Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Newbie having set up problems

2003-03-26 Thread Richard Barrett
At 19:56 25/03/2003, ghhalley wrote: Thanks for the help, OK mailmanctl was not running. I started it up and got a confirmation message. It should have been running, as the the Mailman init.d files are already set to run. Is mailmanctl daemon always on? Should I see it with ps -e at all times? W

[Mailman-Users] bandwidth or traffic

2003-03-26 Thread Pascal Dreissen
Is it possible to check how much traffic or bandwidth a specific mailing-list is consuming ?? Does mailman saves such statistics? Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Pascal Dreissen -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://m

[Mailman-Users] Subscriber problems

2003-03-26 Thread JvdW
Hi all I have a problem with some subscriber addresses. When the list admin subscribes a list of users to his list there is usually a bunch of email addresses that has syntax errors. eg: rene'[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] When doing a list_members on the list python bombs out. You can

[Mailman-Users] overriding password

2003-03-26 Thread sleek
Hi, is there a way to set an over riding password for all the mail lists on my server so I have access to them regardless of the admin changing the password? running mailman 2.1.1 FreeBSD 4.7 thanks in advance. - Noah -- Net Enabled (http://www.enabled.com) -

Re: [Mailman-Users] overriding password

2003-03-26 Thread Richard Barrett
At 14:44 26/03/2003, sleek wrote: Hi, is there a way to set an over riding password for all the mail lists on my server so I have access to them regardless of the admin changing the password? Yes. It is called the site password and you have probably already set it using $prefix/bin/mmsitepass.

[Mailman-Users] Mass members download feature

2003-03-26 Thread mailman
Hi! I really like Mailman. Thank you guys. But there is a question: Why where is no Cgi-UI option for to allow an admin to download all list members as text file suitable for mass subscription? Or there IS such Web-interface option and I've just missed it? Best wishes Maxim Yakubenko -

[Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread Sullivan, John
Hi all - I have been asked to setup a server for mailing out a daily newsletter to about 50k addresses. I have setup a redhat linux 8.0 server and have installed Apache and Mailman. I am somewhat familiar with configuring apache but I am not familiar with MailMan nor can I find any decent Newbie gu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sullivan, John wrote: > Hi all - I have been asked to setup a server for mailing out a daily > newsletter to about 50k addresses. I have setup a redhat linux 8.0 server > and have installed Apache and Mailman. I am somewhat familiar with > configuring

[Mailman-Users] Changing the sender Address

2003-03-26 Thread Tony Kuntz
Hi, I have a new mailman installation and messages sent to the list are coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering if it is possible to change that so it is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that. People are finding the fact that it comes from an address with bounces in it a bit u

[Mailman-Users] virtual hosts - archive hostname troubles

2003-03-26 Thread sleek
okay I just want to make sure I am setting this up properly - I have virtual hosts in place. Installed mailman 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable machine. I updated /home/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py with the following: VIRTUAL_HOSTS = {'lists.host1.com':'host1.com', 'lists.host2.com':'ho

[Mailman-Users] help

2003-03-26 Thread Jane Garner
I am getting emails from subscribers wishing to be taken off of our serve list. Do I take them off or what? Also, new subcribers are wanting on the servelist. How do I put them on the list? I am totally new to this program and need a list of how-to-do's instructions. Could you please email

[Mailman-Users] mailing list...

2003-03-26 Thread M.G
uhhh. i recently purchased a webhosting package at Gisol they sent me to you regarding setting up a mailing list from what i've readthis is not a simple process... so in layman terms.where can i find the instructions i can understand? i have no experience with previous mailinglis

[Mailman-Users] Deleting a mailing list and accessing private mailing list

2003-03-26 Thread mimi . chen
Hi, I have 2 questions. 1. How can I remove a temporary mailing list that I have created. I do not see any option to delete/remove a mailing list. Am I suppose to run some command line option? I am currently running Mailman 2.0 on HP-UX 11.0 with sendmail. 2. How can I access a mailing list

[Mailman-Users] Password reset?

