Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with upgrade

2008-10-01 Thread Brad Knowles
Alexander Freund wrote: Could someone please help me with this? At the bottom of every message posted to this list is an URL to the Mailman FAQ at . I suggest you go there and search for "troubleshooting". After reading, understanding, and trying out the vario

[Mailman-Users] problems with upgrade

2008-10-01 Thread Alexander Freund
Hi list members, I have a problem with an update from a mailman 2.1.4 to 2.1.11.I had no problems during the upgrade I only noticed some problems with some user account names, so I started the configure script with the parameters: --with-cgi-gid=apache --with-mail-gid=mailThat’s it. Again, no

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem updating archives

2008-10-01 Thread Brian Dunning
On Sep 30, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think you must mean /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylistname.mbox/mylistname.mbox Yes I did mean that, thank you for the correction. You forgot the --wipe option. ~mailman/bin/arch --wipe mylistname I will try this right away and let y

Re: [Mailman-Users] script which can limit the number of postings by a user in a day

2008-10-01 Thread Brad Knowles
Nitin Bhadauria wrote: I have a mailing list with more then 1 users and the 300 postings per day so i want to restrict users postings. At the bottom of every message that is posted to this list is a link to the Mailman FAQ, which is at . I suggest you go the

Re: [Mailman-Users] bin/upgrade has been broken since 2.1.5 (orpossibly longer)

2008-10-01 Thread Brad Knowles
Knut Auvor Grythe wrote: We're not using Ubuntu because we're newbies. We're using it because Ubuntu has predictable release cycles which allows us to schedule upgrades in a proper way, and Debian doesn't. I'd never report a bug in Mailman without verifying that the bug indeed is in Mailman and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread charlie derr
Stefan Förster wrote: * Elizabeth Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Our administration wants to use a mailman list for broadcast-only official communications to students. I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there a way to do that in any version of mailman? And/or a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread Stefan Förster
* Elizabeth Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our administration wants to use a mailman list for broadcast-only > official communications to students. > I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there > a way to do that in any version of mailman? And/or any other > conven

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there > a way to do that in any version of mailman? And/or any other > convenient mechanism? The list is a bit unwieldy for plain email Under "Privacy options" you can enable the opti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there >a way to do that in any version of mailman? Set the list's Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> unsubscribe_policy to Yes and don't approve any unsubscriptions. However, if the student's kn

[Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Our administration wants to use a mailman list for broadcast-only official communications to students. I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there a way to do that in any version of mailman? And/or any other convenient mechanism? The list is a bit unwieldy for plain emai

[Mailman-Users] script which can limit the number of postings by a user in a day

2008-10-01 Thread Nitin Bhadauria
Dear All, I have a mailing list with more then 1 users and the 300 postings per day so i want to restrict users postings. Is any buddy have a script or some thing to do that ... Thanks Nitin -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@py