Re: [Mailman-Users] Iphone and Mailman

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Dec-2009, at 10:56, Jan Behrens wrote: > whenever i send an email to the list via the mail.app on my IPhone, sent > images are lost. I just tested this from my iPhone and the image was posted just fine. Headers look like this: Return-Path: X-Original-To: *mung...@*munged*.com Delivered-T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >Is there any way to nullify the moderator password altogether? Does >submitting the passwords page with an empty field for the mod pw >accomplish this? You can't remove a moderator password through the GUI. You could always enter some obscure string that you will immedi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Just to be clear, the presence or absence of an email address in the > owner or moderator attributes of a list has nothing to do with who can > do what. It only controls where notices are sent and what appears in > web page footers. > > It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 11:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Just to be clear, the presence or absence of an email address in the > owner or moderator attributes of a list has nothing to do with who can > do what. It only controls where notices are sent and what appears in > web page footers. > > It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: >On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: >> Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first >> suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was >> putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that i

Re: [Mailman-Users] Code comments

2009-12-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I've worked with code in many languages that is so cryptically > commented, with variable names that were so non-descriptive (Dan > Bernstein's qmail code comes to mind) as to be totally useless if one > wanted to look under the hood for help.

[Mailman-Users] Code comments

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Given that definitive documentation for Mailman isn't really consolidated in one place, I often find that the code comments in the Mailman program files (~mailman/Mailman/*) can be very helpful in answering questions or solving problems with Mailman. I've worked with code in many languages that is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first > suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was > putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's better > to post using

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:34 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > Yes I can clear their moderation flag, and in fact this is what I first > suggested, but my message was in response to a message from Mark who was > putting forward the position that this was a bad idea and that it's better > to post using

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Searching across lists and making global changes

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:17 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > Howver, thinking about it further, there's one thing I don't like about it. > It's OK if the people posting are list admins or moderators, but if you have > othwers who should be able to post to the list, you don't necessarily want > to giv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Iphone and Mailman

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jan Behrens wrote: > >whenever i send an email to the list via the mail.app on my IPhone, >sent images are lost. > >when i send the same email to that list with Mail on my macbook, >everything is okay. > >since mail works normally and mail.app send its pictures via email to >other people, it

[Mailman-Users] Iphone and Mailman

2009-12-18 Thread Jan Behrens
Hello, I'm using mailman 2.1.9 on a suse11 linux server with qmail und i found a strange behaviour: whenever i send an email to the list via the mail.app on my IPhone, sent images are lost. when i send the same email to that list with Mail on my macbook, everything is okay. since ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: > Stephen, with all due respect for the work you put into your post, I > think it goes a bit overboard in the other direction. If I can pose a > question in 6 or 7 lines of text, do I really need to read a couple of > hundred lines of instruction? It's under 100 lines