[Mailman-Users] Re: Read-only file system

2024-07-01 Thread Steven Jones via Mailman-Users
Yes a disk "failure" is possible, I recently had a Samsung 980 pro nvme drive runout of spare blocks (due to bad firmware), this made the file system readonly. Run smartctl on the disk(s) to check. regards Steven From: Robert Heller Sent: Tuesday, 2 July 20

[Mailman-Users] Re: Where's the installation directions / source, etc, please?

2023-07-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I feel the same way, hence still running Mailman2 (on RHEL8). It is simple and low CPU hit, however Red Hat stops it support in May 2024. Containers are really useful where done well but I tried 2 or times to get mailman3 going on RHEL9 with podman and even docker and failed. I think Debi

[Mailman-Users] Re: emails sitting in postfix mailq a long time

2022-01-25 Thread Steven Jones
From: Mark Sapiro Sent: Tuesday, 25 January 2022 2:18 pm To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: emails sitting in postfix mailq a long time On 1/24/22 16:36, Steven Jones wrote: > Hi, > > trying to figure out why there are a lot of these in post

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman data backup

2022-01-25 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Also the way I understand how MTAs work is postfix or whatever you are using should hold the email if Mailman is offline while you are backing up? Once mailman is backup postfix should deliver? regards Steven From: Mark Sapiro Sent: Tuesday, 25 January

[Mailman-Users] emails sitting in postfix mailq a long time

2022-01-24 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, trying to figure out why there are a lot of these in postfix's mail queu, 75D752B3E0* 415295 Tue Jan 25 12:38:50 MAILER-DAEMON xx-bounces@lists.xx Are these bounces back into mailman? regards Steven -

[Mailman-Users] admins post to a list held for moderation

2021-09-22 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I am seeing post to Mailman2 lists being held for moderation yet they are sent by an admin of that list. I cannot fathom why. Max recipients is set to 10 and its only 3 lists at once in this case. What other things can I check on that might be causing this please? TY. regards Steven -

[Mailman-Users] Is there a way to get a list of all list admins?

2021-07-15 Thread Steven Jones
I am moving mailman off rhel6 to rhel8 Is there a way to extract list admins on the command line so I can notify them? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le..

[Mailman-Users] transferring a mailman2 list to a new server

2020-10-19 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Just doing some proof of concept by moving a test list to a new server. Seems to work fine except once in the list web ui everytime I move to a new sub-emu I have to keep putting in the password, I have never seen this before, what have I missed? regards Steven --

[Mailman-Users] site wide password does not work mailman2

2020-10-19 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, My site password did not work after building/installing so I reset in with /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass and it still does not work! Is there a way to generate it manually? by not using mmsitepass? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mai

[Mailman-Users] Re: extracting a lists's setting to move the list to a new domain

2020-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
9/20/20 4:35 PM, Steven Jones wrote: >> I cant find anything on extracting a list's settings, owners etc and >> then using those to create a new list on a new domain. >> >> Is there a simple operational command to extract and inject? The tool for this is mailman's

[Mailman-Users] extracting a lists's setting to move the list to a new domain

2020-09-20 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I cant find anything on extracting a list's settings, owners etc and then using those to create a new list on a new domain. Is there a simple operational command to extract and inject? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mail

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2 and postfix problem

2020-09-14 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I am trying to setup a mailman 2 instance on RHEL8.2 and postfix seems to be rejecting the input, not sure if it is a Postfix issue or a Mailman issue. The list aaa-seteven is in the aliases file in /etc/mailman telnet vuwunicomailmd1.ods.vuw.ac.nz 25 Trying 130.195.14.234... Connected to

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman v2.x

2020-09-14 Thread Steven Jones
HI, I dont know what planet this user lives on, "> Speaking as _a_ user, my requirements are simple: > 1. MM2 must continue to work, > 2. support must continue to be provided." but really? try telling say Oracle that they MUST continue to support Oracle 8.0, LOL. This is open source th

