Re: [Mailman-Users] importing a list of addresses

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:27:30 -0400 Dene Ulmschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to import multiple users at once (as an admin) into a > list and make set them as subscribers? ~mailman/bin/add_members > I have an export from a database that I use and I would like to add > use

Re: [Mailman-Users] get number of members

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:23:55 +1000 joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyon, Is there a command where i would know how many are > subscribed on the list? Its on the admin members page. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.

[Mailman-Users] importing a list of addresses

2002-04-15 Thread Dene Ulmschneider
is there a way to import multiple users at once (as an admin) into a list and make set them as subscribers? I have an export from a database that I use and I would like to add users all at once without emailing them and asking them to subscribe to a list again. Thanks Dene -

[Mailman-Users] get number of members

2002-04-15 Thread Joseph
Hello everyon, Is there a command where i would know how many are subscribed on the list? thx =) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bi

Re: [Mailman-Users] CGI error, please help!

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:35:12 +0800 Lau Yuet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 48. (Reconfigure to > take 48?) Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillat

[Mailman-Users] Can I set up Mailman without root access?

2002-04-15 Thread Erich Schreiber
I'm on a shared server and need some localization of Mailman to German which my hosting company cannot provide. Can I set up Mailman in user-space without root access with full control over the configuration? Erich -- Erich Schreiber MultiMediaForge

[Mailman-Users] CGI error, please help!

2002-04-15 Thread Lau Yuet
Hi, I'm new on mailman. I've just installed the mailman version 2.0.9 on my machine days ago, running Mandrake 8.1 and Postfix. I got the following error message when I try to view the listinfo page, what should I do to fix the problem? Please kindly help me. Lewis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Side Includes

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 12:44 , Richard Barrett wrote: > Surely, if you are using the built-in pipermail archiver, you can also > set a list's archive to private on the Archive Options web GUI admin > page. The list archives are then not available through the /pipermail/ > URI path elem

[Mailman-Users] cgi-bin/archives is confused with null params

2002-04-15 Thread WATANABE Katsuhiro
Almost all web site running mailman has a tiny bug in parameter handling in $prefix/cgi-bin/archives. If you knock http://any.site/mailman/archives (or our flagship http://mail.python.org/mailman/archives for an instance), you will get: Bug in Mailman version x.yy.zz... We're sorry, we h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-subscribe from database

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:03:20 -0400 John Wildgrube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does Mailman have any ODBC capabilities? Not in 2.0, yes in 2.1 if someone writes a plugin/adaptor. -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread tneff
--On Monday, April 15, 2002 4:30 PM -0700 Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No one that I'm aware of on the Mailman team is against the > idea of editing messages in the moderation process. That's terrific news! I will issue my patch when 2.1 goes gold. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread Dan Mick
Which "they" do you have in mind? No one that I'm aware of on the Mailman team is against the idea of editing messages in the moderation process. > I will definitely issue an editing patch for 2.1 when it goes gold. Since > this is one of their "we don't think you should WANT to do this" > ho

Re: [Mailman-Users] A break of symmetry regard to generic address

2002-04-15 Thread WATANABE Katsuhiro
WATANABE Katsuhiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in [Mailman-Users] A break of symmetry regard to generic address > Assume you have two addresses > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amendment: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be [EMAIL PROTECTED], or you cannot see any conflicts. -- WATANABE Ka

[Mailman-Users] A break of symmetry regard to generic address

2002-04-15 Thread WATANABE Katsuhiro
Assume you have two addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] , and your mailman's SMART_ADDRESS_MATCH = 1 (default in Defaults.py). If [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member, subscribe request from [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rejected because of `Already a member`. In turn, even if [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread tneff
I will definitely issue an editing patch for 2.1 when it goes gold. Since this is one of their "we don't think you should WANT to do this" hot-buttons, like controlling the List-* headers, I don't want to issue patches for prerelease versions and encourage them to do any counter-engineering.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Converting Majordomo to Mailman

