Re: [Mailman-Users] Solaris 9

2003-02-07 Thread Phydeaux
At 03:56 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, jsingh wrote: >Dear Users >I wanted to know if anyone had successfully installed python/Mailman on >Solaris 9 OS. Yes -- it works great! We're currently running Python 2.2.2 and Mailman 2.0.13. We're moving to 2.1 soon and we don't expect any problems related to our use

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade: 2.0.13 to 2.1, searchable archives?

2003-01-03 Thread Phydeaux
At 11:43 PM 1/3/2003 +, Richard Barrett wrote: >At 21:03 03/01/2003, Jeff A. Earickson wrote: >>Question: How to I get searchable archives? Like >> >>http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ >> >>for my own mailing-list archives? How come this doesn't come as >>a part of Mailm

[Mailman-Users] Wrong domain on admin mail

2002-10-15 Thread Phydeaux
I'm running 2.0.12 with about 15 lists, all of which are using the virtual domain feature. New ones seem to have admin mail come "from" one of the domains used by one of the first lists created, not from the domain specified for the list. Users find this confusing. What can I do to fix this? reb

[Mailman-Users] Archiver / spammer address scraping question...

2002-10-10 Thread Phydeaux
Hi! We use Mailman 2.0 for a number of lists which require arcives that are open to all. We have had problems with spammers scraping addresses from these archives and we wish to do something about it. The problem is that if we hide all of the email addresses then legitimate users will not be able

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

2002-05-24 Thread Phydeaux
Hi! I'm currently using spamassassin to filter mail coming into my lists. I use sendmail with procmail as the local delivery agent. However, since mail sent to a program is not delivered by the local delivery agent I needed to use a mail alias like this to have the processing done: list: "|/us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-27 Thread Phydeaux
At 10:38 AM 11/27/2001 -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > P> Next, is there anything markedly different with v2.1 that would > P> make this unworkable, unwise, or unnecessary? > >MM2.1 should have largely the same issues, except it'll have a long >running daemon instead of cron-invoked qrunne

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-27 Thread Phydeaux
At 07:34 PM 11/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: >At 21:49 -0500 11/26/2001, Phydeaux wrote: >>Using bin/list_lists I can get a list of the lists. I can then easily cycle >>through each list and (for each one) do the following: >> >>- Run bin/config_list >>- Run bin/list

[Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-26 Thread Phydeaux
There have been questions here of late regarding backups. Using bin/list_lists I can get a list of the lists. I can then easily cycle through each list and (for each one) do the following: - Run bin/config_list - Run bin/list_members (once for digested, once for regular members) - Copy the compl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Discard non-member postings automatically?

2001-06-21 Thread Phydeaux
At 08:55 AM 6/21/2001 -0700, Amanda wrote: >Go to your admin page and set it to allow posting from members only. :-) > >J B Bell wrote: > > > I recently converted a list to Mailman. Unfortunately, it's a huge spam > > target, and I get many messages a day from non-members. Slogging through > > a

Re: [Mailman-Users] stop email

2001-06-14 Thread Phydeaux
At 05:23 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I wish to stop getting email from you ! thank you! I can assure you that the feeling is mutual! Thank you. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meet us on Wine Alley

2001-04-06 Thread Phydeaux
At 11:34 PM 4/6/2001 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I found your address on a site about wine and spirits, cigar and good >living and I thought that you would be interested by the services that our >site offers. Whine? Why yes -- about SPAM on this list (though it has been reduced lately)! re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman redundancy

2001-04-04 Thread Phydeaux
At 10:06 AM 4/4/2001 -0700, Steve Pirk wrote: >A simpler solution would be to use backup mail servers. It would >be fairly hard (IMHO) to keep multiple mailman installs in sync. >I would use the main DSL server to actually run the list, but add >in 2 other MX servers to "hold" your mail until your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Majordomo "log" format with pipermail