2003-03-26 Thread Martin Rode
Hi, hosting a few mailinglists with mailman i have forgotten the password for one mailinglist. how can i reset a mailinglist admin password? using version 2.0.11-1woody5. thanks for your help! cheers, martin -- Dipl.-Kfm. Martin Rode Managing Director

[Mailman-Users] Securing

2003-03-26 Thread Sharksforum
How do we secure mailman so that only a certain IP can post to the list? -- Regards / Venlig hilsen, Jacob Friis Larsen JFL WebCom | www.webcom.dk | +45 7027 0767 -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailm

[Mailman-Users] problem

2003-03-26 Thread Andreas Kraxner
we work with mailman 2.1 and everything works fine but after a kernel pach under linux we got an error message if i try to start mailman. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ../../mailman/bin/mailmanctl start Die Sperre des qrunner-Masterprozesses konnte nicht übernommen werden. Es sieht so aus, als ob dies eine ung

[Mailman-Users] Mass Import

2003-03-26 Thread dmann
I must be missing something and I hope that this is the right place to ask this question. I would like to mass import a group of users into Mailman (version 2.11). I have a comma delimited file that contains 2 fields, email address field and name field. When I use the web interface to do the mas

[Mailman-Users] mailing list hosting services

2003-03-26 Thread Brian Carpenter
To Whom it may concern: Our company has been providing Mailman mailing list services for about 6 months now with great success. Would it be possible to be listed on the http://www.list.org/inthenews.html page as a hosting provider for Mailman? Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank y

[Mailman-Users] question regarding inserting a text header

2003-03-26 Thread Wayne Kidd
I am looking to see if it possible to have Mailman automatically insert a text header for all generated emails. Thank you. Wayne R. Kidd Director of Operations AAIM 202 861-9351 http://www.im.org/aaim -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROT

[Mailman-Users] List Admins Receiving error messages for persons not on their lists.

2003-03-26 Thread Mary Franks
At the beginning of the month the password reminders are sent out, bogus e-mail addresses create error messages that are being sent to list admins that are not responsible for the list the bogus address is subscribed to. The below error message was generated, the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting a mailing list and accessing privatemailing list

2003-03-26 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. How can I remove a temporary mailing list that I have created. I do > not see any option to delete/remove a mailing list. Am I suppose to run > some command line option? Yes. Use the rmlist command found in ~mailman/bi

[Mailman-Users] Mailman for Delivery of 10,000

2003-03-26 Thread Tony Kuntz
I have a client with an optin list of about 10,000 subscribers. Is mailman a good program for delivery of this amount of mail….in terms of efficiency, server load, etc. I've seen several desktop solutions that connect to a pop account and send out the e-mails in threads (or groups of 10 to 15 aut

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the sender Address

2003-03-26 Thread sleek
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:23:52 -0600, Tony Kuntz wrote > Hi, > > I have a new mailman installation and messages sent to the list are > coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering if it is > possible to change that so it is coming from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that. People are finding

[Mailman-Users] PAM

2003-03-26 Thread José Carlos Stevenson
Dear Sirs, I intend to use mailman, Postfix, Cyrus-IMAP,PAM_MySQL and cyradmin, following the howto: http://www.delouw.ch/linux/postfix.phtml I've download mailman-users.mbox.txt and searched for pam_mysql related issues and founded nothing. Since I'm completly new to mailman I apologize if thi

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing list...

2003-03-26 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M.G wrote: > i recently purchased a webhosting package at Gisol > they sent me to you regarding setting up a mailing list That's quality tech support. :) > from what i've readthis is not a simple process... > so in layman terms.where can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the sender Address

2003-03-26 Thread Richard Barrett
At 18:23 26/03/2003, Tony Kuntz wrote: Hi, I have a new mailman installation and messages sent to the list are coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering if it is possible to change that so it is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that. People are finding the fact that it comes fro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Import

2003-03-26 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dmann wrote: > I must be missing something and I hope that this is the right place to > ask this question. I would like to mass import a group of users into > Mailman (version 2.11). I have a comma delimited file that contains 2 > fields, email addre

Re: [Mailman-Users] Securing

2003-03-26 Thread irwin
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 03:50 am, Sharksforum wrote: > How do we secure mailman so that only a certain IP can post to the list? Depending upon which version you are using, look for Sender filter options. Irwin -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EM

[Mailman-Users]

2003-03-26 Thread Jim Beach
I've just set up a list for my website subscribers. Never done anything like this before. I got mailman through my webhost with "cpanel". In the General Options category, first setting says I can make case changes only to the public list name. My list name is Damjamfans. I want it to be DamJamF

Re: [Mailman-Users] help

2003-03-26 Thread Matthew Davis
* Jane Garner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am getting emails from subscribers wishing to be taken off of our serve list. Do > I take them off or what? Also, new subcribers are wanting on the servelist. How do > I put them on the list? I am totally new to this program and need a list of > h

RE: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread Sullivan, John
Thanks for your info George.. A few more questions. 1. I installed the MailMan package during the Red Hat Server installation. It look like it installed MAILMAN in /var/mailman/ It seems to have done a few of the steps for me - create a mailman user and Mailman group. It moved some of the j