[Mailman-Users] Re: Apache/mailman2 on RHEL8.2

2020-09-09 Thread Steven Jones
an2 is EOL but with the Virus impact on our budget there is no money and no skills for moving to anything newer/better and 2~3 years should see it no longer used/needed. regards Steven From: Stephen J. Turnbull Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2020 2:25 AM To: St

[Mailman-Users] Apache/mailman2 on RHEL8.2

2020-09-08 Thread Steven Jones
Trying to do a setup, I get the default page OK but when I follow the link, "List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list." I get, Not Found The requested URL /mailman/admin was not found on this server. regards Steven

[Mailman-Users] Trying to setup mailman2.1 and following the docs on RHEL8.2

2020-09-08 Thread Steven Jones
I get this failure message, === [root@vuwunicomailmp1 system]# pwd /usr/lib/systemd/system [root@vuwunicomailmp1 system]# for X in mailman-*.timer ; do systemctl enable $X && systemctl start $X ; done Invalid unit name "mailman-*.timer" was escaped as "mailman-\x2a.timer" (maybe you should use s

Re: [Mailman-Users] [ext] Re: mailman not functional

2019-10-20 Thread Steven Jones
ilman not functional * Steven Jones : > thanks > > I am sort of suspecting postfix as /var/log/maillog is not being written to. That's bad. So try stopping and starting postfix (after stopping check with "ps auxwww|fgrep post" to see if there's anything left!!!) a

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman not functional

2019-10-17 Thread Steven Jones
: [Mailman-Users] mailman not functional On 10/17/19 1:41 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday we had a major network outage that lasted 2 hours+ This morning I > find that the mailman server has "stopped working" I have restarted mailman > and now the server but m

[Mailman-Users] mailman not functional

2019-10-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Yesterday we had a major network outage that lasted 2 hours+ This morning I find that the mailman server has "stopped working" I have restarted mailman and now the server but mailman is not processing any emails. The load in top is 0.00 ~0.01 sort of thing, no no disk i/o, no action at

[Mailman-Users] How long will Mailman version 2 be supported for?

2019-06-20 Thread Steven Jones
thanks regards. Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: h

[Mailman-Users] mailman 3 and freeipa

2019-03-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I cant find anything on this so far but can Mailman3's webui use freeipa as the authentication mechanism? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailma

[Mailman-Users] Is there a way to get a list of all lists with the list owner?

2019-03-14 Thread Steven Jones
regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www

Re: [Mailman-Users] restoring a list

2018-09-10 Thread Steven Jones
Traced it to the aliases file for postfix, re-added the 8? "links" all works fine now regards Steven From: Mailman-Users on behalf of Steven Jones Sent: Monday, 10 September 2018 2:29 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] r

[Mailman-Users] restoring a list

2018-09-09 Thread Steven Jones
<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-November/067870.html>Hi, I restored a list (after a deletion as per, https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-November/067870.html However the list owner says it isnt working, is there anything I am missing? regards

[Mailman-Users] Can the following be done and as an option contractors available to do it?

2018-07-12 Thread Steven Jones
Hi We have a requirement to move 301 lists (minus defunct lists) on a RHEL6 server and want to migrate to RHEL7 and change our domain name at the same time. Our users email addresses would also need changing from the old domain to the new domain. Moving archives, we would like to move these i

[Mailman-Users] Is there a way to determine which lists are defunct?

2018-07-12 Thread Steven Jones
We have 301 lists on a RHEL6 server and want to migrate to RHEL7 and change our domain name at the same time. So as above, Is there a way to determine which lists are defunct? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pyt

[Mailman-Users] Brute force attacks on mailman web ui

2018-04-15 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, We are currently under brute force attack on our mailman server's web ui. Is there anything / feature that Mailman has that can be used to watch/monitor it? Sadly I think we'll have to remove it off the Internet. regards Steven

[Mailman-Users] Purging old archives over 7 years old

2017-06-15 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have a 12year old mailman server which is absorbing 650gb of expensive disk space. Is there any feature that would go through each list's archives and delete emails over say 7 years old? (or maybe even only 3 as we do a yearly backup going back a decade). regards Steven ---

[Mailman-Users] output help please.