2002-04-15 Thread Matt Thoene
Hello Devin, Monday, April 15, 2002, 3:00:36 PM, Devin Atencio wrote: > Is there a script of any kind to easily convert from > using a Majordomo type of mailinglist to Mailman? Take a look at /home/mailman/bin/digest_arch. It can convert majordomo digests into mailbox format. -- Regards, Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-subscribe from database

2002-04-15 Thread pilsl
imho mailman is far from accessing odbc-sources. Your solution is to write a small perl-script that accesses you acessdatabase, checks for new entries after the last call and add this entries using the add_members program coming with mailman. Of course it does not need to be perl ;) peter

[Mailman-Users] Converting Majordomo to Mailman

2002-04-15 Thread Devin Atencio
Is there a script of any kind to easily convert from using a Majordomo type of mailinglist to Mailman? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cg

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems getting mailman to work with qmail

2002-04-15 Thread tom
thanks for the quick response; unfortunately, no such luck :( fbsd doesnt have a nofiles group, but qmail apparently needs a 'qnofiles' group.. but anyway, mailman didn't work with it. thanks again, ill keep workin at it.. and let everyone know how i got it workin (if i do...) -tom - Origin

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I

2002-04-15 Thread tom
check out cron/mailpasswds.. which should be running (monthly, as youd like it), if you've setup the cron entries already. if it doesnt have the link, it shouldnt be too hard to add it in.   -tom - Original Message - From: Tony Turner To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

[Mailman-Users] how do I

2002-04-15 Thread Tony Turner
I just started using this system and want to do the following:   Send a monthly message to my list. At the end of the message I want to include an 'unsubscribe' link so the subscriber can go to their management area.   Thank you, Tony Turner

[Mailman-Users] create, delete a list

2002-04-15 Thread Raik Nettling
Title: Message Is there a way to create /delete a list through a web-interface or e-mail ? http://www.acme.com/mailman/create doesn't work. I cannot find find a script for it. I'm running mailman 2.0.9 on Redhat 7.0. Thank you, Raik

[Mailman-Users] Mailman??

2002-04-15 Thread leihlani mccubbin
Hi There,   I am trying to create a mailman list where I can e-mail one address and all my employees within the company will receive the e-mail. EG [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I have been playing around with hostway but cannot set it up there as all the employees have alias’s. Please could you hel

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:55:01AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote: > "Billie R. McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list. But, we aren't able to > >edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just one > >inappropriate word). > > > >How can we

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation problem

2002-04-15 Thread Dan Mick
> checking for --with-username... mailman > checking for mailman UID... Traceback (most recent call last): >File "conftest.py", line 1, in ? > import pwd, string > ImportError: No module named pwd > cat: cannot open conftest.out > > configure: error: > * No "mailman" user found! > *

[Mailman-Users] Auto-subscribe from database

2002-04-15 Thread John Wildgrube
I have a database of clients and their personal information (in a custom database designed in ACCESS) for my orgaization. When a new member joines our organization, I enter their information into this database and, as part of our organizational benefits, they are automatically included in one of

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems getting mailman to work with qmail

2002-04-15 Thread Adi Fairbank
Did you configure mailman with --with-mail-gid=nofiles ? I don't know about the rest of your problems, but I got it to work simply by making that one change. I'm running on RedHat 7.x. HTH, -Adi tom wrote: > > Im attempting to setup mailman (v2.0.8) on a FreeBSD machine with qmail, > and not

Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation problem

2002-04-15 Thread Eric Evans
Hi, Yes I am in fact using Python 2.2, but unfortunately I still can't get configure to run. This is very frustrating. If anybody has any further suggestions on how to get this thing to work, I would really appreciate hearing them. Thanks Eric Evans >it sounds to me like you have an o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation problem

2002-04-15 Thread tom
it sounds to me like you have an old version of python. get 2.2 from www.python.org, and see if that fixes your problems.. -tom - Original Message - From: "Eric Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installation p

