Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and courier - problem solved

On 2 Jul 2004, at 04:32, Lindsay Haisley wrote: OK, the issue was that mailman, when generating VERP address for the envelope sender address for monthly password mailouts uses the _fully qualified domain name_ of the list server system, e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The info in the following FAQ entry

Re: [Mailman-Users] "from" column question--how can we get our name to appear instead of the email address?

On 7/1/2004 12:02, "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 7:14 PM -0400 2004-06-29, Avi M. Spiegel wrote: > >> We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our >> message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people >> think it's spam. How ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and courier - problem solved

OK, the issue was that mailman, when generating VERP address for the envelope sender address for monthly password mailouts uses the _fully qualified domain name_ of the list server system, e.g. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Courier's authentication database had an entry for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but not one

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

On Jul 1, 2004, at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Lotto wrote: On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Dan Phillips wrote: Something just occurred to me (I can be pretty slow at times). Have you posed these questions to the OS X server mailing list at http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macos-x-server/ ? Since I

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and courier

Thus spake Richard Barrett on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:01:50PM CDT > > On 1 Jul 2004, at 22:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I solved this by hacking src/common.c so as to only compare the procces > >group name with parentgroup if strcmp("mailman", mygroup->gr_name) > >returns non-zero. This sol

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/mailpasswds

At 4:50 PM -0700 2004-07-01, Raymond Mills wrote: I got a message with the subject line above that stated: Site list is missing: mailman See . -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "They that can give up essential liberty to

[Mailman-Users] Cron /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/mailpasswds

Hello folks, I am new to a lot of this and I have a question. I saw a post regarding missing mailman but I am using plesk so I am not sure how to proceed I got a message with the subject line above that stated: Site list is missing: mailman I set up and run mailman from a plesk 6/linux interface

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and courier

On 1 Jul 2004, at 22:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved this by hacking src/common.c so as to only compare the procces group name with parentgroup if strcmp("mailman", mygroup->gr_name) returns non-zero. This solves the problem, but surely there must be a more elegant solution. I do not grok

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and courier

I solved this by hacking src/common.c so as to only compare the procces group name with parentgroup if strcmp("mailman", mygroup->gr_name) returns non-zero. This solves the problem, but surely there must be a more elegant solution. Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:17:23PM C

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:43 PM, Dan Phillips wrote: Something just occurred to me (I can be pretty slow at times). Have you posed these questions to the OS X server mailing list at http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macos-x-server/ ? Since I installed MM on 10.2, before Apple started provid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:23 PM, Dan Phillips wrote: On Jul 1, 2004, at 3:11 PM, Benjamin Lotto wrote: Did you run 'check_perms -f'? Yes (as root). Followed by unshunt (as mailman) as Dan Phillips suggested. I didn't get any errors. However, I still get the same error when I try to login to some of

[Mailman-Users] mailman and courier

I'm using mailman as a list server with courier as my MTA. The mailman user is in /etc/passwd as belonging to primary group 'mailman'. Mailman is compiled with --with-mail-gid set to the group of the mail user. This is set to 'courier' which works for most purposes, both posting and handling bou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

At 3:41 PM -0400 2004-07-01, Benjamin Lotto wrote: Perhaps a pointer to some general information about how mailman works would be helpful? I might be able to apply that knowledge to the apple setting. Pretty much all the documentation for Mailman will be linked from the page at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

On Jul 1, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: At 1:06 PM -0400 2004-07-01, Benjamin Lotto wrote: I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message. There's not really much

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

At 1:06 PM -0400 2004-07-01, Benjamin Lotto wrote: I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message. There's not really much support that we can provide for MacOS X Server.

Re: [Mailman-Users] backup of membership list in Mailman

At 12:12 PM -0400 2004-06-30, John Calabria wrote: how can I backup the member list to a file? can it be exported into outlook, a comma delimited file? See and look at the command "list_members". -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] "from" column question--how can we get our name to appear instead of the email address?

At 7:14 PM -0400 2004-06-29, Avi M. Spiegel wrote: We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Extract list of lists with population?

