Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > On 8/28/2015 3:03 AM, Will Yardley wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:37:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> Mark writes: > >> > First, apologies if this has been discussed before. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:37:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark writes: > > First, apologies if this has been discussed before. I run a number > > of mailman lists on a Centos 6 platform and mailman 2.1.12-25. This > > version was updated in July as follows: > > https://rhn.redhat.

Re: [Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-26 Thread Will Yardley
ps - Here are a couple of quick throwaway 'withlist' scripts I threw together to add a regexp matching the spammers' email addresses, and to purge pending subscription requests matching a similar regexp. Posting here in case someone finds them useful for this, or some other, purpose. % cat purge_r

Re: [Mailman-Users] need assistance upgrading Mailman

2015-08-25 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 03:32:04PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark Sapiro writes: > > On August 24, 2015 12:44:02 PM PDT, Nina Nicholson > > wrote: > > >Andrew - I am using Plesk, and Mailman does interface with it. > > > > According to the FAQ at > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-25 Thread Will Yardley
And, self-followup, I had looked on list.org before, but hadn't checked the archives, so seems clear that the behavior is common. Running the RHEL5 Mailman currently (2.1.9) so still don't have the SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET feature yet. Mostly curious about the motivation behind this - what do these b

[Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-25 Thread Will Yardley
I'm seeing massive numbers of subscription lists to various lists we host (including multiple requests to the same list). These are submitted via a distributed network of hosts, presumably botnet victims / open proxies. The requests are from foo+[0-9]{9}@gmail.com e.g., foo+55216394@ where foo

[Mailman-Users] .psv files in /var/spool/mailman/in 2.1.9

2014-08-19 Thread Will Yardley
I found some .psv files in /var/spool/mailman/in/ (RHEL 5 Mailman package; 2.1.9). That seems to be too early for the stuff mentioned here (and I don't see those options in Defaults.py) https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-June/066395.html Is it safe to remove old .psv files in thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Redacted Email Address in Feedback Loop

2014-08-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 04:55:52PM -0700, Peter Knowles wrote: > What is the best way to deal with feedback loop messages where the provider > has redacted the email address of the party who filed the complaint? I haven't looked at a FBL message for a while, but most of the ones I've seen didn't

[Mailman-Users] non-interactive newlist, but send notification

2014-01-27 Thread Will Yardley
Looking at the code, I think I know the answer already, but is there any way (with Mailman 2.1.9) to send a notification to the list owner when a list is created, but do it in non-interactive mode? Right now, you have to use '-q' to avoid hitting enter, but then no notification to the list-owner i

Re: [Mailman-Users] odd address confirmation spam

2013-07-22 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:31:03PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Will Yardley : > > It seems someone is trying to forge-subscribe certain addresses (mostly > > AOL / Yahoo / Gmail etc. addresses) on our Mailman install. > > Which version of mailman is that? 2.1.9. And y

[Mailman-Users] odd address confirmation spam

2013-07-22 Thread Will Yardley
It seems someone is trying to forge-subscribe certain addresses (mostly AOL / Yahoo / Gmail etc. addresses) on our Mailman install. For example, (slightly sanitized, though the IP address is the real one): [19/Jul/2013:09:49:17 -0700] 137.117.103.83 TLSv1 RC4-SHA "GET /mailman/subscribe/listname

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-member posting to the list

2012-11-13 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:03:32PM -0200, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes wrote: > In my case, I found that the return-path header is the address of the > original sender, so how could I add a rule in mailman to deny posts with > return-path's address that are not members? The envelope-sender can also be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: error when running "arch"

2004-09-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:41:16PM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote: > On Sep 30, 2004, at 03:16, Will Yardley wrote: > > Anything further I can do to debug this? Any idea what the > > "MemoryError" refers to? > How large are your archives? The mbox file is about 5

[Mailman-Users] Re: error when running "arch"

2004-09-29 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:25:37AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > Should I file a bug about this (that the error isn't more specific)? > It would be much more helpful if this said "Cannot write to > /var/spool/mailman/lists/nord-modular" or something rather than > "

