Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the list password (when you do not know it)

2002-02-13 Thread Dan Mick
> How can I change the list password when I forgot (actually never knew) > it? config_list does not save it in its output file. > > Dumping the list, deleting and recreating? This, too, is answered in the FAQ. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing to plain text

2002-02-13 Thread Dan Mick
> > > Is there a way to strip the html formatting before it reaches the list? I > > > can't seem to find that option in the faq. tech support at my isp don't > > > have a clue. > > > >So, if I go to the FAQ and search for "HTML", I get a bunch of > >hits; the third one is 1.8 How do I turn off

[Mailman-Users] Problems with private archive in mailman 2.0.8

2002-02-13 Thread Georg C. F. Greve
Hi all, I'm having a problem with Mailman 2.0.8 under Debian GNU/Linux that I can't track down right now, so I thought I'd ask on this list. The FSF Europe is running a list with a private list archive and when people try to access that archive, they get prompted for login/email and password. W

[Mailman-Users] Problem with MailMan

2002-02-13 Thread Om Prakas
i have a problem with my mailman setting or configuration.. i use sendmail only. and this wat i get when i do a test using the test list.   when i send a email this is the reply:   - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    (reason: 550 5.1.1 <[EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Help?

2002-02-13 Thread James A Llanos Jr
I am a site administrator and while working with Mailman I attempted to discard or reject a notice going to my helpdesk emailing list and this is the error I get. What do I do?     BUG in Mailman version 2.0.3   We’re sorry, we hit a bug!   Please inform the webmaster for this site

[Mailman-Users] Help

2002-02-13 Thread James A Llanos Jr
I am a site administrator and while working with Mailman I attempted to discard or reject a notice going to my helpdesk emailing list and this is the error I get. What do I do?       Bug in Mailman version 2.0.3 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of t

[Mailman-Users] changing request of subscription result page

2002-02-13 Thread Solignani Tiziano
How can change this text? "Confirmation from your email address is required, to prevent anyone from subscribing you without permission. Instructions are being sent to you at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note your subscription will not start until you confirm your subscription. " I went to e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the list password (when you do notknow it)

2002-02-13 Thread John W Baxter
At 18:03 +0100 2/13/2002, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >How can I change the list password when I forgot (actually never knew) >it? config_list does not save it in its output file. > >Dumping the list, deleting and recreating? It depends. If you control the site and know the Mailman site password,

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

2002-02-13 Thread WJCarpenter
jon> Interesting. That wouldn't be too hard to write up... For my jon> purposes I just toss anything that gets held and I like that jon> setup, but I can see your point. Well, if "just toss everything" means cranking through the web interface and clicking "discard" for each, that's the same amo

[Mailman-Users] Changing the list password (when you do not know it)

2002-02-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
How can I change the list password when I forgot (actually never knew) it? config_list does not save it in its output file. Dumping the list, deleting and recreating? -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mai

[Mailman-Users] Message body filtering?

2002-02-13 Thread Morgan Fletcher
The list admin I'm working with filters for expletives with majordomo, and redirects matching posts to his admin queue. Is there a way to filter the message body with Mailman? Morgan -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Beginner] Moving a mailing list to another machine

2002-02-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:51:49AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > I'm trying to move many lists from one machine to another. Is it > sufficient to move /var/lib/mailman/lists and > /var/lib/mailman/archives and the aliases file or are t

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

2002-02-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Interestingly enough, both Sendmail and Postfix have the options you mentioned. In sendmail you would typically edit the /etc/mail/access file and then run "make". The nice thing about that file is that you can reject from any ip or ip-range and provide a clear reject message as to why they are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is this possible?

