Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Dan, Have stolen your messages almost verbatim and put them into the postfix tuning part of the FAQ. [I'm currently aiming to get content on there - someone or even me can clean these up later] http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.004.htp -- [ Nigel Metheringham

[Mailman-Users] Mailman mails are not being posted to registered Subscribers

2001-12-18 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Title: Mailman mails are not being posted to registered Subscribers Dear All I have configured Mailman version 2.0.5 on kernel 2.2.14-12 (Redhat 6.1) Am using sendmail 8.9.3. and apache 1.3.12. The install and configuration went well, and i have created a sample list named test. I am able

[Mailman-Users] Newbie error!

2001-12-18 Thread Antonio M / PoPeR
Hi all, My host provider preinstalled Mailman with CPanel/WHM server controller, I'm a newbie so I did this mistake: I have tried to create a mailing list, so I have used 'pop-page' as the list name. I have noticed since I did that I can't receive any e-mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Tass
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:22:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: To get the number of SMTP processes up, change default_process_limit in main.cf. default_process_limit = 150 If you have 512M of Ram set it to 200, it will give you a lot of room.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie error!

2001-12-18 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Title: Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie error! Dear All I have configured Mailman version 2.0.5 on kernel 2.2.14-12 (Redhat 6.1) Am using sendmail 8.9.3. and apache 1.3.12. The install and configuration went well, and i have created a sample list named test. I am able to view the mailman list

[Mailman-Users] Problem in Mailman Posting of mail to subcribers

2001-12-18 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Title: Problem in Mailman Posting of mail to subcribers Dear All I have configured Mailman version 2.0.5 on kernel 2.2.14-12 (Redhat 6.1) Am using sendmail 8.9.3. and apache 1.3.12. The install and configuration went well, and i have created a sample list named test. I am able to view the

[Mailman-Users] Migrating from sendmail

2001-12-18 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, I have been test driving mailman for some days now. I quite like it! Now I have some majordomo mailing lists and I'm concidering to transfer them to mailman. Are their gotchas involved in the transfer? Any documentation online? I do have some small questions though. I can't seem to find

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:01 PM 12/17/01 -0800, Dan Wilder wrote: ... With these changes in place, a K6-350 with 128M RAM delivers messages averaging perhaps 3K over a medium-speed DSL, without entirely saturating the DSL, at load average below 2.0, without impinging on swap. It'll reach 20,000 recipients in a

[Mailman-Users] Patches 2.0.7 - 2.0.8?

2001-12-18 Thread Melanie Dymond Harper
Hi folks, Is there a diff file or set of patches for the changes from 2.0.7 to 2.0.8? Thanks Mel -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] sendmailpostfix

2001-12-18 Thread Jay S Curtis
Thanks all for your help in the conversion. One thing I really like is the cron logs (albeit a bit lengthy) from postfix that tell me exactly what happened in the last 24 hours (bounces, sent, differed, rejected etc.) - and the small matter of the open relay problem being closed for good..

Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmailpostfix

2001-12-18 Thread Chris Halverson
Jay S Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: differed, rejected etc.) - and the small matter of the open relay problem being closed for good.. I currently use both Postfix and Sendmail in production systems. Sendmail hasn't had a default open realy issue since around 8.10, and maybe earlier

Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmailpostfix - obtw...

2001-12-18 Thread Jay S Curtis
Run one of the relaycheck utilities from a point outside your network and you may find you **do** have an open relay. I was shocked to find this to be true using 8.11.12 of sendmail - and nothing I changed in the config would close it so I got rid of it. On Tuesday 18 December 2001 10:34

Re: [Mailman-Users] list owners

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Carnes
PieceOfCake. The program ~mailman/bin/list_lists will dump out the listnames. Redirect the output to a file and then add -admin@localhost on to the end of each listname. The only caveat is that you have to throw-away the first line of output which says something like, 430 matching mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmailpostfix - obtw...

