Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on postfix

2004-06-25 Thread peace bwitchu
--- Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, my mailman doesnt work up to now. i did some configurations on some things i read but still no luck, if anyone tried this on their postfix please give me some guidelines.. - Do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] DHow to delete messages

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:49 AM +0530 2004-06-19, Bhavin Shah wrote: PLease let us know how to delete the already archived messages on the website. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.003.htp. In the future, it would be a good idea to search the Mailman documentation at

[Mailman-Users] How can list admin unsubscribe user via email?

2004-06-25 Thread Rick Maddy
I need a way for a list admin or moderator to be able to unsubscribe a user from the list via an email interface. I don't want the user to get a confirmation page first, just the notice that they have been unsubscribed. I'm sending this email from a Java program. I've tried sending the email from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using topics vs. Additional Lists

2004-06-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:43:24PM -0500, Joe Burkhart wrote: But, it would be very helpful to be able to query for a list of all members subscribed to a particular topic from the command line or elsewhere. Is that possible? Similar to the addtopic.py tool I posted on Jun 11th, but doing get

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting all admins of all lists

2004-06-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:40:02AM -0400, Brian York wrote: Is there a way to get the email address of all administrators of all lists. bin/list_owners (check the -m switch if you need the moderators as well) -- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnJapan.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python

[Mailman-Users] Set date in archive

2004-06-25 Thread Hartmut Steffin
hi guys, i just migrated from 2.0.13 to 2.1.2 in the old version under archival options there was a flag Set date in archive to when the mail is claimed to have been sent, or to the time we resend it? i liked it because then you don't have ghost mails from the far future or distant past (often

[Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Frank Simon
Hello, we try to use mailman for personalized mails. Every user get a mail for example Job Offers this week for your subscription. Every User should only get the jobs for his region and interest for example. The datas are in an external programm. If this programm called by system or http with

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can list admin unsubscribe user via email?

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:58 PM -0600 2004-06-24, Rick Maddy wrote: I'm sending this email from a Java program. I've tried sending the email from the person I'm trying to unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this results in the user getting the confirmation - not what I want. As one idea, you could turn off

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:15 AM +0200 2004-06-25, Frank Simon wrote: If not, where will be the best way to implement this in mailman ? Don't use mailman. It was not designed to be a complete customized mail-merge tool. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.018.htp for related

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Frank Simon
Hi, Am 25.06.2004 um 11:31 schrieb Brad Knowles: At 11:15 AM +0200 2004-06-25, Frank Simon wrote: If not, where will be the best way to implement this in mailman ? Don't use mailman. It was not designed to be a complete customized mail-merge tool. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Barrett
On 25 Jun 2004, at 10:38, Frank Simon wrote: Hi, Am 25.06.2004 um 11:31 schrieb Brad Knowles: At 11:15 AM +0200 2004-06-25, Frank Simon wrote: If not, where will be the best way to implement this in mailman ? Don't use mailman. It was not designed to be a complete customized mail-merge tool.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:38 AM +0200 2004-06-25, Frank Simon wrote: See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.018.htp for related information. The FAQ entry regarding more for Job Assignment and CRM systems. That isn`t was i want. I want only custimze the content more than i find in

[Mailman-Users] SMTPDirect.py not always invoked for every post

2004-06-25 Thread Sylvain BAUDOIN
Hi all, I have noticed something strange that annoys me: it seems that SMTPDirect.py is not always invoked every time I post a message to my mailing lists. I tried to log what is going on, and it really seems that this script is invoked randomly, at least on a basis I do not understand: 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Frank Simon
Hi, Why are you so unfriendly ? I only ask a question. There are some mailling software, with this features, other not. If mailman dont have it, no prob. Mailman is a good software, or we dont want to use it. In a technical way - if is a feature like VERP and individuel bounce managment,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Luc Brouard
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:29:55PM +0200, Frank Simon wrote: Hi, Why are you so unfriendly ? I only ask a question. There are some mailling software, with this features, other not. If mailman dont have it, no prob. Mailman is a good software, or we dont want to use it. Brad was not

