Re: [Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)

On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Mark T. Valites wrote: The department that is responsible for the list is leary of making all the members of the list digest members, in case an important message needs to be sent immeadiately. Even though we have a non-digested emergency "911" list synchronized wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:37 PM, John W. Baxter wrote: On 8/24/2004 10:36, "Glenn Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:45 PM, John W. Baxter wrote: I think there is little choice for the future but to make more of the bin/xxx capabilities, and archive management, available by means other than shell access. While I'm all for such additions I doubt you'll see anything like that soon. Maybe wit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Allen Watson wrote: On 8/24/04 11:34 AM, I wrote: You can do this using 'withlist'. I don't see "withlist" in the documentation I've been able to find. I should clarify; I am a list admin, but I don't have command line access to the system on which Mailman is running.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings

On Aug 24, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Allen Watson wrote: When I populated a list with hundreds of addresses, I inadvertantly set the default of all users to "Hide". I want to unhide all of them. Is there any way I can do this en masse, rather than individually unchecking "Hide" for every user in the we

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

On Aug 24, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Glenn Black wrote: I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting host server personnel to do it is impossible ("we don't do tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Configuring Mailman with Postfix and Postfix Admin

On Aug 22, 2004, at 11:06 PM, NSHB wrote: I have just setup Mailman 2.1.5 on FreeBSD 4.8 and have found that the installation does not integrate by default with the postfix admin which stores all users and domains in MySQL. When I send an email to the list I successfully setup, I receive this erro

Re: [Mailman-Users] help!!!!!

On Aug 22, 2004, at 7:11 PM, Cameron Tuckerman wrote: I am a webmaster for my school and we are migrating from sendmail and minimalist to mailman and exim. We currently are running a daily announcement mailing list with a perl script. there is a long list of members and the perl script sends the me

Re: [Mailman-Users] help with installation

On Aug 19, 2004, at 6:13 AM, Curt Beavers wrote: I am a novice with frontpage and want to install mailman on my site. Do you know of anyone who can help me with my installation. FrontPage has nothing to do with Mailman. Perhaps you may be asking how to install Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block "out off office" autoreply messages

On Aug 23, 2004, at 8:55 AM, Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: Friends, I´m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn´t know that you must not use out of office messages if you are member of mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] ASP-Pages for subscription on the same server like Mailman?

On Aug 22, 2004, at 8:36 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am *very* new to Mailman and have got an urgent question: My subscription-and change-options-asp-pages run on a W2k-server. Mailman is running on Linux & Apache. How can I tell my asp-pages that they should connect to a different server

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user - Mailman question

On Aug 20, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Blomquist wrote: On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 15:22, Richard Barrett wrote: Am I alone in taking exception to people posting to this list and then having some crap software intercepting the responses they have solicited from the list's subscribers. We

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user - Mailman question

On Aug 20, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Richard Barrett wrote: Am I alone in taking exception to people posting to this list and then having some crap software intercepting the responses they have solicited from the list's subscribers. Nope, I expect that's a pretty crowded room :) -Jeff ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user - Mailman question

On Aug 20, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Charles Mikecz Vamossy wrote: The problem is that non-members have apparently written postings and we, laboring under the impression that if we do nothing, their letters will get deleted, did in fact do nothing - and the letters appeared on the list. Apparently, we

Re: [Mailman-Users] Too many recipients ??

On Aug 20, 2004, at 3:25 PM, David C. Hicks wrote: Jeff Barger wrote: No, that's not it. You're hitting the recipient limit. That would make sense if it was a big mailing list, but there are only 8 people in it. I did find the limit configuration item and set it to 0. It was 20 b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Too many recipients ??

On Aug 20, 2004, at 2:52 PM, David C. Hicks wrote: Hi, I've been getting a lot of errors of this nature lately on a list that I run. It appears that mailman might be trying to re-send the message to everyone in the "To:" field, instead of just to the list members, and it isn't expecting to have

Re: [Mailman-Users] easy footer question...

On Aug 19, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Nathan K. Stazewski wrote: First time poster, short time reader. I just inherited a Mailman Listserv for a college, and am pretty clueless to any of the inner workings (it's running on a Mac OS X, and although I was a Computer Science major, I NEVER use Macs). Anywho,

Re: [Mailman-Users] security problem mailman

On Aug 18, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Paul Vogels (E-mail) wrote: Text in english. We have the mailman installed. one of them contains confidential information. But the members from others lists can read this information through the link at the bottom of the email. So they can read the other infromation

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to hide email address, but show name?

