Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:47 PM + 2004-11-29, Gary Smith wrote: In one of the previous posts (Allow members to send e-mail to another list) it was mentioned that intelligent spammers could monitor the output of a list and then spoof one of the subscribed addresses. Indeed, this is a risk. I dont know much

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread Douglas McCarroll
I'm a relative Mailman newby, but this is a big interest of mine. I've just set up a couple of lists, and here's what I've done to prevent the harvesting of list-user email addresses by spammers. Some may be excessive - I don't fully understand all the options - but when in doubt I take the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Has anyone successfully installed Mailman onFedora Core 2?

2004-11-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:03 PM +0900 2004-11-30, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: AC_CHECK_HEADER(Python.h, , got_python_h=yes)]) if test $got_python_h != yes -a $os = linux; then echo 'If you're on Linux, you have the binary distro no -devel rpm bug!' echo 'Switch to an Industrial-Strength OS such as

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ Wizard

2004-11-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:23 AM + 2004-11-30, PeteBell wrote: How is the FAQ Wizard feature on your website driven? It's a tool written in Python. Actually, I think it is a particular instance of a tool that was written to support the whole of python.org and not just Mailman. Therefore, you'd need to talk to

[Mailman-Users] Mail not being delivered and consultants wanted?

2004-11-30 Thread Anne Shroeder
We've recently had multiple problems with our mailman installation (currently hosted externally but hopefully soon to be moved in house) and the most recent one is that mail is simply not delivered - most of the time. Some messages seem to get through, but most do not. Because I don't have access

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Douglas McCarroll wrote: I'm a relative Mailman newby, but this is a big interest of mine. I've just set up a couple of lists, and here's what I've done to prevent the harvesting of list-user email addresses by spammers. Some may be excessive - I don't fully understand all the options - but

[Mailman-Users] listinfo.py

2004-11-30 Thread Hong Jiang Tian
Hi, When accessing the listinfo web page, it mentioned that If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I needed to change the above email address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to another email address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to modify

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not being delivered and consultants wanted?

2004-11-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Anne Shroeder wrote: We've recently had multiple problems with our mailman installation (currently hosted externally but hopefully soon to be moved in house) and the most recent one is that mail is simply not delivered - most of the time. Some messages seem to get through, but most do not.

Re: [Mailman-Users] listinfo.py

2004-11-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hong Jiang Tian wrote: When accessing the listinfo web page, it mentioned that If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I needed to change the above email address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to another email address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to modify

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stopping Spam

2004-11-30 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/30/2004 2:26, Douglas McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really surprises me that the vast majority of lists (including this one!) blithely send out posters' email addresses to all subscribers. Of course, having an anonymous list means that posters have to sign their emails, or no

[Mailman-Users] I am new and have a problem

2004-11-30 Thread Chuck Sampair
Hello, I am brand new to the list and also new at using the mailman service. I changed web host providers recently and my new host provider offers mailing lists using the mailman program. I set my list up and everything was working fine. Then about 3 days ago I sent a post through and it did

[Mailman-Users] Mailman on separate web and smtp load balanced farms.

2004-11-30 Thread Matt Ruzicka
First of all I apologize profusely for re-submitting this often talked about topic. I've been reading archives and googling and see that people keep asking similar questions, but their needs end up being a bit different so the answers offered up by the community don't quite answer what I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on separate web and smtp load balanced farms.

2004-11-30 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:10 PM -0700 2004-11-30, Matt Ruzicka wrote: I was wondering if anyone is actually doing something remotely similar to this. We did the same sorts of things when I was the Sr. Internet Mail Administrator for AOL, and again when I was the Sr. Systems Architect for Belgacom Skynet (the

[Mailman-Users] custom invitation message for each list

2004-11-30 Thread Ronnie Taylor
is there a fairly straight forward way to create a customized invitation message for each list set up on a single mailman installation? thanks... RT -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] custom invitation message for each list

2004-11-30 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ronnie Taylor wrote: is there a fairly straight forward way to create a customized invitation message for each list set up on a single mailman installation? Yes. The invitation template is invite.txt. FAQ article 4.48 (http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.048.htp) explains

[Mailman-Users] HTML Tokens

2004-11-30 Thread Peter Gysegem
When editing the HTML for a MailMan web page, there are many tokens such as MM-List-Name. Is there a list anywhere of these tokens and what they do? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Unknown user- what am I missing?

2004-11-30 Thread Zain Memon
I have a nice list set up with Mailman and Postfix as my MTA. Everything seems to work beautifully, except for one thing. Say I have three email addresses subscribed to my list. One is from the domain hotmail.com, one is from the domain gmail.com, and one is from the domain speakeasy.net. Now I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Remove original message from -request mail response?

2004-11-30 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Nov 28, 2004, at 03:16, David Gibbs wrote: Does anyone know if there is a way to NOT include the original email when commands sent to the -request address responds? In Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py, try commenting out the section at the end of Results.send_response:

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ Wizard

2004-11-30 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Nov 30, 2004, at 16:23, PeteBell wrote: How is the FAQ Wizard feature on your website driven? The FAQ Wizard is a small Python CGI script and is distributed with Python. (If it is not included in your particular Python distribution, you can fetch the official Python source tarball from