2016-08-18 Thread Steven Jones
[root@vuwunicomailmn1 mailman]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -n -f /var/lib/mailman/STUDENT_EMAIL.txt All_Active_Students Dry run mode Invalid : You must fix the preceding invalid addresses first. [root@vuwunicomailmn1 mailman]# So a corrupt/bad email address in mailman? or in the updating

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request

2015-12-07 Thread Steven Jones
rovide a little more context for why this would be a generally GoodThing. Keith Bierman khb...@gmail.com kbiermank AIM 303 997 2749 On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 12/06/2015 06:06 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > > "Should administrator get notices of subscribes and

[Mailman-Users] feature request

2015-12-07 Thread Steven Jones
"Should administrator get notices of subscribes and unsubscribes? " Would it be possible to split these as our list admins would like to see unsubscribes but not subscribes.

Re: [Mailman-Users] corrupt list file?

2015-11-26 Thread Steven Jones
behalf of Mark Sapiro Sent: Friday, 27 November 2015 10:34 a.m. To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] corrupt list file? On 11/26/2015 11:41 AM, Steven Jones wrote: > The list was obsolete so I have deleted, and rebooted the server. The list > no longer exists but I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] corrupt list file?

2015-11-26 Thread Steven Jones
ds Steven From: Mailman-Users on behalf of Steven Jones Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2015 8:54 a.m. To: Mailman-Users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] corrupt list file? Hi, We lost our San and on bringing back our mailman server this alert happens every minute, the filesystems are

[Mailman-Users] corrupt list file?

2015-11-26 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, We lost our San and on bringing back our mailman server this alert happens every minute, the filesystems are read/write, but it had gone ro, so I rebooted the server, most lists seem to be working fine, == abrt_version: 2.0.8 cmdline:/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/bi

Re: [Mailman-Users] automating adding and removing subscribers

2015-10-20 Thread Steven Jones
files to the Mailman system for final processing. The process works for us. Diff occasionally glitches on closely matched names but a follow on process run weekly fixes the problem. Good Luck, Chris On 10/20/2015 2:42 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to automate the addin

[Mailman-Users] automating adding and removing subscribers

2015-10-20 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Is there a way to automate the adding and removing subscribers from another system? such that the list is kept concurrent? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mai

[Mailman-Users] beefing up mailman's web security

2015-02-16 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Our mailman web gui is under constant distributed bruteforce attack. We would like to add something like, https://www.phpcaptcha.org/ to it, is this possible? or are there any other ideas? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list M

Re: [Mailman-Users] Advantages

2014-12-03 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, We use mailman for a very diverse set of people and needs, some few hundred mailing lists. I would suggest the "terror" they feel is on something new to get over with, good luck! regards Steven From: Mailman-Users on behalf of r...@rexgoode.c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman init script doesn't work and webpage doesn't show list of lists

2014-06-11 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Have a look at the paths. I think RH installs things non-mailman style so maybe some files are in the wrong place for the rpm. I upgraded from mailman on RHEL3 to RHEL 6 and had these sort of issues. regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University ITS, Level 8

Re: [Mailman-Users] Populating mailman lists out of AD or LDAP.

2014-02-03 Thread Steven Jones
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Populating mailman lists out of AD or LDAP. On 02/02/2014 12:18 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I want to populate a specific mailman list with users from AD (if possible) > or IPA/LDAP that have a specific attribute in AD. > > Is this possible? I c

[Mailman-Users] Populating mailman lists out of AD or LDAP.

2014-02-02 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I want to populate a specific mailman list with users from AD (if possible) or IPA/LDAP that have a specific attribute in AD. Is this possible? I can see lots of old comments dated 2004 from googling but nothing newer so far. regards Steven ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] I did not submit a request to unsubscribe from mailman-users

2012-10-30 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, We are certainly seeing a lot of subscription attempts in the last 2weeks, as if mailman lists are being actively targeted. Some lists have over 400 subscription attempts outstanding. :/ regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4

[Mailman-Users] recording mailman list changes.

