Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:03:26AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: > >What I tried to say was, use "bin/withlist -l mylist" and call > >m.removeMember() explicitly. Then m.Save() to save the changes. Yep, that took care of it. Thanks! > And, please note that this is in the FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
de? There's got to be *some* way to do it. On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Somehow, a user has gotten himself subscribed to one of my lists with > an address of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com. How do I get rid of > this > subscription

[Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
Somehow, a user has gotten himself subscribed to one of my lists with an address of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com. How do I get rid of this subscription? The various web interface options just give an error that this address is not subscribed (even while showing it on the list of subscri

[Mailman-Users] How to create site list?

2006-08-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
I just (finally) got around to upgrading my mail server from Debian Woody to Sarge, and that brought a change of my Mailman version from something a few years old to 2.1.5-8, which refuses to start unless there's a list named "mailman". I don't get the need for it (yes, I have read the FAQs, but I

Re: [mailman-users] incorrect 'from'

2003-02-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:36:54AM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: > I installed (seemingly successfully) v2.1, and set up all aliases as > displayed at the end of the setup screen. All messages are coming from > '-bounces', not from . What did I miss? Nothing. You don't want bounces to go back to t

Re: [Mailman-Users] CVS source of mailman?

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:24:04AM -0700, LuKreme wrote: > Is there info on the www.list.org page about using CVS to update > mailman? I noticed I'm still running 2.1b3. > > I'd like to avoid downloading the source and compiling manually if > possible. Erm... You _are_ aware that cvs is a too

Re: [Mailman-Users] private archives not working on 2.0.11

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:20:46AM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > I'm running Mailman 2.0.11 on Debain stable and I can get public archives to > work, but private archives don't seem to work properly. As I reported in a post on Dec. 10, I've got the same problem. Sounds like Debian's package of 2.0.

[Mailman-Users] Moved to a new host; two minor(ish) problems

2002-12-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
The power supply on my Mailman (among other things) server died a couple weeks ago and I decided to move it to a new host, as this was not the first hardware trouble the old one had experienced. Lists appear to be working, but I have discovered two problems: 1) List admin passwords seem to have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message has implicit destination

2002-06-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 04:02:57PM +1000, Clayton Rogers wrote: > I have set up two lists. > List 1: Has three members and and anyone can send to it. > List 2: Has List 1 as a member and anyone can send to it. > > With List 2 I am receiving the error metioned in the Subject section > above. Wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] first names shown

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
t my From: could contain "Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", "Sherohman, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", or even "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " (I think - it's not normal usage, but I think I've seen it before), there are also the more esoteric possibilities

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:32:14PM +0100, robin szemeti wrote: > if you and a couple of others have this great 'problem' with headers (which > are not normally seen unless you specifically ask for 'all headers' in your > mail client anyway [1]) Depends on the MUA. The great source of annoyance

Re: [Mailman-Users] privacy options and a "personal" mailing list.

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:10:32PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: > So, I decided to set up my own mailman mailing list, forward the > messages there, subscribe myself to it, and let it digestify them for > me (hurray for mailman's mime digests!). Nice hack... Almost makes me sorry I don't do dig

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:56PM -0800, David wrote: > The debate goes on I know, but here is exactly why these excessive > headers suck. I want to set up a news list not a discussion list. The > only person who will be able to post is the list owner. I don't need > all the junk about ho

Re: [Mailman-Users] reset list admin password

2002-03-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:58:32AM +0100, Winston With wrote: > As Site administrator i wish to reset a list administrator password > How do i do that The site password can be used in place of any list (or user) password. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists hav

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Administrator

2002-03-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:14:25AM -0700, Debbie Malson wrote: > I need to change a list's administrator, at the root level of a mailman server. And >change the password. Administrator left and need to assign a new one. If you mean you need to change the site password, use `mmsitepass newpass`

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up a world-writable list.

2002-03-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > How can I set up a list where everyone can write? Admin interface, Privacy Options page. Set "Restrict posting privilege to list members?" to no. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already w

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird "@" treatment

2002-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:13:32PM -0800, Andrew Watson wrote: > I subscribe to my own list e.g. "mylist" at abc.com with the name > e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the welcome message, the subscriber page is given as > >http://www.abc.com/mailman/options/mylist/sam%40abc.com %40 = character AS

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:06:06PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: > Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /export/home2 > > Or my personal favourite > > tar cvfB - . | (cd /export/home2; tar xvBPf -) I've always stuck with cp

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:33:01AM -0600, Alex Sammons wrote: >I have a question(a Unix question), what´s the best > way to transport the files and directories of the > users located in a ufs /export/home to another called > /export/home2, i mean considering home directories, > passwords, etc

[Mailman-Users] Unhappy config.db (was Relocating Mailman 1.1 lists)

2001-07-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main > main() > File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 168, in main > For

[Mailman-Users] Relocating Mailman 1.1 lists

2001-07-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've recently had a drive go flaky on me and when the machine died, several files were corrupted. I'm now trying to bring everything back up on a new machine, copying over only what I must. This is turning out well, except that I haven't been able to get my mailing lists working. I've cpio'd ov

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reminders

2001-06-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:56:55PM +0100, kevin jacks wrote: > I wish to remind the users of my list at a set date every month, of > action that should be taken. How do I do this within Mailman. On any *nix machine of your choice (well, OK - pick one that's always on, like, say, the mailman serv

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding anonymity features?

