Re: [Mailman-Users] take me off the list

2003-07-14 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Monday 14 July 2003 21:01, Dana Hollar wrote: > please rmove my email [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your > email posting lists. Thank you At the bottom of EVERY POST to the list appears this statement: > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Where are the user lists?

2003-05-29 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:15, Raquel Rice wrote: > You're so smart, figuring that out. Perhaps, you should do my > CC:ing for me, since I can't handle it myself? Raquel, I sent that note to you off-list. I don't appreciate you sending your impertinent reply to the list. I apologized to you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Plain Text

2003-03-25 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Monday 24 March 2003 16:06, Staven Bruce wrote: > We have a RedHat 8.0 Linux server running the latest version of > Mailman atop a Sendmail MTA. Whenever I send a message to a mailing > list, it always arrives to the recipients in plain text, even when > I'm using another font. I compose the mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old question, oft repeated

2003-03-13 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 21:42, Jon Carnes wrote: > You might want to check around for a different rpm (or install from > source). The first time I installed Mailman, I tried to do it from the Red Hat binary RPM. Red Hat apparently packaged the Mailman RPM on the assumption that it would be u

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members

2003-03-13 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:20, Bolanle Akinpelu wrote: > I can't add members from the stdin using the add_member command. For > some reason, EOF characters does not bring an end to the members list > addedd via stdin I've had that problem too, so now I use echo (when I'm not using the web-based

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem solved: it was the MTA

2003-03-12 Thread Kyle Rhorer
> But, from the point of view of mailman, once the correct > Delivery_Module was specified in Defaults.py, it works fast > as a whistle. That was a typo, right? There is ample warning in the documentation (and, IIRC, in the Defaults.py file itself) that changes go in mm_cfg.py, not in Defaults.

Re: [Mailman-Users] restrict unsubscribe?

2003-01-14 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 13:53, Christopher Adams wrote: > Is there a way to prevent users from unsubscribing without list > administrator approval? With v2.1, yes. Kyle -- It is better to know nothing than to have learned nothing. -fortune cookie proverb -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman needs a "silently discard" option

2003-01-08 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 16:27, Dustin Clampitt wrote: > Mailman needs a mechanism for either silently discarding posts from > non-members, Upgrade to 2.1. > It's the admins who are getting spammed. Throw the crap away and > send the admin notification of the discard. How is that "silently di

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Every day

2003-01-08 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08:40, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > > What makes you think that message is coming from Mailman? > > > > That looks like a message from stock Redhat processes. > > You might be right, but I never received those messages until Mailman > was installed on RH 6.1, and I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Converting 2.0 to 2.1

2003-01-03 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Thursday 02 January 2003 21:40, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > MJ> 2.) can we switch back to 2.0.13 easily in case we encounter > a MJ> problem or do the DBs get converted somehow? > > Yes, of course they do! No, you cannot easily downgrade, so I'd > suggest making backups first if you're concern

Re: [Mailman-Users] How many is too many?

2002-12-27 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Friday 27 December 2002 01:03, The Berean wrote: > I'm doing some research in an attempt to find the > ceiling on how many users I can have on a Mailman > powered listserv. I don't mean to be pedantic, but you used the term "listserv" eight times in your note. Listserv is a registered tradema

Re: [Mailman-Users] New lists do not work

2002-11-15 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Friday 15 November 2002 09:31, Ralph Boersema wrote: > 4. It is initially possible to administer the list, but when the > first message is sent, it does not forward and, after that, it is no > longer possible to access the administration page. The admin access > page comes up, you type in the pa

Re: [Mailman-Users] New lists do not work

2002-11-15 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Friday 15 November 2002 09:31, Ralph Boersema wrote: > Our installation set up by a good programmer who is not too > familiar with mailman. He doesn't have the time to participate in > this list. I would suggest that the first order of business is to hire a system administrator. As long as yo

Re: [Mailman-Users] installation difficulties

2002-11-14 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 21:48, Emil Volcheck wrote: > Upgrading to Python 2.2.2 and Mailman 2.0.13 did the job. > > We also had to redo the aliases in /etc/postfix/mailinglist . What I do on my boxes is put mailman's alias file in /var/mailman, along with the rest of the mailman installatio

Re: [Mailman-Users] installation difficulties

2002-11-11 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Monday 11 November 2002 17:26, Emil Volcheck wrote: > Question: do the aliases for individual lists as well as the > "mailman" and "mailman-owner" have to be in /etc/aliases or > /etc/aliases.db or does it suffice to put them in the MySQL (?) > databases used by Postfix? The standard location f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Another "newlist" aliases problem?

