Re: [Mailman-Users] several questions.

2008-08-08 Thread Jan Steinman
Thanks for the explanation, Mark. I've never used anything but plain text digests, so I didn't know there was a way to get attachments that way. On 8 Aug 08, at 20:18, Mark Sapiro wrote: All the attachments that were included in the individual messages sent to a list (i.e. not removed by co

Re: [Mailman-Users] several questions.

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jan Steinman wrote: >> From: Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> James - Dunn Deal PR wrote: >> >>> 1. Does MailMan support attachments? I read that it does, but I >>> want to >>> be sure. MM is no good to me if it doesn't. >> >> Mailman has optional content filtering. If you turn it off, Mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] several questions.

2008-08-08 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James - Dunn Deal PR wrote: 1. Does MailMan support attachments? I read that it does, but I want to be sure. MM is no good to me if it doesn’t. Mailman has optional content filtering. If you turn it off, Mailman will pass the message to the list with al

Re: [Mailman-Users] several questions.

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
James - Dunn Deal PR wrote: >1. Does MailMan support attachments? I read that it does, but I want to >be sure. MM is no good to me if it doesn’t. Mailman has optional content filtering. If you turn it off, Mailman will pass the message to the list with all attachment's intact, or you can set

[Mailman-Users] several questions.

2008-08-08 Thread James - Dunn Deal PR
Hey all. I run a publicity company, and we regularly email mp3s to our email list of a couple thousand DJs. I have MailMan on my Plesk server interface, and I’m wondering if MM can help make that process easier for me. A few questions. 1. Does MailMan support attachments? I read t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Knabe, Troy wrote: >So that works, but I am still seeing 7 minutes where the messages are staying >in the sendmail queue. Sendmail is configured to re-run the queue every 5 >minutes so the extra 2 is about right for how long it takes to go through the >other messages in the queue first. But wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
Knabe, Troy wrote: So that works, but I am still seeing 7 minutes where the messages are staying in the sendmail queue. Sendmail is configured to re-run the queue every 5 minutes so the extra 2 is about right for how long it takes to go through the other messages in the queue first. But why does

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Knabe, Troy
So that works, but I am still seeing 7 minutes where the messages are staying in the sendmail queue. Sendmail is configured to re-run the queue every 5 minutes so the extra 2 is about right for how long it takes to go through the other messages in the queue first. But why does the message hit t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: If for piddling legal or other constraints such as not finding a pillory in working order prevent you from using that approach, I tend to set "no mail" for those uses, and if there is reason to believe that it is a site wide problem, I may bar users from that site, or a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Webmaster PF wrote: 1. How to filter out “Out of Office” replies to the list. I have found that putting the first few users who use broken autoresponders into a pillory has some deterrent effect, but memories need to be refreshed occasionally. If for pid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Dragon
Knabe, Troy wrote: So my sendmail start script included /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q5m So I made it /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer \ -ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=1313,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1 End original message. - Put the original line ba

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Knabe, Troy
So my sendmail start script included /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q5m So I made it /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer \ -ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=1313,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1 On 8/8/08 12:04 PM, "Mark Sapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Knabe, Troy wrote: > >You can do this withou

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Knabe, Troy wrote: > >You can do this without modifying your sendmail files at all. Instead, in your >startup script, add: > >/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer \ >-ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1 Did you ADD that, or replace something wi

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail performance

2008-08-08 Thread Knabe, Troy
I am quite certain that this is the answer to my issue, as I see the Mailman messages being routed through my spam filter 2x as it enters/leaves queues. But when I tried to impliment it sendmail quit listening on port 25. Anyone else experience issues with this solution? Any suggestions? Tha

[Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: > > 2. Is there a way to prevent duplicate postings when people cross post? > > No. This cannot be done reliably I'll stand by that if you want 100.00% exclusion, but Mark's suggestion of regular_exclude_lists should work 99% of the time, for most Mailman sites w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
Hank van Cleef wrote: Just because: Solaris isn't Linux, and sendmail isn't Postfix, isn't a reason to call either one of them "screwed up." You picked a really bad analogy to make with me. I've been administering Suns for almost twenty years, since the SunOS 4.0.2 days. I still vividly re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Owners Lists

2008-08-08 Thread Keith Risinger
Thanks Mark, just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something somewhere. Keith On 7 Aug 2008 at 13:44, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Keith Risinger wrote: > > > >Is there some way an owner can get a listing of all they lists they are > >owners of? I've not found anything in the admin pages. As the si

[Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Webmaster PF writes: > 1. How to filter out Out of Office replies to the list. This is almost impossible to do genericly, because the presence of an autoreply to the list indicates that that member is using stupid software (it's very easy to detect a standard mailing list post because it conta

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Webmaster PF wrote: > >1. How to filter out "Out of Office" replies to the list. There is no good way. You might be able to use Privacy options... -> Spam filters -> header_filter_rules for this if you can figure out a regexp to match against headers to identify them. Otherwise, you need a c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-08 Thread Hank van Cleef
The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > On 8/7/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was > > that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was > > changed, the script worked as expected. > > Was this on a Solaris b

[Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Webmaster PF
I have not been able to locate a reference for this in the FAQ so I would appreciate if someone can point it out for me. Thanks. 1. How to filter out “Out of Office” replies to the list. 2. Is there a way to prevent duplicate postings when people cross post? -Shaf No virus foun

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >On 8/7/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was >> that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was >> changed, the script worked as expected. > >Was this on a Solaris box? I've had problems wi