Re: [Mailman-Users] HA: how to avoid mailmanSite list creation

2005-08-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for your reply, > > 1) Maybe someone could tell me if there is a way to avoid creating > "mailman" list and still run mailman properly? See FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.025.htp. You need to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List Config

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Sujay Thomas wrote: > 1. Subscribers send mail to the mailing list address. > 2. Everyone in the mailing list gets this message. > 3. Any replies made to the messages get sent to everyone as well. > > Right now it doesn't do this and I can't seem to figure out h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists to a new server

2005-10-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Dennis Putnam wrote: > Can someone point me to some documentation for migrating mailman > lists and archives to a new server? Thanks. > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py While the search engine appears to be out of service, the index isn't.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List: Only administrator / owner of list shall be allowed to post

2005-10-31 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Oliver [K_nig] wrote: > Hello, > I want to set up a mailing list, where only the administrator / owner of list > shall be allowed to post messages to the list. How do I configure this? please check the FAQ, url is below. (look for 'announce only' or some such)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Questions about Mailman

2005-11-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hi, In a flurry of recycled electrons, Nelly Yusupova wrote: > I am a newbie to mailman but I can not figure out how to > 1. Create an announce only list That's a FAQ. > 2. Automatically subscribe registrants to our lists using a script. > For example, when someone becomes a member of our org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Different servers

2005-11-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Benjamin Mack wrote: > So, the hardest part was actually the rewriting of sendmail, which does > not work quite well yet. Maybe I should switch to exim or so. If you are going to switch MTAs, seriously think about Postfix. z! --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce List (nOOb Question)

2005-11-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Ken at Meancode Media wrote: > Where is the setting for an announce list? Thanks! In the FAQ? > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Please check there. z! -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] having trouble getting webpages to come up

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Eric Evans wrote: > No, we're definitely not using any rewriting rules. What I'd really like > to know is, what exactly is it that connects Mailman to Apache? Is it just > that one ScriptAlias statement in the httpd.conf? If so, then how exactly > how does

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uhhuh, my GID blues goes on... :(

2005-11-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Niemi Hannu wrote: > I have two sets of the lists: > > 1) Lists that operate all right, when /etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is > 65533(nobody> ("vintage lists") > 2) Lists that operate all right, when /etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is > 67 (mailman) (newly create

Re: [Mailman-Users] Quick question ..

2005-11-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Rob Poe wrote: > I'm running Mailman for a list, and one of my subscribers is getting > this message from spamalert.net > > (VIRUS) Re: [CWC] Fuel Tank Removal >Received: Wednesday, Nov 23, 2005 at 9:03pm >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (removed)

Re: [Mailman-Users] how many mailman subscribers?

2005-12-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How many users (subscribers) can Mailman handle? It's been suggested to >me that if you have over 1500 users, that one should consider using L-Soft's >Listserv. Can anyone comment on there experience with Mailman and how many >users i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman complie errors again

2005-12-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Elvis Fernandes wrote: > I am compiling mailman-2.1.5 on Solaris10 (SPARC) with gcc 3.3.2 > When I do make install, I get the following fatal error: Mailman compiles itself. Are you compiling -python-? (That's what it looks like.) Sort of out of scope for this l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Installation Owner

2005-12-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Kory Wheatley wrote: > I have a very critical question. I installed "Mailman 2.1.6" under > a user account called "wheakory" and this account needs to be removed > off of our system fast. I would like to change ownership of the Mailman > installer owner to "ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up your mailing list

2006-01-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Hujjah 313 wrote: > Is there a feature on mailman whereby we can backup our mailing list on hard > disk? Well, they're already on the server's hard disks. If you want to back up the lists, all you need to do is copy them, they're in the mailman/lists dir. Given

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman or postfix problem?

2006-01-04 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Thomas Waters wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post rxtesttuesday". Command > output: Group > mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be > executed as > group "mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help setting up a list

2006-01-07 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Phillips wrote: > How do I set up a list so it is for announcements only? The recipients can > -- > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why are footers sent as attachments?

