Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Waltham
On May 8, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Chris Waltham wrote: On May 7, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Can you think of an easy way to discard all the messages in request.pck _except those_ which still have tokens remaining in pending.pck? If you're willing to accept

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Waltham
On May 7, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Can you think of an easy way to discard all the messages in request.pck _except those_ which still have tokens remaining in pending.pck? If you're willing to accept that the only messages that have unexpired tokens le

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Waltham
On May 7, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I looked at my heldmsg files (all 40,000 of them :-)) and there are a number patterns. Most heldmsg files are from a handful of lists (let's call them baseball and football). If I do a dumpdb of the hockey list's pending.pck file, this is the ou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi Mark, Just to re-visit this... On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: With the exception of 3-4 lists (out of 800+), I let the "make update" command run so I presume that actually upgraded the lists. I think I might just delete the holdmsg file

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Waltham
On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: > >> A couple of weeks ago our Mailman 2.0 server crashed (a physical >> problem, it wasn't Mailman's fault!) and we had to upgrade to 2.1 >> in a >> real hurry. As a result, I had to co

[Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Waltham
A couple of weeks ago our Mailman 2.0 server crashed (a physical problem, it wasn't Mailman's fault!) and we had to upgrade to 2.1 in a real hurry. As a result, I had to copy the entire ~mailman/data directory... which may not have been such a good idea: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/data]$ ls -al | w

[Mailman-Users] Archives for a single list mysteriously stopped

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Waltham
ould stop an archive from suddenly stopping? Bad HTML/MIME in a message? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Waltham Systems Engineer Bowdoin College Tel: (207) 798-7029 Cel: (207) 607-1939 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI listcreation?

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Waltham
On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Allen, Geoff wrote: >> Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will >> Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the >> execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are >> privilege concerns and security questions inv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI listcreation?

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Waltham
On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: > >> Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will >> Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the >> execution of the newaliases command? I understand that th

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI list creation?

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Waltham
Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are privilege concerns and security questions involved in this, but I'm curious to hear if there's a r

Re: [Mailman-Users] word "bounces" in from address

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Waltham
On Mar 18, 2008, at 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the same problem with my lists. > Until recently we ran on an old version of Mailman. > Users with Outlook saw messages coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > on behalf of > > > Now they see messages coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > be

Re: [Mailman-Users] How does one back up the email address in a list...

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Waltham
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Mark Schlaudraff wrote: > I'm sorry if this is posted some where however, I am unable to > locate it... > > How do I export or backup the email address that are in a list? There are many ways to skin this cat. How do you want to do it -- from Mailman's web GUI, or

[Mailman-Users] Manipulating membership management flags (e.g., nomail) from the command-line?

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Waltham
I administer a Mailman 2.0.12 server that runs many (>870) mailing lists, the vast majority are used internally where I work. However, we have the odd external recipient; more problematically we have a bunch of internal recipients (e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) that forward their mail to an exte

Re: [Mailman-Users] Desactivate a mailing liste

2007-10-25 Thread Chris Waltham
On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:51 AM, pierre lacoste wrote: > Hello everybody, > > How can I desactivate a mailing list? I don't want to remove but > juste desactivate temporarly. You can make the list "moderated", or you could even remove the aliases for your list. There are other ways also. Chris

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confusion between sendmail and mailman for hostnames

2007-09-19 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi Mark, On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: >> >> I have a new server called bingham.testing.bowdoin.edu, which has a >> CNAME in DNS so that newlists.bowdoin.edu points to >> bingham.testing.bowdoin.edu. Because bingham will d

[Mailman-Users] Confusion between sendmail and mailman for hostnames

2007-09-19 Thread Chris Waltham
I must confess that it has been, well, years since I've used sendmail, and I guess things have changed in the meantime. Apparently there's this new sendmail.mc file? :-) Seriously though, I'm having difficulty getting sendmail (8.13.1) and Mailman (2.1.9) to play nice under RHEL 4. I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to allow mail from domain.edu but no others?

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: >> >> I'd like to allow both list members and non-list members to be able >> to post to a mailing list I help admin. So, I want to allow >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] to post, but no other domain name

[Mailman-Users] How to allow mail from domain.edu but no others?

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Waltham
n SPARC Solaris. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Waltham Systems Engineer Bowdoin College Tel: (207) 798-7029 Cel: (207) 607-3643 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailma

[Mailman-Users] Off-list sendmail help requested

2007-09-11 Thread Chris Waltham
I'm struggling to get a working configuration between mailman 2.1.6 and sendmail 8.13. Most of my problems stem from my seeming inability to correctly configure sendmail to properly understand the virtual hosts it supposed to respond to, as well as what it is and what it's not supposed to m

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin user passwords

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 10, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: > >> On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >>> Chris Waltham wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there an easy way to change a list admin's password in 2.0.x? My >>>

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin user passwords

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: >> >> Is there an easy way to change a list admin's password in 2.0.x? My >> version (2.0.12) lacks a change-pw command. > > > I have no experience with Mailman prior to 2.1.4, but from

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin user passwords

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi Mark, On Sep 4, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Not the "only do membership management" part. > > Each list can have its own admin password and a separate moderator > password. These allow access respectively to the list's admin > interface and to the list's admindb interface. They do n

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to get

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:10 AM, BG Mahesh wrote: > We have several mailing lists running on our list server. I am > looking for a > script that will extract the number of active users in each list. > Is there > such a utility? Here is a simple bash script to accomplish it: (snip) #!/bin/bash f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Two questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Michael Anderson wrote: > 1. Is there a way to mass unsubscribe all the members of a 5k list? bin/list_members $LISTNAME > your_list_members # (this will create a file with the members' addresses) bin/remove_members $LISTNAME < your_list_members # (this will use the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to protect list archives?

2007-08-14 Thread Chris Waltham
On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > On 8/13/07, Chris Waltham wrote: > >> Is there a relatively straightforward mechanism to protecting list >> archives from prying eyes? From what I can tell, anyone that can >> guess the URL of the archives (e.g. www.fo

[Mailman-Users] How to protect list archives?

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Waltham
Is there a relatively straightforward mechanism to protecting list archives from prying eyes? From what I can tell, anyone that can guess the URL of the archives (e.g. www.foo.org/pipermail/listname) can view the archives of the list, even if they're not a subscriber to the list. Rather th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sanity-checking individual lists for health?

2007-08-02 Thread Chris Waltham
On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Chris Waltham wrote: >> >> I have been tasked with moving a Mailman 2.0.12 installation from a >> Solaris (SPARC) server to a Linux (x86) server. The Linux server will >> be receiving a copy of Mailman 2.1.9, so obvious

[Mailman-Users] Sanity-checking individual lists for health?

2007-07-24 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi folks, I have been tasked with moving a Mailman 2.0.12 installation from a Solaris (SPARC) server to a Linux (x86) server. The Linux server will be receiving a copy of Mailman 2.1.9, so obviously I am making the 2.0.x -> 2.1.x jump in there. Also, on Solaris, Mailman lives in / home/mail