Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Cleaning my mailing lists

2003-01-20 Thread Dan Wilder
ld require of all of us, had they means to do so. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cleaning my mailing lists

2003-01-20 Thread Dan Wilder
k going on with Bayesian filters. These score spam based on word frequencies. I've tried a couple, but so far found the results much inferior to those of SpamAssasssin. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filter

2003-01-16 Thread Dan Wilder
lized Systems Consultants, # publishers of Linux Journal # # You are licensed to use this software under the provisions # of the Gnu General Public License, version 2 or later. # # Suggestions and patches to: Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # Tue Oct 29 09:24:35 PST 2002 dhw ""&

Re: [Mailman-Users] virus (worm) protection?

2002-10-14 Thread Dan Wilder
ox delete the offending post, and rewrite notme-list.mbox Next, rebuild the archive for notme-list: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch notme-list and you're done. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cached Name server - How does it speed up things?

2002-10-09 Thread Dan Wilder
es. If so, you can either copy your aliases file, or change the alias_maps parameter. -- Dan Wilder -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending out email blast in HTML format

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Wilder
deas how'd I do this? Submit the email as html? -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix with Mailman

2002-09-23 Thread Dan Wilder
quit 221 Bye for "valid user@yourdomain" and "another such" substitute usernames on the local host, with an acceptable domain name. Next take a look at the logs. They should show the mail being delivered. No? Let us know what happened. --

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Postfix alias files

2002-09-23 Thread Dan Wilder
at he meant for anybody to use it who wanted to, but didn't contain a copyright notice, which I suppose means I'm infringing on his work and would compound the transgression by publishing it with any notice claiming that it is published under GPL, or whatever. -- ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-21 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:53:22PM +, Philip Reynolds wrote: > Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 79 lines of wisdom included: > > > > Do you know how easy it is to spoof email? That's the valid reason > > > > Mailman requires a password even when unsubsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-20 Thread Dan Wilder
ailback confirmation will elicit an angry response from some of them. Hoping they'll leave quietly, Joe wants to make it as easy as possible for announce list members to leave. That's a very strong and sufficient reason to offer simple single-email unsubscribe, at least as an opt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-19 Thread Dan Wilder
ailman/bin/remove_members listname [EMAIL PROTECTED] no complaints from anybody so far. We run several announce lists, and asking any more than a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is asking for irate subscribers. We don't need those! -- ---------

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-19 Thread Dan Wilder
Quoth Dan Wilder: > Do you know whether it's mailman, or your MUA that's the sticky > wicket? Oops. MTA. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-19 Thread Dan Wilder
rnet connection, which also supports telecommuters, so we've had to tune the mailserver to stop short of saturating the connection. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone:

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems sending to (my) list...

2002-03-28 Thread Dan Wilder
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:15:47AM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: > > Did you happen to think to run > > postmap /etc/aliases > > ?? > Arraugh. Er. postalias /etc/aliases Fumble mind. -- --------- Dan Wil

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems sending to (my) list...

2002-03-28 Thread Dan Wilder
or sendmail problems, I also created a ln -s > /home/mailman/mail/wrapper etc/smrsh/wrapper. What am I missing? (or is > Postfix just not compatible??) Did you happen to think to run postmap /etc/aliases ?? -- --------- Dan Wil

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2002-03-27 Thread Dan Wilder
nterest for troubleshooting purposes. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 9815

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI alternative?

2002-03-25 Thread Dan Wilder
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:31:45PM -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: > For the individual irresponsible individuals you'll need some sort Urk. For irresponsible individuals ... --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tec

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI alternative?

2002-03-25 Thread Dan Wilder
t; Thanks > > Kellan > > > > > ---------- > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce only lists

2002-03-23 Thread Dan Wilder
liases file like: # test-unsub: |/home/mailman/unsub test yourdomain.com # # Fri Jan 11 00:07:41 PST 2002 Dan Wilder -- use HERE # documents. TMP=/tmp/t$$ /bin/cat >$TMP export sp="password" # *** Put your site password here *** export addr="$(/bin/cat $TMP | /usr/bin/formail -r | /

Re: [Mailman-Users] still confused

2002-02-15 Thread Dan Wilder
python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Showing lists & admins

2002-01-27 Thread Dan Wilder
re of python. Of course, some mailman user more weighty than I know doubt knows a much simpler way. -- ----- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Once again, fame and fortune can be yours

2002-01-11 Thread Dan Wilder
about intelligible words. 16x16 pixels. We were just barely able to get an "LJ" logo on linuxjournal.com. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager

Re: [Mailman-Users] procmail recipes

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Wilder
man procmailrc As always with Unix man pages, follow the references in each page to other man pages, until you find yourself retracing the same territory. A number of websites are referenced in the man pages. -- - D

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ignoring duplicate messages?

