Re: [Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

2001-04-19 Thread Philippe Rodriguez
Hi David, First, you should reply to all, including the mailman list, because I do not have the answer. I explained in a previous mail what I'd do : I'd write shell (/bin/sh) scripts to : - get the lists of list, and for each list get the subscribers (using $prefix/bin/* utils), from the

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2001-04-19 Thread bjohnson_arco
you have got to fix a problem! a lot of people are receiving mail form the 1ultram site! We are asking to be removed and then it is sending this request out to all the other people on this list !  Please fix this !

Anyone? (was Re: [Mailman-Users] Two "newbie" questions...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Good Morning, I am in the process of converting my site over from Majordomo to Mailman. In the process I have hit two snags that I can't figure out how to get around. 1) When adding all the members, they are getting one password per list. This seems highly undesirable. Is there a wa

[Mailman-Users] help with qmail

2001-04-19 Thread f_arik
Hello. I've just installed "mailman" under qmail and have some problems with "aliases". Please, tell me where to find good documentation about it. With regards, Arik. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

[Mailman-Users] off list

2001-04-19 Thread Mike, Lori & Mikayla
get me off the 1Ultam mailing list please! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] get me off 1Ultram lists

2001-04-19 Thread Mike, Lori & Mikayla
I am getting many e-mails from people wanting off the 1Ultam list- help! I found your link- I need to get these 50 so far- people to stop emailing me!     [EMAIL PROTECTED]    

[Mailman-Users] kindly remove me from this and any lists you manage or consult with

2001-04-19 Thread Leslie Aday
please remove this immediatelyi am getting hundreds of names and e-mails which I DO NOT WANT. REMOVE ME FROM THESE LISTS> THANK YOU -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] kindly remove me from this and any lists you manageor consult with

2001-04-19 Thread Gerhard Gonter
According to Leslie Aday: > please remove this immediatelyi am getting hundreds of names and e-mails > which I DO NOT WANT. > REMOVE ME FROM THESE LISTS> > THANK YOU What are you talking about? +gg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +43/1/31336/702 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zentrum fuer Informatikdienste, W

[Mailman-Users] Very Strange (1Ultam list)

2001-04-19 Thread Michelle Murrain
On Thursday 19 April 2001 12:29 pm, Mike, Lori & Mikayla wrote: > > I am getting many e-mails from people wanting off the 1Ultam list- help! I > found your link- I need to get these 50 so far- people to stop emailing me! What's up here? I've only gotten a very few messages like this... Michelle

Re: [Mailman-Users] kindly remove me from this and any lists you manage or consult with

2001-04-19 Thread Jonathan Dill
The only thing I can guess is: 1) some spammer is using mailman-users as a return e-mail address 2) someone has somehow managed to maliciously subscribe you to some mailing lists 3) you somehow managed to subscribe yourself to the mailing list I have forwarded your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] PLEASE READ: Proposed change in list policy

2001-04-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Enough people are complaining about spam on this list, that I've thought about it and I'm willing to change the policy to address it. Specifically, I propose changing the policy so that only members of this mailing list can post to it. What this means for you: if you post messages to this list f

Re: Anyone? (was Re: [Mailman-Users] Two "newbie" questions...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > Good Morning, > > I am in the process of converting my site over from Majordomo to > Mailman. In the process I have hit two snags that I can't figure out > how to get around. > > 1) When adding all the members, they are getti

Re: [Mailman-Users] kindly remove me from this and any lists you manage or consult with

2001-04-19 Thread JC Dill
On 10:09 AM 4/19/01, Gerhard Gonter wrote: >According to Leslie Aday: >> please remove this immediatelyi am getting hundreds of names and e-mails >> which I DO NOT WANT. >> REMOVE ME FROM THESE LISTS> >> THANK YOU > >What are you talking about? Presumably some one has mistakenly believed t

Re: [Mailman-Users] PLEASE READ: Proposed change in list policy

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:52:06PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > The solution, although hackish, is easy: subscribe all the addresses > you plan on posting from. Then set "nomail" for all addresses except > the one(s) you want to receive list postings. May I make a feature request for next ti

Re: [Mailman-Users] PLEASE READ: Proposed change in list policy

2001-04-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Why? I'd to know which addresses were set to nomail by the MM> user, which ones were set to nomail by mailman due to a MM> bounce, and which ones are post-only (the post-only would be MM> the most important one) I agree

Re: Anyone? (was Re: [Mailman-Users] Two "newbie" questions...)

