Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-19 Thread Hank van Cleef
The esteemed Joe has said: > > Hello, everyone. > > In my attempt to find a Mailman hosting service I have received a message > from one IT specialist advising me to avoid hosting services that utilize a > cPanel. According to this specialist this is a bad arrangement and one that > doesn't pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-19 Thread Farokh Irani
These days there's no excuse not to simply provide each person a virtual host, which is what I do. The only "disadvantage" is that you need to have enough machine to host them, which these days is not hard to do. There is no longer the need to use something like cPanel to split a machine up for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Joe writes: > Since I am not an IT specialist I have to ask myself, why would he > feel so strongly about this ? Just because. What more reason does anyone need? I personally strongly disliked cPanel for a long time because they and their customers (the host services, not the users) dumped so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-18 Thread George Kasica
o:mailman-users-bounces+gkasica=netwrx1@python.org] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:51 PM To: Brian Carpenter Cc: 'mailman-users@python.org Users' Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service. Hi, Brian. Thanks for your reply. I will be call

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-18 Thread Andrew Hodgson
Joe wrote: >In my attempt to find a Mailman hosting service I have received a message from >one IT specialist advising me to avoid hosting services that utilize a cPanel. >According to this specialist this is a bad arrangement and one that >doesn't >provide me full control of my lists. Since I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-18 Thread Brian Carpenter
> -Original Message- > From: Mailman-Users [mailto:mailman-users- > bounces+brian=emwd@python.org] On Behalf Of Joe > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:29 PM > To: mailman-users@python.org Users > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service. > > Hello, everyone. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

2014-02-18 Thread Joe
Hi, Brian. Thanks for your reply. I will be calling you soon. I will not disclose the name or e-mail of the IT specialist but his private message to me expressed his concern over the use of cPanel as a tool for the management of Mailman. Here is an excerpt from the e-mail I received: Joe, un

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about mailman 3

2013-07-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 07/11/2013 09:48 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:16 +0430, Javad Hoseini-Nopendar wrote: >> I have a question about later versions of mailman. Do they have the feature >> to export list of members to Excel or TXT file? > > If you have console access to the account, you ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about mailman 3

2013-07-11 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:16 +0430, Javad Hoseini-Nopendar wrote: > I have a question about later versions of mailman. Do they have the feature > to export list of members to Excel or TXT file? If you have console access to the account, you can use the list_members command: list_members listname

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

2011-04-07 Thread Ch Abarguia
Have you contacted http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/section/4/41/ ? The have tools and good reputation for mac os x server support services Consultancy : http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/12/36/ On 07 Apr 2011, at 04:28, Mark Sapiro wrote: > JRC Groups wrote: >> >> Considering Brad isn't a

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

2011-04-07 Thread Ch Abarguia
Try someone from http://www.afp548.com/ On 07 Apr 2011, at 04:28, Mark Sapiro wrote: > JRC Groups wrote: >> >> Considering Brad isn't available at this time, would you know of anyone you >> could recommend who is experienced with OS X Server to help me with my >> problem ? > > > I'm sorry, I d

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

2011-04-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
JRC Groups wrote: > >Considering Brad isn't available at this time, would you know of anyone you >could recommend who is experienced with OS X Server to help me with my >problem ? I'm sorry, I don't know anyone to recommend. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay

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

2011-04-06 Thread JRC Groups
Mark, Thank you for your helpful reply. Considering Brad isn't available at this time, would you know of anyone you could recommend who is experienced with OS X Server to help me with my problem ? All I need is for someone who is experienced with OS Server and understands its System Administrat

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

2011-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
Sorry, my wife's computer has been down for days, and in the meanwhile she as taken over mine. At this point, all I've got is an iPad and a semi-wonky server in the closet, and neither of them is well suited for keeping up with lots of email. I'll fix that when I get her computer repaired and ba

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

2011-04-03 Thread Larry Stone
On 4/3/11 1:42 AM, JRC Groups at joemailgro...@gmail.com wrote: > I also can't imagine that it would be too difficult to install a new version > of Mailman and manage it using its browser-based interface while ignoring > Apple's System Administrator tool for this specific task. It should not be

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

2011-04-02 Thread JRC Groups
Thanks Brad and Mark for your helpful and detailed replies. I have reached a point where I have the lists almost working but there are some issues still preventing the systems from functioning in a way that allows me to confident to launch these lists I wish to create. Apple's support has been MI

