Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia Messages

2011-02-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Beau Barnhart wrote: > >We have been asked by mail-abuse.org to make changes to the configuration >to one of our servers. The following this their request... Actually, the request understates the problem. See below. >-- message from mail-abuse.org -- > >Currently, when messages arrive

[Mailman-Users] Administrivia Messages

2011-01-31 Thread Beau Barnhart
Hello, We have been asked by mail-abuse.org to make changes to the configuration to one of our servers. The following this their request... -- message from mail-abuse.org -- Currently, when messages arrive at your mail server it runs them through SpamAssassin, which checks for spam and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia

2009-06-13 Thread LuKreme
On 12-Jun-2009, at 14:32, Brad Rogers wrote: In my case, it was that the people attempting to (un)subscribe were sending their requests with a plain text *and* an HTML part. The combination of the two parts added up to far more than the allowed number of lines for a message to be treated as admi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia

2009-06-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Rogers wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:12:17 -0600 >LuKreme wrote: > >Hello LuKreme, > >> The help says" Administrivia tests will check postings to see whether =20 >> it's really meant as an administrative request (like subscribe, =20 >> unsubscribe, etc), and will add it to the the administ

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

[Mailman-Users] Administrivia

2009-06-12 Thread LuKreme
I have Administrivia turned on for a list, but people keep sending subscribe requests to the list address (because they are morons, I guess, I send them the subscribe address). Anyway, the administrivia setting does not pick up these messages and I end up with them in the admin queue and en

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia intercept not working.

2008-12-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Rogers wrote: > >I run a small mailing list which under version 2.1.11 of Mailman. A >while ago, an unsubscribe message came to the list rather than be >intercepted and acted upon. I thought nothing of it at the time, but >a similar occurrence on another list (to which I subscribe but do not

[Mailman-Users] Administrivia intercept not working.

2008-12-01 Thread Brad Rogers
Hello All, I run a small mailing list which under version 2.1.11 of Mailman. A while ago, an unsubscribe message came to the list rather than be intercepted and acted upon. I thought nothing of it at the time, but a similar occurrence on another list (to which I subscribe but do not have admin pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrivia Checks

2007-07-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Barry Finkel wrote: >I am converting most of our Majordomo lists to Mailman. After I >converted one list, the list administrator sent the command > > who LISTNAME > >to the converted list. It was not caught as administrivia. In the >2.1.9 source Utils.py, I see > >ADMINDATA = { ># admi

[Mailman-Users] Administrivia Checks

2007-07-16 Thread Barry Finkel
I am converting most of our Majordomo lists to Mailman. After I converted one list, the list administrator sent the command who LISTNAME to the converted list. It was not caught as administrivia. In the 2.1.9 source Utils.py, I see ADMINDATA = { # admin keyword: (minimum #args, maxi

[Mailman-Users] Administrivia boilerplate

2004-11-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
Does anyone have some good boilerplate to use in a welcome message or a periodic reminder to cover some of the common newbie mistakes? I'm thinking of issues like hijacking threads, which a lot of new list users don't understand, and use of the List-Id header for filtering. (Esp. for Outlook Ex

[Mailman-Users] administrivia filter not functioning

2004-02-06 Thread Aaron Anderson
Help, Our unsubscribe and and remove requests are going to the entire list and into the archives. I have checked the appropriate box under "General Options" to engage the administrivia filter. Am I out of sync with another group of settings. I noticed a warning, but do not know which

[Mailman-Users] administrivia not working

2004-01-30 Thread George Andrews
Hi, I have checked the appropriate box under General Options for the administrivia filter. Is there a trigger word list somewhere to edit? Am I out of sync with another group of settings. perhaps? Thank you in advance. Jane version 2.1.2 __ Do you Yahoo

[Mailman-Users] administrivia option

2001-05-03 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I've been running mailman on my servers for a while, and letting other people run the mailing lists, but just recently I ended up starting a list which I need to run. I've seen this "administrivia" option quite a few times, and thought "oh, that's cool, I don't have to worry about silly people se