[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.2, postfix, openbsd 3.3 quietly fails

2003-06-17 Thread Mike Darweesh
Hi all, I'm stumped. I have mailman 2.1.2 running on openbsd 3.3, with postfix and python 2.2 When I post to my lists (which used to work on my previous install of all these), I get nearly silent failure. The only trace of the mail is from /var/log/maillog : Jun 17 00:14:36 lemieux postfix/loc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:25, Paul H Byerly wrote: > I'm still trying to figure out how to put the password in the first > line and not have it show up in the post. What I am using is "Approved: > password" . Should it be something else? You are sending messages as plain text aren't you?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to version 2.1 - latency on processingincoming messages

2003-06-17 Thread Ray Gardener
Richard, Deliveries are now flowing quickly again. I noticed an old and orphaned .pck file in the qfiles/in directory and deleted it (the system had been halted using reboot earlier in the day which may have caused this). But I didn't see any errors related to this file in the logs or on the cons

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Lotus notes

2003-06-17 Thread JvdW
Hi everyone I have a strange problem with Mailman(v2.1.1 and postfix) and people using Lotus notes. When sending a message to the list with a .xls attachment the person using Lotus notes get the attachment as a .dat file. They then have to rename the file to get it to work. All the other member

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to version 2.1 - latency on processing incoming messages

2003-06-17 Thread Richard Barrett
At 09:16 17/06/2003, Ray Gardener wrote: Richard, Deliveries are now flowing quickly again. I noticed an old and orphaned .pck file in the qfiles/in directory and deleted it (the system had been halted using reboot earlier in the day which may have caused this). But I didn't see any errors relate

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Lotus notes

2003-06-17 Thread JvdW
Hi again I think I found my problem, but now I need a work around. I failed to mention in my email below that the attachment has a very long filename, including spaces. Windows user, go figure... O and now the problem is with Outlook users using Exchange as well. Anyway, when I rename the at

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman 2.1.2, postfix,openbsd 3.3 quietly fails

2003-06-17 Thread List User Kreme
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 01:35 Canada/Mountain, Mike Darweesh wrote: The only trace of the mail is from /var/log/maillog : Jun 17 00:14:36 lemieux postfix/local[6840]: 0B55921C46: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent ("|/home/mailman/mail/mailman post nz") I don't see a

[Mailman-Users] regex to reject TOFU?

2003-06-17 Thread List User Kreme
Has anyone written a regex for mailman 2.1 that rejects TOFU posts? Or maybe on that catches messages based on a message ending with 3 or more quoted lines? Or maybe even one that catches posts where the list footers are included? -- Instant karma's gonna get you --

Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 17/06/2003 Richard Barrett wrote: > >i still have in my mm_cfg.py: > >PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'lurker-index -l `lurker-list -c > >/etc/lurker/lurker.conf | grep -B2 "^%(listname)s$"| head -n1` -m' > > From a quick glance at the documentation files accompanying the lurker > release 0.90 on

Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-17 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:58:35 +0200 Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > still, the hole workaround is not the best solution. the lists i > maintain are all in the style 'part1-part2-part3-...'. some without any > -, some with many. so i split the list in the parts, n=number of parts. > then i

Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-17 Thread Richard Barrett
At 12:58 17/06/2003, Jonas Meurer wrote: *** PGP Signature Status: unknown *** Signer: Unknown, Key ID xE25F2102 *** Signed: 17/06/2003 12:58:35 *** Verified: 17/06/2003 14:21:59 *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** On 17/06/2003 Richard Barrett wrote: > >i still have in my mm_cfg.py: > >PUBLIC_EXTE

[Mailman-Users] Logging question...

2003-06-17 Thread Glenn Sieb
Hey everyone.. running MM 2.1 on FreeBSD 4.8 with Postfix/AMaViS/SpamAssassin I had a user ask me why an email she sent never got posted to a list she's a proper member of.. so I went to investigate.. saw that yes, she indeed posted a message, it hit my SMTP, went through SA/AMaViS and through to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging question...

2003-06-17 Thread Richard Barrett
At 16:14 17/06/2003, Glenn Sieb wrote: Hey everyone.. running MM 2.1 on FreeBSD 4.8 with Postfix/AMaViS/SpamAssassin I had a user ask me why an email she sent never got posted to a list she's a proper member of.. so I went to investigate.. saw that yes, she indeed posted a message, it hit my SMTP,

[Mailman-Users] info

2003-06-17 Thread Marcello
Hi It's possible to connect mailman with a DataBase? Thanks Marcello - Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PR

[Mailman-Users] Two commands in PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER?

2003-06-17 Thread Tobias Eigen
Hi, While we're on the subject of PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER - has anyone successfully set it up to have two commands executed to generate two external archives at the same time? I want to continue using mhonarc while also testing another system (FUD Forum). I realize this is probably a trivi

[Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-17 Thread Paul H Byerly
At 03:23 AM 6/17/2003, you wrote: On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 20:48 Canada/Mountain, Paul H Byerly wrote: > After a lot of trial and error I find that it works for plain > text messages, but not for html messages. If there is any html in the > message it goes through, but the password stays

Re: [Lurker-users] [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 17/06/2003 Richard Barrett wrote: > PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'echo "got called for %(listname)s" | cat >> > /tmp/teststuff' > PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'echo "got called for %(listname)s" | cat >> > /tmp/teststuff' > > appends a line containing the target listname to the file for each arc

Re: [Lurker-users] Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 17/06/2003 Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > I agree with Richard; this is too much work. Personally I would just not > bother. If the user has more than 32 characters in a mailman mailing list > name, just emit a warning on config generation and drop that list. > > This failure case is so rare that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Two commands in PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER?

