Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-11 Thread tanstaafl
On 9/11/2009, Stephen J. Turnbull (step...@xemacs.org) wrote: > What I have in mind is a screen that the site manager or list owner > can use: > > > Clone list > > List to clone: ___ > Name (mailbox) of n

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-11 Thread Barry Finkel
On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> Sure. But why bother? > >Well, you already get 90% of that for free in MM3 already, except it's >only exposed in the test suite. Launchpad has similar functionality >and for developers, it's very useful. It's probably not useful t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:39 PM, LuKreme wrote: Neither. I think the best way to do this would be to have a list- ping email address where all it does is send you back your message as if it had been posted to the entire list, but sent only to you. That is, with footers attached, attachments, sc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-11 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Sure. But why bother? Well, you already get 90% of that for free in MM3 already, except it's only exposed in the test suite. Launchpad has similar functionality and for developers, it's very useful. It's probably not useful to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
LuKreme writes: > Setting up a test list is an idea, but I have had situations where > a one list didn't work (specifically a list on a virtual host) That means your test list wasn't properly configured. If you have a problem with a list on a virtual host, you need a test list on that virtual

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread LuKreme
On 10-Sep-2009, at 15:04, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:53:43PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: Or maybe there's something else I should do? Basically, I wanted to tail -f /var/log/maillog and watch the message come in and get sent to ensure the list was working properly. If you jus

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: > >> stop the messages once it gets to the list. What I want to see is the > >> 'full loop' of the message as I send it, and as it gets sent back > >> to me. > > > > Which by definition you can't strictly do because you have to > > alter the outgoing process in some wa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
(This discussion probably belongs on mailman-developers. Apologies for jumping in the middle and maybe getting the context wrong.) On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: LuKreme The trouble with this suggestion (and others) is that all it does is stop the messages once it gets to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
LuKreme > >The trouble with this suggestion (and others) is that all it does is >stop the messages once it gets to the list. What I want to see is the >'full loop' of the message as I send it, and as it gets sent back to me. Which by definition you can't strictly do because you have to alter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:53:43PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: > Or maybe there's something else I should do? Basically, I wanted to > tail -f /var/log/maillog and watch the message come in and get sent to > ensure the list was working properly. If you just want to see that, why not set yourself/ano

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-10 Thread LuKreme
On 8-Sep-2009, at 09:18, Malcolm Austen wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:51:24 +0100, LuKreme wrote: Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? Sometimes I want to examine the logs live when a message com

[Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
LuKreme writes: > Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent > back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? In a certain pedantic theoretical sense, no: that means that the test message doesn't follow the same path through the code that other mess

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:51 AM, LuKreme wrote: Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? No, but it's a interesting idea. -Barry PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-08 Thread Malcolm Austen
On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:51:24 +0100, LuKreme wrote: Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? Sometimes I want to examine the logs live when a message comes in, but I don't want to keep spamming all

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
LuKreme wrote: >Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent >back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? > >Sometimes I want to examine the logs live when a message comes in, but >I don't want to keep spamming all the users with "test, pls. ignore"

[Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-08 Thread LuKreme
Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? Sometimes I want to examine the logs live when a message comes in, but I don't want to keep spamming all the users with "test, pls. ignore" sorts of subjects