[Mailman-Users] Newsgroup interface picking up spam

2007-03-02 Thread David Beaumont
On our members only list how can we prevent the newsgroup interface picking up posts (spam) from non members? We have mailman 2.1.8. I see here http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html there is an option "Should newsgroup posts not sent from the list be resent to

[Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread John Fleming
Never seen this before - When visiting mailman listinfo web page, I get: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find

[Mailman-Users] getting pending subscription request daily

2007-03-02 Thread Midhun Ramadas
Hi , I am getting pending subscription request daily for my mailing list and when i go to Tend to pending requests, I am not finding anything. This happens daily. Can anyone please help me how to remove/stop this mail coming? Is this any bug? Thanks in advance, Midhun -

[Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns and odd characters

2007-03-02 Thread Ryan Steele
Hey folks. Recently, messages from AOL ( shudder, X-Mailer: AOL WebMail 23823 in one example I'm viewing ) and Outlook ( shudder, Build 11.0.5510 in one example I'm viewing ) have been sending multipart messages which appear to confuse the Mailman MimeDel ( X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeD

[Mailman-Users] Trapping messages with null subjects sent to list

2007-03-02 Thread vancleef
Is there a recipe to put in the spam filters that will trap a totally empty subject line in a message? This get posted to a list with (no subject) in the subject line, but this is evidently added after the spam filter check. I've tried \n, which catches these, but it also catches too many re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newsgroup interface picking up spam

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Beaumont wrote: >On our members only list how can we prevent the newsgroup interface picking >up posts (spam) from non members? We have mailman 2.1.8. I see here > >http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html > >there is an option > >"Should newsgroup posts not s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: >Never seen this before - When visiting mailman listinfo web page, I get: > >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 >We're sorry, we hit a bug! >Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of >traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newsgroup interface picking up spam

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If you want to gate a list-member's newsgroup post back to the list, > but treat non-member posts to the newsgroup the same as non-member > posts to the list, You need to modify your > Mailman/Handlers/Moderate.py module and change A long time ago I gatew

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns and oddcharacters

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ryan Steele wrote: > >Recently, messages from AOL ( shudder, X-Mailer: AOL WebMail 23823 in >one example I'm viewing ) and Outlook ( shudder, Build 11.0.5510 in one >example I'm viewing ) have been sending multipart messages which appear >to confuse the Mailman MimeDel ( X-Content-Filtered-By: M

Re: [Mailman-Users] getting pending subscription request daily

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Midhun Ramadas wrote: > >I am getting pending subscription request daily for my mailing list and when >i go to Tend to pending requests, I am not finding anything. > >This happens daily. The most common cause of this is multiple Mailman installations. I.e. an 'old' or 'test' installation that sti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping messages with null subjects sent to list

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is there a recipe to put in the spam filters that will trap a totally >empty subject line in a message? This get posted to a list with >(no subject) in the subject line, but this is evidently added after >the spam filter check. Try the following regexp in header_fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns andoddcharacters

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ryan Steele wrote: > >Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> It is possible that something in Mailman's MimeDel (content filtering) >> is misrepresenting the character set and causing utf-8 encoded text to >> be declared as some other character set, but it could also be >> something else. > >Sounds like a fair

[Mailman-Users] duplicate subscription problem

2007-03-02 Thread Gary Casterline
Somehow, I find an address subscribed to a list twice with a slight case difference. # ../../bin/dumpdb config.pck | grep -i sudden '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 'en', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 0, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 0, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 'x', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 264,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns andoddcharacters

2007-03-02 Thread Ryan Steele
Mark Sapiro wrote: > Ryan Steele wrote: > >> Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >>> It is possible that something in Mailman's MimeDel (content filtering) >>> is misrepresenting the character set and causing utf-8 encoded text to >>> be declared as some other character set, but it could also be >>> some

Re: [Mailman-Users] duplicate subscription problem

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Gary Casterline wrote: > > # ../../bin/dumpdb config.pck | grep -i sudden > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 'en', languages > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 0, bogus entry in members list. > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 0, members > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]': 'x', passwords > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]':

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns andoddcharacters

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ryan Steele wrote: > >I'm not even sure it's possible in >Outlook to get this information (I researched/looked for a little while >to no avail) In Outlook Express, you get the message properties from the File menu or by right-clicking the message in the list of messages pane and selecting proper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns andoddcharacters

2007-03-02 Thread Ryan Steele
Mark Sapiro wrote: > Ryan Steele wrote: > >> I'm not even sure it's possible in >> Outlook to get this information (I researched/looked for a little while >> to no avail) >> > > In Outlook Express, you get the message properties from the File menu > or by right-clicking the message in the

[Mailman-Users] setting nomail from command line?

2007-03-02 Thread Chad Day
I can't seem to find this, when I search for nomail via the searchable archives it's returning me an error page. So here I am. I want to be able to add members and set their nomail flag on from the command line .. adding the member, yeah, no problem. But there's no nomail option that I see in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime conversions - missing carriage returns andoddcharacters

2007-03-02 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:37 PM -0500 3/2/07, Ryan Steele wrote: > It appears the client who got a copy of the pre-garbled message uses > Eudora (I didn't know people still used Eudora ^_^), I've been using Eudora since the version 1.x days. > so I've sent him

[Mailman-Users] Mailing List Configuration Files

2007-03-02 Thread Aaron Todd
Hello, I manage about ten different lists that all need to have almost the exact set of settings. The main difference between each one is the name. Is there a configuration file for each list that I can compare rather than comparing the settings of each web page in the admin interface. -- Aa

Re: [Mailman-Users] setting nomail from command line?

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Chad Day wrote: >I can't seem to find this, when I search for nomail via the searchable >archives it's returning me an error page. So here I am. The search at appears to be broken. This was mentioned a while back on this list. I don't kn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List Configuration Files

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Aaron Todd wrote: > >I manage about ten different lists that all need to have almost the >exact set of settings. The main difference between each one is the >name. Is there a configuration file for each list that I can compare >rather than comparing the settings of each web page in the admin i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page > John Fleming wrote: > >>Never seen this before - When visiting mailman listinf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread dhottinger
Quoting John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:15 AM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page > > >> John Fleming wrote: >>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page > Quoting John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: > >The .pck files are OK. My lists are working again after -another- qrunner >restart and nothing else changed. However, there's still a problem. I can >view any individual list's information via the usual web pages >(www.domain.name/mailman/listinfo/), but I get the "We h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: > >Try the following shell script > >#! /bin/sh >for list in `/path/to/bin/list_lists --bare` >do echo -- >echo list: $list >/path/to/bin/dumpdb /path/to/lists/$list/config.pck | grep advertised >echo --- >done BTW

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page > Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >>Try the following shell script >> >>#! /bin/sh >>for l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent newbie help - "Hit a bug" page

2007-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: > >1. I must be doing something wrong - Running that script only gives me: > >Luke:/var/lib/mailman# ./johntest <- the script >sh-2.05b# Yes. something is wrong because apparently, bin/sh is trying to read its input from the terminal instead of the script. What is the exa