Re: [Mailman-Users] Many users unsubscribed at once (not by me)

In a message of Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:11:03 +0100, Hal writes: >On 13/12/2015 15:53, Laura Creighton wrote: > > >> What is more likely is that a member of your list, >> posts something to the list. Then mailman tries to deliver the mail >> to all the subscribers. When i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Many users unsubscribed at once (not by me)

t yahoo or wherever the way that you expect. But first you have to figure out why you are getting the bounces in the first place. Check your mailman log files for that. They are in different places depending on whether you have a CPanel mailman, or a regular one, or one of countless other hosting

Re: [Mailman-Users] command listinfo not in docroot (10005)

In a message of Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:48:52 -0500, Dave Arndt writes: >On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> selinux That eliminates a lot of hell. Good. I wish I could be of more help, but that much I do

Re: [Mailman-Users] command listinfo not in docroot (10005)

Do you have selinux installed? It can cause a gazillion problems. Laura -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http:

Re: [Mailman-Users] duplicates

In a message of Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:22:50 +0100, Marco Stoecker writes: >But now I have no glue how to configure on the ISP side or >postfix(relayhost) or mailman to avoid such duplicates. >Any assistance possible here in this mailing list? > >BR >Marco There is a fetchmail-users mailing list here

Re: [Mailman-Users] Formatting problems with AOL subscribers

In a message of Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:42:22 +1100, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >Hi, > >I run an announcement-only mailing list with mailman, and some of my >subscribers are having problems with the formatting of the text. >Specifically AOL users. This could be an outlook 10 problem not an AOL one. h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

I think that Aditya Jain's problem is that he (she?) doesn't understand that fail2ban takes a look at where the attackers are coming from and bans _their_ Host from connecting. He thought it worked by making his host unconnectable, which of course will not work. But I could be wrong .. Laura ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message may contain ... administrivia?

In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:56:57 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >management of a large number of lists. It is more common for me to get >mail on lists Subject: I don't understand this error > >Help Hmmm. On further thought, I think that one would go through. Its mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message may contain ... administrivia?

In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:35:02 -0400, Steve Matzura writes: >Well now I've seen everything. Why would Mailman send a return message >to a subscriber to a mailing list that says their message couldn't be >posted to the mailing list because "message may contain >administrivia". If your su

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to get the senders email address in the custom footer?

In a message of Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:58:59 -0400, Arlen Raasch writes: >I have recently acquired the responsibility of maintaining a small >listserver with about 1000 users. > >We are using version 2.1.16 of Mailman. > >The emails that currently are sent out via the listserv server have headers >tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: BCC and bounces

In a message of Tue, 08 Sep 2015 01:41:16 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: >http://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20hide%20the%20fact%20that%20I%27m%2\ >0using%20a%20mailing%20list%20management%20system%3F > >WDYT? > >Steve Looks reasonable to me. By the way, CiviCRM advertises mailman integr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: BCC and bounces

Should we get rid of this page/FAQ entry http://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20hide%20the%20fact%20that%20I%27m%20using%20a%20mailing%20list%20management%20system%3F then? And talk about Full Personalisation instead? Laura -- Mailman-Users ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman care about mail aliases? (fwd)

apiro.net> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 08:28:34 -0700 On 09/06/2015 02:15 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: > > So I went to the user webpage for this list, stuck in > 'webmas...@python.org' and asked it to send me my password. > Nothing has happened, except getting more mail from the li

[Mailman-Users] Does mailman care about mail aliases?

Somebody has subscribed 'webmas...@python.org' to their wretched Portuguese Language Mailing List. My Portuguese is none too good, but the messages all seem to be of the 'kill this mailing list' and 'get me off this mailing list' sort. So I went to the user webpage for this list, stuck in 'webmas

Re: [Mailman-Users] integrating htdig with cpanel mailman

In a message of Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:29:37 -0400, "Jason Fayre" writes: >Hi, >I finally got htdig to compile from source. So, I got rid of the centos >package and am now using a vanilla build. The rundig patch applied correctly >now. > cheer! :) Laura --

Re: [Mailman-Users] high amount of spam subscriptions

deepest sympathies. Poor you. Welcome to the club. We've been seeing this recently too. See the thread beginning here: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-August/079627.html The damn things seem to be adapting, which isn't good. Laura --

