Re: [exim] Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman/Exim problem with very slow outgoing mail on one list

2005-03-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
the delay is instead spread out between deliveries then there is something, most likely DNS related, thats slowing down the other systems taking mail from you. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
le, but I tend to always build Mailman from source on the boxes themselves - pretty much the only package I do this with. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman performance

2003-09-19 Thread Nigel Metheringham
d database I would be very very very wary of putting this on NFS. I'm not sure it would buy you much if anything (locking becomes an expensive fragile operation), but when it all goes wrong it will go very wrong :-/ Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ -

[Mailman-Users] Anyone using Mailman with MTA expanded VERP?

2003-09-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Has anyone built a mailman config using VERP where the VERP sender expansion is done on the MTA rather than within mailman? Even better, has anyone done this using exim as the MTA? Any information, comments or config samples would be useful. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham

Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail... looks like an exim config problem

2003-08-14 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ACL settings are sensible, otherwise you become an open relay. * Restart exim by sending the process a kill -HUP - ie kill -HUP `cat /var/run/exim.pid` alternatively use the system startup script to stop and restart it. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham

Re: [Mailman-Users] Making an RPM

2003-08-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
from preinstalled systems. They are seriously dangerous. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAI

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
trange character sets or encoding. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords

2003-06-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
h time limits and stuff (a day or so is OK, a month isn't). However if we do this sort of magic then we need to handle the worst that stupid MTAs come up with for bounces. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ -

RE: [Mailman-Users] HTDIG patches! Arghh!

2003-06-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
rpm install do not move to an rpm install unless you *really* know what you are doing and check all the paths and uids. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monitoring Server

2003-04-03 Thread Nigel Metheringham
gt; server processing - cpu load - Ram usage etc... Depends on your OS. However trying looking at top, sar, mrtg to name a few. Information on optimizing throughput is given in the FAQ - see bottom of every list message for a pointer. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Com

Re: [Mailman-Users] List posting problems

2003-03-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
u need to make sure your UID/GID settings for the alias director/router are correct though). Easier to use the other method which is documented in the README.EXIM file Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists stopped for dns problems ?

2003-03-10 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ly created the 3rd FAQ entry there on DNS cache usage. If people hate those answers please fix them!] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to access mailman in web browser

2003-01-20 Thread Nigel Metheringham
get the data from the installed rpms database. You use the same command without the "p" modifier:- rpm -qi mailman-2.0.13-1 or just rpm -qi mailman since you don't need to give it the version and release number Ni

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Spam by vacation notifications in Mailman

2002-11-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
o far has always caught them), or to list members then the address causing the autoreply is removed from all my lists, a flame is sent, and frequently the address and/or domain is added to my MTAs blacklist. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in thi

[Mailman-Users] Diagnosing duplicates [Was:Now MTA tweaking!]

2002-09-23 Thread Nigel Metheringham
loop your mail. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains

2002-09-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
it depends on your MTA setup as to whether a list appears in all your virtual domains] I don't think this changes significantly with 2.1, but haven't switched myself so will let someone else confirm that. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comment

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administartiva: MailDelays

2002-09-10 Thread Nigel Metheringham
s happen. You could always order on original send date rather than reception date - ordering will get very confused if you have a mail outage for a while and your mail then turns up in one great burst. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this messag

Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/log/mailman files

2002-08-27 Thread Nigel Metheringham
to logrotate and samba. Its a packaging problem rather than a mailman problem. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users maili

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ammers Incorporated" writes a little script that does an invite subscribe of a few hundred throusand of his "friends" with an invitation note of whatever crap he is sending out this week. Isn't this basically just another form of open relay? Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metherin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Understanding "nomail"

2002-07-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
he monthly password reminders to prod them that they do have this subscription. Other than that nomail is normally used to allow posting from addresses other than that which receives the mail - I myself have a number of nomail accounts set on various lists. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
l keep hearing more mentions of resiserfs going completely tits-up for my liking. Great ideas but there still seem to be some problems there. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] --

