Re: [Mailman-Users] approval from posting

2002-05-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 14 May 2002 15:56:56 -0400 (EDT) Jessie Kleefstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are in the process of converting all of our distibution lists to > Mailman lists. A customer has just sent me an email asking why she has > received a request to approve a posting from herself to the list w

[Mailman-Users] Mailman in OS X

2002-05-14 Thread LuKreme
I have tried to install mailman on my OS X machine (10.1.4) with Python 2. 2. Everything seems to install just fine (no errors) after. I was even able o create a test list per the docs and got an email in the right place telling me of the list. Trouble is, I cannot access the web interface.

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I changed it to mailman, but somehow it's back to nobody now. Also I'm > getting a undelivered mail error message Because your apache server runs as nobody... > Command died with status 2: > "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd testlist". Command output: Failure

[Mailman-Users] approval from posting

2002-05-14 Thread Jessie Kleefstra
We are in the process of converting all of our distibution lists to Mailman lists. A customer has just sent me an email asking why she has received a request to approve a posting from herself to the list when she is the list administrator? Is there a reason why this is happening? Thanks - J

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread vodka
>Not according to your own email earlier... It showed they're owned >by > nobody.mailman I changed it to mailman, but somehow it's back to nobody now. Also I'm getting a undelivered mail error message Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd testlist". Comma

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All files under /home/mailman are owned by user mailman and group mailman. Not according to your own email earlier... It showed they're owned by nobody.mailman -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. +---

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread vodka
>- You shouldn't be chmodding things +rwx... I know that, but that is the only way to find out if this is indeed a permissions problem. >- Your permissions are wrong from what these errors tell me. Either >your > crontask runs as a completely different user than what your directori

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538): IOError : [Errno 13] Permission > denied: '/home/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db' > > % ls -la /home/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db > -rw-rw 1 nobody mailman 2853 May 14 16:44 > /home/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db >

Re: [Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread vodka
One more thing. I do get some errors; my error log says: May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538): Traceback (most recent call last): May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? May 14 17:00:01 2002 gate_news(27538): main() May 14 17:00:01 2002

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

2002-05-14 Thread Harold Paulson
Simon, That is not an error, as such. You get that notice in your qrunner log whenever qrunner starts up and finds that there is already another qrunner process running, by virtue of the fact that there is a lock in ~mailman/locks/. Now ~mailman/qfiles is where emails and such live, so if y

[Mailman-Users] pending users

2002-05-14 Thread vodka
Hi, I installed mailman and everything seems to work fine up until a user gets the confirmation message. After that, mailman puts the person into a "pending" status.Unfortunately this status doesn't get updated and users won't get subscribed to the list. I've tried almost everything, and I

[Mailman-Users] newbie: 2.0.10 not creating lists correctly?

2002-05-14 Thread Dick Balaska
Hi ho, I am trying to love mailman. First i had to upgrade python, i'm sticking w/my old gcc and libc5. > Python 2.2.1 (#1, May 9 2002, 18:12:32) > [GCC egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)] on linux2 mailman 2.0.10 ./configure --prefix=/home/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/mailman --with

[Mailman-Users] mailman

2002-05-14 Thread Andrew Wilson
Hi I would like to say that I think Mailman is a great utility! I would like to extract the user names and passwords for a particular list, how do I do this? Regards, Andrew __ "This information is intended only for the person or entity to which it

RE: [Mailman-Users] Help

2002-05-14 Thread Michael Smith
Why not use Majordomo then??? You seem to like it a lot Mike --- Michael Smith (Warlock on IRC) http://www.warlock.web.za/ "The software said Windows95 or better... ...so I got Linux" On Mon, 13 May 2002, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: > Well bully for you. Its

[Mailman-Users] Looping bug: Is it fixed?

2002-05-14 Thread Stephen J. Hyland
My hosting company is running version 2.0.8. I've encountered a problem where email sent to the administrator for the list (i.e., me) goes into a loop that finally gets detected and killed but not before I get flooded with copies. This only happens with the admin account, not to email sent to the

[Mailman-Users] New High Performance Installation

2002-05-14 Thread Jamie Penner
Hello list! We've recently taken on a new client who has a very heavy list.I am wondering if anyone can shed some feedback on whether MailMan is the right answer for this! (the client is currently using ezmlm but I am trying to move away from that) The list volume is approx 400,000 ema

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change localhost.localdomain in /mailman/listinfo header?

