Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
One thing I will mention about thunderbird- IMNSHO, version 3 is bad news. I use it, but there are several obvious things that don't work well or correctly (list omitted as being off-topic). I haven't been annoyed enough to drop back a version, but some people have. Go with version 2 unless

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 5/19/2010 3:02 PM, Drew Tenenholz wrote: > > Here are my specific client software needs: > > 1) a cross-platform client (Mac & Windows; Mac 10.5 & up, Windows XP & > Windows 7) > 2) capable of sending "plain-text" messages (see below) > 3) capable of sending to mailman in many languages (e.g.

[Mailman-Users] does arch read plain text emails?

2010-05-19 Thread Robert Khachikyan
Dear MM gurus, I've recently installed mailman to migrate from majordomo. And in majoromo I save all emails in plain text. I have about 4 emails to convert to mailman. And when I issue ~mailman/bin/arch dojo /home/mails/dojo/23048 it returns: Pickling archive state into /var/lib/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird message in /var/log/mailman/vette file

2010-05-19 Thread Masaharu Kawada
Hello Mark-san, Thank you very much for your answer. Sincerely, Mark Sapiro wrote: Masaharu Kawada quoted me and wrote: and optionally, 3)Add 'MAILTO=the_address_of_the_mailman_site_admin' to Mailman's crontab so errors will be mailed directly to the admin instead of to the list.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:25:11PM -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > AFAICT, your option is Thunderbird. (I haven't verified all of your > requirements, though.) Thunderbird was where I was thinking, too. -- ``Like any Englishman armed with a cricket bat, he was doomed to fail.'' (Guy Ladenburg,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
AFAICT, your option is Thunderbird. (I haven't verified all of your requirements, though.) Other than Eudora and Outlook/Entourage, what have you looked at and what's been discarded? z! -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.o

[Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

2010-05-19 Thread Drew Tenenholz
All -- I know that Mailman is intended to be more or less sender agnostic, however, I would like your recommendations for email client software that will suit my specific needs and still play well with Mailman (announce-only lists). (preferably version 2.1.9, or whatever the folks over at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reject non-members at SMTP time

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
g...@prideaux.id.au wrote: >Is there a way to reject non-subscribers at the time of their initial SMTP >conversation, as opposed to either rejecting them later (with an >associated bounce message) or silently discarding them? Maybe. >I don't want to generate bounce messages because of the back

[Mailman-Users] Just saying Thanks

2010-05-19 Thread Lee, Davis H
Mark, Terri, Thank you for your time, energy, and spot-on assistance. It has helped a lot and really is appreciated. Davis Lee WAN Administrator Albuquerque Public Schools 505 830 6870 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird message in /var/log/mailman/vette file

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Sapiro
Masaharu Kawada quoted me and wrote: >> >>and optionally, >> >>3)Add 'MAILTO=the_address_of_the_mailman_site_admin' to Mailman's >>crontab so errors will be mailed directly to the admin instead of to >>the list. > >As for the step 3, in this case, 'root@' should be set on the 'MAILTO=' >line in ma

[Mailman-Users] Reject non-members at SMTP time

2010-05-19 Thread glen
Is there a way to reject non-subscribers at the time of their initial SMTP conversation, as opposed to either rejecting them later (with an associated bounce message) or silently discarding them? I don't want to generate bounce messages because of the back-scatter they generate, but silently disca

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird message in /var/log/mailman/vette file

2010-05-19 Thread Masaharu Kawada
Hi Mark-san, Very sorry to ask you on this again. I'm a bit confused on the steps that you led me know before. I recommend you do the following: 1) Set the 'mailman' list's generic_nonmember_action to Accept. 2) Make sure the mailman site admin is a non-digest member of the 'mailman' list wi