Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:26:03 +0100 Ricardo Kustner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This makes me wonder... is there a mod_python for apache? http://www.modpython.org/ > ps: sorry if my mesage is a bit messy; I have to get used to using > mutt+vi again... I've given up my search for a stable gui

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:12:24 -0500 Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mailman kills loops by adding an X-BeenThere: header with the list > address as the value. If it detects such a header on an incoming > message, it throws a LoopError, which is currently defined to > discard the mess

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:35:50 -0500 Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:17:04PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: >> In Mailman, this message would be handed off to the local MTA as >> one copy, with 1000 recipients. Then it would be up to the MTA >> to do as effic

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 10:17:04PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > In Mailman, this message would be handed off to the local MTA as one > copy, with 1000 recipients. Then it would be up to the MTA to do as > efficient delivery as is possible. Mailman has some optional chunking > parameters so th

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-18 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
JA> Currently, the ACS bboard software, (uh, I believe) sends a JA> new email to each individual. Some have suggested that this JA> in unnecessarily inefficient, that a smarter mailer (that JA> might be found in a mailing list) might batch up the emails JA> more efficiently.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-18 Thread Jerry Asher
Thanks for responding. Let me apologize "the new kid" has arrived, and travel reservations, etc. has turned this into a six hour, reply in dire need of editing. JA> Currently the ACS system is such that visitors can request > JA> that follow up answers be sent to them, which the AC

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 12:16:41PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > [*]-50%-of-Guido's-bounty-for-adding-braces-to-Python-seems-about-right-ly > y'rs, Which is? -- j -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink The S

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-18 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "CR" == Chris Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CR> Phase 3: Develop Php front-end for Archives/Admin utils It'd have to be a really really convincing argument[*] for me to add PHP to Mailman in any kind of supported way. As an add-on, sure, and figuring out the write API to put on Ma

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-18 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JA" == Jerry Asher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JA> Currently the ACS system is such that visitors can request JA> that follow up answers be sent to them, which the ACS JA> implements by creating hundreds of individual emails and JA> mailing them out. How would you organiz

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-16 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:26:03AM +0100, Ricardo Kustner wrote: > This makes me wonder... is there a mod_python for apache? or maybe fastcgi > libs? would be interesting to have an extra choice to be able to run > mailman in such an environment... especially if we get database support in > the c

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-16 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Ricardo Kustner | This makes me wonder... is there a mod_python for apache? yes. I haven't used it, though, so I can't tell how good it is. | ps: sorry if my mesage is a bit messy; I have to get used to using | mutt+vi again... I've given up my search for a stable gui mail client | for now

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-15 Thread Ricardo Kustner
Hi, On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:32:38AM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:23:28AM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote: > > >Phase 3:Develop Php front-end for Archives/Admin utils > > > That makes me curious. I know Tcl (and C, LISP, etc.) but not Python or > > PHP. One rea

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-15 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:23:28AM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote: > When you write, > >Phase 3:Develop Php front-end for Archives/Admin utils > That makes me curious. I know Tcl (and C, LISP, etc.) but not Python or > PHP. One reason for undertaking this project was to give me something >

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-13 Thread Jerry Asher
Chris, Sounds good, I'll be looking for your draft later on. > I'm hoping to get the interface squared away soon at which point any >help would be wonderful for the conversion of mailman to use the >interface and the development of any datasources that people would wish >Mailman to use.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-13 Thread Chris Ryan
Jerry, Currently I'm working on developing code for Mailman that will allow Mailman to work using any appropiate datasource. I plan on implimenting the flatfile (currently what is used today) and a PostgreSQL database datasource. I should have the first draft of the interface up on the Ma

Re: [Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:36:35AM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote: > 4 but I am worried about mail loops. > > Can someone tell me "how well" Mailman performs at detecting/catching > vacation and bounce messages? Well, I can pipe in on this one part of the topic. [Part of] The problem is that ther

[Mailman-Developers] mailman and the web

2001-03-13 Thread Jerry Asher
I would like to unify mailman with an ACS bboard. The Open ACS (http://openacs.org) is a toolkit developing interactive community websites based on PostgreSQL and Tcl. ACS Bboards are just what they sound like, a discussion forum in which visitors to a site can post questions, or post answer