[Mailman-Users] 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread Luke
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Message-id?

2001-02-06 Thread Karsten Thygesen
> "Christopher" == Christopher P Lindsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christopher> If qmail doesn't add a Message-Id: header it's not Christopher> reasonable to expect Mailman to insert one either. Christopher> However, RFC 822 specifically states that a Message-Id: Christopher> header is

RE: [Mailman-Users] email headers question?

2001-02-06 Thread Jesse Chan-Norris
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Ed Lazor wrote: > >Did you try just a plain google search for the issues mentioned? > > No. I didn't and I think that's a great idea. Thanks! =) Remember too that there are the archives, searchable, at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Hutnick
This ties in nicely with a question that I asked earlier. Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not need approval, but non-subscribers do? > Do you think we can fix this, or everyone is going > to be unsubscribing to avoid the spam ... > >> >> TO BE REMOVED FR

[Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Peter Hutnick: > This ties in nicely with a question that I asked earlier. > > Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not need > approval, but non-subscribers do? Isn't that the option "Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only)" on "priva

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Hutnick
> According to Peter Hutnick: >> This ties in nicely with a question that I asked earlier. >> >> Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not >> need approval, but non-subscribers do? > > Isn't that the option "Restrict posting privilege to list > members? (member_posting_only

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only (was: 20 Million Fresh E-mailAddresses)

2001-02-06 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Peter Hutnick: > Does non-subscriber mail bounce? I'd like to be able to configure > this. I would actually like to have non-subscriber mail held for > approval. Call me the human spam filter! Non-subscriber mail is held for approval, just like moderated lists. +gg -- [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Is is possible to...

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Dominguez
Store a subscriber's real name along with their e-mail address when a user subscribes. i.e. "real name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks -- Peter Dominguez 72 Belvedere Dr Yonkers, NY 10705-2814 USA Tel: 914-423-4000 Fax: 914-423-8640 -- Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stuck outgoing message, MX, DNS

2001-02-06 Thread Richard Martin
I am posting this solution back to the list so the title will be searchable. In addition to changing the sendmail.mc file, one can hand edit the sendmail.cf file and change the Timeout.rcpt setting. In many default configurations, this line is merely commented out. Glen Foster wrote: > It is n

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is is possible to...

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:10:11AM -0500, Peter Dominguez wrote: > Store a subscriber's real name along with their e-mail address when a user > subscribes. i.e. "real name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Of course it's possible - you have the source! More to the point, though, no, the standard Mailman cod

[Mailman-Users] Re[2]: 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread CJoe
I am not sure about the Mailman spamfilters *but* those involved in the development of the app might have a close look at Listserv (the one from LSoft) and how that package handles spam: there is a worldwide net which detects spam in minutes and blocks off any further attempts to flood

[Mailman-Users] Problem with mail address

2001-02-06 Thread Omar Walid Llorente
Hi, one of my lists admins had put on the Membership Management Section an incorrect mail address. Exactly what he put is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "luis and that is what shows the Membership page. As far as i know this could modify the mailman behaviour (version i'm using is 1.1) becau

Re: [Mailman-Users] email headers question?

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
> You need to go easy on Dan...he knows everything and a bag of chips > regarding MailMan. Good heavens, no. I just act like it. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stuck outgoing message

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
Richard Martin wrote: > > I am refining the definition of the problem 'Can not check MX records' > > Apparently there is a bad address in the users list, bad in the respect > that the destination server has a broken MX record. consequently, the > posted message is patiently waiting in queue, h

Re: [Mailman-Users] 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
> Is there a way to configure Mailman so that subscribers do not need > approval, but non-subscribers do? So, have you looked at the administration pages at all? Privacy Options/General posting filters/Restrict posting privilege to list members? might be germane, I dunno.

[Mailman-Users] User subscribe generates EOF error

2001-02-06 Thread Ron Echeverri
This occurs whenever a user goes to /mailman/listinfo/list-name and attempts to subscribe himself via the interface there. Manual subscriptions via the admin interface work fine. This had been working until recently, when we moved the whole /home/mailman directory to a separate machine; the owne

Re: [Mailman-Users] 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Hutnick
As I said earlier, I (for no good reason) thought this option "turned on" the "without implicit approval" field below. Maybe it is time for glasses (or just a nap.) Someone replied that this option sends non-member messages to the list admin. Is there a way to just blackhole them? -Peter >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mail address

2001-02-06 Thread John W Baxter
At 19:22 +0100 2/6/01, Omar Walid Llorente wrote: > Hi, one of my lists admins had put on the Membership >Management Section an incorrect mail address. Exactly what >he put is: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] "luis >and that is what shows the Membership page. > > As far as i know this could modif

[Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Thomas Roessler
A frequently recurring question from members of a list I manage is how they can change their addresses. Of course, this can simply be done by unsubscribing and resubscribing, but it seems that most list members would expect an option like this on their membership management page. Cheers, -- Tho

