Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe without a password

2004-01-25 Thread Ed Wilts
s. It isn't that hard for a user to subscribe or unsubscribe themselves. Admins, of course, can do it for them with the utilities I listed above or via the web pages. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2004-01-23 Thread Ed Wilts
ss probably) and learn how to configure your MTA properly, whether it's sendmail, postfix, or something else. There are lots of references on the web, including this list's archives, that give advice on tuning your MTA. 10,000 subscribers is not that unusual for mailman. I believe the r

Re: [Mailman-Users] how limit traffic

2004-01-20 Thread Ed Wilts
please start a new thread so you don't mess up the threading model for those of us with real mail clients. Thanks! -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pyth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there anyway to export members list to excel?

2004-01-03 Thread Ed Wilts
copy a column of e-mail addresses and paste that into a text file or directly into the web pages to add members. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] RELEASED Mailman 2.1.4

2003-12-31 Thread Ed Wilts
ill was shipping it. .../Ed p.s. In the future, please snip your replies to the relevant pieces. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to show all members from web?

2003-12-29 Thread Ed Wilts
nice feature to see. sync_members would be really helpful too! My list admins need to regularly flush the announce lists and repopulate them from an internal database, and right now I'm flushing them manually. Giving the list admins an easy way to do this would save me getting involved. -- Ed Wil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding a second list admin

2003-10-27 Thread Ed Wilts
word, you can change the list password and then give that to the new admin. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming and Moving List to a different Sub-Domain

2003-10-27 Thread Ed Wilts
fairly well for announcement-style only lists with no archives. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http:/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Address matching behavior

2003-10-23 Thread Ed Wilts
. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also different than [EMAIL PROTECTED] - in some cases at my site, they are (root for example). IMO, 2.1 is doing the right thing and you need to fix your outgoing mail behavior. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not knowing what address is subscribed

2003-10-13 Thread Ed Wilts
them "That address is not subscribed" if > they type in one that isn't? The user may be able to figure it out from the headers but my guess is that if they can't remmeber what address they used, and they forward from address to address, they're unlikely to have the skills n

Re: [Mailman-Users] not allowing mass-subscription (web interface)

2003-10-06 Thread Ed Wilts
(either email or clickthrough data). Given the new anti-spam law coming into California with the burden of proof being on the e-mail sender that the user has really opted in, I don't see how we can avoid having this feature in Mailman. Some of run commercial mailing lists and it will be imper

Re: [Mailman-Users] filtering by subject or other headers?

2003-10-04 Thread Ed Wilts
I would think that a callout from the MTA might be better). I don't believe that what you're asking for should be a mailman function. Mailman should primarily be used to quickly get messages into and out the lists - all per-message processing should be handled by outsi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request..

2003-09-30 Thread Ed Wilts
and one for your Swedish users. The sign up instructions shouild be clear which one the users should use. If you sent the confirmation instructions via an e-mail in Swedish, I would expect your English users to not reply to that e-mail. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds

Re: [Mailman-Users] Variations of email addresses

2003-09-18 Thread Ed Wilts
s somebody goes in there and manually updates the permissions list. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Variations of email addresses

2003-09-18 Thread Ed Wilts
strict posting to list members, then the client must be configured to post from some.name. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending to correct address

2003-09-10 Thread Ed Wilts
your MTA decided that localhost was good enough. Have a look at your mailer tables to see if your localhost system also claims to be able to receive mail for foo.com -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] What version of Mailman works with python 1.x

2003-08-17 Thread Ed Wilts
lling the python2 package to run alongside python 1.x. If you do that, you should be able to install and run MailMan 2.1.2. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM getting through on moderated lists

2003-08-14 Thread Ed Wilts
write those rules. What would one look like to allow, for example, a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to only come from an MTA in the foo.com domain? Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] I can't get my mail list to work

2003-08-11 Thread Ed Wilts
es.org" Something's quite broken since it's combining your list name with your host name. test_hcmcnurses.org isn't a valid DNS name. It looks like webmanix doesn't have mailman configured properly. If they're not going to help you wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe Member limit? (add_members)

2003-08-09 Thread Ed Wilts
ror, it turned out that I had the same user in my text file twice, but with different case. Do a case-insensitive uniq on your input file and see if that helps. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Analysis of reasons for bounce responses

2003-08-02 Thread Ed Wilts
mum of 20 recipients at a time. Some people have done performance tests to suggest that dropping this to about 5 will give you better throughput. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Mailman-Users] ip_addresse rather than hostname in forms?