2012-10-01 Thread Steven Jones
Hi Does mailman record who and when settings were changed for a list? regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4 463 6272 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail delays

2012-09-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have checked in /var/log/s/mailman/* and the post and smtp logs say they got the post at 8:00 while the postfix log says it was sent to mailman at 11am the day before? confused.. regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4

[Mailman-Users] Mail delays

2012-09-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I am trying to figure out a delay to a posting with moderation set. It looks like postfix received the list post at 11am, 17th September it was transferred into mailman then and there. However the list has moderation on so the moderators were emailed but at 8am the next day 18th...this see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for lists with no members. Repopulstinglists. was: Resetting bounce scores globally

2011-08-18 Thread Steven Jones
d I hate doing it. regards Steven Jones From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 19 August 2011 1:18 p.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for lists with no members. Repopulstinglists. was: Reset

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for lists with no members. Repopulsting lists. was: Resetting bounce scores globally

2011-08-18 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Because its related to the same event "config.pck", because I didnt know that.. I think sometimes developers/coders dont realise lesser mortals cant code to their standards, and in my case virtually not at all... regards St

Re: [Mailman-Users] Resetting bounce scores globally

2011-08-18 Thread Steven Jones
subscribers off the old lists server and inject them back into the new lists on the new lists server? regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE Victoria University, Wellington, NZ 0064 4 463 6272 From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Thursday

[Mailman-Users] mailman talking on ipv6 loopback

2011-08-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I just upgrade Mailman but for some reason it seems to be talking to postfix on ::1 and postfix does a relay denyFor mailman is this normal? Or do I have a misconfiguration? regards Steven Jones -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Resetting bounce scores globally

2011-08-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Is there a way to reset all ppls bounces in all lists? Ive tried withlist -a -r reset_bounce but no joy regards Steven Jones -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] Is there a Command to extract the lists owners?

2011-07-11 Thread Steven Jones
I need to email each list owner to let them know the server will be off line while I upgrade it, so I need their email addresses. regards -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-user

[Mailman-Users] Injecting old lists into a new mailman aliases setup

2011-06-14 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have followed http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+move+a+list+to+a+different+server-Mailman+installation. and got to, withlist -l -r fix_url listname but I find that afetr running that the lists info has not been put into in /etc/mailman/aliases file (Redhat default location) so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Continued problems with Mailman on RHEL6.1

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Jones
8><- This list is not the appropriate place for your RedHat packaging issues. 8><--- I can appreciate this, but Im trying to determine what is going wrong so I can be sure in taking it to RH they have stuffed up. regards -- Mailman-Us

[Mailman-Users] Continued problems with Mailman on RHEL6.1

2011-06-08 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I am trying to create a new list via the mailman web interface, it appears to create a list but inbound emails to the list(s) are failing saying, user unknown in local recipient table. I am assuming that the web interface should add the list controls to the /etc/aliases file? it looks lik

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined

2011-06-07 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, thankyou for your time. regards Steven From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 June 2011 2:53 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defin

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined

2011-06-07 Thread Steven Jones
ssions don't allow other+read. Utils.set_global_password(pw1, siteadmin) if Utils.check_global_password(pw1, siteadmin): print C_('Password changed.') else: print C_('Password change failed.') ^L if __name__ == '__main__': m

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined

2011-06-07 Thread Steven Jones
() === It has differences but I have no idea if these matter. regards From: mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org [mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] on behalf of Steven Jones [steven.jo...@vuw.ac.nz] Sent

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined

2011-06-07 Thread Steven Jones
Thanks regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10:13 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined On 6/7/2011 2:57 PM, St

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined

2011-06-07 Thread Steven Jones
Hi Why would it be missing stuff? How do I determine this and then go kick redhat? regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 June 2011 9:50 a.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman

[Mailman-Users] mailman NameError: global name '_' is not defined

2011-06-07 Thread Steven Jones
I just tried to set a list creators password... so doing a, [root@vuwunicmailmnt1 conf.d]# /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass", line 105, in main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass", line 77, in main us

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Looks like it was selinuxi set it to permissive, rebooted and mailman appears to be up... :/ regards From: mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org [mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] on behalf of Steven Jones

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
I have a nasty feeling about selinux will check regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:54 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/2/11