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on postfix

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:55 PM -0700 2004-06-22, Linux Newbie wrote: my mailman doesnt work up to now. i did some configurations on some things i read but still no luck, if anyone tried this on their postfix please give me some guidelines.. To help avoid issues like this in the future, I created the FAQ entry at

[Mailman-Users] selected members to announcements only? (newbie)

2004-06-25 Thread Jason Davies
I just walked into one of those etiquette discussion joining this morning, didn't I?:-) Please indulge a really basic question. I have searched for 'announcements only' in the FAQ Wizard and looked at the Mailman interface on my list. I am running Mailman version 2.0.13. I am not an expert...I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Total personalized Mails

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:50 AM +0100 2004-06-25, Richard Barrett wrote: There is. MM is free, Open Software; so go for it. I am sure a well implemented enhancement will find other grateful users. Thanks for the quote! Hope you don't mind if I use it -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They that can give up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: No footer

2004-06-25 Thread Anita Lewis
Brad Knowles wrote: The messages may appear to be plain text, but they may be sent in a MIME bodypart type that makes it difficult to handle them well. This is especially likely if you have overseas clients sending e-mail to a mailing list hosted in English. In this case, this is a problem

[Mailman-Users] Adding Namazu search to Mailman archives

2004-06-25 Thread Tom Morrison
The following may be useful. I chose this technique because it was least invasive on a stable Mailman configuration. My Mailman lists do not have heavy usage -- only about 20 messages/day -- so YMMV. Best regards, Tom Morrison Liant Software Corporation Adding

Re: [Mailman-Users] selected members to announcements only? (newbie)

2004-06-25 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:31:55 +0200 Brad Knowles wrote: At 2:08 PM +0100 2004-06-25, Jason Davies wrote: I just walked into one of those etiquette discussion joining this morning, didn't I?:-) Yup. Don't worry about it. ;) Some members of the list wish to receive

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner: Low level smtp error

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:12 AM -0500 2004-06-25, Doug Hughes wrote: initial mail queues to the daemon ok and then goes into the qfiles directory, but then mailman qrunner processes it and I get this: Jun 23 17:08:05 2004 (19334) Low level smtp error: (-2, 'Name or service not known'), msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding Namazu search to Mailman archives

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:45 AM -0500 2004-06-25, Tom Morrison wrote: The following may be useful. I chose this technique because it was least invasive on a stable Mailman configuration. My Mailman lists do not have heavy usage -- only about 20 messages/day -- so YMMV. Updated Mailman FAQ entry at

[Mailman-Users] Mailman browswer question - initial set up

2004-06-25 Thread Poythress, Lynn
Hello, I'm trying to install Mailman 2.1.4 on an HP-UX 11.00 machine. I'm using Apache 1.3.19. I'm using the default URL set up in the Defaults.py - which is our machine name 'my.host.name.edu'. I haven't added anything to the mm_cfg.py file. I created the site list (at least I think I did,

[Mailman-Users] help list seems to be working but not sending

2004-06-25 Thread C y b e r sAM
Mailman 2.1 seems to be running fine on my Unix Red Hat 9/Plesk 6.0 server. I can log in through the admin panel and change any setting, add my emails via mass subscription etc. However, when I send an email to my list nothing gets delivered and I receive no undelivered message. I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] help list seems to be working but not sending

2004-06-25 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:45:24 -0700 C y b e r sAM wrote: Mailman 2.1 seems to be running fine on my Unix Red Hat 9/Plesk 6.0 server. I can log in through the admin panel and change any setting, add my emails via mass subscription etc. However, when I send an email to my list nothing gets

[Mailman-Users] help needed (announcement list vs. discussion list)

2004-06-25 Thread Richard Barnet
Hi, I'm trying to set up two Mailman listservs (v. 2.1.5) as a list administrator (my host, the real server administrators, installed it for customer's usage). Everything's working correctly, and I've been through the settings more than a few times, but I can't seem to find out how I can switch

[Mailman-Users] How can list admin unsubscribe user via email?