2002-05-14 Thread Support
Hi I think you will find you need to use DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'your_domain_here.net' in mm_ cfg.py (add at last section as per comments in that file.) I however have hacked admin and listinfo to show [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a few more bits to tidy up but mailman is getting close to my solution t

[Mailman-Users] Change localhost.localdomain in /mailman/listinfo header?

2002-05-14 Thread Sharkey, Scott
Hi All, I've managed to successfully install Mailman and configure it to work with Postfix virtual domains. One part seems to have me stumped, however. In the /mailman/listinfo and /mailman/admin pages, there is a link that says "questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or something like that. WHERE

RE: [Mailman-Users] RH 73 & Mailman

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Millard
Resolved. I had the Include in the httpd.conf file in the wrong place. All is well with the Mailman now. Thank you all. -- Regards, Jim Millard Sr. Software Engineer Pioneer Digital Technologies, Inc. == I think they used to call them transistor units.

RE: [Mailman-Users] RH 73 & Mailman

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Hale
Lemmie check on that when I get home (in about 3 hours) - if you don't get a better response by then, I'll check my config files. :) All I know is that I WAS running Redhat 7.2, installed Postfix, Mailman etc manually and then redid the machine using 7.3 (which had all NEWER versions of the sa

RE: [Mailman-Users] RH 73 & Mailman

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Millard
Jim, Thank you for your response. I had overlooked the README.REDHAT. Having done that I am still confused. Mailman sent me a message telling me to administer my test list at this URL http://jupiter/mailman/admin/test (This should point to /var/mailman/cgi-bin/admin/test) I have the include in the

[Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Faulkner
Hmmm, My lists stopped last night. This was in the qrunner log: May 14 16:29:01 2002 (11337) Could not acquire qrunner lock I have upgraded to Python 2.2.1 Downloaded, configured, make install, mailman-2.0.10 And I still get the error. I have removed all the files from /home/mailman/qfiles

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie - many questions and ideas but mostly how to kill the SPAM

2002-05-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 14 May 2002 19:39:46 +0200 nettings wrote: > ...sometimes wrong charsets are in this =20=FE=XY encoding... ie Quoted-printable -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh?

[Mailman-Users] Weekly digest

2002-05-14 Thread Maurice Lafleur
I have been using MM 2.0.8 for a coupleof months now and aI am very satisfied with it. I have 2 questions: 1- I haven't found the way to make a list send its digest weekly instead of daily. Is this an option or is it fixed? 2- When is 2.1 coming out? Thanks, Maurice --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newlist for virtual host

2002-05-14 Thread Support
Hi Only problem with that is when you create and don't suppress the admin email then the admin gets wrong url and addresses. Mark - Original Message - From: "Raquel Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Newlist

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie - many questions and ideas but mostly how to kill the SPAM

2002-05-14 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
J C Lawrence wrote: > > > 2. How would I write a regular expression in Mailman Privacy options > > to trap Korean characters in the subject line, use of 8 bit ASCII > > characters, or even all subjects containing Ä (Capital A umlaut) would > > be sufficient. > > [^A-Z^0-9^~^!^@^#^\$^%^\^^\*^\(^

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie - many questions and ideas but mostly how to kill the SPAM

2002-05-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:05:11 +0100 Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Questions and Comments. > 1. Can a regular expression be fatal rather than just requiring > moderation. I have a number of rules with 100% hit rate - such as > trapping all messages flagged as coming from open relays.

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 73 & Mailman

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Hale
Everything's there - works fine for me. It doesn't actually store the lists under html (I don't think) - did you do ALL the configuration? There's aliasing going on in the httpd.conf file to point to the mailman stuff even though it's not physically located under the html folder. Check the RPM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer disappeared in HTML mails?

