[Mailman-Users] post confirmations

possible to generate some sort of "your message has been posted" confirmation reply? /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list

[Mailman-Users] mini-bug : actually unsubscribing doesn't clear the moderator request

I realize that the General option says quite clearly "discard held messages..." but I'd prefer that that limit also applied to other "moderator requests" /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.co

[Mailman-Users] Comcast problems

ights before I hit customer support would be appreciated.. thanks /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe se

[Mailman-Users] Setting a moderator password

to do? Do moderators log in on a different login screen than the normal one or something? Note that I don't need a "moderator" email address [we're preparing for moderators in emergency moderation] but I added one anyway and it didn't help /Bernie\ Bernie

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

On 12 Jun 2020 at 12:40, Bernie Cosell wrote: > On 12 Jun 2020 at 9:28, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > > > On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of > > removing the alias > > > that points to

[Mailman-Users] Re: blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

On 12 Jun 2020 at 9:28, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > On 6/12/2020 8:59 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > 1) is there a way to temporarily disable a mailing list short of > removing the alias > > that points to it? I was thinking that perhaps I could've put in a > "sender fil

[Mailman-Users] blocking a hot/inappropriate topic

for while while the rest of the list can go on. Thanks! /bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send

[Mailman-Users] multiple explicit reply addresses?

I don't want to break my lists, so I'll ask first..:o)Does mailman do the right thing if I want explicit replies to go to two addresses? It seems very explicit that the explicit reply address is singular.. would making it e...@x.com, e...@y.com work? /Bernie\

Re: [Mailman-Users] user unsubscribe

rsion of mailman is, prolly not very expert in the python/logs stuff... we'll see... Thanks! /bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] user unsubscribe

On 2 Nov 2019 at 21:23, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 11/2/19 5:03 PM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > ... Here's the > > message i got.. no reason why: > > > > Subject: NPL-Folk unsubscribe notification > > From: mailman-boun...@lists.puzzlers.org > > To: npl

[Mailman-Users] user unsubscribe

i received a notification that one of the users on my list was unsubscribed. I'm surprise because the configuration for the list specified that unsubscribes have to be approved, and this wasn't. How could that happen? /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.

[Mailman-Users] authorizing posts to a moderated list

st member list. as it is, as i authorize and deauthorize people i have to mess with both and that feels like unnecessary work. /b\ Bernie Cosell bernie@fantasyfarm. com — Too many people, too few sheep — -- M

[Mailman-Users] Changing non-member message

nt email address]. What I've done [by hand] is send a reject that says This is a closed list and posts from unsubscribed email addresses are not allowed. It'd be nice if I could configure that in, in place of the 'non member' default reject message. /Bernie\

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce processing

iosyncrasies of their ISP and by staying with them accept their foibles. ... BUT.. if the bounce is because your host has been blacklisted or is otherwise banned, you need to contact your isp pronto and get them started on getting themselves re-approved. /Bernie\ Bernie

[Mailman-Users] authorized to a moderated list

the 'authorized' addresses because they're in one place [on the general tab]. Much easier than finding all of the non-MOD entries on the list and then adding to it the unsubscribed-but -authorized addresses from the general tab. Is there a way to do that? /Bernie\

[Mailman-Users] DKIM

t shaky [to say the least..:o)] about how the DKIM stuff all works. I do have access to Unix shell account, so I can do dig and host and such. If a listmember asks me if "@randomserver.com" is OK to not-get-munged when it posts to the list, what would I do?Thanks /Bernie\

[Mailman-Users] mailman generated email

ted by mailman -- he just mentioned that each of the two pending requests was a real user-sent message [of course true] but doesn't see the forest [that that was mailman notification] for the trees [the two message currently pending]. ugh /bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...