2004-06-25 Thread Rick Maddy
I need a way for a list admin or moderator to be able to unsubscribe a user from the list via an email interface. I don't want the user to get a confirmation page first, just the notice that they have been unsubscribed. I'm sending this email from a Java program. I've tried sending the email from

[Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman

2004-06-25 Thread zakaria\.chaanani
Hello, My name is zakaria and i am a french student. I begin my training course in a firm and i have to instal on linux a mailing list which is called Mailman. I have already set postfix and now i have some problem to instal and run mailman. When i reboot the pc, it appears this error message :

Re: [Mailman-Users] help list seems to be working but not sending

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:45 PM -0700 2004-06-17, C y b e r sAM wrote: Mailman 2.1 seems to be running fine on my Unix Red Hat 9/Plesk 6.0 server. I can log in through the admin panel and change any setting, add my emails via mass subscription etc. However, when I send an email to my list nothing gets delivered

[Mailman-Users] qrunner: Low level smtp error

2004-06-25 Thread Doug Hughes
mailman 2.1.4-5 debian sarge postfix (or sendmail) initial mail queues to the daemon ok and then goes into the qfiles directory, but then mailman qrunner processes it and I get this: Jun 23 17:08:05 2004 (19334) Low level smtp error: (-2, 'Name or service not known'), msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Using Mailiman

2004-06-25 Thread Singles @ First Impressions
Good Day to you. Does Mailman allow me mail to 2-5,000 addresses at one time? Won't my ISP, (broadband SBC/Yahoo) care? Thanks for your answer, and I really appreciate your efforts. Jim Fisher, President www.FirstImpressionsdating.com

[Mailman-Users] command line problems

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Sittig
hi, i think, i ask this some times ago, but the problem is the same. has anyone a idea, what can i do to work with the commandline scripte like list_lists from a php file. i know, the problem are the rights. i try to put the standard wwwrun user to the mailman group ... without luck :\ i

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman wihout web interface

2004-06-25 Thread netadmin
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 09:03, Jim Tittsler wrote: You might want to consider still using Apache, but limiting access to just localhost or your LAN, for administrator's use. I have a feeling the restrictions might be port-based, maybe? If so, you can always run apache on a different port.

[Mailman-Users] Script to condense the review page

2004-06-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
I help moderate a couple mailing lists on python.org. The biggest challenge for me is vetting messages which were held for review. The information density in the Mailman review page is pretty low, typically showing only two or three messages per screen. Most of the time all I'm really

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman browswer question - initial set up

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:12 AM -0700 2004-06-18, Poythress, Lynn wrote: When I'm on my web browser (IE) and I type http://my.host.name.edu:5556 - it brings up the generic Apache web page (5556 is our Apache port). Now, what do I type to bring up the Mailman page? If I type http://my.host.name.edu/mailman - I get

[Mailman-Users] problem with email addresses in new mailman setup

2004-06-25 Thread Charles 'Buck' Krasic
Hi, I'm having a problem with e-mail address in mailman messages. Briefly, I'm setting up a new site, for which I've recently registered a new DNS name, and setup my own nameserver for that domain. Things seem to be basically working, I can subscribe to my lists, make postings, etc. The

[Mailman-Users] mailng lists with Alcatel

2004-06-25 Thread Barbara Henderson
Hello, I am trying to create mailing lists, but the link isn't working. When I click that link it says bad request. Please help! Barb -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] e list

2004-06-25 Thread boss
My website is www.modernskate.com http://www.modernskate.com/ . We have a newsletter mailing list. I believe that we have this e mail list management through thebook.com. Is that true? If so, how can I add a bulk list of subscribers? george

[Mailman-Users] Please Help Me - Spam Prevention

2004-06-25 Thread John Posloski
Hello, I am running a small mailing list with about 450 members usinf Mailman version 2.0.6. The list is configured to only allow a select group of people post to the list without approval. I have been getting spammed by a couple of servers. It is getting onerous deleting the spam which get

[Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name

2004-06-25 Thread William R . Dickson
Hi all, I've seen this error mentioned in the archives, but no answers for dealing with it: Failure to find group name nobody. Try adding this group to your system, or re-run configure, providing an existing group name with the command line option --with-cgi-gid. This is on

[Mailman-Users] post got bad listname error

2004-06-25 Thread Matt Perry
Hi. I'm using Mailman v2.0.13 on Red Hat 7.2 and am running about 10 lists on it with no problems. Yesterday I went and created a new list. I copied the output of newlist and put it into /etc/aliases. I ran newaliases, doublechecked everything and then sent a test message to the list. I got

[Mailman-Users] more info pls

2004-06-25 Thread Mircea Boldis S
Hello, I have install mailman in my website. I want to get rid of one of one message in my archive. I see like a solution : a.. remove $prefix/archives/private/listname a.. edit $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox [optional] a.. run $prefix/bin/arch listname Ok, sounds good,

Re: [Mailman-Users] help needed (announcement list vs. discussion list)

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:04 PM -0700 2004-06-23, Richard Barnet wrote: Everything's working correctly, and I've been through the settings more than a few times, but I can't seem to find out how I can switch one of the lists into an announcement only (one-way) broadcast list, as opposed to my

[Mailman-Users] mailman not sending or receiving mail

2004-06-25 Thread Kamal Ahmed
Hi, I am using: mailman 2.1.5 installed via tar/.make/make install running on redhat 9 MTA = exim The problem is that mailman is not receiving or sending out mail, and how can i make sure that when it does start sending mail i would be able to send mail to the LIST, and get distributed to all

[Mailman-Users] What is wrong?

2004-06-25 Thread Leandro Souza
Hi, I´m instaled mailman-2.1.4 an exists one error that i´m not understanding, when i try to create a new mailing list: Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists Anybody helpme? Thanks, --Leandro - *** This

[Mailman-Users] Administrative Database

2004-06-25 Thread kim
I received an email stating I have post that are being held for approval but when I go to the Administrative Database it says there are no pending request. How can I resolve this problem ASAP. We have a newsletter that needs to go out and since we just switched server we have had slight

Re: [Mailman-Users] more info pls

2004-06-25 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jun 19, 2004, at 3:11 AM, Mircea Boldis S wrote: Hello, I have install mailman in my website. I want to get rid of one of one message in my archive. I see like a solution : a.. remove $prefix/archives/private/listname a.. edit $prefix/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox [optional] a..

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do we unsubscribe entire list?

2004-06-25 Thread Jeff Barger
On Jun 20, 2004, at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Barry Warsaw, I am trying to set up Mailman through our host, Hostway, to use Mailman as a newsletter anounce list only. I have subscribed my list to it without yet posting a newsletter, but I want to remove everyone first, and re-enter

Re: [Mailman-Users] e list

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:16 PM -0400 2004-06-13, boss wrote: My website is www.modernskate.com http://www.modernskate.com/ . We have a newsletter mailing list. I believe that we have this e mail list management through thebook.com. Is that true? If so, how can I add a bulk list of subscribers? You should

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:43 PM +0200 2004-06-14, zakaria\.chaanani wrote: When i reboot the pc, it appears this error message : == Starting mailman qrunnerSite list is missing : mailman[EHEC] See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.025.htp. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman not sending or receiving mail

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:46 AM -0400 2004-06-16, Kamal Ahmed wrote: The problem is that mailman is not receiving or sending out mail, and how can i make sure that when it does start sending mail i would be able to send mail to the LIST, and get distributed to all members. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] Please Help Me - Spam Prevention

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:20 AM -0400 2004-06-15, John Posloski wrote: Now I am getting messages from hb528.intrehost.com (unknown [66.17.227.138]) will a filterfrom .*@ *.intrehost.com stop these messages from gettin to my approval area? Not sure if this will work with your version of Mailman, but see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure to find group name