Re: [Mailman-Users] large lists question

2002-06-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
sured a crash would only ever result in duplicate delivery - doing this could give you a significant speed up. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] bcc problem

2002-05-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
the notifications, check in the "General options" page the "Should administrator get immediate notice of new requests, as well as daily notices about collected ones? " option. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Redundant headers in digests

2002-05-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
digests are and were intended to be used). Definitely. What is the situation for "classic" digests though. Nigel -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and

RE: [Mailman-Users] Help

2002-05-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ite them yourself, pay someone else to write them, or maybe persuade someone to write them by dint of your eloquence. Haranging people just tends to make them tell you to fuck off. Personally I have had enough and now put you on my kill list. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug found in Mailman 2.1Beta

2002-05-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Personally I don't get too excited about this - I am more concerned with locking down the membership roster which we need to ensure defaults as completely unavailable. [Especially as I have been hit with some Data Protection legislation related stuff in the last couple of weeks] Ni

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail suddenly stopped getting sent out ??

2002-04-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
restarting crond, and see what the cron logging has to say. [If the basic commands work then my suspicion is very strongly that they aren't being invoked] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this messa

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

2002-03-01 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ey used to subscribe to a list amazes me. The monthly reminders do at least give you the right address (with or without password) to use the send password button for. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribers counter

2002-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 15:03, Matthew Thompson wrote: > Have you considered a little php script that runs under cron and reads in > the number of lines in your members file. It could be written to output > the number of lines to a small text file that could be read back in. Nice idea, but Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL & SMTP_MAX_RCPTS

2002-02-12 Thread Nigel Metheringham
list split is done elsewhere. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users m

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML formatting in digests

2002-02-08 Thread Nigel Metheringham
e postings to plain text on exim.org. See Mailman patch #413752 URL (which will probably break in transit) is:- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=413752&group_id=103&atid=300103 Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]

Re: [Mailman-Users] weekly *AND* daily digest from the same list

2002-02-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:09, Lafleur Maurice wrote: > Is there a way to have MM generate both daily *and* weekly digest of the > same mailing list? No. Asking again won't help either [See *note] Nearest compromise is starting a second list which is digest only and is subscribed to the first li

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer

2002-02-01 Thread Nigel Metheringham
recipients mail must be individually generated, rather than a standard mail being passed to the MTA in multi-recipient batches. It might be possible to do this in a sufficiently broken MTA. It is a seriously bad idea for all sorts of reasons. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PR

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delays and Lag-Outs from AOL?

2002-01-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
d often time out. If you are using public archives under pipermail, then they are directly available as static file/directorys to the web server, with no involvement of Mailman/python. In that case it either your web server or the link between you & AOL. Nigel. -- [ Ni

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman problem

2002-01-28 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 07:21, Joseph M. wrote: [6 messages in 67 minutes, all basically asking the same thing, all in MIME/alternative - please just ask questions once since the subscribers end up being mailbombed by you and rather less inclined to be helpful] > We are currently using Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman with Qmail!!

2002-01-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
id=nobody --with-mail-gid=1001 Nigel. Please don't post html or multipart/alternative to the list. If you do so (we can all make mistakes), then don't follow it up with a text only post. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-16 Thread Nigel Metheringham
st morsel of a clue as to the intended > recipient. VERP to the rescue! They can have a cubicle next to that I've had reserved for the authors of Lotus notes (1995ish vintage) which should *never* have been allowed to send mail within 100 miles of an internet connected machine.

Re: [Mailman-Users] 16JFqa-0000bA-00 <> *** frozen ***

2002-01-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
rst guess, look at permissions on your alias files] Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Dan, Have stolen your messages almost verbatim and put them into the postfix tuning part of the FAQ. [I'm currently aiming to get content on there - someone or even me can clean these up later] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.004.htp -- [ Nigel Met

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrading to 2.08...