2002-01-09 Thread Dan Wilder
--- > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sign up without password??

2002-01-08 Thread Dan Wilder
ering incorrect email addresses on web forms. Bounces consume a disproportionate amount of machine cycles on your MTA, and some will require hand resolution. Passwords or not, you'd be well-advised to preserve double opt-in. -- --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Install Question

2002-01-07 Thread Dan Wilder
/listinfo/mailman-users > You'll probably have to fill all those fields in. Try man 5 passwd man 5 group for some hints. -- ----- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature i REALLY miss in gnu/mailman

2002-01-07 Thread Dan Wilder
lists, and that's what we do now that all our lists have been moved to Mailman. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box

Re: [Mailman-Users] information needed

2002-01-07 Thread Dan Wilder
software, and no charge for the excellent support the software enjoys through this mailing list. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix refuses to relay for Mailman

2002-01-07 Thread Dan Wilder
s here still :-) > > Thanks in advance, > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed > > > ---------- > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman User

2002-01-05 Thread Dan Wilder
der is an email forward to the list's posting address. You should be able to stick the server in a broom closet and forget about it. So long as it's a broom closet with a DSL, cable modem, or for the volume you're talking, even a 56K ppp connection. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix

2001-12-29 Thread Dan Wilder
t - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
thost. Then I want to do precisely what I've done: that is, leave disable_dns_lookups = no the default? Or have I got something backward? -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mailman-Users] delte queue...

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
queue on an MTA, you aren't likely to be able to figure out how to fix it after you break it trying to delete the mail queue. So don't do it". -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Edi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists [Postfix]

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
Yes. I've got default_destination_concurrency_limit = 5 and also smtp_destination_recipient_limit = 10 in postfix/main.cf because of piss-off problems with a few recipient domains. These don't seem to affect our overall deli

Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmail>>postfix - obtw...

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
lope-from, which it again accepts, and specify envelope-to an innocent third-party victim. Who is actually me. I guess that disposes of any claim of innocence! At that point, after a short delay, Postfix lowers the boom with a 554. If I go on and say: data I get 503 Error: need RCPT comma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-17 Thread Dan Wilder
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:39:54PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:01:56 -0800 > Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With these changes in place, a K6-350 with 128M RAM delivers > > messages averaging perhaps 3K over a medium-spee

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-17 Thread Dan Wilder
and is a great help in tuning. A crude index of what's out there is mailq | grep '^[A-Z0-9]' | wc -l and variations. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pipermail/Mhonarc, archives...

2001-12-14 Thread Dan Wilder
m.py That's a FAQ itself. There was some traffic on the list a few days ago about changing the pointer on the mailman site, but apparently that hasn't happened yet. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix with mailman : can't reply mail to mailman?

2001-12-14 Thread Dan Wilder
cility, so you may have to look at /etc/syslog.conf to figure out where the logs go. Hint: on many unices, take a look at /var/log/*mail*. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Ed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix question...

2001-12-11 Thread Dan Wilder
, for example /usr/sbin/postfix reload -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix question...