2002-02-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Should work fine. I assume that your mail is queued up for you while your site is down... You will need internal aliases for the list itself and for the list-request address as well as the list-admin address. Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Robin Lynn Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: [Mailman-Users] value of Sender: field for outgoing memberpostings

2002-02-13 Thread Heiko Rommel
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Heiko Rommel wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to set the Sender field for outgoing messages to > > Sender: owner-@some.domain > > instead of > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > How can this be accomplished ? > What kind of problems will I have to face (if any) ? > > Heiko > > BT

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem changing defaults

2002-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:19:08PM +, Richard Barrett wrote: > I did not say anything like that. Oke, sorry I misunderstood you > Some changes in defaults put in mm_cfg.py do not affect existing mail lists > because the default value is transferred into the list's own config when > the lis

[Mailman-Users] Is this possible?

2002-02-13 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
We have Mailman installed on a Mandrake Linux 8.1. We have been testing internally on our LAN as a local mailing list and it works as advertised. Now, here comes the really strange question. Our office is in a very remote area and uses solar power as its sole source of electricity. For that

[Mailman-Users] Privacy settings

2002-02-13 Thread David Kleber
Okay, please be easy on me 'cause I'm really a newbe at this... I've been running my first mail list with version 2.0.8 for about 8 months and I'm having a hard time understanding the proper privacy settings. Here's the way I need to have my list set up: I only want to give a few people posting

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem changing defaults

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Barrett
At 14:05 13/02/2002 +0100, Jeroen Valcke wrote: >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:18:57PM +, Richard Barrett wrote: > > Don't mean to be rude but you are editing the mm_cfg.py that doing 'make > > install' put in file $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py and not the one in your > > Mailman build directory? > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-subscriber posts

2002-02-13 Thread Jay S Curtis
I agree with you on stopping spam prior to reaching the list(s), but some times it takes a long time before the spammers IP address hits the RBL(s) (I have 6 RBL entries in my postfix config - ORBIZ, RBL, DS etc.) There is just no good reason NOT to have the option to auto reject admin requests

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem changing defaults

2002-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:18:57PM +, Richard Barrett wrote: > Don't mean to be rude but you are editing the mm_cfg.py that doing 'make > install' put in file $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py and not the one in your > Mailman build directory? Do you mean, one must recompile everytime you change th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping users from sending posts

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Barrett
At 14:11 13/02/2002 +0200, Kingsley Tech User wrote: >Hi All > >How can i stop subscribers from sending mail to the list? >The thing is that I have a weekly newsletter I want to send >to the list of subscribers, but I don't want anyone but myself >to be able to send to the list. It's not gonna be

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem changing defaults

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Barrett
At 11:53 13/02/2002 +0100, Jeroen Valcke wrote: >Hello, >Just installed mailman and made a test list. All works fine except some >minor inconveniences. I can't seem to change the defaults. >I would like to change DEFAULT_LOGOS, DEFAULT_HOSTNAME, DEFAULT_URL As >said in the instructions you must ad

[Mailman-Users] Stopping users from sending posts

2002-02-13 Thread Kingsley Tech User
Hi All How can i stop subscribers from sending mail to the list? The thing is that I have a weekly newsletter I want to send to the list of subscribers, but I don't want anyone but myself to be able to send to the list. It's not gonna be a discussion list, but more a newsletter / info update l

[Mailman-Users] problem changing defaults

2002-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, Just installed mailman and made a test list. All works fine except some minor inconveniences. I can't seem to change the defaults. I would like to change DEFAULT_LOGOS, DEFAULT_HOSTNAME, DEFAULT_URL As said in the instructions you must add this to mm_cfg.py file (which I copied first from m

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing to plain text

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Barrett
At 14:35 12/02/2002 -0800, Dan Mick wrote: > > I hope you can help. we're using mailman for two lists for greyhound > > rescue and adoption. we would like to have the lists only accept plain > > text but we can't seem to make it work that way. there is an option to > > check for plain text in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error decoding authorization cookie

2002-02-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:34:18AM -0500, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 38 lines which said: > Every time I try to admin the site I receive "Error decoding authorization cookie" >Any suggestions on how to fix this. I've seen the problem with Konqueror but it was apparently b