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

2011-03-30 Thread Larry Stone
On 3/30/11 7:36 PM, Brad Knowles at b...@shub-internet.org wrote: > I don't mean to sound pessimistic or to rain on your parade, but in both > cases, the solution was to blow away the stuff that Apple ships, and to > install the "real deal" code as downloaded from list.org. I'll add that there ar

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

2011-03-30 Thread Brad Knowles
On Mar 30, 2011, at 6:15 PM, JRC Groups wrote: > Is there anyone on the list who is familiar with both OS X Server and > Mailman to help with this problem ? I am willing to pay a consultation fee > to someone who can connect to my server remotely and help solve this issue. I've been an Apple cons

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

2011-03-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
JRC Groups wrote: > >The problem that keeps throwing me off is the problem we discussed here >before. The list info page keeps reverting back to the name of the server >instead of the name of the domain. I have, as you suggested, edited the >mailman configuration file several times and every time I

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

2011-03-30 Thread JRC Groups
Thank you Mark and Brad for your replies. >From what I can tell rDNS seems to be working properly. I've created some lists and they also seem to be working well. I used some test e-mails (e-mail accounts I have) and received welcome e-mail from the lists after subscribing. The problem that keeps

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

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
JRC Groups wrote: > >While discussing some possible DNS set-up issues I might need to resolve on >my server a certain IT professional mentioned to me that Mailman shouldn't >be run using a virtual domain. I am not sure if this professional was >referring to virtual domains in general or only those

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

2011-03-28 Thread Brad Knowles
On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:31 AM, JRC Groups wrote: > While discussing some possible DNS set-up issues I might need to resolve on > my server a certain IT professional mentioned to me that Mailman shouldn't > be run using a virtual domain. I am not sure if this professional was > referring to virtual d

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about mailman issues i am experiencing

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Scheidell
One option would be to use your mta to rate limit it per destination domain. Then your mta can queue them up a few at a time. Other things you can do include make sure dns entries for your server are inplace and match. Spf records won't hurt. Also you might get the mta to do skim signing.

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about mailman issues i am experiencing

2009-11-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
inksan...@inksanitytattoo.com wrote: > >I use your program ver 2.1.11 cp3 Actually, that's not ours, it's cPanel's. See the FAQ at for a bit on the difference. >The abridged version of my issue is this: > >I have a subscriber list of over 2,000 people. When I send

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman

2009-11-13 Thread Mark Sapiro
Liz Bugh wrote: > >In setting up a test mailing >group, we encountered problems and Bluehost was not able to answer our >questions or help us at all. Here is the issue: The test mailing list I >set up was named "lizcontacts". I sent an email to a member list of 3 >people. The member with Gmail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about mailman--how many names on a lisit will it support

2005-04-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:50 AM -0700 2005-04-21, Phyllis Orrick wrote: Question: I have a couple of lists that have about 3-5,000 names and currently I have to break them up into two or three lists because major domo just can't handle all of them at once. What's the limit for mailman? See

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman. Hope you can help?

2004-01-21 Thread Erick Mechler
:: I use the mailman list quite extensively but need to extract the email :: addresses to invite to another list. How do you download a text format of :: all the members. I have over 8000 of them to much to copy and paste. See the ~mailman/bin/list_members script. Cheers - Erick --

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about mailman...

2003-07-15 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Chilton wrote: > Is it possible to use mailman with variables that will enable more > personalization to a message. Yes. > If the variable option is currently available using a persons first or > last name, could you please point me to the refer

RE: [Mailman-Users] question about mailman...

2003-07-15 Thread _Chris McKeever_
There is a personalization settings, look back in the archives a bit, it allows you to add email address per email and I think a few other variables, there may do the trick you are looking for. There was a posting a few days ago regarding this, it is sometimes also listed with discussion on VERPS

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman !!

2002-12-31 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
I don't know anything about Ensim, but if it's even remotely Unix-y, you should be able to do an "altinstall" of Python 2.2.2 in /usr/local. E.g.: ./configure make make altinstall Then when you configure Mailman, use --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.2 Or stick with Mailman 2.0.1

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman

2002-06-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:37:31PM -0400, Tony O wrote: > Is there a limit to the number of subscribers the Mailman mailing list can > have? No, but the web interface gets noticeably slower when you start having several tens of thousands. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security ...

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about Mailman

2001-12-05 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:29:23 -0800 (PST) George Blazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please tell me ? does Mailman work for Win 2000? Not currently, and no current plans or interest in that direction. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my me