Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a Command to extract the lists owners?

2011-07-11 Thread Barry Finkel
eep the membership current. mailman# cat sync_owners.exec #!/bin/csh # shell script to synchronize the mailman-list-owners subscribers # When (how often) do we run this script? # 11May09 0248PM Barry Finkel # Synchronize silently: # file is stdin (-f -) # no Welcome message (-w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange E-mail Message About List Description

2011-05-09 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote last Friday: I created a new list today at 13:42 (Mailman 2.1.14), and the "Description" field contained a "+" character, per the customer's request. At 14:00 I received an e-mail from From: r...@lists.anl.gov Subject: + in description for LISTNAME I cannot find anywhere in

[Mailman-Users] Strange E-mail Message About List Description

2011-05-06 Thread Barry Finkel
I created a new list today at 13:42 (Mailman 2.1.14), and the "Description" field contained a "+" character, per the customer's request. At 14:00 I received an e-mail from From: r...@lists.anl.gov Subject: + in description for LISTNAME I cannot find anywhere in the source where this mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attempting to update Mailman, but qfiles/* has files

2011-04-29 Thread Barry Finkel
On 04/28/11 19:04, Dennis Carr wrote: Note, running Debian Stable on the server. I'm attempting to update Mailman through aptitude, but it warns me that all files in the qfiles tree will be wiped out. This includes files that have been bouncing back and forth between qfiles/out and qfiles/retry.

[Mailman-Users] Problem with bounce_matching_headers

2011-04-14 Thread Barry Finkel
I am running 2.1.14, and we had a problem where a list owner subscribed a number of persons to a list, and many of these persons want to be unsubscribed. To catch mail directed toward the list: Subject: Please remove me from your list I added a line to bounce_matching_headers Subject

[Mailman-Users] Unmodetate A Subscriber via Command Line?

2011-04-11 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a list where I build the list from an external file via cron. I need to un-moderate those who are allowed to post. Obviously, I cannot use the web interface in the cron job to do the un-moderation. Is there a CLI tool? Thanks. -- --

[Mailman-Users] Mailman FAQ URL

2011-04-11 Thread Barry Finkel
What happened to the Mailman FAQ? When I go to the URL http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 I get some login screen from Atlassian Confluence. That page is wider thanmy Firefox window, and there are no scroll bars. -- -- Barry S. F

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce Question

2011-03-15 Thread Barry Finkel
On 03/15/11 09:57, Dennis Putnam wrote: Due to some long time configuration issues, which have now been resolved, I think was missing some list events. Now I have to play catchup. I am not sure how bounce processing works. Lets assume that a list member's email address goes bad. Exactly what happ

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ 4.70 - Renaming a List

2011-03-04 Thread Barry Finkel
On 03/04/11 12:12, Mark Sapiro wrote: Barry Finkel wrote: The FAQ page 4.70. How do I change the name of (rename) a list? is missing one command at the end: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases Just below the bin/arch --wipe newlist command, it says Finally, if your MTA uses

[Mailman-Users] FAQ 4.70 - Renaming a List

2011-03-04 Thread Barry Finkel
The FAQ page 4.70. How do I change the name of (rename) a list? is missing one command at the end: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases -- -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Lab

[Mailman-Users] Question About last_mailman_version During Migratrion

2011-02-23 Thread Barry Finkel
I am testing migrating Mailman from an Ubuntu Dapper system with my own Mailman 2.1.14 package built from the SourceForge source to an Ubuntu Lucid system with the Debian Lucid Mailman 2.1.13 package. I tested the Lucid system, and then I copied /var/lib/mailman/archives /var/lib/mailm

[Mailman-Users] Permissions on Mailman Archive Directory

2011-02-17 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about permissions for the archive directory. I am migrating my Mailman server from an Ubuntu Dapper server on which I installed my own package, built from the SourceForge source, to an Ubuntu Lucid server, where I am installing the Ubuntu/Debian package. The directory in questio

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need Script to Apend to acceptable_aliases

2011-01-13 Thread Barry Finkel
On 01/12/11 19:08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Barry Finkel wrote: I have not looked at the Mailman source, so I am not sure what is failing. Is it the case that the accept_these_nonmembers is stored in a different internal format than acceptable_aliases is? This is a 2.1.14 package

[Mailman-Users] Need Script to Apend to acceptable_aliases

2011-01-12 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a script that adds an e-mail address to accept_these_nonmembers for a number of lists. # From a Mailman-Users reply August 19, 2007 to my posting: # Mark Sapiro replied: # Not directly, but in a shell script you could prepare a file that # looks like # # mlist.accept_these_nonmember

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I display/print a full list of list entrants..?