2001-12-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 17:46, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:18:17 -0500 > Richard Idalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have an existing mailman install of v2.06, it's under heavy > > daily use, so downtime isn't really an option. What is the > > suimplest way to upgrade to v2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman 2.0.8

2001-12-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 15:21, Miles D. Oliver wrote: > I now have a functioning implementation of Mailman 2.0.8 > > With one strange quirk.. > > Not all of my lists are showing up in the main admin page. I have 2 lists > and only 1 is being shown. Go to the admin page, General Options, bottom e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing possibility to stop attachments

2001-12-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
I've taken this set of stuff and pushed it into a FAQ entry http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.013.htp On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 23:21, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > You can also employ your own, external scanner, or whatever flavor > program you want. > > Most of

Re: [Mailman-Users] stripping out HTML

2001-12-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
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.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=413752&group_id=103&atid=300103 Any of th

Re: [Mailman-Users] New FAQ entry: broken autoresponders

2001-12-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Steve Lay wrote: > Is it possible to filter the envelope sender on a list? If so, > filtering senders like MAILER-DAEMON would catch groupwise (the > worst I've come across) and postmaster would catch one other that > I know of too. Ideally, this would be done by mailman itself. > Would these en

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM FAQ/Sendmail question...

2001-12-07 Thread Nigel Metheringham
formance tuning faq added as well... damn I've just walked over you especially as I added to section 6 (web/mail integration), rather than section 4 (admin issues). most of the content at present is directly raped from other sources - chuq's postings that he kindly referenced.

Re: [Mailman-Users] block non-subscribers

2001-11-16 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ow&file=faq01.011.htp Nigel. [NB as policy I'm trying to put generic answers into the FAQ as they come up and will then tend to answer RTFF (with a link if I'm in a good mood] -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fa

[Mailman-Users] This list configuration - member only post

2001-11-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
[Resent without the additional funky characters in the addresses :-( ] Barry, Ages back there was a discussion about restricting the mailman-users/developers lists to member posting only, and I was under the impression that this was put into place for a trial period. We are now seeing rather mo

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-30 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:01, John W Baxter wrote: > As I read config_list, it produces Python code which can be exec-ed in > order to rebuild the list configuration. Umm.. it looks to me as though config_list dumps some pythonish code that can be read by config_list to set the list parameters *ot

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:32, J C Lawrence wrote: > Restoring a dumpdb file is a bit of a pain as you end up having to > wrap it in a bit of python that mays it look like an object and > marshalling that to disk. Not a big pain to be sure, but more pain > than you get with configdb. Using configd

[Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
- but how do I restore that? Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Apparent message lossage

2001-10-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
I found the reason for this. The MUA I'm using (evolution) added a bug where pretty much all readers were copied into a reply from the original message, including the list control headers (specifically X-Beenthere:). This caused Mailman to drop the message silently. I'd suggest that the error pa

[Mailman-Users] Apparent message lossage

2001-10-12 Thread Nigel Metheringham
The mailman installation on exim.org has been running for quite some time now, with no recent changes or problems. The MTA (you could guess that we use exim) is also stable. However this morning I posted a message to the exim-users list. It left my machine, got to exim.org, and was delivered dow

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated List

2001-10-09 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 14:56, craver voun wrote: > I have checked and the email I am using to send the messsage is already suscribed. >This is the message i get every time I try to send a message: > > Your mail to 'Lista' with the subject > prueba 3 > Is being held until the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe script

2001-07-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 12 Jul 2001 17:03:00 +0200, Pieter Boshoff wrote: > I would like to know how to obtain a script to unsubscribe users form a list > that use Exim as the mta. I don't get what you are asking for. There are bulk subscribe/unsubscribe scripts in ~mailman/bin (add_members remove_members etc). The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple domain matters

2001-07-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 12 Jul 2001 20:41:10 -0500, J. Frederick Ball OEF wrote: > Well, I posted about three different questions to the list about how to get > the multiple domain thing happening on my system, which elicited varied and > interesting comments -- mostly suggestions to either run multiple copies of >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin utilities available via web?

