[Mailman-Users] Nothing gets archived...

2003-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
es, archive file source is public, archive date is when the mail claims and new volumes should be started monthly. What am I missing? Thx, -- Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.musi-cal.com/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

RE: [Mailman-Users] Nothing gets archived...

2003-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Skip> I've been using Mailman for a couple years to run several small Skip> private, non-archived mailing lists. Today, I tried creating a Skip> public, archived mailing list for the first time. The list mail Skip> comes and goes just fine, but nothing turns up in the archives as

[Mailman-Users] pending_subscriptions.db format?

2003-10-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
ubscriptions.db")) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/pickle.py", line 982, in load return Unpickler(file).load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/pickle.py", line 597, in load

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with posts from non-subscribers efficiently

2003-10-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
quot;Discard" button for a couple of hundred rubbish messages. I wrote the attached script during the latest worm debacle. Worked well for me to keep the python-help list cleaned out. At the height of the furor, I was discarding over 1,000 messages per day. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs

Re: [Mailman-Users] ban_list example?

2003-10-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
David> I tried ... David> [EMAIL PROTECTED] David> [EMAIL PROTECTED] David> ... but got an invalid value error. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http://spam

Re: [Mailman-Users] ban_list example?

2003-10-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
g and should never be used in a regex Scott> for the regex libraries with which I am familiar. I realized it was superfluous shortly after posting. I was focusing on the missing '.' (really, just about anything) in the OP's post. "@xyz.com" should be sufficient, u

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not knowing what address is subscribed

2003-10-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
hile the message is still on mail.python.org as well as in #4 once it gets to dolly1.pobox.com. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http://spambayes.sf.net/ -- Mailman-Users mailing l

Re: [Mailman-Users] dump the queue??

2003-10-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
Amanda> 2) some kind of queue dump at the command line side, so that as Amanda>the site administrator I can do that for someone, just clear Amanda>out their whole queue if it got clogged up and they just want Amanda>to ditch everything in it. I posted my mmdiscard.py s

[Mailman-Users] Auto-discard notifications?

2003-10-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
x27;t seem that either applies. (Both pages suggest that I should get a reason along with any messages forwarded to me.) Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http://s

[Mailman-Users] how is content filtered in the presence of multipart/alternative?

2003-10-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
text/plain convert_html_to_plaintext: Yes if a message is sent as multipart/alternative and it contains one text/plain and one text/html section, is the text/html section deleted or just stripped of HTML tags and retained as (a roughly duplicate) text/plain section? Thx, -- Skip Montanar

[Mailman-Users] Mailman doesn't understand email address details?

2001-12-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
27;t, however. This makes it impossible to use dated addresses with closed mailing lists. Any chance that Mailman will recognize such addresses in the future? -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist

Re: [Mailman-Users] Premature End of Headers

2002-01-04 Thread Skip Montanaro
#x27; in the browser window. Scott> in httpd/error.log I receive the 'Premature end of headers' error, Scott> I recieve no error in syslog (messages) or maillog. What's the full traceback? It should be in error.log and will probably help pinpoint the source of th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Premature End of Headers

2002-01-04 Thread Skip Montanaro
Scott> Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 48, GOT gid 501. (Reconfigure Scott> to take 501?) Scott> Where 46 = GID of apache . Did your apache runtime GID change? Sounds like Mailman needs to be reconfigured with the correct --with-* flags and reinstalled. -- Skip

[Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
n instead of having to go back and forth between the bounce log and the membership management pages unchecking some and leaving others alone. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> I would find it helpful if mailman distinguished addresses for users >> asking to go "no mail" and bouncing addresses mailman disabled. Dan> Part of 2.1 Praise ! Thx, Skip -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML formatting in digests

2002-02-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
think) can't, however. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] AOL disabling Reply All button - is this unique?

2002-03-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
bling the Reply All button? That is, is it something AOL doesn't like about Mailman or is it something specific to this user? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
In particular, you can use the Web site to have your password sent to your delivery address. ... The following commands are valid: subscribe [password] [digest-option] [address=] ... unsubscribe [address] ... ... -- Skip Montanaro ([EM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mm friendly ISP/web host?

