Re: [Mailman-Users] Acknowledging 'access required' - was: send_reminders frequency

[Mark Sapiro]

On 1/29/20 4:33 PM, Chip Davis wrote:


I often see questions about how to do something or another that I would 
dearly love to do, only to find that the simple, straightforward 
procedure recommended is beyond my server credentials.  It would be very 
helpful to me if those answers acknowledged that:


  * this can't be done on a shared server implementation, don't bother
    trying
  * this can also be done on a shared server, and here's how (or at
    least, the magic words to ask your vendor)



I can understand your frustration when presented with a simple solution 
that you can't implement because of lack of access to the server or 
adverse impact on other users of a shared server.


I'm sure if you look through the archives, you'll find many posts with 
various caveats. I just did 
 
and got 218 hits, so it's not that we're completely oblivious to this 
issue, but frankly, I and others already spend a great deal of time and 
energy supporting Mailman as volunteers and taking the additional time 
on every thread to determine what if any disclaimer is required is 
something I don't think I can do.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] send_reminders frequency

[Chip Davis]

I administer around a dozen (mostly v2.1) Mailman lists, but they are 
all on shared servers running cPanel or some equivalent "we won't let 
you get your hands dirty" interface.  Not by my choice, and with 
wildly varying support from the server vendors.


I often see questions about how to do something or another that I 
would dearly love to do, only to find that the simple, straightforward 
procedure recommended is beyond my server credentials.  It would be 
very helpful to me if those answers acknowledged that:


 * this can't be done on a shared server implementation, don't bother
   trying
 * this can also be done on a shared server, and here's how (or at
   least, the magic words to ask your vendor)

For example, the recent answer about "cloning" lists (impossible 
unless you have full access to the server's filesystem, then trivially 
easy) was disappointing because I have multiple lists that need to 
stay in-synch.  So I wrote a Rexx program that screen-scrapes the 
Mailman configuration screens and generates a checklist of each 
extracted setting, input field, textarea, etc. for use when cloning a 
new list.  It's a kludge compared to simply copying a couple of files 
into a new directory, but it works for those of us out here in the 
cheap seats.


Thanks,

-Chip-

On 1/29/2020 1:23 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

On 1/29/20 7:43 AM, dmaziuk via Mailman-Users wrote:


apologies if this is a faq and my google-fu's failing to find the 
answer: can I change send_reminders to e.g. yearly?



Mailman's cron/mailpasswds is run via cron. You can edit Mailman's 
crontab to run it on whatever schedule you like.




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Re: [Mailman-Users] send_reminders frequency

[Dimitri Maziuk via Mailman-Users]

On 1/29/20 12:23 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 1/29/20 7:43 AM, dmaziuk via Mailman-Users wrote:
>>
>> apologies if this is a faq and my google-fu's failing to find the
>> answer: can I change send_reminders to e.g. yearly?
> 
> 
> Mailman's cron/mailpasswds is run via cron. You can edit Mailman's
> crontab to run it on whatever schedule you like.
> 

Thank you Mark

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Re: [Mailman-Users] send_reminders frequency

[Mark Sapiro]

On 1/29/20 7:43 AM, dmaziuk via Mailman-Users wrote:


apologies if this is a faq and my google-fu's failing to find the 
answer: can I change send_reminders to e.g. yearly?



Mailman's cron/mailpasswds is run via cron. You can edit Mailman's 
crontab to run it on whatever schedule you like.


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[Mailman-Users] send_reminders frequency

[dmaziuk via Mailman-Users]

Hi all,

apologies if this is a faq and my google-fu's failing to find the 
answer: can I change send_reminders to e.g. yearly?


Thanks,
Dima
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