Re: [Mailman-Users] All my lists quit working!

2015-01-14 Thread Larry Stone
On Jan 13, 2015, at 4:21 PM, Jan Steinman wrote: > Thanks for your suggestions and help! > >> From: Larry Stone >> >> Log entries please. > > It never gets as far as Mailman. No log info occurs in mailman/error or > mailman/qrunner. > > This is what

Re: [Mailman-Users] All my lists quit working!

2015-01-08 Thread Larry Stone
abase. > Does this mean that "dumpdb" is bad, or does it mean that "aliases.db" is > bad, or neither It means dumpdb is the wrong tool for dumping aliases.db. > Any help (despite my using an unsupported version) appreciated! Show log entries and postconf -n as requested

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re-formatting messages

2014-07-17 Thread Larry Stone
e to send the messages to a machine I do have control over - so, if there's a way to do this that needs root access then I'd like to know that too, because that's plan C. See above - I think plan C is the way to go. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can Someone Explain This?

2014-05-09 Thread Larry Stone
I assume you are just a user of a list at ibiblio.org? If so, you can’t fix it. Ibiblio.org has Mailman installed incorrectly. They need to install it correctly. This problem affects all lists managed by this Mailman installation so I assume you have also not been receiving any p

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.18 internal documentation suggestions

2014-04-30 Thread Larry Stone
] None is better. No would only be appropriate if ‘yes’ was the other option. But backwards compatibility is important too (even if it’s not to most large computer companies :-( ). -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails from yahoo members, are getting rejected by yahoo, "Service Unavailable".

2014-04-14 Thread Larry Stone
the >>>> troubles begin with DMARC. >>> >>> SPF checks sending IPs (of which your IPs won't match Yahoo's, thus >>> breaking DMARC) >>> >>> Either an SPF failure or a DKIM failure wil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on OS X, launchctl

2014-03-02 Thread Larry Stone
, it has not idea of what other processes start as a result so has no way to monitor them. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newsletter Blast sending duplicates to subscribers

2014-01-08 Thread Larry Stone
y unlikely, particularly since you say it only happens with Yahoo, that it’s a problem in Mailman. Rather, it’s happening after Mailman is done with the message so is not a Mailman problem per se. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachment size?

2013-12-10 Thread Larry Stone
x27;ll probably get a faster response in an appropriate forum for that MTA. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mountain Lion server trouble

2013-03-29 Thread Larry Stone
Lion and after one attempt on a test system, not sure I want to try to move my server beyond Lion. Apple has changed way too much in Mountain Lion - compatibility with previous OS versions is just not in Apple's goals (and it's the mail server piece that has stopped me - never even

Re: [Mailman-Users] again postfix+aliases+virtual_domains

2012-12-16 Thread Larry Stone
list for reasons (as stated above) that are just as valid here. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman needs 20 seconds to complete per email

2012-12-03 Thread Larry Stone
0.0.1 to localhost)? I'm not sure when Postfix would log the connect message in that case but since it logs the resolved hostname, I'm thinking at the end. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman needs 20 seconds to complete per email

2012-12-03 Thread Larry Stone
know if the delay is in Mailman or Postfix. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman needs 20 seconds to complete per email

2012-12-03 Thread Larry Stone
Missing the most important thing which is a Postfix log. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ On Dec 3, 2012, at 3:27 AM, Karsten Becker wrote: > On 12/03/2012 07:16 AM, Stefan Foerster wrote: >> 1. postconf -n output, as well as master.cf excerp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman needs 20 seconds to complete per email

2012-12-02 Thread Larry Stone
x27;d suggest creating another incoming Postfix port (e.g. 20025) that is exclusively for mail from Mailman being injected to Postfix. Configure it appropriately so that only lcoalhost or whatever other local hosts need it can use it. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejo

Re: [Mailman-Users] timeout settings?

