[Mailman-Users] Looking for information on stability of Mailman

2005-01-11 Thread Bill Bruns-Yahoo
Howdy, We are thinking of using Mailman as our mailing list manager in a commercial situation. In our situation we only handle about 3000 users, on a shared Linux server. I am looking for information about the stability of Mailman, especially since there are quite a few problems reported on

[Mailman-Users] bad links in admin e-mails

2005-01-11 Thread Peggy O. Dolter
Hello, When I get list admin messages directing me to this: http://www.jburroughs.org/mailman/admindb/alum_jbs it works alright, but when I get messages directing me to: http://jbworld/mailman/admindb/mailman I get a page that says This page cannot be displayed. This problem just started in the

[Mailman-Users] attatchment reqest

2005-01-11 Thread Robert Standley
I would like the attatchment sent to me. R This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service -- The original e-mail attachment programs.zip is on the list of unacceptable attachments for this

[Mailman-Users] install questions

2005-01-11 Thread Sada siva
i am attempting to run mailman and i need some help installing - i looked at some lists that describe how to do it - i am not a total Klutz as i am used to managing websites and usung my server ineterface, etc. but i am not savvy in installing scripts and language likre this is a little dauning

[Mailman-Users] Configuration question

2005-01-11 Thread williamsa
What do I set to insure that it is a closed list? That is, the list can only be sent to by administrators and not reply to all on the list. Andrea Williams Substance Abuse Policy Research Program Center for Creative Leadership One Leadership Place Greensboro, NC 27438 336-286-4414

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for information on stability of Mailman

2005-01-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:44 PM -0800 2005-01-09, Bill Bruns-Yahoo wrote: I am looking for information about the stability of Mailman, It's about as stable as any other mailing list management system that I've seen in the twelve or so years I've been specializing in doing Internet mail systems administration.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Configuration question

2005-01-11 Thread Yassen Damyanov
On Monday 10 January 2005 22:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I set to insure that it is a closed list? That is, the list can only be sent to by administrators and not reply to all on the list. Take a look here: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.011.htp Seems

[Mailman-Users] bad message has killed moderator page

2005-01-11 Thread Mike Alberghini
We have hit a problem where a non-ascii character has made Mailman blow up. I have deleted the held messages for the list, but we still get the bug page with the ASCII encoding error. Is there a way to purge the held message info so we can get moderator functions back? I have checked the FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] bad links in admin e-mails

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Peggy O. Dolter wrote: When I get list admin messages directing me to this: http://www.jburroughs.org/mailman/admindb/alum_jbs it works alright, but when I get messages directing me to: http://jbworld/mailman/admindb/mailman I get a page that says This page cannot be displayed. Presumably this

Re: [Mailman-Users] install questions

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sada siva wrote: i am attempting to run mailman and i need some help installing - i looked at some lists that describe how to do it - i am not a total Klutz as i am used to managing websites and usung my server ineterface, etc. but i am not savvy in installing scripts and language likre this

Re: [Mailman-Users] attatchment reqest

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Robert Standley wrote: I would like the attatchment sent to me. The attachment removal and the messages below have nothing to do with Mailman. This is a message from the MailScanner E-Mail Virus Protection Service --

Re: [Mailman-Users] bad message has killed moderator page

2005-01-11 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Alberghini wrote: We have hit a problem where a non-ascii character has made Mailman blow up. I have deleted the held messages for the list, but we still get the bug page with the ASCII encoding error. Is there a way to purge the held message info so we can get moderator functions back? I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail

2005-01-11 Thread Dr. Scott S. Jones
John: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script. I am unsure how to resolve THIS error=2E I am hoping there is some configuration file that I can update, instead of having to reconfigure my Mailman installation entirely=2E=20 The group information is compiled into the

[Mailman-Users] Backup mailman, sending to a new server

2005-01-11 Thread erik
Hi, looking through the archives, I'm really surprised this hasn't come up sooner. I don't have access to the command line on the server that's running mailman now. Only web interface. I'm moving to a new server where I have access to everything. How do I backup mailman and bring it over? I'm

[Mailman-Users] Mail Delay

2005-01-11 Thread S. Backman
I'm running several lists with a combined membership of about 1,000 users. About 4 months ago I suddenly started noticing extreme delays in mail delivery. Originally, we had a turn around time of about 3-5 minutes. Now we are looking at a 45 - 90 minute turn-around on every email. We are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Delay

2005-01-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:19 PM -0800 2005-01-10, S. Backman wrote: All mail seems to hit the server within a few minutes but it's held up at the server for all this time until it is finally released. It's either mailman or sendmail - or something else - that's causing this

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail startup question

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Elder
I found a tuning tip setting (for Sendmail and Mailman) in the Mailman FAQ that I'd like to implement, but I want to check where exactly to make the change. I've include the tip below, but here are my two questions: 1) I've found a startup script on my server at /etc/init.d/sendmail, but I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backup mailman, sending to a new server

2005-01-11 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Jan 11, 2005, at 08:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I backup mailman and bring it over? I'm using cpanel and it doesn't make a backup of mailman. I can't run any of the scripts that have been If you don't have access to the filesystem, you won't be able to move the contents of the lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] Identical list names on milti-virtual-domains host

2005-01-11 Thread Yassen Damyanov
On Monday 10 January 2005 18:48, Mark Sapiro wrote: There is a similar patch (mentioned in FAQ article 4.47) at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=943827group_id=103atid=300103 You might look at this too in case you haven't already. It also patches bin/newlist which