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
true and false things, 0's 1's etc send_welcome_msg : True, etc so yes its looks like attributes. regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:54 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Yes, the lists themselves are under /var.the mailman binaries are under /usr regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 1:08 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Service mailman restart Here is the startup script, = #!/bin/sh # # mailmanThis shell script starts and stops GNU Mailman. # # Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
-rw-rw. 1 mailman mailman 3902 Jun 2 12:00 /var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 11:12 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
To add mailman will not start, still. regards From: mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org [mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] on behalf of Steven Jones [steven.jo...@vuw.ac.nz] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 10:58 a.m

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 8:54 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman On 6/2/2011 12:55 PM, Steven Jones wrote: > So the file is there.how to I get it to "

Re: [Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-02 Thread Steven Jones
So the file is there.how to I get it to "find it" again? Also I suspect its the same with all the lists. regards From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 2:34 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: mailman-users@python.org S

[Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-01 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I ran out of disk space so I added 400gb to /var/lib/mailman2 and moved the archives with, cd /var/lib/mailman ; tar cf - . |(cd /var/lib/mailman2 tar xf -) So permissions should have stayed OKthen I did, unmount ~mailman2 and mounted it as ~mailman, permissions look right but I seem

[Mailman-Users] migrating lists off an old RHEl3 server to RHEL6.1

2011-05-26 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Can I just move the aliases file and the various lists directories and archive off the old server and more them to the correct place on the new server restart mailman and it will work? Or is there other work to do regards steven -- Mailm

[Mailman-Users] Upgrading and converting mailman to postfix

2011-04-20 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have to upgrade a old mailman setup on RHEl3 and sendmail to RHEL6 which comes with postfix by default... So, a) Docs or how easy is it to straight migrate from RHEL3 (2.1.5) to RHEL6 (2.1.12) ? b) How easy is it to convert a sendmail setup with /etc/aliases to postfix? any automat

Re: [Mailman-Users] Exporting or upgrading mailman lists

2010-09-14 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, "common format" I had no idea what they meant.neither did they. I was just told to get an answer ;? I think they mean something a Microsoft (based) product can read and import. regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist Linux/Vmware Tele 64 4 463 6272 Victoria

[Mailman-Users] Exporting or upgrading mailman lists

2010-09-14 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, 1) Is there any script or method that can export 1 or all lists to a "common" format? 2) What's involved in migrating to a new version of Mailman? regards Steven Jones Technical Specialist Linux/Vmware Tele 64 4 463 6272 Victoria University Kelb

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting mailman to "archive browse mode" only

2010-09-07 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, "They" dont want to create new mailman lists "anymore" as they have to be created by a Linux systems administrator (ie be root to edit /etc/aliases)...so 15mins a week is too much work...so they want to do it with "user admins" that are incapable of anything but AD/gui type work...and I w

[Mailman-Users] Setting mailman to "archive browse mode" only

2010-09-06 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, My management want to move our listing function to Exchange 2k10however we have a need to maintain the archives on the existing mailman server so ppl can search them. Is it possible to disable all of mailman's functions except search/browsing of the archive? regards Steven --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail - Aliases

2010-02-18 Thread Steven Jones
n.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Hildebrandt Sent: Friday, 19 February 2010 11:06 a.m. To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail - Aliases * Steven Jones : > Hi, > > Is there any reason why there is no gui in Mail

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail - Aliases

2010-02-18 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Is there any reason why there is no gui in Mailman to add the lines needed to aliases fro sendmail? regards Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
As below. -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 3:03 p.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman-users@python.org Cc: Andrey Sabitov Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly Steven Jones wrote: >Wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
livery_status TypeError: iteration over non-sequence regards Steven -Original Message- From: mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+steven.jones=vuw.ac...@python.org] On Behalf Of Steven Jones Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
benign content so fara Its possible that the content is / was a DOS attack? or maybe just chance regards Steven -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 2:16 p.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
-Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 3:56 a.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly Steven Jones wrote: > >Yesterday after 5 years of ope

