Re: [Mailman-Users] Managing lists as a non-root/Mailman user

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: > >In terms of running the command-line scripts, you really have no >option -- they have to be run as root or the Mailman user, Or a user in Mailman's group -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual doman set up with ensimpro x and duplicatemsgs

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bill Putt wrote: > >i'd like to solve that, but that's not my main issue. my MAIN issue is users >are getting 2 to 4 duplicate msgs every time some one posts. this happens >weather it is a new post or a reply to a post, so it's not a problem that is >solved by checking ... > >Filter out duplicate m

[Mailman-Users] virtual doman set up with ensimpro x and duplicate msgs

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Putt
hey all, not by choice, our temporary server has ensimpro. i'm trying to get mailman installed so that we can have our mailing list back up. i know ensim pro won't let me set up the aliases properly in the /virtserverpath/etc/aliases, so i put the aliases in the main /etc/aliases. the mail lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman post mail to list error

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Calvin Muller wrote: >When using Ubuntu and apt-get, it seems like there is no such directory as a >pytonlib. I don't know if it's called something else, but how do I install >the email module for python, your help is greatly appreciated. I can't help you with Ubuntu/Debian packaging issues per

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman post mail to list error

2007-04-17 Thread Calvin Muller
When using Ubuntu and apt-get, it seems like there is no such directory as a pytonlib. I don't know if it's called something else, but how do I install the email module for python, your help is greatly appreciated. From: Calvin Muller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Re: [Mailman-Users] Managing lists as a non-root/Mailman user

2007-04-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:10 PM +0100 4/17/07, Martyn Drake wrote: > For the purposes of automation, I need to be able to run the various > management scripts neither as root or Mailman (primarily because the > script will be run by a network account not local to the Mailman > machine). What would be the easiest

Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_POLICY

2007-04-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:18 PM -0500 4/17/07, Jeffrey Goldberg replied to Kalin Mintchev: > List bombing (maliciously subscribing people to lots of lists) does > happen. (I have been a victim of it several times). What I've seen > is that known anti-spammers get their addresses added to lists that > don't do p

Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_POLICY

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:36 PM, kalin mintchev wrote: > i'm really tired of clients batching over the subscription > confirmation: > "but why?", "nobody will do it and we goanna lose people?", "it's to > difficult", "can we do it without it?!", "our list is special..", etc, > etc... I agree that

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman post mail to list error

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Calvin Muller wrote: >I'm trying to use Mailman on an Ubuntu 6.10 system with Postfix but when I >send mails it gets sent to the shunt folder, and if I try run the unshunt >command I get the following error in the /var/log/mailman/error > > > >Apr 15 00:42:40 2007 (21596) send_digests() failed: u

Re: [Mailman-Users] creation of virtual-mailman.db

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Vizion wrote: > >in mm_cfg.py I have: >POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['atf4.com', >'vizion2000.net', >'methulselaproject.org', >'methuselaproject.com', >'ispyforum.com', >'workplacemassage.co.uk', >] >MTA ='Postfix' Good. >from what you say it seems that maybe I need to create lists??? > >IAm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription Help

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dave Kall wrote: > >I need to set the mod bit for new members. I may be able to hack the >config file and have it always set the mod bit on for new list >members but haven't found any good references to that file and what's >where. As Dragon replied, the normal way to do this is to set Priv

Re: [Mailman-Users] creation of virtual-mailman.db

2007-04-17 Thread Vizion
> > From: Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/04/17 Tue AM 09:01:09 PDT > To: Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] creation of virtual-mailman.db > > Vizion wrote: > > >I am missing something in facilitating the creation of virtual-mailman.db. > > >I ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription Help

2007-04-17 Thread Dragon
Dave Kall wrote: >Ok, >Thanks for this I now have this working. > >I've looked through the archives for url and wget to discover my next >and last issue and can't find anything. > >I need to set the mod bit for new members. I may be able to hack the >config file and have it always set the mod bit o

[Mailman-Users] Managing lists as a non-root/Mailman user

2007-04-17 Thread Martyn Drake
Hello, For the purposes of automation, I need to be able to run the various management scripts neither as root or Mailman (primarily because the script will be run by a network account not local to the Mailman machine). What would be the easiest way of doing this? Create a network group called M

Re: [Mailman-Users] creation of virtual-mailman.db

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Vizion wrote: >I am missing something in facilitating the creation of virtual-mailman.db. >I have gone through the docs but am obviously missing something.There is no >virtual-mailman.db or virtual-mailman in /usr/local/mailman/data. aliases and >aliases.db are present and of owner:group mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Last Email

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >The only error I am getting is: > >AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'py' > >Does this make any sense? It means you are running bin/withlist -a -r last_post_date.py instead of bin/withlist -a -r last_post_date The name of the file is last_post_date.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription Help

2007-04-17 Thread Dave Kall
Ok, Thanks for this I now have this working. I've looked through the archives for url and wget to discover my next and last issue and can't find anything. I need to set the mod bit for new members. I may be able to hack the config file and have it always set the mod bit on for new list memb

[Mailman-Users] creation of virtual-mailman.db

2007-04-17 Thread Vizion
I am missing something in facilitating the creation of virtual-mailman.db. I get the failure line in maillog (Freebsd 6.1 postfix-2.4.0,1 mailman-2.1.9_1) postfix/master[687] fatal: open database /usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db: No such file or directory I have gone through the docs

Re: [Mailman-Users] Last Email

2007-04-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Thanks for the script. The only error I am getting is: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'py' Does this make any sense? On 4/15/07, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > >I have about 1200 lists in mailman 2.1.8. I looking to try and clean > these

Re: [Mailman-Users] customizing list info pages

2007-04-17 Thread Dennis Morgan
Not only do you know a lot more about mail than I - you type a lot faster! :-) Our replies crossed in the mail. Not having to hack code is good for me. Our server is selinux Core 4 with Plesk and resists changing. (Relating to another thread - I personally think control panels cause more proble

Re: [Mailman-Users] Support for Cpanel users?

2007-04-17 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:15 AM -0400 4/17/07, Michael Kabot wrote: > I'll have to go back and pull out my notes on how I got Plesk, Mailman, & > Qmail to work together. I know out of the box that unlike Cpanel/Mailman, > Plesk/Mailman is limited to a single namespace for list names across virtual > domains. So

[Mailman-Users] mailman post mail to list error

2007-04-17 Thread Calvin Muller
I'm trying to use Mailman on an Ubuntu 6.10 system with Postfix but when I send mails it gets sent to the shunt folder, and if I try run the unshunt command I get the following error in the /var/log/mailman/error Apr 15 00:42:40 2007 (21596) send_digests() failed: us-ascii Apr 15 00:42:41 2007