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
Thomas Roessler wrote: > > A frequently recurring question from members of a list I manage is > how they can change their addresses. Of course, this can simply be > done by unsubscribing and resubscribing, but it seems that most list > members would expect an option like this on their membersh

Re: [Mailman-Users] 20 Million Fresh E-mail Addresses

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
Peter Hutnick wrote: > > As I said earlier, I (for no good reason) thought this option "turned on" the >"without implicit approval" field below. > > Maybe it is time for glasses (or just a nap.) > > Someone replied that this option sends non-member messages to the list admin. Is >there a w

[Mailman-Users] qq crashed

2001-02-06 Thread Krzysztof Wychowalek
Hello everybody, I have a linux server with mailman installed (recently upgraded to 2.0) and more then 20 lists running without any problems. Since yesterday, one of the list has gone crazy. When a message is sent to the list, mailman keeps sending it for hours resulting in the hundreds of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > Explain to these users that there is no "identity" they have on the mailing > list except their subscription name; "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is a completely different > person than "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as far as the software is concerned. So there > really is no dif

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2001-02-06 14:18:02 -0800, Dan Mick wrote: > Explain to these users that there is no "identity" they have on > the mailing list except their subscription name; > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is a completely different person than > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as far as the software is concerned. So > there rea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
Thomas Roessler wrote: > > On 2001-02-06 14:18:02 -0800, Dan Mick wrote: > > > Explain to these users that there is no "identity" they have on > > the mailing list except their subscription name; > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is a completely different person than > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as far as th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Melton
Hey Dan, when can you have that butt-wiping fix ready? I've got a few users that need all the help they can get! IMHO, the "change email address and retain settings" action is only one of a number of things someone might want to do. Subscribing under multiple addresses is quite legitimate as wel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2001-02-06 14:44:33 -0800, Dan Mick wrote: > Yes, that's inarguable. You could also make it so that the > mailing list software wipes the user's butt for them; it's only a > matter of hardware and the right testing procedure. "How do I change my subscription address" is about the only questi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
> "How do I change my subscription address" is about the only question > from users concerning mailman's interface so far, which is why I've > dared to forward it to this mailing list. I'd be willing to be I hear something about "why do we need a password to unsub" about five times as often.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > Given how often someone has to change an email address, I would > think this remains way way down there. This is very different, I think, for those of us who run social, and especially sex-related, lists. People create and delete AOL screennames, or change w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wish: Change address.

2001-02-06 Thread Jeb Bateman
It's funny you guys should even argue about this, since it's already coded in bin/clone-member -r and just needs a CGI interface wrapped around it, (which I plan to try doing in PHP or Python shortly ;-) It's just a matter of authenticating a member (though a Mailman list password, or some other

[Mailman-Users] Mailman as helpdesk tool

2001-02-06 Thread Andrew Solomon
Dear Mailman team, I work on the GAP project (http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap/) which is an open source computer algebra package whose development team is distributed (thinly:) across the globe. At present help requests and bug reports go to a mail alias for the list of 30-odd develop

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman as helpdesk tool

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Hutnick
I would like to point out while GAP is "source available" and therefore might be reasonably called "open source" it is NOT "Open Source" (as defined at http://www.opensource.org/osd.html) and is most certainly not Free Software. I write this not out of some sort of license zealotry, but this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman as helpdesk tool

2001-02-06 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 2/6/01 5:36 PM, "Andrew Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At present help requests and bug reports go to a mail alias for the list of > 30-odd developers and to an archive, but there is no automated management. > I am investigating the possibility of using Mailman as a tool for > automatin

[Mailman-Users] Returned mail: see transcript for details (fwd)

2001-02-06 Thread M. Sha
Hi, I am the list admin for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Below is the error message I got. There is a problem posting to the list. I have been the list admin for 1 year, this is the first time this problem occurs. Please help me or direct me to the right help source. Thank you, Mandy Sha [EMAIL P

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman as helpdesk tool

2001-02-06 Thread Andrew Solomon
Before someone else does, I should correct two errors in the same paragraph: > automating the management of this "helpdesk". (I am aware of Reqng > but would prefer to use something more mainstream). 1. I should be using the term "request tracking" rather than the more general "helpdesk"; 2. R

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman as helpdesk tool

2001-02-06 Thread Mike Lehmann
Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > I wouldn't do that. the helpdesk piece is complex enough you don't want to > try to wedge it onto Mailman. Instead, use a helpdesk or bug tracking system > like bugzilla. Go to freshmeat.net and search on "helpdesk" or "bug > tracking'. You'll find a number of things that

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2001-02-06 Thread U.S.
Hello,   eine Frage: Kann man Eure LISTINGS auch in der Sprache D E U T S C H per Email erhalten??   DANKE/Thanks

[Mailman-Users] Broadcast only list?

2001-02-06 Thread Jon August
I set up a list that is set for "Must posts be approved by an administrator?" = yes and people can still post to the list. Is there a way to make a list only postable by the admin? -Jon --- Voice: (973) 560-9095 | Internection - Electronic Commerce, Internet eFax : (