Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-08 Thread Larry Kuenning
name) into the list database where Mailman will find it. I'm still new to Mailman and Python, though I've done various other sorts of Unix programming (including writing my own software for the previous incarnation of my mailing lists, using shellscripts). -- La

[Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-08 Thread Larry Kuenning
by uname). From the generic hardware name and the fact that they call it a VPS I suppose this is a virtual machine running on some more powerful kind of hardware. Thanks, -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-08 Thread Larry Kuenning
to show up. On rerunning dumpdb I find that host_name has been correct for a day or two now and the problem must be somewhere else. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-08 Thread Larry Kuenning
s? I see a .pyc and a .pyo next to it in the ~mailman/Mailman directory. I don't know anything yet about compiling Python files. If I had landed in this system after careful planning, probably I would have learned more about Postfix and Mailman before starting to use it. Unfortunately

Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-09 Thread Larry Kuenning
that, I wonder if it would do any good to delete the site list from the command line and recreate it using Plesk (which seems to produce usable lists on this system). But can this be done safely? Doesn't it say somewhere that Mailman won't run if the site list doesn't exist? (

Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-10 Thread Larry Kuenning
omplains that aliases.db.db is missing. The same syntax works for postmap. Both programs have reasonable man pages. More on the results in an upcoming reply to Mark Sapiro. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-10 Thread Larry Kuenning
k. It is safe as long as it doesn't take forever and isn't done when cron/mailpasswds is running as that 'sends from' the site list and requires it. I see cron/mailpasswds is supposed to run on the first of each month. It wasn't done this m

Re: [Mailman-Users] [SOLVED] no mail delivery to site list

2013-05-10 Thread Larry Kuenning
are as they should be. So at any rate Plesk doesn't throw away data it finds in those files that it didn't put there. Thanks for all your help! -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.

[Mailman-Users] Importing old archives into Mailman

2013-05-10 Thread Larry Kuenning
this the first post on the list, followed by a silence of over 40 years. I went back and corrected the date as well as I could and then indexed the archive all over again. Moral: You can import old mbox files to a Mailman archive, but be sure to clean up the headers before you generate the i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing old archives into Mailman

2013-05-10 Thread Larry Kuenning
uot;>" would be perceived as clutter or as a mistaken attempt to indicate quotation. There's no law that says what was once an mbox file has to remain an mbox file forever if nobody's going to read it except in a notepad or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello all - mailman down after power failure and hard shutdown

2013-06-08 Thread Larry Kuenning
automatically on reboot. That should be an elementary question but I'm still not familiar with all these sysadmin tasks.) -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello all - mailman down after power failure and hard shutdown

2013-06-08 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 6/8/2013 8:52 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-06-08 8:10 AM, Larry Kuenning wrote: Is mailman possibly not running? Try this: ps -A | grep mailmanctl If that gives blank output, try this: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start Not blank - but what does the question mark mean? # ps -A

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ordering of messages in the moderation queue by date?

2013-06-17 Thread Larry Kuenning
messages from a pre-Mailman incarnation of a list.) -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Secur

Re: [Mailman-Users] converting an e-mail discussion to a list (with existing archive)

2014-02-03 Thread Larry Kuenning
had been sent at the moment when Mailman is indexing the archive. At least this is what happened for me when I tried a somewhat similar project. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Kuenning
privately will send their replies to Larry List-Admin instead of Sonia Subscriber if they aren't careful (and some of them won't be). The list admin can forward these replies, but in a few cases they may contain confidential material that the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 4/16/2014 1:57 PM, Larry Kuenning wrote: Query: On a very low-traffic mailing list (i.e. one where the list admin doesn't think it too much trouble), would it be a reasonable workaround for the list admin to paste the content of a message-to-be-moderated (i.e. one From: a yahoo ad

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Kuenning
what else develops.) -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Excessive bounces to list members on my list

2014-04-30 Thread Larry Kuenning
@aol address posts to a Yahoo group. Will it run afoul of AOL's p=reject policy? If I still had an AOL address I'd be tempted to try this just to see what happens. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.18 internal documentation suggestions

2014-05-02 Thread Larry Kuenning
s that onlinegroups.net miscopied the percentage from the AOL blog! The figure given by AOL is 2%. (Discovered because I'm a compulsive looker-up of sources) -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pytho

Re: [Mailman-Users] Formatting the Welcome Message

2014-06-11 Thread Larry Kuenning
around this _by putting extra markers_ _at the end of the first line and the beginning of the second_. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Subscribers Management

2014-07-06 Thread Larry Kuenning
s (except in a list that's so small it shows its whole membership automatically in the web interface). A more restrictive search term (such as "@yahoo") does work but of course doesn't find all members. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-21 Thread Larry Kuenning
n. Even though some people expect their computers to think for them. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list

Re: [Mailman-Users] View a user's subscription options

2015-12-03 Thread Larry Kuenning
args formatter=optparse.IndentedHelpFormatter()) TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'epilog' This is under Python 2.4.3. (Should the file be called user_options or user_options.py? I tried it both ways and got the same result.) -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpres

Re: [Mailman-Users] Many users unsubscribed at once (not by me)

2015-12-13 Thread Larry Kuenning
his because I'm not sure I can successfully upgrade Mailman on a Plesk system that I don't really understand; and it's feasible because I have only two very low-volume lists. I guess I now have to do the same with Hotmail users?) -- La

Re: [Mailman-Users] Many users unsubscribed at once (not by me)

2015-12-13 Thread Larry Kuenning
is practice in April 2014) but with messages originating on Hotmail as well. Can anyone check that Hotmail has published a "p=reject" DMARC policy? -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

2016-11-13 Thread Larry Kuenning
r probably better: ^[^@]+@[^@]+\.top$ -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing MTAs on Mailman box

2016-11-23 Thread Larry Kuenning
July 2014. -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

[Mailman-Users] individual moderation notices stopped suddenly

2017-09-03 Thread Larry Kuenning
be better off if I could upgrade from 2.1.9 to something that can cope with DMARC, but this is a Plesk setup and I'm afraid to mess with it for fear of breaking something. Any advice about this would be welcome but isn't the main subject of this query. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] individual moderation notices stopped suddenly

2017-09-03 Thread Larry Kuenning
;emergency moderation," and there are no single-post notices for posts that are moderated for that reason only. I suppose this means that the only way to get immediate notification of every single post is to set all subscribers to moderated status? -- Larry Kuenning la

Re: [Mailman-Users] individual moderation notices stopped suddenly

2017-09-03 Thread Larry Kuenning
e old setting. Thanks, I guess my technical questions have been answered (apart from the probably unanswerable matter of how to get Plesk to accept a recent version of mailman). -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] individual moderation notices stopped suddenly

2017-09-04 Thread Larry Kuenning
one for another message and trying to substitute data from the deleted message. This doesn't seem to create anything mailman is willing to use (unsurprisingly, since I don't understand mailman's internal data storage). -- Larry Kuenning la...@qhpress.org --