Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-23 Thread The Mailing List System Admin
CN> What I have done is modify the clone_list command to combine the CN> renaming/cloning of a list and include an option to rebuild the CN> archives. However, the archives will not be rebuilt if the CN> scrub_nondigest setting is Yes. Sounds like a worthwhile enhancement. MS> I will try adding

[Mailman-Users] HyperKitty and Mailman V2

2016-02-25 Thread The Mailing List System Admin
HyperKitty looks really good. The scription says... "HyperKitty is a Django-based application providing a web interface to access GNU Mailman v3 archives, and interact with the lists." Does anybody know off hand if there is there any reason it couldn't be used with Mailman V2? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce email going to list server admin not list owner...

2016-02-25 Thread The Mailing List System Admin
Thanks to both Mark (MS) and Stephen for their replies. MS> All I can suggest is you look at your MTA logs and try to MS> determine to what message this is a response and what generated MS> this message. I track down the original message id, here's what I found in the MTA logs... 1) Msg from sa

[Mailman-Users] Bounce email going to list server admin not list owner...

2016-02-24 Thread The Mailing List System Admin
Didn't have luck researching this question. I (the list server admin) recently received the following bounce notice: From joe.anyb...@example.edu Wed Feb 24 15:55:18 2016 Return-Path: From: "Anybody, Joe" To: Xyz.Forum Subject: Automatic reply: Added to the list Thread-Topic: Added to the li

Re: [Mailman-Users] web interface for sync_members redux

2016-02-12 Thread The Mailing List System Admin
Mark Sapiro recently wrote, in part... See the FAQ at and the members.c program attached... Thanks for the reference. The issue with the members.c approach is it has no good way to do the authentication and neither does the calling CGI or PHP script. I see

[Mailman-Users] web interface for sync_members redux

2016-02-12 Thread The Mailing List System Admin
I see that people have requested in the past a web interface to the syn_members functionality, and found at least two patches to modify the current web interface to do this. At this early stage of the game with Mailman, I'm not willing to be doing things like patching Mailman, so I was wondering

[Mailman-Users] How to re-send list traffic from archives?

2014-04-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there all, Due to a VERP misconfig on one of our systems, we had a number of outbound posts bounce with a 500-series error. What we'd like to do is go through the archives for the period of time we missed, and re-send those messages. Is this something anyone's had to do in the past and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gratuitous "True".

2009-01-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: I took a closer look at my own archives and I see it is related to Richard's patches, but it is not the patch that's the problem. The 'True' is supposed to be "" The problem is that you have (probably in mm_cfg.py, but maybe in Defaults.py) ARCHIVE_INDEXI

[Mailman-Users] Gratuitous "True".

2009-01-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, After updating to 2.1.11 (from BSD ports, against python2.5), I'm seeing that several of my list archives have the word "True" scattered througout (at the bottoms of tables). Something like this: October 2008: [ Thread ] [ Subjec

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email subscription not working

2009-01-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I'm hitting a little snag. Email subscribe isn't doing anything. Postfix delivers the email to mailman, but then as far as I can tell, nothing more happens with it. Where would be the best place to

[Mailman-Users] Email subscription not working

2009-01-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I'm hitting a little snag. Email subscribe isn't doing anything. Postfix delivers the email to mailman, but then as far as I can tell, nothing more happens with it. Where would be the best place to debug this from a mailman perspective? Jan 7 21:05:34 lister postfix/qmgr[97071]: DD

[Mailman-Users] repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?

2009-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Here at work, we've found that mailman's "-request" alias has stomped another already-existing function (under our previous list, we used that for administrative requests, and on this particular list, that's not negotiable -- it needs to duplicate the function of xxx-owner). However, we're usi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing other lists to a list.

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: What I'd like to know if is possible within mailman is the following: a) A per-user flag that makes a user admin-control ONLY. No auto-bounce handling, no unsubscribe options, no password reminders...no

[Mailman-Users] Subscribing other lists to a list.

2008-12-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
I just helped to manage a migration from Ecartis to Mailman for my day job. We have a periodic -announce list that we send out on to release new software versions. What I'm finding is we cannot duplicate the same behavior we have under Ecartis. Ecartis had a simple "import" option, where li

[Mailman-Users] Duplicate detection: a plea

2008-12-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
We recently moved over to mailman from Ecartis at $dayjob, and one of the largest annoyances is that mailman seems to have no ability to strip duplicate messages that are sent to the lists. We moved over from our main domain name, foo.com, to lists.foo.com, so what happens is this: A user po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLYMODERATEDlist.

2005-02-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote: Dan Mahoneywrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Jeff Groves wrote: I think the two Received: headers could be enough considering the worm probably has it's own SMTP engine. The way to answer this for sure is to see if it is in the 'post' log. Jan 27 22:55:10 2005 (39139

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLYMODERATED list.

2005-02-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Jeff Groves wrote: I think the two Received: headers could be enough considering the worm probably has it's own SMTP engine. The way to answer this for sure is to see if it is in the 'post' log. Jan 27 22:55:10 2005 (39139) post to vgc-announce from [EMAIL PROTECTED], size=3938

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.

2005-02-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, David M.Besonen wrote: I just had a small problem. A virus was just sent to all the list members which had spoofed the moderator's email address. No "requires approval" message was sent, despite the fact that everyone (even the moderator) has the "mod" bit set to "on". so what

[Mailman-Users] Virus Just Got Through on TOTALLY MODERATED list.

2005-01-28 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Guys, I just had a small problem. A virus was just sent to all the list members which had spoofed the moderator's email address. No "requires approval" message was sent, despite the fact that everyone (even the moderator) has the "mod" bit set to "on". http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avc

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing MTA from sendmail -> procmail

2004-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Aaron Bennett wrote: Procmail is not an MTA. It does not speak SMTP inbound or outbound. It is merely a "delivery agent", which takes the mail once sendmail (or another MTA) gets it in from the grid and handles stuffing it in a box. I'm quite familiar with the setup you're

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman configuration error

2004-10-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Adam G. Garson wrote: Hi -- I'm trying to install Mailman on a Mandrake 10.1 system. I have new installations of Python 2.3.4 and GCC 3.4.2 both compiled from source -- no rpms. When I run the configure script I get the error quoted below. This occurs even as root, so I don'

[Mailman-Users] CC, from, and TO headers.

2004-10-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I'm managing a mailing list (obviously) and the problem we're having is with the list address being placed in the "CC" header of the email. This is an annoucement only list, so we'd like to simply remove that feature for this specific list. Is there a way of doing that? We don't wa

[Mailman-Users] None

2002-11-28 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hi all, quick question. My host name is prime.gushi.org, but I operate several vhosts under it. I am easily able to make a few virtusertable tweaks that allow me to have users point to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED], but there's no place to edit this in the configs. (i.e. all the

[Mailman-Users] Headers

2001-04-30 Thread System Admin
Is there a method to get rid of all the helpful headers sent on each message. With tiny lists, it takes up a great deal of room. Don -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users