[Mailman-Developers] Mailman Looping

2003-08-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Mailman started looping - using up a lot of processor and resources. I ran an strace and this is what it's doing. What do I have messed up? munmap(0x401bc000, 4096)= 0 unlink("/etc/mailman/qfiles/out/1059668916.586032+8c61dda9317d5ea99d9c330ae73482eaede0d693.db") = 0 open("/etc/m

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Just a thought about documentation

2003-02-03 Thread Marc Perkel
leting the course - the fact that they did this software documentation project becomes part of their job resume and might create an ongoing relationship between the student and the developers. And free software would greatly benefit. Barry A. Warsaw wrote: "MP" == Marc Perkel <[E

[Mailman-Developers] Just a thought about documentation

2003-02-03 Thread Marc Perkel
One problem with developers writing their own documentation is that the developer never experienced learning the program. One of the problems with almost all free software is that the documentation could be a lot better. There are also many schools out there that have courses for people who want

[Mailman-Developers] Need a patch written for 2.1 for post-onlyaccess.

2003-01-27 Thread Marc Perkel
o the public - if I can't find someone to do it for free. Thanks in Advance Marc Perkel /root EFF Here's the current 2.0 patch --- mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py.postonly Tue Aug 1 19:02:28 2000 +++ mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py Sat Aug 5 18:31:50 2000 @@ -43,6 +43

[Mailman-Developers] post-only list?

2003-01-22 Thread Marc Perkel
here some other master white list feature that I can use? Marc Perkel Systems Admin Electronic Frontier Foundation ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers

[Mailman-Developers] Another Easy Suggestion

2002-01-24 Thread Marc Perkel
With the setting SMTP_MAX_RCPTS - I'd like to be able to set a default value - and be able to set this individually per list. That way a list with 20,000 names can have different performance characteristics than a list with 500 names. ___ Mailman-De

[Mailman-Developers] Thanks Everyone - First Big Mailing

2002-01-11 Thread Marc Perkel
crease the number of open files? Marc Perkel /root EFF ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers

[Mailman-Developers] First Big mailing

2002-01-10 Thread Marc Perkel
I rebooted the system. Still have problems. > Well, you can double check and see if there are any stale lock files > in the locks directory. If you're exhausting your system resources as > Chuq points out, and your Python processes are either hanging, > thrashing with other processes, or just ge

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: First big Mailing

2002-01-10 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm running Redhat 7.2 I'm running the 2.4.17 kernel. Python is 1.5.2. Mailman 2.0.8 and exim 3.34. Actually the problem is lack of logs. Mailman appears to be frozen with python tasks backing up as if the mailman tasks are locking up. I'm sure it's also processing a lot of bounced email. Could

Re: [Mailman-Developers] First big Mailing

2002-01-10 Thread Marc Perkel
> > > > Anyhow - I'd like some general feedback on what might be happening. The > > newsletter contains an important story about Norway inditing Jon Johansen > > criminally. He's the guy who wrote the DVD code. > > > > Anyhow - the future of the planet

[Mailman-Developers] How do you tell if DB is corrupt?

2002-01-10 Thread Marc Perkel
mailman. What do I do to figure out if a database is corrupt - locked - or whatever is wrong. Marc Perkel /root EFF ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers

[Mailman-Developers] First big Mailing

2002-01-10 Thread Marc Perkel
o know this is going to work and what I need to do to fine tune the system. Marc Perkel /root EFF ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers

[Mailman-Developers] Minor Feature Request - Rename List

2002-01-10 Thread Marc Perkel
The first option under General is: The public name of this list (make case-changes only). If this were done right - changing this field would cause the list to be renamed. ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/

[Mailman-Developers] Feature Request - Plain Text Only

2002-01-04 Thread Marc Perkel
I'd like a flag to disallow mime/html messages as an anti-spam feature. Most spam has pictures - html - java - etc - and prohibiting these messages could be an effective tool in reducing spam. ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Mailman-Developers] User Database Wish List Feature Suggestion

2002-01-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Since you will be changing the user database - why not add some date fields - like - date joined - maybe date the user last modified their account - and the last date the sent an email message. It would also be nice if it stored some counters - like the number of messages sent - maybe the number

[Mailman-Developers] Marc Perkel's Feature Wish List

2002-01-02 Thread Marc Perkel
ed (bounced) without list owner intervention. The bounce message should be able to be customized giving the user information to join the list - or just go to hell. Anyhow --- many of these features could be easilly added - many might take some serious work - but - I thought I'd add t