Re: [Mailman-Users] sharing administrator passwords

2008-05-29 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/28/2008, Brad Knowles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py: # Normally when a site administrator authenticates to a web page with the site # password, they get a cookie which authorizes them as the list admin. It # makes me nervous to hand out site auth co

Re: [Mailman-Users] sharing administrator passwords

2008-05-29 Thread Larry Stone
On 5/29/08 6:23 AM, Charles Marcus at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5/28/2008, Brad Knowles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> From /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py: >> >> # Normally when a site administrator authenticates to a web page with the >> site >> # password, they get a cookie which aut

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription errors

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Finkel
"Duncan Drury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have recently upgraded my Mailman installation to 2.1.10 and the >online subscription system that I set up stopped working completely >(users fill out a form, which generates an email, which subscribes them >to the list). > >This seems to be related to

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/28/08 8:43 PM, Larry Stone wrote: On 5/28/08 9:26 PM, David Newman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another is to enable VERP for your outgoing messages, this allows you to track the message ID to the individual user. That sounds very promising, thanks. Trying it now... I have all my lists V

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread Brad Knowles
David Newman wrote: OK, I've enabled VERP but I'm no closer to isolating who's complaining in AOL-land. Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVA

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/29/08 11:40 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: David Newman wrote: OK, I've enabled VERP but I'm no closer to isolating who's complaining in AOL-land. Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_PERSONALI

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread Dragon
David Newman wrote: On 5/29/08 11:40 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: David Newman wrote: OK, I've enabled VERP but I'm no closer to isolating who's complaining in AOL-land. Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Andrews
At 01:53 PM 5/29/2008, David Newman wrote: On 5/29/08 11:40 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: David Newman wrote: OK, I've enabled VERP but I'm no closer to isolating who's complaining in AOL-land. Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted:

[Mailman-Users] Selecting Topics Externally?

2008-05-29 Thread brad . plevyak
Hi all, We currently use Mailman at our site but do not have the administrative interface open to the public. My workaround to allow users to subscribe and unsubsribe was a CGI script that generated a command line argument to send the subcribe or unsubscribe message along with the e-mail address

[Mailman-Users] Queued mail

2008-05-29 Thread Melinda Gilmore
Is there any mailman setting that you would need to verify if you were going to shut the server down, to make sure mail is queued. We use postfix with mailman 2.1.6 Melinda Gilmore Systems Engineer The Ohio State University Enterprise Messaging/OIT 614-292-4953 -

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/29/08 12:09 PM, David Andrews wrote: Did you go back to the list configuration and turn on personalization? Er, no, I haven't. Where do I set that in the Web UI? thanks dn DA: It is under Nondigest Options. Sorry for being dense, but where? These are the only choices I see under n

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Andrews
It is between the first and second choices you listed. Since it isn't there, I would guess you need to stop and restart Mailman so the configuration file is reprocessed. Dave At 03:02 PM 5/29/2008, David Newman wrote: On 5/29/08 12:09 PM, David Andrews wrote: Did you go back to the list co

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread Larry Stone
On Thu, 29 May 2008, David Newman wrote: > Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the > following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: > > VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes > VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes > VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = Yes > VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes > VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVA

[Mailman-Users] Mailing list with no archive

2008-05-29 Thread Laura Creighton
A mailing list that I am subscribed to, for reasons of privacy, has decided to not archive its messages. I think this is an extremely silly idea, but right now out of my control. My problem is that periodically I think I remember something useful having been posted there, and want to search the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Queued mail

2008-05-29 Thread Brad Knowles
Melinda Gilmore wrote: Is there any mailman setting that you would need to verify if you were going to shut the server down, to make sure mail is queued. We use postfix with mailman 2.1.6 No, there is no such setting. Postfix should queue everything it can't deliver to Mailman and refuse to

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/29/08 1:46 PM, Larry Stone wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008, David Newman wrote: Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = Yes VERP_CONFIRMATIONS

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:18 AM, David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm. I must be missing something, as the system is still associating each > Message-ID with all 250 list subscribers. VERP has nothing to do with Message-ID, and everything to do with Return-Path and Sender: ;-) -Jim P

[Mailman-Users] Customizing mailman to maintain history of unsubscriptions.

2008-05-29 Thread Bob001
Hello Experts, Looking for guidance on this one. How can we customize mailman to ensure that un-subscriptions are automatically recorded. Once recorded, we also intent to customize subscribe function to automatically ensure that they don't get re-subscribed. If they explicitly ask for re-subsc