2010-12-21 Thread Barry Finkel
>morning gurus, > >As title asks, how, via the GUI, do I see all the people contained in a >particular list? Its got to be done. Surely. Cut'n'Pasting from each page 26 >times (A-Z) ain't no fun.. >thanks for looking.. > >Jess General Options - admin_member_chunksize (if you are running a recent M

[Mailman-Users] Setting an Address Enclosed in Apostrophes

2010-12-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a script that I use to add an address to accept_these_nonmembers It uses "mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('$1')" Is there a way I can invoke this C-shell script so that the address is surrounded by apostrophes? I want the resulting address to be 'u...@example.com'

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

2010-11-11 Thread Barry Finkel
Ivan Fetch wrote: >Hello, > >We are planning to move our Mailman installation from Solaris to Linux, >and upgrade in the process. I'd love to hear from anyone who has run >production Mailman on Linux. > >What experiences have list members had with RedHat vs. Ubuntu Mailman >packages, vs. compilin

Re: [Mailman-Users] An Anonymous, No-reply List

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: >>I have a customer who wants a announce-only list. She does not want >>any replies to the list or to the poster. >> >>In production we are running 2.1.13, and I have 2.1.14 on my test >>machine. We made the list anonymous >> >>

[Mailman-Users] An Anonymous, No-reply List

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a customer who wants a announce-only list. She does not want any replies to the list or to the poster. In production we are running 2.1.13, and I have 2.1.14 on my test machine. We made the list anonymous anonymous_list = yes and the resulting mail from the list has a header line:

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Finkel
On Oct 20, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote: >>It appears that 'official' Mailman packages for lenny are a wee bit >>behind upstream. >> >>I believe others on this list use the Umbungo packages on lenny >>(Debian 5), without too many difficulties. YMMV. >> >>(I don't really have the time to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.14 Multiple Owner(s) Patch - Problem

2010-10-04 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote last week about a problem I was having with Mailman 2.1.14 and Mark Sapiro's multi-owner patch. I am not going to include my mail and Mark's response here; I will summarize. I created some test lists, and each had only one owner. Mark could not reproduce the error. I ran some more test

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.14 Multiple Owner(s) Patch - Problem

2010-09-28 Thread Barry Finkel
I am testing Mailman 2.1.14 via a Debian/Ubuntu package I built from the SourceForge source. I included the "multiple list owner" patch from Mark Sapiro (Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:11:06 -0700). I created a new list, and I specified two addresses in response to the Enter the email(s) of the person

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe in Footer - was: How delete attechment file ATT00xxx.txt ?

2010-06-14 Thread Barry Finkel
westernz wrote: >Is that possible to make a copy of a list ? >That long to check all config each new list. >Maybe from the serveur (unix) in the Mailman directory, maybe there are a >file for each list, maybe i can copy one ? See man config_list . The command config_list -o filename LISTNA

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply address

2010-06-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Richard Smits wrote: >Hello, > >We have a strange problem with our mailman server and some mailclients. >I will explain. Sometimes when a member sends email to a list, and >someone replies to that mail, the reply goes to the list. > >And sometimes the To : adres is listname-boun...@listserver.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] script to remove users

2010-05-06 Thread Barry Finkel
>Excellent! Now if I could figure out how to wildcard that address. >There are 2 email address formats that could be used here, and I want to >make sure to get them both... > > >use...@physics.tamu.edu >use...@tamu.edu Take the file that contains the userids, and edit it. Make two pieces. Appe

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounces

2010-05-05 Thread Barry Finkel
>In SMTP 4.y.z DSNs are "temporary" errors. They could be caused by a >spam filter over loaded, or the system shutting down, or... > >> i'm assuming it's retried by the mta. the settings in mailman clearly >> state that it should be discarded right away... > >The 4.y.z should be seen as an invit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block reply to all