[Mailman-Users] duplicate mod request waiting emails

) waiting From: npl-folk-boun...@lists.puzzlers.org To: npl-folk-ow...@lists.puzzlers.org Message-ID: Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:23:14 -0700 Completely separate, duplicate "waiting" emails! /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too

[Mailman-Users] duplicate pending requests

e's no moderator and only the owner and still I get two copies. Did I misconfigure something? /b\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] gmail

On 13 Sep 2018 at 10:35, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Bernie Cosell writes: > > > I've gotten buried by 80 bounce messages, thanks to gmail's new > > policy [that was, apparently, put into effect yesterday]. The > > bounces say: > > Can you provide

[Mailman-Users] gmail

e access to the server, which I don't]. Is there something I can do [just as a list owner] to deal with this mess? /Bernie\_ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mail

[Mailman-Users] blocking bad digest replies

ct line of "Re; " and one that contains the 'footer' at the end of the post [both indicative of a sorta clueless poster who didn't do anything to trim down the digest]. I think/hope the content filtering can do something like that. Yes?? /B\ Bernie Cosel

[Mailman-Users] @signs in FORMs

n't get it to work either way but I'd like to know which is correct]. Thanks!! /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pyt

[Mailman-Users] Submitting the members page

jim j...@hisdomain.com and in one stroke "jim" is "subscribed" [-u unsubscribes, etc] [not to mention how much I've learned about the wonders of the web developer addin for Firefox...:o)] /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell b

Re: [Mailman-Users] POST problem fixed!

;re going to have a *lot* of POST parameters! Every person subscribed to the list that's listed on that page will generate something like 10 form variables. That's going to be a *big* POST! Just to flip one bit..:o) /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fant

[Mailman-Users] POST problem fixed!

t; "Submit Your Changes", Content => { unsubscribers_upload => "" }, ) ; YAY! /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mod_Security

ailman installation -- all I can do is try to use it /b\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/li

[Mailman-Users] Mod_Security

host and wireshark it to see what is strange versus what my program is doing... and mailman's forms seemed so simple...:o) /b\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- --

Re: [Mailman-Users] What does mailman do with a POST?

On 31 Jul 2018 at 21:25, Richard Damon wrote: > On 7/31/18 9:15 PM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > Here's the request I just sent: > > > > 'setmemberopts-btn' => 'Submit Your Changes', > > 'cookie' => > > 'unsubs

Re: [Mailman-Users] What does mailman do with a POST?

On 31 Jul 2018 at 15:53, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 07/30/2018 05:08 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > I'm trying to submit a form or two from a program and I can't quite > > understand Mailman's form handling, this with Mailman 2.1.23. > > What does Mailman do t

[Mailman-Users] What does mailman do with a POST?

k at the code, but I'm a perl guy -- never messed with python. What does Mailman do to when receiving a POST to decide if there's something to do or not? THANKS! /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell ber...@fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep -- -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't "close" a list

onsiders > it a member post. Ah, that solves the problem. I don't think that was made clear. So it probably was working, but I couldn't test it because although I was using other identities, the envelope still said it was from me. thanks! /b\ -- Bernie Cosell

[Mailman-Users] Can't "close" a list

dress and I was very surprised that it just went through. So I tried a more brute-force thing for my test: I changed List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically rejected. to "^.*" And it came right through: From: "Bernie Cosell" Organization: Fantasy

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filter not working

7;bounce' it to the mailman list. Dunno if I can pull that off and it might be more trouble than it saves... Thanks for the help, though. /b\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber..

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filter not working

On 4 Jul 2015 at 8:22, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 07/03/2015 09:03 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > I have a spam filter set to 'hold': > > > > X-Spam-Level:\s*\*\*\* > I would use > > ^X-Spam-Level:\s*\*\*\* > > but yours should match any with

[Mailman-Users] spam filter not working

RE wrong somehow? THANKS! /b\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing parameters for one [or many] users from the command line

On 21 May 2014 at 20:03, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/21/2014 06:11 PM, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > I'd like to change several of the parameters [digest, nomail, etc] for > a > > bunch of users on one of my lists. I've looked through the list of > > commands in /b

[Mailman-Users] Changing parameters for one [or many] users from the command line

at a time from the admin interface]. Is there a way to do it? Thanks! /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- --

[Mailman-Users] Saving list subscribers from a backup

tests/ so no "lists" diretory at all. Obviously that's for a very old version of mailman We have: Using Mailman version: 2.1.9 Thanks /b\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA

[Mailman-Users] Rear interior lights not working

the dealer? Thanks! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mai

[Mailman-Users] Oddity with list_members

ving mailings or not]. Is this kind of thing indicative of something wrong in one of mailman's DBs or something like that? Should I be taking some kind of repair/fix steps? Thanks... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfa

