[Mailman-Users] owner of config.db is changing to wwwrun

2002-02-20 Thread Gerald Volp
Hi Folks, I'm a Newbie to mailman, I installed it yesterday, fist time. My problem is: Every time I call the administrators web interface for a list and submit a change, the file owner of that list's config.db changes from mailman to wwwrun, which is the user that runs apache. This keeps the

[Mailman-Users] list not appearing on the web

2002-02-20 Thread Moussa Fall
Hi, One of my lists is not appearing anymore on the web interface. No problem with my other lists. Any clue? Thank you. moussa -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-20 Thread Marcel Hicking
Hi I'd like to have a moderated (here: announcements only) list where I have an additional admin (moderator) who would be allowed nothing but approve or reject postings (which usually would be only his own postings / announcements) Any hints? TIA, Marcel

Re: [Mailman-Users] list not appearing on the web

2002-02-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Moussa Fall wrote: One of my lists is not appearing anymore on the web interface. No problem with my other lists. Any clue? Has it been turned off in the Privacy Options? -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Scott Spence wrote: ./configure --with-mail-gid=8 --with-cgi-gid=65534 --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-ownername=mail --with-ownergroup=mail --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=mail --host=noggon.com --with-groupname=mail Um, where did you get --with-ownername and

[Mailman-Users] Automatically approving non-member Usenet postings to gatewayedlist?

2002-02-20 Thread Jerry Stratton
I've seen a couple of questions about this, but no answers yet; before I start working on it myself I thought I'd ask one more time. Has anyone solved the problem where a list which is gatewayed to a Usenet newsgroup requires approval for Usenet postings? (Since Usenet posters are not usually

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-20 Thread Paul-Catalin Oros
Hi, http://www.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html describes Posting privileges explained somewhere. What you should do is to have Posting restricted to members set to No, and have some Implicitly approved people. I just tested this and it works fine. Is this what you were

[Mailman-Users] Bug in old lists web subscribe after 2.0.8 upgrade

2002-02-20 Thread Stephan R.A. Deibel
Hi, I updated mailman from 1.0rc1 to 2.0.8 and for all the old lists created before the update the web page for subscribing always says: You must supply a valid email address. You must supply a valid password, and confirm it. Even when values are filled in. They otherwise work fine, e.g. when

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question... Undoubtedly you are using Konqueror as your web browser. Konqueror cannot handle the new cookie layout (in version 2.0.8). Since it mis-reads the cookie, the authentication it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Scott Spence
I think this could be a case of P3P being implemented. http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq.html http://www.w3.org/P3P/ don't you? Scott On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question...

[Mailman-Users] qrunner CRON jobs

2002-02-20 Thread Ron Parker
I am running mailman on Linux 7.2 system with qmail. I keep getting multiple instances of the qrunner CRON job: 30949 ?S 0:00 CROND 30950 ?R 8:54 /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner 14812 ?S 0:00 CROND 14813 ?R 4:46 /usr/bin/python

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-20 Thread John W Baxter
At 13:16 -0500 2/20/2002, Paul-Catalin Oros wrote: Implicitly approved people. I just tested this and it works fine. Implicitly approved people (addresses) can be forged. Easily. Over on the developer list, I recently suggested using digitally signed messages as the implicit approval

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner CRON jobs

2002-02-20 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ron Parker wrote: a.What causes this to happen? This is usually an indication that your qrunner can't complete a full run within 60 seconds (the default time interval between qrunners). Try running your qrunner task manually and see how long it takes. b. How do I prevent it?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-20 Thread Paul-Catalin Oros
Well, that's the solution with the current Mailman. Something stronger (digital signatures) would, of course, be desirable but I don't think it's going to happen in the very near future. Thinking about it, maybe such a solution can be implemented with procmail and gpg. Mailman would accept

[Mailman-Users] More problems

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Rees
When subscribers try to subscribe to the list, a confirmation message is sent but they are not added to the list, hence when they send their confirmation back, they are still not added and there is no welcome message sent out. If you go to the web page as an administrator, you can add users to

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner CRON jobs

2002-02-20 Thread Ron Parker
Here is what's in my mailman crond # # Retry failed deliveries once per minute. * * * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner How would I change this to retry failed deliveries say, once per 5 minutes? Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Ron Parker wrote: a.What

Re: [Mailman-Users] More problems

2002-02-20 Thread Paul-Catalin Oros
Just a question, did you run bin/check_perms to make sure all the permisions on the files are fine? What do the logs say? Anything in the log/errors that could give you a hint about what's going on? Paul On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Rees wrote: When subscribers try to subscribe to the list, a

Re: [Mailman-Users] More problems

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Rees
Yes, I ran check_perms and it reported no problems found The /home/mailman/logs/error are clean (empty). No problems there. On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul-Catalin Oros wrote: Just a question, did you run bin/check_perms to make sure all the permisions on the files are fine? What do the logs say?

