Re: [Mailman-Users] special characters in subscriber address

2003-03-27 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, ljacobs wrote: > Somehow a user got subscribed as "pgyallay"@[EMAIL PROTECTED] and this > seems to be causing problems with my list. Unfortunately I am > unable to unsubscribe this user using the command line > remove_members or the web interface. > > How do I remove this memb

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word wrap in archives

2003-02-19 Thread alex wetmore
On 19 Feb 2003, Sage wrote: > My apologies if this has been brought up before, but I do not see any > answers in the recent archives. > > The archive pages for my mailman lists do not automatically wrap the > text of each message. Since these pages use the tag to display the > message, each messag

Re: [Mailman-Users] Challenge

2003-02-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Simon White wrote: > Getting an MTA to talk with Win32 might be harder, but apparently Exim > and maybe Postfix will work under cygwin. Windows 2000 comes with a SMTP server too. Making it work with Mailman would be a little tricky though. As shipped it is only meant to rela

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing a strange email address

2003-02-06 Thread alex wetmore
The web-admin doesn't work either. Is there a guide to using withlist anywhere? alex On 5 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: > Can you remove him using the Web-admin? > If not, then you may need to use ~mailman/bin/withlist > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:30, alex wetmore wrote: &g

[Mailman-Users] removing a strange email address

2003-02-05 Thread alex wetmore
One of my users subscribed with the address mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] when I was running 2.0.13. Now I'm running 2.1 and he wants to unsubscribe. 2.1 won't allow him to change his settings, and when I use remove_members it reports that [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't a subscriber. How can I remove this u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which functions???

2003-01-29 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mark Rauterkus wrote: > How do you NUKE an address from ALL the lists on your server? > > Is there an Unsubscribe "ALL" trick? > > And, rather than looking at a dozen lists -- for one address -- is there a > way to find out (as a SYSTEM ADMIN with Root) what lists an address is

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filtering

2003-01-29 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Rowe wrote: > Jon, > > Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses > > SpamAssassin. > > Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted > mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power. > > Can anyone answer my

Re: [Mailman-Users] MS Exchange as a relay computer?

2003-01-28 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jonathan Knight wrote: > > > Exchange can > > > send a single message to handle all of those recipients instead of > > > sending 5 or 10 as would occur when using the recommended batching of > > > 10 recipients per message

RE: [Mailman-Users] MS Exchange as a relay computer?

2003-01-28 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > I second the recommendation NOT to use Exchange as your mail transport agent. > If you've got a DNS server (even your MS box, shiver me timbers) that's only > a couple milliseconds away, you're not going to see any noticeable performance > hit, especially

Re: [Mailman-Users] MS Exchange as a relay computer?

2003-01-27 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Angel Gabriel wrote: > Does anyone on this list have MS Exchange as a relay computer? I was > thinking that local DNS speeds up email delivery, and MS Exchange, requires > local DNS to function, so if I relayed all my mailman email via my MS > Exchange box, it should deliver th

[Mailman-Users] MM2.1 digest headers (fwd)

2003-01-08 Thread alex wetmore
-0800 (PST) From: alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] MM2.1 digest headers I recently upgraded to 2.1 from 2.0.13. A number of my users are complaining about extra headers being placed in the digests. I'm using the def

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalization

2003-01-08 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Brian Read wrote: > I've just read the little spiel on this under the non digest options. > > I don't entirely understand the "batching" issue. I understood from a > previous post that Mailman batches up to 100 postings together for the same > domain. If, however there is littl

[Mailman-Users] MM2.1 digest headers

2003-01-03 Thread alex wetmore
I recently upgraded to 2.1 from 2.0.13. A number of my users are complaining about extra headers being placed in the digests. I'm using the default setting for DEFAULT_DIGEST_PLAIN_KEEP_HEADERS which is: DEFAULT_PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS = ['message', 'date', 'from',

Re: [Mailman-Users] footer not appearing?