2002-03-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
0 subscribers. If you want to run more mailing lists or run a list with more users you can for an extra fee. I have a Hostway account, but have not used Mailman there and have no financial interest, yadda, yadda, yadda. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - ht

[Mailman-Users] stripmime.pl doesn't?

2002-03-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
t digest I can't see that stripmime.pl did anything. None of the five messages was lost, but none appear to have been altered in any way. Am I perhaps missing something? I thought it's main thing was to zap HTML attachments. Thx, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: stripmime.pl doesn't?

2002-03-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
Alex, Thanks for the reply and the test case. I verified that it seems to do the right thing when fed your mimehtml test case or one of my test messages at the shell prompt. I will have to check into things deeper to see what's going on w/ mailman. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: stripmime

2002-03-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
A/MLM combination, but it might be worth mentioning this trick related to sendmail on your web page. Thanks for the help, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] use of MIME stripping plugins

2002-04-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
strips everything through the last pipe character. You need to write a little shell script that does the above piping and make it the target of the alias. That said, I have no idea if this is the cause of your problems, but it might be worth one last try before throwing in the towel on the

[Mailman-Users] struggling with "minor" mailman upgrade

2001-12-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
an 2.0.6. After the upgrade I fell back to sendmail 8.11.6 and my problems began. Today I installed sendmail 8.12.1 and upgraded to mailman 2.0.8. Any suggestions appreciated... -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] struggling with "minor" mailman upgrade

2001-12-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
suggestions, however, smsrh was compiled with /etc/smrsh as the link directory and /etc/smrsh/wrapper is a symlink to /home/mailman/mail/wrapper already. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillis

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
or people who choose to read the digest version of your list? -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] loops with "out of office/vacation" autoresponders

2001-12-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
20-30 instances of such bad responders. Now that your users have seen the potential damage from such runaway responders, you might explain to them that the reply-to-all setup had a hand in this debacle and ask them if they'd prefer tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Cron /usr/bin/python/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs]

2001-12-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
ngth of 5. To figure out what size it is, you might try this: stuff = mlist.GetRecord(id) print ">> output:", stuff when, addr, passwd, digest, lang = stuff -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] email looping - autoresponders - how to stop it?

2003-10-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
> email looping - autoresponders - how to stop it? I don't know if Mailman has any capability in this area. You can push things through procmail though and have it control the generation of the automatic response. I have a non-Mailman email alias which I manage this way. Its procmailrc fil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enquiry

2003-10-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
eck the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq05.002.htp Note that q&a was last updated over a year ago. YMMV. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message from Cron Daemon

2004-01-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
ot; for some of the regular monthly upkeep. Just create such a list in the usual fashion using bin/newlist and subscribe to it. Older versions of Mailman used to be happy with a "mailman" alias. For some reason that's no longer sufficient. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists stopped working

2004-01-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
ip 22599 0.0 0.0 1764 624 pts/1S11:46 0:00 egrep mailman Assuming you're on a Linux system and Mailman is properly installed, you might want to try (as root): /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailmanctl start -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Issue

2004-01-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
non-member email or check Lee> Discard for all messages? I'm sure there are other solutions by now, but awhile ago I wrote a simple script to do a bulk discard: http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/mmdiscard.py I've only ever used it with MM 2.1. YMMV with other versions. -- S

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-membr submissions & regex's

2004-01-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
them. It ain't Chris> working. The star isn't repeating anything. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. (Dunno if the ^ is required or not. It may perform match() instead of search() calls.) -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? htt

[Mailman-Users] pending subscriptions sent to -owner address not -admin address

2004-01-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
mailman request cedu" cedu-subscribe:"|/etc/smrsh/mailman subscribe cedu" cedu-unsubscribe: "|/etc/smrsh/mailman unsubscribe cedu" I suppose I could try changing cedu-owner to be an alias for cedu-admin. Do others do that? Thanks, -- Skip Mo

[Mailman-Users] "mailman" list - why can't it just be an alias?

