Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman & Exim 4.05

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:00:12AM -0400, Mike Gifford wrote: > If this isn't the case, please let me know, but I could not find a > Directors config file section in 4.05, but could find one prominently in > 3.33. MAILMAN_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/mailman MAILMAN20_WRAP=MAILMAN_HOME/mail/wrapper MAI

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hey

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:58:48PM +0200, Robert Meyer wrote: > Hey, > > i have SMTP Auth work at my Linux-System. Does mailman work with this? Mailman doesn't do SMTP AUTH, nor does it really need to Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microso

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Main

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:26:41AM -0600, Ryan Schouten - ABCOffice wrote: > Does your software handle bounce backs? mailman 2.0: somewhat mailman 2.1b2: yes, if you enable VERP In both cases, however, it won't work as well as Ezmlm Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:35:38PM -0400, Scott Courtney wrote: > Hi, folks > > I think I have found a bug in bin/arch, but I imagine someone has found it > before. Also, I have run into an architectural limit and would like to > change a constant to fix it, if possible. As you found out, there

Re: [Mailman-Users] nested lists

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:55:08PM -0700, Larry Guest wrote: > I will be setting up mailman using lists to send mail to lists. I only want > lists members to be able to post. So mailman needs to look down the chain > of lists and make sure that the right people can posts to the list. It must >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To option, Author Name and Archives

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:35:02AM -0600, Chris Wiegand wrote: > Here, all of my users are Windows users, and non-technical ones at that. > I read on that sourceforge page: > > > For the remaining people who do not want two copies and can't remove > > duplicates on their side, the next version o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To option, Author Name and Archives

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:09:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While there seems to be a bug, note that: > Since this is a discussion list, it's useful to have the "Reply-To:" option > set up as "This List." Note that this is a common misconception. It's all between the brain and the fin

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple reply-to adresses?

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:05:12AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Yo! > > Mailman (stable - 2.0.9-1 Debian pkg) seems to not allow multiple > adresses in a Reply-To: field (set via web interface as explicit return > address), while many mailers do not have a problem with it.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searchable archives

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:20:11PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote: > Has anyone done any work on searchable archive, preferably with a web > interface? Look in the archives of this list, or in the patch manager on sf.net for the htdig integration patch Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & securi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Inaccessible archives

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:17:51PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote: > According to the administration docs, if the list is in use and "Options > FollowSymLinks" is enabled, then users should be able to get to the > archives. Yet, everyone who tries gets the message, "You don't have > permission to access /

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-web interface

On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:14:17PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote: > I have a few users without web access. I know there's some sort of email > interface to Mailman, but I haven't been able to locate any documentation > on it. Help anyone? send "help" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc -- Microsoft is to operat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:37:31PM -0400, Tony O wrote: > Is there a limit to the number of subscribers the Mailman mailing list can > have? No, but the web interface gets noticeably slower when you start having several tens of thousands. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security ...

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loop for digest members

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:42:42PM -0400, wayne wrote: > My ISP is running version 2.01 of Mailman on their Linux 7.2 box. Lots of bugs were fixed since that version. You should ask your ISP to upgrade to 2.0.11 Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

Re: [Mailman-Users] large lists question

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:34:47PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: > Lets not forget about the biggest bottle neck of all... the Hard Drive. > For maximum through-put, you need to use a SCSI drive or RAID array as the > Disk Subsystem for the server. If this is mission critical the obvious > choice

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in french

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:45:11PM +0200, Laurent Rathle wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to put french messages and templates in mailman 2.0.8 and if > yes, how do I set it ? Not easily mailman 2.1b2 supports that out of the box. You should try it. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating syst

Re: [Mailman-Users] large lists question

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Andreu Sanchez wrote: > Well, i have a question regarding mailman, we need to create some lists > with 5000 mail addresses and we ask ourselves if mailman would support > that huge bunch of mails and if the answer is yes, what machine must > have the mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] restricting privileges

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:10:36PM -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a way of restricting privileges in the Mailman web > > admin pages? In particular I'd like to stop users with list-admin > > privileges from being able to change the max_message_size setting but > > st

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is mailman the thing to use with a big newsletter?

