Re: [Mailman-Users] Maximum template size?

2007-06-01 Thread Carter Braxton
t;%" sign to prevent substitution? (I'm not very familiar with Python, have been a C programmer for 25 years.) Also, I was wondering, what is the reason for using the hex code "%40" instead of "@" in the URLs provided to users? -- Carter Braxton [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] What happens to expired invitations?

2007-05-30 Thread Carter Braxton
"Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, it would be easier to apologize and resend the invitations. Thanks, that has been done. Is there a way to list the current pending invitations in the database? Since to my knowledge these are the only pending items (there is no moderation),

Re: [Mailman-Users] Maximum template size?

2007-05-25 Thread Carter Braxton
"Patrick Bogen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't look like a size limitation. > Can you send your new template to the list so we can look at it? Sure thing. The following is the invite.txt file in question (edited to replace identifying names with "test"). It contains a general introduction a

[Mailman-Users] What happens to expired invitations?

2007-05-24 Thread Carter Braxton
How are expired invitations handled? Are they actually deleted from the pending database, or are they just marked as expired? If the latter is there any way to reactivate them? I stupidly managed to send out some invites that wound up with an expiration of zero days -- didn't realize that when

[Mailman-Users] Maximum template size?

2007-05-24 Thread Carter Braxton
I tried to modify the "invite.txt" template to include an FAQ with invitations that are mailed out. However, variable substitution in the template body stops working when the FAQ is included. (The invited person receives a message that includes text like "confirm %(cookie)s" instead of the confi

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure a list for invitation-onlysubscriptions?

2007-05-19 Thread Carter Braxton
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really don't need to go to all this trouble. Just set > subscribe_policy to approve or confirm and approve and manually > discard any held subscription requests. Thanks, I didn't realize that invitations would not be subject to the manual approval proc

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure a list for invitation-only subscriptions?

2007-05-17 Thread Carter Braxton
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, Mailman does not have any method (that I know of) for making > lists "by invitation only". You can require approval from the > Moderator(s) or List Owner(s), but as you observed that's not the > same thing. I think I'm getting close -- so far I've

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure a list for invitation-only subscriptions?

2007-05-17 Thread Carter Braxton
On 5/17/07, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sort of stuff should be covered in FAQ 3.11, and the related FAQ > entries -- try searching for "announce". Thank you -- I looked at those section of the FAQ and they don't seem to directly address this issue, they talk about broadcast-on

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure a list for invitation-only subscriptions?

2007-05-17 Thread Carter Braxton
On 5/17/07, Patrick Bogen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Set 'advertised' to 'No' and 'subscribe_policy' to at least 'Require > approval,' if not 'Confirm and approve.' > > Then, send invitations from Member Management > Mass Subscribe. (set > 'Subscribe these users now or invite them?' to 'invite')

[Mailman-Users] How to configure a list for invitation-only subscriptions?

2007-05-17 Thread Carter Braxton
How can I configure an existing mailing list to be invitation-only? (That is, disabling the ability for the general public to sign up via the web or email interfaces unless an invitation is received first.) I must be missing something as I'm sure this is a very common requirement, but have not s

[Mailman-Users] Possible to forward bounces from mass invitation?

2007-02-21 Thread Carter Braxton
there were a way to have them forwarded automatically.) I didn't see anything obvious in the bounce settings that would provide this functionality. -- Carter Braxton -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.o