2006-01-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Strictly speaking, this depends on the MUA, too. In the message I'm > replying to Gnus added no less than 16 clickable items, including > everything in the footer (every line except the title "Mailman-Users > mailing list"). It's a

Re: [Mailman-Users] about python

2006-02-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, reema jamil wrote: > hello, > > I want a detailed tutorial on python. Also want to know that does this > language support pointers, enumeration, record ,union , abstract data types > etc... You might try http://www.python.org/ and possibly http://wiki.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails With Attachments

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Marlowe McClasky wrote: > We are unable to send an email with an attached file. Can it be done? Make the attachment smaller than 40k. (Or better, put the file on a web site and send the URL.) > We receive the following error message: > -- > Your mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not a list member notification email

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Lawrence Bowie wrote: > > > > 3) When typing, mailq, on the server, it does not list the corresponding > > held messages. These are message Mailman has in its qfiles that PostFix > > does not know about. > In which qfiles? If

Re: [Mailman-Users] GMane?

2006-02-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
All this discussion is starting to sound like a game of "Who struck John?" (BTW, before this, I'd never heard of Gmane.) Taking what everyone's said a face value, Gmane provides a service that some people like. The admins/owners of the MM list don't like Gmane's policies, thus don't want to part

Re: [Mailman-Users] One way mailing list

2006-02-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Steven Jones wrote: > What would be the right settings for a mailing list where one or two > people post to a list of subscribers but those subscribers cannot post > themselves to the list? Search the FAQ for announcement or one-way lists. z! ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Batch Processing

2006-03-29 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Dana Nevins wrote: > I have an announcement list with 45,000 members, when I send an email not > only does it severely overload the server but it also gets blocked from > performing DNS lookups after the first few thousand lookups. Which MTA are you using? You

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Do the other scripts in /etc/cron.daily run? > > This is not the normal way to run a script with cron. The normal way is > to put an entry in the crontab of the user that specifies what to run > and when. See 'man crontab' and 'man 5 crontab

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help me; What serve my needs???

2006-04-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: > Somtimes over 10 mail. It is only needed to send the mail out. And > the most important is the speed. > Is there another listsoftware there is better for "oneway maling" ??? Maybe, but mailman does it quite well. > and how many mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is your injection speed???

2006-04-07 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: > I would like to know how fast mailman can inject mails to the postfix > mail spool?? I think the bigger question is usually how fast can postfix deliver the messages. Mailman will batch the addresses it sends to the MTA, I think that 500

Re: [Mailman-Users] A little help please

2006-04-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Said Sr Manager decided that they did not like the name we had chosen for our > domain, so they asked us to change it. When we changed it, the mail does not > work. Sigh. > I can launch the web pages, add subtract, modify and view t

Re: [Mailman-Users] No Mailman web pages appear.

2006-04-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Andy wrote: > Thanks for your reply. The admin tried everything he could and it still does > not work. He has virtual hosts, and he suspects that perhaps Mailman cannot > work with virtual hosts, only with proper WWW servers. > Can you please confirm? What is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner restarts every 15 minutes

2006-05-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Joern Allmers wrote: > Mailman works great and everything could be fine if not it was restarting > every 15 minutes: Perchange, is qrunner being run every 15 minutes in a cron job? Newer mailmans just start qrunner once at boot time and it deals with it's own s

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner restarts every 15 minutes

2006-05-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Joern Allmers wrote: > > Perchange, is qrunner being run every 15 minutes in a cron job? Newer > > mailmans just start qrunner once at boot time and it deals with it's own > > scheduling. > > I don't think so. In cron.d theres no entry for it. Any idea why the qr

Re: [Mailman-Users] one way or no-reply list

2006-05-04 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lucy Rasmussen wrote: > sent to all list members. Is there any way that I can make this list > a "no response" list? Alternatively, is there a way that I can have > responses posted to me for screening? Thanks for your help. I > suppose an alternative is t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom footer based on sender's email

2006-05-04 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Rob Jackson wrote: > Was hoping to use some regular expression and just remove some lines. The > lines I need to remove will always be the same. The problem is that it won't always the the same. As you see below, now the footer has "> " in front of each line.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jim Popovitch wrote: > I am no Python expert either, but i am a competent perl and C++ > programmer. After about 4 years of tweaking and changing Python code, > I've learned to appreciate it's power, but also it's simplicity. Python > is a very well designed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Members list settings

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > I prefer however to think in terms of the RFEs on this which ask for > various things from simply exposing the parameter in the web interface > to providing a radio button selection (e.g. 20, 50, 100, all) on the > pages to paginating without

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman minimal (memory) requirements?