2001-12-11 Thread Dan Wilder
re is the primary reason I want to > switch from sendmail to postfix. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Managing The Avalanche of Admin Messages

2001-12-06 Thread Dan Wilder
deleting all the rest before they become > admin message issues. > > Thanks > > PJC > > > > > -- > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- --

Re: [Mailman-Users] sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs

2001-11-30 Thread Dan Wilder
stly to mailman-users. The first says: > Try putting a symlink in your /etc/smrsh directory pointing to wrapper: > cd /etc/smrsh > ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper Finally, did you try man smrsh ?? -- -

Re: [Mailman-Users] install on RH7.2

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Wilder
e rest of the baggage needed to compile programs. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seatt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce Options

2001-11-29 Thread Dan Wilder
tions of the value. I guess I'm wondering if anybody recalls the intent of this code. -- - Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest format

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Wilder
something that might be useful for my site. I'd like to formally register doubt that mailman sends anything at all in "Outlook Express" formats. It just might use MIME. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Wilder
ewlist should be done last as > it sends mail to the new list admin, and if done first, the list isn't > really setup yet. > > Thanks for the help! > > > > Bill Moseley > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Wilder
an-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Associate Director > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org > > ----------

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner locks are not always removed

2001-11-20 Thread Dan Wilder
tery?) serves, that's what UUCP (do I betray my age?) did. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 S

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the email host

2001-11-19 Thread Dan Wilder
its emails is correct, but the host name for email > is incorrect. I have changed it in the mm_cfg.py file, but it still > doesn't listen. > > Any ideas? In what context to you see the unwanted hostname? -- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] sending message to list

2001-11-19 Thread Dan Wilder
fix, and the machine hardly breaks into a sweat. Load average less than 2. 150 smtp processes. Jams up the DSL line! -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 5

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stop using passwords?

2001-11-15 Thread Dan Wilder
? We have 30,000. K6-350 128M RAM, Postfix tuned for volume. Delivers about 18,000 messages/hour at load average 2, maybe 40 to 70% of processor. Doesn't swap at all. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Man

Re: [Mailman-Users] few questions

2001-10-06 Thread Dan Wilder
lk of the 20,000 member delivery within perhaps three or four hours of submittal time. The machine never really raises a sweat. It does choke up the SDSL line the mail goes out through! I'd think a 486-66 with adequate RAM would be more than enough to handle the load you mention. -- -

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing the list

2001-10-03 Thread Dan Wilder
t software should or perhaps even could touch. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating a Mailing list Server

2001-10-03 Thread Dan Wilder
Linux Users Everywhere" for possible contacts. google.com returns 1,040 hits to a search for Sarasota Florida Linux -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 20

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicates

2001-09-26 Thread Dan Wilder
. Is this really a case of mailman sending the message out repeatedly, or is somebody outside looping it back to the posting address, minus the loop prevention headers? Your MTA (postfix, sendmail, exim, mmdf, qmail, whatever) logs may help. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe box without password?

2001-09-17 Thread Dan Wilder
sts, one under mailman, one under majordomo, from the small form at the top of the right-hand column. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: A good MTA program?

2001-06-01 Thread Dan Wilder
ions, and decided to standardize on it (rather then running mixed Postfix/Exim/Sendmail) for reasons of economy. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-78

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman config

2001-05-11 Thread Dan Wilder
tives as to how that might be done. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

2001-05-11 Thread Dan Wilder
does that go? Should you be allowed to turn off the "To:" header > if you want? "Subject:"? "Date:"? Sure! Let 'em paint their own nose blue, if they want to. 'Course the MTA will add some of those back in. But that's not your concern. -- -

Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?

2001-03-26 Thread Dan Wilder
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:40:00PM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: > > There's a middle ground. > > > > For reasons of our own, we keep some of our lists open to posts > > by non-subscribers. > > > > A simp

Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?

2001-03-26 Thread Dan Wilder
lled out, but the regulars get used to that, and of course if there are one or two Weighty List Members who just can't manage that, they can be exempted in the procmail rules. -- - Dan Wilder <[

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid Headers

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Wilder
web-based UI for subscribers. Though it's easy to do simple subscribe and unsubscribe pages for any email-driven list server, such as Majordomo. -- --------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Corresponde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid Headers

2001-02-16 Thread Dan Wilder
\- > > ---------- > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Purchasing email lists

2001-01-18 Thread Dan Wilder
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 07:46:32AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interestred in purchasing some wmail lists. Is this a service you > provide? > > Brian Mobley > Yikes! I hope not! -- --------- Dan Wild

Re: [Mailman-Users] automatic unsubscription

2001-01-11 Thread Dan Wilder
and making the "from:" address be the same > >as the original sender (what is extracted here). > > That's it! Perfect! Instead of your unsub script, I'll call a Perl script > that'll extract the from address and do SMTP... Or check out "formail".