[Mailman-Users] error when running "arch"

2004-09-29 Thread Will Yardley
I got the following error when rebuilding archives for a list (OpenBSD Mailman 2.1.5 installed from OpenBSD ports. It turned out the actual problem was a permissions problem on /var/spool/mailman/lists/[listname] (it was owned by root:_mailman instead of _mailman:_mailman). Should I file a bug abou

[Mailman-Users] Re: couple quick questions - mailman on obsd

2004-09-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:18:55AM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 04:57:50PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) > > > > yet messages that are sent out still reference localhost.my.domain. > D

[Mailman-Users] couple quick questions - mailman on obsd

2004-09-05 Thread Will Yardley
So I installed Mailman from ports on OpenBSD 3.5, and added the following to mm_cfg.py after "from Defaults import *" DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mailman.code404.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mailman.code404.com' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) yet messages that are sent out still refe

[Mailman-Users] Re: Removing "on behalf of"

2004-06-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:19:12PM +0200, Thomas Hochstein wrote: > "John S. Strock" schrieb: > > > How do I remove the "On behalf of" in the 'From' field? > > There *is* no "on behalf of" in the Fom:-field. You just have to use a > client that does not show it that way. This is just the way som

[Mailman-Users] Has anyone thought of using subject lines on their emails?

2004-05-27 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:34:51PM -0400, PC Specialties Inc wrote: > Has anyone thought of numbering the attachments so they match the topic list ? -- "Since when is skepticism un-American? Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..." (Sleater-Kinney - "Combat Rock") ---

[Mailman-Users] Re: footers

2004-03-23 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:43:05PM -0500, jsingh wrote: > When I send an attachement, why does the footer come as an attachement if I > use rich text or html format? what do I need to do for the footer to appear > normally at the end of the body of the message rather than as an > attachement. I'

[Mailman-Users] weird mailman hangs

2004-03-05 Thread Will Yardley
I've been seeing some weird hangs with Mailman in the last few days. We have a large number of lists, running 2.1.4 w/ htdig patches. This is a system that's been running with no problems for quite a while (without any major changes that I'm aware of). In most cases, removing all lockfiles other t

[Mailman-Users] Re: Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:45:16PM -0800, Mark Dadgar wrote: > On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > > I can go back through the 90's, into the mid-80's if length of time > >is the important criteria here. I have multiple gigabytes of e-mail > >on my current system, and untold g

[Mailman-Users] Re: GnuPG Integration?

2004-01-15 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:19:58AM -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote: > Hi. My team would like to run a mailing list with another team > external to the company, but verything needs to be GnuPG encrypted. > Those who post to the mailing list must encrypt it with the mailing > list account's public key

[Mailman-Users] Re: 2.1.2 with postfix(some progress)

2004-01-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:16:08PM -0800, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 14:27, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > > Installed 2.1.2 on Mandrake 9.1 with postfix 20031231. Install was > > by rpm from the mandrake site. Followed the readme.postfix. Got > > the web interface up and r

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailmanctl -s

2003-12-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What do most folks do so that Mailman will restart when the system is > > restarted uncleanly? Could having the system's startup script (assuming > > a

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailmanctl -s

2003-12-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:16:04PM -0500, Todd wrote: > Will Yardley wrote: > > When mailmanctl is run with "-s" (supposedly kills stale locks), > > Mailman spits out the default usage summary, and then "No command > > given.". Same with "--stale

[Mailman-Users] mailmanctl -s

2003-12-12 Thread Will Yardley
Still haven't gotten a response on this, other than the fact that other people have noticed the same thing (wrote to the list about it a long time back). When mailmanctl is run with "-s" (supposedly kills stale locks), Mailman spits out the default usage summary, and then "No command given.". Same

[Mailman-Users] Re: Wrapping long lines in Mailman

2003-11-11 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:03:29AM -0800, Will Froning wrote: > I have Mailman 2.1.1 w/ htDig running on FreeBSD 4.8. I have a > particular user (read CIO) that never uses the Enter key when composing > messages. So besides making the archive just plain ugly with these > infinitely long lines, h

