Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Tib
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 5/13/01 12:22 AM, "Tib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the piece of email is sponsored and has advertising, it's a HUGE problem. > As was the original poster's note on this stuff. If you're running on a 3

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-13 Thread Tib
nd on whether or not to follow the link or not. Cut a 30k message to 10k users down to maybe 5k in this way and you'll have a userbase that doesn't have the entire message in their box, but at the same time is not ignorant to the progression of the newsletter's topic. Tib -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

2001-05-12 Thread Tib
To take another approach, mail out a link to the newsletter rather than the ENTIRE newsletter to each person. Do the math; if you're mailing out a letter that's 30k, to 10,000 users. that's gonna be 300 megs of data that's getting pumped through your system, on a weekly basis, with each one having

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with the config.db permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Tib
with reinstalling mailman or some other extreme bit of work, I just put mailman in the group 'mail' and now things seem to be running smoothly again. Good grief what a headache this whole fiasco has been, my apologies for the upset. Tib -

[Mailman-Users] problems with the config.db permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Tib
becomes 'nobody:mail' and then mailman starts spitting errors out right and left and the lists just queue up messages and don't do anything anymore. Could someone please explain in detail exactly how it's /supposed/ to happen in a good situation? Tib ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] argh!! more problems

2001-05-09 Thread Tib
ck_perms script would have found all of these in error.. ? Tib On Wed, 9 May 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > Apparently you didn't read what I said. > > > -rw-rw1 nobody mail16875 May 8 18:16 > > /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db > > is not group mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] argh!! more problems

2001-05-08 Thread Tib
2001 qrunner(7593): IOError : [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db' and this is the setup of the file itself: [root@unica logs]# ls -l '/home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db' -rw-rw1 nobody mail16875 May 8 18:16 /home/mai

[Mailman-Users] argh!! more problems

2001-05-08 Thread Tib
For some reason, the config.db file of the list previously in question keeps being set to an ownership of 'nobody'. help? Tib -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailinglist/archives.

2001-05-08 Thread Tib
I found the problem and was able to solve it: when I ran the arch command to import the old archives of the list that got moved to my machine, I ran it as root - and it set all the rwx permissions correctly, but failed to set the ownership settings correctly (owned by root rather than owned by ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailinglist/archives.

2001-05-08 Thread Tib
won't update. Tib On Tue, 8 May 2001, Daniel Einspanjer wrote: > Hrm.. I didn't realize that you had other lists that were already operating on this >box. there is only one crontab.in file that handles all the work for mailman. > > A couple more ideas that you mig

[Mailman-Users] Problem with mailinglist/archives.

2001-05-07 Thread Tib
th no noticable impact on anything. Tib -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] bouncing mail

2001-03-12 Thread Tib
#x27;s all done now and the mail should work just fine. Tib -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] gid error

2001-02-11 Thread Tib
zed it, as follows. Can anyone help me UN puzzle this again so that my Mailman installation can both make new lists AND deliver them? :P This is just too frustrating for me at 5am on a night before work :] Tib [root@unica mailman-2.0rc1]# ./configure --with-mail-gid=12 loading cache ./config.cach

[Mailman-Users] new user message

2001-01-16 Thread Tib
is there any way to re-send the new user welcome message to people who are on the list already? Or if not, can I remove people from the list without them being notified somehow and then resubscribe them so that they do get the welcome message? Tib