2006-07-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > I'm trying to run mailman 2.1.8 on a system with only 32 MB RAM (and > > ~100 MB swap). > So, at an absolute minimum, this machine would require ~236MB swap space > and ~56MB of real RAM, plus the OS requirem

Re: [Mailman-Users] implicit destination

2006-07-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Dr. John Caccavale wrote: > I just cannot seem to get a workable solution to a problem I am having > with Mailman. Although the list is set up to be unmoderated, I am still > getting message to "accept or deny" a message from members. The reason > is always the sa

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Ki Song wrote: > Question: Does Horde and/or Squirrel Mail send HTML Mail that is sent as > source code? I've found that these programs allow me to send HTML email that > is already FORMATTED, but I want to be able to just copy/paste HTML code > from an HTML edit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fedora 5/Mailman: Lot of memory being used while sending email

2006-07-21 Thread Carl Zwanzig
B.G. Mahesh wrote: > When we post anything on a list that has about 360k email ids, python is > using 4GB of memory > [2 GB physical and 2 GB of virtual] and the process is taking a long time > [to send out emails] > > How do I fine tune it? You might start with FAQ 4.11 and possibly the approp

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman export/import

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, glgavpc wrote: > How do you export the mail list from one server and import it into another??? you check the FAQ? (or the message archive) > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py z! -- Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Exporting Lists

2006-07-26 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Aaron Oliver wrote: > Hopefully someone can help me out. The list server that is currently in >use in our organization has completely stopped sending e-mails. It has been >restarted several times and will no longer function like it should. What doesn't work

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with default domain

2006-08-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Kim Leandersson wrote: > My problem is that when the server was being installed someone > misspelled the hostname so it was entered as plisk.example.com instead > of plesk.example.com. This error are now corrected, but somewhere in the > mailman installation the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jay Vaagen wrote: > If I understand all this correctly, there's no current feature that will > allow mailman to send mail from the correct virtual domain's hostname, and > not localhost.. correct? As I understand the current implimentation of virtual domains, mu

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

2006-09-16 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: > On 9/16/06 11:32 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > > If the Gmane folks had actually come to us first, we might well have > > approved their request to set up a gateway. > So because you feel personally offended, you choose to punish all > M

Re: [Mailman-Users] invalid checksum while doing portinstall

2006-09-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > I have a problem installing mailman under FreeBSD 6.1. When I go to ports > to install mailman, it gives me an error message about invalid checksum. > Could anyone offer any advice on how to install mailman? I tried deleting > the dis

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jon Forrest wrote: > Maybe I'm old fashioned, but building from source can sometimes > be a good way to go here. It's not very hard, and you learn more > about the package you're building. This can help a lot of something > goes wrong because then you don't see t

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Gadi Evron wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Patrick Bogen wrote: > > Bearing that in mind, you shouldn't be using moderation as a > > first-line anti-spam defense. Your MTA should be tagging emails as > > spam (e.g., using Spamassassin, or something better suited to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Mac OS X Server 10.3: Outgoingmessagesstuck in qrunner/in folder

2006-12-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
[not speaking for Mark, Barry, or really anyone but me] This is really the classic IT problem of unsupported configurations. In a flurry of recycled electrons, Pierre Igot wrote: > But the reality was that, in all likelihood, this was a pretty basic > problem that had to do with Mailman itself

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Mac OS X Server 10.3: Outgoing messagesstuck in qrunner/in folder

2006-12-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: > Well, I updated the listinfo page for mailman-users in three places. > The first paragraph now reads: > > This mailing list is for users and other parties interested > in the Mailman mailing list management system, as provided

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating mailman config

2007-01-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Peter Matulis wrote: > I am looking for guidance on migrating a mailman setup to a separate > server. Is it better to start fresh? Install 2.1.9 on the new server. Read FAQ 3.4 and check this list's archive, it was discussed in the last couple of months. z! --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Daylight savings

2007-02-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jewel wrote: > Still a newbie and was concerned about the daylight savings time issue. > The server I have which runs Mailman only runs Mailman and nothing > else. Will I need to install a patch or will Mailman not be affected > with the time change? Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not going to all members

2007-03-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Paul Tomblin wrote: > Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Please keep conversations on the list unless there are specific privacy > > concerns. > > I know it's a contentious issue, but if you want conversations to continue > on the list then you should m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Splitting Subject

2007-05-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: > Am having a problem where Mailman is splitting a subject and adding a "\n" > and what seems to be a tab in the subject line in the mail logs.(The tab is > what can be seen in the headers after the message is sent.) This of course, >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Splitting Subject

2007-05-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: > I saw that, but it is not really an answer as te problem is that it is > inserting a > TAB, not whitespace, and that is what is causing the problem. A carriage > return and spaces would be fine. The tab is what most clients cannot >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: problem in Makefile for mailman

