Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman doesn't create List Owner

2002-03-13 Thread Jessica Koeppel
and don't forget that most mail servers' configurations will require you to run something to get the mail server to recognize the new aliases (ie; sendmail's "newaliases", and postfix's newaliases or "postalias hash:/path/to/aliases-file" or whatever's appropriate for your configuration). -jess

[Mailman-Users] Trouble Creating List Owners

2002-03-13 Thread Nick Cockinos
Hi, Thnaks to those who helped eralier. Your suggestions helped get the list owner aliases into the /etc/aliases file. I'm still having trouble understanding this though. When I create a list (./newlist -o /etc/aliases new_list) aliases ar created as follows: new_list "|/home/mailman/mail/wrap

[Mailman-Users] GID problem

2002-03-13 Thread Nick Cockinos
Hi, After adding new_list-request and replying to my subscribe email I get the following error. I have set the gid to 8 (I think) The Postfix program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd new_list". Command output: Failure to exec script.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble Creating List Owners

2002-03-13 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Nick Cockinos wrote: > Hi, > Thnaks to those who helped eralier. Your suggestions helped get the list owner > aliases into the /etc/aliases file. > > I'm still having trouble understanding this though. When I create a list > (./newlist -o /etc/aliases new_list) aliases ar created as follows: >

[Mailman-Users] MM-Results

2002-03-13 Thread Mihail Tsagidis
Hello, When I edit the code for "Subscrition Results Page" there are some given Mailman fields like . Is there a possibility to access the list of these Mailman fields that we can use? Best regards, Mihail Tsagidis -- Bay4you Marktplatz GmbH & Co. KG Weintraubengasse 2 D-90403 Nurnberg Tel. 09

[Mailman-Users] Editing Mailman-Fields (where?)

2002-03-13 Thread Mihail Tsagidis
Hello, I want to change the text for the field. The List is administered by our service-provider, but the tech-personal have no clue how to do that. Maybe you can point me in some direction, where we have to make the changes. I think, this is a file somewhere that we have to edit only, isn't i

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up a world-writable list.

2002-03-13 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > How can I set up a list where everyone can write? This still doesn't work. My Privacy Options: --- Advertise this list when people ask what lists are on ... What steps are required for subscription? Who can view subscribers list?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Qmail (wont deliver offsite)

2002-03-13 Thread Michael C. Brenner
I fixed mine (qmail on FreeBSD) by allowing localhost to relay. I added the following to the top of /etc/hosts.allow tcp-env: 127. 10.11.12.13 : setenv RELAYCLIENT This command allows access for tcp-env (the tcp wrapper in inetd.conf for smtp) from 127.x.x.x subnet and from my local ip address

[Mailman-Users] Progressive problem follow up

2002-03-13 Thread Nick Cockinos
Hi all, OK,so now I've got over the, creation of list owners and setting of the gid and i've even been able to send out a message to the list without it bouncing. This is the thing... When I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get no reply, evenas the list owner or list member manually ent

[Mailman-Users] 2.1 beta question / html question

2002-03-13 Thread Jay S Curtis
RH finally upgraded perl to 5.6.1, so will the MM 2.1 beta install/work (upgrading from 2.0.8)? Q2 - I know this has been asked, but will there ever be an "HTML_reject" option? -- Jay S. Curtis -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up a world-writable list.

2002-03-13 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:24:35PM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > >This still doesn't work. My Privacy Options: > >--- > > [ Privacy Options ] > >--- > > > >What else could be the problem? I really wanna everyone be able to post > >without approval of administrator. > > What exactly is the proble

[Mailman-Users] qrunner unable to acquire lock

2002-03-13 Thread Michael H Moran
Is there anyway to get more specific information? I suspect I'm seeing this as a result of a very large message going out. But I don't see any information in the logs to say what actually caused the problem. Am I missing something ? Mike --

[Mailman-Users] Simple question about archive times...

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Idalski
I think I just need a little bit of enlightenment here. When viewing the archives for some of my lists I'll see the times as UT ( Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:04:58 UT ), an other times like this : ( Tue, 5 Mar 2002 12:03:05 -0500 ). I'm not seeing any consistency as to why it sometimes assigns the UT, an

[Mailman-Users] archive dates

2002-03-13 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
hi ! is there a possibility to get other default names for the arcvhiving directories (in the forthcoming release of mailman) ? if i choose to archive monthly (which is great for the list i am administrating) i will get archive names like "2002-March". I would prefer "2002-03". is there a poss

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up a world-writable list.

2002-03-13 Thread Jonas Meurer
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > >Admin gets a mail that he have to approve a posting and poster gets a > >mail that his posting is hold for approval. > > Did you compare web based config and the config file? Perhaps there is > something different? Seems a bit my

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up a world-writable list.

