Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-03 Thread Savoy, Jim
>> Jim Savoy wrote: >>I will probably leave the gateway news stuff out forever. And also the >>password reminder thing, as we don't want to bombard our students with >>more info... > Mark Sapiro wrote: >Fair enough, although the sending of reminders is a list option. You can set >DEFAULT_SEND_R

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Savoy, Jim wrote: > >>Mark Sapiro wrote: > >>For the others, you need to at least read the comments in crontab.in >and understand what the job does before deciding not to run it. > >I will probably leave the gateway news stuff out forever. And also the >password >reminder thing, as we don't want to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-03 Thread Savoy, Jim
>>Jim Savoy wrote: >> I am not all that familiar with cron. Is that "crontab -u mailman >>crontab.in" something you need to run every time you reboot the system? >>Or does it add something to /etc/cron.d or /etc/cron.daily or /etc/crontab? >>(I don't see anything new in those). >Mark Sapiro wro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Savoy, Jim wrote: > > The answers to your questions are: yes, yes & yes. But I don't think >the person >who installed Mailman many years ago ever did the "crontab -u mailman >crontab.in" >bit, so I just did it now. First I commented out everything in that >crontab.in file >except the checkdbs lin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Savoy, Jim
I think I have my phantom requests (eg the "-1 request(s) pending") question answered. Googling it I see that Mark provided a fix, but also said that by going to that admin page once should clear it. That may save me from manually having to fix hundreds of lists. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Savoy, Jim
Jim Savoy wrote: > I am not all that familiar with cron. Is that "crontab -u mailman >crontab.in" something you need to run every time you reboot the system? >Or does it add something to /etc/cron.d or /etc/cron.daily or /etc/crontab? >(I don't see anything new in those). Jim Savoy answers hims

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Savoy, Jim
>> Jim Savoy wrote: >> Reading this reminded me that I have a similar problem. All of our lists >> are set by default to be admin_immed_notify=yes, but the list owners only >> get a message when something new arrives (that is put on hold). They >> never get a daily reminder about the queued-up stu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Savoy, Jim wrote: > >Reading this reminded me that I have a similar problem. All of our lists >are set by default to be admin_immed_notify=yes, but the list owners >only >get a message when something new arrives (that is put on hold). They >never >get a daily reminder about the queued-up stuff. Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread Savoy, Jim
>George Bannerman wrote: >I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server. Right now, I have admin_immed_notify set to yes, but I'm not getting notifications when there are emails to approve. I'm also not getting the once-a-day "# list moderator request(s) waiting" either. "Forward messages (ind

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread george bannerman
Hi all-- Ummm... strangely, this appears to be working again. Not sure why, but I'm happy! george On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM, george bannerman wrote: > Hi all-- > > I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server. Right now, I have > admin_immed_notify set to yes, but I'm not getting not

[Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread george bannerman
Hi all-- I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server. Right now, I have admin_immed_notify set to yes, but I'm not getting notifications when there are emails to approve. I'm also not getting the once-a-day "# list moderator request(s) waiting" either. "Forward messages (individually) to:" d