2003-07-31 Thread Ed Wilts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] should work, but as I said, you really, really don't want to do this. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org

[Mailman-Users] remove_members *really* slow

2003-07-29 Thread Ed Wilts
own to 28K members. Is there a faster way of doing this operation in 2.0.13? Should I just have deleted the list and recreated it? Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Statistics 4 all MM-lists

2003-07-28 Thread Ed Wilts
just write a quick script that does a list_lists, and for each one, do a list_members | wc -l. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Mailman-Users] mass subscription

2003-07-22 Thread Ed Wilts
ed on the welcome message. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating from Lyris to Mailman - Lookingforfunctionality and/or workarounds

2003-07-18 Thread Ed Wilts
very* posting. This would be ideal for announcement-only lists. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: ht

[Mailman-Users] Duplicate messages

2003-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
sage really was only posted to the list once. What can I look at to see why this happened, and to ensure that it doesn't happen again? I'm running Mailman 2.0.13 on Red Hat Linux 7.0. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, US

[Mailman-Users] Mailman stats for successful/unsuccessful posts?

2003-07-17 Thread Ed Wilts
re in sendmail's mailq, nor were they in /var/spool/mailman/qfiles. Where are they hiding so that I can get a quick snapshot? I'm running mailman 2.0.13 on Red Hat Linux 7.0. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[

[Mailman-Users] Outgoing mail failure

2003-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
dmail reports it as size=1581. The sendmail queue is almost empty - it hasn't topped 200 since the posting went out. At 1am it was 1 request, and at 2am it was only 74 (mostly bounces I think). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer message in html email

2003-07-16 Thread Ed Wilts
e sending poster to use something like MAILMAN_FOOTER in the HTML. Then mailman could simply scan the html code for the keyword and do an in-place substitution. Grossly simple, so I'm probably overlooking something... -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[E

[Mailman-Users] List performance queries

2003-07-02 Thread Ed Wilts
one-way; we send the messages out, but nobody can reply (and I realize that some people will try anyway). Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and phone bills

2001-06-24 Thread Ed Wilts
en't free. He needs to clarify how his ISP and phone calls are billed and then determine if he's got a specific Mailman issue (in which case this list might be appropriate) or a general Internet connectivity issue (frequency of PPP calls, etc) that might be better answered in other lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrator - where to put the message?

2001-06-18 Thread Ed Wilts
hen click on approve and submit, and you're done. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need some help, lost messages, now getting "caught a bug error" on admin page

2001-06-17 Thread Ed Wilts
request.db # chmod 664 /var/mailman/lists/*/request.db It worked for me. Whether that was the right answer or only answer I don't know. Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to a new machine

2001-06-14 Thread Ed Wilts
lan on killing an hour or two to get it right. Good luck, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

2001-06-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:53 am, JC Dill wrote: > On 04:38 AM 6/13/01, Ed Wilts wrote: > >On Wednesday 13 June 2001 02:25 am, Enriko Groen wrote: > >> And frustrated too because they get 70 emails or so a day and don't > >> know how to leave the list. &g

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

2001-06-13 Thread Ed Wilts
.../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Instability of Mailman or ?

2001-06-12 Thread Ed Wilts
ing to wear me down. Any other mailing list software on an unreliable platform will also wear you down. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] message with id #9 was lost

2001-06-10 Thread Ed Wilts
ilman to give up on it permanently? This is mailman 2.0.1 as supplied by Redhat on RH Linux 7.1. Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pytho