2001-12-18 Thread Chris Halverson
Jay S Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Run one of the relaycheck utilities from a point outside your network and you may find you **do** have an open relay. I was shocked to find this to be true using 8.11.12 of sendmail - and nothing I changed in the config would close it so I got rid

[Mailman-Users] Internation lists / translation?

2001-12-18 Thread Marcel Hicking
Hi I need to set up several lists for international use. Some will be aimed at german customers, others at french/english etc. Is there any way of having international responses send out to subscribers? Maybe even change the web interface language depending on what list I click on in the list

[Mailman-Users] disabling bouncing addresses

2001-12-18 Thread TDyson
Can somebody point me to details on the bounce message handling? v2.0.8 Here are the things I have set Try to figure out error messages automatically? Yes Minimum number of days an address has been non-fatally bad before we take action : 1 Minimum number of posts to the list since members

Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmailpostfix - obtw...

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:53:21AM -0600, Chris Halverson wrote: Jay S Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Run one of the relaycheck utilities from a point outside your network and you may find you **do** have an open relay. I was shocked to find this to be true using 8.11.12 of sendmail -

Re: [Mailman-Users] disabling bouncing addresses

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Carnes
Check the logs under ~mailman/logs/.. You should see the bounces there and notes about the bounces indicating first bounce, second bounce, etc - number of bounces left before the user is removed from the active list (in number of seconds). Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 12/18/01 5:06 AM, Tass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: default_process_limit = 150 If you have 512M of Ram set it to 200, it will give you a lot of room. Maybe. Maybe not. One of the things you need to do when setting up your MTA is figure out what your network can take. It makes no sense (in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists [Postfix]

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
I'd like to emphasize that YMMV. As Chuq notes, don't take my numbers or anybody else's and apply them blindly. What fits one site will fit badly on others. Change one thing at a time, in some orderly way that lets you evaluate impact of changes. Important things I can think of immediately

[Mailman-Users] delte queue...

2001-12-18 Thread Alex Sammons
hello there!!! How can i delete the mail queue? Thanks _ Do You Yahoo!? Encuentra el coche de tus sueƱos en Yahoo! Autos http://autos.yahoo.com.mx -- Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] delte queue...

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:40:58PM -0600, Alex Sammons wrote: hello there!!! How can i delete the mail queue? With great caution. And, depends on your MTA. The answer I'd suggest is If you can't figure out yourself how to delete the mail queue on an MTA, you aren't likely

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:39:39 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/18/01 5:06 AM, Tass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable_dns_lookups = yes I have found this to be no real change. On a PIII-500 with 512M I am getting 100K-120K/hr on a T1 connection with avg message of 6.1K.

Re: [Mailman-Users] list owners

2001-12-18 Thread Con Wieland
Cool, Thanks!!! Have a great Holiday At 7:52 AM -0800 12/18/01, Jon Carnes wrote: PieceOfCake. The program ~mailman/bin/list_lists will dump out the listnames. Redirect the output to a file and then add -admin@localhost on to the end of each listname. The only caveat is that you have to

Re: [Mailman-Users] delete mail queue...

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Carnes
ditto... But, if you are running sendmail on RH Linux, you can look at your queue by typing in: /usr/sbin/sendmail -bp Here's an example of the output: NAA20852 2235 Fri Dec 14 13:14 MAILER-DAEMON (Deferred: Connection refused by prophet.qa.haht.com.)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread Dan Wilder
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:02:07PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:39:39 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/18/01 5:06 AM, Tass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: disable_dns_lookups = yes I have found this to be no real change. On a PIII-500 with 512M I

[Mailman-Users] bsddb python module

2001-12-18 Thread Rodolfo Pilas
I have a MM 2.1a3 with Pyton 2.0 + Postfix working very well. By the other way I try to install MM 2.1a3 with Pyton 2.1.1 but I can not create lists because I do not have the module bsddb (required by dbhash). Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver, line 96,