2002-11-01 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Erik Myllymaki wrote: > What could cause the msg-footer to NOT appear in regular, non-digest mail to > the list? HTML or other MIME formatted email. Mailman isn't MIME aware and tacks the footer on beyond the end of the MIME portion of the body. Most mail clients won't show a

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam

2002-10-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, sean pambianco wrote: > I'm using mailman 2.0.6. My list is configured so that only members > can post to the list and all posts must be approved by the > administrator. The other day an un-approved post was distributed to my > list. The post was not held for approval and I

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Cron /usr/bin/python-S /var/mailman/cron/senddigests

2002-09-25 Thread alex wetmore
It sounds like the config.db for one of your lists was corrupted. Did you have an unexpected power failure recently? I did on Sunday and lost the config.db for two of my high traffic lists. About half of the file was written over with null bytes. I wrote a tool (Win32, although it should be ea

RE: [Mailman-Users] RE: [Mailman-Users] Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, John Jones wrote: > How does one strip MS Office vcard attachments that salespeople and others > tend to attach to -every- email as an attachment of 15kb-45kb? You know, > the thing that has very little in it except for an 'attachment signature' > and contact information? Wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big headers

2002-09-18 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, J C Lawrence wrote: > > I believe all of the discussion-list type servers (Mailman, listserv, > > Mercury, Majordomo, et al) use the same mechanism, so the ISPs that > > are using this technique for stopping spam will have to address > > legitimate list servers. > > Sadly, nop

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big headers

2002-09-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Flavio wrote: > My mailman mail head have many users in it. Some ISP don“t accept my > messages. How can I solve it (one message to each user) This is an MTA issue. Mailman just sends the message to your MTA, your MTA is responsible for talking to remote MTAs (such as at an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Man Problems - No aliases being created.

2002-09-07 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Angel Gabriel wrote: > Everytime I create a new list, no aliases are being added to sendmail. Mail > cannot be recieved, and I get user not found. Any advice would be > appreciated. Mailman doesn't add the aliases to sendmail automatically. newlist prints out the aliases to a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-member postings to list automatically rejectedhowto? (again)

2002-08-28 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Sead Mujushi wrote: > How can I configure a list so that postings from non-members are > automatically rejected with no action required on my part as an > administrator? In Mailman-2.0.x you can't without making changes to the source code. I don't know of any public patches

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

2002-07-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 7/16/02 10:47 PM, "JC Dill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be more surprised if your ISP would refuse to do it. Stripping MIME > > off mailing list destined posts makes everyone's life easier. > > Except that's not where things are headed. Esp

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

2002-07-16 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Tim Hutchinson wrote: > I have recently begun enforcing a plain text only policy based on the > instructions in FAQ 3.10: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.10 > (adding header values to Privacy Options -> Spam-specific posting > filters, e.g. Content-Type: .

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

2002-07-16 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Kevin Robbins wrote: > Will Mailman work on Red Hat 7.2 and with MS Exchange 5.5 as its SMTP server > ? I do this using Mailman on FreeBSD and Exchange 2000 as my SMTP server. You'll need to configure Exchange to allow relay from the Mailman machine. On the Mailman machine s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic Rejection?

2002-07-13 Thread alex wetmore
That just puts the message into the admin queue. There isn't any way in the 2.0.x code to make it reject the message and not put it into the queue. alex On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Bill Selmeier wrote: > Certainly there is. I don't know which version you are using but in 2.0.11 > the 6 question on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott Courtney wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > > You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to > > the bits about guarantees and transaction handling. > [...] > > > > It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and open

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-10 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tim Crouch wrote: > I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a > new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists > ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. We > will archive no more than 1 year's wo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachments control?