2002-05-14 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:05:55 +0800 Lewis Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's good to heard the problem was being fixed in 2.1, but > unfortunately the mailman running on my machine is 2.0.10! Any patch > or fix for the current stage? Nope, and unlikely to be. -- J C Lawrence

[Mailman-Users] RH 73 & Mailman

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Millard
Did RH leave something out of their distribution? I have installed the Mailman that comes on their disks. When I create a new list, no proper links to the list are set. I set my domain in the mm_cfg.py file and get a proper looking URL in the notification message. I just get a 404 as there is no m

[Mailman-Users] Using MM2.0.10, Moderated messages get stuck

2002-05-14 Thread Wayne Spivak
Running MM2.0.10, Python 1.5.2 and Roxen Challenger 1.3.x When I get several messages in the same queue for the same moderated mailing list, the messages get stuck. Using the Web Interface (un-modified), breaks the CGI scripting with a "File Not Found". When only a couple of e-mails are in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newlist for virtual host

2002-05-14 Thread Raquel Rice
On Tue, 14 May 2002 17:42:07 +0100 Support "Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > When i run newlist it does not prompt for which virtual_domain the > list is > for. > I am using VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=1 but it creates the lists under > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME with > DEFAULT_URL > > Looks like

[Mailman-Users] Newlist for virtual host

2002-05-14 Thread Support
Hi When i run newlist it does not prompt for which virtual_domain the list is for. I am using VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=1 but it creates the lists under DEFAULT_HOST_NAME with DEFAULT_URL Looks like another hack needed to make it useable under virtual domains. Mark -

Re: [Mailman-Users] is private mail being redirected here?

2002-05-14 Thread AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin
They are not one sided conversations. The discussion was in reply to a question that I asked on the list. IMHO it is proper to continue posting to the list. In fact the undesired behavior is to take a list discussion private. Questions that are asked that relate to the general topic of the

[Mailman-Users] Web-based list archive problem

2002-05-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
Hi, A quick question that may be answered elsewhere, and if so I apologize. In the Web-based list archive, any HTML tags that are included in the "subject" line of a message get sent to the browser as HTML, and so start opening elements like , , or inserting s. It would be a very good id

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer disappeared in HTML mails?

2002-05-14 Thread Lewis Lau
That's good to heard the problem was being fixed in 2.1, but unfortunately the mailman running on my machine is 2.0.10! Any patch or fix for the current stage? Regards, Lewis At 12:11 AM 5/14/02 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: >On Tue, 14 May 2002 11:43:52 +0800 >Lewis Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie - many questions and ideas but mostlyhow to kill the SPAM

2002-05-14 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:05, Simon Waters wrote: > Questions and Comments. > 3. Does better documentation on the regular expression handling > exist, currently only one example is given for a "from:" header. > Maybe I'm being thick, but regex regular expressions are pretty > involved and depend o

[Mailman-Users] Newbie - many questions and ideas but mostly how to kill the SPAM

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Waters
Hi, first post here - so be gentle. Mailman is great by the way - I just want some ideas to make my life easier! Background. I am a list-manager (I believe it is the right term) I have delegated to me a couple of lists from the gnu.org mailman installation (info-gnu-chess, bug-gnu-chess, they

[Mailman-Users] Approved header option

2002-05-14 Thread Kory Wheatley
In mailman 2.1b.1 How do you use the Approved:password to send your message to a moderated list. I'm the owner and I have the Emergency Moderation turned on and I what to send my message through. I don't want to use the Pending Administrative requests web interface to do this. I know in majordo

RE: [Mailman-Users] The moderation/SPAM queue

2002-05-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 8:32 -0400 5/14/02, Robert Wilson wrote: >I wonder if having an option to bounce the message with an error that >looks like the address is invalid when the sender isn't subscribed to >the list would help with spam attempts. Hmmm, perhaps-- although my fear would be that the spambots would

RE: [Mailman-Users] The moderation/SPAM queue

2002-05-14 Thread Robert Wilson
I wonder if having an option to bounce the message with an error that looks like the address is invalid when the sender isn't subscribed to the list would help with spam attempts. Robert > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric A. Me

[Mailman-Users] newbie: 2.0.10 not creating lists correctly?

2002-05-14 Thread Dick Balaska
Hi ho, I am trying to love mailman. First i had to upgrade python, i'm sticking w/my old gcc and libc5. > Python 2.2.1 (#1, May 9 2002, 18:12:32) > [GCC egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)] on linux2 mailman 2.0.10 ./configure --prefix=/home/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/mailman --with

[Mailman-Users] is private mail being redirected here?

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Neff
I am seeing what appears to be a series of one-sided "answer posts" from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoting messages that have not previously appeared on the mailman-users list. If this person is redirecting private responses to the list without the correspondent's permission, that's considered ru