[Mailman-Users] Broken mailman

2007-10-18 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
Oh great and wise jedi-nights of mailman... I request your assistance. My install of mailman has broke and I'm a bit lost on this one. When starting up the mailman service, I get the following error: mazar:/usr/lib/mailman # service mailman start Starting mailman (Warning: the Apache2

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding users with nomail bit set

2007-10-18 Thread Rusty Wilson
Mark, Just what the doctor ordered - thanks! (seriously, i googled at least 20 different ways and never saw this come up - thanks for the help!). --Rusty - Original Message From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rusty Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mailman-users@python.org Sent:

[Mailman-Users] Renaming List

2007-10-18 Thread Bryan Carbonnell
Good day folks, I would like some opinions. I am planning on renaming one of my existing lists and I'm trying to decide if I am better off creating a new list with the new name and migrating the users to it, or following the steps in the FAQ (4.70) for renaming the list. I do have full root

[Mailman-Users] removing owner notification of post requests from non-members and automatically discarding bad e-mail addies

2007-10-18 Thread Justin Ehrlichman
Hello All, Pardon the noob, but I run a list with about 20,000 members that sends coupons and discounts for our frequent customers. First off I receive notifications about local system accounts like root keeps sending e-mail to that list. Is their an option to turn those off? Also is their a

[Mailman-Users] Web host has hourly mailout limits

2007-10-18 Thread Henrik
All, In spite of previous assurances to the contrary, my web host (webserve.ca) has just told me that they have a maximum 500 per hour mail generation rate, and that there's nothing they can do to change that (which I presume is rubbish). I have questioned them about alternatives, and they

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web host has hourly mailout limits

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Luria
Henrik, Ran into this problem recently with my own host. Mark and I have discussed. (bluehost.com) Assuming you're in the same situation I am in - which is likely. My domain is hosted on a shared server - in other words the company has a server with something like 300 to 400 domains hosted on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Broken mailman

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: When starting up the mailman service, I get the following error: mazar:/usr/lib/mailman # service mailman start Starting mailman (Warning: the Apache2 webinterface for Mailman has not been activated!) done

[Mailman-Users] exchange side of mailman?

2007-10-18 Thread ayten öztürk
hi We use Exchange Server.We set up fedora 7 and mailman on another computer.wewant to keep using exchange and use mailman true exchange. they told me to make a peer to peer connection between exchange machine and linux machine then i just need a shorth configuration on exchange. is there any one

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web host has hourly mailout limits

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Henrik wrote: Is there a way to get GNU mailman to batch or parcel mailouts to comply with this policy? I ran into this problem before, and it seemed that Mailman simply gave up on the whole mailout, archived the mail, and moved on. GNU Mailman in the webserve.ca plan that I have is managed by

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing owner notification of post requests fromnon-members and automatically discarding bad e-mail addies

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Justin Ehrlichman wrote: Pardon the noob, but I run a list with about 20,000 members that sends coupons and discounts for our frequent customers. First off I receive notifications about local system accounts like root keeps sending e-mail to that list. Is their an option to turn those off? I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web host has hourly mailout limits

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Carpenter
Hi Henrik: My suggestion is to move your lists to another provider. We do not impose hourly limits on our mailman clients. You can find out more about our mailman service at http://www.emwd.com/mailman.html. Kind regards, Brian Carpenter -- EMWD - Executive

[Mailman-Users] problem under gentoo

2007-10-18 Thread Luo Hei
After reinstalling my system (migrated from Centos to Gentoo 2007.0) I made a big mistake. I overwrote gentoo /etc/passwd file with my old one to restore my user list. After that I tried to install mailman and found alot of problem. First, mailman ebuild has a fixed number for mail group (280)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Broken mailman

2007-10-18 Thread Donovan R. Palmer
Hey Mark - your jedi instinct was on track When starting up the mailman service, I get the following error: mazar:/usr/lib/mailman # service mailman start Starting mailman (Warning: the Apache2 webinterface for Mailman has not been activated!) done This appears to be specific to your

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem under gentoo

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Luo Hei wrote: When I use the start script simply fails without leaving any message. What start script? I run mailman and it starts ok, but when a mail is sent to any mailing list I get this error mail: Command died with status 2: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post red-admin. Command

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming List

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bryan Carbonnell wrote: I'm just looking for pros and cons to help me decide. I'm leaning towards creating a new list and migrating the users. If all you want to do is change the name of the list, I would always do this by renaming (or copying) the lists/oldname directory as that preserves the

[Mailman-Users] override list owner ability to approve messages over the max_message_size?

2007-10-18 Thread Christopher Adams
Is there a way to for a system override of the ability of list owners to approve messages that are larger than what they have set in max_message_size? We have a limit at the MTA level, as we need to accomodate non-Mailman mail on the same server. List owners are sending large attachments, then

Re: [Mailman-Users] override list owner ability to approve messagesover the max_message_size?

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Christopher Adams wrote: Is there a way to for a system override of the ability of list owners to approve messages that are larger than what they have set in max_message_size? This would require changing the code in Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py. If you want to do that, you'd find the code section