Re: [Mailman-Users] Message may contain ... administrivia?

2015-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:10:35 -0400 Bryan Blackwell wrote: Hello Bryan, >When e-mail lists had no web interface, subscribers would often send >admin commands - "unsubscribe", "set digest", etc., to the actual list Sadly, many people still do. Despite the appearance of footer notes telling them w

Re: [Mailman-Users] DKIM Failures cause posts from gmail users to not be relayed to the list

2015-08-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:04:14 -0400 Barry Warsaw wrote: Hello Barry, >FWIW, lists.debian.org does not run Mailman. Fair enough. Seems to me to be less likely that Peter's problem is the same, as other list owners of mailman run lists would probably be reporting similar errors. -- Regards _

Re: [Mailman-Users] DKIM Failures cause posts from gmail users to not be relayed to the list

2015-08-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 13:21:58 + Peter Bossley wrote: Hello Peter, >mailing lists need to work properly as well. Does anyone have any >suggestions or ideas on why the Munge setting didn't seem to have an >impact? I'm far from being an expert regarding DKIM, DKMS and mailman, but what I can sa

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

2015-04-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:56:21 -0700 Carl Zwanzig wrote: Hello Carl, >(As I've opined before, IME many people consider what we might call >inline posting to be "bottom posting". I follow language that usage.) More and more these days, on many mailing lists, I see *real* bottom posting(1); Severa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security patch and Mailman 2.1.20 to be released on 31 March

2015-03-28 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:24:25 +0100 Roland Miyamoto wrote: Hello Roland, >I am running Mailman 2.1.15 under Debian 7. >Will the fix be included in the usual repository updates? I can't speak as an authority on either Mailman of Debian, only as a user, but security updates are usually ported to

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

2015-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:39:00 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Usenet over UUCP via 300 baud modems on backbone servers with 5MB >disks.[1] Same went for FTNs, etc. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately appar

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

2015-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:52:19 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: Hello Tanstaafl, >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 "Re

Re: [Mailman-Users] CC pruning: does it work?

2015-03-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:35:52 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: Hello Stephen, >Does this actually work? In practice, I get the feeling that a large >minority at least unsets "nodupes". XEmacs lists default to nodupes, I always turn NoDupes off. The reason being that I *want* the list copy,

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:19:29 +0200 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, >Le 16/04/2014 20:59, Brad Rogers a écrit : >> Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email >> address too. >does this occur often? It can, yes. In the past year, I've changed pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:31:25 +0200 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, >(... why people can't use they ISP's mail?) In case that's not a rhetorical question: Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email address too. When you're subscribed to over one hundred mailing lists, to say

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prefix for subject line

2014-02-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:43:27 +0200 nikos wrote: Hello nikos, >What will happened if i remove (leave blank) Prefix for subject line? There will be no prefix to add to the subject line. This is not harmful in any way but some people prefer, for various reasons, to have them. Some MUAs seem to ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachment with welcome message

2013-02-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" wrote: Hello Amit, >I wish to send an attached file with list guidelines via welcome Does it need to be an attachment? Why not enter the guidelines into the body of the message as plain text? Of course, 99.999% of people *don't* read the welcom

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

2012-10-24 Thread Brad Knowles
any problems or made any changes (even apparently trivial ones). > Another very useful tool for analyzing mail issues is swaks. Now that's a tool I had not heard of before. I'm assuming you mean the tool at <http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/>? -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-23 Thread Brad Knowles
erience, KISS+layering almost always beats solutions that are complex from Day One. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-23 Thread Brad Knowles
that your "real" customers are also prevented from being able to post -- that would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suspend a Subscriber

2012-10-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:37:06 -0400 Dennis Putnam wrote: Hello Dennis, >Is there a way to suspend or otherwise prevent a subscriber from posting Put them on 'moderation', which means all their posts have to be approved before they go out to the list. I know that means work, but you could just i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Brad Knowles
On Aug 20, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >> More importantly, it would be much less difficult for us to support >> that part of the community, which would help reduce the support >> burden that Apple has to maintain. > > C'mon, Brad, it's *anno

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Brad Knowles
e-box, although you can still download it from an alternative site. Of course, you could claim that was a disk space issue, but then they're no longer shipping the OS on physical media. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Brad Knowles
ing the Mailman fire, they cool off >enough to realize there's nothing to benefit *anybody* in the >Apple version, and it would be best if it just went away, so they >don't bother asking for code. ;-) That sequence of events doesn't serve

