[Mailman-Users] Admin stuff

2002-02-04 Thread Robert J Shepherd
In Utils.py lurks the list of admin*strivia phrases that cause mail to be held for m*deration. Can anyone tell me what the numbers bracketed after each administrivia phrase mean? They take the form of "word": (0,0), TIA Robert -- Mailman-

[Mailman-Users] Vacation Autoresponders & Administrivia

2002-01-22 Thread Robert J Shepherd
We've got a list that's plagued by vacation autoresponders, which is something Mailman 2.0x doesn't handle well. When I look back through the archives of the mailman-users list, I see that it crops up time and again without any meaningful solution (I don't count unsubbing the villains, manual m

RE: [Mailman-Users] Customized subscribeack.txt

2001-05-25 Thread Robert J Shepherd
I wanted the same thing. Especially to take out the postings info for some announce-only lists. My solution in the end was to edit subscribeack.txt way down to the basics that suited all lists and then to write longer messages in the customisable part. It works fine. But if someone knows a better

[Mailman-Users] Permission Denied

2001-05-23 Thread Robert J Shepherd
Sorry ... I should add that the error isn't just for the senddigests cron. Here's two others, which suggest the error happens with every (or nearly every) use of config.db:- --- Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip", line 146, in ?

RE: [Mailman-Users] subscribe not working (newby)

2001-05-23 Thread Robert J Shepherd
Hi all I've searched through months of archives and I can't find the answer to this so I appeal to you for help. We're running a dozen Mailman lists on one server (Red Hat/Apache/Sendmail) and they're all fine except one, let's call it 'thelist', for which 3 or 4 times a day we get the following