[Mailman-Users] bypassing sending out the 'you have been subscribed' messages on mass subscriptions

2003-09-08 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
i'm moving over a nightclub announcement list over to mailman ( he's got 1400 subscribers he's been bcc'ing every week ) i'd like to make the mail change transparent to users -- ie, not send out the 'you have been subscribed' messages from the mass subscription entry. there doesn't seem to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] specifying the hostname

2003-09-05 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
try this: /usr/local/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url LISTNAME --urlhost=URL replace LISTNAME and URL with what you need i *think* that will work. seems to solve some of my issues so far. I think it all has to do with web_host_url in Utils.py -- which seems to be the basis for mlist.Link

[Mailman-Users] specifying the hostname

2003-09-04 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I can't seem to find this anywhere in the Defaults.py mm_cfg.py or in the archives: I'd like to specify the hostname somewhere. The hostname for the machine is not the current http address -- so all the links that mailman creates are incorrect Is there any way to do that? ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] another stupid question about mailman's mail handling

2002-04-21 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
first off -- thanks for both your responses. second, re: >Mailman sorts the target domains and then batches the list per the >SMTP_MAX_RCPTS as previously noted. Due to this target domains will be >clustered. Depending on whether the number of addresses within a >specific target domain is modu

[Mailman-Users] another stupid question about mailman's mail handling

2002-04-21 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
having been told about SMTPdirect.py, i looked through it.. then i looked in the mailman-users and mailman-development archives, but couldn't find an answer... perl's mail::bulkmail will optimize smtp delivery by sending out chunks of emails within one domain at once, using multiple addresses

[Mailman-Users] How does Mailman mail, man?

2002-04-20 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
witty, eh? i've been dissecting the code to the best of my abilities, but i've come up short it seems to me that Mailman just calls sendmail per To: email address i'm wondering if i'm missing something -- is it sending to bcc:s, or doing crazy things with the envelopes like perl's mail:bulkma