[Mailman-Users] adding the aliases

2005-05-02 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, I am using Mailman 2.1.5 on a Fedora Core 3 box, for many small lists. When administrating Mailman through the web interface, adding a new ML adds it in the Mailman database or system. It's great, but someone logged as root still needs to add aliases into the MTA'a aliases file. As well as

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding the aliases

2005-05-02 Thread John W. Baxter
On 5/2/2005 4:36, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What tips would you suggest to allow the adding of aliases when adding a ML through the web interface? (that would include regeneration of the alias-db and may be restarting or reloading the MTA) Use Exim rather than

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding the aliases

2005-05-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, John W. Baxter wrote: On 5/2/2005 4:36, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina What tips would you suggest to allow the adding of aliases when adding a ML through the web interface? (that would include regeneration of the alias-db and may be restarting or

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Topic Filter Expression question

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Adams
Jeff, You can use a really simple expression like SCAN-ALL-TOPICS. You can get real fancy with regular expressions, but there is no need to in this case. Jeff Peterson wrote: I am currently running Mailman 2.1.6.rc2. I am setting up a List with multiple Topics. I have the Topic Filter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail: using aliases

2005-05-02 Thread Randall Perry
MacOS X 10.3.9 has turned off all setuid (that's SETUID, not SETGID) shell scripts, but if you know the magic incantation you can turn them back on. However, Python is not a shell script, so this isn't a problem for us. So far as I know, setgid works just fine on MacOS X, at least for

[Mailman-Users] Set NOMAIL to OFF globally

2005-05-02 Thread Narayan Raum
New to Mailman list so bear with me. Due to some mail server errors, a large number of list members were automatically set to nomail status due to bounces. Is there a way to set all members of a list to nomail off without using the web-interface, which will take a long time? The list has over

[Mailman-Users] Mail not delivered to one of many lists

2005-05-02 Thread Amardeo Sarma
Hi, there is a problem that never happened on our lists so far. Mails to a particular list are not delivered and seem to be queued under: ~/mailman/qfiles/shunt Just one list is affected, all others are not. I moved all files under ~/mailman/qfiles/shunt to a temporary directory, but that

[Mailman-Users] message won't post/Posfix/Mailman issues

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Adams
This is a reocurring problem with one list that I host. It has 40,000 subscribers and only one subscribed address can post and I am an allowed non-subscriber who can post. When either the subscriber or I post to the list, the message is not delivered, but the Postfix maillog shows this: May

[Mailman-Users] messages not sending

2005-05-02 Thread Tony Bibbs
I had my mailman installation working yesterday at one point. At some point somebody pointed out that none of the archives were available because of 403 forbidden errors. The apache log indicated that the problem was that symlinks were not allowed...after hours of digging around this was a

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages not sending

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Adams
Tony, This is the exact same problem that I am having, as I posted in a message just previous to yours. It would be great to get some discussion about this problem. This happens only with the one list with 40,000 subscribers. If I empty the list and subscribe myself, I can post, so I don't

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages not sending

2005-05-02 Thread John Dennis
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:53 -0700, Tony Bibbs wrote: I'm using postfix and getting this back from the maillog after attempting to send the message: postfix/local[13131]: 011D527007C: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], orig_to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=local, delay=1, status=sent (delivered to command:

[Mailman-Users] Fix defacement

2005-05-02 Thread Tony Bibbs
I know busy day for posting for me. I had my mailman site defaced. The /path/to/mailman/archives/public/listname/index.html pages have all been replaced by crap. How do I recover those pages? --Tony __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!

[Mailman-Users] Mailman htdig problem

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Serenil
I have just installed Mailman 2.1.15 with the htdig patch 444884 and 444879. The search fails when I have a list name with a dot in it. (Example fa.dl-testlist). I will get these errors when doing a search. If there is no dot it works fine. htdig Archives Access Failure The requested list cannot

[Mailman-Users] Mailman technical limitations

2005-05-02 Thread David LeVine
Hi - We love Mailman and use it for our internal email lists. Question: We want to be able to send very customized emails for each user and thought about creating a different 'list' for each user. We would create the customized email for each user, and then pass that email to Mailman for

[Mailman-Users] about the sent message

2005-05-02 Thread sameer sharma
(1) I want to send the copy of the sent mail from one yahoo and hotmail addresses in another yahoo and hotmail address automatically. (2) I want the incoming messages to one e-mail address get copied in another adress. plz help me what techniques I should implement for this. looking

[Mailman-Users] How to put extra spaces in Topic name field

2005-05-02 Thread Jeff Peterson
I would like to put extra spaces in front of Topic names to show a hierarchy of topics as shown below: ALL-TOPICS TOPIC ONE Sub-Topic One a Sub-Topic One b TOPIC TWO Sub-Topic Two a Sub-Topic Two b Sub-Topic Two c TOPIC THREE TOPIC FOUR In

[Mailman-Users] How to unsub from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-05-02 Thread Bonnie Ostler
Could you please instruct me about how unsubscribe from list at http://lists.county-surnames.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/contributors Cannot reach this website to get info on how to unsubscribe. About twenty-four hours ago someone sent a message to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] and there has

[Mailman-Users] Fwd: CREATE post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] requires approval

2005-05-02 Thread mary
i am trying to get off the 'create' listserv (i believe [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at rice university and cant. i get many junk messages everyday. i am listed as a list administrator and the only thing that's happened since i tried to unsubscribe is that it is no longer listed as a mailinglist that i'm in

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5p1 urgent!!!