2002-03-13 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
At 18:43 13.03.2002 +0100, you wrote: >On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > > >Admin gets a mail that he have to approve a posting and poster gets a > > >mail that his posting is hold for approval. > > > > Did you compare web based config and the config file? Perhaps t

[Mailman-Users] Your advice about searching the archives of this list

2002-03-13 Thread Herve Cassagne
Dear fellow Mailman-Users members, I've just subscribed to this list, and of course before asking any question I want to take a look at the archives (having already read the f** manual as well as the FAQ -which BTW is a bit too technical for me...). Since there is no search function in these ar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Your advice about searching the archives ofthis list

2002-03-13 Thread Charles Sebold
On 29 Adar 5762, Herve Cassagne wrote: > Maybe "download the full raw archive"... > and then what ? What search tool should I use, > knowing that I am a poor Win 98 user ? Actually I think Eudora can read or import mbox files (assuming you don't mind using the email client you apparently used to

[Mailman-Users] How do I recover email addresses?

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Rea
I recently had to completely reformat my primary harddrive and reinstall Linux from scratch. I had to do this because someone hacked into my box and messed everything up. The admins at my datacenter did the reinstall and now my system is back up. The good news is that I have a second disk in th

[Mailman-Users] Which file are the email addresses stored in???

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Rea
Does anyone know which file the email addresses are stored in for a given mailing list? I have been using Mailman 1.1 and I am upgrading to 2.1. I need to extract the addresses from the 1.1 files since the old list manager is not running anymore. Thanks for any help, Tim Rea

RE: [Mailman-Users] Simple question about archive times...

2002-03-13 Thread Richard Idalski
How can I configure this? ATM it looks as though its configured by the posted mail time, I'd like to change this to time on the mailman server. Can anyone give me a clue on how to do this? --- Richard Idalski NandoMedia 919.829.4805 (office) AIM: Ryusonuke --- -Origi

RE: [Mailman-Users] Simple question about archive times...

2002-03-13 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
At 14:21 13.03.2002 -0500, you wrote: >How can I configure this? Go to the administration page, select "Archival Options", on that page it is the third option. >ATM it looks as though its configured by the >posted mail time, I'd like to change this to time on the mailman server. Can >anyone giv

[Mailman-Users] Blocking a user from subscribing

2002-03-13 Thread Margaret Levine Young
We have set up a series of actions for a list manager to take if a subscriber is breaking the list rules, starting with one-week hand-moderation (so the list managers have to approve the subscriber's posts). The final action is to throw the person off the list. Is there a way to tell Mailman t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which file are the email addresses stored in???

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Carnes
They probably stored in a simple database, but you can dump them out by using the commands that come with Mailman: ~mailman/bin/list_members HtH - Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Tim Rea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:20 PM Subject:

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I recover email addresses?

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Carnes
I don't know about ancient times (like back in the days of MM v1.1) but the databases today are stored off the home directory of mailman (generally: /home/mailman/lists//). If you look at the commands that come with Mailman you will find several that can be of help to you: list_members du

Re: [Mailman-Users] archive dates

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Carnes
Three possibilities: 1) Write the patch and submit it... Someone else might like it to. Also if you really do it up right and make your patch key off an option in the mm_cfg.py file then it might get included in the next release... Immortality awaits you. 2) Write a cron-job that follows on the

[Mailman-Users] lists for virtual hosts

2002-03-13 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hello Listies, has anyone of you succeeded in running lists for virtual hosts (virtual hosting by name, not by IP-adress)? If so, any hint on hidden dangers would be greatly appreciated. Can I e.g. simply change the host name in the config? Or does that lead to trouble? Thanks, Dirk -

[Mailman-Users] Mailman can't handle MIME: Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable?

2002-03-13 Thread James Madill
Users of one of my mailing lists got a nasty surprise when a posted message was repeatedly sent to them. I traced the problem down to an instance of the standard End-Of-Message marker (a lone period on a line) in the middle of the posted message. The posted message contained extended ASCII chara

[Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Frederick Noronha
Hi Guys, I'm from India, where Internet access is (still) slow and telephones (for dial-ups) are rather noisy. So, email access is preferable to trying to log-onto the Web. To compound matters, I live in a village. Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used to do it with Major

[Mailman-Users] Installation / Web Interface Error

2002-03-13 Thread Jeffrey M. Johnson
I have run Mailman for a couple of years on a old Solaris on Intel box and have recently purchased a new Sun Netra X1 to run my mail programs. Currently I am running Solaris 2.8, Mailman 2.0.8, Python 2.1, openssl 0.9.6c During the 'make install' one of the last lines is /usr/bin/env: No such fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
Frederick> Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used Frederick> to do it with Majordomo and Yahoogroups, but they are both Frederick> difficult in other ways) instead of having to log on via the Frederick> Net? Yup... Try sending a message to the list's -requ

