Re: [Mailman-Users] messages from checkdbs cron job

2004-09-23 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Sep 22, 2004, at 02:12, Franco, Ruben wrote: I recently installed Mailman 2.1.5 and have loaded up the mailman crons that came with the install. I have noticed the following messages everday when the checkdbs cron runs and I was wondering what the message meant. Is something wrong with my

[Mailman-Users] Messages stuck in qfiles

2004-09-23 Thread Ralf Laue
Hello, It should help to patch the /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py file, line 163, as follows: if (subject == None): subject = '' splitsubj = string.split(subject) Ralf mhurley wrote: Hey, I found some more

[Mailman-Users] Probe Message Problem

2004-09-23 Thread Gary Kaplan
Untitled DocumentThe probe message that my list is sending out to members who have had messages bounce list all the other users addresses who have had bounces. How can I fix this. Thanks' -Gary ~~ Gary Kaplan GK Graphic Designs Web Design, Graphic Design, Photography

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderation not working

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Nelson
Hi, Well, I removed my Mailman 2.1.5 install and put in 2.0.13. After getting everything configured, I can subscribe users and Mailman sends out welcome messages, but messages on a list set to be moderated still disappear--actually, ALL messages to the list disappear now, even when moderation is

[Mailman-Users] simple newsletter delivery

2004-09-23 Thread jean
Hello, I have started to play with Mailman as I am planning on using it to send a weekly newsletter. I actually want to keep it very simple and not give the people on the list the option to post anything... I just want to be able to send tem all one newsletter every week. I checked all of

[Mailman-Users] Documentation -Is this all there is?

2004-09-23 Thread Susan McClure
We are running Solaris 2.8 server with mailman 2.1.4 and python 2.3.2 Our mailman admin who set things up has left, and I am trying to come up to speed. Am I missing some key, basic, sys-admin type Administration Guide for Mailman? I found all the stuff at http://www.list.org/ but the Sys

[Mailman-Users] Membership management

2004-09-23 Thread Mark Mcgee
Hi, I use the mailman script to mange three lists. The lists are only for the moderator to post to, like a newsletter. I have not been able to see how to manage subscribers easily. I want to associate a name with the e-mail address but it appears that I would have to type each name individually.

[Mailman-Users] Moderator's approvals

2004-09-23 Thread David Sumner
I have set up a new list using mailman. In the send filter area I have indicated that non-members messages are to be accepted and that works. However, when members of the list submit to it their mail needs to be approved. Can someone suggest what flag/indicator I have missed?

[Mailman-Users] Maybe Slightly OT, Bounces with host name loopup failure

2004-09-23 Thread Tim Walter
I suspect my mailman setup is stable and OK but a new problem has developed and can't resolve it... Mailman 2.1.3 running with sendmail on a raq4 mailman domain is emisnug.org.uk raq is raq.uk2net.com ISP is uk2.net The list is running fine, mail to most people working OK to and fro etc The

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Questions

2004-09-23 Thread Cheryl LaSalle
a.. We are migrating from another list program to Mailman and adding members via Mass Subscription. Is there any way to skip the Confirm step in this situation? We don't want to bother the members with this step, as none of their current processes will be changing. (We use an alias for

[Mailman-Users] How to access the member password database?

2004-09-23 Thread Ivo Marino
Hello folks, I am currently coding a password-check method in OO-PHP for phpNewsList [1], this function should crypt a password provided by an user via form and compare it with the user's mailing list password available on the local filesystem where mailman resides. In order to be able to do

[Mailman-Users] Errors During Make-Install

2004-09-23 Thread Luis Murdock
Hello, I am trying to install and run Mailman on Solaris 2.7 or SunOS 5.7 and I'm getting the following fatal when running 'make install': Traceback (most recent call last): File bin/update, line 50, in ? from Mailman import Utils File

[Mailman-Users] gid problems or something else??

2004-09-23 Thread Gary Kline
Hi People, I spent most of the weekend trying to install Mailman; no-joy. I got close late Saturday night when I received a wwlist-request from my Mailman server on 'sage.thought.org'. When I sent in the reply to coonfirm it bounced; the return

[Mailman-Users] Please Help!