[Mailman-Users] Trouble with case changes on public list name

2003-03-26 Thread Jim Beach
Sorry, forgot to tell you the subject before. - Original Message - From: "Jim Beach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 05:22:54 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] > I've just set up a list for my website subscribers. Never done anything like this > before. I g

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble with case changes on public list name

2003-03-26 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Beach wrote: > I've just set up a list for my website subscribers. Never done anything > like this before. I got mailman through my webhost with "cpanel". [...] > I've tried changing it but always get an error message: > "real_name attribute not ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread ghhalley
John, I just set up Mailman on RH 8 -- not an expert, but I can help. One important consideration you need to make up front. The latest, stable Mailman release is 2.1.1 which requires Python 2.2.2, both not in the RH 8 release. 2.1.1 has enough changes in it that I decided to make the update. H

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ghhalley wrote: > I just set up Mailman on RH 8 -- not an expert, but I can help. One > important consideration you need to make up front. The latest, stable > Mailman release is 2.1.1 which requires Python 2.2.2, both not in the > RH 8 release. Jus

Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread ghhalley
John, Comments are in-line with your questions. BTW How Newbie are you with Linux? Its hard to tell from your EMails -- Sounds like you are brand new to RH8, but do you have experience with other releases? I will modify my explanations depending on your knowledge. For example, I've played arou

RE: Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread Sullivan, John
Thanks.. I am actually brand new... never even touched anything Linux before. I come from a Networking Background (mostly MS, Cisco and firewalls) and in the past I have had to setup network configs to work with Sun Servers running apache sometimes dibbling in the Sun's config files. But that is p

RE: Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread Sullivan, John
Ooh one other thing - 1. How can I test that Mailman is working with sendmail correctly? Thanks all -Original Message- From: ghhalley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:45 PM To: Sullivan, John Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re[2]: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbi

Re[4]: [Mailman-Users] Help Newbie trying to get working..

2003-03-26 Thread ghhalley
> Thanks.. I am actually brand new... never even touched anything Linux > before. I come from a Networking Background (mostly MS, Cisco and firewalls) > and in the past I have had to setup network configs to work with Sun Servers > running apache sometimes dibbling in the Sun's config files. But t

[Mailman-Users] Disabling Passwords

2003-03-26 Thread Sullivan, John
I am using Mailman V 2.0 I want to know how I can disable the need for a new subscriber to create password. I think the subscribers are going to find it quite annoying that they have to create a password for our newsletter. They should just have subscribe and unsubscribe options... Your C

[Mailman-Users] Re: Disabling Passwords

2003-03-26 Thread Larry Hansford
At 07:28 PM 3/26/2003, you wrote: I am using Mailman V 2.0 I want to know how I can disable the need for a new subscriber to create password. I think the subscribers are going to find it quite annoying that they have to create a password for our newsletter. They should just have subscribe and un

[Mailman-Users] RE: Disabling Passwords

2003-03-26 Thread Sullivan, John
Is that a manual process? Do they send the unsubscribe to you and then you take them off the list or is that a scripted feature of 2.1 that is not available in 2.0. If it is not manual how did you go about configuring it.. Thanks for your help.. John -Original Message- From: Larry Han

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Disabling Passwords

2003-03-26 Thread ghhalley
Howdy Larry, How did you make the changes for this. Is it in the Admin configuration panels? (I don't remember it there) Peace, George Halley --- 5:05:46 PM, you wrote: > At 07:28 PM 3/26/2003, you wrote: >>I am using Mailman V 2.0 >> >> >> >>I want to know how I can disable the need for a n

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: Disabling Passwords

2003-03-26 Thread Dallas Bethune
I'm not sure how he set it up, but you could just set up a 'subscription form' or whatever that your users fill in that hooks into a cgi script that just sends off an email to the appropriate mailman subscribe address. If you subscribe an address via email with mailman, it will just make u

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: Disabling Passwords

2003-03-26 Thread Larry Hansford
At 08:23 PM 3/26/2003, Dallas Bethune wrote: I'm not sure how he set it up, but you could just set up a 'subscription form' or whatever that your users fill in that hooks into a cgi script that just sends off an email to the appropriate mailman subscribe address. If you subscribe an address via e

[Mailman-Users] Thank you all.

2003-03-26 Thread Steve Huston
(Please reply privately for the sanity of the other lists, if you feel a reply is needed; or at least trim out the lists you're not a member of) I just wanted to drop a line to all the developers of the programs I setup recently for our mailserver, and thank you all. Sometimes the people who work