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:18:26AM +0200, Support wrote: > Hello, > > i'm searching a software that gives me the ability to send my newsletter to > nearly 240'000 recipents. Unless you plan to use the subscribe/unsuscribe architecture in mailman, you're better off rolling a shell script that loo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Greetings from Northeastern Argentina's

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:29:16PM -0300, Eduardo Sosa wrote: > Hi! > After years having used Sendmail+Majordomo+Linux, I´ve migrated to > Exim+Mailman+linux http://listas.unam.edu.ar/mailman/listinfo . > I do know that you receive questions like this one every day, but I > would like to know fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] slow web administration

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:15:37PM -0600, Tremaine Lea wrote: > Hey there folks, > > Not sure if anyone else has run across this issue, but it's slowly > driving me batty. I currently have mailman 2.0.9-1 running on a Xeon > 800 with 500 megs of ram. It has a single mailing list with roughly >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering spam with Spamassassin / Procmail and Mailman...

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:53:52PM -0400, Phydeaux wrote: > This works fine and so far zero spam has made it onto my mailing > lists. Unfortunately, however, I am now trapping up to 15 messages > per day per list. I have to manually remove each piece of detritus > via the administrative interface.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade differences

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:37:04AM -0500, Paul Croft wrote: > Is there a site that lists the new features that are in this version? There are announced right here, you can read the archives, but I'll save you time, it's only bug fixes. New features are in mailman 2.1 Marc -- Microsoft is to ope

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user question

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:21:36PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > Oops. If the site administrator allows it (via an mm_cfg.py > variable), list owners can suppress the RFC 2369 headers. My bad, thanks for the correction. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

Re: [Mailman-Users] LISTS command

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:13:11AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: > 1) I am running in a shared environment. When I send LISTS to the > listname-request address I get a listing of all lists on the server and NOT > just the one(s) for that domain. My domain should not be allowed

Re: [Mailman-Users] User List

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:04:52AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: > What is the URL that I can go to pull a complete list of all my > subscribers and their password? I don't want any sort of nice cute warm > and fuzzy graphical glitzed up thing, just a quick and dirty compl

Re: [Mailman-Users] User List

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:25:53AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: > Does not work in a shared environment. PERMISSION DENIED every time! Uh? You gotta be part of the group mailman to have permissions on the db. > BTW if any of the programmers are here can I ask why a .db format

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:06:42AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: > not addressed in the software. Form looking at the code, it is rather easy > to see that the programmers are pretty damn good. It is rather surprising > to fellow programmers that one would tie the hands of user

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user question

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:50:44AM -0700, Bob Weissman wrote: > I hope I'm reading this right; may I infer that these headers will be > supressable on a per-list basis? Nope, site-wide only. Barry already knows that mailman 3 will probably need a toggle redesign, where most options wi

Re: [Mailman-Users] your software

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 02:45:37AM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote: > The whole point of the GNU project is to create an operating > system that is completely Free Software. Therefore, it is only > proper to inform users of GNU software that this is our goal. The only reason I'm answering here is th

Re: [Mailman-Users] your software

[I do not plan to answer mails on this thread] On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:22:26AM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote: > Sandra Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dear Mailman, > > I currently use your Mailman software at work , through my univesity > > system, and a fabulous system it is indeed.

Re: [Mailman-Users] does GNU Mailman keep list of all members joined

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:42:09PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:41:18 -0400 > Karim R Lakhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi all, hi i was wondering if GNU Mailman keeps track of all users > > that have subscribed (ever) to the list. Thus is there a data base > > tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in chroot environment

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:34:34AM +0200, CONTRAIRE M DsigTcs wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup mailman in a chroot environment. > It doesn't work and I am wondering if it's possible at all. It is possible, you can run anything in a chroot environment. For that matter, you can i

Re: [Mailman-Users] renaming a mailing list

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:40:24PM -0400, Fuzzy wrote: > > I discovered that one of my lists "sanctuary-admin" conflicts > with the admin address of the mailing list "sanctuary", mailman > is taking the posting address and appending "-admin" and trying > use that as the admin address. this fails