2002-05-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 15 May 2002, P.U. Lianos wrote: > I was wondering (and couldn't find any info online) if a list manager has a > way to block attachments from reaching a list that uses Mailman? This is > useful in order to prevent a virus coming from a list member, spreading > within the email list. Four

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: use of MIME stripping plugins

2002-04-02 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried and shelved stripmime.pl. Demime kicks its butt & gives much more > comprehensive service. My advice is to install and use it instead. They are very different programs with similar end goals. Demime has a larger feature set, but requires a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Traffic with a large list

2002-04-02 Thread alex wetmore
It probably won't be quite that bad though, because your MTA will probably batch multiple recipients on a message who are in the same domain. 10kb is also a very large average message size. The average message size on my lists is a lot closer to 1kb. My system hosts two fairly large lists. One

Re: [Mailman-Users] "="s in message

2002-03-25 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > There is no problem. Her "mail sending format" is set to something funky. It isn't something funky, it is quoted-printable. Most mail clients can parse it. alex -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL P

[Mailman-Users] Re: stripmime.pl doesn't?

2002-03-22 Thread alex wetmore
ETMOREDEV (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phred.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA17923 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:20:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <003b01bf6383$a5e86640$01fa3b9d@AWETMOREDEV> From: "alex wetmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[E

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email is (still) a good idea...

2002-03-21 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Frederick Noronha wrote: > (ii) You raised an important point: maybe Mailman would be more useful if it > had a "block all attachments" option. This would avoid virus... we still > have Windows-based readers on our lists ;-) There are filters available which do this for you (

Re: [Mailman-Users] html in digests

2002-03-20 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Lil Peck, QHTimes.com Quarter Horse community wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Please see the online Mailman FAQ with regard to MIME and MIME filters. > > > Unfortunately, good ol' AOL makes mincemeat out of either, when re

[Mailman-Users] suggestion: rework bounce handling code

2002-03-12 Thread alex wetmore
The current code turns on the "disable mail delivery" flag for the user or unsubscribes them. I'd prefer to see two disable mail delivery flags, one that is set/unset by the user (for people who just want to read via the archives) and one that is set by the bounce logic, and unset by the user. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-tomunging per user

2002-03-11 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote: > The idea was to settle this issue for good by offering, in place of listwide > reply-to munging (which would still be an option in mailman, just not one > that most people would need anymore): > - optional non sending of list posts if you are Cced so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

2002-03-10 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:20:52AM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > > > No. The mail client sends a copy to the author, mailman can't stop that. > > > However, if the mail client is mutt, or some similarily enlightened MUA, you &g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

2002-03-09 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:13:33PM -0600, Jorge Cuevas wrote: > > Is it possible to configure mailman so when you press the reply button, > > the reply goes to the sender of the mail, and if you press the reply-all > > button it goes to ONLY the list?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search the archives?

2002-02-12 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > Heiko Rommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about using MHonArc > > > > http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html#whatis > > MHonArc just archives. Wilma wraps MHonArc and Glimpse to get you > search-able archives: > > http://www.hpc.uh.e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enforcing ASCII in a list

2002-02-10 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is there a way with Mailman 2.0.8 to filter out HTML and attachments, > >> per-list? > > > > Look at the privacy page (under list admin) for "Hold posts with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enforcing ASCII in a list

2002-02-08 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > With majordomo we had long taboo_body and taboo_headers lists > containing things like this: > > /Content-Type: text\/html/ > > Is there a way with Mailman 2.0.8 to filter out HTML and attachments, > per-list? Look at the privacy page (under list adm

Re: [Mailman-Users] domain problem

2002-01-16 Thread alex wetmore
On 16 Jan 2002, Andreas Kotowicz wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 22:48, alex wetmore wrote: > > Only for subdomains that have mailing lists with competing names. I > > host lists on three subdomains using one copy of mailman. > > are you using sendmail? let's say you h