2005-05-02 Thread Renato Carnielli
Dear Sirs, Hi! There are more or less about seven months we make use of your Mailman service, without any type of interruption. But, since eight days, without explication, the Members Management page have binded, with the system following written report: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5p1We're

[Mailman-Users] urgent help needed

2005-05-02 Thread G. Paolo Sanino V.
Dear Mailman, I am the administrator of a new list using Mailman, to a non profit coalision of environmental organizations arrond the world. This is a great software. We are really happy with it. But during the tests, I was crating some messages. Now everybody can see the tests messages in

[Mailman-Users] How to query member bounce status

2005-05-02 Thread Tunedin Web Design
I am looking for a way that I, as the list admin, or a list moderator can see what members are bouncing. I have looked through the admin configuration and mailman scripts and can't find any way to do this. Preferably this would be done through the generation of a report that listed those members

Re: [Mailman-Users] message won't post/Posfix/Mailman issues

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Adams
I am using Mailman 2.1.5 and Redhat Linux v. 7.2. There is nothing in the /qfiles/in/ directory. I restarted Mailman. I resent and still, there is a Posfix entry for it being posted, but it never is delivered, never shows up in the /lists/post log. The only differnce between this list and

Re: [Mailman-Users] urgent help needed (removing messages from archive)

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Adams
Here is what you posted, with a little more detail. You need command line access to Mailman. Locate the message in the web archives and load it up for reference. Stop the mailman runner so the mailbox won't be touched while you're working cd /home/mailman bin/mailman stop Back up the list

[Mailman-Users] Help

2005-05-02 Thread April Cox
Hi there! I was hoping to get some help from another user who may have run into this problem. I can't find anything about it in the FAQ's. I am trying to post to my mailing list but I receive the following: You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Adams
April, To change who can post, go to your membership list in the admin page. The column labelled 'mod', to the right of the address has a check mark if the address can't post. Check to see if your Outlook mail settings are different than your subscribed address. The reply that you sent

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2005-05-02 Thread Terry Allen
Hi there! I was hoping to get some help from another user who may have run into this problem. I can't find anything about it in the FAQ's. I am trying to post to my mailing list but I receive the following: You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically

Re: [Mailman-Users] message won't post/Posfix/Mailman issues

2005-05-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:30 AM -0700 2005-05-02, Christopher Adams wrote: However, there is nothing in the Mailman/post log that shows that it reached Mailman and obviously, the message isn't posted. This may be a Postfix issue, but I am posting it to the Mailman list since it appears that the message just

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail: using aliases

2005-05-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:10 PM -0400 2005-05-02, Randall Perry wrote: Sendmail needs to see the group 'daemon' to run anything from it's secure shell /usr/adm/sm.bin. So I reran configure with --mail-gid=daemon and it's working now. That's a good thing to note. Do you want to update the Mailman FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Set NOMAIL to OFF globally

2005-05-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:22 PM -0400 2005-05-02, Narayan Raum wrote: Due to some mail server errors, a large number of list members were automatically set to nomail status due to bounces. Is there a way to set all members of a list to nomail off without using the web-interface, which will take a long time?

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to query member bounce status

2005-05-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:56 PM -0400 2005-05-01, Tunedin Web Design wrote: I am looking for a way that I, as the list admin, or a list moderator can see what members are bouncing. I have looked through the admin configuration and mailman scripts and can't find any way to do this. Look at your logs.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman technical limitations

2005-05-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:47 PM +0200 2005-05-01, David LeVine wrote: Question: We want to be able to send very customized emails for each user and thought about creating a different 'list' for each user. We would create the customized email for each user, and then pass that email to Mailman for sending.

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail: Using Aliases revisited

2005-05-02 Thread Iain Dooley
in this post: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-April/044383.html it is mentioned that mailman should mail you a list of aliases to add to an alias file. in the sendmail integration procedure specified by david champion, he says that specifying mailman as a 'handler'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not delivered to one of many lists

2005-05-02 Thread Amardeo Sarma
Addendum: Mails to all other lists are delivered, but mails to this particular list get stranded in ~/mailman/qfiles/shunt Anyone have an idea what to do? Amardeo Sarma Amardeo Sarma wrote: Hi, there is a problem that never happened on our lists so far. Mails to a particular list