[Mailman-Users] Strange address handling

2008-12-18 Thread NFN Smith
I run an installation of Mailman 2.1.9 installed from the Debian stable branch, and includes Sendmail 8.13.8, and have discovered some quirky handling of user addresses. On occasion, I've had users complain about sending multiple subscription request to a list's -join address, and never getting

[Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-18 Thread Marvin Humphrey
Greets, I run a couple software support mailing lists on a site that's been around for a decade or so. I'm the only admin, and an avalanche of spam crashes down on me every day. Only subscribers are allowed to post and non-subscriber post attempts are silently discarded, which allows me to avo

[Mailman-Users] Security consequences of adding www user to mailman group

2008-12-18 Thread James Riendeau
I need to run bin/add_member in our Mailman 2.1.11 list server installation from a cgi/perl script. Normally, it has to run as root. The easy solution was to add the www user to the mailman group. You can then: open(LISTSERVER, '|/usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members -r- '.$list_name); pri

Re: [Mailman-Users] connect to exchange server

2008-12-18 Thread Jeanne Ilchuk
I was looking thru the archives and found this note from 2004 (below) which gave me the impression that it did not work with exchange. That being said, here are more of my details. I'm installing on a Solaris sparc (v10), which has a functioning Sendmail on it. I just found "Integrating Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integration with PHP

2008-12-18 Thread Alberto Pereira
Thanks. Ended up by adding "_mod=on" as a GET variable and it worked. Another problem: I'm trying to find a way to send weekly digests to specific users. I could write a bunch of code to store the specified users, check the dates on emails and send them once a week with a cron job, but is there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weekly digests - was: Integration with PHP

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alberto Pereira wrote: > >I'm trying to find a way to send weekly digests to specific users. I could >write a bunch of code to store the specified users, check the dates on >emails and send them once a week with a cron job, but is there a easier way >to do that? If you wanted to send digests week

Re: [Mailman-Users] eMailing a members only list from aknown locationwith out verifying members.

2008-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/18/08 10:42, Mark Sapiro wrote: X has no way to manipulate the message's metadata which is initialized by the post script invoked by the wrapper. Ok. What this means is that without modifying Mailman in some way, the Approved: header is the only tool available. *nod* Now, the wrappe

Re: [Mailman-Users] eMailing a members only list from aknown locationwith out verifying members.

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Grant Taylor wrote: >On 12/18/08 09:19, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> Note that this has nothing to do with mm-handler or other delevery to >> mailman method. Even with mm-handler, delivery to Mailman is still >> via the mail/mailman wrapper, so mm-handler has no way to manipulate >> the message's me

Re: [Mailman-Users] eMailing a members only list from a known locationwith out verifying members.

2008-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/18/08 09:19, Mark Sapiro wrote: Yes. Good. If you use Mailman's news -> mail gateway to gate messages from a news group on a news server to the Mailman list. you won't have this problem. I'm trying to not use Mailman's news to email gateway because of its "polling" aspect. I can ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] bug

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Guilherme Funchal wrote: >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9 We're sorry, we hit a bug! >Help me... If you have access to Mailman's logs, post the complete error message and traceback from Mailman's error log. If you don't have access to Mailman's logs, ask for help from the people that administer th

Re: [Mailman-Users] eMailing a members only list from a known locationwith out verifying members.

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Grant Taylor wrote: >Is it possible to post messages to a members only list with out Mailman >validating the sender when posting with a known (specific to this >purpose) method? Yes. >Now for the back story. I am setting up a mailing list that is using a >(Usenet) news to email gateway on

[Mailman-Users] bug

2008-12-18 Thread Guilherme Funchal
Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Help me... -- 'Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes' == Guilherme Funchal da Silva .`. LPI Level 2 Certification -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python

[Mailman-Users] eMailing a members only list from a known location with out verifying members.

2008-12-18 Thread Grant Taylor
Is it possible to post messages to a members only list with out Mailman validating the sender when posting with a known (specific to this purpose) method? Now for the back story. I am setting up a mailing list that is using a (Usenet) news to email gateway on the news server and having it sen