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:55:43AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Will Yardley wrote: > > Do we *really* need this "feature" on the mailman-users list? Does > > anyone actually find it helpful? > god, yes. Please don't assume ever

[Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification")

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:36:58AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:54 AM, Ricardo Kustner wrote: > > I wish I could do that: my current mailman setup doesn't put the > > user's address in the "To:" address and since those wonderful AOL > > reports only include the origina

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman & AOL's "Client TOS notification"

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:33:57PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > Ricardo Kustner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So my current situation is that my ISP is risking to get blacklisted and > > I can't do anything about it except for shutting down the lists or > > remove & block all AOL users :( >

[Mailman-Users] Re: Threading and In-Reply-To

2003-11-03 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:59:33PM -0600, McKeever Chris wrote: > I have noticed that the threading on our archive does not work, > looking through the Mailman Faq/Archive, I have learned that this is > typically caused by the In-Reply-To not being supported via the Mail > Client. Looking at the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman and Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:54:58PM -0500, Pascal Blanchette wrote: > I was wondering if there was a reason why the only Mailman version available > as a stable debian package is version 2.0.11? > Version 2.1.3 is marked as unstable. Is the new version still in beta or is > it ready to be deploye

[Mailman-Users] Re: Hosting companies

2003-10-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:50:59PM -0600, Dale schibbelhut wrote: > My current hosting company does not want Mailman on their servers. > Other than that I am quite satisfied with their service. I am looking > for a company that will host lists using mailman software. Does > anybody have any recomm

[Mailman-Users] Re: [spam] being added to subject

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:06:45PM -0700, Mike Chambers wrote: > No. It is not spam (I double checked that). > > So the subject looks like this: > > [spam][listname]subject here More than likely, then, this is due to a spam filter that has nothing to do with Mailman. Are you sure that such a sp

[Mailman-Users] Re: [spam] being added to subject

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:07:20PM -0700, Mike Chambers wrote: > I just set up mailman-2.1-8. Everything is working fine except it adds > "[spam]" to every single message to the list. > > I have looked through the admin, and the docs and cannot figure out how to > prevent this. Any suggestions?

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mail not getting through to AOL

2003-10-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:31:02AM -0400, Sean wrote: > You're best bet is to have your AOL users complain to AOL directly > about not getting their mail. I've been dealing with this for two > years and have got nowhere contact AOL. Their postmaster and anti-spam departments have gotten a lot mo

[Mailman-Users] Re: Clear Cache

2003-10-08 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:25:00PM +, Hostmaster wrote: > On our maiden voyage, we were mass subscribing to our list when we > realized it was sending the subscription message for each address. We > decided we did not want this, so we stopped the MTA. Now, we have > lots of unsent messages i

[Mailman-Users] Re: not allowing mass-subscription (web interface)

2003-10-03 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:07:54PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: > This would be a fairly simple hack to the source. You would simply grep > for the option you want to comment out and when you find it in the > source, comment it out. Then it won't appear in the web pages (that > would be for every li

[Mailman-Users] affecting "public" name of list

2003-10-03 Thread Will Yardley
Is it possible to change the "public" email address of a list (that reported in the rfc2369 headers, message footers, etc.) while maintaining a different name internally? Would there be any obvious problems I'm missing with such a feature? For our virtually hosted lists, we need independent namesp

[Mailman-Users] not allowing mass-subscription (web interface)

2003-10-03 Thread Will Yardley
Is there an option to disable mass-subscription from the web interface, so that users can't add non-confirmed addresses themselves? Is there an option to require re-confirmation for addresses added (I guess only allowing "invite" but not "subscribe" would take care of this. Lastly, is there a way

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sobig forces unsubscribes

2003-09-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:01:18PM -0700, John W. Baxter wrote: > On 9/2/2003 16:34, "Will Yardley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I think it's a good overall policy to reject any message > > that's not delivered - with any sort of filter based

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sobig forces unsubscribes

2003-09-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:05:51PM -0400, Rob Carlson wrote: > On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 19:59 US/Eastern, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > > > My list owners are getting Sobig files bounced to them through the > > > administrative addresses. One of their ISPs has decided to reject > > > those relayed