2012-09-26 Thread Larry Stone
I'd like to suggest that no one provide Mr. Cook any assistance. Since I helped answer a question of his some months ago, mycoachonline.com has been a persistent spam source on my server. The most recent piece of spam from his company was received 11 hours ago. -- Larry Stone

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-18 Thread Larry Stone
server ban the offending subscriber. As I said, that AOL user has violated my terms and I am entitled to deal with that violation. If AOL were to ever call me on it, I'll worry about that then. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-16 Thread Larry Stone
On Jun 16, 2012, at 5:20 PM, David wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Larry Stone > wrote: > > > On Jun 16, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt > wrote: > > > * David : > > > >> Is there any method to identify the user from the AOL feed

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-16 Thread Larry Stone
ething sent to this list marked as spam will show it as sent from mailman-users+redac...@python.org. I trace then from message ID and matching to my Postfix logs. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-16 Thread Larry Stone
an AOL spam report but despite their redacting, I can usually figure out who did it my some sleuthing through the mail server logs. My policy for AOL users is straightforward and ruthless: do it once and you get banned from my lists and my server. I banned my cousin once (and in typical AOLuser

Re: [Mailman-Users] looking for correct doc for configure

2012-06-04 Thread Larry Stone
On Jun 3, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Larry Stone wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2012, at 1:09 AM, H wrote: > >> >> All, >> >> Pretty new to Mailman, trying to install it and looking for the correct >> documentation to go with mailman-3.0.0b1 > > > MHO, if you

Re: [Mailman-Users] looking for correct doc for configure

2012-06-03 Thread Larry Stone
se of the largely re-architected Mailman 3. Stick to the latest Mailman 2.1 production release (2.1.14) which is well documented, debugged, and supported. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sevier Issue with mails, are these compromised?

2012-05-14 Thread Larry Stone
my assumption above. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] confirmation string is not working

2012-05-08 Thread Larry Stone
Then check mm_cfg.py and make sure PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE hasn't been set to something ridiculously short. While Mark stated that the default is 3 days, we have no idea what your installation's setting for it is. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stop working...help!

2012-04-22 Thread Larry Stone
y had a working Postfix configuration, I suspect vPostMaster clobbered the configuration with something that knows nothing about Postfix. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting Up Mailman

2012-04-18 Thread Larry Stone
yped and everything returned in response: cd /var/root ls -l *mailman* cat *mailman*.sh cd /Library/LaunchDaemons cat mailman.plist The start obviously failed but any output from it should be logged in /var/log/system.log. Try: grep -i mailman /var/log/system.log and include any ou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting Up Mailman

2012-04-18 Thread Larry Stone
command to edit the file in vi (and vi is not the only way to edit a text file, it's just the one I know and use), I have not given you all the needed vi commands to create the file. If you merely typed the lines I said need to be be in the file without any vi commands,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem creating mailing lists via webinterface in2.1.11

2012-03-28 Thread Larry Stone
e error message "unknown virtual host" is > given, and no mailing list is created. > Just to show you how confused this became, I thought "unknown virtual host" was the error being returned to someone trying to post. I do not recall you ever saying

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem creating mailing lists via webinterface in2.1.11

2012-03-28 Thread Larry Stone
in one post so we don't have to go through several messages to find the information you've dribbled out to us in multiple messages. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newer postfix: unused parameter: mailman_destination_recipient_limit=1

2012-03-10 Thread Larry Stone
ed anything you want to call them. There is nothing magic about a Postfix transport named "mailman" that ties it to GNU Mailman. So this is really a Postfix issue, not a Mailman issue. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newer postfix: unused parameter: mailman_destination_recipient_limit=1

2012-03-09 Thread Larry Stone
ient_limit is a Postfix parameter that is specific to the named transport. If you don't have a transport named mailman, then mailman_transport_destination_recipient is indeed unused. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail)sender address?

2012-02-07 Thread Larry Stone
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Larry Stone writes: > Why do you want to reply to email addressed to the list as the list rather > than as you. That is not the way lists are normally used (e.g. I am > replying to mail sent to this list as myself, not as the list). Yup

Re: [Mailman-Users] can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail)sender address?

