RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Terry Allen
File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, line 497, in __save os.unlink(fname_last) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last' This error is occurring when Mailman is trying the save the current configuration for the mailman list. It has

[Mailman-Users] New Mailman Administrator Questions

2005-02-25 Thread Mike Lyne
Hi, I will shortly become the List Admin for 11 mailing lists being transferred from Majordomo to Mailman all at the same time (the big bang approach). I've read the manuals and understand a lot of the admin functions but have some areas that I am not clear about and am looking for some guidance

RE: [Mailman-Users] Additional role

2005-02-25 Thread Young, Darren
Yep, we use moderators already. Looking for a third (user management) role or adding that to the moderator role (selectively). -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:49 PM To: Young, Darren; mailman-users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Found new Subscriber Moderate box unchecked andMIME attachments now appearing

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
HPA wrote: I've searched the Mailman Users FAQ and archives and cannot find an answer to my issue below. Our moderated Mailman list (running on Mailman 2.1.4) had been chugging along just fine for the past five months. Then abruptly this week we found several new subscribers posting to the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] mmsearch now python RESOLVED edithtmlpermissions BCP.

2005-02-25 Thread Gerald
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote: Anyway, were the en/ directory and the en/listinfo.html file created by the edit the public html process to begin with? Thanks for the pointer. Since my mmsearch error looked to be a permissions problem earlier I chowned some stuff that shouldn't have been.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Reply-to problem

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: At 12:24 PM +0100 2005-02-24, Joakim Nomell wrote: Correction, the reply-to-header is not missing (my Pine didn't show it). it looks like this in some cases: Reply-To: User [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hackerlistan [EMAIL PROTECTED] This means that the mailing list

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Terry Allen wrote: Thanks Mark, that was pretty much what I thought. I am running OSX 'client' 10.3.8, so it's a stock source installation of Mailman 2.1.5 on Postfix, not anything Apple has modified. Have you any suggestions as to how to prevent this happening in the future. It's the

Re: [Mailman-Users] New Mailman Administrator Questions

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:42 PM + 2005-02-25, Mike Lyne wrote: Question 1 - Is there a way to add large numbers of email addresses as List members to Mailman easily and quickly in one, or a few, simple actions? There are the command-line tools. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] New Mailman Administrator Questions

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Lyne wrote: The questions I have are as follows:- I need to be able to verify a Membership Number for applicants for the 3 Members only Lists before approving their addition to the appropriate List - Mailman allows an (optional) Name to be submitted through the web interface for joining but

[Mailman-Users] howto ignore body of join/subscribe requests

2005-02-25 Thread Yinen Yang
Hi, I have recently installed mailman and have it all working except for this one small problem. I use a web-based Form to get user information on my website. When the form is submitted a copy of all the input goes to my email address and I also have a copy going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This

Re: [Mailman-Users] Qrunner Error

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Young, Darren wrote: Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat EL 3.0... Getting the following error, any thoughts? [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./qrunner -r Outgoing:0:1 -v Traceback (most recent call last): File ./qrunner, line 270, in ? main() File ./qrunner, line 230, in main qrunner.run() File

Re: [Mailman-Users] howto ignore body of join/subscribe requests

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Yinen Yang wrote: Hi, I have recently installed mailman and have it all working except for this one small problem. I use a web-based Form to get user information on my website. When the form is submitted a copy of all the input goes to my email address and I also have a copy going to [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] howto ignore body of join/subscribe requests

2005-02-25 Thread Yinen Yang
Hello Mark, thanks for the reply. I am using Approval Only for subscription requestions. (I would like to fully automate the subscription process (while keeping it silent) but that is another issue. hehe) Here is the response I get from Mailman: This response comes immediately after the

Re: [Mailman-Users] howto ignore body of join/subscribe requests

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Yinen Yang wrote: Hello Mark, thanks for the reply. I am using Approval Only for subscription requestions. Yes, I didn't try that. (I would like to fully automate the subscription process (while keeping it silent) but that is another issue. hehe) Quoting myself from another thread: quote

[Mailman-Users] messages not archiving

2005-02-25 Thread Wade Preston Shearer
I moved my list(s) to a new server. I now have everything set up and running correctly, except saving new messages in the archives. I moved the old archives over and those are coming up fine. New messages are not being saved in the archives however. I assume that there is just a setting

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages not archiving

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Wade Preston Shearer wrote: I moved my list(s) to a new server. I now have everything set up and running correctly, except saving new messages in the archives. I moved the old archives over and those are coming up fine. New messages are not being saved in the archives however. I assume that

Re: [Mailman-Users] New Mailman Administrator Questions

2005-02-25 Thread Mike Lyne
Hi folks, Many thanks to Brad and Mark for their help - the FAQ on python.org looks absolutely essential reading. Question 1 - Is there a way to add large numbers of email addresses as List members to Mailman easily and quickly in one, or a few, simple actions? From the responses from Brad