[Mailman-Users] Wonderful gmail (was: at Slayter 7pm TOMORROW Wed., FREE Beginner lesson, Live Band)

In a message of Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:15:43 +0100, Adam McGreggor writes: >Is it a case of that wonderful gmail feature: > >https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6588 Gmail doesn't give android users the ability to send plain text emails. The desktop users are supposed to be able to, but it do

Re: [Mailman-Users] UnicodeDecodeError with Mailman 2.1 and Python 2.6

If some code has from __future__ import unicode_literals that might go a long way to explaining things. see: see: https://docs.python.org/2/whatsnew/2.6.html -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

In a message of Mon, 31 Aug 2015 21:35:33 -0500, Nestor Praslin writes: >Hi dear mailman user is there any step by step video in youtube maybe with >the requirements and the installation process? I went to youtube. I searched for "mailman tutorial". The first 3 hits seem to be what you are lookin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

You may be interested in this thread: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-April/073181.html Laura -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to discard messages from just a few list members?

In a message of Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:10:46 +0200, Ulf Dunkel writes: >Thank you for your detailed cookbook, but I would lose moderation of my >own postings to this newsletter mailing list if I would do either way as >you suggested. I know that the basic intention of Mailman mailing lists >is to let

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with accented characters, converting HTML to plain text

In a message of Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:04:08 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >On 7/19/15 1:13 PM, Dominique Asselineau wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When a e-mail in text/html content-type is converted in to plain text, >> the accented characters are not treated correctly. > > >There are potential issues with th

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:55:52 -0400, "Bill Cole" writes: >> ??? There's been major discussion about this on both lists, and >> everybody thinks it's a wonderful idea. Not a single objection. > >I am sorry. By way of explanation, it was late and I skimmed with tired >eyes, missing the

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:33:00 -0400, "Bill Cole" writes: >On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote: > >> 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. > >Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an >affirmat

[Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. They are both lists for recipes for people who have impaired kidney function. A complication is that these lists are hosted on different machines, with completely different names, etc. But picking a third name and setting things up so that po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking to do a test mirgration

>Is there a way to disable all automatic notifications? > >Thanks >Chris If you go to the administrative interface of your list and click on General Options you will find a bunch of things to turn off. If you are using the Auto-Responder you may have to turn things off there, too. Laura ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: member receiving confirmation of messages?

Sure. Go to the Membership Management tab. Then select the member you want. Turn the legend on for the table you get at the bottom, so you will see that 'ack' is the thing you want to change. Laura -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conceal the member's address

Did you remember to restart mailman after you made these changes? You need to restart qrunner for the change to actually take effect. Laura -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Syslog in Mailman

In a message of Mon, 04 May 2015 11:05:23 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Sun, 03 May 2015 21:54:54 -, Eric Lamer writes: >>Hi, >> >> I have Mailman installed on my Debian and I don't get any message in my >> syslog server from Mailman. I hav

Re: [Mailman-Users] Syslog in Mailman

In a message of Sun, 03 May 2015 21:54:54 -, Eric Lamer writes: >Hi, > > I have Mailman installed on my Debian and I don't get any message in my > syslog server from Mailman. I have exim4 on the same server and I get syslog > from it. > > I have generated some stuff in mailman, like crea

Re: [Mailman-Users] /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py (was EyeLand's problem)

In poking around debian systems to see if I could shed any light on EyeLand's problem, I ended up with a question. On all the machines I can ssh to, I have an /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py as well as a /usr/lib (or /var/lib) /mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py, and the second is a symbolic link to the first. Why

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conceal the member's address

In a message of Sun, 03 May 2015 14:04:47 +0300, EyeLand writes: >root@vps1:~# sudo find / -name mm_cfg.py >/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py >/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py > >on file /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py >https://gist.githubusercontent.com/eyeland/e33c20045867b262d1a2/raw/1bdb433403594c4f1

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conceal the member's address

I can see his screenshots. Reposted here: http://www2.openend.se/~lac/EyeLand/EyeLand.ss1.jpg http://www2.openend.se/~lac/EyeLand/EyeLand.ss2.jpg Let me know if you can see the ones he put up on img-fotki.yandex.ru , If not, I can keep doing this. Though I am having dinner soon ... Laura -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Mailman consultant

In a message of Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:43:36 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >Thanks Laura. I have added this info to the wiki page at >. I should have thought to do that myself. _Thank you_. Laura