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
8><--- Yes, that. Something is really hosed. === LOL.. === Have you tried just restarting Mailman? = Yes and a reboot.no difference... = What's at the start of that traceback leading up to the first call to deepcopy? = Feb 16 15:05:45 2010 (2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Is there a way forward? I have to hand this on as I have to fix something else...will come back to it in about 4 hours from now regards Steven -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 3:56 a.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman

[Mailman-Users] Mailman no longer working or working very slowly

2010-02-17 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Yesterday after 5 years of operation ou mailman application has "died" it seems to be barely running taking 3 or more hours to process lists...previous load was <0.2 now its around 1 with a python process absorbing 1 CPU constantly. We are running on RHEL3-32bit and the errors are, ===

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages take over an hour to pass throughmailman

2007-08-01 Thread Steven Jones
Thanks to both, I don't think its DNS as the mailman server is smarthost'd in sendmail to go to a outgoing smtp serverso why it would do dns lookups I don't know... regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victori

[Mailman-Users] Messages take over an hour to pass through mailman

2007-08-01 Thread Steven Jones
I am trying to determine why emails to lists sometimes take well in excess of an hoursometimes 4 Is there anyway to determine where the issue lies? regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone

[Mailman-Users] Moving mailman lists

2007-02-21 Thread Steven Jones
d items be "cleansed" of the old domain and the new domain be substituted? (this is probably a secondary requirement)... Unless this is easy my preference is to let them wait until they get a new server but they want something "now". regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Uni

[Mailman-Users] reply from RedHat regarding patch for lost spam filters - no it is not in their RPM

2006-12-07 Thread Steven Jones
the patch is in your home directory): # cd /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/ # patch -p0 < ~/Privacy.py.diff The file is a python script, so there is no need to recompile or anything, it should just start working (you may need to restart mailman though). Regards, 8><- regards Steven

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filters disappearing....

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
It did it again So I got about 4 hours from adding a spam filter before it again disappears Is there anyway to check the rpm for the patch for the bug? Because if it is not there OK, I can chase RH, if it is there then the patch did not fix the issue/bug. :/ regards Steven Jones

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with spam filter rules "disappearing" on a regular basis

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, This is an old bug...2004is there anyway to determine if the patch is in my version? regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 -Original

[Mailman-Users] problems with spam filter rules "disappearing" on a regular basis

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
gards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

[Mailman-Users] Some lists no longer archiving

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have a list that stopped archiving in Octoberother lists are Ok... Where would I start looking for a reason why? regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27

Re: [Mailman-Users] New version of Mailman

2006-10-03 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Please ignore, suffering from brain fade regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 -- Mailman

[Mailman-Users] New version of Mailman

2006-10-03 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Where would I find info on Mailman 2, its advantages etc over 1? Sort of like a white paper and/or release notes. Not having much luck with Google or the Mailman site regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error posting to a mailman list.

2006-08-27 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, tail'd | oc but could not see anything, deleted the 10 lines and re-did them, then ran newaliases, now worksso, there must have been a wee corruption in there somewhere regards Steven Jones ITS Linux/Unix/San System Administrator Technology Integration Team Victoria Universi

[Mailman-Users] Error posting to a mailman list.

2006-08-27 Thread Steven Jones
16231): post script, list not found: its-agp Aug 28 10:30:06 2006 post(16744): post script, list not found: its-agp ==8>< So I am a bit at a losssuggests some sort of link within or to mailman is broken. How to fix please? Regards Steven Jones ITS Linux/Unix/San Syst

Re: [Mailman-Users] Possible features

2006-08-21 Thread Steven Jones
Thanks regards Steven Jones ITS Linux/Unix/San System Administrator Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:55 a.m. To

[Mailman-Users] Possible features

2006-08-21 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, A list owner requested if the subscription could be broken down into two sections, as normal with mailman the list owner has to confirm (etc) whether people can subscibe, or the option allowing anybody from a specific domain to automatically subscribe without any confirmation? can mailma

[Mailman-Users] Changing defaults

2006-08-21 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I need to chnage some defaults on creating a new list, specifically at present making the list's archive automatically private instead of public? thanks Steven -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.or

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