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Brad Knowles
GPL? In this respect, I believe that they are probably in violation of the spirit of the GPL, but perhaps not in the letter of the law. Which is probably why they are so very violently opposed to having any GPL-encumbered code anywhere in the company. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-19 Thread Brad Knowles
ir customers, and they don't support their customers themselves. Regretfully, the Server team at Apple is well known for ignoring feedback and input from anyone else, especially anyone else in the company. But as I said, this is an old bone of contention. -- Brad Knowles Li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives for Yahoo Groups like Web Features

2012-08-18 Thread Brad Knowles
ly gets launched in the first place -- witness the various bug tracking systems that we've tried to use over the years. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail "features"

2012-08-09 Thread Brad Knowles
On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:11 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Well, unfortunately Gmail is closed-source and I don't know what the > full algorithm is. Surely Message-Id is part of it, but evidently > there are other aspects to it, or the behavior you and Brad > R. describe wouldn&

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail "features"

2012-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:09:22 +0200 Lucio Crusca wrote: Hello Lucio, >Brad Rogers writes: >> Send: smtp.foo.bar >Does that mean that I must have an external (from my mailman server >point of view) smtp server? That would explain everything, but that I believe so, yes. I only ru

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail "features"

2012-08-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 12:19:41 - "Lucio Crusca" wrote: Hello Lucio, >Like I said, I suspect it depends on the list. My current best guess is >that older lists (i.e. the ones that had been created before some time >in the past) don't hit the infamous feature, while newer ones do. Gmail has *alw

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using with a database and *without* a webserver

2012-06-29 Thread Brad Knowles
admins, but then you kind of defeat the purpose of a lot of the Mailman self-provisioning functionality. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.

Re: [Mailman-Users] A simple unsubscribe

2012-06-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0400 "Brian Canty" wrote: Hello Brian, >Hello - I was wondering if anyone has a way to provide subscribers a >simple and easy way to unsubscribe from a mailing list. I do not What's wrong with the current challenge and response method? Stops people from malicious

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to install mm 3.0.0b1

2012-06-21 Thread Brad Knowles
finitely find more Barry-clones-in-progress on the developers list, especially as it relates to mm3. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalisation: how long does it take?

2012-06-18 Thread Brad Knowles
hat someone else can get their entire list sent out in 120 seconds, even if they're the same size and they're doing all the same crypto operations. You need what is good enough for you, and you don't need to be comparing yourself to someone else. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile:

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-18 Thread Brad Knowles
th that violation. If AOL > were to ever call me on it, I'll worry about that then. On that subject, I agree with you. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pyth

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-17 Thread Brad Knowles
such a feature, and I strongly suspect that someone else has probably already done this. You just need to find it and install it. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-17 Thread Brad Knowles
ome people who care and have a clue. I do feel that Google is the Next Great Evil in this world, but that doesn't change the facts of the technical implementation of their mail system relative to AOL. Of course, that's not saying much…. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-16 Thread Brad Knowles
ferent department. Back when David O'Donnell was running that shop, they did a really good job. But things have gone way down hill ever since. I have long since gone past the point where I consider them to be a complete write-off, despite the fact that even my own wife still uses AOL.

Re: [Mailman-Users] scalability + ldap

2012-05-29 Thread Brad Knowles
ses and minuses of using a > real mailing list (mailman) for this purpose. There are people who are already doing this sort of thing with Mailman today, but it requires a bit of hacking on the code to put all the pieces together. We do not (yet) have an out-of-the-box solution in this space, at

Re: [Mailman-Users] what constitutes spam?

2012-05-19 Thread Brad Knowles
On May 19, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Anne Wainwright wrote: > Thanks for clarifying that, Brad, I wasn't sure what the import of > Mark's messsage was. > > Why would this not be set to 'list' rather than 'bulk'? According to RFC 2076, the "Prece

Re: [Mailman-Users] what constitutes spam?

2012-05-18 Thread Brad Knowles
t you against yourself, and there is a limit to how much of that we can do. At least, there is a limit to how much we can do if we want to keep the software usable for other people. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] what constitutes spam?

2012-04-26 Thread Brad Knowles
fact that Yahoo! is hopelessly clueless does not absolve you of the crime that you freely admit that you are guilty of. If you wish to persist in your spammy ways, then we can make sure that your address gets unsubscribed from this list, and that your domain gets banned from sending e-mail to pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] what constitutes spam?

