[Mailman-Users] Re: Search box for archives

2022-10-07 Thread Bill Christensen
could probably code a simple form to do that for you. I had considered MonHarc back in the day, but never got around to implementing it.  And since it's probably not secure these days (see previous message in this thread) I'm glad I didn't. -- Bill Christensen http://Sustain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-23 Thread Bill Christensen
ban ready to install but just haven't had time to configure it yet. On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0100, David Osborne wrote: > > On 15/05/15 05:32, Bill Christensen wrote: > > >I long ago routed real users to an

Re: [Mailman-Users] List not archiving, not sending mail, mischief log shows 'Hostile listname: "

2015-05-19 Thread Bill Christensen
ajor lists we run continue to work as intended. Thanks for your help! On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/17/2015 10:14 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > > >> If this is a one-time oc

Re: [Mailman-Users] List not archiving, not sending mail, mischief log shows 'Hostile listname: "

2015-05-17 Thread Bill Christensen
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/17/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > > > I'm using Gmail for all our email addresses, and pulling the mail into > > Mailman using Fetchmail. It's been working fine for years. > > > &

[Mailman-Users] List not archiving, not sending mail, mischief log shows 'Hostile listname: "

2015-05-17 Thread Bill Christensen
Mark, Adding the line SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = 'Some string unique to your site" in mm_cfg.py definitely made a huge difference to the spam registration problem I was having. Looks like I may not need to migrate the list to a new address after all. One more problem to solve. I'm using

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-15 Thread Bill Christensen
Excellent. I didn't know about the clone_list script. On 5/15/15 12:21 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy st to Require approval and then discard all requests. when you say "discard all requests", is there a way to do that automatically? With

[Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, I have a long running list with thousands of subscribers that needs to move to a new set of email addresses. The existing list is announce-only, so doesn't get a whole lot of traffic - typically at most a few outgoing emails a year. But some time back a bot started sending spam regi

[Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-20 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, I recently updated and my digests stopped going out (I was able to push out the waiting digest manually by doing /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/senddigests so I know the function is working). My old notes tell me the command for cron is: sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/crontab -u mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-04-06 Thread Bill Christensen
On 3/20/15 8:52 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/19/2015 6:47 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the program will analyze the headers, determine that the post being replied to came from a list and offer a "Reply to List" option in addition to a simpl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archiving problems

2015-01-28 Thread Bill Christensen
On 1/26/15 11:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 01/26/2015 09:12 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: All the archives work when in private state. But I had to manually change the owner of all the publicly available list archives to _www in private in order for them to be readable. Otherwise they get a big

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archiving problems

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Christensen
On 1/26/15 9:32 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 01/26/2015 06:08 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: You weren't supposed to remove/move archives/private, just the subordinate listname directories. And once again, I misspoke (mistyped). I again meant the subordinate listname directories under archives/public, no

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archiving problems

2015-01-26 Thread Bill Christensen
On 1/25/15 7:27 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 01/25/2015 05:21 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark Sapiro writes: > The solution is simple: > > rm -r archives/private/* You mean "rm -r archives/public/*", don't you? As given it erases all the data, no? Oh My yes! Absolutely! I hope nobody

[Mailman-Users] Archiving problems

2015-01-25 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi folks, I recently discovered that all my lists stopped archiving back in October. I have no clear idea as to what caused that, but I suspect that it may have occurred as part of some hardware and software upgrades I did around that time. I'm still stuck back at Mailman 2.1.13 because the

Re: [Mailman-Users] OS X Question --- yes I know

2014-12-09 Thread Bill Christensen
The MacPorts version works - I've been using it for years - but note that it's a good number of dot-revisions behind the current Mailman version, which is at least 2.1.18 and has some fixes I'd like to see. Unfortunately, nobody's actively maintaining the port. I thought about doing it mysel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch again.

2014-07-14 Thread Bill Christensen
On 7/11/14 6:26 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 07/10/2014 11:13 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: The setup: Moving from Mac OS 10.8.5 to 10.9.4, on a MAMP setup, everything installed using MacPorts. Upgrading MySQL, PHP, and PostgreSQL in the process. MacPorts hasn't upgraded Mailman beyond 2.1.

[Mailman-Users] Group mismatch again.

2014-07-10 Thread Bill Christensen
Hey folks, I'm doing an upgrade/reinstall on one of my servers, and when I put Mailman back on I'm getting a group mismatch error. It's happened to me before, but I don't remember the exact procedure to make it work properly. The setup: Moving from Mac OS 10.8.5 to 10.9.4, on a MAMP setup,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
That did the trick. Thanks again. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/14/2014 07:58 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > Here you go: > > > > admin(38814): [- Traceback --] > > admin(38814): Traceback (most recent call last): > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Mailman broke!