Re: [Mailman-Users] I/O error in Runner.py when archiving under 2.1a3

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:44:19AM -0700, Ellen Spertus wrote: > A mailing list of mine works except for archiving. > > I am using 2.1a3 on Redhat. Ok, if you are using 2.1, you *really* want to use CVS, not snapshots, unless they just came out. Barry being a lucky guy invariably fixes a bug or

Re: [Mailman-Users] create, delete a list

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:13:53PM -0500, Raik Nettling wrote: > Is there a way to create /delete a list through a web-interface or > e-mail ? > http://www.acme.com/mailman/create doesn't work. I cannot find find a > script for it. > I'm running mailman 2.0.9 on Redhat 7.0. You cannot create or r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:55:01AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote: > "Billie R. McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list. But, we aren't able to > >edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just one > >inappropriate word). > > > >How can we

Re: [Mailman-Users] PW Reminder Override?

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:09:20AM +0200, Danny Terweij wrote: > From: "Marc MERLIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Each list has a setting of whether or not to send out the monthly > password > > > reminder ("Send monthly password reminders Y/

Re: [Mailman-Users] PW Reminder Override?

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:42:25PM -0400, Tim Miller wrote: > Sorry I was not clearer about this. > > Each list has a setting of whether or not to send out the monthly password > reminder ("Send monthly password reminders Y/N"). I want to send them to > every list regardless of how this is se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple emails to lists

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:22:23PM -0700, Philip Rowe wrote: > Hey, > > I've been going through the documentation in order to stop > Mailman from sending multiple emails to users for lists that > contain another list name. You cannot do this with mailman 2.0 Mailman 2.1 could almost do this, b

Re: [Mailman-Users] newbie question

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:24:02PM -0600, Brian Noecker wrote: > Update on this: > > Seems that the problems with the "admin(21776): OSError: [Errno 1] Operation > not permitted" error stem from the following observations: > > the /opt/mailman/lists and /opt/mailman/lists/test/config.db file has

Re: [Mailman-Users] editing pending messages

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:46:53AM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:05:27 -0400 (EDT) > sean pambianco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, Is it possible to edit messages that are held for approval in the > > administrative interface? The header and the text? > > Please see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribing safely

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:40:40AM +0200, Herve Cassagne wrote: > Hi, > > > It is possible to "Mass Subscribe Members" from > the Membership Management page. > > How many at a time should I add ? My list is > not very long: only 400 members. > > 4 times 100, or less, or more ? What is your adv

Re: [Mailman-Users] "Envelope-to:"-header

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:37:44PM -0800, Thomas Bartke wrote: > Hi: > > why is it that the "Envelope-to:"-header in posts from my mailing list lists > all recipients? I noticed that he mails from this list (Mailman-Users) only > puts a single e-mail address in the "Envelope-to:"-header. Can we d

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change the default value for ACK and DIGEST ?

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:20:39PM +0200, Herve Cassagne wrote: > Hi folks, > > > For a new subscriber, by default the setting account is (ampongst other > things): > - NOACK (the member does not get acknowledgements of his posts) > - If DIGEST, the format is PLAIN. > > I'd like to change the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Another mailman bug

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 03:43:01PM +, Russell King wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been through my mailman lists handling the held postings, and I > notice that mailman is playing silly buggers with the web interface. > Please see: > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/images/mailmangroupings.jpg

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:42:14PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > >>>>> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MM> Ah, you want as a site owner to not have dupe removal enabled? > MM> Ok, then afte

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: set up the mailman list as a newsletter ?

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:07:17AM -0600, Catherine Mannix wrote: > Or you can set the Reply-to to Poster. Hint: setting Reply-To does _not_ let you redirect answers reliably. Reply to all with reply to the list and the original sender regardless of what Reply-To is set to. Your best bet if you

Re: [Mailman-Users] testing lists using IP addresses

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:25:44PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > Most MTA's are setup to use the Domain Name. I think the ip address would > screw them up considerably. You could configure your local MTA to handle The RFCs say that you can send Email to listname@[192.168.101.202] (you need bracket

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which file are the email addresses stored in???