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:27 PM -0700 2004-06-16, William R. Dickson wrote: If it matters, when I compiled Mailman on the new server, I used --with-cgi-gid=65534 -- so the software was able to determine that 65534 is 'nobody' at that point. If you specify the group name numerically, then the system doesn't make

Re: [Mailman-Users] more info pls

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:11 AM -0400 2004-06-19, Mircea Boldis S wrote: Ok, sounds good, but I have no idea from where to start. Are these commands, if so where to type them ? These are commands that are run from the Unix shell prompt, on the files that are stored within the Mailman hierarchy. There are no

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrative Database

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:55 AM -0400 2004-06-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received an email stating I have post that are being held for approval but when I go to the Administrative Database it says there are no pending request. This may be the redirect problem. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do we unsubscribe entire list?

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:07 AM -0700 2004-06-20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up Mailman through our host, Hostway, to use Mailman as a newsletter anounce list only. I have subscribed my list to it without yet posting a newsletter, but I want to remove everyone first, and re-enter a whole new and

Re: [Mailman-Users] post got bad listname error

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:20 PM -0700 2004-06-24, Matt Perry wrote: - Transcript of session follows - Mailman error: post got bad listname: gwinnett-announce 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 I can't figure out why it doesn't see the list. When I run bin/list_lists my new mailing list is in the output.

[Mailman-Users] Re: No footer

2004-06-25 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Jim Tittsler wrote: [...] Ah. I think *I* was *that* person. Sorry, I had to parse a forwarded copy of one part of the start of the thread. I even think the exchange was in PM, at least in part, so I quess you are right :) [...] Ah! Python's smtplib module grew support for SMTP auth in

[Mailman-Users] Re: Problem with Sendmail SMTP-AUTH and Mailman

2004-06-25 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Christopher Tyler wrote: I had Mailman working fine with Sendmail up until I enabled SMTP-AUTH in Sendmail. The messages get to Mailman but are not delivered to the list members anymore because Mailman does not authenticate. Disabling SMTP-AUTH is not an option as we are an ISP and have users

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with email addresses in new mailman setup

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:43 AM -0700 2004-06-19, Charles 'Buck' Krasic wrote: Things seem to be basically working, I can subscribe to my lists, make postings, etc. The problem is that I'm seeing an unexpected host name in some of the e-mail messages. I'm seeing 'ns.qstream.org' where I expect to see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:54 PM -0500 2004-06-24, Ing. Marcos Rene Alvarez Moreno wrote: I have a question, im working with mailman 2.0.11, how do i send a attach to over 1 users accounts? Create a normal mailing list, taking all defaults -- By default, Mailman won't strip or filter anything. Subscribe your

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailng lists with Alcatel

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:33 AM -0400 2004-06-23, Barbara Henderson wrote: I am trying to create mailing lists, but the link isn't working. When I click that link it says bad request. Please see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.022.htp. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They that can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailiman

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:36 PM -0700 2004-06-24, Singles @ First Impressions wrote: Does Mailman allow me mail to 2-5,000 addresses at one time? You can have a large number of subscribers on a Mailman mailing list -- see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.015.htp. How Mailman actually

[Mailman-Users] Updating MM 2.1.2 - 2.1.5 stucks

2004-06-25 Thread Frank Thommen
Hello list members, while updating MM from 2.1.2 to 2.1.5, the process of updating gets stucked at one specific maillist. I added a 'print mlist' in 'def update_pending()' after 'for listname in Utils.list_names(): mlist = MailList.MailList(listname)' to know where it happens: #

[Mailman-Users] Remote administrative requests list

2004-06-25 Thread Jeanne Goodman
Please forgive this ignorant question, but I can not seem to find the list of remote administrative commands. I finally found the way to use the Approve: header but it would have been simpler if I could have found a guide. Jeanne --

RE: [Mailman-Users] mailman not sending or receiving mail

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:26 PM -0400 2004-06-25, Kamal Ahmed wrote: But as soon as i switched to Exim, instead of Postfix, Mailman started working. If you (or anyone else) would like to know the working configuration , i would be glad to share. That's weird. There should be no practical difference between