Re: [Mailman-Users] one more time

2001-04-27 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Did you make you archive "public". If not, the archives (if available) are viewable by http:///mailman/private/... Phil. ~~ /\ H E W L E T T/\/\Phone: +33 (0)4 76 03 86 72 /\/ \ P A C K A R D /\/

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman question

2001-04-26 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, PhotoScan and More wrote: > What if I use the RPM package though, is it the same? No, because you don't build mailman by yourself. You can run your web server (Apache, ...) using gid 48 For Apache : # grep group httpd.conf Group web and is /etc/group, number for web is 4

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman question

2001-04-26 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Use ./configure --with-cgi-gid=99 when configuring mailman ... Phil ;)) On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, WebMaster wrote: > Ok.. This probably makes total sense, but yet I am unable to fix this. > > If it wanted 48 and got 99 ... why am i suppose to reconfig for 99?? > > > > Mailman CGI error!!! > > The

[Mailman-Users] LDAP : a possible link ?

2001-04-25 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Is it possible to link mailman with a LDAP server ? We already have a database where we can find potential subscribers to our lists (currently sthg about 700 lists). I'd like to allow the owners of list(s) to make subscribe users using this database, avoiding them to have to look at users's a

Re: [Mailman-Users] hard-resetting list admin passwords?

2001-04-25 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
You can force the admin password again by using the $prefix/bin/mmsitepass command. # ./mmsitepass --help Set the site password, prompting from the terminal. The site password can be used in most if not all places that the list administrator's password can be used, which in turn can be us

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do you block someone from a list?

2001-04-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Dan Lowe wrote: > Previously, David L. Nicol said: > > > > how do you block someone from a mailman list? > > > > We want to prevent them from subscribing a particular > > address. Is this functionality in there already? > In the admin part (web interface), choose "Privacy O

Re: [Mailman-Users] hilfe

2001-04-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Je ne comprends pas, non capisco, I don't understand ... Phil. On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wäre es möglich mich von der liste für e-mail (=Gen-Program) zu streichen . > Täglich erscheinen mehrere e-mails in regard to Auskunft und Teilnehmer > Anfragen. Für die nächsten 3 Mon

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help request

2001-04-20 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Clayton, Robert wrote: > I am getting the following error. > It appears to be a rights issue. However, the message nor docs state where it >creates the reply messages. Please help. > > thanks ever so much! > > Bob > >- The following addresses had permanent fatal err

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

2001-04-19 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
ould have to be copied over ? > I don't have many lists, so I could likely just recreate > EVERYthing from scratch and re-subscribe everyone, but I'd sooner just > import the data if possible.. > sound right ? Am I missing some files ? > > On Wed, 18 Apr 200

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

2001-04-18 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Hello, I suggested this solution because : - they had the same problem with mailman after upgrading (and not reinstalling with a newer version) - personnally, I don't really like upgrades, and I ususally prefer to reinstall from scratch. Some experiences (and this one ?) show that

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

2001-04-18 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, josh koenig wrote: > > Yeah... I could see how this would work. Nice ! > A sort of failsafe backup/migration system. Yes. > I think I can puzzle out how to get all the data > out manually, but any such script you write would be more than welcome by > me. I'm not experien

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

2001-04-18 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, josh koenig wrote: > > Did you try to install Mailman 2.0.3 from scratch ? I'm a new user of > > mailman, and everything is OK for me with it, no problems at the moment. > > > > With a few scripts, you'll be able to keep you lists&archives from your > > "old" installation.

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

2001-04-17 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Did you try to install Mailman 2.0.3 from scratch ? I'm a new user of mailman, and everything is OK for me with it, no problems at the moment. With a few scripts, you'll be able to keep you lists&archives from your "old" installation. I usually do not like "upgrade" options. Is the mailman on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting archives via email interface...

2001-04-17 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
A workaround ... On mailman, if archives are actived, you can get the mailbox (unix format) at the following URL : http://server.domain.dom/pipermail/.mbox/.mbox (if public) or $prefix/archives/private/.mbox Then copy/paste its contents to the unix mailbox of the user(s) (/var/mail/ I mean

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Rude response! & I got my subscriber list

2001-04-12 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My email signature is not an ad. > > Yes, it is. Anything that tells people to come to you for business is an > ad. > > Most technical lists do not explicitly prohibit advertising, because it's > b

Re: [Mailman-Users] URGENT HELP NEEDED

2001-04-12 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
I should first remove the following line from mailman's crontab : * * * * * /opt/python/bin//python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner and then look for the origine of the problem. Phil. __ /\ H E W L E T T/\/\P

Re: [Mailman-Users] can one trace an email note?