Re: [Mailman-Users] domain problem

2002-01-16 Thread alex wetmore
On 16 Jan 2002, Andreas Kotowicz wrote: > i have a mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] sending mails to this email > address works great as does sending mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is a > sendmail problem i know, but i really don't see how to designate a list > to a specific domain. if you want to m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A special place in hell is reserved for the authors of MSExchange who > not only decided to roll their own, but also made the brilliant > decision to include absolutely nothing in the bounce message which > even hints at the remotest morsel of a clue

Re: [Mailman-Users] users on a page

2002-01-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could anyone tell me if there is any way of getting more than 30 > people on my membership management page at one time. I'm running > 2.0.5, and having 30 at a time for over 3000 email addresses is a > tad annoying! hehe. Look at the variable DEFAU

Re: [Mailman-Users] blocking MIME

2002-01-09 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Phillip Lord wrote: >I'd like to block all MIME messages going to a mailman > mailing list, or alternatively hold them up for moderation. This is > partly so that I can block HTML mail because its annoying, and pretty > much everything else to avoid the mail virus probl

Re: [Mailman-Users] file attachments

2001-12-20 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, David Dow wrote: > Hi, how do you strip file attachments from messages sent to mailman? > I can't find that option in setup... You get a 3rd party tool which strips it, or you download the unsupported patches to do so from sourceforge. http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.pl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: > The DSL does get to be pretty much of a nuisance to run vi on > over an ssh connection, when the list mail is going out. I used to have issues with this, but my solution was to turn on dummynet (http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/tools/dummy/) on my firewall an

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, marina wrote: > That's exactly it, Paul. Thank you for explaining it so clearly. > Sure, Python is easy to use and Mailman is well written, but we run > our list on a huge hosting server and we don't have admin privileges. > > Unfortunately, I'm afraid this also means we canno

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, marina wrote: > Is there a way to tell Mailman to strip the HTML portions? There are a few different programs which can be installed along with Mailman (or one set of patches for Mailman) that strip HTML and attachments from messages before they are sent to the list. One tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Secure server

2001-12-12 Thread alex wetmore
On 12 Dec 2001, Rodolfo Pilas wrote: > Is there are any way to have the passoword authentication under a secure > server (https) ?? > > Can you give me some tip? Sure, you can configure apache-ssl to do this. What would be the point though? The list still sends out plaintext passwords, and the

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2001-12-09 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, ATDISENO wrote: > how delete multiple users of maillist? You can delete multiple to delete on the UI, if they all happen to be on the same page of 30 users. You can use ~mailman/bin/remove_members to remove multiple members of a list if you have access to the command line of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing possibility to stop attachments

2001-12-07 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alf Christophersen wrote: > Hope this may be a priorited case for new version ! I've read that 2.1 will have the ability to filter attachments. There are already at least 3 addon packages that will filter attachments and HTML from list email. I wrote one called stripmime. h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Max Number of Addresses in Lists

2001-12-04 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton wrote: > I just got off the phone with the director of external information > for my college. She wants to know if our existing system (Mailman) > will handle lists that contain "between 4500 and 7000 email > addresses." They want to set up an alumni newslette

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe not working

2001-10-14 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Emery Wang wrote: > Thanks, Jon. One thing, however: there is no password involved here, > because I am manually inputting a list of email addresses from > customers who have been in my database before I started using mailman. > > So, for email addresses that have not be subsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search Archive Feature?

2001-10-04 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, The Berean wrote: > Does Mailman provide a feature for searching archives? No, you need to use another product. I rolled my own solution using Windows 2000 Index Server. I haven't tried to bundle this up because I don't know of any other Mailman sites which use Windows 2000

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman without CGI?

2001-10-03 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Paul Fox wrote: > what's not so clear is whether the admin functions (message and > subscription approval, etc) can be done without the web. is there > a command line interface for any of that stuff? You can build a command line interface for them using ~mailman/bin/withlist,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ignoring username+@whatever.edu addresses?