2010-04-30 Thread Barry Finkel
>You can do this under Privacy Options -> Recipient Filters >Set "Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting." to 1 > >Then anyone hitting reply-to-all will get a message saying that their >message is held because there are too many recipients, since any >reply-to-all will include b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with inappropriate breaks in messages

2010-04-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Sapiro wrote: >That said, I suspect the underlying OS here is Debian/Ubuntu and >Mailman is the Debian/Ubuntu package which has patches in this area >which are causing this. As I have written on this forum before, the Debian/Ubuntu package for Mailman has a large number of patches. One I k

[Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmbers Regular Expression

2010-04-09 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about regular expressions and accept_these_nonmembers. If I want any address in anl.gov or example.com to be able to post, is this correct for the accept_these_nonmembers box? ^.*anl\.gov ^.*example\.com Do I need a "$" at the end of each regular expressio

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages not departing

2010-03-12 Thread Barry Finkel
>OK, here's what I found: > >Mar 12 10:08:11 2010 (31200) delivery to xell...@slayers.org failed >with code 45 0: 4.1.2 : Recipient address >rejected: Domain not found > >I've found similar messages with x...@fanfic.net at the end. Certainly >mailman should be running these as bounces? Note that

Re: [Mailman-Users] fixing shunted messages

2010-03-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Patrick Okui wrote: > >On 7 Mar, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Patrick Okui wrote: > >> AttributeError: Message instance has no attribute 'get_type' > >hmm.. /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib is empty -- that could do it no? > >pop:/usr/lib/mailman # rpm -ql mailman | grep pythonlib >/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib >pop:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Possible Bug in 2.1.13 sync_members

2010-02-04 Thread Barry Finkel
>Barry Finkel wrote: >> >>I ran a test with a test list on my test virtual machine, and this is >>what is happening. The line in the "-f" file for sync_members >> >> bsf-cr...@example.com (New 1 (zzz)) >> >>is causing all of th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Possible Bug in 2.1.13 sync_members

2010-02-03 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote: >>I think I may have uncovered a bug in Mailman 2.1.13. I have not >>completed my research. I have a script that refreshes the subscriber >>list via: >> >>/usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no \ >> -f /e tc/mailman/generated_lists/LISTNAME LISTNAME >> >>where >>

[Mailman-Users] Possible Bug in 2.1.13 sync_members

2010-02-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I think I may have uncovered a bug in Mailman 2.1.13. I have not completed my research. I have a script that refreshes the subscriber list via: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no \ -f /etc/mailman/generated_lists/LISTNAME LISTNAME where /etc/mailman/generated_l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding "subscribed" address in Welcome message ?

2010-01-14 Thread Barry Finkel
>Hi, > >Some people with multiple email address' get confused as to which >one they used to subscribe. Is it possible to put that info in the >body of the "Welcome to this list" email ? > >What would be the "code" I need for this please ? Using CPanel >version 2.1.11.cp3 > > >Regards, John. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejected message Archive

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Finkel
>Hello, > >I'm learning how to use mailman mailing list. Still now, everything goes >right. When a moderator refuses that a message can not be delivered, is >there a way to find it in archive? > >I only find in archive the messages approved > >Thank you and best regards, > >Mary The list archives

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Wayne Cook wrote: >Here's my first post to this list :) > >I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator >to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind >of default setting? > >Thanks >Wayne Change the list configuration so that all subscribers a

Re: [Mailman-Users] i need help for linux ubuntu

2009-11-09 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:38:43AM -, Kemp James wrote: >> if you need help deciding which flavour of Ubuntu you want then you >> would be best asking on http://ubuntuforums.org/ and Adam McGreggor replied: >I'd question Ubuntu's suitability for running as a public-facing server, >before do

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Password Completion Vulnerability

2009-11-05 Thread Barry Finkel
My Mailman 2.1.12 server was flagged with a low-risk vulnerability: 42057 Web Server Allows Password Auto-Completion and I cannot tell from the description what URLs have this vulnerability, nor do I know how to correct it. I know little about apache. One Google search at this URL htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] expost user list as csv

2009-10-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Svante Tidholm wrote: >Hi all, >I've been using a shell script to compile a list of all subscribers on >a list for our intranet at a site I'm taking care of. This is done >with the mailman-subscribers.py script and some smart commands that >parse the csv file in different ways. > >I run thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] List-creation Owner E-mail Address

