Re: [Mailman-Users] how to create an announce-only list / newsletter / admin-post only list

2002-06-21 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Nils Vogels wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:54:13AM -0400, Scott Courtney wrote: > > I don't mean any disrespect to your views, but I'm still unable to come up with > > any non-spam reason for blocking unsubscriptions. If someone can think of one > > that I've overlooked, I'll gladly stand

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing "quote" email addresses

2002-06-18 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
"Jack L. Stone" wrote: > > Have you tried double quotes...??? like: > > ""[EMAIL PROTECTED]"" > > At 10:51 AM 6.18.2002 -0500, David Brauer wrote: > >I have a problem unsubscribing a member who put quotes in her email address > >(i.e. "joanblow"@blahblah.com rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED]). i h

Re: [Mailman-Users] /etc/aliases in sendmail

2002-06-18 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Larry Guest wrote: > > Is there a better way to handle the mailman aliases instead of just editing > my /etc/aliases file and running newaliases. > When I get to over 200 lists its going to be a nightmare file. you can include other files (man aliases).

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman administor notification cycle?

2002-06-16 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Anton Andreasson wrote: > > Hi, (hope this is the right email address and that you can throw away > a short reply.) > > I've tried with many sites and friends to get an answer about whether > there exist a function in Mailman that sends out the administration > notification in a kind of "cycling

Re: [Mailman-Users] tremendous horror!

2002-06-16 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Adam Frank wrote: > > I have been running a list for some time now, and recently seemingly > random subscription confirmations are being sent to people on the > list. Some people are reporting recieving over a dozen confirmations a > day (you know, the "Confirm x")! Does anyone know what

Re: [Mailman-Users] Base URL for Mailman web interface

2002-06-13 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
An-Dee wrote: > > Hello, > > As a mistake, I set a wrong path to the web interface. > How can I set it correctly with command line? 'cos the web interface > is not working. this happened to me, too. i don't have mailman group rights, so i had to ask the admin to fix it for me. what is the re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-03 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Scott Courtney wrote: > > On Sunday 02 June 2002 01:03 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > > How about adding a section to the FAQ with this data? > > > > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > > I'll be glad to. What's the procedure for submitting this, and to whom do I > send the text? Or is it an

Re: [Mailman-Users] store in database

2002-06-03 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Angelo Marcos Rigo wrote: > > hy list > > I would like to ask if i can make a subscripting form, > asking more data from the user like adress, profession, phone number > etc... > to store in a database ? that should be possible, but it will involve some programming work on your part. i don't kn

Re: [Mailman-Users] question

2002-06-02 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Nicolas Chiarini wrote: > > hello, i have a question about mailman, how many subscripters can manage > this program?? > more than 1??? > thanks > nicolas yes. see the faq. limits are determined by your mta, the host it runs on, and of course your connection. ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to handle single quote in subscriber email address

2002-05-30 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Cassandra Fleetwood wrote: > > cron logs the following error message from qrunner when attempting to send > the subscription confirmation message to a user that has a single in their > address (i.e. "john.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED]"). > > sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin access

2002-05-30 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
> Jack Ring wrote: > > I have been administering the, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing > list but about a week ago the password, seatcieig, that I had used > successfully suddenly started returning "authentication failed" Can > you please tell me how to gain access to the admin functions? I have > sev

Re: [Mailman-Users] blocking spam

2002-05-30 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
> Luis wrote: > > Hi, Im one of the administrators of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing list and I have a really simple question. > > How can I block all the e-mails coming from a certain domain? How can > I block all the e-mails coming from lycos.co.kr or korea.com, for > example? add an entry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Aliases File?

2002-05-03 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Howdy! > > Been working since yesterday to get a PostFix/QPopper/Mailman configuration > installed and think that I'm JUST about there. Problem is when I send a message > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other > address related to the list, my email s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman FAQ Wizard

2002-05-02 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote: > > > Also note that the FAQ wizard is specifically intended to be community > supported. It is maintained through an honor system, and the password > is "Mailman". Feel free to make updates! i sent a faq suggestion about another topic to mailman-cabal a week ago, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman not showing administrative tasks

2002-05-02 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Nora Livesay wrote: > > We've been using mailman for about 6 months and last it unexplicably quit > working. As far as I'm aware, nothing has changed in the configuration, but > when you send an email to post to the list, it doesn't show up to be > approved nor does it go out to members. It's as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email Aliases for subscribers?