RE: [Mailman-Users] qrunner CRON jobs

2002-02-20 Thread Michael Johnson
Look at the actual crontab. I believe there's a default entry which you could use as an example. In fact, checking mine (which I commented out): # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now, # or

Re: [Mailman-Users] More problems

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Rees
Yes, I ran check_perms and it reported no problems found The /home/mailman/logs/error are clean (empty). No problems there. does your logs/subscibe show the subscribe requests? All requests are set for PENDING if not, does your mail server log show the request mail coming in to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated list: admin vs moderator

2002-02-20 Thread John W Baxter
At 15:44 -0500 2/20/2002, Paul-Catalin Oros wrote: Well, that's the solution with the current Mailman. Something stronger (digital signatures) would, of course, be desirable but I don't think it's going to happen in the very near future. The mailman-developer list is mostly not about Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Ted M Harapat
Solution Found! Okay, I found what was wrong after playing with nearly countless area of the system. I had set DEFAULT_URL in mm_cfg.py to be: DEFAULT_URL = 'http://virtualhost.mydomain.net/' instead of DEFAULT_URL = 'http://virtualhost.mydomain.net/mailman/' As soon as I

[Mailman-Users] From: vs. Sender: and MS Outlook

2002-02-20 Thread Jessica Koeppel
Oh no. I've just discovered that Outlook replies to the Sender: field, over the From: field in many situations. It uses From: when you hit Reply, but it uses Sender: to display the From: field in certain places (only some places! it's crazy!), and worst of all, it uses Sender: when you respond

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman information

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Carnes
This is probably best discussed off-list, but... Yes, Mailman can handle that kind of load. I run it on a few servers that are ancient and handle 8,000 to 20,000 messages/day with no problems, and I've setup a few servers that do ~50,000 messages/day and scarcly notice the load. We have

Re: [Mailman-Users] From: vs. Sender: and MS Outlook

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Carnes
We use Outlook here with no problems. Have your users fill in the Reply To for the account setup in their email. Due to other problems with Outlook this has been our default install for many years. Hope that helps - Jon Carnes On Wednesday 20 February 2002 07:48 pm, Jessica Koeppel wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Jon Carnes
Your real problem was that you were *too* clever. Normally if someone does that, nothing works because they are not clever enough to setup redirect first! Congratulations... === On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:24 pm, Ted M Harapat wrote: Solution Found! Okay, I found what was wrong after

[Mailman-Users] Host name

2002-02-20 Thread Alan ER. Romaniuc
Hi, My hostname is .domain, but when Mailman sends e-mail, I would like that the sender was [EMAIL PROTECTED], How can I do that??? Thx -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Host name

2002-02-20 Thread Chris Hedemark
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 23:33, Alan ER. Romaniuc wrote: My hostname is .domain, but when Mailman sends e-mail, I would like that the sender was [EMAIL PROTECTED], How can I do that??? Edit /home/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Host name

2002-02-20 Thread Ted M Harapat
Actually, make this change in /home/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py Specifically, set DEFAULT_HOST_NAME to the desired name... such as: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = '.domain' -ted Quoting Chris Hedemark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 23:33, Alan ER. Romaniuc wrote: My hostname is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Host name

2002-02-20 Thread Alan ER. Romaniuc
I've tryed it, but it doesn't work . Homepages are fine , but when an User receives a e-mail, he still receives [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Hedemark wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 23:33, Alan ER. Romaniuc wrote: My hostname is .domain, but when Mailman sends e-mail, I would like

[Mailman-Users] Welcome letter

2002-02-20 Thread Paul Croft
Hi Is there anyway to edit the standard welcome letter that goes out with Mailman subscriptions? I know that we can append stuff to the top of the letter...but my plan is not to run with the features or web addresses that Mailman uses because they are too cumbersome for unsavvy users! I

[Mailman-Users] How do I custumize the ROOT listinfo page ...

2002-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Davis
Sorry for posting this question again. Just thought that I would clarify the question: I am trying to custumize the root listinfo page (http://studentorgs.utmb.edu/mailman/listinfo) Our institution requires a standard header and footer. http://studentorgs.utmb.edu/mailman/listinfo/fpsa I have