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Stone
Hi Mailman, We are considering getting a email list management program for when we send out our weekly email of new products. Currently, we have our email setup to record the email address of everyone's email that we reply to. We then email our newsletter out to all those people. (Around 1,00

[Mailman-Users] auto approve

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Abela
Hi guys, I guess you could say I'm somewhat new to Mailman. My problem is that I'm running 4 mailing lists, which are under an umbrella list. What I need, is for emails that are approved from the umbrella list to be automatically approved by the children lists under it. ie. Any email forwarded fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] News to Mail gateway setup

2002-03-13 Thread andrew . clark
> I can't think of a simple way for this, but here are two options: > Use a separate program to gate the news into the mailing list, and have the > program use a specific user as the sender (or actually the forwarder of the > message). This is they way I currently do it at one of the sites I ad

[Mailman-Users] Search capability

2002-03-13 Thread Sandra Cann
We have over 4500 users on our listserv. We are absolutely desparate for a search capability for the archives. PLe! -- Sandra Cann http://www.jcorporate.com Open and shared standards based Java components "Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness." (

[Mailman-Users] Message Duplication when sending to Multiple Lists

2002-03-13 Thread Larry & Mary Wetmore
I am a novice mailman user. Does mailman have a mechanism to prevent multiple copies of the same message being delivered when a message is sent to two or more lists, and the recipients are on both lists? Can this issue be addressed using a hierachical set of lists? Thanks, Larry ---

[Mailman-Users] Sending email to Multiple Lists

2002-03-13 Thread Roselle, Joye
Is it possible to send a message to more that ONE listserv in the TO line as well as a number of individuals in the CC line? When this was done (sent to 5 listservs) no errors were returned but the message was also NOT recorded in the Archives. ---

[Mailman-Users] admin unsubscribe

2002-03-13 Thread Andrew Hon
Hi there, Mailman is nice, but I'm searching for a way to unsubscribe a list member without him knowing. Currently it seems the member is notified, and there is no option for not notifying. Cheers, Andrew -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAI

[Mailman-Users] How do I recover from this?

2002-03-13 Thread Tim Rea
I recently had to completely reformat my primary harddrive and reinstall Linux from scratch. I had to do this because someone hacked into my box and messed everything up. The admins at my datacenter did the reinstall and now my system is back up. The good news is that I have a second disk in t

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2002-03-13 Thread John Gillon
My mailing lists managed through Mailman are being regularly spammed to the tune of 20 plus messages per day, and although the mail does not get through the various filters and restrictions, scrolling and checking to delete or reject these messages has become a major time commitment.  I woul

[Mailman-Users] Setting up a Mailman List

2002-03-13 Thread Jpatterson21
I'm in the process of setting up a list using your software; thank you for making it available. I'm transferring to a new Web Host and my current list, lyris, is maxed out at 200 users. What is the max # of users, I can register with Mailman? Thank you, Jerry Patterson:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] (li

[Mailman-Users] auto approve

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Abela
Hi guys, I guess you could say I'm somewhat new to Mailman. My problem is that I'm running 4 mailing lists, which are under an umbrella list. What I need, is for emails that are approved from the umbrella list to be automatically approved by the children lists under it. ie. Any email forwarded fr

[Mailman-Users] For the Wishlist

2002-03-13 Thread Jörn Rönnow
Hi! I have an item for the MailMan Wishlist: Under List Administration, I'd like an option to automatically handle all messages held for approval due to "filters" (e.g. "message too big"), so that all of them could be rejected (or discarded) without manual intervention. Best Regards, Jörn Rön

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation / Web Interface Error

2002-03-13 Thread Alan Mizrahi
I think the problem is with your SSL libraries. Are you using static or dynamic SSL libraries? Did you remove the dynamic libraries after installing? Maybe its just a matter of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Alan Mizrahi Universidad Simon Bolivar

[Mailman-Users] Unintentional humor in subscribers list.

2002-03-13 Thread Damon Linkous
I'm getting abused by my list members over the wording of the headings in the Subscribers List. The categories of subscribers are Non-digested Members (as a opposed to those members who are easier to digest after being eaten) Digested Members (could defecated members be far behind) private memb

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:41:27PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > Ben Gertzfield wrote a patch which Barry recently included in mailman-cvs > which allows you to not receive the list copy of a message in you were Cced > in the headers (nodupes patch). > The idea is to reproduce the (imo sole use

[Mailman-Users] no headers and footers

2002-03-13 Thread carmoda
I have installed 'mailman' on my VPS and am having a one small, but irritating problem! posts to various lists do not seem to get the 'Headers' or 'Footers' added to mail going through mailman. I have attempted to edit the headers & footers via the web interface and the "mm_cfg.py" file directly