On Aug 16, 2004, at 11:55 PM, Charles Uibel wrote: Hi, Confused as heck, but how as an administrator of the list, can I hide email address, but show the sender’s name? Not without hacking on the Mailman source a lot. -Jeff -- Mailman-Users mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Banner and Complex code in header and footer

On Aug 16, 2004, at 8:42 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: At 2:27 PM +0200 2004-08-16, Brad Knowles wrote: Thank you for listening. Sometimes the old "count to ten" principle wouldn't hurt. Counting to ten wouldn't help if the original poster doesn't bother to search the FAQ or the archives, and ye

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list info being sent as an attachment...

On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Ben Swihart wrote: Hello, I've got mailman 2.1.3 running well, but there is one detail left: when I send a post to the list, it's adding the following attachment: __ MyList mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mydomain.com/ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Cron /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled]

On Aug 10, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Erin Dalzell wrote: Anyone know what the issue is here? This looks like a OS X filesystem error. Permissions problem? -Jeff -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Manking an announcement list

On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Hi I have read through the documentation and I havent been able to answer my problem. I want something to make so just the admin can post and the other can just read, or an annoucement list. See:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman stopped sending outgoing email

On Aug 9, 2004, at 4:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started a Mailman list about 4 months ago and it has been working great. A few days ago Mailman appears to have stopped sending out emails to the list. Also, when someone submits an email I don't receive an email saying that there is an em

Re: [Mailman-Users] "Only authorized persons can post to the list" option

On Aug 9, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Anyone know where I can get to the "Only authorized persons can post to the list (send the newsletters)." option within the admin panel -Jeff --

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: don't delivery messages

On Aug 6, 2004, at 3:48 PM, David Elias Sanchez Vasquez wrote: Hello David I get the confirmation of mailman "your message have been delivered sucessfully" I also can see the messages I sent in the list archives (logs) However, I did not get the message I sent in my 5 e-mail accounts I have su

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sourcing Mailman's usename/password

On Aug 5, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Mike Flaherty wrote: Hello, I would like to create a little file upload area on my website for folks on my list to upload files to. It would be great if I could set it up to require a valid Mailman email address/password in order to authenticate them. I notice that

Re: [Mailman-Users] List-Name Alias

On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:55 AM, Chad Frederick wrote: Hey all. I'm looking for a way to modify Mailman so that list mail comes from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of just [EMAIL PROTECTED] If any of you guys know some clues, I'd like to hear them. Are you referring to the envelope sender or the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails Not Getting Through?

On Aug 5, 2004, at 2:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people are reporting to me that they're not getting the emails from our group lately. Anyone know of any pitfalls I might have set incorrectly in my settings? Does this sound familiar? Whenever I receive a complaint about non-receipt I i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mod Bit

On Aug 4, 2004, at 1:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to set it so all new subscribers are moderated, without affecting the current subscribers' settings? See default_member_moderation under Privacy Options -> Sender Filters. -Jeff --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Simple all postings moderated list?

On Aug 3, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Ryan Jameson (USA) wrote: I'm going crazy trying to set up a list that is completely moderated. I get the result I want by flipping the Emergency moderation flag, and also by setting the modertation bit on all users. The problem is, when a new user signs up their mod bi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sender not receiving copy of post

On Aug 2, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: This is a re-post from yesterday. I think it was bounced. Hello, I just setup Mailman with a test list. I have subscribed myself using several email addresses. When I post a message, I do not get a copy of the post but the other email addresse

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unmoderated user generates mod to admin

On Aug 2, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Adam wrote: I just set up Mailman and I am having a strange problem. I have a user who is a member of a list. When the send an email to the list it posts fine. However, the list moderator gets an email saying that the message requires moderator approval to be posted t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Farmed addresses from text archive?

On Jul 30, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Warren Woodward wrote: A subscriber of one of our client's lists today noted that his email address had been farmed by spammers from the list archives. While the archives are indeed public, they had relied on the security of mailman's paranthetical email address mani

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question......

On Jul 29, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Eric McGrath wrote: I use Mailman for three mailing lists - one of which is posting only by moderator and the other is posting only by members. However, I am being asked to approve all mail on all three lists. How can I make the two so that members can post without m

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmail to mailman and pipermail

On Jul 27, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Tilo Jandt wrote: Hi, is it possible to get mail with fetchmail and send it to a local mailman mailinglist instead of deliver it to a local user? Should be. and another question: How could i change the design of the pipermail output? Where could i insert my css file

Re: [Mailman-Users] Notification to non-member

On Aug 1, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: If a non-member posts to the list, is there a way to notify them their message has been sent to a moderator for approval? It's under General Options, 'respond_to_post_requests'. -Jeff -- Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ordinal not in range

On Jul 22, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Rob Hackney wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 169, in main change_options(mlist, category, subcat, cgidata, doc) File "/var/mailman/Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible to edit rfc info?