2014-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
Do you have the virtual domains listed at the end of ../mailman/mailman/mm_cfg.py ? Something like: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '103.greenbuilder.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '103.greenbuilder.com' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) add_virtualhost('builderswithoutborders.org','builderswi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
ntally hit "reply" instead of "reply list") On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/14/2014 10:42 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > > > The problem_list gets "we hit a bug", but since I've taken the > > subscription form off

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
On 5/14/14 10:35 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Sorry, that's my mistake. It should be if listname == 'problem_list': i.e., ==, not =. Comparing subscribe.py with subscribe.py.bak, it appears that it's in there as written. I was wondering about that. Thanks. Now the problem_list is disallowed from w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
ame. The same happens on other lists as well. Comparing subscribe.py with subscribe.py.bak, it appears that it's in there as written. Any ideas? On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/13/2014 12:54 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > > > Sorry to be dense

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-13 Thread Bill Christensen
Very wide. Vietnam, China, New York, France just at a quick look. I'm looking into fail2ban now. Thanks to those of you who have mentioned it. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 13 May 2014 14:54:26 -0500 Bill Christensen < > billc_li...@greenbuil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-13 Thread Bill Christensen
I finally got a chance to look over the logs today; this is a widely distributed attack, so address blocking is probably futile. Sorry to be dense, but how do I apply that patch? Thanks On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 05/09/2014 12:12 PM, Bill Christensen wr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-09 Thread Bill Christensen
On 5/9/14 1:25 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 05/09/2014 10:46 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: I temporarily removed the signup form from the listinfo page in hopes of stemming the tide, and replaced it with a request to use the site's contact form so that we can manually add interested subscriber

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-09 Thread Bill Christensen
On 5/8/14 12:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 05/08/2014 09:31 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: Question 1: Is it possible to reverse the order of approval and confirmation when requiring both? The admin then can reject all those with duplicates, only allowing the (presumably real) single subscription

[Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-08 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, I've got a problem with one of my lists where it's being flooded with spurious subscription requests. The list was set to require subscription confirmation; the innocent victims whose addresses were used for the subscription requests started complaining, as they'd get anywhere from 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch returns.

2011-10-11 Thread Bill Christensen
On 10/11/11 7:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: Recent upgrade borked my setup. [Prior posts indicate this is Mac OS 10.7 server] Group Mismatch error once again, and adding the configure line --with-mail-gid=staff and removing the line --with

[Mailman-Users] Group mismatch returns.

2011-10-11 Thread Bill Christensen
Recent upgrade borked my setup. Group Mismatch error once again, and adding the configure line --with-mail-gid=staff and removing the line --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} as suggested doesn't fix it. What to do? How can I keep this from happening whenever I do a major upgrade/reinstall

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setup problem with Mailman

2011-10-10 Thread Bill Christensen
(and removing the line --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} ) as suggested doesn't fix it. Next step? It seems I go through this every time I do an install of Mailman... On 10/10/11 8:52 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: Hi all, (cross posted to Macports-users and Mailman-users lists, as I'm not

[Mailman-Users] Setup problem with Mailman

2011-10-10 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, (cross posted to Macports-users and Mailman-users lists, as I'm not sure where the answer to the problem is more likely to come from) I upgraded a server the other day to Mac OS 10.7, and due to a new version of Macports required an uninstall/reinstall of Mailman. As seems to be the

[Mailman-Users] Problem with help2man update

2011-03-01 Thread Bill Christensen
Attempting to do updates tonight, I ran into problems with upgrading help2man. I was able to manually update most other ports. The log for help2man says: :info:configure configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required :info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive 3rd Party List

2009-04-19 Thread Bill Christensen
be able to set Mailman to accept all mail from the original list. It'll be automatically archived. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http:/

[Mailman-Users] Check_perms reports invalid syntax?

2009-04-05 Thread Bill Christensen
ing Mailman 2.1.11/Python 2.3, has the same line and no problems with it. Any ideas? Do I need to upgrade or patch Python, and if so which 2.5 or better version works with Mailman? thanks -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Dire

Re: [Mailman-Users] Timestamp on approved msg

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Christensen
At 8:23 AM -0700 10/9/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: Is there a way to change the timestamp on mail to moderated lists to display the time it is approved/sent by Mailman instead of the time of the orignal sender's post? Only by changing the source code, and it isn

[Mailman-Users] Timestamp on approved msg

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Christensen
list mail displays "below the fold" (out of sight) in busy user's mailbox. In some cases that lag is intentional in order to release announcements at the most advantageous time. If it's not visible in the user's box it kinda defeats the purpose. -- Bill Christensen <ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
enaming config.pck.last. The key is that there be no config.pck.last when you go to the admindb page. Yes, it is Mac Thanks. Renaming config.pck.last let me in. Looks like all is well now. I'll have to remember this one. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Build

