[Mailman-Users] notice to non-member submissions

2006-10-27 Thread Charles Stroom
Hi all, I am running a small mailman list and have a couple of non-member submissions (99.5% spam, but occasionally a genuine message from a member using an alternative email address) per day. The default of mailman is hold and at the end of the day I discard them after a check. Recently I

Re: [Mailman-Users] notice to non-member submissions

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Charles Stroom wrote: Recently I noticed that such senders are being notified that their submission is being on hold and I would like to stop that. Is there an option somewhere to do so and keeping hold as default? I have been unable to find it. (Mailman 2.1.6) It's

[Mailman-Users] SPAM e-mail filtering

2006-10-27 Thread cmowen
SPAM, as always is a hot topic and I may on the wrong forum, but... All the addresses on the website have been picked up by spammers, and they are sending a picture of a message that gets by filters. I can stop the SPAM to the mailman newslist with moderation, but my problem really falls to

[Mailman-Users] Duplicate settings across multiple lists

2006-10-27 Thread Hung Phan
Hello, all I need to create multiple listserv that have exactly the same settings, except the names. I'm not sure that it is possible to duplicate settings across multiple listserv. What's problems I may run into if I duplicate the settings? Thank you very much, Hung Phan Network

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate settings across multiple lists

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hung Phan wrote: I need to create multiple listserv that have exactly the same settings, except the names. I'm not sure that it is possible to duplicate settings across multiple listserv. What's problems I may run into if I duplicate the settings? The normal way to do this is to run

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mails not writing to archive immediately

2006-10-27 Thread Martin Dennett
Mark Sapiro wrote: Martin Dennett wrote: I've just been mailed by one of my users to say that the archive for my list is not up to date. Having just checked prior to sending this, I found that by clicking on the Date link for this month, the last message written to it is nearly a week

[Mailman-Users] Python API

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Gevers
Hello, I am working on a customized user management system created in python/Zope. Currently I am using the bash script in mailman/bin to communicate with Mailman, but I like to do a little bit more (which is also possible with the withlist script) and in the main time speed thinks up by python

Re: [Mailman-Users] notice to non-member submissions

2006-10-27 Thread Charles Stroom
on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:00:05 PDT Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Stroom wrote: Recently I noticed that such senders are being notified that their submission is being on hold and I would like to stop that. Is there an option somewhere to do so and keeping hold as default?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate settings across multiple lists

2006-10-27 Thread Dragon
Mark Sapiro sent the message below at 12:37 10/27/2006: Hung Phan wrote: I need to create multiple listserv that have exactly the same settings, except the names. I'm not sure that it is possible to duplicate settings across multiple listserv. What's problems I may run into if I duplicate

Re: [Mailman-Users] Python API

2006-10-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 27, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Paul Gevers wrote: I am working on a customized user management system created in python/Zope. Currently I am using the bash script in mailman/bin to communicate with Mailman, but I like to do a little bit more (which

[Mailman-Users] Unexpected Listname When Creating New List

2006-10-27 Thread Jon Forrest
(Mailman 2.1.9 Fedora 5) newlist --help says: Note that listnames are forced to lowercase. That doesn't seem to be true. I just ran bin/newlist test but my listinfo web page shows this as Test. It also shows up as Test in the General Options web page. If I look at the Details for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexpected Listname When Creating New List

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: newlist --help says: Note that listnames are forced to lowercase. That doesn't seem to be true. The confusion is there are two list names. The internal list name which is the name of the list's sub-directory in Mailman's lists/ directory, and the name which is used in URLs

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexpected Listname When Creating New List

2006-10-27 Thread Jon Forrest
Mark Sapiro wrote: A newly created list will be given an initial real_name = to the all lower case internal name except the first character will be Upper case if it's a letter. This name is used in some messages and on the listinfo page. I'm wondering what the reasoning for this is. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexpected Listname When Creating New List

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: What got me worried was the signature in messages that come from my list. It said: --- Test mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, given that my MTA (Postfix) is case sensitive, if somebody replied to the email address on the last line of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexpected Listname When Creating New List

2006-10-27 Thread Jon Forrest
Mark Sapiro wrote: Are you sure your postfix aliases for Mailman are case sensitive. I doubt it. Try mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect both messages will get posted to the list. You are 100% right. I did NOT know this!! All these years of misinformation...

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexpected Listname When Creating New List

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: My intuition tells me that programs shouldn't change the case of user-supplied data unless there's a very good reason for doing so, and it's clear that it's happening. But, you are clearly the expert in this area. I understand your point and it seems valid. I can't speak to