On Jul 21, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Rob Hackney wrote: I don't know if this is possible but I'd like to ask anyway. Although I can disable sending rfc2369 using Mailman I'd rather not. Is there a way of removing certain parts of it and am I allowed to do that? If still interested: I wish to remove the ur

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic rejecting of non-subscriber messages

On Jul 21, 2004, at 8:19 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I am still running an older version of mailman until we upgrade to a new server in a month or so, but I have a need to reject 100% of the non-subscribers on at least one of the listservs. There are a few ways I could do this: The first is to inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

On Jul 19, 2004, at 10:53 AM, uhud wrote: Hello all, I have newly installed mailman and for privacy reasons decided to hide members (senders) email addresses when they send a message to the list. My question is, suppose now a member spams the list, is there a way I can find out which member it i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman question

On Jul 14, 2004, at 9:51 PM, C. L. Etheridge wrote: Hello sorry to trouble you with my question. Does Mailman address list recipients individually? I am currently doing an (opt-in!) e-mail newsletter distributed via Smartlist. Smartlist and Majordomo do not address recipients individually. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

On Jul 19, 2004, at 10:24 PM, Mr. Bill wrote: Does mailman archive messages? If so, whre does it archive them to. The raw mailbox archive is in $PREFIX/archives/private/list.mbox/. The HTML'd messages are in $PREFIX/archives/private/list/ -Jeff ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman questions

On Jul 19, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Jen Onsum wrote: I have three questions about Mailman... 1) Is there a way to list the entire membership list on one page, instead of having a different page for each letter of the alphabet? You could change the DEFAULT_ADMIN_MEMBER_CHUNKSIZE variable to something lar

Re: [Mailman-Users] list thinks everyone is non-member

On Jul 15, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Update : further investigation shows it is not every user, but most users. And if I go into the admin interface and unsub the user then immediately resub them with the same address, it appears (at least at this point) to fix the problem for that user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderators Managing Subscriptions

On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Mike Cullum wrote: Greetings, We are just getting Mailman 2.1.5 up and running. A number of the lists that we are converting have individuals who manage the subscription lists. I have seen in several places that moderators may, "... manage list subscriptions and post

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

On Jul 14, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Christopher Adams wrote: Thanks for your reply. I guess I am a bit confused. From the previous message from Jim Tittsler, he says: "The regular expression should not be trying to match the Keywords: or Subject: field name... only the "content" of those headers, or "l

Re: [Mailman-Users] defining topics

On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Christopher Adams wrote: Thanks for your reply. According to what you are saying, if I have a topic called 'Licensing' and I define the topic with the regexp 'Keywords:Licensing', I should be able to just include Licensing on the first line (or within the first 5 lin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prevent archive?

On Jul 14, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Young, Darren wrote: Is there any way to prevent list administrators from turning on archives? I know I can set the default to off for new lists and go through all the lists and turn them off, however all the list admin has to do is go in the web page and flip the swit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing List Name

On Jul 14, 2004, at 3:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since v2.1.5, the FAQ's are no longer correct in changing a list name. The Realname cannot be changed - error occurs and tells you are not allowed to change ral name. Any idea how to do so now? Cannot change/import setting through config_li

Re: [Mailman-Users] List help please with mailer mailer

On Jul 9, 2004, at 11:22 AM, info wrote: I need to know if there is a way to display my entire mail list as text (addresses showing). I have a large list but cant see any of the names. Please help me out!!! I want it to look like when you add a mass subscription the list of added named shows up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman :: Authenticate Headers

On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:51 PM, José Pablo Orozco Marín wrote: ok. forget the perl script. This is my problem: I can send e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my account [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I want to prevent is somebody makes an script to send e-mails changing the headers. Something like this:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman :: Authenticate Headers :: Better Body

On Jul 9, 2004, at 1:02 PM, José Pablo Orozco Marín wrote: The problem is that somebody with a script in php or perl can send emails to the list changing headers, and that is an ugly hack. How we can prevent that from mailman? I'm still not quite sure what you are asking. It seemed like you were

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman :: Authenticate Headers :: Better Body

On Jul 9, 2004, at 12:40 PM, José Pablo Orozco Marín wrote: Hi! We create a program with perl that talks with mailman, for subscribe a lot of emails at the same time in a moderate list. How can i prevent that another user with a script send a email (changing headers) to the list like if he was an

Re: [Mailman-Users] from: field

On Jul 8, 2004, at 6:14 PM, AllenHost mailman wrote: Just send from the address you want it to be From. Thanks for your help. That's what he's doing. The From: field shows up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then turn the 'anonymous-list' feature back off. -Jeff

Re: [Mailman-Users] from: field

On Jul 8, 2004, at 5:54 PM, AllenHost mailman wrote: I have a customer who has created an announce-only list. He wants the from: field to be an email address he specifies, not the list email address. Can that be configured? I don't mind hard-coding it if I know where to look. No luck with th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving beyond the Newsletter FAQ