2001-04-19 Thread jtrigg
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:58:46AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > > 2) How can I setup an umbrella list with the following features: > > > > 1) The lists that it is an umbrella for only allow member posting > > 2) The um

Re: Anyone? (was Re: [Mailman-Users] Two "newbie" questions...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:15:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:58:46AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > > > 2) How can I setup an umbrella list with the following features: > > > > > > 1) The

[Mailman-Users] mailing lists???

2001-04-19 Thread Jbabay7
My name is Lori and I have been receiving many, many, many e-mails from people who are telling me to take them off "my" mailing list. You wouldn't believe what some of these people are saying and threatening! I HAVE NO SUCH MAILING LIST, DON'T KNOW HOW TO EVEN MAKE A MAILING LIST, DON'T

[Mailman-Users] Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread jtrigg
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:49:10AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:15:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Example: > > Umbrella list A has three sublists A1, A2, and A3 subscribed to it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is subscribed to lists A1 and A3. When a message is > > sen

[Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:14:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're > looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. Mailman doesn't do that, sorry. > First, because not all of our subscribers will be able

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're > > looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. > Mailman doesn't do that, sorry. That's too bad because you could make majordono do i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:37:08PM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > > That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're > > > looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. > > Mailman doesn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > I'm finding that Mailman has some hangups that make it undeseriable. > You have the source, choose which one you hate least :-) Well the issue here is that I don't think there is away around the duplicate email stuff from watch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:09:41PM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > > I'm finding that Mailman has some hangups that make it undeseriable. > > You have the source, choose which one you hate least :-) > > Well the issue here is that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies(was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Pug Bainter wrote: > There are a lot of good things about Mailman, but #3 is a big hurdle > that won't be tollerated. After all, not everyone uses a UNIX system to > read mail. There are a large number of people in the world on AOL, > Hotmail, Yahoo, and MSN. I don't use a Un

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Marc MERLIN ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > Can't you have the umbrella list sync its list of users from all the sub > lists? (i.e. don't subscribe sub lists to the umbrella list, just have the > master list update its list of users from the other ones, as in: That i

[Mailman-Users] Password Problems

2001-04-19 Thread John Vorstermans
Hi. I am having password problems with the lists archives and for users wanting to change their passwords. When they try to do either, that is go to the private archives or change their passwords this message comes up: Bug in Mailman version 2.0.3 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform th

[Mailman-Users] Problems with member_posting_only setting....

2001-04-19 Thread Pug Bainter
Good Morning, I am trying to use the config_list script to change things for different mailing lists. Unfortunately one thing I can't seem to change is member_post_only. It keeps telling me: attribute "member_post_only" ignored My new config input looks like: member_post_only = 1 An

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread coder
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:37:08 -0500 Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm finding that Mailman has some hangups that make it > undeseriable. As with any tool, there is a problem space it is attempting to serve, and there are tradeoffs in its approach to that problem space. I don't believ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:09:41 -0500 Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Password sync'ing (should be trivial) 2) Archives via email > (may be trivial, may not) 3) Duplicate emails (may not be > possible) > There are a lot of good things about Mailman, but #3 is a big > hurdle that won't

[Mailman-Users] permissions problem?

2001-04-19 Thread Jon Church
I've installed 2.0.4 on redhat 7.0 It sort of works. When I subscribe to the test mailing list the cgi script changes the /home/mailman/lists/test/config.db file from owner mailman to owner nobody which is the group that apache runs as. After this happens I get errors in mailman/logs/error relat

[Mailman-Users] mailman with qmail

2001-04-19 Thread mjs
I am having some trouble with my mailman installation under qmail. I have set up as follows. This is a debian system so yes some of the directories are a bit wierd. 1. installed mailman under /usr/lib/mailman owned by user list group list. 2. installed qmail under /var/qmail 3. added t

[Mailman-Users] setup

2001-04-19 Thread Michael R. Radigan
just wanted to drop ya'll a line and tell you I just set up Mailman on my linux server and it took all of 20 minutes (while I watched ER) and it is ruinning like a champ.  Your install document was well done, I followed it step by step, and now I have a top of the line listserve!   Searched

[Mailman-Users] Internal server error from mailman CGI scripts in spite of correctconfig?

2001-04-19 Thread Kyrian
Hi All, Sorry if this is a dumb question, but this is an odd one, I think. I've got mailman configured correctly as far as I can see, but I still get "Internal Server Error" problems on the web interface, and the following in the apache error log: [Thu Apr 19 23:54:00 2001] [error] [client 195.