2012-02-07 Thread Larry Stone
s (as opposed to a public ISP), you probably don't need such checks. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Larry Stone
words, use the same password for low and high security needs, use easy-to-guess passwords, write them down, and other things that just make Mailman's password concerns the least of your organization's security concerns. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to turn off plain text passwords?

2011-11-02 Thread Larry Stone
you're just a reader of a list run through Mailman, then use a password you don't care about (by default, Mailman generates random passwords. I don't even bother to save them as I know I can recover it easily in the unlikely event I actually ever need it). --

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with Mailman on Mac OS X Snow Leopard client

2011-10-11 Thread Larry Stone
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Graham Young wrote: Mail generated by Mailman hangs in my dedicated, on-board MTA's queue unless I remove a certain bit of custom Postfix configuration that I entered following instructions kindly posted here by one Larry Stone. I guess I'm best to answer this.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocked By Earthlink

2011-06-20 Thread Larry Stone
services they offer (note that I am a very satisfied Speakeast.net DSL customer). -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list sends but doesn't receive mail.

2011-04-18 Thread Larry Stone
On 4/18/11 1:53 AM, JRC Groups at joemailgro...@gmail.com wrote: > I have read the page and also contacted Larry Stone. His instructions are > for installation on OS X client and not OS X Server. I haven't found > instructions on how to remove the Mailman version bundled by A

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X serverset-up.

2011-04-03 Thread Larry Stone
(or just ignoring it) and installing a clean unmodified version from source will give you, on OS X Server, the same as those of on "Client" have." Going through the process yourself will teach you far more than having someone do it for you. -- Larry St

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X serverset-up.

2011-03-30 Thread Larry Stone
l give you, on OS X Server, the same as those of on "Client" have. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Explicit destination causes implicitdestination bounce

2011-03-11 Thread Larry Stone
st SMTP has its uses (I do it to make sure the anti-spam controls on the commands works since that's hard to do by other means) but unless you are prepared to type everything in painful detail, expect weird results. Mailman is best tested with real messages sent by a proper MUA. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Explicit destination causes implicit destination bounce

2011-03-11 Thread Larry Stone
4 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself Subject:Testing from guinevere 3 This is a message 3 . 250 OK id=1Py3ZU-0003YI-Rz QUIT 221 server closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] does mailman ever automatically delete an expired email address?

2011-03-10 Thread Larry Stone
lieve bounce processing is on by default. This is, in general, a good thing as excessive sending to dead addresses is a good way to get yourself on some of the anti-spam blacklists. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing password reminders

2011-01-12 Thread Larry Stone
oblem. If you don't see it being accepted, then determine where things are failing on your system. Is Mailman giving it to the mail server (Postfix on a Macintosh)? Once Postfix has it, Mailman has done its job. -- Larry Stone lston.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list sends but doesn't receive mail.

2010-12-08 Thread Larry Stone
ip (chown) and permissions (chmod). -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wik

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-28 Thread Larry Stone
d process exiting before mailman could daemonize. Since it daemonizes, launchd can't monitor it (it's 'Run at Load' and then launchd is out of the picture) so I deal with Mailman dying on me by having an hourly cron job that checks for the proper number of qrunners and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is Mailman right for us?

2010-07-21 Thread Larry Stone
o all that. There is no demo version because Mailman is a free product. Install it and see if it does what you need it to do. The FAQ (a link to it is at the bottom of every message on this list) can answer a lot of your questions including some HOW-TOs and installation guides.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription Confirmation to Welcome Delay

2010-05-25 Thread Larry Stone
l exactly 15 minutes. If it's not that, you will need to look at your logs (both mailman and the mail server) to figure out where the delay is being introduced. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users ma

[Mailman-Users] Snow Leoparrd (MacOS X 10.6) CLIENT installation steps for Mailman (CORRECTED)

2010-05-01 Thread Larry Stone
(The numbers will vary. The important thing is that you see the qrunner processes.) ======== Step 9) Enjoy! At this point, mailman should be ready to use. Read the documentation in your source directory for instructions on setting up your mailing lists. --

