Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:05 PM -0700 2004-08-30, Adam Boettiger wrote: Of the following, is there a distribution that plays better with Mailman than any of the others? :) CentOS 3.1 Debian 3.0r1 Fedora Core 1 Gentoo Linux 2004-06-29 Mandrake 9.1 Red Hat 8.0 Red Hat 9.0 Slackware 10 Slackware 9.0 Well, if y

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:00 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 7:05 PM -0700 2004-08-30, Adam Boettiger wrote: > Well, if you check the archives and the FAQ, in the past Red Hat > and Red Hat derived distributions have had certain known problems > with the RPMs that they have made available, b

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:39 AM -0700 2004-08-30, Adam Boettiger wrote: Apologies in advance for this basic of a question but this is technical in nature and thus doesn't seem appropriate for the users or list owners lists. BTW, I'd like to thank you for your good questions. This will make excellent fodder for th

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Adam Boettiger
Brad Knowles wrote: BTW, I'd like to thank you for your good questions. This will make excellent fodder for the FAQ, and I'm surprised that it wasn't already there. Brad - No worries. Happy to be the guinea pig. ;) Here's something else you may want to add as I'm sure I'm not the only one

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread John Dennis
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:00, Brad Knowles wrote: > Well, if you check the archives and the FAQ, in the past Red Hat > and Red Hat derived distributions have had certain known problems > with the RPMs that they have made available, but I don't know about > the current RPMs. Given their pas

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Terri Oda
On Aug 31, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote: I'd tend to take this as:- * Mailman is a bitch to package * RH have packaged it for a while * RH found a good few of the gotchas in packaging Mailman * RH have subsequently learnt from their mistakes and recently

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:19:29 -0400 Terri Oda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 31, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote: >> Mailman is a bitch to package > I believe point number one there says it all. :) Many python applications are a bitch to package, especially if you also want to m

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:45 AM -0400 2004-08-31, John Dennis wrote: To the best of my knowledge the problems were addressed and there are many satisfied users. We did ship a package with an install problem, but then again bugs happen, its the nature of software. I'm not sure it's fair for you to maintain a mailma

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread John Dennis
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:06, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:45 AM -0400 2004-08-31, John Dennis wrote: > > > To the best of my knowledge the problems were addressed and there are > > many satisfied users. We did ship a package with an install problem, but > > then again bugs happen, its the nature

[Mailman-Developers] Addition to FAQ re: List of available customization fields

2004-08-31 Thread Adam Boettiger
I've read both FAQ's and used the FAQ Search Tool and it came up empty, so this is something else you may want to add to the FAQ: I see that you can insert customized fields into outgoing messages by using the tag. Where can I find a list of all field names available for insertion in this tag?

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Addition to FAQ re: List of available customization fields

2004-08-31 Thread Terri Oda
On Aug 31, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Adam Boettiger wrote: I've read both FAQ's and used the FAQ Search Tool and it came up empty, so this is something else you may want to add to the FAQ: I see that you can insert customized fields into outgoing messages by using the tag. Where can I find a list of al

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Addition to FAQ re: List of available customization fields

2004-08-31 Thread Terri Oda
Forgot to mention: I think there are also at least one verp-specific variable that I didn't list, but I don't have time to search for 'em right now. If someone knows what those variables are, please add them to the FAQ entry too: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.041

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Addition to FAQ re: List of available customization fields

2004-08-31 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi! On Di, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:27:37 -0400, Terri Oda wrote: > On Aug 31, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Adam Boettiger wrote: > > >I've read both FAQ's and used the FAQ Search Tool and it came up > >empty, so this is something else you may want to add to the FAQ: > > > >I see that you can insert customized f

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?

2004-08-31 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:30 AM -0700 2004-08-31, Adam Boettiger wrote: BTW, I'd like to thank you for your good questions. This will make excellent fodder for the FAQ, and I'm surprised that it wasn't already there. Brad - No worries. Happy to be the guinea pig. ;) Alright, I've spent some time writing and