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

Ooops, machine crashed, and mail got sent ... Instead of that long quoting of what Mark said, that was supposed to be: "Thank you Mark." Apologies, apologies. Laura -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Mailman consultant

If you do not find somebody here, you might try the newly re-launched python jobs board. https://www.python.org/community/jobs/howto/ If you post there, please make sure that you mention how many hours a week you expect this job to take, so people can know if this is a full time, part time, or onc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

In a message of Sat, 25 Apr 2015 08:42:10 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >On 04/22/2015 09:49 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: >> Maybe at the point where we mention 'you must have cookies enabled' >> we should mention that load balancers can cause problems? > > >What

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

Maybe at the point where we mention 'you must have cookies enabled' we should mention that load balancers can cause problems? (Thinking out loud here.) Laura X -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

In a message of Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:52:33 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >It wouldn't be his machine. It would be something between his machine >and mail.python.org. Perhaps some kind of load balancer or other >device which submits each separate http request from one of a pool of >IP addresses. Thus, t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

In a message of Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:34:00 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >It is a stretch, but the HTML for the form tag and it's input tags look >something like > > name="sub_form_token" >value="1429735034:cebafdd44a345e440de23b4ba49d63b71439258a"> > > > > > > No > Yes > > > >It is c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

In a message of Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:07:13 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >The message your user got, "You must GET the form before submitting >it.", indicates the hidden 'sub_form_token' either was not present in >the submitted form or was not of the correct format. This could indicate >that there is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

In a message of Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:31:46 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >On 04/21/2015 03:55 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: >> Forwarded message here. He just tried to subscribe as ben.jol...@xad.com >> but apparantly can only subscribe if he leaves the password field blank. >>

[Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

.prod.outlook.com ([25.160.10.21]) with mapi id 15.01.0136.014; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:25:38 + From: Ben Jolitz To: Laura Creighton CC: Maciej Fijalkowski , "pypy-dev-ow...@python.org" Subject: Re: cannot subscribe to pypy-dev Thread-Topic: cannot subscribe to pypy-dev Th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Issue with postfix-to-mailman.py (Command died with status 127)

lman.py was unecessary and not part of inital project. I >removed it from the equation, updated the postfix configuration and it >worked like a charm. > >Many thanks to all of you :) > >Have a good evening, >-- >Matthieu Berjon Very happy to help. Thank you for letting u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Issue with postfix-to-mailman.py (Command died with status 127)

tfix seems to manage correctly the email and doesn't >> complain about it. Your problem is that env is complaining that it cannot find python. Therefore I would conclude that there is no python in Postfix's search path. Laura Creighton ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Templates

ground floor of new feature requests for mailman 3.x. :) Laura Creighton ps -- anybody know why all mail I see from people on yahoo.com (including JB here) arrives to me as from yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid. It very much seems to be a python.org thing, but, ah, why is python.org seeing fit to add this

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

In a message of Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:19:56 -0500, Mike Starr writes: >I'll leave the discussion now... I've seen these top-post/bottom-post >flame wars in the past. It's just like the toilet paper top/bottom >argument. There is no *right way* to do it. It's all a matter of >preference with good a

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

In a message of Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:34:32 +1100, Peter Shute writes: >Thanks for that bit of reply style history! I've only been using >email since quoting became a common feature, so I never saw this >before and after effect. Have you seen a reduction in this "dressing >down" style of reply since

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

In a message of Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:55:36 -0500, Lindsay Haisley writes: >I know of exactly one that's "proper" in this regard. One of the >reasons I keep Evolution as my primary MUA is because it allows me to >extract a message/rfc822 part from a multipart/mixed MIME structure and >save it _as an

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

ing such a document, insist that people understand that they only have to win an argument once. There are no bonus points awarded for overkill. :) Laura Creighton -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

Aha, I now see that you know not to replace your system Python. Sorry for the note in haste, but if you were about to do such a thing I needed to tell you NO! DON'T DO THAT! in a hurry. Apologies, apologies ... (from somebody who only learned that about CentOS only _after_ she thought thatinstal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

In a message of Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:15:01 -0500, bill.co...@unh.edu writes: >Mark Sapiro recently posted, in part... > >> Are you installing Mailman 2.1.19 on the Red Hat system or >> using whatever Red Hat rpm package that's available, and if the >> latter, what is that? And, what Mailman will yo

Re: [Mailman-Users] remove message from archive?