2012-04-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:39:44 +0200 Anne Wainwright wrote: Hello Anne, > As I said in my reply, this is hardly spam, I did not send it out to You sent out an Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) which, to most people, constitutes SPAM. Whether you sent it to one person or one million is irrelevan

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digests and HTML-enhanced email

2011-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
sensus has been that we won't kowtow to those brain-dead MUAs, and if the users in question can't deal with these separate "attachments", then the list admins are going to have to forgo putting footers on messages as they are being passed through the system. -- Brad Knowles

Re: [Mailman-Users] Incorrect timezone in mailman-generated messages

2011-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
that Mailman itself would be putting that header on -- I suspect that Mailman would use a Python library to do that, as opposed to doing it internally. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Incorrect timezone in mailman-generated messages

2011-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
run mailman 2.1.14 with Python 2.4.3 under Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 > (a clone of RHEL5) Sometimes, problems like this are as simple as a program reading the timezone definition on startup, and then never reading it again. Have you tried stopping and restarting Mailman, i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman throughput

2011-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
On 08/15/2011 02:49 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: You're talking about inbound, and how you have outsourced many of these kinds of checks to other boxes. That's fine as far as it goes, but I was talking about *outbound*, from Mailman to the world of recipients. You are likely to have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman throughput

2011-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
On 08/14/2011 11:24 PM, Ivan Fetch wrote: Brad, I think we are already accomplishing a lot of this minimalism, since the MTA on the Mailman VM is only accepting the message via SMTP, then handing it off to Mailman via the Postfix aliases. The spam and other checks are done before hand, by

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman throughput

2011-08-14 Thread Brad Knowles
mail being handled. This way you can set up "local" queues in your MTA that may have different resource handling rules or different retry algorithms, as compared to queues to external sites that might be known for being troublesome. We were doing this kind of thing at AOL back in the mid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrading and converting mailman to postfix

2011-04-20 Thread Brad Knowles
27;d have to ask them where their tools are and how those tools change from one version of RHEL to another. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X serverset-up.

2011-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
appens, then I could potentially be available to do remote consulting for this kind of stuff through my employer. -- Brad Knowles Sent from my iPad On Apr 3, 2011, at 1:42 AM, JRC Groups wrote: > Thanks Brad and Mark for your helpful and detailed replies. > > I have reached a point

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X serverset-up.

2011-03-30 Thread Brad Knowles
OS X have been transitioned over to the mainline code development team, or if that means that a lot of products and services will get thrown out the door as Apple re-focuses exclusively on the retail/home user market. But that is certainly something that you should keep in mind as you look towa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman domain and OS X server set-up.

2011-03-28 Thread Brad Knowles
should work in those kinds of situations, but that's about the best we can do. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber Counts - daily report

2011-01-06 Thread Brad Knowles
ection of the more recent releases of Mailman. Mark Sapiro has taken over maintenance of that script, so please feel free to feed any changes back to him and he can get them into the next release. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Interesting problem with gmail users

2010-12-07 Thread Brad Knowles
(maybe your mailing list management software removed them), then that would be likely to cause problems. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] BATV and Mailman

2010-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
ates to the Mailman installation, etc -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-09-03 Thread Brad Knowles
tickling in the back of my brain regarding this, and I can't figure out what it is -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-30 Thread Brad Knowles
d that have been said so far, I would like to point out that I have not made any irrevocable decisions on the matter, and I have yet to take any actual action. I've spoken about what my tendencies and inclinations would be, nothing more. -- Brad Knowles LinkedI

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
uent that was delivered. In those cases, the collateral damage to the community is a very real cost that we all have to bear our part of, just so that the company can make good on their get-rich-quick scheme, which they perpetrate at the expense of everyone else. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
and then we can get back to that win-win-win scenario mentioned above. If there's more to it than that, then I would definitely be inclined to be much tougher in my response. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commercial distributions of Mailman & GPL

2010-08-28 Thread Brad Knowles
all they've got. It's not executable code until Python gets its hands on it and turns it into bytecode, and then keeps a cached copy of that bytecode around so that it doesn't need to go through this process again, unless the s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-28 Thread Brad Knowles
python.org. Thanks for the heads-up! -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wik

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-28 Thread Brad Knowles
can, or should, go after Apple. Both companies are shipping our code with extensive modifications, and so far as I know neither of them has released their changes, as required by the GNU license. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
ade right then and there, and make sure that we eat our own dogfood. However, I really should coordinate this with the guys who've been doing the day-to-day administration of mail.python.org for the past several months. Let me see how quickly we can get that upgrade done. -- Brad K

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

2010-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
the Mailman Cabal, I will make sure to carry through on that, if necessary. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Brad Knowles
thing by doing powers-of-2 splits. Regretfully, this is not well documented, but I think there is one or two FAQ Wiki questions that discuss it. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery to SMTP server very slow