2001-04-02 Thread Phydeaux
At 11:57 AM 4/2/2001 -0500, Ryan K. Brooks wrote: >Hi All, 'nuther question: > > I see that it's relatively painless to bring in addition mbox >formatted archives into a new mailman list, but I'd like to bring in a >bunch of old stuff from Majordomo in it's Log format. Any suggestions >on th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer

2001-03-30 Thread Phydeaux
At 05:53 PM 3/30/2001 -0800, Dave Melton wrote: >Let's develop the analogy here... > >An airport security system can be likened to restricting posts >to list subscribers. Sure, we all have to stand in line and >occasionally empty our pockets before we can get on a plane. >This is a minor inconve

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer

2001-03-30 Thread Phydeaux
At 03:29 PM 3/30/2001 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: >Without questioning the boundaries of topic or religion on this one, >there's also the argument that allowing spammers to control and >alter our behaviour, and thereby granting them that power and >influence over us is fundamentally WRONG and that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish List

2001-03-30 Thread Phydeaux
At 05:14 PM 3/30/2001 -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: >Absolutely the best mailing list manager I have ever used! Thanks! > >One feature I'd love to see added would be an option to allow new list >members to only view archives from there joining date. For example, if >user joins or is added on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer

2001-03-29 Thread Phydeaux
At 12:18 PM 3/29/2001 -0600, Robert Brandtjen wrote: >I have an idea, lets all spam the spammers. > >Better yet, rebuild your sendmail to use the blackhole list and get these >arses on the black hole list. Why not turn moderation for the list ON -- so only subscribers can post? Then, let a few o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help rebuilding archives...

2001-03-28 Thread Phydeaux
At 10:49 AM 3/28/2001 -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > P> MemoryError > >Well, now this might be a different problem though. Pipermail via >bin/arch slurps the entire archive into memory so if the archive is >big you could have this problem. I was finally able to regenerate the archives by do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help rebuilding archives...

2001-03-27 Thread Phydeaux
At 12:15 PM 3/26/2001 -0500, Phydeaux wrote: >I have a list that has to have its archives rebuilt. The problem is that >the first two years of archives do not exist in mbox format, as someone >trimmed the mbox file way back when. This portion of the archives only >exists in the regula

[Mailman-Users] Need help rebuilding archives...

2001-03-26 Thread Phydeaux
Hi! I have a list that has to have its archives rebuilt. The problem is that the first two years of archives do not exist in mbox format, as someone trimmed the mbox file way back when. This portion of the archives only exists in the regular text files, that the Mailman archiver created. I tried

Re: [Mailman-Users] Altering Message Footer

2001-03-06 Thread Phydeaux
At 04:19 PM 3/6/2001 -0800, Harry L. Styron wrote: >Federal law will or does require information in mass mailings on how to >unsubscribe from lists. Can the footer in Mailman be altered to include >text to conform with this requirement Yes. http://www.aurora.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail headers with Mailman

2001-02-15 Thread Phydeaux
At 01:09 PM 2/15/2001 -0800, Ed Lazor wrote: >>I use Eudora at home all the time, though, and it DOESN'T show these >>headers by default... > >This is because you've upgraded Eudora to the most recent version and / or >made changes to the TabooHeaders parameter in the eudora.ini >file. Right?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prefix for subject line of list postings

2001-02-09 Thread Phydeaux
At 11:18 PM 2/9/2001 -0600, Eugene Allen wrote: >This feature does not seem to be working on my list. I've looked in all the >documentation and FAQ's for a possible configuration error on my part but >haven't seen anything relevant. All the other features seem to work just >fine. > >Any suggesti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domain Support

2001-02-09 Thread Phydeaux
At 02:26 PM 2/9/2001 -0800, Erik S.E. Walum wrote: >We've been anticipating the fabled virtual domain support in mailman 2.0 >for a long time, but alas, the only documentation on this appears to be >a hack (ref: README.EXIM). IS there any further documentation on mailman >2.0's added support for v

