[Mailman-Users] Converting mailman 2.0.3 to 2.1.5

2006-12-06 Thread Tim Tyler
Mailman users, We are about to convert from Mailman 2.0.3 on an AIX 5.1 server which we installed over 5 years ago to mailman 2.1.5 on a new RedHat server. The versions appear to be significantly different. I am guessing we can't simply copy over the list structure to the new mailman.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Converting mailman 2.0.3 to 2.1.5

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:37 AM -0600 12/6/06, Tim Tyler wrote: We are about to convert from Mailman 2.0.3 on an AIX 5.1 server which we installed over 5 years ago to mailman 2.1.5 on a new RedHat server. The versions appear to be significantly different. I am guessing we can't simply copy over the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] old mailserver interfering with new one??

2006-12-06 Thread Gretchen at Ladyweave.com | 269-369-1114
Good morning. One of my clients has recently switched hosting companies, both of whom use Mailman. The new e-mail accounts seem to be working intermittently. When I looked into the old server's mailboxes, there seem to be stray messages in there that were sent after the hosting switch. Is it

Re: [Mailman-Users] old mailserver interfering with new one??

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Gretchen at Ladyweave.com | 269-369-1114 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One of my clients has recently switched hosting companies, both of whom use Mailman. The new e-mail accounts seem to be working intermittently. When I looked into the old server's mailboxes, there seem to be stray messages in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate password reminders

2006-12-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: All of the members of all of the lists on my site appear to be getting duplicate reminders. There is a single crontab entry for mailman calling mailpasswords. Is there some additional mechanism by which mailman might be calling mailpasswords? Not unless someone

[Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Jon Forrest
I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating a standard list configuration, I started to feel that there was a fundamental flaw in the way Mailman lists are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 12/6/06, Jon Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating a standard list configuration, I started to feel that there

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Dragon
Patrick Bogen sent the message below at 08:39 12/6/2006: On 12/6/06, Jon Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm relatively new to Mailman but I've managed to build it from source and set up a few lists, with generous help from this list. While working through issues relating to creating

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 6, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Dragon wrote: As far as I can discern from my limited perusing of source code, it would be a huge change in architecture. This is true. While a more detailed discussion of this topic belongs on the developers list,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM -0600 12/6/06, Patrick Bogen wrote: The command-line config_list and/or with_list tools have a slightly higher up-front cost (in terms of work required), but trivialize the cost-per-list for config updates, for the purpose of applying a single value across multiple lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:26 AM -0800 12/6/06, Jon Forrest wrote: Given that Mailman is written in Python, my naive impression would be that this should be relatively easy to implement. (As my old boss Mike Stonebraker used to say, it's just a simple matter of software). Unfortunately, there are people on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestion For Better Way of Doing List Configuration

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:59 AM -0800 12/6/06, Dragon wrote: Your old boss obviously has no realistic grasp of the subject. Don't jump to conclusions too quickly. See my other message first. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trend Micro has announced that they will cancel the stop.mail-abuse.org mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate password reminders

2006-12-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 6, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: There is a single crontab entry for mailman calling mailpasswords. Is there some additional mechanism by which mailman might be calling mailpasswords? Not unless someone at your site created it. Are you sure there

[Mailman-Users] conversion

2006-12-06 Thread Melinda
I could use some pointers in my conversion from Listproc to Mailman. I am also going from a Solaris machine to a Redhat Linux. I am very very new to Unix, Linux and could use some help in my conversion over to the new machine with Mailman. How exactly can I get my old Listproc Lists merged

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't login mailman list admin web

2006-12-06 Thread Anne Ramey
Mark Sapiro wrote: Stanley Chen wrote: Recently we have sent out several mails to this list, and it's still running. What is still running? Is Mailman still sending to the MTA? However, we can't login to the admin webpage. After we

[Mailman-Users] removing members with non-standard characters

2006-12-06 Thread Anne Ramey
I'm not sure how one of my list admins managed to do this, but they have four members on their list that look like this in the membership list: b

[Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages

2006-12-06 Thread Kory Wheatley
I'm running Mailman 2.1.6 is there a script you can run to automatically remove all archive messages from a list? -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] problems with spam filter rules disappearing on a regular basis

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
Under spam filter rule 1 I have this, Subject: \*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*\* which is set to discard. However every so often (days or some weeks) the rule disappears and I have to re-add it. This seems to happen to a number of lists I have grep'd through the logs can find no obvious comments

[Mailman-Users] Help with umbrella lists

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Choi
Hello, I have a newbie question... I was wondering if someone could help me with an issue I'm having. We're trying to set up an umbrella list (I think that's the term). For example, we have lists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on... and [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Can mailman pickup mail via pop3

2006-12-06 Thread Matthew
Hi all, I was wondering if this was possible with mailman: I would like to be able to have mailman pickup incoming mail to the list via an external POP3 server (important) and submit it out to the list via an external SMTP server (not as important). If this can't work does anyone have any ideas

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with spam filter rules disappearing on a regular basis

2006-12-06 Thread Steve Burling
--On December 7, 2006 9:09:13 AM +1300 Steven Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under spam filter rule 1 I have this, Subject: \*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*\* which is set to discard. However every so often (days or some weeks) the rule disappears and I have to re-add it. This seems to happen to a

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with spam filter rules disappearing on a regular basis

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, This is an old bug...2004is there anyway to determine if the patch is in my version? regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 Mobile: +64 27 563 6272 -Original

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can mailman pickup mail via pop3

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 12/6/06, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to have mailman pickup incoming mail to the list via an external POP3 server (important) A program called 'fetchmail' can... fetch mail, from a POP3 server and deliver it using the local MTA. It's pretty easy to set up. and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with umbrella lists

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 12/6/06, Paul Choi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And all the lists allow non-members to post. But when we send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the admins and moderators for the child lists get an email saying they need to approve the post. I've scoured the admin interface options, but I can't

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing members with non-standard characters

2006-12-06 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 12/6/06, Anne Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how one of my list admins managed to do this, but they have four members on their list that look like this in the membership list: b

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filters disappearing....

2006-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
It did it again So I got about 4 hours from adding a spam filter before it again disappears Is there anyway to check the rpm for the patch for the bug? Because if it is not there OK, I can chase RH, if it is there then the patch did not fix the issue/bug. :/ regards Steven Jones

[Mailman-Users] Limit on list names

2006-12-06 Thread Kim Hawtin
Hi guys, Is there a limit to the length of a list name? We are using afwb-academic-staff.agwine but its barfing... Any ideas? regards, Kim -- Operating Systems, Services and Operations Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filters disappearing....

2006-12-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steven Jones wrote: Is there anyway to check the rpm for the patch for the bug? Because if it is not there OK, I can chase RH, if it is there then the patch did not fix the issue/bug. You said you were running a 2.1.5 version. The fix was first released in 2.1.6. I believe Red Hat only