Re: [Mailman-Users] withlist -q still not quiet

2008-10-11 Thread Kelly Jones
ng to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. On 10/7/08, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kelly Jones wrote: > >>Why does "withlist -q test" say "The variable `m' is the tes

[Mailman-Users] withlist -q still not quiet

2008-10-07 Thread Kelly Jones
Why does "withlist -q test" say "The variable `m' is the test MailList instance". Shouldn't -q suppress that message? It's annoying because I run withlist stuff in cron and want it to run silently unless there are errors. I realize I can: 2| fgrep -v 'the variable `m' is the' or something, but t

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Developers Guide?

2008-10-06 Thread Kelly Jones
It took me a long time to figure out that Mailman's 'virgin' directory was for messages that Mailman created itself. Is stuff like this documented somewhere? Is there a developer's guide to Mailman out there? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand an

[Mailman-Users] Triggers for when lists are changed?

2008-05-31 Thread Kelly Jones
I run nightly cron jobs to fix/update various Mailman lists. I don't know Python, so I write Perl scripts that call the Python scripts in /usr/local/mailman/bin/ This works OK, but I'd really like to run these Perl scripts whenever a list is changed, not just once a day. In other words, I'd like

[Mailman-Users] Mailman autoresponder sends email from -bounces address?

2008-04-06 Thread Kelly Jones
We run a small internal mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED], that goes to several people in HR. In other words, we use resumes like a sendmail alias. We recently added an auto-reply that says "thanks for submitting your resume'". The auto-reply comes from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which seems incorrect. I

[Mailman-Users] Whitelisting members of sublists?

2008-03-01 Thread Kelly Jones
I have a list X that contains two sub-lists: Y and Z. The members of Y can post to Y w/o being held, and the members of Z can post to Z w/o being held. However, if a Y member posts to X, his message is held, since he's not directly on X (he's on Y, which is on X, so he's only indirectly on X). I

[Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe required for single user?

2007-07-30 Thread Kelly Jones
If I want to subscribe just one user via the web interface, do I still need to use "Mass Subscribe"? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-27 Thread Kelly Jones
On 2/22/07, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 6:43 PM -0700 2/22/07, Kelly Jones wrote: > > > My question: what's the best way to handle a situation like this? Have > > a list owned by itself or "effectively" owned by itself. > > What I

[Mailman-Users] Alternatives to having a list own itself

2007-02-22 Thread Kelly Jones
I'm part of a group of people ("sysops") that own several lists. Because the group changes occasionally, we've created a Mailman list called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and all of our lists are owned by "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The sysops list also receives other (non-Mailman-generated) emails. We tried to m

[Mailman-Users] Making all bounces, even temporary ones, go to list owner ASAP

2007-02-19 Thread Kelly Jones
Many of my customers run tightly-controlled lists where it's important to know (immediately, if possible) if email to any of the members is bouncing (eg, an ISP mailing its customer base), even if the bounce is temporary. Is there a way to do this using the bounce processing options in Mailman? EG

[Mailman-Users] Finding the recipients for a given archived email

2007-01-26 Thread Kelly Jones
I have a mailing list whose membership changes frequently. I want to find out who received a two-month-old email in the archives. In other words, I want to know the list membership at the time that message was sent. How can I do this? I realize I could look at sendmail logs (if they went back tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attempt to block spam using X-Spam-Flag blocks allmessages to list

2007-01-19 Thread Kelly Jones
On 1/19/07, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't looked at this to see if it is actually a possible cause, but > the regexp box in header_filter_rules is a list of regexps one per > line. If it contains an empty line or a 'blank' line, that might be a > regexp that will match anythi

[Mailman-Users] Attempt to block spam using X-Spam-Flag blocks all messages to list

2007-01-19 Thread Kelly Jones
One of my users added this as a spam filter: ^x-spam-flag:.*yes (all lower case since spamfilter regexps are case-insensitive-- hyphens not backslashed by accident), and the list started dropping ALL emails. Why? We're running SpamAssassin on another box (mail gets forwarded to the "mailman box"

[Mailman-Users] Preserving auto-discarded messages for site administrator

2007-01-19 Thread Kelly Jones
I administer a Mailman site with many user-owned mailing lists. Users sometimes setup poor auto-discard rules (+ "do not forward auto-discards", of course) and lose important messages to mailing lists. Can I site configure Mailman to preserve all auto-discarded messages in a location where only I

[Mailman-Users] Recovering a config.pck file from the output of dumpdb

2007-01-10 Thread Kelly Jones
I backup my mailman config.pck files nightly by running "dumpdb config.pck" and storing the output (the output of dumpdb is easier to read and easier to diff [for CVS'd backups] than the config.pck file itself). How do I get back config.pck from the output of dumpdb? In other words, what command

[Mailman-Users] Archiving only certain topics and/or the "default" topic

2006-12-20 Thread Kelly Jones
I admin a mailing list that receives two types of messages: 1. Important human-typed messages that should be archived 2. Transient machine-generated messages that people may want to read, but which lose value rapidly, and, therefore, shouldn't be archived. I've set up topics so that all the tran

[Mailman-Users] How to exclude certain topics but subscribe to all others?

2006-12-18 Thread Kelly Jones
I'm subscribed to a mailman mailing list. I want to receive all emails on the list *except those* matching a given topic or topics. How do I do this? If a new topic is created, I want to be subscribed to it by default, but have the option of excluding it as well. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular