[Mailman-Users] Using gmail SMTP and mailman together

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew Price
I am trying to find some free software that will allow me to issue an email newsletter for year long road trip that I will be taking. I have about 200 people that are interested in receiving periodic updates by email. I have a gmail address reserved for this purpose and would LOVE to use their

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using gmail SMTP and mailman together

2006-04-24 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 4/24/06, Matthew Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: list of addresses? I know that sounds like a spam engine, but the specific functionality I need is the ability to make a TLS connection to the gmail smtp server and not fire them off myself without any smtp server. Mailman is probably

[Mailman-Users] Confirmation messages

2006-04-24 Thread Jim Swift
Whenever, as admin, I change an subscriber's email address, a confirmation message is sent to the new email address and the change is not activated until the subscriber confirms. Is there any way to turn off the sending of this confirmation message. Such messages are not sent out when I

[Mailman-Users] Can this be done with Mailman?

2006-04-24 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello List-ers, Today, my boss, in one of his crazy thoughts, asked me if it's possible (with Mailman or other MLM) to have a mailing list that would have the following restrictions: 1. The list will be archived 2. The list admin can search all archives 3. A list member is only allowed to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done with Mailman?

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Today, my boss, in one of his crazy thoughts, asked me if it's possible (with Mailman or other MLM) to have a mailing list that would have the following restrictions: 1. The list will be archived 2. The list admin can search all archives 3. A list member is only

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done with Mailman?

2006-04-24 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 24/04/06 12:23 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: | Odhiambo Washington wrote: | | Today, my boss, in one of his crazy thoughts, asked me if it's possible | (with Mailman or other MLM) to have a mailing list that would have the | following restrictions: | | 1. The list will be archived | 2. The list

[Mailman-Users] Messages are addressed to mylist rather than to subscriber

2006-04-24 Thread Michael D. Hensley
I have just configured mailman on my RedHat Linux AS v4 server. The first problem I'd like to address is: Messages sent to the list arrive at the subscribers mailbox with a To: field of, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than the subscribers email address. I've poked at the configuration

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirmation messages

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jim Swift wrote: Whenever, as admin, I change an subscriber's email address, a confirmation message is sent to the new email address and the change is not activated until the subscriber confirms. Is there any way to turn off the sending of this confirmation message. Such messages are not sent

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages are addressed to mylist rather than tosubscriber

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael D. Hensley wrote: Messages sent to the list arrive at the subscribers mailbox with a To: field of, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than the subscribers email address. I've poked at the configuration with a sharp stick for a while, but I can't find anything that seems to control

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done with Mailman?

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Sapiro
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Fine, so it's doable, only if he commissions the work and funds it, yes? ;-) Right. | You didn't ask for criticism of the idea itself so I won't offer any. Since I did not even imagine the possibility. I'd be happy, however, to hear you critique the idea. Thanks.

[Mailman-Users] Postfix Virtual Mailbox Domains

2006-04-24 Thread Duncan Drury
I have postfix set up on FreeBSD with virtual mailbox domains (i.e. mailboxes don't map to freeBSD accounts). All the documentation I have found about Mailman talks about virtual alias domains. I haven't been able to find any detailed information on how mailman should be set up in such

[Mailman-Users] Question about Configure --with-var-prefix=dir

2006-04-24 Thread Barry Finkel
I am starting testing of mailman to see if it fits our needs and to see how it compares to other mailing list manangement packages. I want to configure my test system with the installation on a disk local to the Solaris 10 system, but I want the mutable data on a shared file system (in my case

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done with Mailman?

2006-04-24 Thread John W. Baxter
On 4/24/06 2:28 PM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then my questions are what would the purpose of this archive be? and in what way would members find it useful? A crutch for users who don't archive their own outgoing mail is the only thing which comes quickly to mind. --John

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages are addressed to mylist rather than tosubscriber

2006-04-24 Thread Michael D. Hensley
I asked: Messages sent to the list arrive at the subscribers mailbox with a To: field of, for example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than the subscribers email address. Mark Sapiro responded: You need to put OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes in mm_cfg.py. Then you will see the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirmation messages

2006-04-24 Thread Todd Zullinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Sapiro wrote: There are work arounds, but there's no simple way for an admin to change a members address without confirmation. The work arounds are: If you have command line access to the Mailman installation, you can use bin/withlist