2003-06-17 Thread Richard Barrett
At 17:34 17/06/2003, Tobias Eigen wrote: Hi, While we're on the subject of PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER - has anyone successfully set it up to have two commands executed to generate two external archives at the same time? I want to continue using mhonarc while also testing another system (FUD Forum)

Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-17 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 17/06/2003 Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > if $actual_list has value "Argentina-Communicados" for example, > > $actual_list_lc will be "argentina-communicados", and $actual_list_id > > will have value "argentincommunic". > > What happens if an english speaking customer/friend creates another

Re: [Mailman-Users] Two commands in PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER?

2003-06-17 Thread Tobias Eigen
Many, many thanks, Richard - that did the trick. Now I can continue with my testing and migration to FUD Forum. Best wishes, Tobias -- Tobias Eigen Executive Director Kabissa - Space for change in Africa http://www.kabissa.org TIME TO GET ONLINE Internet Learning materials now online!

[Mailman-Users] Script for CLI message approval and spam removal

2003-06-17 Thread Thomas Gramstad
I'm posting a script for message approval via the shell, saving a lot of time otherwise spent on downloading web pages, typing passwords etc. The script is written by Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, send comments if any to him. The script is designed to work with SpamAssassin and you ca

[Mailman-Users] Approve subscription via email!

2003-06-17 Thread Sven Sternberger
Hello! I am a little bit surprised but I don't find (in the archives) a clear answer to the question. Is it possible to approve a subscription per email? In my version (gentoo 1.4/mailman 2.1.2) i couldn't find it. Is there a patch available? I couldn't find it in the TODO list of 3.0? bye! --

[Mailman-Users] Footer text added as attachment with rich text post

2003-06-17 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, I have a list server running mailman v2.1.2 (was 2.1.1 but I just upgraded it) but my users are running Microsoft Outlook and use a mixture of Rich text/html for their mails :-( My problem is, rich text posts or mails with attachments seem to come through ok but the footer text that's adde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging question...

2003-06-17 Thread Glenn Sieb
Richard Barrett said: > Usually 0664 for the files in $prefix/logs but the best way to get this > right is by running '$prefix/bin/check_perms -f' as either root or the > mailman user. This makes sure the setgid bit on directories are also > correct. I usually stop mailmanctl and the local MTA whil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging question...

2003-06-17 Thread Richard Barrett
At 22:39 17/06/2003, Glenn Sieb wrote: Richard Barrett said: > Usually 0664 for the files in $prefix/logs but the best way to get this > right is by running '$prefix/bin/check_perms -f' as either root or the > mailman user. This makes sure the setgid bit on directories are also > correct. I usually

Re: [Mailman-Users] Logging question...

2003-06-17 Thread Glenn Sieb
Richard Barrett said: > Looking at your listing for the logs directory, most of the files are not > group writable. My guess is that is why not a whole lot is being written > to them. Hmm. Good point. I just updated newsyslog.conf. I must have typo'd that :-/ > I note that only the bounce, error

[Mailman-Users] Red Hat 9 - Mailman not working out of the box

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Russell
Hi I am a bit of a Linux newbie, i have installed red hat 9 inc sendmail, apache and mailman. I got sendmail working easily and apache. Then i set up my first list and tried to email it, but all email goes to root. So i ran the newaliases and restarted sendmail, then i tried to restart mailman ser

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Red Hat not wokring out of the box

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Russell
Forgot to add the output of check_perms [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# bin/check_perms Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/check_perms", line 51, in ? MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam(MAILMAN_GROUP)[2] KeyError: getgrnam(): name not found ==

Re: [Mailman-Users] Red Hat 9 - Mailman not working out of the box

2003-06-17 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Russell wrote: > So i ran the newaliases and restarted sendmail, then i tried to restart > mailman servcice, but i get an error. You're burned by a bad mailman rpm shipped with Red Hat 9 (sometimes I wonder if they try to give mailman rpm's a ba

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Russell
Further to my previous post, i have been reading the Defaults.py and see a whole bunch of stuff about Sendmail. It seems like Sendmail isnt going to work out of the box with MM unless some changes are made? OR should i leave everything alone, and MM will send smtp email directly, without using se

[Mailman-Users] Red Hat 9 out of the box - nearly fixed!

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Russell
Thanks for the tip - - this is very fustrating - i hope some one can help me get this mailman going :) EDIT: while typing this email to you i rebooted the server (just having applied the fix below and thinking it hadnt worked), and now my Lotus Notes new mail icon popped up, and guess what, tons

[Mailman-Users] MailMan and Exim Problems!

2003-06-17 Thread Chad McCan
Is anyone else have trouble with MailMan and Exim? I cannot get the headers or footers to be sent with the email? I have a longer list of issues, but I thought I would see if anyone has these same problems? Thank You, Chad McCan Blue Virtual Webhosting www.BlueVirtual.com --

[Mailman-Users] Firewall

2003-06-17 Thread Peter Russell
Finally i have resolved all previous issues. Mail is being sent, recieved etc etc (the /var/log/mailman/error was chomd to 644 i change to 664 and web interface started working) Now i turned on iptables (no point having it on during testing) and now outbound mail is stuck in the sendmail queue wit