[Mailman-Users] admin queue

2001-12-18 Thread Dean Arpajian
Where are the held posts (the ones awaiting allow/deny/reject) stored? And can they be easily stripped - w/o breaking mailman? tia. -Dean -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] mailman + courier

2001-12-18 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, Has anyone mailman running with courier as mailserver? On the server where I have to install mailman courier is used as mailserver. Are there any problems, or can I use it without troubles. I've installed mailman without troubles, and the webinterface works well. I also was able to make a

[Mailman-Users] Deleting a mailing list

2001-12-18 Thread Antonio M / PoPeR
Hi, How can I delete a mailing list using CPanel 4? I use Cpanel to admin my site, I used to create a mailing list, now when I try to delete the list, it doesn`t work: List Deleted The list [EMAIL PROTECTED] was successfully deleted. Remove the components of a mailing list with impunity -

[Mailman-Users] getting cgi-gid right

2001-12-18 Thread Jim Gottlieb
We're retiring the machine running majordomo, so I figure this is a good excuse to switch to Mailman. I've built and installed and set up the 'test' list as suggested in the INSTALL file, but when I try accessing the web page, I get: Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of

Re: [Mailman-Users] getting cgi-gid right

2001-12-18 Thread Bill Moseley
(sorry for the duplicate to come -- sent from wrong email address) At 05:24 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Jim Gottlieb wrote: The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server. confirming for me that the web server is running as group daemon, and I

[Mailman-Users] check_perms problems ...

2001-12-18 Thread Morris Jones
Hi ... I'm having a good time setting up a replacement box for my mail and web server, switching to postfix for MTA, and moving a lists over from my old mailman server (2.0.6 to 2.0.8). A couple of issues I've noticed: 1. I was surprised that the --with-mail-gid needed to be mailman and not

Re: [Mailman-Users] getting cgi-gid right

2001-12-18 Thread Bill Moseley
Ah hell, ignore that last post. I remember it being confusing, but looking at my notes I see that I did set the guid to match what my web server is running as. And Jim's issue is different, I think. I'll go quietly back to my scotch now. At 05:42 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: It

[Mailman-Users] Email address tag

2001-12-18 Thread Jason Newkid
I've spent the past 7 hours upgrading a server from freebsd 2.2 to 4.4 and mailman 1.0 with python 1.5.1 to the current version. FUN FUN FUN In the past few months I've noticed more and more people signing up for lists using services that offer mail redirects. The problem is when they bounce

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin queue

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Carnes
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.012.htp On Tuesday 18 December 2001 17:07, Dean Arpajian wrote: Where are the held posts (the ones awaiting allow/deny/reject) stored? And can they be easily stripped - w/o breaking mailman? tia. -Dean

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman + courier

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Carnes
I don't run courier with Mailman, but the problem seems common enough. Check your log files both for courier and Mailman (~mailman/logs/...) The most common problem is getting the wrapper to run properly with your MTA (courier in your case). What group ID does your courier install run as?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big Lists

2001-12-18 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:39:22 -0800 Dan Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm being stoopid or something. Nahh, its just a confusion between the default phraseology under Sendmail being different from the phraseology under Postfix. Supposing I have a list server, which I wish to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email address tag

2001-12-18 Thread Jon Carnes
This is a feature of the alpha version v2.1. You might want to look through the Dev list's archives... or live without that feature for two months till v2.1 is ready for prime time. Jon Carnes On Tuesday 18 December 2001 21:43, Jason Newkid wrote: I've spent the past 7 hours upgrading a

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Functional problem

2001-12-18 Thread Ganesh HariHaran
Title: Mailman Functional problem Dear All I have configured Mailman version 2.0.5 on kernel 2.2.14-12 (Redhat 6.1) Am using sendmail 8.9.3. and apache 1.3.12. The install and configuration went well, and i have created a sample list named test. I am able to view the mailman list