2004-09-23 Thread Danny Welch
Hello, I am a user of Mailman Mailing List through my webhosting provided by Intermedia.net. I need some help with my mailing list settings. When I first setup the private list I was sending messages in HTML format and they would be delivered in HTML format. Since then I have had a

[Mailman-Users] Can't seem to get permissions straightened out

2004-09-23 Thread Steve Pfister
I'm using 2.1.4 under RedHat Linux 9. It seems to mostly work, but I seem to have problems getting all the permissions straight for my /var/mailman directory. If I run /var/mailman/bin/check_perms, no problem is found (usually), but newly created files don't seem to have the correct permissions.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:29 am +0200 Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5:08 PM +0100 2004-09-22, Ian Eiloart wrote: I think that what is called for is an installer package, using one of the various installer systems out there. Now, that would NOT entail creating an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors During Make-Install

2004-09-23 Thread Richard Barrett
You probably have a problem with your Python installation. _socket is part of the standard Python library providing support for the UNIX/BSD socket interface. Unless and until you can run python from the command line and enter the command import socket without getting an exception raised then

Re: [Mailman-Users] Documentation -Is this all there is?

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:10 AM -0500 2004-09-16, Susan McClure wrote: Our mailman admin who set things up has left, and I am trying to come up to speed. Am I missing some key, basic, sys-admin type Administration Guide for Mailman? I found all the stuff at http://www.list.org/ but the Sys Admin stuff is

Re: [Mailman-Users] simple newsletter delivery

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:18 AM +1000 2004-09-17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually want to keep it very simple and not give the people on the list the option to post anything... I just want to be able to send tem all one newsletter every week. I checked all of the options and couldn't figure out which options I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Membership management

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:29 PM -0800 2004-09-16, Mark Mcgee wrote: I use the mailman script to mange three lists. The lists are only for the moderator to post to, like a newsletter. I have not been able to see how to manage subscribers easily. I want to associate a name with the e-mail address but it appears that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Please Help!

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:22 AM -0700 2004-09-16, Danny Welch wrote: Now I can't seem to find out how to change the delivery method back to HTML format. Can you please help me! I would greatly appreciate it. Mailman gives you to option of converting HTML-formatted

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Questions

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:11 PM -0700 2004-09-17, Cheryl LaSalle wrote: a.. We are migrating from another list program to Mailman and adding members via Mass Subscription. Is there any way to skip the Confirm step in this situation? Sure. Go to the Privacy options... page for your list and turn off the

Re: [Mailman-Users] gid problems or something else??

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:35 PM -0700 2004-09-20, Gary Kline wrote: If re-running ./configure with the option `--with-mail-gid=daemon', that would be the easiest fix. You are correct -- this is most likely to be the easiest fix. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential

Re: [Mailman-Users] Probe Message Problem

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:55 PM -0400 2004-09-20, Gary Kaplan wrote: Untitled DocumentThe probe message that my list is sending out to members who have had messages bounce list all the other users addresses who have had bounces. How can I fix this. Could you give us some more details as to precisely what your

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to access the member password database?

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:38 AM +0200 2004-09-21, Ivo Marino wrote: In order to be able to do this I would like to know where the user password databases for the various mailman mailing lists are stored on the local file system. This way I could parse the db from PHP (web server) level. I don't think it's stored

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderation not working

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:49 AM -0700 2004-09-21, Jeff Nelson wrote: According to the docs, 2.1.5 is supposed to *work* with Python 2.1.3, though the later version is recommended. I'm thinking that this wasn't the problem after all. :-{ Python 2.3 is actually required for Mailman 2.1.5. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] Maybe Slightly OT, Bounces with host name loopup failure

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:14 PM +0100 2004-09-22, Tim Walter wrote: the ISP resolutely refuses to answer the phone etc! but what can I do in the meantime, is it my prob or elsewhere etc. This seems to be a problem with the ISP. If they won't answer the phone, I don't think there's much you can do to solve it. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't seem to get permissions straightened out