2010-02-20 Thread Brad Knowles
ou could try that too and see what it does with your list. > I'll make a little Python script for that. Much simpler solution here is to use the "smtpsink" program that Wietse supplies as part of the test harness for postfix. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam filtering

2010-02-17 Thread Brad Knowles
as spam and this hurts the reputation of the site running Mailman, then the site running Mailman should ban the downstream site that inappropriately blamed it for sending the content that their recipient(s) asked to receive. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Increasing the Speed of Email Delivery

2009-12-23 Thread Brad Knowles
I can to encode as much of my knowledge as possible into the FAQs. Pretty much everything is there, or I point to references where the rest of the information can be found. The key is knowing what you're looking for and when you've found it. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile

Re: [Mailman-Users] Increasing the Speed of Email Delivery

2009-12-23 Thread Brad Knowles
On Dec 23, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Derrick Wooden wrote: > Brad, upon reading this thread again you are correct. It was NOT implied > that MySQL would speed up email delivery, but rather MySQL would be a better > database solution. As a database, yes -- MySQL is better at that job than usi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman < > forum ?

2009-12-22 Thread Brad Knowles
article that talks about Joomla. That's the best integration I know of, although I'm sure there are others. > I believe that something like this could work with phpbb2 but not the > current release. Can anyone help please ? I'm not personally aware of anything, but that doesn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Increasing the Speed of Email Delivery

2009-12-22 Thread Brad Knowles
db tables would also > increase the speed. I will also utilize this option. I don't know of any way that MySQL would factor into this discussion. Can you provide a reference? -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-22 Thread Brad Knowles
. > Anyway, you're entirely missing the point. I don't expect anybody to > read FAQ 1.22 in advance of comitting a faux pas; this particular FAQ > is mostly for pointing to *afterward*. Indeed. That is precisely the point. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: Emergency Broadcast

2009-11-23 Thread Brad Knowles
On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: > Brad Knowles wrote: >> At the very least, you should find a different provider where they actually >> give you the support you require. > > Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature? I can s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature request: Emergency Broadcast

2009-11-22 Thread Brad Knowles
, there would be many, many fewer crappy providers in this world. At the very least, you should find a different provider where they actually give you the support you require. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to monitor mailman transaction

2009-11-16 Thread Brad Knowles
maximum performance on a mailing list -- I can run rings around it with postfix. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to monitor mailman transaction

2009-11-11 Thread Brad Knowles
on. You should have similar tools for whatever MTA you're using, so that you get a better idea of what's going on across the whole system. I have not touched any such scripts in many, many years, but I'm sure there are plenty of such tools available for various popular MTAs out ther

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman with Multi Mail Server

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Knowles
multiple outbound mail relay servers would start to make a big difference. Most of these topics are at least touched on in the FAQ Wiki and the fact that the OP hasn't mentioned them tells me that they either didn't do their homework, or they don't understand the concepts wel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Donate to the GNU Mailman Project (directed donation program)

2009-09-04 Thread Brad Knowles
this process, please send an e-mail message to mailman-ca...@python.org. -- Brad Knowles Member of the Python.org Postmaster Team & Co-Moderator of the mailman-users and mailman-developers mailing lists -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple instances of Mailman on FreeBSD

2009-08-12 Thread Brad Knowles
lman, and discuss this subject with them. Hopefully, they would know enough about both sides of the problem to be able to recommend a solution or patch for you. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

2009-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
oc.coker.com.au/projects/postal/>). If you're going to be doing any benchmarking or load-testing, make sure you read, understand, and follow all the various relevant FAQs in the Mailman FAQ Wiki, especially in section 6. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpx

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
arge of a security hole? That's not a question I can answer. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
slows down all your delivery to that site, for as long as you have mail for that site. But I would expect Ralf to know the answer to this question better than I do -- after all, it has been a number of years since I wrote that, and at my age, the memory starts to go. -- Brad Knowles Lin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to

2009-07-23 Thread Brad Knowles
header exists is for those cases where someone running a list *does* want to force everyone to always reply to the whole list and not privately reply back to someone. If you don't try to force that behaviour, then you can mostly just not worry about this header. -- Brad Knowles

Re: [Mailman-Users] Batch send?

2009-07-23 Thread Brad Knowles
o to the FAQ Wiki at <http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Frequently+Asked+Questions> and search for "rate limit". -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple lists ..