2002-11-10 Thread Kyle Rhorer
Oops, I jumped the gun a little bit on my last reply. On Sunday 10 November 2002 14:03, David Gordon wrote: > Somewhere in Sendmail I have a line > > @mydomain1.tld user1 You should probably remove that. Kyle -- Since the general civilizations of mankind, I believe there are more instances of t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Another "newlist" aliases problem?

2002-11-10 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Sunday 10 November 2002 14:03, David Gordon wrote: > Set up test list "list". Web interface working. Subscription requests > generates "confirmation of subscription" mail. Replying to that mail > (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) sees that mail routed via my > catch-all mail account for that domain. The a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 13:43, J C Lawrence wrote: > A common definition of a crypted list: > > Mail sent to the list is crpyted with the list's public key. > > The list uncrypts the mail and broadcasts it to each member. > > Prior to transmission each message is crypted with that ind

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 12:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am inclined to agree with Jon (that what you really want is for > your list members to do the encrypting) That would only work in a shared-secret environment. If you want to use public key crypto, then Mailman would have to decr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription options help

2002-09-19 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Thursday 19 September 2002 22:38, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > Mailman should allow unsubscriptions via confirmed email w/o > requiring a password, there is no valid reason to require the > password when unsubscribing via email. > Do you know how easy it is to spoof email? That's the valid reas

Re: [Mailman-Users] RPM'ed version of Mailman

2002-09-09 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Monday 09 September 2002 15:20, Joel Webb wrote: > Is there anyway to change the options inside of a RPM'ed version of > Mailman?? I would like to change the --with-cgi-ext extension. Install the source rpm, edit the spec file to your liking, then "rpm -bb mailman.spec". You will end up with

Re: [Mailman-Users] strip-mime and aol

2002-09-09 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Monday 09 September 2002 09:39, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > IMO, HTML mail isn't the problem, HTML-only mail is. As far as universal readability goes, you are correct. However, HTML mail can (whether it includes a text/plain part or not) have security implications that RFC-compliant (plain tex

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Man Problems - No aliases being created.

2002-09-07 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Saturday 07 September 2002 08:50, Angel Gabriel wrote: > Everytime I create a new list, no aliases are being added to > sendmail. Mail cannot be recieved, and I get user not found. Are you remembering to use the "-o" option to $mailman/bin/newlist?

Re: [Mailman-Users] strip-mime and aol

2002-09-07 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Saturday 07 September 2002 01:47, Fuzzy wrote: > > Get real, Rickie, this is the 21st Century, HTML here to stay. > > It's called freedom to send email in whatever format I want. And we have the freedom to not read mail in whatever format we want. If you want your mail to have the widest po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question:

2002-09-06 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Friday 06 September 2002 01:17, Rajib A. Momen wrote: > It seems kind of redundant to sign up on a web site, > enter a password, and then have to reply to a message to confirm, > since you just signed up! This seems to be a FAQ, although I don't recall if it is addressed in the actual FAQ doc

Re: [Mailman-Users] SMTPDirect.py using sleep command

2002-09-05 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Thursday 05 September 2002 17:12, Kory Wheatley wrote: > What I have done to maybe slow down the delivery to sendmail that > creates the queue files then delivers them to our mail server is in > the Mailman SMTPDirect.py I have used the sleep command to sleep > after delivering so that our

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Adding 1 user to a list via command line?

2002-08-26 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Monday 26 August 2002 11:03, Devin Atencio wrote: > I can't seem to figure out the correct syntax to add 1 e-mail address > to a list from the command line? > > /home/maiman/bin/add_members -n - -w n test [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > any help with the correct syntax? try: echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bi

Re: [Mailman-Users] NAT translation problems?

2002-08-21 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Thursday 22 August 2002 13:10, Drew Krause wrote: > Hello, a few subscribers with city and county government email > addresses are complaining that our list mail is not getting to them. > A peek at our mail logs confirms this. One of their system > administrators noted that their server makes u

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating list takes forever

2002-08-20 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 18:40, Luis Julian Dominguez Perez wrote: > Recently when trying to create a new list after asking me for a > password the programs hangs [...] > I have Mailman version 2.0.11 and redhat 7.2 with several 7.3 > patches. You don't mention which MTA you're using. With Po

Re: [Mailman-Users] "Members" vs. "Subscribers"

2002-07-16 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:09, Bob Weissman wrote: > This is a linguistic subtlety in the English version of Mailman. [...] > In my own Mailman 2.0.11 installation, I've scoured the sources for > user-visible strings and changed "member" to "subscriber" everywhere > I thought it was important. I w

[Mailman-Users] Admin mail interface?

2002-06-27 Thread Kyle Rhorer
Forgive me if this has been discussed already, but I wonder about a mail interface for admin functions like approving subscription requests. It would be really convenient if the list owner could simply reply with some incantation to the notice that there is a request pending. Does this featu