2007-08-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > This is not our Makefile. I can only guess that it is a FreeBSD port > Makefile. > > > But after installation (FreeBSD 6.2, /usr/ports/mail/mailman) when I send Yep, it's a FreeBSD port. While I run both free and open bsd, I've found that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: problem in Makefile for mailman

2007-08-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Geo wrote: > >I installed FreeBSD6.2 by FTP from ftp.freebsd.org and installed Mailman > This is not our Makefile. We don't know what it looks like. We can't > tell you how to make it work. To repeat myself, the solution is to -not- use the

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/3/2011 4:56 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: The servers are all vps'es with 256 ram.. vps? If you mean they're vertual servers, then at least give them more RAM! (Have you watched the processes with top while running? Where are the -actual- bottlenecks?) my question is, is this a good solutio

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/3/2011 9:10 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: I don't want to use the throttling patch as it's not stable and not tested before .. so I have 2 ways, either rebooting the servers like I'm doing now, or splitting the lists into smaller ones and send to bunch of small lists every our .. what do u think

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Configuration..

2011-06-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/25/2011 11:15 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: SMTP_MAX_RCPTS =5 WOULD BE OK? OR SHOULD I REDUCE OR INCREASE IT FOR HOTMAIL AND YAHOO TO ACCEPT OUR MESSAGES? Have you read the FAQ sections on performance and searched the archive for discussions? There have been a few about this. Can your ISP deal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about "Reply to All"

2011-09-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
You could filter messages discarding anything with the X-BeenThere header, this would prevent any message that came out of mailman from being processed again. OTOH I suspect that an announce-only list would be preferable. z! -- Mailman-User

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem sending multiple listserv commands via email

2011-11-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 11/1/2011 12:29 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: In the case below, the first command attempted to subscribe an address which is already a member so it failed and the remaining commands were unprocessed. Why is that an error? I would expect it to ignored, just like setting a property to it's curren

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to export and import a mailman members list?

2011-12-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 11/30/2011 11:56 PM, Levent Elpen wrote: How to export and import a mailman members list? And how I can restore a members list on a new server from a mailman list backup? If you have shell access, you can usually copy the entire list directory to the new server, which will get you members

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 1/20/2012 1:05 AM, Mailman Admin wrote: On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: Does anyone know a way around the emailed passwords issue in Mailman, clever hacks, certain plugins, or a timeline for Mailman 3's release? You can stop the cronjob used to email reminders. With this you don't e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and delivery of messages

2012-01-28 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 1/27/2012 8:21 AM, Mallory S Woods II wrote: I added a gmail account to the list so that I could test to see if the message had gone through. Please refer to the FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/I+use+Gmail-Googlemail%2C+but+I+can%27t+tell+if+any+of+my+messages+have+been+posted+to+the

Re: [Mailman-Users] slow "out" queue

2012-02-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/1/2012 3:57 PM, Anil Jangity wrote: I have these set in mm_cfg.py: SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 15 SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION = 50 It seems Qrunner isn't honoring those? Did you restart the qrunners after changing those settings? z! -- Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] confused by group mismatch

2012-04-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 4/30/2012 11:02 AM, Chad Rebuck wrote: I've had a list running fine for months, but after I restored my complete disk from backup I am getting this message when posting to the list: : Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post a2-16v-list". Command output: Group

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to approve messages

2012-09-07 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 9/7/2012 12:05 AM, Alex TW LAM wrote: But after they entered "Approved " in the first line of the confirm mail (email command). Nothing would happened, list members would not receive posted, nor would the moderator received "Confirmation succeeded" message. Did they change email clients or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 10/22/2012 11:55 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I recently got 30 new comments on my blog, all of which were spam. And of course I'm using a CAPTCHA there. So Brad's point is probably valid. I don't like captcha's either, and one of their problems is that they're so easy to see programatically

Re: [Mailman-Users] POST based subscribe attacks

2012-10-29 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 10/28/2012 1:27 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: Alternately, is anyone aware of any form of CAPTCHA protection which can be applied to Mailman? There was a recent thread that discussed this very thing: starting at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg61769.html. z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Messages

2013-01-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 1/6/2013 11:31 AM, David Andrews wrote: My Mailman system sends out duplicate (two copies) of some administrative-type messages. There are two password reminder messages sent out each month, two copies of the once-a-day message that announces pending messages in a list, and two messages each

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachment with welcome message

2013-02-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/12/2013 6:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:17:06 +0530 "Amit Bhatt" wrote: I wish to send an attached file with list guidelines via welcome Does it need to be an attachment? Why not enter the guidelines into the body of the message as plain text? That was my first th

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange problem

2013-03-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/13/2013 8:01 AM, Bruce Harrison wrote: All of a sudden it seems that mailman is adding an address to the CC field. It's a bad address, of the form xxx...@mailman.utm.edu (this is our mailman box). Are you sure it's mailman? Unless there's some rewriting going on, that's done by the MUA.