In a message of Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:12:22 +0200, Danil Smirnov writes: >Hi! > >Are there any way to remove one particular message from list archive? > >Thanks, >Danil Yes, depending on the permissions you have on your server. If you are running on cpanel, things are not looking good for you. But

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

>> Anything obviously wrong with this idea? > >It doesn't seem that the 'mover' should be checking the age of things in >queue 1. The idea is just to not send messages more than a few times a >day, not to introduce extra delay. > >Also, it's easy to configure Mailman to use some smtp port other tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

Well, after giving the problem a night's worth of thought, I think the best idea for this problem is to use sendmail. Or rather to use 2 of them. The first one just receives mail and queues it. But it is configured to _not_ process the mail queue. The second one is configured so that it process

[Mailman-Users] Internationalisation bug in 2.1.15

t his character set is on his machine, but I get this here, too. pypy-dev is configured with a default lanaguage of English(USA). Should I make a bug report, or is this already fixed in later versions of mailman? Laura Creighton -- Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Google App

I just checked. read https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/receivingmail My apologies. Google App Engine used to be set up so that no email could be recevied at all. Now that is the default, but it can be overwritten. Can we get mailman to work under these Google App Engine restr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Google App

In a message of Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:50:54 -0600, cha charle writes: >Hi, > >Thanks for your quick reply; then is it possible to continue run a Mailman >server and still have my email move to Google App. Thanks! > >On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Google App

Unless Google App Engine has changed recently, it cannot receive any mail at all. So you need to move your mailing list software to someplace else, mailman friendly. There is no hope of doing what you want. Sorry about that, Laura Creighton

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

In a message of Wed, 04 Feb 2015 08:09:13 -0800, Mark Sapiro writes: >> This was the place I was sort of hoping that 'once a day' could be >> changed to 'once every 6 hours', but my rather cursory glance at the >> code made me conclude -- nope, not here. > > >In Mailman's crontab - see my last repl

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

In a message of Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:33:19 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: >Laura Creighton writes: > >Hi Laura! > > > While some people want to continue receiving digests, and some > > people don't, everybody is in favour of having the mail only go out

[Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

he correct place for figuring out how frequently mailman decides to send mail. Where should I be looking? Thanks very much, Laura Creighton -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeing your own sig appear in (someone else's) email to the list

Some long dormant bits in my brain are remembering something like this happening when the MIME type application/pgp-signature was introduced. Before then, people were using application/pgp for such things, and some were using other things like pgp-encrypt. If the signature problem is a pgp signa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:54:19 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >>The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the >>list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the >list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't think Mailman >does the right thing in this case. >From my perspective, the problem is that by havin

[Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

er a) this isn't so and I have overlooked something, or b) it absolutely must be done this way for a reason I do not understand. Can somebody please explain this? Thank you very much, Laura Creighton -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list with no archive

In a message of Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:38:36 PDT, Mark Sapiro writes: >Laura Creighton wrote: >> >> A mailing list that I am subscribed to, for reasons of privacy, has dec >ided >> to not archive its messages. I think this is an extremely silly idea, >but >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail distro, newsgroup, or both?

In a message of Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:20:04 CDT, Brad Knowles writes: >Do you mean Mailman mailing lists? The interface is exposed to third-par >ty >archivers, such as mhonarc, and there are other third-party index/search >tools that also can be relatively easily integrated. Search the FAQ Wiza >

[Mailman-Users] Mailing list with no archive

e because your problem is that there is no archive, not that you mistyped your password. So -- is this just a bug -- should I report it -- or is this list misconfigured? I can ask the list maintainer to change things if there is a way we can avoid this. Thanks v

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature I would like to see ....

Thanks very much. Laura Creighton -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] feature I would like to see ....

ldn't be hard to add. Thanks very much, Laura Creighton -was this the correct place to send this?- -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] Any nmh users here?

nmh doesn't understand mailman created digests and won't burst them correctly. Has anybody here already hacked nmh to do this? (I mailed the nmh list, and they _haven't_, but they say they need a new mailing list software anyhow...).

[Mailman-Users] Every time certain microsoft programs find a virus

they feel morally obligated to communicate the fact to everybody on your mailing list. Pretty soon you have more mail about the virus than whatever your list is for. Does anybody have a way to prevent these messages from poluting your list? Thanks very much, Laura Creighton