[Mailman-Users] Snow Leoparrd (MacOS X 10.6) CLIENT installation steps for Mailman

2010-04-28 Thread Larry Stone
ill vary. The important thing is that you see the qrunner processes.) ======== Step 9) Enjoy! At this point, mailman should be ready to use. Read the documentation in your source directory for instructions on setting up your mailing lists. -- Larry Stone lston

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

2010-04-28 Thread Larry Stone
I know, I'm reopening a ten month old thread. But I think I have a good workaround. On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 26. Juni 2009 20:22:13 +0900 Matthias Schmidt wrote: Am/On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:02 -0500 schrieb/wrote Larry Stone: On 6/18/09 7:11 PM, Bryan Har

Re: [Mailman-Users] Site password not functioning

2010-04-01 Thread Larry Stone
kup copies of the Postfix config files before installing the update this weekend). -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Limitations

2010-03-04 Thread Larry Stone
n. with 3,000+ names, can the current system handle something of that size? Mailman can easily handle a list of that size. If you are to have an issue, it will be with your computer's resources (memory, disk space, etc.) and/or Internet bandwidth. -- Larry Stone lston.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Macs & Mailman software

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Stone
Leopard. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam filtering

2010-02-17 Thread Larry Stone
VE mail for the domain. They say nothing about which servers can SEND mail for the domain. While in many cases, they are the same servers, there is no requirement that they be so and many large ISPs split the functions. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonej

Re: [Mailman-Users] Questions

2010-02-09 Thread Larry Stone
GNU Mailman . Please do not refer to a GNU Mailman list as a "listserv" or use "listserv" as a generic term for mailing lists or mailing list management software. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -

Re: [Mailman-Users] closing account

2010-02-01 Thread Larry Stone
system that is sending you these messages. This list is for discussion by Mailman administrators of how to use Mailman. It is not a support list specific to the server that is sending you the messages nor do we have any access to that site. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list

2010-01-26 Thread Larry Stone
man source and building it (requires Mac OS X Developer Tools), you will be modifying the internal web server on your computer, and you will need to modify system startup files (Mailman runs in the background). In short, you need to be a reasonably skilled system administrator. -- Larry Ston

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is There a list member limitation?

2010-01-15 Thread Larry Stone
Requested mail action not taken: mailbox unavailable (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Jan 13 15:25:00 my-mailserver postfix/smtp[28262]: B405E2D858F -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is There a list member limitation?

2010-01-15 Thread Larry Stone
rvers, you should be able to look in the postfix logs to see what's happening. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dunivan Realtors List

2010-01-14 Thread Larry Stone
lient that recognizes the headers and not all do. Also, this list is about the Mailman software itself. We have no access to the site running your list. You need to contact your site administrator about making chnages to your site. -- Larry Stone l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error running bin/mailmanctl restart

2009-12-17 Thread Larry Stone
ners (Paul, did you reboot or force a reload of the launchd plist for mailman?). So we'd need to see log files as to what's happening. If there's nothing in any logfile (including system.log), then I'd guess the plist was never reloaded. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejong

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error running bin/mailmanctl restart

2009-12-17 Thread Larry Stone
a slightly different name to avoid a conflict), the modifications to the Apache configuration file, and the modifications to the Postfix configuration file for the aliases (all of which should be preserved by any Apple upgrades). -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pau

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting ready to try my first install of mailman on OS-X

2009-12-07 Thread Larry Stone
ell as notes on my upgrade to Leopard. The Tiger instructions can be found in the archives at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg33402.html>. A search will let you find the Panther instructions and Leopard notes if you need those. -- Larry Stone lston...@s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Taking a stab at Mailman on Mac OS X

2009-11-26 Thread Larry Stone
On 11/26/09 12:12 AM, Larry Stone at lston...@stonejongleux.com wrote: > Also, search the archives as I have posted detailed instructions on > installing Mailman on Mac OS X. There is a version for Tiger (10.4) I posted > on 7/17/05. Now that I had time to do the search myself, the URL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Taking a stab at Mailman on Mac OS X

2009-11-25 Thread Larry Stone
alling Mailman on Mac OS X. There is a version for Tiger (10.4) I posted on 7/17/05. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: Emergency Broadcast

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Stone
with your ISP, you can run Mailman on Max OS X. While Apple provides a modified version with OS X Server, it is easy to install from source on OS X client and instructions to do so can be found in the Archived. I am currently running Mailman 2.1.12 on Leopard (on a PPC iMac not that that will make an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman current version?