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sobig forces unsubscribes

2003-09-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:04:19PM -0400, Rob Carlson wrote: > My list owners are getting Sobig files bounced to them through the > administrative addresses. One of their ISPs has decided to reject > those relayed messages with a 550 User Unknown because they contain > Sobig. The mailman-owner g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:58:22PM -0700, jsmith wrote: [ Stop top posting! ] > > If you've really tried sending mail from all these other mailers, why > > does THIS message have the footer as part of the message body and not as > > an attachment? > I have asked that question so many times here a

[Mailman-Users] Re: mail server recommendations?

2003-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:43:54PM -0400, Raymond Wood wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Brad Knowles imagined: > > For smaller sites, or sites wishing to have a simpler > > configuration file, I find that postfix generally works very well. > > It has one of the simplest configura

[Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:00:53PM -0700, jsmith wrote: [ Two layers of miserable Lookout! TOFU corrected ] > > > My "Footers" are being sent to our mailing list participants as > > > "Attachments" rather than being inserted into the message text. > > > > > > Please advise what I setup incorrect

[Mailman-Users] Re: non-member bounces

2003-08-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:19:38PM -0400, Clay Stuckey wrote: > Is there a way to allow posts from all non members? I have 20 or so lists > for my company. I want to allow anyone to email any list even it they are > not a member. I am using this purely as a centrally managed group email > solution

[Mailman-Users] Re: Evolution, GPG,and mailman 2.1.2 - blank message bodies

2003-08-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:01:09PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > Note: I've also heard that Outlook Express has a similar problem > reading GPG-signed emails with evolution's MIME-added signature, so this > isn't really uniquely an evolution problem. But Outlook Express handles > GPG pretty p

[Mailman-Users] Re: non-member bounces

2003-08-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:19:38PM -0400, Clay Stuckey wrote: > Is there a way to allow posts from all non members? I have 20 or so lists > for my company. I want to allow anyone to email any list even it they are > not a member. I am using this purely as a centrally managed group email > solution

[Mailman-Users] Re: So far, I'm very disappointed with Mailman

2003-07-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:51:44PM -0700, SysAdmin wrote: > I've had nothing but problems with it. Majordomo sucked, but at least it > stayed up and running. So don't use it. -- "Since when is skepticism un-American? Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..." (Sleater-Kinney - "

[Mailman-Users] Re: Flat Threads when posting usingOutlook/Exchange clients

2003-06-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:56:59PM -0700, Roy Santos wrote: > I have seen a few postings regarding problems getting > flat threads while posting using Outlook clients. See > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03011.html. > But what I haven't seen is an answer on how or what > needs a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Starting qrunner for FreeBSD

2003-06-26 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:10:20AM +0200, Amardeo Sarma wrote: > I am a newbie and running Mailman 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.7 / VPSv2, which works > with the old technique of running qrunner every minute from cron. The INSTALL > instructions give some hints on how to start the qrunner daemon at startu

[Mailman-Users] Re: Red Hat 9 - Mailman not working out of the box

2003-06-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:59:04AM +1000, Peter Russell wrote: > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If > you are not the addressee (or responsible for delivery of the message to > the addressee), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such > a cas

[Mailman-Users] Re: Commercial provider for Mailman 2.1?

2003-06-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:41:57PM -0700, Karen G. Schneider wrote: > However, at present Dreamhost is using Mailman 2.0.13, and there > are several must-have features I need for two large lists I manage > (5,000 and 16,000 subscribers). The last time I checked, they were > testing 2.1 but hadn't

[Mailman-Users] Re: Majordomo-style moderation

2003-06-10 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:30:16AM +0400, Moscow School of Human Rights wrote: > In my opinion the only and very important trait of Mailman is > impossibility to moderate the lists in Majordomo style, by adding > "approved: password" line at the top of "technical" e-mail message and > then sendin

[Mailman-Users] possible bug with mail confirmation

2003-04-04 Thread Will Yardley
I wrote earlier about some suggested improvements with the confirmation by mail function. Here's another thing - if you insert an 'Approved: ' string that's incorrect, the message is deleted (in a way that's unrecoverable, AFAICT). My suggestion is that you get an error message back instead, stati

