[Mailman-Users] Domain Name

2003-01-14 Thread Victor Daniel a.k.a the MacNut
A hopefully simple question: is it possible to set the preferred hostname for a MailMan-hosted list to a hostname on a different server (i.e. a server that is not hosting the list). Assuming, of course, that the hostname actually exists and is set up properly in DNS, etc. -- --

[Mailman-Users] "checkdbs" script problem

2003-01-14 Thread Marina Markus
Hello All, I've recently upgraded our Mailman installation to version 2.1. There is a lot of impressive improvements; but also one crontab-run script which crashes in the middle. It's "checkdbs" which should send reminders about pending requests - here's the error log I get every morning: Cron

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic publishing from mailing list withoutapprobation

2003-01-14 Thread Jean Berthold
Hello Jon, Thank you for your response but I have already tried this option, and it doesn't work. The actual configuration is as follow: Menu: --- Privacy options-->Sender filters-->Non-member filters List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted. (Details for a

Re: [Mailman-Users] List names not shown in available lists page.

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
I'll bet they show up in the admin page though... Check the URL's for the lists and make sure that they are correct (and that they match your current web configuration). On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:50, Brian D. Beers wrote: > > I am running Mailman 2.1 on Solaris 9. No minor feat to configure! > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] No route to host

2003-01-14 Thread Lou Fox
Does anyone have an idea of how I can fix the missing route to host? I'm using: redhat 8 mailman-2.0.13-3 postfix-1.1.11-5 I've made the following changes to postfix's main.cf file: myhostname = foulox.com mydestination = $myhostname, 127.0.0.1, $mydomain mydomain = foulox.com myorigin = $myhos

Re: [Mailman-Users] List names not shown in available lists page.

2003-01-14 Thread Greg Westin
I know that questions of lists showing up on admin pages but not listinfo pages are in the archives, but I don't know if any resolutions for the issue are. Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On 14 Jan 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

[Mailman-Users] Fwd: [Mailman] Cron /usr/local/bin/python -S/home/mailman-2.1/cron/checkdbs

2003-01-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
This just came thru on my mm2.1 setup - anyone seen anything like it? Looks like there's a corrupt pending request somewhere, but I'm unsure how to fix. Thanks, Bryan Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) Date: Tue Jan 14, 2003 8:00:01 AM Canada/Eastern To: [EMAIL P

[Mailman-Users] VERP'ed delivery error

2003-01-14 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I've activated the occasional VERP message delivery feature (every 25 messages), and noticed the following log entry in smtp-failure ... Jan 14 09:55:05 2003 (30915) All recipients refused: (553, '5.1.8 ... Domain of sender address midrange-l-bounces+ellis?[EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist

[Mailman-Users] Clarification on filtering messages going to Mailmanlists

2003-01-14 Thread John DeCarlo
Hello, I can see FAQ 4.15 on using procmail to filter email before Mailman gets it. I have seen discussions in the archives about using other spam software to filter, as well as a "wish list" request to have Mailman itself handle "out of office" replies. Also a long thread about idiotic soft

[Mailman-Users] Re: admindb - "Add [email] to a sender filter"

2003-01-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
Ah, I suspect this might be a result of the 2.0/2.1 cookie problems. Haven't seen this recently, and subsequent attempts to add addresses to sender filters have worked as expected. Thanks, Bryan On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 11:57 AM, Bryan Fullerton wrote: Howdy, When I approve a message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Clarification on filtering messages going toMailman lists

2003-01-14 Thread John DeCarlo
Sorry again, I found what I was looking for under Privacy -> Spam Filters options, with a hint from the very next message I saw. John DeCarlo wrote: Hello, I can see FAQ 4.15 on using procmail to filter email before Mailman gets it. I have seen discussions in the archives about using other spa

[Mailman-Users] Assertion Error?

2003-01-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Help? Jan 14 11:19:38 2003 (24275) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/domain.net/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/domani.net/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade problems (2.0.13 -> 2.1);Incoming qrunner dies

2003-01-14 Thread Ed Osinski
I've upgraded from 2.0.13 to 2.1, and am having problems: When running "bin/mailmanctl start", I get a series of errors: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ? main() File "/usr/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 230, in main qrunner.run() File

[Mailman-Users] Another upgrade problem (2.0.13 -> 2.1); pending admin request page hosed

2003-01-14 Thread Ed Osinski
Hi, I upgraded from 2.0.13 to 2.1, and I run into a problem when trying to access the "Tend to pending moderator requests" page of a pre-existing list. I get: Bug in Mailman version 2.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this pa

[Mailman-Users] restrict unsubscribe?

2003-01-14 Thread Christopher Adams
Is there a way to prevent users from unsubscribing without list administrator approval? Christopher Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http

[Mailman-Users] subscriber names

2003-01-14 Thread Con Wieland
Hello I am looking at Mailman 2.1 and I really like the feature of a real name associated with the email address, however I am unable to figure out how to edit this except after they are subscribed from the "Membership List" page. I have looked everywhere, isn't there a way to add there name at

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscriber names

2003-01-14 Thread Greg Westin
This should be in the FAQ, but basically any generally-accepted format should work. For example: "User 1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Williams, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just make sure there's only one per line. To quote a message from me, quoting a message from Barry, found

[Mailman-Users] best practices for pipermail archives -- look and feel touch ups

2003-01-14 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi All, What are the best ways to slightly jazz up the web display of the archives? I'd love to have the archives look slightly like my site with footer, a logo, a link back to the home page and /mailman/listinfo, etc. Do some of your put in server side includes? Ta. Mark Rauterkus [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic publishing from mailing list withoutapprobation

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
No. The Language barrier must have interfered. The option you want to use is: "Alias names (regexps) which qualify as explicit to or cc destination names for this list." Putting the other lists email address in here should get rid of the "implicit" error that you are getting. HtH - Jon Carnes

Re: [Mailman-Users] No route to host

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
First thing I would check is the /etc/hosts file and make sure that "localhost" was defined as 127.0.0.1 in that file. Then I would try to telnet to localhost on port 25 again. If it's not resolving "localhost" properly then check on your /etc/nsswitch file and see what resolve is set to "files

[Mailman-Users] 2.1: two nasty problems

2003-01-14 Thread Jeff A. Earickson
Hi, I upgraded from 2.0.13 to 2.1 and I have two nasty problems: * non-subscribers can post to lists * subscribers can reply to a moderated-only list and have their email go to the list The latter has caused an email storm on a moderated list, forcing the emergency moderation button. I've

Re: [Mailman-Users] best practices for pipermail archives -- lookand feel touch ups

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
I don't think it's a "best practices" but I modify the source to simply add any html/text found in a file called arc_footer. Small hack. Works fine. Best of Luck to you - Jon Carnes On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:22, Mark Rauterkus wrote: > Hi All, > > What are the best ways to slightly jazz up the

Re: [Mailman-Users] restrict unsubscribe?

2003-01-14 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 13:53, Christopher Adams wrote: > Is there a way to prevent users from unsubscribing without list > administrator approval? With v2.1, yes. Kyle -- It is better to know nothing than to have learned nothing. -fortune cookie proverb -

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1: two nasty problems

2003-01-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 04:44 PM, Jeff A. Earickson wrote: I upgraded from 2.0.13 to 2.1 and I have two nasty problems: * non-subscribers can post to lists * subscribers can reply to a moderated-only list and have their email go to the list The latter has caused an email storm on

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Create mailing list on the web error

2003-01-14 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 05:32 PM, Kory Wheatley wrote: I received the below error when I tried to create a mailing list from the Mailman web interface page. It did add the list into the alias file, but it failed to run "postalias" probably because of permission issue's I'm guessing. I

[Mailman-Users] Cannot install Mailman 2.1: bin/update fails (Solaris 9, Python 2.2.2)

2003-01-14 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, I don't succeed in installing Mailman 2.1. 'make install' fails with the following messages: # make install [...] Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman//Mailman/versions.py ... bin/update: downgrade is detected), nothing will be done.^J^J-h/--help^J Print this text and exit.^J^JUse th

Re: [Mailman-Users] No route to host

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
You can modify that a couple of ways, the easiest is to modify the setting in the General Options in the web-admin: "Host name this list prefers for email". If that doesn't set things to right, then look in your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file and muck with the virtual host stuff. That should get

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ok.. got everything working..

2003-01-14 Thread Glenn Sieb
At 07:27 PM 1/12/2003 +, Richard Barrett wrote: VIRTUAL_HOSTS MAILMAN_SITE_LIST DEFAULT_HOST_NAME DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST Arrgh. The problem was I was missing: add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) in mm_cfg.py. Now it's mch better :) Thanks again, Richard

[Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Hale
I started a mailing list for 'Blinkies' and 99% of the messages that come thru are in HTML. They come thru my list just fine, but the archives are majorly ugly. Is there a way to have the HTML messages display in HTML in the archives? Using 2.1 Release. :) Thanks! Jim Hale --- 'The OS Tells The

[Mailman-Users] Re: contents of qfiles/bad ?

2003-01-14 Thread David Gibbs
"John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:p05200f04ba4807d632c4@[192.168.1.50]... > If you become root using su - and then su - mailman, what happens? > Output of >whoami >pwd >ls -lad ~ /usr/local/home/david $su - Password: [root@linux root]# su - mailman /usr/local/ho

[Mailman-Users] usable attributes in the footer

2003-01-14 Thread ghassan
Hi All, I would like to get a list of all the usable attributes that can added to a footer of a post. We specifically need to add the following footer: "You are subscribed to the {LISTNAME} list as: {SUBSCRIBER EMAIL ADDRESS} To unsubscribe from this list, click on the following link: {THE URL F