Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott Courtney wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > > You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to > > the bits about guarantees and transaction handling. > [...] > > > > It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and open

[Mailman-Users] Surveying list users

2002-07-11 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
I just posted this to list-managers. I think it's relevant enough to mailman users that I'm posting a copy here. Apologies in advance to those who see this twice or see it as noise... I mentioned this a week or so ago as part of another thread. I've been thinking about it ever since, and

[Mailman-Users] RELEASED Mailman 2.0.12

2002-07-11 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
I' released Mailman 2.0.12 which fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability, among other changes. I recommend that folks upgrade their 2.0.x systems to this new version. See below for a NEWS file excerpt. As usual, I've made both full source tarballs and patches available. See http://sour

[Mailman-Users] Newcomer to Mailman

2002-07-11 Thread tajuddin
Hi I am a nex comer to the world of Mailman. I have installed Mailman on my system. I want to know how to attach a file to a mail whcih the mailman sends. Thanks and Regards Bharde Tajuddin -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Mailman-Users] Archiving and Replys

2002-07-11 Thread Sherif Karaoglu
Hi, I am setting up mailman to replace Lyris as our listserv manager, and so far things are going great. Unfortunately I have come across a small problem, I'm using an external archiver (hypermail - my boss likes its output better than pipermail) which I have set up to work and it will automatic

[Mailman-Users] MBOX to Mailman's archive

2002-07-11 Thread Alexander Prohorenko
Hello, I've got a mail list running under different mail list manager. I'd like to migrate the archive of this mail list to Mailman. Can you please help me how can I do this? All I've got is the mbox-styled messages archive from the previous manager. Thanks. -- Alexander Prohorenko -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to > the bits about guarantees and transaction handling. [...] > > It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and open()/close() calls (which > latter force a buffer and in

[Mailman-Users] Question on Umbrella lists

2002-07-11 Thread Tenant
I'm still using Mailman 2.0 beta - never bothered upgrading as it works fine as a one-way newsletter list. Waiting for 2.1. I understand the concept of Umbrella lists. We run several lists and the membership across the lists runs about 10% -- meaning about 10% of one list is also on a second l

[Mailman-Users] Delete Users question

2002-07-11 Thread Robert S. Campbell
On your program, you have a way to add many users at once without them recieving an email. However, I can not find a way to delete a bunch of users without them being notified. I tried setting them no "nomail" and then unsubscribing them, but they will still recieve the exit message. I thought

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/Un-Subscribe via e-mail, not web

2002-07-11 Thread Paul Croft
Unless the list is set to confirm ... then they will only get subscribed if they mail back the confirmation. My lists are set up to subscribe via the web using multiple checkboxes and PHP...it has worked excellent since it was installed in March 2002I did attempt the unsubscribe in the sam

[Mailman-Users] problem with Mailman address security?

2002-07-11 Thread jm-mailman-users
Here's a wierd one. I run a mailing list which is set to "subscriber list visible only to administrator", and it seems that some addresses (if not all) have leaked onto a spam list. - I'm (reasonably) certain the user did not simply use the same address elsewhere -- the user uses sneakemail.c

[Mailman-Users] Migrating from majordomo to mailman

2002-07-11 Thread Anne Moreau
Hi :-) we are thinking of migrating from majordomo to Mailman mainly for 2 reasons : 1- French support 2- Web interface for users and lists administrators. We have over 450 lists in majordomo, with several different configurations. I suppose we are not the first institution to do this "migratio

[Mailman-Users] error import paths in File "bin/update"

2002-07-11 Thread Bjoern Kaiser
Hi First my System-Configuration RedHat 7.3 Python 2.2 Apache 1.3.23 gcc 2.96 sendmail 8.11 I have been tried to run Mailman 2.0.12 and that worked, but I need a german Mailman. So I tried Mailman 2.1b2 with Multi-Lingual Support. I removed the previous version of Mailman and configured the new