Here's some really ugly perl that I slapped together last night. I think it does what the OP wanted. It sends mail and writes a log. Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Extract list of lists with population?

Depending on your shell, something like foreach l ( `/your/path/to/mailman/bin/list_lists -b `) echo -n $l /your/path/to/mailman/bin/list_members | wc -l end might do the trick. mjb. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. -Albert Einstein.

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced messages and VERP ??

At 6:15 PM +0530 2004-07-01, Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote: I think I need a answer of a single question: How do I make sure that Mailman is not VERPing mails? And if I find that it is VERPing mails then how do I turn it OFF ?? Go to the admin web page for your list. Go to the "Non-digest opti

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing subscribers from a file

On 1 Jul 2004, at 16:44, Con Wieland wrote: Hello I'm trying to use bin/remove_members with a file of addresses to be removed for input but I'm not getting the syntax correct. Can someone show me how they do it? Probably the same format as is generated by $prefix/bin/list_members I should guess

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced messages and VERP ??

On 1 Jul 2004, at 13:45, Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote: Sorry I think I need a answer of a single question: How do I make sure that Mailman is not VERPing mails? And if I find that it is VERPing mails then how do I turn it OFF ?? Look in Defaults.py for the comments about and the config variables

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman post from mailman@math.vassar.edu requires approval

I am a mailman neophyte who is trying to use mailman on Mac OS X Server (10.3.4). Everything was working well until this morning when I got the following e-mail message. On Jul 1, 2004, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following

[Mailman-Users] Posting records

One of the lists I moderate is fairly high volume, dedicated to art quilting. A subscriber noted this morning that we had 269 digests released in June, and wondered what the record was. Made me curious, does anyone track such things? Van -- --

Re: [Mailman-Users] "from" column question--how can we get our name toappear instead of the email address?

Avi M. Spiegel wrote: > >We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our >message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people >think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting >is listed in the from column? > > > >When I send

[Mailman-Users] removing subscribers from a file

Hello I'm trying to use bin/remove_members with a file of addresses to be removed for input but I'm not getting the syntax correct. Can someone show me how they do it? thanks Con Wieland -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ma

[Mailman-Users] Installing on a remote Win2K server

Does anyone know offhand if Mailman can be installed on a remote shared hosting account running on Win2K? I have a web host whose mailing list offerings are pretty lame. Thanks, Tracey -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages locked in "shunt" directory

Richard Barrett wrote: short question: why are my messages shunt? have you checked the Mailman error log to see if there is any indication of problems with these messages when they are being handled, presumably by the ArchiveRunner? [snip] oh yes .. why not look for the obvious first... sorry Ric

[Mailman-Users] pl translation fix

Hello, This is small pl translation fix. Without that message from moderator was ugly and causes line break in some MUA. -- pozdr. Paweł Gołaszewski - My jsme borgové. Odpor je marný, budete asimilováni...--- ./messages/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po.orgThu Mar

[Mailman-Users] Global NOMAIL?

Hi: I am the admin and one of three mods for an announce-only list. Is there an e-mail command I can use to set everyone on the list to NOMAIL temporarily so that I can then turn mail back on for a few people in order to do some testing? The list has about 435 subscribers, and using the web i

[Mailman-Users] backup of membership list in Mailman

Hello, how can I backup the member list to a file? can it be exported into outlook, a comma delimited file? thanks! john -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrading Panther Server basic install 2.1.2 to 2.1.5

Thanks Brad and Dan for your comments. Mailman has worked really well for me, but as someone coming to Panther Server and Mailman from running a webstar server, it is a big jump- a BIG change. Better docs to help the newbie/clueless would go a long way. That said, the more I work in this "unix

[Mailman-Users] "from" column question--how can we get our name to appear instead of the email address?

Hello: We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column? When I send messages from my Outl

Re: [Mailman-Users] listowners list?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > The listowner.org DNS entries are still there but I have no idea what > > has happened to the site or mailing lists associated. The site is currently offline as the company has gone bankrupt which used to provide a home and network connection fo

[Mailman-Users] E-mail in different domain than list server?