2009-10-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote: > > 3) When is the list-creation e-mail sent to the one owner e-mail >address? It appears to be done in the "newlist" code, but >at that time, I have not yet run the "config_list" command >that resets the parameters. When I ran my test, was I lucky >th

[Mailman-Users] Rebuilding the Archive mbox File

2009-10-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I am running Mailman 2.1.11 from an Ubuntu/Debian package I created from the SourceForge source. I have a question about list archives. I have a list that I converted from Majordomo to Mailman in July, 2007. I was helping one of the list owners in managing the list, and I went to the list archiv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disabling mailman/create Web Page

2009-09-29 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote on Sep 4: >>>Our cyber security group sent me notice of a vulnerability in >>>a Mailman web page: >>> >>> Web Application Potentially Sensitive CGI Parameter Detection >>> >>>I think it is the URL: >>> >>> mailman/create and Mark Sapiro replied: >>If there really is a Mailman se

Re: [Mailman-Users] List-creation Owner E-mail Address

2009-09-21 Thread Barry Finkel
At 12:23 PM 9/21/2009, Barry Finkel wrote: >>The config_list code allows me to specify ONLY ONE e-mail address for >>the list owner, when I may have specified multiple owners in the >>newlist.config file. > >> I would like to be able to specify multiple e-mail >&

[Mailman-Users] List-creation Owner E-mail Address

2009-09-21 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a suggestion. I do not know how others create new Mailman lists, but I have around 20 template files. If I want to make a list named NEWLIST, then I copy the appropriate configuration file into newlist.config I then edit this file to change any parameters that need changing: r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-11 Thread Barry Finkel
On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> Sure. But why bother? > >Well, you already get 90% of that for free in MM3 already, except it's >only exposed in the test suite. Launchpad has similar functionality >and for developers, it's very useful. It's probably not useful t

[Mailman-Users] Disabling mailman/create Web Page

2009-09-04 Thread Barry Finkel
Our cyber security group sent me notice of a vulnerability in a Mailman web page: Web Application Potentially Sensitive CGI Parameter Detection I think it is the URL: mailman/create As I do not use that web page to create a new Mailman list, I want to disable that page. Is there an e

[Mailman-Users] Question About Gzip'd Archives

2009-09-03 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about zipped list archives; the question arose from a subscriber to one of our lists. I am running Mailman 2.1.11 on Ubuntu from a package I built from the SourceForge source. mailman# pwd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME mailman# ls -ald 2009-August* drwxrwsr-x 2 list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

2009-08-18 Thread Barry Finkel
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] 32 vs 64bit

2009-08-18 Thread Barry Finkel
"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] Approved: password header!

2009-08-07 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Warsaw wrote: >As a comparison, Launchpad's code review process allows for commands >in the body of the message. It looks for specific commands prepended >by a space. I don't particularly like that approach though because >the space can be hard to see. Would it find a command that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Messages

2009-08-04 Thread Barry Finkel
David Andrews wrote: >I have a problem, and don't know if there is an easy or viable >solution. I run a bunch of lists for an organization, over 150 >lists, about 80 percent public and 20 percent private. Periodically >there are messages that need to go to everyone, or almost >everyone. Ho

Re: [Mailman-Users] set up mailman, but no email notification

2009-08-03 Thread Barry Finkel
Scott Jones wrote: >I finally got mailman working to the point I created 'mailman' list >successfully. Everything has worked correctly, but despite it showing >that mailman has sent a notice to the administrator email account, >that email has never made it into my email inbox. > >What would cause

Re: [Mailman-Users] The email command interface is not working

2009-07-30 Thread Barry Finkel
Jibin wrote: >Hi, > >Please tell me wat is the default or expected action when we send a mail to >'listname-ow...@domain.com'. Will it send to a mail to all the list owners? > >What is the difference between a lisy owner and a list admin. > >Please guide me in this.. > >Sorry to bother you a lot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outlook Indenting messages