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
[mailman-devel stripped] On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:41:27PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > Ben Gertzfield wrote a patch which Barry recently included in mailman-cvs > > which allows you to not receive the list copy of a message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search capability

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:23:45PM -0500, Sandra Cann wrote: > We have over 4500 users on our listserv. We are absolutely desparate for a > search capability for the archives. PLe! Look in the archives, someone made a patch to get htdig to work with mailman. Marc -- Microsoft is

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin unsubscribe

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:44:38PM -0800, Andrew Hon wrote: > Hi there, > > Mailman is nice, but I'm searching for a way to unsubscribe a list member > without him knowing. Currently it seems the member is notified, and there > is no option for not notifying. I think if you have an unsubscrib

[Mailman-Users] test

2002-03-13 Thread David
test -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

[Mailman-Users] How many

2002-03-13 Thread Paul H Byerly
Hi all, Can someone tell me how many members a list on version 2.0.7 can have? I've been thru the gnu site and can't find information on that. An old reference I saw says 1000, but that was for a previous version. Thanks. <>< Paul To open ignore the directions and get a hammer and

Re: [Mailman-Users] How many

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:31:13PM -0600, Paul H Byerly wrote: > Hi all, > > Can someone tell me how many members a list on version 2.0.7 can > have? I've been thru the gnu site and can't find information on that. An > old reference I saw says 1000, but that was for a previous version.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a user from subscribing

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Margaret Levine Young wrote: > We have set up a series of actions for a list manager to take if a > subscriber is breaking the list rules, starting with one-week > hand-moderation (so the list managers have to approve the subscriber's > posts). The fina

[Mailman-Users] RedHat7.2 Sendmail HELP!!

2002-03-13 Thread David
Hello All, I installed Mailman 2.0.8 on my RedHat7.2 and Sendmail. I made a test list add the output to /etc/aliases. ## test mailing list ## created: 13-Mar-2002 root test:"|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Listserver subscription results

2002-03-13 Thread Nick Simicich
At 11:41 AM 2002-03-12 +0100, Mihail Tsagidis wrote: >1. How can this webpage show up in a popup window. I mean in a seperate >window. > > (I suppose I have to do this with javascript). Why do you want to break your system for anyone who trys, say, to access it from a cellphone (where I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up a Mailman List

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:25:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the max # of users, I can register with Mailman? 10,000 to 100,000 per list Number of list is currently limited (by your filesystem) to 16,000 Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman can't handle MIME:Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable?

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "James" == James Madill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> Users of one of my mailing lists got a nasty surprise when James> a posted message was repeatedly sent to them. James> I traced the problem down to an instance of the standard James> End-Of-Message marker (a lone pe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:39:18AM +0530, Frederick Noronha wrote: > Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used to do it > with Majordomo and Yahoogroups, but they are both difficult in other > ways) instead of having to log on via the Net? Mailman 2.1 which will be out soon a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which file are the email addresses stored in???

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:07:26PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > They probably stored in a simple database, but you can dump them out by ~mailman/lists/listname/config.{db,pck} dumpdb will list the content of those files Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unintentional humor in subscribers list.

2002-03-13 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "DL" == Damon Linkous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DL> I'm getting abused by my list members over the wording of the DL> headings in the Subscribers List. The categories of DL> subscribers are DL> Non-digested Members (as a opposed to those members who are DL> easier to

[Mailman-Users] Footer added to mail sent to regular list members [empty]

2002-03-13 Thread carmoda
Hi, I am getting nothing in the Footer added to mail sent to regular list members "Regular-member (non-digest) Options" i have in the "Footer added to mail sent to regular list members" %(real_name)s mailing list %(real_name)s@%(host_name)s %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Carnes
While this is not a function of Mailman, with the addition of some scripts you can easily add this functionality. Mailman allows you to manipulate the lists using outside files or databases. You will have to maintain a list of emails to "not send". --- Original Message: Monday 11 March 20

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Carnes
> > Secondly, can the webpage generated by Mailman be made a little more > > ambitious to allow (i) uploading photographs (ii) offering us stats, as > > PHPnuke does? > > It will do neither, and there are no plans I know off to add that > functionality. > > Marc This sounds like it would be a nic

[Mailman-Users] Ignore option for individual subscribers

2002-03-13 Thread Larry Kirkpatrick
I can't find this in the documentation. Is there a command in Mailman wherein one could set their list subscription to ignore or instantly discard any post with [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the "from" field? LK -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I recover email addresses?

2002-03-13 Thread Michael C. Brenner
At 04:12 PM 3/13/2002, Tim Rea wrote: >My question: >How can I retrieve all the emails for the old mailing lists? I have all the >files but have not been able to locate the "database" that contains all the >email addresses for each mailing list. I would like to install and >configure Mailman 2.1