2001-04-11 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, alex wetmore wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Len Hatfield wrote: > > But because the user is NOT subscribed to my list via the > > secondary address, and I have no way of knowing which of the 100 > > subscribers has set up the bogus forwarding, which of these is > > the primar

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to rename an existing list?

2001-04-08 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Please have a look at the post from Mike Richardson, last Friday. Phil. On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Graham Guttocks wrote: > Greetings, > > Does anyone know of any easy way to rename an existing Mailman list? > I would like to avoid having to reconfigure the list entirely from > scratch.

Re: [Mailman-Users] viewing archive-file through web

2001-04-05 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Hello Chaw, Hem ... you should answer to the whole mailman list. Maybe other people can help you ... I'm not an Apache expert (neither for other http servers), but just one question : why do you have --- Alias /pipermail/ X --- declared twice ?? You still can't access the archive fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] viewing archive-file through web

2001-04-05 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
If you've configured your http server as specified in the INSTALL doc, (included in Mailman-2.0.3 distribution - which one do you use ?) you should use the following URL with your browser : http://canibal.petra.ac.id/pipermail/mailman-milis (for Apache, this configuration in httpd.conf shoul

Re: [Mailman-Users] Exporting my current members to text list

2001-04-04 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Or sent an email to -request@ with subject 'who' (without quotes) and empty message. Try to send a message with subject 'help' : you'll have all the directive you can use by sending an email to -request. Phil :)) On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:30:03 -0500 >

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachs and list archive...

2001-04-02 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Petyo, I think this mailing list is about mailman, and not about other$ $olution$ :(( I can say that here we sometime had problems with MS Exchange, because of it's proprietar format (ms-tnef attachments) and it's automatic changing formats of emails. These problems does not occure with mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] announce only lists

2001-03-27 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Just have to specify allowed user for sending mails to the list to ... you ? Phil. On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Bill Logan wrote: > Greetings. I could not find the answer to my question in the FAQ > or other documentation on the site. I beg your indulgence if I > have overlooked the answer in my hast

Re: [Mailman-Users] majordomo+mhonarc to Mailman+mhonarc

2001-03-27 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
I can see two (simples) solutions : - use pipermail (included in mailman distribution) instead of mhonarc. Recent threads in this list explained how to get old mailboxes in pipermail. - create an alias "mhonarc-@my.domain.com" on your server, make it subscribed to your list ... and d

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to delete single mailings as admin ?

2001-03-26 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
# cd ${prefix}/archives/private/ # mailx -f 2001-March.txt ... And then remove (with "d") the email you don't want to keep. Phil. __ /\ H E W L E T T/\/\Phone: +33 (0)4 76 03 86 72 /\/ \ P A C K

Re: [Mailman-Users] implicit destination check

2001-03-26 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Can you "rewrite" the addresses on your MTA ? Maybe it's a solution. Phil. On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello mailman-users, > > We have setup a mailman mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Works fine. > We want the users to approach this list by the name > [EMAIL PROTECTED] whic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up mailman: Internal Server Error ?

2001-03-26 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
ScriptAlias /mailman/ $prefix/cgi-bin/ to configure your http server. No other idea at the moment, Phil. On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Philippe Rodriguez wrote: > > > You can have a look to $prefix/logs/error ... maybe. > &

[Mailman-Users] Migration from Majordomo to Mailman ?

2001-03-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Hello, I'm actually testing Mailman, maybe to replace Majordomo on my server. My questions are the following : - will Mailman be able to manage 700 or more mailing lists ? (is it reasonable ?) - how can I migrate all my lists (I can write scripts, but I won't migrate more than 700 list

[Mailman-Users] cron (fwd)

2001-03-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Hello, I'm now testing mailman-2.0.3, it's working well, but each minute I'm receiving an email (see below). Maybe this problem more a Python problem ? I've installed Python from a package, and could find no informations about $PYTHONHOME. Did someone had this problem ? Thank's for your ans

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up mailman: Internal Server Error ?

2001-03-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
You can have a look to $prefix/logs/error ... maybe. Phil. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Remco Rijnders wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to get Mailman compiled and installed from source and > experiencing some difficulties with it. I've created a testlist but > when I try to access the given URL I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/posts disappear into black hole

2001-03-23 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Did you set up the crontab ? I suggest that you try : /bin//python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner (I had the same problem when I tried mailman at the first time ... and forgot to set up the crons for mailman user) Phil. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] wrote: > When I co