2009-07-28 Thread Barry Finkel
>"Gerrat Rickert" wrote: > >The twisted python mailing list is running on: >"unmodified mailman 1:2.1.9-9ubuntu1 install", and the >Tahoe list is using: "2.1.9-4ubuntu1" > >Could this be an ubuntu-specific issue? I have not included the initial part of this thread, as my reply is "generic". I h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outlook Indenting messages

2009-07-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Sapiro wrote: >Ubuntu is based on Debian. > >I have just confirmed by testing that this problem is caused by the >Debian Mailman patch "30_pipermail_threads.patch". > >This patch can be found by following the links from > (I don't want to >giv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password reminder on private archive login page

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark wrote: > See > When I go to that URL I get a message: Internal Server Error -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Divis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.9 incorrectly holding messages for "Reason: Message has implicit destination"

2009-06-18 Thread Barry Finkel
"Schmitt, Gordon A." wrote: >We had been using mailman 2.1.5 installed on Redhat Enterprise v3.n for >several years . A few months ago, we installed a new Redhat system for >our mailing list server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 >(Tikanga) which has Mailman 2.1.9 installed. I follow

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list + message filter problem

2009-05-12 Thread Barry Finkel
Filipe Daros wrote: >Does anyone know how to set up a Mailing list and make it accept >e-mails from anyone and also accept email from a forwarding rule within >the same domain? For example: My main e-mail address is t...@test.com >and I created a list: l...@test.com. I also created a message fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.12 - Python 2.4.[456]incompatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote, in part: >>Or do I have to specify something to get the Mailman-supplied >>e-mail package untarred? Thanks. and Mark Sapiro replied: >That would be another approach. After running ./configure and before >running any make commands, you could edit misc/Makefile to replace the >line > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.12 - Python 2.4.[456] incompatibility

2009-04-22 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:52:05 Mark Sapiro wrote: >There is an internal inconsistency in the 3.0.2 email package that >shipped with Python 2.4.4 through 2.4.6. This has to do with the >Charset.Charset() constructor setting input_charset to a unicode which >then causes TypeError: decoding Unicode is

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set default list settings

2009-04-01 Thread Barry Finkel
Salvatore D'Agostino wrote: >Does anyone know where I can set the default settings for all newly >created lists so that I won't have to always log in to the website each >time and set them individually? > >Thanks in advance =) I have 25 list template files that I use when I create a list via t

Re: [Mailman-Users] uncaught bounce notification

2009-03-13 Thread Barry Finkel
Ted Frohling wrote: >I'm getting an uncaught bounce notification from a particular user on >one of my mailing lists. In a message in the archives, one respondent >said they could look at the message, but would need the original >email. I'm using mailman 2.1.9 and postfix as the mta. I can't fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-02-06 Thread Barry Finkel
On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: >> On another site I help administer, FreeBSD works just fine. But >> again, I run the version from our source and not the "ports" version. Jeffrey Goldberg replied: >I have found that using the FreeBSD ports system installation of >Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: >> >> on 1/27/09 9:07 AM, Tim Ferguson said: >> >> > Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and >> > install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is >> > getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:51:48PM -0600, Barry Finkel wrote: >> I was surprised to learn last week that RFC 2822 has been made >> obsolete by RFC 5322, and 2821 by 5321. I think that the major >> changes wre to clear up sections where there were differences of >> i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional scripts and web forms

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
David Lubkin wrote: >Are there Internet repositories of Mailman scripts and customization >beyond what comes with the distribution? > >I keep having ideas for obvious capabilities that are missing, e.g., > >- an inverse of add_members (instead of an input file of users >to add to a single list, h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
"Tim Ferguson" wrote: >Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and >install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is >getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until >I get that fixed I just thought I'd ask. > >Thanks for any id

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
>Please see Sec. 3.6 of RFC 2822 for a full discussion of various e-mail >header fields and their proper uses and meanings, and RFC 2821 for a >discussion of the trace fields, such as Return-Path. It is not a >misconfiguration of a MTA for for the envelope sender to be of the form >"@.." as long a

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced addresses stays there

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Kirke Johnson wrote: >I have been attempting to test out the bounce processing on a test >list and am confused by the results so far. We are running Mailman >2.1.9 on RHEL, installed with the OS. > >The test list (tsstst) has the following settings: > >bounce_score_threshold: 1.0 (originally 5.