2001-07-16 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sure they're using something like address plussing, though > the examples I've seen to date are simply [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't > want mailman to strip the + out, but I would like it to not freak out > and hold such messages for approval (l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Removing the X- headers

2001-07-12 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > The archives are not searchable, otherwise I might have found this. Huh? I go to this URL which is at the bottom of every message: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Right there I see this paragraph:" Archives of this list are sea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachements

2001-06-26 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, L Gallegos wrote: > Is there are way to for this tired list admin to not allow posters to > post attachments? The normal way is to use stripmime, demime, or a similar tool that "flattens" a mime message down to plain text and removes all attachments. Barry has hinted that fu

Re: [Mailman-Users] know to mkfs /var/spool with a higher inode

2001-06-18 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > > Yes, real mail admins know to mkfs /var/spool with a higher inode > > count than the rest of their systems. I'll let you guess what > > percentage of mail admins actually do. > > > > There are quite a few lists out there running off i486 boxes wi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying pas swords

2001-06-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > For this 55%, the SMTP=1 is 6050K. For 100, it's 1711K bytes. That's 28% > of the first number, so we're cutting 72% of the bandwidth by chunking > at 100. The tradeoff is performance, though -- it takes a lot longer to > deliver those AOL addresses,

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual hosting tactic

2001-06-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rodrigo Borges Pereira wrote: > I'm running a server that hosts a few domains. I already have mailman > running for lists.mydomain.com, and it is working great. > > However, now i want to give users that host domains the ability to use > lists.userdomain.com too, and each user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying pas swords

2001-06-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 12:26 PM, alex wetmore wrote: > > Computers are cheap. Bandwidth isn't necessarily cheap. I run with a > > very high chunking factor because my MTA properly handles it > > But -- if this went

RE: [Mailman-Users] virtual hosting tactic

2001-06-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Rodrigo Borges Pereira wrote: > however, how do you avoid the list administrator from changing the list > preferred domain in the web interface? I don't know that you can. I trust my list administrators to leave that alone, but the only list adminsitrators besides myself are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying pas swords

2001-06-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > Is it really? Most of us are already setting that chunking factor very > small (5-10) for performance purposes. Moving it from 10 to 1 isn't > really all that significant, and it's only an issue where people are > already stressing server or network c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering HTML & RICH

2001-06-11 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Mike T. Gholson wrote: > A couple of questions related to filtering. > > 1) Is there a way to dis-allow the use of HTML & RICH text > formatted messages? I'm hosting a list and the majority of > my users do NOT want to see HTML or RICH text formatted > messages. If a user se

Re: [Mailman-Users] separate smtp server

2001-06-08 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, JT wrote: > I am trying to set up a mailman installation where the web and smtp > servers are separate... E.g., the list address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], > my mail server is mail.foo.org, and the interface is maintained on > www.foo.org My first question is, what is your goal in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Putting user's address in the trailer

2001-06-06 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote: > > Is there a way or a quick patch to put the address with which a user is > > subscribed to a list in the trailer that is added to each message? > > They could look into the header lines to whom the mail was sent: > > Received: from [63.102.49.29] (

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: MIME messages

2001-06-06 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Joaquim Homrighausen wrote: > * On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 03:43:32 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > > >> So, my question sort of remains the same I suppose.. is there a > >> way to get Mailman to handle this properly? > > >The normal approach is to stick demime/mailfilter/stripmime i

Re: [Mailman-Users] A good MTA program?

2001-06-01 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Mike T. Gholson wrote: > It doesn't look like sendmail is the greatest MTA for > use with Mailman. What is a good MTA that seems to work > well with Mailman? I've had good luck with Sendmail (when my lists were smaller), Postfix, and now I'm using the Windows 2000 SMTP Servi

[Mailman-Users] any way to turn off raw archives

2001-05-30 Thread alex wetmore
I'm using pipermail for my non-searchable archives. Recently I've been auditing my bandwidth usage, and have found that a fair amount of it is from people downloading mbox archives, rather than individual messages. I talked to a couple of individuals who were doing this, and it was so that they