2004-01-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
ust those who actually administer the mailman installation? That would be just me on this particular machine and is how I have it set up. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://spambayes.sf.net/ [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] What is the "mailman" mailing list used for?

2004-01-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
the FAQ at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.025.htp but it doesn't explain why a list (as opposed to a simple alias) is required. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://spamb

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to block spiders?

2004-01-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
any spiders/crawlers would look for it lower down. Instead, add a Disallow: rule which references /pipermail: User-agent: * Disallow: /pipermail/ -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http:

Re: [Mailman-Users] who command

2004-01-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
ss in tha last slot and click "Unsubscribe or edit options". On the page which is displayed there's an "Email my password to me" button. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://

[Mailman-Users] confused about -owner/-admin/-bounce addresses

2004-01-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
2.1 differences, I don't think that will help me much. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://spambayes.sf.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://m

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
hing like export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH make clean ./configure make make install I think that will get the #! lines adjusted to refer to /usr/local/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/python. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> Looks that way. RH 7.3 comes with Python 1.5.2 which definitely >> doesn't have the print >> fd gimmick. I believe Mailman needs at >> least 2.1. Just download the Python 2.3.3 tarfile, extract it and >> execute Todd> That's not really a bad idea, but you could also just

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reason: Message body is too big: 225276 bytes with a limit of 40 KB

2004-02-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
Steen> Reason: Message body is too big: 225276 bytes with a limit of 40KB Steen> Where can I change the limit? Change the value of max_message_size on the general options page. Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Mailman-Users] Script to condense the review page

2004-06-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
cess to all the bells and whistles available should you want them. Ideally something like this will be incorporated into Mailman itself, but for now mmfold.py is a reasonable substitute and should serve as a decent place to experiment with other ideas. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://w

Re: [Mailman-Users] ANNOUNCING: GNU Mailman 3.0

2015-04-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
Barry, Congratulations, you mail d(a)emon, you! And all the other responsible d(a)emons. Has it really been 20 years since the NIST workshop? Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ma

[Mailman-Users] Mapping back from pipermail HTML to a specific message in the raw archive?

2015-05-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
x27;t mess up article numbers). Looking at one of these messages (HTML source), I see nothing like a message id which would allow me to unambiguously identify the corresponding raw message. Does something exist? If not, what heuristics have people developed to perform this mapping? Thanks, Skip Mont

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

2015-05-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
r the SpamBayes part), but I think publishing a small document about the configuration might be worthwhile. Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: h

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filter not working

2015-07-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
second. The second should see the SA header. Also, I would use SpamBayes, but that's just me... (Let's try one of these new fangled Unicode Emojis...)☺ Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://ma

[Mailman-Users] MM doesn't really forward me the full message

2015-07-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
attachment? Thx, Skip Montanaro -- 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 Searchable Arch

Re: [Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Will Yardley wrote: > Mostly curious about the motivation behind this - what do these bots do > if / when they are actually able to confirm or get confirmed? > They probably try to read the subscription list to get more email addresses. Of course, they can also p

[Mailman-Users] Looking for a server

2016-01-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
preciate actual recommendations (or pointers to prioritized lists), not an unprioritized list. Thanks, Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for a server

2016-01-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Or google groups? > https://gist.github.com/adamamyl/02a8f44981c8685f9c88 reminds me of > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2014-October/077893.html Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually already tried that. It was my first thought. I found a Python Google API which looked straig

[Mailman-Users] Web interface for users (not admins)?

2021-05-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
r a few minutes, but turned up nothing. Or rather, all I found related to web interfaces was the admin interface. Thanks, Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailma

[Mailman-Users] Re: Web interface for users (not admins)?

2021-05-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
> First, a bit of admin. Mailman 2 is still in active use, so we've > split out a separate list for Mailman 3: mailman-us...@mailman3.org. > > So, I got to thinking... Are there any free web user (not admin) > > interfaces which integrate with MM3? > > Yes. The HyperKitty archiver, which is pa