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to asubscriber onlylist

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:03 -0600, Barry Finkel wrote: >> We had a case last week when someone sent mail with a spoofed >> >> "From: " >> >> line that contained the e-mail address of the list owner. I also wrote: >> In our case, the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber onlylist

2009-01-26 Thread Barry Finkel
Steve Lindemann wrote: >Had something strange occur early Saturday morning. A non-subscriber >managed to successfully post to two member only lists (and, of course, >it was spam). > >The bogus sender (thelevisstoreonl...@levis.rsys1.com) is not a member >of these member only lists and is not i

[Mailman-Users] Preserving S/MIME-Encoded Mail

2009-01-16 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a collegue who is experimenting with signed mail (S/MIME). He sent me a test mail and he also sent it to a test Mailman (2.1.11) list. Here is the basic MIME header structure for the mail sent directly to me: ++ MIME-Version:

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: >>I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives >>explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the >> >> /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) >> >>file to reflect the new name and

[Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Barry Finkel
I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. Should this be added to the FAQ? -

[Mailman-Users] Questions About 2.1.9 to 2.1.11 Upgrade

2008-12-19 Thread Barry Finkel
When I upgraded my test Ubuntu system from Mailman 2.1.9 to 2.1.11 I saw messages for each list: Updating mailing list: mailman Updating the held requests database. - updating old private mbox file looks like you have a really recent CVS installation... you're eit

Re: [Mailman-Users] connect to exchange server

2008-12-17 Thread Barry Finkel
Jeanne Ilchuk wrote: >Was anything ever developed to allow mailman to work with a microsoft >exchange server ? In what respect? What are you trying to accomplish? -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division A

[Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list Regular Expression

2008-11-21 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about the ban_list regex. In a reply on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:59:28 Mark Sapiro wrote > So set Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action > to Accept so anyone can post and set Privacy options...->Subscription > rules->ban_list to a regex that matches all addr

Re: [Mailman-Users] listname-bounces@

2008-11-17 Thread Barry Finkel
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in reply, in part: >Over the several years I've been acting as one of the co-owners of this >list, I don't recall getting any messages being sent by users to >mailman-users-bounces. I have some Mailman lists, and if a recipient does a "reply-all" from a Blac

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu version number

2008-10-29 Thread Barry Finkel
"Bob Lydiate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I tell what actual version of Mailman I have. I am using >mailman on an Ubuntu server and the Ubuntu version number is not in the >same general format as the mailman version numbers. Did you install the Ubuntu/Debian package? If so, then you have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Command output: local: fatal: execvp/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )

2008-10-28 Thread Barry Finkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in reply: >/etc/aliases is the location of my aliases file and that's where postfix >is pointing. I cannot change the owner to the aliases and aliases.db or >else I can't run newaliases. > >I ran ./configure --with-mail-god=nobody >and I have default_privs = nobody > >An

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bulk update of list member names?

2008-10-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Beau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >If one has an existing mailing list with just email addresses, >is there any procedure available to bulk-update the list membership >with the subscribers' names (short of unsubscribing and re-subscribing >the list members)? > >The "set" email command does not appea

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating Mailman

2008-09-23 Thread Barry Finkel
Shambhu Sharma wrote: >> >> I would like to migrate my Mailman from one server to another server >>which has already Mailman running and some lists are created. I searched >>Mailman archives but didn't find any scenario like this. Here is detail: >>I have two servers ("A" and "B") and on both

Re: [Mailman-Users] bin/upgrade has been broken since 2.1.5 (orpossibly longer)

2008-09-19 Thread Barry Finkel
Knut Auvor Grythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in part, >This week, when attempting to upgrade further to Ubuntu Hardy, with >Mailman 2.1.9, the upgrade script crashed as soon as it reached one of >these lists, without releasing the lock. The attached patch is what I >used to be able to upgrade clea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit list subscribers by domain

2008-08-29 Thread Barry Finkel
"David Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello - > >I want to deny list subscriptions to any user whose email >address does not include my domain. > >I realize that I can do that by having the list admin approve >subscription requests, but I'd prefer to automate the process. > >I would hope that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Periods in user email addresses rejected

2008-08-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: | Jay Deiman writes: | | > I just got mailman up and running with Postfix and everything has been | > working perfectly except when someone tries to subscribe to the list | > that has a period in the "user" portion of the address. For example: | > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers suddenly "disappear"