[Mailman-Users] Use of in footer

2005-02-25 Thread John Fleming
Uh, sorry for the simple question (but it will be easy to answer). In non-digest mode, footer option - How do I get a doublequote to appear instead of quote? Like if I wanted it to read This is a test. Thanks! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of in footer

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: Uh, sorry for the simple question (but it will be easy to answer). In non-digest mode, footer option - How do I get a doublequote to appear instead of quote? Like if I wanted it to read This is a test. The escaping of certain characters , , and entered on the admin web

Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of in footer

2005-02-25 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of in footer John Fleming wrote: Uh, sorry for the simple question (but it will be easy to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of in footer

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: Thanks, Mark. So if I make filename containing: msg_footer= This is a test. some other stuff and then run bin/config_list -i filename listname, what exactly would I get? IOW, do the lines above REPLACE the default I see in the web interface or ADD TO it? tnx They will

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Burling
--On February 25, 2005 9:02:09 AM -0800 Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only guess, but the underlying issue seems to be with OSX itself. Possibly you could get a clue from Apple support forums. To which I reply: Any chance that you ran Repair Permissions somewhere in there? And that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of in footer

2005-02-25 Thread John Fleming
msg_footer=This is a test. some other stuff instead. OK, I got it to work like I want. Is there a security risk to doing the footer this way? Many thanks! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date:

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Terry Allen
--On February 25, 2005 9:02:09 AM -0800 Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only guess, but the underlying issue seems to be with OSX itself. Possibly you could get a clue from Apple support forums. To which I reply: Any chance that you ran Repair Permissions somewhere in there? And that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Use of in footer

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: OK, I got it to work like I want. Is there a security risk to doing the footer this way? No. there's no security issue. Just the issue of an update from the web page undoing what you've done. The security issue is protecting against a malicious list administrator

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Terry Allen wrote: I guess the other question I would then ask, is it okay to delete: /usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last Yes Will Mailman create a new file in place of the old automatically? Yes Although at least one poster in the archives said: The

[Mailman-Users] name not defined

2005-02-25 Thread Tzaia
Hello list, I've been working on this for 4 days and haven't been able to resolve it. System with Fedora Core3 installed. All patched up FQDN is stinson3.amys-answers.com hostname is stinson3 modified the mm_cfg.py to reflect changes I will say that I'm completely new to the linux OS. I've

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Terry Allen
Hi again, I was looking into this error tried this command - when I tried check_db it gave no errors - I then added --all which still gave no errors - however, I then added --verbose, which gave the following output - is this necessarily a problem should I worry? [server:local/mailman/bin]

Re: [Mailman-Users] name not defined

2005-02-25 Thread John Dennis
Tzaia wrote: Hello list, I've been working on this for 4 days and haven't been able to resolve it. System with Fedora Core3 installed. All patched up FQDN is stinson3.amys-answers.com hostname is stinson3 modified the mm_cfg.py to reflect changes I will say that I'm completely new to the linux

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Terry Allen wrote: I was looking into this error tried this command - when I tried check_db it gave no errors - I then added --all which still gave no errors - however, I then added --verbose, which gave the following output - is this necessarily a problem should I worry?

RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman

2005-02-25 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM +1100 2005-02-26, Terry Allen wrote: Any chance that you ran Repair Permissions somewhere in there? And that that screwed things up? Hi again, No, I have not done a repair permissions for quite some time, owing to it having a habit of screwing up certain permissions I

[Mailman-Users] auto mail list creation

2005-02-25 Thread Noah
Hi there, has anybody written something out there for auto mail list creation? where new mail lists automatically get added to the /etc/aliases file. clues please? cheers, Noah -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto mail list creation

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Noah wrote: has anybody written something out there for auto mail list creation? where new mail lists automatically get added to the /etc/aliases file. See the FAQ Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Article 4.49 if you're using sendmail. Exim doesn't require aliases at all

[Mailman-Users] mailman stoped sending mails :-(

2005-02-25 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hello! I'm using a self compiled mm 2.1.5 installation on a suse 8.1 box. The installation worked for mor then a half year without problems, but now mailman doesn't send out mails anymore :-(. The mailsetup seems to be ok, because mails that were not sent to lists are delivered. I can't find

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman stoped sending mails :-(

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Christian Schoepplein wrote: I'm using a self compiled mm 2.1.5 installation on a suse 8.1 box. The installation worked for mor then a half year without problems, but now mailman doesn't send out mails anymore :-(. The mailsetup seems to be ok, because mails that were not sent to lists are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4

2005-02-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Camila Canto wrote: This bug appear when I try to use the tool listinfo in Mailman. What can I do? Thanks Camila Canto *Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4* We're sorry, we hit a bug! If