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to compile all addresses subbed to all lists on a system

2001-05-24 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Bill Bradford wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:05:31PM -0700, Sarah K. Miller wrote: > > Have any of you found an automated way to slurp all of the addresses off > > of all the lists on your system and then subscribe them to another list > > on the system? > > bin/list_user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Received headers

2001-05-22 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Nick Seidenman wrote: > Is it possible to have mailman pass Received: (or any other) headers > through? If so, how? It already does. These came off of your message, as it was received in my mailbox. The bottom 2 Recieved headers were added before the message was processed

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Stats

2001-05-16 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Has anyone come up with a way to count the amount of > incoming/outgoing msgs on a per-list basis? I have several lists hosted > under a domain, and I'd like to be able to tell each administrator how > many messages they've received and sent ou

Re: [Mailman-Users] demime/stripmime

2001-05-15 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Paul Schreiber wrote: > is anyone here using demime/stripmime? I have mailman 2.0.4 and sendmail > 8.11.x. I'm using stripmime (not surprising since I wrote it). I've used it with sendmail 8.9, but now use it with postfix. > what works well and what doesn't, and is there a

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

2001-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2001 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT) > alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > >> There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to > >&

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

2001-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to > prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specifically, this > appears to be one of the filter points that AOL uses (and of course > it then drops the caught mail silently without a bounce

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

2001-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On 5/12/01 6:52 PM, "Ian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Which variables should be changed? It looks like the following could use > > some changes: > > SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 > > Between 5 and 10 - that should be set for any mailman installation.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Call for suggestions

2001-05-08 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Load balancing. I prefer having one server running mailman and having all > the lists on it, however this means that machine will also get hit pretty hard > when several lists get to receive/send messages. Most of the pain is in sending the mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

2001-05-08 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bill Warner wrote: > Yes, I know about the TabooHeaders settings for Eudora, but most of my list > readers don't, and they are probably using some M$ junk to read mail > anyway, and they don't care about things like TabooHeaders in any case. None of the MS Clients (at least th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Customization

2001-05-08 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Satya wrote: > On May 6, 2001 at 09:42, Bruce Thomas wrote: > >I am wondering if there is a method to automatically strip attachments from > >messages received by the list prior to sending the message out to the list > > I hear there's something called demime out there. http:/

Re: [Mailman-Users] acceptable_aliases Option

2001-05-03 Thread alex wetmore
On 3 May 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > Hi there! I've got some semi-private distribution lists on an MS > Exchange server here at work, which I'd like to propogate off-site using > mailman. I can create a mailing list, and add it to the list of people > on this distribution list very easily. W

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Unsubscribe?? - Convert from MajorDomo

2001-05-02 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jason Maderios wrote: > Any way my real question is this. I created a text file with a bunch of > dups and thousands of emails to see how easy it was to import records (I > have about 200,000 adr's I am going to have to import). It all worked > great but how do I MASS unsubsc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/unsubscribe interface

2001-04-29 Thread alex wetmore
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Andrew Brown wrote: > We are looking for a web interface that will allow people to see a > list of all the groups we provide and to subscribe/unsubscribe to any > or all of them. Is this possible with Mailman? If not, does anyone > know of an alternative (free or paid) that of

Re: [Mailman-Users] The best way to search through the archives.

2001-04-26 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Panagiotis Malakoudis wrote: > A colleague of mine suggested that we add to all the mailing lists an > imap account as a member and then use third party web based software to > searchg through each mailbox. That sounds quite nice and you same all > the time and space that htdi

Re: [Mailman-Users] ports used by mailman

2001-04-25 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the ports used by mailman in tcp/ip traffic should be 25 and 110 (smtp + pop). > Are there any other ports used in connection with mailman ? Mailman doesn't use POP. You'll need to have port 80 open if you expect people ot use the web interface thou

Re: [Mailman-Users] How many messages in an envelope?