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:07:26PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > They probably stored in a simple database, but you can dump them out by ~mailman/lists/listname/config.{db,pck} dumpdb will list the content of those files Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:39:18AM +0530, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used to do it > with Majordomo and Yahoogroups, but they are both difficult in other > ways) instead of having to log on via the Net? Mailman 2.1 which will be out soon a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up a Mailman List

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:25:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the max # of users, I can register with Mailman? 10,000 to 100,000 per list Number of list is currently limited (by your filesystem) to 16,000 Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a user from subscribing

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Margaret Levine Young wrote: > We have set up a series of actions for a list manager to take if a > subscriber is breaking the list rules, starting with one-week > hand-moderation (so the list managers have to approve the subscriber's > posts). The fina

Re: [Mailman-Users] How many

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:31:13PM -0600, Paul H Byerly wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone tell me how many members a list on version 2.0.7 can > have? I've been thru the gnu site and can't find information on that. An > old reference I saw says 1000, but that was for a previous version.

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin unsubscribe

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:44:38PM -0800, Andrew Hon wrote: > Hi there, > > Mailman is nice, but I'm searching for a way to unsubscribe a list member > without him knowing. Currently it seems the member is notified, and there > is no option for not notifying. I think if you have an unsubscrib

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search capability

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:23:45PM -0500, Sandra Cann wrote: > We have over 4500 users on our listserv. We are absolutely desparate for a > search capability for the archives. PLe! Look in the archives, someone made a patch to get htdig to work with mailman. Marc -- Microsoft is

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

[mailman-devel stripped] On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:41:27PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Ben Gertzfield wrote a patch which Barry recently included in mailman-cvs > > which allows you to not receive the

Re: [Mailman-Users] suggestion: rework bounce handling code

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:08:07PM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > The current code turns on the "disable mail delivery" flag for the > user or unsubscribes them. > > I'd prefer to see two disable mail delivery flags, one that is > set/unset by the user (for people who just want to read via the > ar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Invite new members funtion?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:40:48PM -0600, Damon Linkous wrote: > Is there an "Invite" function I'm missing that would allow me to invite a > list of emails to the list but would require those who want to accept the > invitation to respond so they don't end up on a list they don't want? Nope, th

Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix rejects mails from mailman

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:54:12PM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > Out: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Relay > access > denied > In: rset > > > I do not understand why the recipient address is rejected: This adress mail > is relayed to very often a day. From diffe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:04:30AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > +1 for removing dupes by default. > > This patch would be a great additon to "Umbrella" lists. Most folks assume > that Umbrella lists work this way anyway... Unfortunately, while the original patch from Ben removed dupes accross l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Fil wrote: > @ Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > If you think the patch is stupid and shouldn't be in mailman, you can tell > > us that too :-) > > If you want opinions, here's mine: I want to receive two copies

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:59:32PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > Hi Marc & gang, > > I think that having those options would be nice, but also please allow for > reply-to being forced back to the list (regardless of user settings). > Some of us require that. If you read my patch, you'll see

[Mailman-Users] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

[I'm Ccing mailman-developers in case a few people there aren't on mailman-users, but please reply on mailman-users] Ben Gertzfield wrote a patch which Barry recently included in mailman-cvs which allows you to not receive the list copy of a message in you were Cced in the headers (

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:30:03AM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > > > Mailman could look at the To and Cc lines of the message and make sure > > > it doesn't sent to members which are listed on those lines. This > > > would result in each person getting one copy, either from the list or > > > from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:20:52AM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > > No. The mail client sends a copy to the author, mailman can't stop that. > > However, if the mail client is mutt, or some similarily enlightened MUA, you > > can use list reply to, and if you insert a Mail-Followup-To, you ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:13:33PM -0600, Jorge Cuevas wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a question, that I consider tha has been asked before, but I wasn't > able to find it on the internet nor in the mailman-user list. > > Is it possible to configure mailman so when you press the reply b

Re: [Mailman-Users] minor Mailman Web site and sf.net files inconsistency

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:10:38PM +0300, Kirill Bolschakow wrote: > Hello Mailmen, > > The latest stable release mentioned at > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/MM21/index.html is 2.0.7, > but the one available is 2.0.8. My understanding is that it's only a mirror the main pages are: http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug? Mailman letting large messages through.