2002-04-30 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Lewis Lau wrote: > > Dear friends, > > Let say I have a subscriber with email address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" on a > member-only list, then he also have an email alias > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" refer to the same email account. Is that any way > to tell the mailman these two email addresses are actually

Re: [Mailman-Users] A problem with approval

2002-04-29 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Lubomir Snajder wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I am owner and also moderator of a mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) run > under Mailman 2.0.8. > When someone write e-mail message to this moderated mailing list, naturaly I > have to approve this message. > Web environment is very nice (some years ag

Re: [Mailman-Users] Summary, whats next?

2002-04-29 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hi danny. i have no idea what's wrong, and i don't know python, but if such things happen to me, i try strace. my suggestion is disable the mailman cronjobs, invoke qrunner by hand under strace (strace ) and see if it hangs or loops somewhere. it will spew out a lot of garbage, but in some cases,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't log in anymore!

2002-04-26 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Brian Teal wrote: > > I need to get into the mailman program to get rid of some of the archives, > they are pushing the limit of space on my server. However, when I call up > the login page and fill in my password (which is the correct one) it never > goes anywhere, it just cyles. Any ideas?? ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Long delay for qrunner ?

2002-04-26 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Danny Terweij wrote: > > Could some one help? > The qfiles dir is very big at the moment. qrunner proc is running now for 18 > ours and still it is proccessing 1 message between 20-45 minutes. There > comes more messages in then out.. > > Is it possible to run more qrunner processes? to speed th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Could not acquire qrunner lock error

2002-04-25 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My system ran out of disk space and thus, many of the Mailman processes failed. > After freeing up some space Mailman was not delivering mail and I found the > qrunner logs had several error messages "Could not acquire qrunner lock" > > the Mailman locks directory co

[Mailman-Users] mm does not handle specialchars in addresses...

2002-04-25 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hello * i have this one fraggle on my list who keeps on subscribing himself under an address like "gonzo"@somewhere.com (yes, with the quotes !). i first saw that after i did a mass subscription from a majordomo list. i wanted to delete him for fear of problems, but mailman could not do that via

Re: [Mailman-Users] password problems

2002-04-22 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Joshua Gould wrote: > > For one list in particular, I am not able to change the password. I am > able to log in with the site password, and when I change the password > it reports a success, but it still reports authentication failure when > I try to use the new password. > > I have tried this f

[Mailman-Users] override or change IGNORECASE in bounce_matching_headers ?

2002-04-22 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hello ! is there any way to override the IGNORECASE flag in bounce_matching_headers ? i read about the (?i) statement, but it only says "set flags" in the docs, nothing about toggling or unsetting. i'm looking for a solution that will work with python 1.5 (yeah, i know, but it's not my box). thi

[Mailman-Users] regexes in bounce_matching_headers

2002-04-18 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hello mailman users ! a number of questions about regexes in mailman: in bounce_matching_headers, the "Header:" field is parsed separately and is not part of the regex, right ? (i.e. a line .*SPAM would _not_ have the effect of catching all mails that contain "SPAM" in any of their headers ?)

[Mailman-Users] regexes in bounce_matching_headers

2002-04-18 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hello ! i sent the messsage below earlier today, not realizing that mailman-users is a closed list. now i have subscribed, and i'm resending the message below. sorry if any duplicates get through. Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > > hello mailman users ! > > a number of questions

[Mailman-Users] regexes in bounce_matching_headers

2002-04-18 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
[i posted this a while ago, but obviously my subscription had not yet been processed when it reached the list. sorry for any dupes that might occur. i'm in a bit of a hurry, so i'm resending.] hello mailman users ! a number of questions about regexes in mailman: in bounce_matching_headers, t

Re: [Mailman-Users] refused relay (host)

2002-04-17 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
"Rantanen, TC1" wrote: > > I have mailman up and running, I can post to the list, can look at the list > archives from the web. > > But when I someone tries to subscribe via the web, an entry in exim_mainlog > shows > 2002-04-17 13:36:59 refused relay (host) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from > <[EMAIL P

[Mailman-Users] feature request: show regex on approval page

2002-04-17 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hi ! new to mailman, and i already have a wish: would it be complicated to tweak the admin requests page so that it spits out the regex which caught the message ? right now, all it says is "suspicious header", which does not really help with filter debugging. i haven't the faintest idea of pytho