Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Chuq" == Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chuq> turn on personalization, and this problem goes away. No contest; that's the best way to handle this. Personalization did occur to me (vaguely), but I just assumed he wants to stick with his current configuration. But on refl

Re: [Mailman-Users] mass subscription Mailman question

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 26, 2005, at 05:51, Ron Jeffries wrote: As list admin, when I use the "mass subscription" feature, what i syntax to give "real name" as well as email address. Example: for an email such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if the person's name is: Scott Jackson and they work at: DorkyDorks Inc. How d

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 26, 2005, at 04:57, Jason Miller wrote: Root does receive a stack of emails, however. At least one every five minutes. The text of the email looks like this: Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/bin/python -S /Applications/mailman/cron/gate_news X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-C

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 26, 2005, at 05:03, Carl Zwanzig wrote: Do/did you have an old installation of MM? V2.1.n doesn't use a cron job, but rather lets the qrunner daemonize. IIRC, you need to manually remove all MM cron entries. While Mailman 2.1.x doesn't use cron for the various queue runners, there are still

Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
turn on personalization, and this problem goes away. I frankly wouldn't run mailing lists without at least some personalization -- because as it shows, the old style "Bcc: the users" style of bulk mailing (a) looks spammy and gets treated as such, and (b) users no longer are terribly tolerant

Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Thomas" == Thomas Hochstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Brad Knowles wrote: >> No, bounces for a mailing list should not contain more than one >> failed address, especially if it's a probe message -- those are >> always sent out to just one specific user. Thoma

[Mailman-Users] setting topics by email

2005-04-25 Thread Alastair (UKWA)
Hi, I've had a look around the archives & FAQ for this, but I can't see if you can set the topics to subscribe to via email? Is this possible, or do you have to go through the web interface? The reason I ask is that I'd like to set up a nice, easy form on the site for an announcement type list,

[Mailman-Users] mass subscription Mailman question

2005-04-25 Thread Ron Jeffries
I did not find this in the FAQ. As list admin, when I use the "mass subscription" feature, what i syntax to give "real name" as well as email address. Example: for an email such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if the person's name is: Scott Jackson and they work at: DorkyDorks Inc. How do I enter that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Do/did you have an old installation of MM? V2.1.n doesn't use a cron job, but rather lets the qrunner daemonize. IIRC, you need to manually remove all MM cron entries. z! who is certainly not an expert on this. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mai

[Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Miller
Dear Mailman-users, I had mailman working just dandy, and then I think I did something to break it. You can get the backstory if you think it's relevant, but I don't think it's relevant at this point. Since the start of this problem (Friday), I've searched the mailman-user archive for help, Googl

Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Brad Knowles wrote: >> Obviously Mailman is forwarding a sample bounce in the probe message. > > No, Mailman didn't. Some user did. And that user is faking a Mailman probe message? >> Bounces can (and, regarding a mailing list, most probably will) >> countain more than one failed addre