2001-04-25 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > > As an example, assume that your list has 1000 users on > > hotmail.com. If you are sending messages with 2 recipients then > > the best that your MTA can do is to batch two hotmail.com > > recipients together. > > Codswhallop. Intelligent MTAs upon su

Re: [Mailman-Users] How many messages in an envelope?

2001-04-24 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Erik Parker wrote: > > Is there a way to bump this down to say.. 2 people per envelope? Vs.. The > > 20 or 30 it seems to put in now? > > Sorry to waste your bandwidth, I found what I was looking for in the > Defaults.py .. Default was 500, I bumped it down to 2.. What do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies(was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Pug Bainter wrote: > There are a lot of good things about Mailman, but #3 is a big hurdle > that won't be tollerated. After all, not everyone uses a UNIX system to > read mail. There are a large number of people in the world on AOL, > Hotmail, Yahoo, and MSN. I don't use a Un

Re: [Mailman-Users] Authentication using alternate headers?

2001-04-17 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, JC Dill wrote: > What I do (on a majordomo list) is have the person subscribe all the other > "from" addresses to a companion list that is allowed to post to the main > list. With Mailman, I believe you can accomplish the same thing in an > easier fashion by having him subscr

Re: [Mailman-Users] URGENT - how can I get a text list of subscribers

2001-04-12 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to get a text list of subscribers from mailman? ~mailman/bin/list_members listname You might want to get seperate lists for digested and non-digested members. alex -- Mailman-User

Re: [Mailman-Users] can one trace an email note?

2001-04-10 Thread alex wetmore
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Len Hatfield wrote: > But because the user is NOT subscribed to my list via the > secondary address, and I have no way of knowing which of the 100 > subscribers has set up the bogus forwarding, which of these is > the primary address in this little routing dilmma. Wait until

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

2001-04-04 Thread alex wetmore
On 4 Apr 2001, Neil Cooler wrote: > Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > It's windows 2000 that isn't compatible with mailman :-) > > (the best part, is that mailman being 95%+ python, it could run on windows > > with few modifications, but I don't think any of the people able to do this >

Re: [Mailman-Users] attachments

2001-04-02 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, John David Cole wrote: > is there a way to block attachments? or am i just going to have to limit > the size of the mail message? http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html That is a solution that I wrote. At the bottom of the page you'll find a link to another solution. al

Re: [Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available nowor not?

2001-04-01 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > > > > I'm just not sure. I mean, if it's that easy, why hasn't THIS LIST BEEN > > CONFIGURED TO DO JUST THAT? > > > > > > How do I know you aren't misleading me? If it's that easy, certainly this > > list would have been properly configured. > > W

Re: [Mailman-Users] trim/cut/delete (was RE:Mailman-Users digest,Vol 1 #1115 - 16 msgs)

2001-04-01 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, JC Dill wrote: > Is there an option to block completely quoted digests? That would be sweet! I handle this fairly easily by making my digest size 30kb, and my maximum message size 20kb. If someone comments to an entire digest then it'll be larger than the maximum message s

Re: [Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available now ornot?

2001-03-30 Thread alex wetmore
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, JC Dill wrote: > I have 2 outstanding questions about mailman configuration options: I've answered these before. > 1) Does mailman have a configuration setting such that everyone who is > subscribed to a list can post unmoderated, but email from a non-subscriber > will be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer

2001-03-29 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Phydeaux wrote: > The spam is *quite* easy for a human to detect. I hereby volunteer for > duty if called In the past couple of weeks there have been many more messages complaining about the spam then spam itself... alex ---

Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receiveinformation on registering your pet online for free?

2001-03-26 Thread alex wetmore
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: > There's a middle ground. > > For reasons of our own, we keep some of our lists open to posts > by non-subscribers. > > A simple procmail front-end looks for "To:" or "Cc:" headers > mentioning the list. Since most spamware is too stupid to > put these in

  1   2   >