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:16 PM -0400 2004-09-21, Steve Pfister wrote: I'm running apache as user nobody, and sendmail is running the mailman script as mailnull. There is a mailman user, from the RedHat installation, but I've changed its uid to be the same as the mailnull user. Therein lies the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderator's approvals

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:22 PM -0400 2004-09-21, David Sumner wrote: I have set up a new list using mailman. In the send filter area I have indicated that non-members messages are to be accepted and that works. However, when members of the list submit to it their mail needs to be approved. Can someone

[Mailman-Users] Reject message

2004-09-23 Thread nikos
Hello list Does anybody know how to change the reject messages for nonlist users or list users? Thank you Nikos -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] Posts being moderated when they shouldn't

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Barnes
I have done everything I can think of to get these messages to go through without requiring moderator approval, but I am obviously missing something. What is implicit destination and how do I get it to just process the message? As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Barnes
Jon Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course not. Just a simple GUI front end for installing and setting up a Mailman site, that would incorporate expert knowledge about various environments so that the user doesn't have to struggle with manually editing configuration files, finding needed

RE: [Mailman-Users] messages from checkdbs cron job

2004-09-23 Thread Franco, Ruben
I ran check_db -a -v but none of the config.db or config.pck files were found to be corrupted. A few were missing for the newer lists but the help for check_db says that is nothing to worry about. Ruben -Original Message- From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Jon Roland
Chris Barnes wrote: Quite frankly, old underpowered laptops shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). In production mode, where the machine is serving visitors from the Internet, no, but for development

[Mailman-Users] Re: Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Barnes
Jon Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Barnes wrote: Quite frankly, old underpowered laptops shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). In production mode, where the machine is serving visitors from

Re: [Mailman-Users] gid problems or something else??

2004-09-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:53:40AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: At 12:35 PM -0700 2004-09-20, Gary Kline wrote: If re-running ./configure with the option `--with-mail-gid=daemon', that would be the easiest fix. You are correct -- this is most likely to be the easiest fix.

[Mailman-Users] requests for consideration?

2004-09-23 Thread Andy Morris
Just set up my lists last night and this morning i got emails from each list with this information. I go to the site and nothing is there for my approval? What is this? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list has -1 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: Thanks, Andy

[Mailman-Users] List Woes

2004-09-23 Thread Fred Macondray
Greetings, I've got an active list (therefore can't really test things anymore) and I've got a couple problems. One: When people reply to postings, the reply goes to both an explicit email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and to the list posting address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). and Two: Messages sent to the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 61

2004-09-23 Thread Naturalpistol101
sorry i cannot open MIM files -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives:

[Mailman-Users] Mime used in digest

2004-09-23 Thread Judy Petersen
It appears that two of our list members are suddenly receiving their digests in MIME format. I read a message about it that suggested AOL was doing this and the user has an AOL address so I referred her. Seems AOL says they don't cause any changes to these emails (what I expected them to say).

[Mailman-Users] Installation question

2004-09-23 Thread Dana Rasmussen
Hello, My organization has contracted with a consultant for computer server resources. The consultant in turn, is contracting with the actual provider of computer hardware and communication resources. Our consultant does not have Root access on the server. Is it absolutely necessary to have

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help on privacy options !?!

2004-09-23 Thread Chris Barnes
Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I was wondering if you can tell Mailman to automatically except mail from non-list members, but who are listmembers from the other 2 lists, in the Privacy section. Of course non-list members who are not member of any of the other 2 lists should not

[Mailman-Users] low level smtp error

2004-09-23 Thread vlado
Dear friends I know this topic was already talked on this list but i checked the archive and did not find the right answer for my problem. I'm running mailman on Fedora C2 with apache web server. The web works fine. I was able to create list. After installation i created the mailman list. When i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts being moderated when they shouldn't

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:46 AM -0500 2004-09-23, Chris Barnes wrote: I have done everything I can think of to get these messages to go through without requiring moderator approval, but I am obviously missing something. What is implicit destination and how do I get it to just process the message? Implicit

[Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie requesting basic how-to

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:52 AM -0500 2004-09-23, Chris Barnes wrote: Quite frankly, old underpowered laptops shouldn't be used as server machines (running a MLM is a server application, even if it is one that doesn't consume many resources). Actually, I do that kind of thing myself. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Woes

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:22 AM -0700 2004-09-23, Fred Macondray wrote: 1) ONLY the explicit reply to address is included in the announcements. Setting a list Reply-to: header is usually a bad idea. See http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html. As for making the list announce-only, go to the Mailman FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reject message

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:09 PM +0300 2004-09-23, nikos wrote: Does anybody know how to change the reject messages for nonlist users or list users? As the list moderator, when you decide to reject a given request, you can provide text to explain your decision. Alternatively, you can edit the appropriate

Re: [Mailman-Users] requests for consideration?