[Mailman-Users] Re: Internal Domain Resolution

2003-03-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:10:59PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote: > Here is a chunk of the maillog file. > > > Mar 31 12:01:57 localhost sendmail[780]: h2SKs2Rg011995: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=2+20:07:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, > pri=6439538, relay=mail.majorleaguesoccer.com., ds

[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

2003-03-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:57:47PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote: > OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com > mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving > any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am > getting a connection

[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

2003-03-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:34:02AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > In DNS you would have something like: > lists.mlsnet.com.A 216.216.23.43 >MX 10 lists.mlsnet.com >MX 100 mail.mlsnet.com > > In this scenario all mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

2003-03-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:38:15PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote: > Ahh that's my problem - I can NOT connect to port 25. > > Can someone help me out with trying to get that working? My deadline is > quickly approaching and I am nervous. It sounds from your original message like you're using Red

[Mailman-Users] Re: filtering Importance headers

2003-03-24 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > Is there a way that Mailman can remove certain headers before a > message is posted to a list? In particular, I want to remove the > "Importance" header, which some posters will set to "high" or > "urgent" unnecessarily. Some MUAs do

[Mailman-Users] list.org not resolving

2003-03-16 Thread Will Yardley
[ bcc to the address in the SOA field ] DNS for list.org seems to be messed up - there's still an MX record, but no A record for list.org or www.list.org (at any of the 3 nameservers for the zone). Is this intentional? Is there a new URL for the Mailman site / FAQ? aura% dig @NS4.BILOW.COM list.o

[Mailman-Users] Re: subscribers' passwords

2003-03-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:09:24AM -0500, Duke wrote: > I recently installed Mailman, replacing Majordomo, and I just used the > mass subscription feature and fed it my Majordomo subscriber lists. I'm > wondering what, if any, my subscribers' initial passwords are, or how I > could set them. I t

[Mailman-Users] Re: sitewide list

2003-03-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:21:45PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:48, Mark McEahern wrote: > > 3. Is there any reason to display this site-wide list in the list of lists > > displayed by listinfo? > No. This should always be a private list. I was wondering about this - th

[Mailman-Users] problem restarting with stale pid file

2003-03-06 Thread Will Yardley
Mailman 2.1.1 installed from source on FreeBSD 4.6 (with the same options as the port uses) roland# /usr/local/mailman/bin/version Using Mailman version: 2.1.1 roland# diff /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl roland# [ from /usr/local/mailman/logs/ ] roland# ../bin

[Mailman-Users] Re: Archives and Attachments

2003-03-06 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:02:45PM -0800, Staven Bruce wrote: > We are using Mailman 2.0.13 with Sendmail 8.12 on a RedHat Linux 8.0 system. > > We send 'Word' and '.pdf' documents once a month or so to our mailing list. > Is there a way for these files to be retained as separate attachments in >

[Mailman-Users] Re: Postfix version? (Was Re: Mailman and Postfix *2*?)

2003-02-24 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:29:20PM -0700, LuKreme wrote: > On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 09:28 Canada/Mountain, John Redmond wrote: > >I installed 2.1 with Postfix 2.0.3 and all appears well. Mind you > >this is based on simple testing with low traffic, as I'm just getting > >ready to test with for

[Mailman-Users] Re: Another feature request (for email commands)

2003-02-19 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:26:30PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:41:53 -0800 > Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A couple other feature requests 1) A setting which lets people > > confirm their own messages (as with TMDA) - this way

[Mailman-Users] Another feature request (for email commands)

2003-02-19 Thread Will Yardley
A couple other feature requests 1) A setting which lets people confirm their own messages (as with TMDA) - this way lists can stay open but still require some sort of confirmation before letting a message through. 2) The response from email confirmation is the same, whether or not the message

[Mailman-Users] Re: plain text vs html email (no footers in html email)

2003-02-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:42:44PM -0900, Andy Firman wrote: > > Couple of quick questions to the Mailman gurus. > And I apologize in advance if this is not appropriate for this list. I think almost all of your problems will be fixed if you upgrade to Mailman v 2.1.1. -- "Since when is skeptici

[Mailman-Users] https link on admindb page (bug?)