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 05:27:34PM +1100, Robert Davidson wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I run MailMan v2.0.8-3 (debians version) and the maximum message size is > set to 40 kb. Did you set that in the individual list or mm_cfg.py. If it's the later, you have to set it in the list if it was creat

Re: [Mailman-Users] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test2/config.db'

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:00:36AM -0800, Robert Koberg wrote: > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 869, in __load > fp = open(dbfile) > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test2/config.db' Doesn't ~mailman/bin/check_perms -f help? Marc -- Microsoft is

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe all

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:30:34PM +0100, Daniel Furter (SUB) wrote: > hello > > in the mailman version 2.0beta5 we have installed at our university > the button in the menu mailing list> has disappeared. i appreciated this function very much. > now i have to click dozens of times to subscrib

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Jay S Curtis wrote: > Hmmm.. qrunner not running & no lockfile found > (using postfix) > Am I barking up the wrong tree? Hold on, so you are saying that your qrunner is running once a minute from cron, that it complains that it's finding a lockfile and he

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:48:45PM +, Michael Johnson wrote: > More importantly, how to prevent such things as future occurences. > Certainly, manually checking and removing the lock may work on a per > instance basis, but, in reality, it appears less than ideal. This problem > happens way

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:03:31PM -0500, Jay S Curtis wrote: > Someone remind me how to fix this (or make it stop) > > Feb 28 10:25:02 2002 (15932) Could not acquire qrunner lock > Feb 28 10:53:02 2002 (16194) Could not acquire qrunner lock > Feb 28 13:50:03 2002 (17701) Could not acquire qrunne

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:47:31AM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: > Marc MERLIN knows which version of Python runs on the SF list server. I > hope he is reading this thread, so he can enlighten us. Already done, but please, if you need sf.net support, submit a support request on the sf.n

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:38:56PM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: > John, > Thanks for responding. The Mailman version is 2.0.5 patched by Marc MERLIN > on SourceForge. The Python version is 1.5. Are you talking about the python version on lists.sourceforge.net? Because if so: usw-sf-list1:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info!

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question... Undoubtedly you are using > Konqueror as your web browser. Konqueror cannot handle the new cookie > layout (in version 2.0.8). Since it mis-reads the cookie, the > authentication it s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe users without confirmation

. For open subscribes, you should use the mailman setting here: > > # does this site allow completely unchecked subscriptions? > > ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE = 0 > Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Of course, it then lets me unsubscribe you, but in some cases that's an > > acceptable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe users without confirmation

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:13:57AM +1100, Joe Mizzi wrote: > How would i be able to subscribe users through the web interface without > having them reply to a confirmation email? You can write a small CGI that calls ~mailman/bin/remove_members listname email Of course, it then lets me unsubsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding subscribers

On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 05:40:21PM -0800, Andrew Watson wrote: > I recently migrated a list to mailman, and after setup and testing, I > tried to move the list of subscribers to the new list. I did this by > pasting about 20 addresses, one per line, into the text box on the > Membership Managem

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin features via email vs web

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:11:49PM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > Can an admin do mailman functions via email, like approve emails on a > moderated list, instead of using the web? You need mailman 2.1cvs for that. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

Re: [Mailman-Users] digests wouldn'd send

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:07:38PM -0500, Jay S Curtis wrote: > First time I've ever seen this message.. > Anyone know what might cause it? > > -- Forwarded Message -- > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: mailman > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/var/www/mailman/cron/sendd

Re: [Mailman-Users] What do you think of this idea to keep external people from subscribing?

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:55:20PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > Try it, it should work fine. Your users will be stuck using the web, but > that's not so bad. Just for info, that's what I've done at my company for the last 2.5Y :-) I want them to use the authenticated web interface to be *really*

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookies

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:38:31AM +, Oliver Egginger wrote: > > > For some reason, konqueror sends back cookies with " marks around them. > > > > But this should mean that konqueror somehow works with mailman 2.05, right? > > (I have a konqueror user complaining that it's not working either)

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookies

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:54:41AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 9 o'clock on Feb 1, Oliver Egginger wrote: > > > if "MM-version > 2.06" and "browser is konqueror" > > then MM don't will work with passwords. > > For some reason, konqueror sends back cookies with " marks around the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman under 'secure' Linux kernels

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: Content-Description: message body text > Has README.LINUX not helped? I'm attaching a few files from Mailman > 2.1 just in case they have more useful or up-to-date information. > The script itself is probably too MM2.1-centric, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman for NT Servers ?