Re: [Mailman-Users] receive your own posts problem

2013-04-10 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hi, On 4/10/2013 9:15 AM, Neil Anuskiewicz wrote: I just setup a small mailman list (hosted by Bluehost) for a small organization. I've set "Receive your own posts to the list?" to yes but i'm still not receiving my own posts. I'm wondering how might go about resolving this issue? Resolve it

[Mailman-Users] Reporting messages counts/size by user

2013-12-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hi, This came up on another list I read- is there any relatively simple way to (a) report individual message activity to a user and (b) temporarily moderate a user when a count is exceeded? The first would send an email to the user when they've exceeded a threshold* in a given period. *mes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reporting messages counts/size by user

2013-12-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 12/13/2013 9:40 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: TBH: it sounds as though you may be trying to solve a social problem, not a technological one. Yep, it's a social/behavioral problem, but social methods (i.e. "trim your messages", "(whine) it's too hard on an ipad") haven't worked. z! -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-Members Get Messages

2014-03-20 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/20/2014 11:05 AM, Peter Fiala - WCASA wrote: Someone emails me and requests to be taken off the list. I go to remove them and they are not members. They confirm that they are not on the list under any other email address. How could this possibly happen? Have you checked both the mailman an

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-26 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/26/2014 3:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'd be inclined to chose Postfix over Exim simply because Postfix is more popular, and new things (e.g. Mailman 3) tend to be implemented first for Postfix. FWIW, I found postfix to be generally easier to deal with than the others. And the config files

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/27/2014 2:48 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: I don't know if it's down to popularity or not, but I notice far more questions on this list concerning Postfix than I do exim. I suspect it's due to installed base- my very unscientific survey says that there are far more sendmail and postfix sites

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password reminders

2014-08-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 8/1/2014 9:11 AM, Peter Brooks wrote: Does anybody know why mailman stores passwords in clear text? Because it was easy? http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Mailman+2.1+Members+Manual 6 Passwords Do NOT use a valuable password for Mailman, since it can be sent in plain text to you. Are th

Re: [Mailman-Users] New To Mailman

2014-08-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 8/9/2014 5:23 AM, Anthony (N2KI) wrote: As of late, many of the messages that have been sent range from getting marked by gmail as spam to completely bounced by Verizon (using the phone number @ vtext.com syntax).My thought was to find a different/alternate email server program that I c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderation notifications for the sender?

2014-09-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 9/14/2014 10:53 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: There is no explicit option per se, but the sender should receive a copy of the post or an acknowledgment if the sender's "Receive acknowledgement mail when you send mail to the list?" option is Yes, at least if the sender is a list member. Unless the s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderation notifications for the sender?

2014-09-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 9/15/2014 8:35 AM, christian studer wrote: And then there is inofficial stuff (Party invites mostly) and accidental mails from members of one list to one or multiple other lists. Those mails are hitting moderation, I remove the accidental stuff and let the party invites through. But the sende

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM-2.1.12 Bug (non critical)

2009-05-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Please let me know specifically what you would like to see instead. Really, I'd prefer a button to select from regex or text search. That aside, a note at the top of the box stating this is *not* a text search, see "help" for mor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman with Multi Mail Server

2009-10-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hien HUYNH HUU wrote: Dear all, Could Mailman be configured with multi mail server (at least 2 mail server) at the same time ? So that It can transfer huge numbers of emails at the same time . If yes, please let me know how to configure It. You really don't need to do that. Have you read the Pe

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to monitor mailman transaction

2009-11-11 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hien HUYNH HUU wrote: Dear all, How can we monitor mailman transaction with Mail Server ? It means how could we know that how many email are delivered from mailman to mail server at a time point ? I check qfile/out but It didn't show exactly . You can either look at mailman's logs, at the MTA's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Increasing the Speed of Email Delivery

2009-12-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Lots of it depends on the MTA (general opinion is that postfix seems to be the fastest), connectivity, and list settings (personalized email will take much longer). Check out the FAQ for performance, and as Adam mentioned, the list archives) FWIW, before you change hardware, have you looked

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up redundant mailing lists in OS X SnowLeopard.