2003-02-12 Thread Will Yardley
If I go to: https://mailman.example.com/mailman/admin/listname the links all still work via SSL (which is good); however when I go to: https://mailman.example.com/mailman/admindb/listname the 'Submit' button points to the insecure (non-ssl) version; since we deny access to the non-ssl version fro

[Mailman-Users] feature request (email confirmation)

2003-02-05 Thread Will Yardley
It seems like it would be nice to setup a method of confirmation for *approving* messages that uses a unique token instead of the list password; while (hopefully) in most cases, the moderator will be sending approval messages over SSL or from the same machine the list is on, it seems like a bad ide

[Mailman-Users] Re: 'Pre-sales' questions...

2003-01-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:06:22PM +, Simon White wrote: > 29-Jan-03 at 09:32, Abbo Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > Before I consider Mailman as a newsletter mail list solution, I have a > > few questions. I hope you have time to answer them... I hope the 'Pre-sales' part is a joke..

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Bug] Cookie from older version

2003-01-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:14:05AM +, Simon White wrote: > 29-Jan-03 at 13:37, Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > If you have an old cookie from Mailman 2.0.x, you'll have to re-login > > for every page until you manually clear the cookie from your browser >

[Mailman-Users] [Bug] Cookie from older version

2003-01-29 Thread Will Yardley
If you have an old cookie from Mailman 2.0.x, you'll have to re-login for every page until you manually clear the cookie from your browser (after upgrading to 2.1). Is there any way to fix this in the future? With some browsers, it's not simple to remove an individual cookie. -- "Since when is s

[Mailman-Users] cc headers in 2.1

2003-01-29 Thread Will Yardley
Since upgrading to 2.1, I notice that instead of: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Realname [EMAIL PROTECTED], "John Q. Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The headers appear as: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Realname [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "John Q. Doe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is thi

[Mailman-Users] HTML mail (was Re: Can I approve a mailing from the command line?)

2002-11-20 Thread Will Yardley
even better, but we all know how likely that is to happen. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailma

[Mailman-Users] Re: Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-20 Thread Will Yardley
would probably be better assuming that your nfs server and kernel deal with locking properly, but I don't know how much risk there would be with this method. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -- Mailman-

[Mailman-Users] Re: Carriage Return in Archives

2002-11-19 Thread Will Yardley
and hopefully short-lived kludge." Well the convention is still to use the lowest common denominator and wrap at < 80 characters (generally 72-74). -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -- Mailman-Users mai

[Mailman-Users] Re: installation question.

2002-11-16 Thread Will Yardley
properly. There are some kernel patches (I'm not sure which ones) that we use to get locking to work; there are still occasional problems, but for the most part things work well. I've run mailman over NFS with a way cheaper (and suckier) NAS than the NetApps and it works OK there too. --

[Mailman-Users] Re: preferred sendmail replacement?

2002-10-21 Thread Will Yardley
nstallation / Sendmail compatibility. It also has a great (and helpful) user community. I'm not a big fan of qmail, although I've used it in the past. See http://lifewithoutqmail.org/. Exim would also be worth looking into. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >

[Mailman-Users] Re: spam

2002-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
isn't really a problem that Mailman itself can solve. > > v2.1 authenticates on envelope as well. Does it do this by default? This sounds like a bad idea as forging the envelope-sender is pretty trivial (and common), and there's no reason that the envelope-sender needs to match

[Mailman-Users] Re: Re: One Button Direct Subscription

2002-10-02 Thread Will Yardley
, you should confirm the subscription; otherwise anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is known as confirmed opt-in, and if you don't use a system like this, you're very likely to get booted by your ISP for spamming. -- Will Yardley input: william &

[Mailman-Users] confirm problems with beta mailman?