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:41:14AM +0100, Yanuar Nugroho wrote: > The idea is basically hiding the identity of the sender so that the > communication will be based on what is being communicated and not who is > communicating in the group. This feature already exists at the list level. On the "Pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman sitepass

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:09PM +0200, Enriko Groen wrote: > $1$FI$4ajCrrR4WADe8XOcBYUp8/$ mmsitepass > $1$CU$3hwEZaPPSDJOMx8Vv7TyS0 > I entered the same password on both occasions, however the resulting strings > are completly different. > Shouldn't they both be the same? > > I looks like t

Re: [Mailman-Users] timed delivery

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:11:59PM -0400, Dennis J. McCombs wrote: > I am developing a web site that will require daily e-mail to my > subscribers. I would like to write several mailings and > program each one to be mailed at a certain date in the future. Is > there a format that can schedule

Re: [Mailman-Users] QUESTION

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:40:13PM -0400, Beth Ponticello wrote: > my question is whether the administration features are web based such > as configuring a new list? Mailman does not allow new lists to be created through a web interface (though you could probably add that pretty easily if you kn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing List-* headers?

2001-04-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:40:24AM -0500, Chris Burch wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked a million times; I browsed through 2001-04 > archive and didn't see anything (not a very thorough search, I admit)... It has. I'd say the 4 most frequently asked questions here are (in no particular orde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is is possible to...

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:10:11AM -0500, Peter Dominguez wrote: > Store a subscriber's real name along with their e-mail address when a user > subscribes. i.e. "real name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Of course it's possible - you have the source! More to the point, though, no, the standard Mailman cod

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:26:33PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Does majordomo remove the Approved header while forwarding messages? If not, > > finding out the password is even more trivial than forging From:. > > Yes, it does. In that case, I stand corrected. Thanks for straightening

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:01:25PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > No, this is not the case. Approved headers, while perhaps slightly > inelegant, are more secure (FSVO "secure") than simply allowing a set of > posters to post. Anyone can trivially fake a "From" header in an email > address,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:46:42AM -0600, James Thompson wrote: > First, Mailman doesn't seem to allow a user to type > Approved: Password > > as the first line of the mail to the list to bypass the approval by the > administrator. The user doesn't want to maintain the list of posters that > by

Re: [Mailman-Users] list password

2001-01-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:57:48AM -0600, Thomas Hillson wrote: > Sorry if this is a RTFM questions, but I can not find the answer the > docs I have. How do you change the password in a list you create and > you forgot it. > > I created a list for a user and he typed in his password for it and >

Re: [Mailman-Users] RFCs ... (mailman+mailer) ...

2001-01-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:38:29AM +, CJoe wrote: > i.e. sending the message with distribution list to a server > and "exploding" the contents due to some routing tables > arrangement, saving much bandwidth and cpu time, etc. ... Mailman does it the smart way. > (b) also, i would like

Re: [Mailman-Users] password reminders

2001-01-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:11:28PM +1000, Mitchell wrote: > nd I really don't want all the subscribers of program-users to get the > password for the list subscription. > > So can I turn off password reminders for program-users?? > > any hints appreciated. Do it a different way: On the Priva

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing host_name for mailman

2001-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:23:12PM -0600, Dr. Thomas C. Eagle wrote: > I want the host domain to be "list.newsummit.org" > while my real host domain is "eaglesystems.newsummit.org" > > How do I make the change to be "list.newsummit.org"? > > Can it be done? If is can, where do I make the change

Re: [Mailman-Users] duh!

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:47:49PM -0800, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > That would be too easy! If you don't want to believe me... > I would assume that we at least have to create a > DNS entry (probably both A and MX along with a reverse) for the host > name and setup an alias for it in Apache.

Re: [Mailman-Users] duh!

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Len Merikanto wrote: > Been wondering, installed succesfully mailing list > but is there a way to forge the from address into diffrent than the real > hostname? > > now when something is posted people see its coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > anyway to mak

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookie feature request

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 07:12:51AM +1100, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Junkbuster does let session cookies through apparently. I use Junkbuster and have seen no evidence of this. It allows cookies to be set by sites I tell it are allowed to set them and no others. Period. > Would it be possible for ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reject non-member postings.

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:11:18PM +0100, Evilio del Rio wrote: > Is there any way to configure a list to ALWAYS reject ANY non-member > posting to a restricted list. I do not want them to be held for approval, > just reject, full stop. No, or at least not entirely within Mailman. ISTR someone p

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookie feature request

2001-01-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:40AM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:37:41 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I normally run junkbuster so cookies are turned off. Can mailman check > > for this situation and alert that cookies are not functioning instead of > > jus

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to allow posting withou approval?

2001-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:43:02AM +0100, Marian Heddesheimer wrote: > Reason: Message has implicit destination > > I suspect, there must be a problem with the list address, because of mentioning the > "implicit destination" as reason. I have sent the posting to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (mydoma

Re: [Mailman-Users] something for the wish list?

2001-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:33:26PM -, Hubbard, Matt wrote: > 1. Ability to disable certain features through the global configuration in a > similar way to the "ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE" option. More specifically to be > able to disallow the private rosters being visible to anyone. This probably >

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to prevent posting?

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:46:45PM -0500, Mike Diehn wrote: > * Sacred Heart Webpastor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 10, 2001 10:55]: > > We would like to set up both lists as announcement systems: i.e. only > > one or two administrators can post messages to it, subscribers flat-out > > cannot post at