Re: [Mailman-Users] spam

2002-10-16 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:42:33 -0700 (PDT) alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is very easy to forge the From: line in email. If a spammer forges > the From: line to have a user which is on your list then it will go > through. This isn't really a problem that Mailman itself can solve.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read only list

2002-10-16 Thread admin
!!!Hello! Heelp - Myyy !!! Is it possible to create a private list where only one or two subscribers can post, and the others can only read? And if possible, than how? Like majordomo or any, containing in body message: "Approved: 'password' " - to not to load administrators by constant requiremen

[Mailman-Users] Public archive doesn't get updated

2002-10-16 Thread Drew McCormack
I recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.2, and I think I have somehow introduced an archiving problem. I recompiled my copy of Mailman, and everything works, except that messages do not appear in the public html pages. If I check the private directory, they are in the html pages there. I am using

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read only list

2002-10-16 Thread Mark Goodge
At 11:04 16/10/2002 +0300, admin wrote: >!!!Hello! Heelp - Myyy !!! > >Is it possible to create a private list where only one or two >subscribers can post, and the others can only read? And if possible, >than how? Like majordomo or any, containing in body message: "Approved: >'password' " - to not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read only list

2002-10-16 Thread admin
Then spammers will be able to fake headers of the message and sending in my list ( > >!!!Hello! Heelp - Myyy !!! > > > >Is it possible to create a private list where only one or two > >subscribers can post, and the others can only read? And if possible, > >than how? Like majordomo or any, contain

[Mailman-Users] Problems with configure

2002-10-16 Thread Hennie Rautenbach
OS Solaris 8 Version: mailman-2.0.13 Python: 2.2.1 I have created the mailman user (uid 110) and the mailman group (gid 15) When I run configure (as the mailman user) I get the following output: (Stuff excluded at the top) checking for true... /bin/true checking for --without-gcc... no checkin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with configure

2002-10-16 Thread Richard Barrett
At 10:45 16/10/2002, Hennie Rautenbach wrote: >OS Solaris 8 >Version: mailman-2.0.13 >Python: 2.2.1 > >I have created the mailman user (uid 110) and the mailman group (gid 15) > >When I run configure (as the mailman user) I get the following output: > >(Stuff excluded at the top) > >checking for t

[Mailman-Users] FW: Cron /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg

2002-10-16 Thread Angel Gabriel
I just cleared out my HTML dir, so that I could upload a new website, and all of a sudden I get this error? I'm guessing it's because I removed the below directory the question is, what is it, and what does it do?? More importantly, how do I put it back? Any help would be appreciated, thanks i

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problems installing Mailman 2.1b3

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
As a guess, I would say that you have a routing problem with your MTA (postfix). You might need to setup Postfix so that it allows relaying from 127.0.0.1 (localhost). As to the footer, try sending a text message to the list and see if the footer is included then. I'm guessing again, but you are

[Mailman-Users] admin passwd

2002-10-16 Thread Rantanen, TC1
Is there away to find an admin passwd for the web pages? I have root access to the system. Not sure if the passwd is stored somewhere with in the mailman configs or db's. Ed Rantanen -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Public archive doesn't get updated

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
When you go to the webadmin and look at the Archival Options section - are your archives marked as private or public? On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 04:21, Drew McCormack wrote: > I recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.2, and I think I have somehow > introduced an archiving problem. I recompiled my copy of M

Re: [Mailman-Users] Public archive doesn't get updated

2002-10-16 Thread Drew McCormack
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 05:37 pm, Jon Carnes wrote: > When you go to the webadmin and look at the Archival Options section - > are your archives marked as private or public? "public", so that is not it, I guess. Drew > > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 04:21, Drew McCormack wrote: >> I recen

[Mailman-Users] Changing the admin password for a list

2002-10-16 Thread Peter Smith
I successfully changed the password for a list. Is anyone interested in the process on how to do this? Or is there some documented method of doing this already (because I could not find it!)? If there is interest I will post it. Peter Smith -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read only list

2002-10-16 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:04:19 +0300 admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > !!!Hello! Heelp - Myyy !!! Please see the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py -- J C Lawrence -(*)Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read only list

2002-10-16 Thread admin
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:04:19 +0300 > admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > !!!Hello! Heelp - Myyy !!! > > Please see the FAQ: 3.11. How do I create a newsletter (admin-post only) ? ... I this understands, but me necessary to know as mailman checks authenticity sending - after all headline

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problems including footer in HTML mail usingMailman 2.1b3

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 10:20, Benas Adomavicius wrote: > Otherwise, footer issue remains a > mistery. In fact, when I receve bounced messages, footer is included in a > attachement. However in the main email it does not go out visible. Should I > include some HTML tags in the footer to show it? >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Read only list

2002-10-16 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:58:21 +0300 admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3.11. How do I create a newsletter (admin-post only) ? ... I > this understands, but me necessary to know as mailman checks > authenticity sending - after all headline of the message much easy > fake - in majordomo - a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Public archive doesn't get updated

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
Hmmm... backup the current directory ~mailman/archives/public/ and then recreate it as a link pointing to ~mailman/archives/private/ cd /home/mailman/archives/public mv mylist bak.mylist ln -s /home/mailman/archives/private/mylist mylist When you do an "ls -l" in the ~mailman/archives/pu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman passwords

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
There are three types of passwords: - User password, this is simply the password for the mailman user on your server, it lets you login as the user "mailman", all of Mailman's processes run as this user. To change this password, login as root and run: passwd mailman - Mailman Site passwor

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce detection broken?