We have a situation that I wouldn't think would be TOO unique, but I can't find a way to make it operate correctly under Mailman (version 2.1.5 in this case, but tried with 2.1.1 as well). Specifically, our e-mail domain is completely different than our web domain: E-mail domain:company

[Mailman-Users] list problems

Hello, For the second time now it seems that my list is not working. It is doing the same thing it did the first time which is I am not being notified of new posts to the list and when I try and approve posts it will not send them to list memebers. I am the list administrator and it will not

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

Tokio, I think that did the trick! I added your suggestion to my mm_cfg.py file and now I get the Mailman welcome page! I can even get to the page where you create new mail lists! Thanks to all! Let's see how much further I can get - it has definitely been a learning experience! Lynn Poythres

[Mailman-Users] listowners list?

I found this post in the archive, but no response. I'm also not getting anywhere with listowner.org - the domain is active and last was changed in January. I have been using majordomo for many many years and am a couple of days into my first mailman list, as a customer of an ISP, and I'm looki

[Mailman-Users] We have a serious problem.

Dear Sir, We have a very serious problem. Someone is evidently using your e-mail address services (under an unreachable e-mail address called "imanway_imanway.com"), and then using my e-mail address and who knows how many other e-mail addresses to spam people everywhere. This is turning

[Mailman-Users] Subscribe form in HTML email

Is there a way to include the subscribe form into HTML newsletters? Currently have one: http://mail.efluential.com/mailman/subscribe/sugar_efluential.co m"> SUBSCRIBING to SUGAR Subscribe to Sugar by filling out the following form. You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others

[Mailman-Users] List not responding

One of my lists has stopped responding. I can't access it via the web (when I try to log-in it eventually times out). My other lists are still accessible from the web. I've tried stopping and starting mailmanctl, restarting sendmail, and gone as far as restarting the virtual server. I believe the

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced messages and VERP ??

Sorry I think I need a answer of a single question: How do I make sure that Mailman is not VERPing mails? And if I find that it is VERPing mails then how do I turn it OFF ?? Do I need to re-configure my list? What is the parameter in sitelist.cfg file which I need to change for this?? TIA --yog

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced messages and VERP ??

thanks But I haven't any change. I am running postfix as it was. I observed the thing when I fixed the problem with the ID and posted a test message. I wrote VERP because, I remember such a setting exists. But in fact I haven't changed anything. Is this happening because few message to that ID h

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages locked in "shunt" directory

On 1 Jul 2004, at 12:33, Hartmut Steffin wrote: hi guys, short question: why are my messages shunt? have you checked the Mailman error log to see if there is any indication of problems with these messages when they are being handled, presumably by the ArchiveRunner? long description: since a few

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced messages and VERP ??

On 1 Jul 2004, at 12:22, Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote: hi, I am using mailman with postfix. While testing mailman I created a list with two address. Both had same domain say "mydomain.com". When all was working fine, mailman/postfix used to copy a single mail to both the users. I had a problem wit

[Mailman-Users] messages locked in "shunt" directory

hi guys, short question: why are my messages shunt? long description: since a few days the archives are not updated. everything else works, i.e. you can send messages, subscribers receive a.s.o. the archive does not reflect changes since a week or so. i looked into the directories. not only the htm

Re: [Mailman-Users] From Address and non-member posts

But suppose I really want to make sure that all recepients get the mail. Then how can I detect that mail delivery has failed for some users? It will simply keep me in dark and I may never know that someone is not getting any announcement! any advice?? --yogesh > * Yogesh Subhash Talekar <[EMAI

[Mailman-Users] bounced messages and VERP ??

hi, I am using mailman with postfix. While testing mailman I created a list with two address. Both had same domain say "mydomain.com". When all was working fine, mailman/postfix used to copy a single mail to both the users. I had a problem with one of the IDs and the mail destined to it bounced f