Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_POLICY

2007-04-16 Thread kalin mintchev
nevermind... sorry... figured it out... thanks... > hi all... > > i'm really tired of clients batching over the subscription confirmation: > "but why?", "nobody will do it and we goanna lose people?", "it's to > difficult", "can we do it without it?!", "our list is special..", etc, > etc...

[Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_POLICY

2007-04-16 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i'm really tired of clients batching over the subscription confirmation: "but why?", "nobody will do it and we goanna lose people?", "it's to difficult", "can we do it without it?!", "our list is special..", etc, etc... so i did change the settings in Defaults.py but it's still asking f

Re: [Mailman-Users] join vs subscribe

2007-04-04 Thread kalin mintchev
) list: pending [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 04 > 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 04 > 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 04 > 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] join vs subscribe

2007-04-04 Thread kalin mintchev
Apr 04 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 04 20:17:25 2007 (5670) list: pending kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] still i have not gotten the email where i'm supposed to confirm my subscription. my name is not in the queu

[Mailman-Users] join vs subscribe

2007-04-04 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all.. what is the difference between listname-join and listname-subscribe?! thanks -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/fa

[Mailman-Users] Your message was rejected?!?

2007-02-21 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... the email address the email is coming from is in the field: "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted." i just get: Your message was rejected. that's all. no explanation... there is nothing in the logs. just rejected - that's it... why? thanks

Re: [Mailman-Users] delate all bounces....

2006-06-08 Thread kalin mintchev
> the output from the error log for the same times is a bit longer so i'm > attaching it. i guess no attachments ok here it is: Jun 08 06:43:23 2006 qrunner(8159): Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 08 06:43:23 2006 qrunner(8159): File "/var/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ? Jun

Re: [Mailman-Users] delate all bounces....

2006-06-08 Thread kalin mintchev
> I still don't know what the underlying issue is, possibly you have so > many bounces that the bounce-events-.pck reaches some size limitation. > What does the 'qrunner' log say about the deaths? What's in the > 'error' log. well BounceRunner died apparently short after i restarted everything ag

Re: [Mailman-Users] delate all bounces....

2006-06-06 Thread kalin mintchev
> the former. i don't see the BounceRunner in the mailman processes and will > start it through mailmanctl but i remember reading somewhere that that > daemon should run every 15 min?!? by default?! ok. i did restart the daemons. but is till don't see BounceRunner in the ps list after getti

Re: [Mailman-Users] delate all bounces....

2006-06-06 Thread kalin mintchev
> > Are you talking about files in qfiles/bounces/ or files in data/ named > bounce-events-p.pck? the former. i don't see the BounceRunner in the mailman processes and will start it through mailmanctl but i remember reading somewhere that that daemon should run every 15 min?!? by default?!

[Mailman-Users] delate all bounces....

2006-06-06 Thread kalin mintchev
hi... i have a huge directory full of bounces and much of disk space left. i'll be add a new disk soon but can i just wipe out all the bounce files under bounces?!! thanks... -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail

[Mailman-Users] bounce-events-*.pck

2006-05-12 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... from a recent post (02.06): > If the bounce runner is > stopped or restarted when there is an outstanding file, the file can > be orphaned and the bounces lost. please somebody clarify "outstanding file". how would i know which one is outstanding? can there be more than one bounce-e

[Mailman-Users] no confirmation required?

2006-02-17 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i have a set up of mailman that hosts a lot of email lists. recently more and more people want to have a list but a lot of them don't want their users to go through all the subscription-confirmation-welcome messages process. i took off the welcome messages but not sure how to avoid th

Re: [Mailman-Users] no confirmation required?

2006-02-17 Thread kalin mintchev
> At 8:24 PM -0500 2006-02-16, kalin mintchev wrote: >> i have a set up of mailman that hosts a lot of email lists. recently >> more >> and more people want to have a list but a lot of them don't want their users to go through all the subscription-confirmation-welcom

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce-events

2005-10-24 Thread kalin mintchev
> There may be entries in Mailman's qrunner log noting when the bounce >runner died and there may be associated error log entries that might help > >determine why. hi Mark... here is the log for the last restart of mailman today... there isn't anything about BounceRunner. i used mailmanctl...

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce-events

2005-10-24 Thread kalin mintchev
have all of those except 'runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s' ?!??!?! thanks... >> i do have the qrunner on but which one is the "bounce queue runner"?! > > ps -aux | grep qrunner > mailman253 0.0 1.433284 12792 ?? S13Oct05 > 12:49.98 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/mailman/bin/qrunner -

[Mailman-Users] bounce-events

2005-10-24 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i found (and deleted) a bunch of relatively big bounce-events-* files under the data directory. on line i found a posting citing: - your bounce queue runner isn't running as a possible reason for why these files are piling up there. i do have the qrunner on but which one is the "bou

Re: [Mailman-Users] doesn't work...

2005-09-30 Thread kalin mintchev
> strings config.pck | grep wang this helped. found 'johnwang @aabdc.com'... took it out with withlist... isn't mailman supposed to check for stuff like that when mass subscribing? this was from a mass subscription thanks for the help... now things a back to normal... ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] doesn't work...