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:13 PM -0400 2004-09-23, Andy Morris wrote: Just set up my lists last night and this morning i got emails from each list with this information. I go to the site and nothing is there for my approval? What is this? Go to the Mailman FAQ Wizard at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation question

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:00 PM -0700 2004-09-23, Dana Rasmussen wrote: Is it absolutely necessary to have root access to install Mailman? Pretty much. Do we have any other options to ensure a successfull installation? Contract out the computer resources to a place that will provide Mailman services via

[Mailman-Users] Re: Help on privacy options !?!

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:03 PM -0500 2004-09-23, Chris Barnes wrote: Is there a running wish list of features for those of us who aren't programmers? Yes. See http://www.list.org/todo.html. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety,

Re: [Mailman-Users] low level smtp error

2004-09-23 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:34 PM +0200 2004-09-23, vlado wrote: Sep 23 21:22:41 2004 (754) delivery to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') Sep 23 21:22:41 2004 (754) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This looks like an MTA problem -- the

[Mailman-Users] topic regep exclude

2004-09-23 Thread Howard Moscovitz
In the topic definition form, how can one specify a topic that is only messages that DOES NOT have the string [G2] in it. Is there a way to test regeps without setting up a separte test list? Thanks much... Howard -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Help on privacy options !?!

2004-09-23 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
Brad Knowles wrote: At 2:03 PM -0500 2004-09-23, Chris Barnes wrote: Is there a running wish list of features for those of us who aren't programmers? Yes. See http://www.list.org/todo.html. And, here is where you can post your feature request.

Re: [Mailman-Users] gid problems or something else??

2004-09-23 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:09:26AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: for approval. Havng me approve/deny list subscribers can be useful, but for my purposes, I'd much rather let my users automagically subscribe, unsubscribe, change their addresses, and so forth _without_ my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help on privacy options !?!

2004-09-23 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:37:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I was wondering if you can tell Mailman to automatically except mail from non-list members, but who are listmembers from the other 2 lists, in the Privacy section. Of course non-list members who are not member of any of the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 62

2004-09-23 Thread Naturalpistol101
sorry i am unable to open MIM files -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Please Help!

2004-09-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: At 11:22 AM -0700 2004-09-16, Danny Welch wrote: Now I can't seem to find out how to change the delivery method back to HTML format. Can you please help me! I would greatly appreciate it. Mailman gives you to option

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Questions

2004-09-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: At 2:11 PM -0700 2004-09-17, Cheryl LaSalle wrote: c.. Is there any way that the subject line of the confirm e-mail can be made friendlier. Seeing something like confirm 82b57cdc0f01bb4c4954c6346583539ebee04502 in a subject line is daunting to an unsuspecting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Questions about the Mass subscribe option

2004-09-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dana Rasmussen wrote: Does the mass subscribe option allow for bulk additions from a file containing the list of addresses? Yes, see the Membership Management...-Mass Subscription page for details. Can you invite people to join a list using the mass subscribe option? I would like the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime used in digest

2004-09-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
Judy Petersen wrote: It appears that two of our list members are suddenly receiving their digests in MIME format. I read a message about it that suggested AOL was doing this and the user has an AOL address so I referred her. Seems AOL says they don't cause any changes to these emails (what I

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Woes

2004-09-23 Thread John W. Baxter
On 9/23/2004 18:29, Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:22 AM -0700 2004-09-23, Fred Macondray wrote: ... 2) ONLY a few authorized addresses can send to the list? In the web admin interface for your list, go to the Privacy options... section, then down to Sender filters. Partway