2010-01-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
JRC Groups wrote: Is there a way to set-up user preferences so that every user can have its subscription set to either receive or block attachments ? This would make things a lot easier and allow me to address this issue very easily. It might be easier to achieve with user education. Many 'mod

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 1/19/2010 8:11 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: If you mean that Mailman could provide NNTP access to it's message store then that would be great !!! Here's the catch- mailman is a mailing list manager (or remailer, if you prefer), not a message storage system, so it doesn't -have- a persistent

Re: [Mailman-Users] distributing load to multiple server for announce-only list.

2010-02-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/19/2010 6:34 PM, bob 001 wrote: Can someone suggest distributed server configuration of fairly large (50k+ messages ) announce only list? Is it possible to distribute such load? Or it should be done at postfix level? Any suggestions? Have you looked at the performance FAQ? http://wiki

Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/lib/mailman/archives/private 90% full

2010-02-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 2/24/2010 3:27 PM, Sandi Gruver wrote: So I go in and manually gzip the.mbox/.mbox file, but that doesn't stop the growth. Yesterday I read about not gzipping the/2009-December.txt files so turned that off in mailman's cron. But ... The only way to stop an archive from growing is to stop ar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outlook Vote Buttons vs Mailman

2010-03-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 3/2/2010 4:33 AM, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: Is it correct to assume that as soon as a message leaves the Exchange system and is processed by another mailer with Mailman, that voting buttons created in Outlook are cut off? If the voting buttons are implemented with html (or ot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block reply to all

2010-04-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 4/30/2010 7:23 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Schwartz, Robert - IS: Does anyone know a way to block a reply to all? I would like my users to not be able to reply to all to post a message. If the want to post a message, they should post it not just reply to a previous message. Set the rep

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
AFAICT, your option is Thunderbird. (I haven't verified all of your requirements, though.) Other than Eudora and Outlook/Entourage, what have you looked at and what's been discarded? z! -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
One thing I will mention about thunderbird- IMNSHO, version 3 is bad news. I use it, but there are several obvious things that don't work well or correctly (list omitted as being off-topic). I haven't been annoyed enough to drop back a version, but some people have. Go with version 2 unless

Re: [Mailman-Users] Maximum number of members per list

2010-06-07 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/7/2010 4:59 AM, J.A. Terranson wrote: Are you suggesting bolting on an SNMP interface? That *would* be very useful indeed, especially for resellers of mailman facilities. Not speaking for the mailman developers, IMHO doing an snmp interface would be a colossal time sink. It would also be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is Mailman right for us?

2010-07-21 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 7/21/2010 2:12 AM, Alison Epstein wrote: We're considering using Mailman for our organization's listservs. But I'm having trouble finding a demo to try or some screen snapshots so that I can even determine if this is the right software for us. There is no demo, but since it's free, all you h

Re: [Mailman-Users] network pressure ..

2010-08-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 8/15/2010 6:22 PM, Khalil Abbas wrote: godaddy has told me that my server is making a pressure on their network and causing them problems because its sending too much data to the relay system very fast, What Godaddy is telling you is that their mail servers are either underpowered or impro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam emails

2010-12-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 12/8/2010 6:52 AM, Schwartz, Robert - IS wrote: Recently I've started receiving spam messages submitted to by mailing list. How can I reject all email not submitted by members without having to add them to a list? There's an admin check box to reject & discard non-member messages. Check th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Are any attachments ok to allow on a listserv?

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
FWIW, all the lists I operate have a 40-100kb message size limit. The list join message tells the users about this and that I will silently drop their large msgs if they send too many of them (and I/we don't accept anything more than about 300-400kb, anyway). I've also used a reject message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Detecting mail with multiple From: lines

2011-05-22 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 5/22/2011 8:44 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: Do you mean to say that the people at CSAIL ought to switch to using SpamAssasin instead of filtering in Mailman? Use the best tool for each job, and know that the Swiss Army knife approach is usually not the best at anything. (Or, why filter out

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/1/2011 3:31 AM, Mollatt Ntini wrote: I think Ralf is right. Lower the process limit, else your load will stay on high and you may lose or end up having duplicated messages. Maybe other problems too. Defintely. If you don't have the resources for instant use, you need to get them or use

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