2001-07-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 05 Jul 2001 08:30:37 -0700, John W Baxter wrote: > > Unfortunately, the Exim site resists posting URLs...go to > http://www.exim.org funny - oh I guess you haven't worked round the frames - try http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham

Re: [Mailman-Users] test

2001-06-26 Thread Nigel Metheringham
count in your favour. Remember also that google and the like have a special feature - the more stupid a posting makes you look, the nearer to the top of a list of matching pages it appears! Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 142

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to joinwithout specifying pas swords

2001-06-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ogs from the exim.org lists - which have a few lists of verious sizes, and run the figures on deliveries and bandwidth uses. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message ar

[Mailman-Users] Suggestion - cancelable postings

2001-06-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
(between the original poster and the moderator), is that the notification to the original sender could contain a URL and/or a email means to allow the original post to be cancelled from the moderation queue. Thoughts? Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

2001-06-14 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Some wisdom posted on the exim list a while back (on the subject of trying to persuade people that its not some person with good typing skills sending out bounce messages) may fit into the current discussion. See http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-2710/019372.html N

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering HTML & RICH

2001-06-12 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 12 Jun 2001 09:11:30 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I finally got around to installing stripmime but I evidently have > something wrong. This is the error message I get: > > 2001-06-12 08:49:57 159ncK-0005vW-00 ** > |/usr/local/bin/stripmime.pl|/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post lp-meck > <[EMAI

RE: [Mailman-Users] Almost there

2001-06-06 Thread Nigel Metheringham
xist (or appropriate prefixed directory from (1). 3. Is there a config.db in there and accessible (at least to see - don't need to be able to access it) from the uid/gid that exim runs under. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850

Re: [Mailman-Users] set gid didn't work?

2001-06-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
So I'm a little baffled... > > >What do I need to do to fix this? As I recall, qmail hardwires a batch of its uids and gids when its built, so you can easily have a running qmail using group 401 with no group 401 defined on your system :-) Try ./configure ... -with-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need mail merge capability

2001-06-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ou know of a utility that I could > use with mailman to accomplish this? No - this would require Mailman to do deliveries one address at a time rather than batched, and so would cost much more in terms of delivery. You might be able hack mailman, but it is an MLM and not a mail merge tool. Nig

Re: [Mailman-Users] Member list in header/footer

2001-06-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
good technical reason will give you pain. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] [ - Security is no

RE: [Mailman-Users] Almost there

2001-06-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ing - up to -d99 - that will tell you every last detail about what exim is doing including which config file it is reading etc. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Almost there

2001-06-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
OK. Then make sure that mail to your list domain really does go to that MTA - DNS mistakes are easy to make. Nigel -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message threading

2001-06-01 Thread Nigel Metheringham
threaded. Thats not a mailman issue. Threading is controlled by your MUA (mail client). Mailman neither generates, removes or modifies the headers that are used to thread a group of messages (which are References: and In-Reply-To:) Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.1 - problem localized

2001-05-25 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ner) then takes the queue and passes it off to the MTA. This decouples the process so things don#t fail if the MTA cannot immediately accept mail. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comment

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman as bulk mailer.. variables in body?

2001-05-23 Thread Nigel Metheringham
the work (or make the template include the SMTP commands to and just shove all the output to "sendmail -bS" (BSMTP handling). Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin web interface

2001-05-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
t appear since Mailman needs to interact with the system MTA to inform it that additional list post/admin delivery addresses now exist. The MTA is a privileged subsystem and cannot be tampered with lightly. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

2001-05-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
mime-headers based on this scheme, well they deserve all they get. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this mess

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

2001-05-09 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ily. I am strongly resisting the temptation to comment on the buns thread. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are

[Mailman-Users] Re: Funny...Re: Request to mailing list Linux-ipsec rejected

2001-05-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
d thus forgetting the subscribed address. Unfortunately I do not have reminder messages set on this list for good reason, so you can't even get your address from the monthly reminder poke :-) Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

2001-05-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
tually you would be better advised to go the Maildir filename approach - the filename is made up of the time(), the pid and a machine specifier of some form. That won't have clashes unless you can wind through your pids in under a second (although the current proposals for random p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing List-* headers?