2009-07-17 Thread Brad Knowles
g to be a more optimistic and positive person now (after my surgery for thyroid cancer), so I guess I need to change that. Maybe once they finally start me on the synthetic thyroid replacement drugs, and I feel like I've got some energy back. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rewriting or identifying late bounces

2009-07-08 Thread Brad Knowles
on 7/8/09 6:12 PM, Stefan Förster said: Thanks for your advice, Brad. The problem is that, due to policy reasons, outgoing mail has to pass a content filter, running locally on the Mailman box. With VERP... Chuq von Rospach wrote some stuff in the FAQ detailing his experience with how VERP

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rewriting or identifying late bounces

2009-07-08 Thread Brad Knowles
hen obviously you're not going to squeeze any more blood out of that turnip. But I would suggest that you familiarize yourself with these sections to make sure that you're actually doing as much as you can. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie question? Maybe not.

2009-07-05 Thread Brad Knowles
miliar with the more basic stuff discussed in the first section of the FAQ, starting with FAQ 1.22 at <http://wiki.list.org/x/PIA9>. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting Autoresponders

2009-06-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:27:22 -0500 Grant Taylor wrote: Hello Grant, > OoO auto responders usually reply to the From: (header) address of > messages as they have on concept of the SMTP envelope sender. So if Like Matthias, I ban users that use auto-responders. No amount of begging, apologisin

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list

2009-06-17 Thread Brad Knowles
n happy to speak up here or to contact you directly. If you want any more specific advice, please let me know. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http:/

Re: [Mailman-Users] openID enabled mailman

2009-06-13 Thread Brad Knowles
an OpenID Relyer. Looking at the code might give me an idea about how to start implementing openID support fr the mailman setup I am running, I really don't think so. They and you seem to have very different ideas as to where the OpenID provider code should go. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Who kicked the gate loose?

2009-06-12 Thread Brad Knowles
Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: Whence cometh the sudden flood of posts? I have been remiss in my duties as moderator for this list, and today I finally got the chance to try to catch up. I'll try to stay more current in the future. -- Brad Knowles Member of the Pytho

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia

2009-06-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:12:17 -0600 LuKreme wrote: Hello LuKreme, > The help says" Administrivia tests will check postings to see whether > it's really meant as an administrative request (like subscribe, > unsubscribe, etc), and will add it to the the administrative requests > queue, notify

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve all held?

2009-06-12 Thread Brad Knowles
messages that are held for moderation, but there's no "approve all messages" option. You could always hack the source code yourself to add such a feature, if you were so inclined. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: &

Re: [Mailman-Users] openID enabled mailman

2009-06-07 Thread Brad Knowles
same time. IMO, this may be a better question to ask on their mailing lists, or to ask the people who maintain their mailing lists. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Will Mailman inform a sender of a bounced message that it was approved?

2009-05-27 Thread Brad Knowles
ht be necessary to make that happen. -- Brad Knowles LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman mali list already created

2009-05-18 Thread Brad Knowles
to put that into mm_cfg.py instead. -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>http://preview.tinyurl.com/bi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation On Separate Server Plausible?

2009-05-17 Thread Brad Knowles
to update that data, and you still need some way to provide e-mail input and output to that system. There are a few ways to solve these issues, but each has a different set of trade-offs, etc -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Discarding defers from the command line

2009-05-16 Thread Brad Knowles
hich is the original source code that we provide. We can't control what anyone else does with whatever they provide, nor can we write their documentation for them. -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on Y

Re: [Mailman-Users] Patch for use of Postfix VERP support

2009-05-14 Thread Brad Knowles
understood and usable by Mailman if there is a bounce, and how many unique messages will be delivered, as opposed to how many connections will be created to deliver the messages. -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend big

Re: [Mailman-Users] Patch for use of Postfix VERP support

2009-05-13 Thread Brad Knowles
ing to keep your delivery rates to remote sites at a lower level -- if anything, it's going to increase it. This is a postfix problem. Find the sites that cause the problems, and set up separate queues for them, with different parallelism and re-queueing/re-try schedules. -- Brad Know

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman appends hostname to some address on mail list

2009-05-07 Thread Brad Knowles
this file, but perhaps your MTA does. I am glad to hear that they were able to fix your problem for you. -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>http://prev

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question and help

2009-05-07 Thread Brad Knowles
ibutions, especially when you go for just the "base" install, as opposed to the full "everything-including-the-kitchen-sink" install. -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <

Re: [Mailman-Users] Patch: Preserve Content-Transfer-Encoding when adding footer or scrubbing

2009-05-07 Thread Brad Knowles
to upload patches first to the tracker. However, we do greatly appreciate your effort in producing these patches, and this is a discussion that I think the developers would love to continue to have with you. Thanks! -- Brad Knowles If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out Link

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