[Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Barry Finkel
I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. Should this be added to the FAQ?

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Barry Finkel wrote: I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. Should this be

[Mailman-Users] repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?

2009-01-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Here at work, we've found that mailman's -request alias has stomped another already-existing function (under our previous list, we used that for administrative requests, and on this particular list, that's not negotiable -- it needs to duplicate the function of xxx-owner). However, we're

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternate Port question

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Healy wrote: I'm using Mailman v2.1.5. Originally lists were created using port 8181 as the default port. Later port 80 was freed up and I reset (so I thought) everything to port 80. However, whenever something is went out on the list, it still continues to show port 8181 as the port.

Re: [Mailman-Users] repurposing the -request alias on an autogeneratedaliases file?

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: That is to say, if I hand-edited both $mailman/data/aliases and aliases.db (by rebuilding it from the new aliases file) -- would mailman revert it on me the next time I created a list? No. It will only revert if you run Mailman's bin/genaliases to regenerate

Re: [Mailman-Users] repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?

2009-01-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:10:38PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: However, we're using automatic aliases. Is there some way to quell or suppress the creation (or re-creation) of that particular alias (for one list only), without having to go to manual aliases? Check the order of

Re: [Mailman-Users] repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?

2009-01-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:22:16PM +, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:10:38PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: However, we're using automatic aliases. Is there some way to quell or suppress the creation (or re-creation) of that particular alias (for one list

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. Should this be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Patch for use of Postfix VERP support

2009-01-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Fil wrote: I'm trying to document the VERP stuff, and I'm at a loss finding where scripts/bounces exploits the VERP information on bounces. scripts/bounces mentions VERP but does not actually process the info All scripts/bounces does is queue the bounce message for BounceRunner. The actual

Re: [Mailman-Users] Patch for use of Postfix VERP support

2009-01-05 Thread Fil
Hello, I'm trying to document the VERP stuff, and I'm at a loss finding where scripts/bounces exploits the VERP information on bounces. scripts/bounces mentions VERP but does not actually process the info -- Fil -- Mailman-Users mailing list

[Mailman-Users] Unknown encoding error

2009-01-05 Thread Khosrow Ebrahimpour
Hello list, A week or so ago I ran across this problem on one of our mailing lists: A user had sent an email with an apparently bad subject line. This has caused mailman to stop delivering emails for that specific mailning list. Here's the error from the logfile: --- Jan 05 21:25:10 2009