2009-11-18 Thread Larry Stone
"use the beta, it's the current latest working version". With Mailman, wait for an official production release as it will come when everything is ready. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

2009-06-26 Thread Larry Stone
specified in the XML property list. More information can be found in launch(3). o Catch the SIGTERM signal. I'll leave it to those better into the technical end of things to interpret that relative to what mailmanctl does. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejong

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

2009-06-26 Thread Larry Stone
On 6/26/09 6:22 AM, Matthias Schmidt at b...@admilon.net wrote: > Am/On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:02 -0500 schrieb/wrote Larry Stone: > >> On 6/18/09 7:11 PM, Bryan Harrison at br...@bryanharrison.com wrote: >> >>> I've built and installed Mailman 2.12 from cur

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

2009-06-18 Thread Larry Stone
t, I have a cron job that runs hourly to check for the proper number of qrunners and send me e-mail if any or all are missing. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail to non-existing list - Part two

2009-04-24 Thread Larry Stone
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Jeff Bernier wrote: I have tested this by just making up names on-the-fly like nolist, or xyzlist, and get this result every time. Sounds like you have a catchall address pointing to the Mailman list address. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] MMDSR Question

2009-02-15 Thread Larry Stone
I have MMDSR running on Mac OS X but as I recall, I made a lot of changes to it to both make it work and have it do what I wanted it to do. There were definitely some syntax changes and, I think, some binary file location differences to be to be accommodated. -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejon

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce handling is not user-friendly.

2008-09-11 Thread Larry Stone
t off the top of my head, possibilities are: 1) a misconfigured mail server that is rejecting mail with a permanent error for what is a transient error 2) mail being bounced by a spam filter 3) Auto-replies from your mail program back to the sender I'm sure there are others. How well they'

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Stone
by friday.westnet.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7DF2jJX008532 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:02:45 -0400 (EDT) That's not a "Message ID", that's a queue ID. And yes, I do the same thing. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Stone
at I do -- file them automatically, in a folder that you > never go look in. Why even receive them at that point? They're little more than spam themselves so maybe it's time to ban all mail from AOL as AOL will then be a known spammer. :-( -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade questions - Best method suggestions requested

2008-07-16 Thread Larry Stone
iously is useful for other mailman problems as well) and manually starting it when necessary. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-10 Thread Larry Stone
bout customers abusing it. But note also that the way I use Mailman for these lists to my referees is very much outside the traditional mailing list model. And by the way, I also do run a few "traditional" lists and they are very much confirmed opt-in. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread Larry Stone
is generating a separate e-mail for each user which passes through Postfix as separate messages with a unique ID in Postfix. Without personalization, Mailman could pass as few as one message to the MTA and let the MTA split it into all the destinations. With personalization, the message for e

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread Larry Stone
need "recipient_delimiter = +" in your main.cf so it knows about the plus signs in the return paths. When you then get the AOL TOS e-mail, you can figure out who the list recipient was as while AOL redacts the AOL recipient, they don't touch the Return-Path. As you have obse

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread Larry Stone
P_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes > VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 You also need OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes Once you do that, the personalization option will appear on the appropriate admin page. You will probably need to restart httpd for it to appear. I doubt restarting the qrunners will be needed. -- Larry S

Re: [Mailman-Users] sharing administrator passwords

2008-05-29 Thread Larry Stone
t from the list admin password. Otherwise, it will be authenticated as the list password, not the site password, and you'll need to log into the other lists. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-28 Thread Larry Stone
ilman list with VERP so they receive them with them as the To: recipient. That also lets me know who to remove when they decide that the easiest way to let me know that they're no longer interested in being notified of available games is to do a "report as spam". :-( -- Larry Stone [EM