On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Ben M. Swihart wrote: I could, as you suggest, send them to mailman's web interface so they can then add themselves, but it's a great deal of work (if not impossible) to get this page to match an existing design. It's not impossible at all. Shouldn't even be hard. Here i

Re: [Mailman-Users] implicit destination

On Jul 8, 2004, at 4:23 PM, Young, Darren wrote: Can anyone explain this message: List:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (no subject) Reason: Message has implicit destination See: -Jeff -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disable archive on all lists

On Jul 8, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Young, Darren wrote: Under Mailman 2.0 is there a way to disable archives for all the lists? 800 lists on the systems and I don't really feel like going in to all the web pages... Same question on a 2.1 installation as well. With 2.1.x you could use either config_list or

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple deliveries

On Jul 7, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: Every once in a while I have gotten a subscriber who say he has received like 70 copies of the same posting. Is this a quirk of mailman or something else? Dig through your MTA logs and you'll see rather quickly whether or not they were sent or if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Max message size

On Jul 6, 2004, at 4:57 PM, postal worker wrote: Is there a parameter that sets the max message size for a list? NOT the one in the web interface, that people with the list admin account can change whenever, but a system-level one...? You can set the max message size in your MTA. Or you can hack

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin commands via email

On Jul 6, 2004, at 5:27 PM, malgosia askanas (staff) wrote: Brad Knowles wrote: Hope that helps to explain why an administrative email interface can be useful. There's no question that an e-mail interface can be useful. The value of this was recognized a long time ago. Mailman does already inc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin commands via email

On Jul 6, 2004, at 9:54 AM, Jolin M Warren wrote: The other reason this would be useful is because it can be a lot faster if I am subscribing one set of users to multiple email lists and unsubscribing a different set from different lists. I get sent a list of addresses, so using a text editor an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Global NOMAIL?

On Jun 30, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Tracey McCartney wrote: Hi: I am the admin and one of three mods for an announce-only list. Is there an e-mail command I can use to set everyone on the list to NOMAIL temporarily so that I can then turn mail back on for a few people in order to do some testing? The

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do we unsubscribe entire list?

On Jun 20, 2004, at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Barry Warsaw, I am trying to set up Mailman through our host, Hostway, to use Mailman as a newsletter anounce list only. I have subscribed my list to it without yet posting a newsletter, but I want to remove everyone first, and re-enter a

Re: [Mailman-Users] more info pls

On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:11 AM, Mircea Boldis S wrote: Hello, I have install mailman in my website. I want to get rid of one of one message in my archive. I see like a solution : a.. remove $prefix/archives/private/listname a.. edit $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox [optional] a..

Re: [Mailman-Users] DHow to delete messages

On Jun 19, 2004, at 1:19 AM, Bhavin Shah wrote: Dear sir, PLease let us know how to delete the already archived messages on the website. The only way I can think of is to edit the raw mailbox file and then wipe/rebuild the archive. The raw mailbox file you should be able to edit with just about

Re: Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] WHY is discarding my messages?

On Jun 11, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Luigi Rosa wrote: Hello Todd, Friday, June 11, 2004, 8:38:10 PM, you wrote: T> What about the site-wide KNOWN_SPAMMERS setting? Could something in T> there be catching your mail? Empty. I don't think it's a site-wide problem because my messages are correctly delibered

Re: [Mailman-Users] WHY is discarding my messages?

On Jun 11, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Luigi Rosa wrote: Hello, Mailman 2.1.5 abruptly started to discard my (I am the SysAdmin and ListAdmin) messages simply logging this into vette logfile: Jun 11 19:36:01 2004 (30143) Message discarded, msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jun 11 19:41:51 2004 (3898) Message disca

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.5 and htdig patches for 2.1.4

On Jun 11, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Will Froning wrote: Does anyone know if the htdig patches for 2.1.4 will work on 2.1.5 (FreeBSD ports does this)? There's a port for the htdig patches? I applied the patches to a new 2.1.5 install (source, not the port) on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 box a week or two ago. Appli

Re: [Mailman-Users] one dead list (all others fine)

On Jun 10, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Already did that. The web interface will load correctly if I go to http://www.dom.ain/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/blah but halfway through any admin task it dumps me out to https://www.dom/ain/mailman/admin/blah (which does NOT work even though those

Re: [Mailman-Users] one dead list (all others fine)

On Jun 10, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: My logs for digest, locks, post, qrunner, smtp, and smtp-failure are empty. Presumably there is some configuration option that specifies which logs are enabled, eh? There's a configuration variable (LOG_DIR) for the log location that may have

Re: [Mailman-Users] one dead list (all others fine)

On Jun 9, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Last week, one of the mailing lists for which I'm an admin stopped sending out messages (I was gone, so I didn't notice until today). All the other lists on this same server are functioning properly. The list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has fairly high v

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: how-to make announce-like mail list: several write, all other read only

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