2002-10-16 Thread Skye Poier
Well, since nobody helped, I went ahead and started debugging the stuff in Bouncers/*.py First I took a look at why Hotmail bounces weren't being caught in DSN.py. Here's an example with my debugging: Oct 16 12:46:01 2002 (11207) DSN parsing header {'action': 'failed', 'final-recipient': 'rfc82

[Mailman-Users] Linkup to xmailserver / help with how wrapper works

2002-10-16 Thread Stuart Nixon
hello i have just installed mailman 2.0.13 all's installed ok. but i need a little help in finding out how to link up mail delivery from xmailserver (www.xmailserver.org) to mailman. i assume wrapper is used for this purpose in some way. does anyone have any links to any documentation describ

[Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Jeff Simmons
I've talked to several other Mailman admins - Hotmail is dumping a lot of messages from us on the floor. I'm guessing here, but I think they've put in a filter that kills messages with a certain number of multiple recipients (note that Mailman does this by default, but holds the messages for a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Skye Poier
I'm having this problem as well. I tried changing Precedence: bulk to 'list', but that didn't seem to help. Skye Word on the street is Jeff Simmons said: > I've talked to several other Mailman admins - Hotmail is dumping a lot of > messages from us on the floor. > > I'm guessing here, but I t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread timduru
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:15:26 -0700 Jeff Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guessing here, but I think they've put in a filter that kills > messages with a certain number of multiple recipients (note that > Mailman does this by default, but holds the messages for admin > approval). If so,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Skye Poier
I just did another test, with a normal list post. If you have your hotmail set to "enhanced" junk mail filtering, list mail goes in the junk mail folder (or trash) automatically no matter what the Precedence header, because its not To: me@hotmail. If its in the Junk mail folder, you can click on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Stonewall Ballard
On 10/16/02 4:31 PM, "Skye Poier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did another test, with a normal list post. If you have your > hotmail set to "enhanced" junk mail filtering, list mail goes in the > junk mail folder (or trash) automatically no matter what the Precedence > header, because its

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 01:15 PM, Jeff Simmons wrote: > I've talked to several other Mailman admins - Hotmail is dumping a lot > of > messages from us on the floor. > Hotmail seems to be more broken than usual. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech, Apple IS&T E-mail systems [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail dumping Mailman messages?

2002-10-16 Thread Bobby Bailey
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:15 pm, Jeff Simmons wrote: > I've talked to several other Mailman admins - Hotmail is dumping a lot of > messages from us on the floor. > > I'm guessing here, but I think they've put in a filter that kills messages > with a certain number of multiple recipients (

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linkup to xmailserver / help with how wrapperworks

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
The aliases setup for a list tells it all: mylist: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post mylist" mylist-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner mylist" mylist-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd mylist" mylist-owner: mylist-admin Wrapper takes as input the followi

[Mailman-Users] Spamassassin and Mailman - like this?

2002-10-16 Thread Greg Long
I *BELEIVE* I have it, but I prefer not to test it by spamming the list unless neccessary. In the Privacy Options section, Form box "Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp." I added two lines to the default so that it now contains (between the "---" lines): ---

[Mailman-Users] Mailman isn't sending out mail...

2002-10-16 Thread jared sanders
Basically mail isn't going through to the lists. Not sure where to check for any type of error logs. There wasn't a problem until we upgraded, not sure if anyone else has experienced this or not. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. -- Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce detection broken?

2002-10-16 Thread Skye Poier
Another followup. I added the following to SimpleMatch.py # MSEXCH (_c('did not reach the following recipient'), _c('MSEXCH:'), _c('(?P[^ ]*) on ')), to catch bounces like this: Your message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Test] test8 Sent:Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:5

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spamassassin and Mailman - like this?

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
I'm wondering if you need to front-end each of those *'s with a \ Alternately, you could modify Spam Assassin to use a different character. On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:09, Greg Long wrote: > I *BELEIVE* I have it, but I prefer not to test it by spamming the list > unless neccessary. > > In the Pri

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce detection broken?

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
I'm actually enjoying the conversation (though it is one sided). I've modified most of the other parts of Mailman at one time or another and always wanted to look at the bounce sections - just never had a good reason to. Looks like it's as easy to modify as the other modules. If you take it to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spamassassin and Mailman - like this?

2002-10-16 Thread pietro
Jon Carnes escreveu: > I'm wondering if you need to front-end each of those *'s with a \ > > Alternately, you could modify Spam Assassin to use a different > character. Spam Assassin also adds 'X-Spam-Status: yes' to the message header. you can you this regexp to block spam to your list. pietr

RE: [Mailman-Users] Spamassassin and Mailman - like this?

2002-10-16 Thread Greg Long
I used BOTH, actually :) and I had to learn the syntax for a regular expression...indeed preceeding the asterisks with a backslash: X-Spam-Status: Yes Subject: \*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*\* -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of pietro Sent: Wednes

[Mailman-Users] non moderated lists are holding messages for approval

2002-10-16 Thread Dene Ulmschneider
I have several lists running on my mailman install and it seems that lists that I have set to hole messages for admin approval are actually allowing messages through without approval. Mailman is also holding messages on lists that are not set for moderation and even when I have my email address

[Mailman-Users] Re: spam

2002-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
J C Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:42:33 -0700 (PDT) alex wetmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is very easy to forge the From: line in email. If a spammer forges > > the From: line to have a user which is on your list then it will go > > through. This isn't really a problem that

[Mailman-Users] i need instruction of mailman

2002-10-16 Thread Dario Duque
i am dario duque, new in the list and need help about mailman becouse i´m the manager of economiaind, this a list of my university and don´t have the manuals and my asesor of internet no isn´t in colombia now. thanks for your coments. pd. if is possible the manual in spanish or portuguese. ___