2002-09-30 Thread Will Yardley
From: XX at code404 dot com (Will Yardley) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: confirm 8a73a2be104ba0be21f1516299b4d8f3d00b4483 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Status: RO Content-Length

[Mailman-Users] Re: members of a list

2002-09-29 Thread Will Yardley
Elisha Wong wrote: > Just wonder if I get a text file of all the members of a list > I could not find any options in the web interface $mailman_base/bin/list_members -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > --

[Mailman-Users] Re: force plain text format mail

2002-09-26 Thread Will Yardley
Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Is there any way to configure mailman to convert HTML mail to plain text > format before delivery? If not, is there any patch available? See the FAQ. Either use the beta version or pipe mail through demime or stripmime first. -- Will Yardley input: willi

[Mailman-Users] cookies on beta version

2002-09-25 Thread Will Yardley
hard to download the beta version from the Mailman site - is this intentional? Even if I go to the specific site for the beta version, the only links I can find are to the sourceforge page (where I was able to download the beta), or the link to the stable version. -- Will Yardley input: willia

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Will Yardley
ly needs to > be done at "Mailman" level, not at the "sendmail" level; the technical > details will be a topic for mailman-developers, not mailman-users. > > > Any clue? Thanks for any inputs. IIRC, sympa has some support for encrypted lists, although it may on

[Mailman-Users] Re: Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread Will Yardley
sigs but won't strip traditional (clearsigned) messages. I believe this is probably the behavior you want. Given the fact that most MUAs do not support PGP/MIME and many can't read PGP/MIME messages at all, I don't think that demiming this type of attachment is a bad idea at all. --

[Mailman-Users] Re: Bouncing Mail - How is it treated?

2002-09-18 Thread Will Yardley
JC Dill wrote: > On 07:57 PM 9/17/02, Will Yardley wrote: >> The list admin will receive the bounce message(s)... >> The current stable version of Mailman doesn't support any sort of >> automatic bounce handling; I'm not sure if future versions will. > I'

[Mailman-Users] Re: Bouncing Mail - How is it treated?

2002-09-17 Thread Will Yardley
rror because of a full mailbox, and an error because > of a non existent user? The list admin will receive the bounce message(s)... The current stable version of Mailman doesn't support any sort of automatic bounce handling; I'm not sure if future versions will. -- Will Yardley inp

[Mailman-Users] Re: word wrap rap?

2002-09-13 Thread Will Yardley
or fmt might work)... this could have some unintended side effects, however. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mail server configuration

2002-09-10 Thread Will Yardley
inux with Sendmail as the MTA, you'll probably need to reconfigure Sendmail to listen on the main interface - IIRC, by default it only listens on the loopback interface. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > ---

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman postfix howto

2002-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
s in /etc/aliases) -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Se

[Mailman-Users] Re: PDF file attachments?

2002-07-29 Thread Will Yardley
Billie Carroll wrote: > Can I send a pdf file as an attachment to a list? sure. however with 2.0 and earlier, mailman is not MIME-aware, so it will just look like a lot of gibberish in the archives. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream

[Mailman-Users] Re: throwing away attachments [?]

2002-07-24 Thread Will Yardley
t; all destructive code spreading. > > Please, include a copy of your mail to my mailbox as I am in > digest mode. Thank you. see the faq install something like demime or stripmime. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -

[Mailman-Users] Re: Problem enforcing text/plain posts only policy

2002-07-18 Thread Will Yardley
people retrieve it via http or FTP... and I try to avoid sending PGP/MIME messages on the rare occasions i sign messages to a list. I'm almost invariably happy when lists I'm on have demime (or stripmime or whatever) installed, as it gets rid of all matter of annoyances. -- Will Yardl

[Mailman-Users] Re: Double Opt-In?

2002-07-14 Thread Will Yardley
opt-in' is also a good term. I can't connect to it right now, but there is a more detailed explanation of the term (and the anti-spam community's objections to it) at: http://www.spamfaq.net/ -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -

[Mailman-Users] Re: Line wrapping in archives.

2002-07-07 Thread Will Yardley
l scrolling. > > If anyone has managed to make this happen, your help would be much > appreciated! you could pipe the archives through fmt or par, perhaps. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > -- Mailman-Us

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