[Mailman-Users] Changing the host mailman is running on

den. the mm_cfg.ph just does 'fdqn' for the URL_HOST, but that seems OK [I think] -- the *admin* [rather than list-specific] links seems to correctly poitn to the NEWSERVER. I don't know where to look next... Tnx!! /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell

[Mailman-Users] Getting info about bounces

, of course, didn't bounce..:o)] So the question arises: why did mailman think there were excessive bounces? Is there some log or something that would include the 'reason' info that the SMTP server sent back so I and the user [and their ISP] can try to figure out what the problem

[Mailman-Users] Resetting users to 'mail' [from nomail]

rface, but i was wondering if there was some command-line way to do it. Thanks!! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

[Mailman-Users] Getting a reason in a reject

x27;t it give as the reason the reason that was *there* (in this case, non-member submission to a restricted list), and 2) if it doesn't do that automatically, where can I put in a reason -- I don't see a spot in the web form for putting *in* a reason. Thanks! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell

Re: [Mailman-Users] Discarding defers from the command line

On 12 May 2009 at 17:58, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:27:45AM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote: > >> Is there a command-line way to "discard all messags marked defer"? > > Actually a FAQ more specific to this question is > <http://wiki.list.or

[Mailman-Users] Discarding defers from the command line

Is there a command-line way to "discard all messags marked defer"? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tracing a disappearing 'post'

On 9 Feb 2009 at 19:32, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Bernie Cosell wrote: > > >A user on one of the lists here complained that her posts weren't getting > >through. I looked at the sendmail log and I see her post making it to > >the "| ...mailman post LIST",

[Mailman-Users] Tracing a disappearing 'post'

lter set to 'hold', and I *have* gotten submissions that got caught by that filter, so I know it is working. What places am I missing that could get a message just to vanish? [and how can I try to make that not happen, or at least log what's happening or email me or something]? Thanks!

[Mailman-Users] Subscription requests with no -subscribe alias

request approval: ... How does that happen? Is there some way to make a subscription request happen that doesn't involve using a -subscribe alias? [obviously yes, but I don't know what it is..:o)] /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejecting on size before content-filters

t, but feels wrong -- is there a way to make this processing- order change *ONLY* apply to the one list at hand? Thanks!! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejecting on size before content-filters

On 4 Jan 2009 at 8:18, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Bernie Cosell wrote: > > >Is it possible to change the testing-order so that the list size limit is > >tested [and generates an appropriate reject] *before* the content filters > >are processed? > > > This is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejecting on size before content-filters

On 4 Jan 2009 at 8:18, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Bernie Cosell wrote: > > >Is it possible to change the testing-order so that the list size limit is > >tested [and generates an appropriate reject] *before* the content filters > >are processed? > > > This is the

[Mailman-Users] Rejecting on size before content-filters

filters, and so what I ended up doing was ignoring the content filter and putting in "message too long...etc" into the 'Reason' on my bounce screen]. tnx! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA

[Mailman-Users] Finding nomail subscribers

I don't see an easy way to find the two bouncees other than shuffle through the [fairly large] list, 18-members-at-a-time looking for the two 'nomail/bounce's. Is there an easier way? [command line is fine: I do have shell access to the mailman server] Thanks!

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

costs. I don't see why email should be free [and indeed, our experience with spammers would seem to indicate that email-all-you-want-for-free is an idea that probably should have died when NSF opened the net to outsiders] /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fa

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

On 25 Dec 2008 at 10:29, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Bernie Cosell writes: > > [same as with the USPS > > Aye, there's the rub. The USPS is, even today, a state(-protected) > monopoly. Email is not, and cannot be, unless you make the whole > Internet a state monopo

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

of email address] and has, IMO, evolved off into needing to be *more*like* Christmas cards. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- --

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

l harm to a third party: should the owners of the infected machines bear any responsibility for the damage that's caused? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

rs. If a particular server refused to pay their bill, you'd just refuse to accept any more email from them until they paid up. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com P

[Mailman-Users] Only mailto, not http, list-* headers

. thanks!! /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:ber...@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users