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0500, ITC wrote: > Hello, > > Do you have a Mailman version that runs on a NT platform, or know were I > can find one. There were a few words about this, but I don't think anything ever came out of it. For the most part, people interested in mailman are not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and auto-responders?

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:45:42PM -0800, Paul Thomas wrote: > > Howdy, > > Is Mailman vulnerable to mail-loops caused by auto-responders > that are configured to look like an email sent by a person? Yes. Autoresponders are not supposed to answer mails with a precedence of list or bulk, and t

Re: [Mailman-Users] arch python errors, bad marshall data

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:41:49PM -0800, Tom Perrine wrote: > I guess what I'm getting at is that the "arch" program uses LOTS of > memory when building some of the indexes, and that incremental > "arch"-ing may be more efficient and less likely to exercise > memory-related bugs in Mailman, Pytho

[Mailman-Users] [ alexandria-Support Requests-497696 ] mailman authentication broken

ng Lists Group: Second Level Support Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tavis Rudd (tavis_rudd) Assigned to: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin) Summary: mailman authentication broken Initial Comment: Mailman's authentication mechanism on the administrative pages is broken for all of the 6 lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:42:55AM -0800, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: > >Yes, actually, I had a very similar problem to this on my system, that all > >the configuring of sendmail short of making it an open relay could not fix. > >I eventually switched to postfix and I havent had a single problem s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing vacation autoresponder mail bombs

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:18:33PM -0500, The Berean wrote: > Is there any workaround in Mailman to prevent this from happening again? Yes, ban the domain the autoreponder came from if it's from the MTA, or ban the Email it came from if it's a home cooked script. Unfortunately, there isn't much m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman wrapper generates OS error

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:18PM -0600, Chris Menzel wrote: > xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30015, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Operating \ > system error > > GIDs are correctly set for running mailman scripts. Any suggestions > appreciated. Look for clues in ~mailman/logs/ Marc -- Microsoft i

Re: [Mailman-Users] stripping out HTML

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:49:44AM +, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 15:27, David Gibbs wrote: > > My personal recommendation ... upgrade to mailman 2.0.6 (at minimum, > > probably best to go to 2.0.7) and apply Geoff Dairiki's demime patch. > > > > >http://sourceforge.ne

[Mailman-Users] Running mailman on a linux/grsecurity kernel

Just in case this is useful for someone, I wrote the following quick doc for using mailman on a linux/grsec kernel Steps you need to take to run mailman on a linux grsecurity protected kernel 1) Install and run secureli

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about headers

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Donna wrote: > >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 (101270) > >List-Help: > >List-Post: > >List-Subscribe:

Re: [Mailman-Users] best way to upgrade from 2.0.6

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:01:30PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > i'm admittedly a very low-level sysadmin, trying to learn best > practices. Which are, trust me, having the source tree of the installation you're running (with python, you can patch the installed version directly, but wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] best way to upgrade from 2.0.6

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:46:00PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > well, I guess I was wondering whether to do that or to try patching what > i've got... what are the pros/cons of each method? Err, why? I've always patched/upgraded my source tree, and typed make install. Marc -- Microsoft i

Re: [Mailman-Users] best way to upgrade from 2.0.6

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:07:41PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: > Hi folks... > > What is the least painful way to upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.8? make install ? Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security what McDonalds is to gourmet c

Re: [Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:04:12PM +, Richard Barrett wrote: > >BTW, I had to apply this patch for htdig to work on my system: > > Presumably this was because the value of DEFAULT_URL set in either > Default.py or mm_cfg.py on the system used the 'https' addressing scheme. Correct. > If t

Re: [Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:50:46PM +0100, Andre Dieball wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install htdig with Mailman 2.0.7. > > I saw, that there are several patches available for that, but all of > them are for 2.0.6 The changes between .6 and .7 should be so minor that the patch should apply as i

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