Re: [Mailman-Users] sharing administrator passwords

2008-05-28 Thread Larry Stone
rs Mailman determines it to be the list password and never gets to the site password test and there never sets the site admin cookie. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounces and disk quota exceeded

2008-04-09 Thread Larry Stone
) even though the list message(s) were big enough to put him over quota (e.g. member has 10,000 bytes available; 100,000 byte list message is rejected but 1,000 byte "you are disabled" message is accepted). -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing mm_cfg.py for existing lists

2008-04-08 Thread Larry Stone
e "too many recipients" error and not bounced. If that's true, I hope you realize that changing the setting in Mailman only affects messages given to sendmail after you made the change. Anything already in sendmail's outgoing queue from before you made the change is not affect

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ongoing delivery issues - First Yahoo, now AOL

2008-03-09 Thread Larry Stone
t;level 2" or "level 3" support. I also had no problem having them change the reverse DNS on my address to my domain name, something that makes spam detection software happier. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Larry Stone
alization. That will force mailman to generate a separate message for each recipient and Yahoo will see several messages each addresses to one recipient rather than one message addressed to multiple recipients. Unfortunately, when a recipient chooses to use a free e-mail service, they get

Re: [Mailman-Users] bots subscribing to lists via web forms to avoidmember-only restrictions

2008-01-06 Thread Larry Stone
match is annoying. I even found one I couldn't get right after half a dozen tries. I gave up. Their loss. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.pyth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriptions being disabled

2007-12-26 Thread Larry Stone
hat I can find it. ... > I have bounce processing turned on. The bounce_score_threshold is set > for 5.0. With bounce processing turned on, you don't get notified until the bounce threshold is exceeded. Until then, the bounces get logged in the Mailman bounce log but that's it. So all of them have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Making sure MailMan is running...

2007-12-13 Thread Larry Stone
rs but as it's going to myself, I don't care. You could, of course, do something else there to provide notification. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Shameless plug

2007-11-19 Thread Larry Stone
etmaster's which I actually didn't think was possible. :-( In their attempt to make it unreadable by machines, they've succeeded in making it unreadable by humans. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Python 2.5.1

2007-11-12 Thread Larry Stone
(Leopard). -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Leopard Server Mailman Config Question

2007-11-12 Thread Larry Stone
;s /etc/postfix/main.cf). Unfortunately, since this is OS X Server, that may not be correct for you (but /etc/postfix is where the postfix stuff is by default on OS X client so I'd guess it's there for OS X Server as well). -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mac OS X Leopard upgrade experience

2007-10-30 Thread Larry Stone
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Larry Stone wrote: > 5) Startup is intermittently(?) failing due to what seems to be a Leopard, > not mailman, issue. I'm not at all sure what that "Stray process" message > means and have not turned up anything useful in a web search. > > Oct 2

[Mailman-Users] Mac OS X Leopard upgrade experience

2007-10-29 Thread Larry Stone
PID 83 PPID 1 Python Nothing appears in the mailman logs but unless I'm mistaken, the "Starting Mailman's ..." message comes from mailmanctl so mailmanctl is launching but then dying with that "Stray process" error. The Leopard provided version of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for eachlist?

2007-08-29 Thread Larry Stone
happy to chug along in the background. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for each list?

2007-08-29 Thread Larry Stone
a problem. They tell me that > phplist doesn't have the problems mailman does. Other reasons? Misconfiguration by them; resource limits they've applied. Who knows other than them. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Larry Stone
On 7/14/07 8:26 PM, Brad Knowles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7/14/07, Larry Stone wrote: > >> # [EMAIL PROTECTED] banned for AOL TOS notice - 10/20/05 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 554 You have previously reported requested >> mail from here as SPAM - you are

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Larry Stone
comes to it, then I just make it clear that I don't accept AOL users as subscribers. If they want to subscribe, they will have to do so from a "real" ISP. > Messageid still works, for whatever reason it's the one piece of > header info that isn't redacted at this p

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