Re: [Mailman-Users] Chat Live with a CPA

2001-02-09 Thread Phydeaux
At 12:36 PM 2/9/2001 -0800, Dan Mick wrote: >Phydeaux wrote: > > > Besides, it seems to me that the > > VAST majority of non-subscriber messages here are, indeed, spam. > >How on earth do you know that? I don't *KNOW* that -- I said "It seems to me." Why

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password Web Pages

2001-02-09 Thread Phydeaux
At 03:06 PM 2/9/2001 -0500, Oscar Valdez wrote: >Hello list members: > >I am using version 1.1 of Mailman, that was move from one server to >another. >Mails from all the lists are being send and received normally. >The problem I am encountering is that the web access to the >administration pages k

Re: [Mailman-Users] Chat Live with a CPA

2001-02-09 Thread Phydeaux
At 11:12 AM 2/9/2001 -0800, Ed Lazor wrote: >Getting email spam on this list is kind of ironic, don't you think? hehe I *REALLY* think this list needs to have moderation turned on for posts by non-subscribers. I get the point about having it be open, but if you can't take the time to subscribe

Re: [Mailman-Users] crontab overwritten!!

2001-02-07 Thread Phydeaux
At 05:23 PM 2/7/2001 -0600, Borries Demeler wrote: >I recently installed mailman on my server, and just wanted to alert you >guys to a serious bug: During the installation my crontab for root was >overwritten >and replaced in its entirety with only mailman entries. This caused >considerable >head

Re: [Mailman-Users] minor archive problem after upgrade..

2001-01-23 Thread Phydeaux
At 08:42 AM 1/23/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I'd guess it's related to the setting of "reply_goes_to_list" [General >Options page of the list admin interface, described as "Where are replies >to list messages directed?"] If this is set so that replies default to the >sender, the archive shows the sen

[Mailman-Users] minor archive problem after upgrade..

2001-01-23 Thread Phydeaux
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, at 04:42, Michael Dunston wrote: > I recently upgraded both Mailman (2.0b5 -> 2.0) and Python (1.42 -> 2.0) > and just noticed that the HTML archives are being created differently. > > In the old system, the individual HTML archived messages listed the > poster's name and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information request

2001-01-04 Thread Phydeaux
At 02:10 PM 1/4/2001 -0500, Lady Tinor wrote: >Subscribe/unsubscribe features: we would prefer that members subscribing to >our list(s) would not have to use a password to subscribe. It appears that >we might be able to avoid this by using the "mailto: " function. However, >is there a way that t

[Mailman-Users] A future feature?

2001-01-03 Thread Phydeaux
It would be *really* nice to have a name field associated with each email address. I run lists that are mainly closed, and sometimes it's rather difficult to determine whether someone who has unsubscribed from a list at one address and is now subscribing with another is really the same person. Thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] New Feature Request: A Half-Moderator

2001-01-01 Thread Phydeaux
At 05:44 PM 1/1/2001 -0500, you wrote: >On my mailing list I have a real trouble maker (currently removed). >So, I was just thinking, whether I could ask one list member, whether he >would be willing to moderate this man's postings. > >If we could flag individual members for approving other's mess

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why Have Admin Login On Subscriber List Info Page?

2000-12-31 Thread Phydeaux
At 10:07 PM 12/31/2000 -0500, you wrote: >On the listinfo HTML page, http://mydomain.com/mailman/listinfo/a-list >says: > > A-List Subscribers > The subscribers list is only available to the list > administrator. > Enter your admin address and password to visit the subscribers

Admin chunksize (was: [Mailman-Users] Re: Buglet or Bozo?)

2000-12-30 Thread Phydeaux
At 03:15 PM 12/29/2000 +1100, Bek Oberin wrote: >Scott Brown wrote: > > When the list admin (or I, with the site password) go into this page, and > > try to select a different chunk of users to display on the page, the chunk > > never changes, it's always the first 30 addresses that are shown. > >