2008-08-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Max Lanfranconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mailman 2.1.11 >Python 2.4.4 >OS Solaris 2.11 > > >Hi, > >I have been able to reproduce this bug consistently by running the >replicate_bug script: > > >replicate _bug is the following: > >#!/bin/sh >/usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist1 >/usr/local/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions on Symbolic Links Files

2008-07-30 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote (>>): with Mark Sapiro's comments interspersed (>): >>I have on my Mailman 2.1.10 production system and my 2.1.11 test system >>both created from the SourceForge source and installed on Ubuntu dapper >>via packages I built: >> >>mailman% ls -al /var/lib/mailman >>total 40 >>drwxrwsr-x 10 r

[Mailman-Users] Permissions on Symbolic Links Files

2008-07-28 Thread Barry Finkel
I have on my Mailman 2.1.10 production system and my 2.1.11 test system both created from the SourceForge source and installed on Ubuntu dapper via packages I built: mailman% ls -al /var/lib/mailman total 40 drwxrwsr-x 10 root list 4096 2007-02-28 11:11 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-04-04 13

Re: [Mailman-Users] using moderation - admin not on mx

2008-07-25 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Heer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >I am running 2 mail exchangers that handle the mailman list >distribution and a third machine serves up the list administration web >gui. Trouble is that when a message is held for moderator approval, I >click on the url mailman provides or go to th

Re: [Mailman-Users] went live - big mistake - please help

2008-07-22 Thread Barry Finkel
drb wrote: >Hello Mark, >Could you please let me know how to access smtp-log? >So the mailman will bounce if it can't send email to a valid email ID? >how many attempts will it take before it quits? I saw the email in the >archives, but I cannot see who got it. Is there a feature where mailman >c

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist auto-generate password

2008-07-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Don Hone wrote: >When I add a new list via the CLI, I must enter a password and it is sent >in the email to the list admin: > > The mailing list `cgilist' has just been created for you. > The following is some basic information about your > mailing list. > > Your mailing l

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist auto-generate password

2008-07-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Don Hone wrote: >There doesn't seem to be an option to have a system generated password >when running bin/newlist from the command line. Is this correct? If so, >I would appreciate this be added as an enhancement request. > >The ability to create a list from the command line is good since it creat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.

2008-07-03 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel writes: >> I have not yet installed my 2.1.11 package on my test machine, but >> my records show that I had the identical messages when I built my >> 2.1.9 package, which I use in production. I am not an expert in the >> C language and what type conversion

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.

2008-07-01 Thread Barry Finkel
* Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am happy to announce the final release of the Mailman 2.1.11. Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: >I get lots of these: >initialization differ in signedness >src/_koco_uhc.h:2349: warning: pointer targets in initialization >differ in signedness >src

Re: [Mailman-Users] Standard Footer

2008-06-30 Thread Barry Finkel
"Webmaster PF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I must be an idiot because I just do not get it. I must be missing an >integral part because the footer is still posting as an attachment >rather than in the body of the posting. > >This is what I have in the non-digest options: > >Can subscribers choose

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce processing questions (feature, or bug?)

2008-06-20 Thread Barry Finkel
Hank van Cleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in part, >The background scenario is that I have been experiencing the "now you >see it/now you don't" big-consumer-internet mail service spam >blocking. This week it is Verizon.net. > >Basically, mail to verizon.net addresses failed and bounced for a 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Address Format

2008-06-03 Thread Barry Finkel
"Carlos Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was wondering why when something is sent to a mailman alias address >is the actual email address manipulated to show a different non >existing address. > >For example, I create a mailman group "everyone" so now people can >email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription errors

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Finkel
"Duncan Drury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have recently upgraded my Mailman installation to 2.1.10 and the >online subscription system that I set up stopped working completely >(users fill out a form, which generates an email, which subscribes them >to the list). > >This seems to be related to

Re: [Mailman-Users] why do i keep getting awaiting approval messages ?

2008-05-27 Thread Barry Finkel
"Anant Maringanti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in part: >I have looked up the archives and the FAQ but perhaps I dont even know >what I am looking for. I have recently set up a mailing list. I think >I have set up the list for not holding up any member's posting for >admin approval. But each time

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