Users] number of subscribers

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:35:42PM -0700, Con Wieland wrote: > Does anybody already have a script to get the total number of > subscribers across all the lists on a system? something like: list_lists -b | while read L; do echo "List is ${L}"; list_members ${L} | wc -l ; done perhaps? If you'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting mailman to "archive browse mode" only

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 06:18:52PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Steven Jones wrote: > > > >My management want to move our listing function to Exchange 2k10however > >we have a need to maintain the archives on the existing mailman server so > >ppl can search them. > > > >Is it possible to disab

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple mailing list admin with a single login

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:50:35PM +0100, Steff Watkins wrote: > is there a way to setup a user login so that once they've logged in > they'd automatically have admin/moderator rights over certain selected > lists without having to log in to each list individually? Not currently, to my knowledge.

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