[Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
My old Mailman host died a while back, and I'm finally getting around to getting the new one running again. Before I shut off the old host I tarred up the old files and have them on the new server. I just moved the components from the old archives and lists directories into the new locations,

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating Mailman server

2007-01-29 Thread vancleef
I have the task of setting up a replacement for an existing Mailman/Postfix server. I am new to Mailman and I am looking for some guidance in this transition. Mailman is currently being used solely as a diffusion of information. That is, it does not accept contributions from list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 1/29/07, G. Armour Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, where do I dig up the membership list, and how do I deal with all the old URLs? FAQ 3.4 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.004.htp should help with this. Let us know if you still have issues. -- - Patrick

[Mailman-Users] questions related to batch creation and management of several lists

2007-01-29 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi I'm using mailman 2.1.9-4 on a Debian Sarge server. I need to create a batch of lists for the management of each of our institutional units (departments, services, etc.) Apart from the members and the name, the setup is very similar for all of them so I looked at the FAQ and I'm wondering if

[Mailman-Users] performance differences between limited and full personalization

2007-01-29 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear friends, I have a question about possible performance differences between limited and full personalization in mailman 2.1.9. That is, I set up full personalization for two lists that I have (they are more like for sending newsletters than for discussion). Anyway, I wonder whether I would

[Mailman-Users] Moving lists between virtual domains.

2007-01-29 Thread Orlando Reis
Hi all, athough this question as been posted in the past and I have searched and searched the mailing list I haven't found a simple a and clear solution to the problem. I have my default mailman URL at www.mainhost.com And have several other vhosts added POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS =

[Mailman-Users] Mailman not working after reboot

2007-01-29 Thread Ki Song
I recently rebooted my Fedora server. It has a copy of Mailman 2.1.8 installed. I usually have to restart mailman by running mailmanctl after rebooting. 1. How do I add mailmanctl as a program that will run on boot? I don't want to have to run mailmanctl every time I reboot the server. 2. Since

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not working after reboot

2007-01-29 Thread Ki Song
I recently rebooted my Fedora server. It has a copy of Mailman 2.1.8 installed. I usually have to restart mailman by running mailmanctl after rebooting. 1. How do I add mailmanctl as a program that will run on boot? I don't want to have to run mailmanctl every time I reboot the server.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not working after reboot

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Foran
Run chkconfig is where the start ups go something like chkconfig -l 345 mailmain It has been a while.. Do man chkconfig DAve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ki Song Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:18 To:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not working after reboot

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 1/29/07, Ki Song [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. How do I add mailmanctl as a program that will run on boot? I don't want to have to run mailmanctl every time I reboot the server. This is strictly a Fedora question, not a Mailman question. You'd be best served addressing it to a Fedora mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] questions related to batch creation and managementof several lists

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mario Filipe wrote: Apart from the members and the name, the setup is very similar for all of them so I looked at the FAQ and I'm wondering if I can use the answer number 4.38 (quoted below) as a solution ? Yes. Configure one list via the web. Write it's configuration with 'bin/config_list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists between virtual domains.

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Orlando Reis wrote: Hi all, athough this question as been posted in the past and I have searched and searched the mailing list I haven't found a simple a and clear solution to the problem. I have my default mailman URL at www.mainhost.com And have several other vhosts added

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists between virtual domains.

2007-01-29 Thread Orlando Reis
Thanks for you reply mark. I had little time to do it and that was what I did, after doing that for each of the lists I wanted to move, I got several errors. I then remembered, I don't know if that is mandatory, to regenerate virtual-mailman.db using genaliases commmand. so the steps I took per

Re: [Mailman-Users] performance differences between limited and fullpersonalization

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: In other words, do I gain anything from changing from full to limited personalization? I like when people recieving our newsletters do not have to guess the email they were subscribed with but if it should help, I would switch from full to limited and place their emails in

Re: [Mailman-Users] performance differences between limited and full personalization

2007-01-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:22 PM +0100 1/29/07, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Anyway, I wonder whether I would have any gain in terms of performance if I switched from full to limited personalization. Not really. Either way, the system has to create individual copies of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not working after reboot

2007-01-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:01 PM -0500 1/29/07, Ki Song wrote: I recently rebooted my Fedora server. It has a copy of Mailman 2.1.8 installed. I usually have to restart mailman by running mailmanctl after rebooting. 1. How do I add mailmanctl as a program that will run on boot? I don't want to have to run

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating Mailman server

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hank van Cleef wrote: I have just moved a 9-year-old list from another installation to mine, and have a draft how-to faq on how I did it that isn't quite ready for prime time. Since I know there isn't any clear information on this in the current mailman FAQ tree, I'll give the salient points

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Patrick, The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman. Something about my last attempt to upgrade Mailman there broke it. I'm putting this function on a new server because I just don't have time to figure out the problem on the old one, and the new one has enough

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
A little more digging suggests it may be possible to extract the data with the dumpdb command run against the config.pck. That provides a lot of stuff that isn't needed, like the bounce status of the members which is hardly of interest after the time the server has been offline, but the users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
G. Armour Van Horn wrote: The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman. Something about my last attempt to upgrade Mailman there broke it. I'm putting this function on a new server because I just don't have time to figure out the problem on the old one, and the new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Mark, Thanks. ../../bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname worked like a charm. I'm sure there's some cleanup to do, but I'll bet that took care of most of it. Van Mark Sapiro wrote: G. Armour Van Horn wrote: The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman.

[Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-29 Thread David Newman
MM 2.1.9, Postfix 2.3.5, cyrus-imap 2.3.7, all on FreeBSD 6.1 installed from ports Postfix already handles mail for multiple virtual domains defined in a MySQL database. I believe virtual domain setup is OK, as individual users have been sending and receiving mail for some time. Having

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Newman wrote: Having problems with Mailman, though. I've read these instructions many times: http://www.list.org/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html Besides doing what's listed there, I also defined a virtual mailbox for a new pctest list (without that, mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Fox
david wrote: Postfix already handles mail for multiple virtual domains defined in a MySQL database. I believe virtual domain setup is OK, as individual users have been sending and receiving mail for some time. Having problems with Mailman, though. I've read these instructions many