[Mailman-Users] Installation problem

2002-04-15 Thread Eric Evans
Hi, I have not been able to install Mailman, and I'm hoping someone out there may be able to offer some helpful advice. Configuration: I'm on a Sun workstation with Solaris 8, and running NIS. I have created a user called mailman, and a group called mailman. The mailman user is listed in th

[Mailman-Users] admin-interface does not work with konqueror

2002-04-15 Thread pilsl
Whenever I use the admin-interface with konqueror I get the following problem: "Error decoding authorization cookie" after the first submit of configs. This "sure" is a problem with mailman, cause I use konqueror very frequently and never got a similar message before. Dont have problems with any

[Mailman-Users] problems getting mailman to work with qmail

2002-04-15 Thread tom
Im attempting to setup mailman (v2.0.8) on a FreeBSD machine with qmail, and not having too much luck. Hopefully some of you have some ideas :) First problem was that mailman couldnt send out messages. This was fixed by correctly setting my SMTPHOST in mm_cfg.py. In accordance with README.QMAIL,

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman/mhonarc integration: authentication for private archives

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Giuseppe G N Angilella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, would anyone like to share his main.mrc MHonArc > configuration file with me? Please, reply to my e-mail address > directly, as I'm not a subscriber of these lists. My setup is detailed in

Re: [Mailman-Users] usenet gateway for mailman

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 02:45:22 +0100 david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mention 'usenet gateway' for mailman, does this mean your great > product can integrate with a newsgroup, e.g. postings to the newsgroup > get sent out as emails to those who prefer email and emails get > automatically po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conversion utility to convert digests into thread structure?

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 13:14:20 +1000 David Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering whether there exists a utility (Linux and/or Windows) > to convert the digest email data into a normal thread structure? If you are not using MIME digests you're pretty well out of luck. Use mimetools

Re: [Mailman-Users] usenet gateway for mailman

2002-04-15 Thread Jerry Stratton
>You mention 'usenet gateway' for mailman, does this mean your great product >can integrate with a newsgroup, e.g. postings to the newsgroup get sent out >as emails to those who prefer email and emails get automatically posted to >the newsgroup for those who prefer newsgroups? Or is this too much

Re: [Mailman-Users] Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:07:21 -0400 Billie R McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list. But, we aren't able > to edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just > one inappropriate word). Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Side Includes

2002-04-15 Thread Richard Barrett
At 23:55 15/04/2002 +0900, Ben Gertzfield wrote: >On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 11:30 , Timothy Murphy wrote: > >>While I am an enthusiastic user of mailman, >>doesn't majordomo still have a well-defined usage, >>for essentially private lists like committee minutes? >> >>This is a genuine question

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Side Includes

2002-04-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 11:30 , Timothy Murphy wrote: > While I am an enthusiastic user of mailman, > doesn't majordomo still have a well-defined usage, > for essentially private lists like committee minutes? > > This is a genuine question -- > am I right in assuming that mailman lists are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server Side Includes

2002-04-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:12:06AM -0400, Ernesto Gluecksmann wrote: > New convert from Majordomo. > It wasn't hard to switch once I got around to checking out Mailman's poweress. > It's like coming out of the dark ages into the age of enlightment. > Well, maybe not so dramatic, but defini

[Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread Tom Neff
"Billie R. McNamara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list. But, we aren't able to > edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just one > inappropriate word). > > How can we do this? There is a FAQ entry that wants you to hand edit various

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives management

2002-04-15 Thread Richard Barrett
At 09:28 15/04/2002 +0530, Krishna Rao SN wrote: >Hi, > >Recently installed mailman on our server. >For testing posted many messages and listed under archives. >Now as a admin of the list, I tried to delete these arcives. >Under Archival options there is no option to refresh the database. > >Kind

[Mailman-Users] Archives management

2002-04-15 Thread Krishna Rao SN
Hi, Recently installed mailman on our server. For testing posted many messages and listed under archives. Now as a admin of the list, I tried to delete these arcives. Under Archival options there is no option to refresh the database. Kindly help me how to refresh the database --krishna -