[Mailman-Users] customisable Welcome (subscribeack.txt) message

2002-07-11 Thread Alexander Prohorenko
Hello Mailmen :), I've got a problem and hopefully you'll help me to find a way out. I need to customize a Welcome message (subscribeack.txt template) for every list, by other words - I need it to different things for different lists. Are there any way to customize it, as well as I can do subsc

[Mailman-Users] Mailman home HTML

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Westin
Am I correct in saying that, by default, accessing mydomain.com/mailman results in an error? Or did I mess something up in the installation? I was thinking about just setting the server to redirect all requests for /mailman to /mailman/listinfo, or something like that... would I run into som

[Mailman-Users] Archive problem...

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Avery
I'm using Mailman 2.0.8 and have been having some problems with my archives. I hope someone can give me a suggestion as to how to clear up the mess. Some of the mailing lists are fine, but in a few mailing lists, only the last two months are available from the web menu. Looking in the /usr/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:32:35 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:59 am, J C Lawrence wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 > And from your comments, it appears that my first suspicion of my own > idea was correct: it's not practical. Thanks for th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On 11 Jul 2002 17:14:36 +0100 Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, J C Lawrence wrote: > [I have reordered the quotes here - sorry if I have broken the > meaning] Hehn. A favoured habit of mine. > But full data journalling on an MTA type system can gai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:59 am, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 > > Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: > >> a) Add more RAM. Number of queue runners for your MTA > > > > Here's a silly question: Is it wo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:39:00 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > In that kind of an environment, my idea for a RAMDISK-based > /var/spool/mqueue might not be so far-fetched, on the Mailman machine > iteslf, because the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:39:00 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What method are you using to determind what relay gets each outbound > message transaction? First order optimisation is domain suffix routing (all .edu there, all .org there, all aol.com over there, etc). That can t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, J C Lawrence wrote: [I have reordered the quotes here - sorry if I have broken the meaning] > Journalling actually is a loss in this sort of scenario due to the extra > tracking and buffer copy overhead. The nice thing about ReiserFS and > XFS in particular is that th

[Mailman-Users] archives only display list e-mail

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Westin
I apologize if this gets posted multiple times. I accidentally sent the message from the wrong account, one not subscribed to the list, and so it's tied up waiting for admin approval. Hopefully the admin will see this and just delete it. --- I just set up Mailman, and everything seems to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: >> a) Add more RAM. Number of queue runners for your MTA > Here's a silly question: Is it worth considering *really* upping the > RAM, say to two gigabytes, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/Un-Subscribe via e-mail, not web

2002-07-11 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Gerry Doyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Detlef Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | | href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe;body=sub > | scribe"> > > The "subscribe" e-mail works great! But, passing "unsubcribe" or > "un-subscribe" is not recognized. For unsubscribe a passwor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman with Postfix and OS X

2002-07-11 Thread Robert Crosbie
Greg Westin hath declared on Thursday the 11 day of July 2002 :-: > I think I'm all set now... sorry about the trouble. But if anyone can > tell me any particular changes I should make to my configuration so that > things work better with Postfix, please let me know. I think I did what > t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/Un-Subscribe via e-mail, notweb

2002-07-11 Thread Gerry Doyon
Hello! --On Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:51 PM +0200 Detlef Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I would prefer to create some sort of an HTML link on my web site |> which, when clicked, will launch the users on mail software and |> have the Send and Subject line already filled in that will eithe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Agree with all that. Am using Compaq 380, 5 x 36 Gb hard discs and > hardware Raid5, 1Gb RAM and 512Mb swap, Reiserfs. > > However on these machines mailman is sending batches of mail to separate > MTA/relays. That's a good idea, too,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: > Tim Crouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Obviously disk size will be number one on the priority, but I am > > looking for what you would run this on. OS will be RH Linux 7.3 the > > hardware will be from Dell. I am leaning towards the fol