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
sions should be drwxrwsr-x and the group should be mailman. The owner is normally root or the web server (nobody?) depending on how the list was created. Yes, it's drwxrwsr-x and the owner and group match all the other (working) lists -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/con

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
At 2:40 PM -0700 9/29/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: At 12:48 PM -0700 9/29/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: Sep 29 12:55:06 2008 admin(23693): admin(23693): [- Mailman Version: 2.1.11 -] admin(23693

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
At 12:48 PM -0700 9/29/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: Sep 29 12:55:06 2008 admin(23693): admin(23693): [- Mailman Version: 2.1.11 -] admin(23693): [- Traceback --] admin(23693): Traceback (most recent call last

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
Bill Christensen wrote: I can't get into the admin on a single list. Tried permissions repair, no help. Tried replacing config.pck, no help Tried replacing config.pck.last, no help Error log says: OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/aen/confi

[Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Christensen
I can't get into the admin on a single list. Tried permissions repair, no help. Tried replacing config.pck, no help Tried replacing config.pck.last, no help Error log says: OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/aen/config.pck.last' Where t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Greetings .. and some Questions

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Christensen
errors .. I'll leave the answer to this one to those who are more familiar with Mailman. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread Bill Christensen
used a regex that looked for characters followed by an @ followed by more characters. It then replaced everything from the @ to the next space with "...". It appears that the code which does the obfuscation is in ($prefix)/Mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py between lines 280 and 290 in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rv: many problems

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Christensen
load - how many messages per week or month on average, and what the averages is of the total megabytes used. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http:/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface down

2008-08-27 Thread Bill Christensen
At 4:14 PM -0700 8/26/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: I'm having trouble with the web interface again. I added a couple new lists today and stopped/started both fetchmail and mailman to make sure they would pick up the new addresses. It appears that my lists are still ru

[Mailman-Users] Web interface down

2008-08-26 Thread Bill Christensen
ed for corrupt config files using: echo > noop.py "def noop(mlist): return" ./withlist -a -r noop (all showed "unlocked") I've checked the logs. No sign of anything specific there. I can't find the cause. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/&

Re: [Mailman-Users] line returns missing

2008-08-03 Thread Bill Christensen
.org/pipermail/watchdogs/2008-July/000764.html> (both of these display properly wrapped in my Eudora/Mac) It appears that a fair number of pipermail archived posts aren't wrapped. Any way to keep that from happening? -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Buil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hard drive is full

2008-07-10 Thread Bill Christensen
g the archives elsewhere? Can they just be moved and a symlink put in their place? Or is it best to define the path in a config file (and if so, which one)? Thanks -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.gr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Inaccessible public archives

2008-07-05 Thread Bill Christensen
chmod 2775 /usr/local/mailman/archives/public Then put the Options +FollowSymLinks in an appropriate Directory block in the Apache config. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Build

Re: [Mailman-Users] Inaccessible public archives

2008-07-05 Thread Bill Christensen
At 6:59 PM -0700 7/4/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bill Christensen wrote: I just moved my Mailman/Apache/Postfix server to a new hard drive, and in the process managed to make the public archives inaccessible. Private archives work fine, as does everything else as far as I can tell. I suspect that

[Mailman-Users] Inaccessible public archives

2008-07-04 Thread Bill Christensen
the Apache config file, and all the paths and rules there look like they should work. Any ideas where else I should search for a fix? -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Bu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Major problems with privacy and mailman lists and harvesters

2008-05-23 Thread Bill Christensen
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/opti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! "Recipient list too long" message is held for approval

2008-05-23 Thread Bill Christensen
qw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/billc_lists%40greenbuilder.com Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp -- Bill Christe

Re: [Mailman-Users] GNU Mailmain 2.1.9: Filtering Messages based onwords in the body of an email?

2008-05-20 Thread Bill Christensen
modifying source code. Assuming that the rant URLs are known, couldn't he just use the spam filter? -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.gre

Re: [Mailman-Users] excessive bounce notifications..

2008-05-18 Thread Bill Christensen
er addresses, and bouncing back to the -bounce address. If that's the case, stop autoreplying to non member mail - or teach your moderators to discard rather than reject. Spam filtering before it gets to Mailman is still probably the best choice. -- Bill Christensen <http://gree

Re: [Mailman-Users] Still sticking: gmail => fetchmail => mailman=>postfix

2008-03-20 Thread bill christensen
On 3/19/08, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A group mismatch will result in the wrapper exiting with a non-zero > status and issuing a message which should appear somewhere. > > Other errors should be logged in Mailman's error log. If it gets that far. I'm suspecting that there's