2001-04-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
the RFC describing them. These headers are in to support a specific RFC - so they have a real use, should be handled by MUAs (which if they don't deal with that RFC should gracefully handle the excess headers), and cannot be modified to fit broken MUAs. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Methe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing List-* headers?

2001-04-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and exim

2001-04-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
onfigure line - ie if you did ./configure --with-mail-gid=exim --with-cgi-gid=www then the gid you want is "exim" That then needs attaching to the aliases director, or alternative skip that stuff and go to http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html Nigel.

Re: [Mailman-Users] smtp EOM marker problems

2001-03-22 Thread Nigel Metheringham
this. You appear to have 2 options in this:- 1. Change the definition of SENDMAIL_CMD in your site defaults and add a -oi flag (although I would check this first). 2. Move to SMTP injection it has so many advantages Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Html

2001-03-21 Thread Nigel Metheringham
-plain-text or attachments of any type at all well. You can get round this by using an external archiver such as MHonArc, but that makes the setup and maintenance more complex. This is likely to be a bigger issue for you. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAI

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password Problem with Mailman List

2001-03-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
t list - obviously we do not have passwords for your particular installation. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Slow, but enought

2001-03-07 Thread Nigel Metheringham
fic. I am looking at a C rewrite, but thats in my copious spare time :-) Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opini

Re: [Mailman-Users] can one attach figures to messages ??

2001-03-05 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ogress. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users maillist -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail headers with Mailman

2001-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
out for us to put the headers back in again. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers

2001-02-14 Thread Nigel Metheringham
how. The envelope sender should be constructed correctly by Mailman and be -admin@ - unless you are doing VERP processing somehow. Why did you want to change Return-Path? Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-07 Thread Nigel Metheringham
f its a moderator approved subscription process? In all of these cases the user can lose mail unexpectedly... where as an explicit unsub/sub (in whatever order you wish - I sub, check its OK then unsub old) has very specific known behaviour. Nigel. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham

Re: [Mailman-Users] Speeding up delivery

2001-02-02 Thread Nigel Metheringham
de your control. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- Mailman-Users mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding search capabilities

2001-01-26 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ceforge to do fully integrated htdig (see http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/ for an example). If you can't make that work, prod me and I'll redo the diffs against my current codebase, but I don't know of any differences I have in other than that patchset against 2.0.1

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman attributes

2001-01-22 Thread Nigel Metheringham
art of our list. I know, I > know... clueless, but... Thats one of the best reasons for having the monthly reminder messages :-) Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] cookie feature request

2001-01-19 Thread Nigel Metheringham
27;t go through? The mailman cookie is phrased so that it should never be saved to disk - ie it is a session cookie rather than a permanent. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in t

Re: [Mailman-Users] nothing returned from posts.

2001-01-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
> do i need to re-install with the mail GID set differently? -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I get the from address?

2001-01-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ata are also on that site http://public.yahoo.com/~jfriedl/regex/ Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own a

Re: [Mailman-Users] something for the wish list?

2001-01-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
installation override of this needs to be available. In the EU it is very likely that setting this to anything other than "List Admin Only" would put you in breach of data protection legislation. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44

Re: [Mailman-Users] Return-Path Problem

2001-01-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
bscribing or confirming a subscription to the list - it will make life so much better all round. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help!! 2nd Request!!!

2001-01-04 Thread Nigel Metheringham
ugh I have never built it myself. Questions regarding the building of gcc and python should not be further discussed on this (mailman) list. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Commen

Re: [Mailman-Users] Implicit Destination

2000-12-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
this is basically a list config error in many cases. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ Phone: +44 1423 85 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not