2005-09-29 Thread kalin mintchev
> Are you saying that the above returns an empty list?? How can that be? no, no... there are all there - about 1600 or so... but the john guy isn't there... i was just mentioning that i used the withlist as one way to delete the john guy. i was just trying to add that address and delete it a fe

Re: [Mailman-Users] doesn't work...

2005-09-29 Thread kalin mintchev
> Because the method which is used to remove the member is more general > than that. aha... ok. > > It appears something is messed up in the lists config.pck or perhaps > there is a transparent character or something similar in the actual > member address. right. but grep didn't find it either

Re: [Mailman-Users] doesn't work...

2005-09-29 Thread kalin mintchev
and this - executed in the directory of the aaac list: who cares if s/he is a member - just get it out... why would you need to assertIsMember?!? doesn't make sense [~/aaac]# grep -rl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [~/aaac]# ../../bin/remove_members -a -n -N aaac Traceback (most recent call last): Fil

[Mailman-Users] doesn't work...

2005-09-29 Thread kalin mintchev
can somebody explain this please?... thanks # ./remove_members -n -N aaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ./remove_members -a -n -N aaac Traceback (most recent call last): File "./remove_members", line 186, in ? main() File "./remove_members", line 1

Re: [Mailman-Users] Privacy options

2005-06-21 Thread kalin mintchev
right... sorry... thanks... > In a flurry of recycled electrons, kalin mintchev wrote: > >> in the 2.0 version i had before in the Privacy options there was a >> setting for every single message to be approved - doesn't matter if the >> member was new or not

[Mailman-Users] Privacy options

2005-06-21 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i just upgraded to 2.1.5... in the 2.0 version i had before in the Privacy options there was a setting for every single message to be approved - doesn't matter if the member was new or not. now i can't find this... i see that there is a way to turn that behavior for posts per me

[Mailman-Users] bounces

2005-04-26 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... every time i try to send mail to a new list i get this messages in the maillog. the message is not sent to the list and there isn't anything pending approval... any idea why? thanks... this is in the maillog: Apr 26 06:26:26 me sendmail[9131]: j3QAQQ1m009130: to="|/usr/local/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Most of those kinds of messages, on my lists, and I have over 60, are > spam. You can set Mailman to discard all "held" messages, so you won't > ever see them. They will also discard member posts from different > addresses, etc., but this may be a small price to pay for not having to go > thro

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> > jc ok. in my first post i mentioned that this is mailman version 2.0.13. those options don't exist there... but thanks... > > -- -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Those messages aren't approved -- they're held. ok, Brad. thanks. sure. they are held. held for approval. they are not "approved". true. are they from subscribed members? some. most are not. but the setting says members_postings_only = 'yes' (ONLY!) ok. but there are about 60-70% mess

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Yes, this means that I (or a moderator) needs to read through the > held queue and rescue any stray messages, but it only takes a few > minutes a day. > > I think holding questionable messages is the best default because it > allows the list-owner to remedy the situation. If the default was to

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> > On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:42 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: >> right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i >> mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why >> is mailman holding messages for approval that's not

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
> Because they're not on the list, their posts are held for moderation, hence the notification. right. but.. if they are not on the list they should not be approved - i mean the posting is allowed ONLY to members (member_posting_only) so why is mailman holding messages for approval that's not co

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-19 Thread kalin mintchev
hi... mailman version 2.0.13 Restrict posting privilege to list members? - yes. i get a lot of messages to go to the Administrative requests page to aprove messages that are from people who are NOT on the list at all. what's up with that? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-07 Thread kalin mintchev
thanks Karl.. i think it was the subscribe/unsubscribe option. it was writing to many emails. now adding is quick thanks... > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> 7

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-07 Thread kalin mintchev
> "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! > > No, I think it just means no on has an answer for you. > > Have you tried putting some debugging prints into the code or > anything?

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread kalin mintchev
7 hours now and counting... am i the only one on this list?! > uhhh... it's going close to 5 1/2 hours now! i need this list to be > operational today! what's the big deal with reading 1 lines of email > addresses. i would have read them by now a few dozen times. > what's up with add_member

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread kalin mintchev
uhhh... it's going close to 5 1/2 hours now! i need this list to be operational today! what's the big deal with reading 1 lines of email addresses. i would have read them by now a few dozen times. what's up with add_members?!? > hi all... > > i have a mailman version 2.0.13 running on an old

[Mailman-Users] add_members slow, very slow..

2005-01-06 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... i have a mailman version 2.0.13 running on an older box - rh 7.1 and i had to replace the members of a list. so i removed all. this took about 1 1/2 hours to finish and now i'm importing the members back in - they are about 10 000. it has been going on for about 3 hours. this is how i

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread Kalin Mintchev
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Kalin Mintchev wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Stonewall Ballard wrote: > > > > > How about using the "Mass Subscription" section under "Membership > > > Management" on t

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread Kalin Mintchev
limitations on how many you can do at once?... some of those old lists have 4000 - 5000 subscribers... > > On 9/25/02 3:19 PM, "Kalin Mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi all, > > > > i had to upgrade to mailman from another list ser

[Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread Kalin Mintchev
hi all, i had to upgrade to mailman from another list server (listar). listar uses a text file for each list called dist that has all the email addresses subscribed to that list to send the messages out to them. it looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc... .. how can i po