[Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent password reminders from being set at a server level?

2007-08-03 Thread Pat Riehecky
I am in the process of configuring a secondary mailman system for use as a hotspare. I noticed just a few days ago that both the primary and the backup system sent out list password reminders. There really is no reason to send out both reminders as they contain the exact same text. Is there a wa

[Mailman-Users] Simple way to change archive settings

2007-06-28 Thread Pat Riehecky
I know that this falls under the withlist command, but I am not really python savvy so How exactly would I go about deleting the archives for about 15 lists and setting their archive attributes to off? Pat -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mail

[Mailman-Users] mailman clustering?

2007-06-14 Thread Pat Riehecky
I am trying to build a nice failover system for random parts of our infrastructure. Does anyone know how to force mailman to replicate changes over to another identically configured system? I thought about using rsync for this but I am trying to keep the sync triggered by updates on the primary s

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2004-07-16 Thread Pat Riehecky
l way what interal proofs in many ways will convince you of, that this is a letter you are reading. ~Kierkegaard On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 7:14 PM -0500 2004-07-16, Pat Riehecky wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone knew a way to send an invitation email to an &

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2004-07-16 Thread Pat Riehecky
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to send an invitation email to an address using only an email program? I would like to be able to send an email to one of the program's addresses so that it invites a user to join the list. I was thinking that there should be a way to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

[Mailman-Users] how to cripple a list?

2004-05-21 Thread Pat Riehecky
basiclly i am wondering how to set some sitewide defaults for a list that cannot be changed. ie. i want all lists to always have private archives and always have the list headers, never have the news gateway options presented and the like. I am asking this merely because several not so computer l

[Mailman-Users] fixing group mismatch error?

2004-05-14 Thread Pat Riehecky
I get the following error, May 12 19:57:32 [Mailman mail-wrapper] Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail_wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but_the system's mail server executed the mail script as_group "nobody". Try tweaking the mail server to run the_script as group "mai

[Mailman-Users] autoupdate /etc/aliases?

2004-05-14 Thread Pat Riehecky
I'm playing around a bit with mailman and was wondering how to get it to update /etc/aliases automatically using postfix. Here is the stuff from Defaults.py MTA = 'Postfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [] # not using virtual domains POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postalias POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/

[Mailman-Users] two classes of people within a list

2004-05-12 Thread Pat Riehecky
Lets say that I have a list (games) and subscribed to the list are both the game players and the game planers. Is there a way to use the aliases to allow email to circulate between the planers only without creating a second list, as that is a site restriction (one list per group). I was thinking

Re: [Mailman-Users] Send to list error

2004-05-12 Thread Pat Riehecky
hmmm try doing a reverse dns lookup on the server you are sending from and see if it is a valid client to be sending mail through your exchange server. if not you may have to add it to your dns or agents to relay mail for (at least i think that is what that version of exchange calles it) i am

[Mailman-Users] generalized specs question

2004-05-11 Thread Pat Riehecky
The site where I work is considering replacing our current listprocessor (ListProc 6.0c) with either Mailman or Majordomo. So I was going to as a benchmarking type question, what sort of a system would be required to run 100 lists each sending out 100 emails a day? Obviously a 486 /can/ do it, bu