[Mailman-Users] Add-in

2002-07-09 Thread Bob Stout
Somewhat obliquely related to the installation of a spam filter, how would I go about integrating a filter to reject messages addressed to a supported list wherein the number of quoted lines (as indicated by a ">" in the first column) exceeded either an absolute maximum value or a percentage of th

Re: [Mailman-Users] A question

2002-07-06 Thread Bob Stout
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, ~ Kyle Nash ~ wrote: > One of the list hosts I'm on has the following statement at the very > top of the "Subscribers" list : > >(1 private member not shown) > > What exactly does that mean, and how does one become a "private member"? It means

Re: [Mailman-Users] pipermail vs hypermail

2002-06-27 Thread Bob Stout
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Irene Sakellarakis wrote: > We're looking into using Mailman to replace our current Majordomo setup. > We're running into a problem with respect to pipermail, however. We have > extensive archives under a hacked hypermail format. > > We need to keep all our archives together,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Questions regarding Listserv service

2002-06-27 Thread Bob Stout
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Emily Bohigian wrote: > I am on the market for a new listserv service and I had a few questions I > could not find answers to in the website: > > Is Mailman accessible from email? > How does a user unsubscribe from email? Yes, if you send a "HELP" message to -req

[Mailman-Users] Backups

2002-06-25 Thread Bob Stout
I recently had to rebuild a mailing list from scratch when I neglected to resize some virtual storage prior to trying to import 6 year's worth of old archives. I was able to salvage a little under 90% of the existing subscriptions and the archives are still there although I'm going to have to use

Re: [Mailman-Users] help on Mailman feature

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Stout
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jin Zhang wrote: > Hi, is there any way to import multiple email addresses into a Mailman > mailing list? I have a list of email addresses in an Access database > and want to know if I can import them in a batch instead of entering > them one per line through web GUI. Yes,

Re: [Mailman-Users] mime/html removal

2002-06-24 Thread Bob Stout
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Chad Rebuck wrote: > I chose to use stripmime: http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html. > There are some aol 6.0 users that post the list I host and I see =20 at > the end of the lines in the pipermail archive. Maybe this would be > handled better with another tool? Those

[Mailman-Users] Help with arch

2002-06-14 Thread Bob Stout
OK, I tried arch to import my old procmail archives. From /usr/lib/mailman/bin, I used... ./arch ...where was a local copy of one of the old archives containing message from back in 1999. Instead of importing them correctly, it only seemed to bloat the size of the May-2002 archive without inc

[Mailman-Users] Re: Importing [Listproc] archives

2002-06-12 Thread Bob Stout
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Bob Stout wrote: > I have a slew of old Procmail archives covering a number of years. I'd > like to import them into Mailman. I checked the FAQ and couldn't find > anything about it. Anyone? Perhaps this would have made more sense if I'd said I was tr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Exim and mimefilter (on debian)

2002-06-11 Thread Bob Stout
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Fredrik Jonson wrote: > I am trying to set up mailman on debian woody and am interested in using > mimefilter to remove unwanted attachments. > > Now, I am a bit confused. The documentation of mimefilter almost > exclusively mentions smartlist, the Mailman FAQ[0] mentions mim

[Mailman-Users] Oversight

2002-06-10 Thread Bob Stout
I can't seem to find out how the administrator can boot (unsubscribe) a user without his/her password. - MicroFirm: Down to the C in chips... Home of the SNIPPETS archives and the DIY Loudspeaker Driver Selection Guide (LDSG): http

Re: [Mailman-Users] Crisis

2002-06-08 Thread Bob Stout
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: > Web Admin, go to the Privacy section. Happy reading. Sheesh, do I feel like an idiot - especailly since I looked through there twice and totally overlooked it! :-( Thanks for your kind an patient answer to an idiotic question! --

[Mailman-Users] Crisis

2002-06-08 Thread Bob Stout
All seemed to be working OK, when someone mentioned that they's sent mail from an unsubscribed account and it got posted to the list. I checked the management options, but could find a setting to specify wither this is a public, private, or closed list. Where should I be looking for this? ---

[Mailman-Users] Importing Procmail archives

2002-06-07 Thread Bob Stout
I have a slew of old Procmail archives covering a number of years. I'd like to import them into Mailman. I checked the FAQ and couldn't find anything about it. Anyone? - MicroFirm: Down to the C in chips... Home of the SNIPPETS archiv

[Mailman-Users] Searchable archives

2002-06-01 Thread Bob Stout
Has anyone done any work on searchable archive, preferably with a web interface? - MicroFirm: Down to the C in chips... Home of the SNIPPETS archives and the DIY Loudspeaker Driver Selection Guide (LDSG): http://www.snippets.org/

[Mailman-Users] Inaccessible archives

2002-06-01 Thread Bob Stout
According to the administration docs, if the list is in use and "Options FollowSymLinks" is enabled, then users should be able to get to the archives. Yet, everyone who tries gets the message, "You don't have permission to access /pipermail/diyspeakers/ on this server." I checked the file permissi

[Mailman-Users] Non-web interface

2002-06-01 Thread Bob Stout
I have a few users without web access. I know there's some sort of email interface to Mailman, but I haven't been able to locate any documentation on it. Help anyone? - MicroFirm: Down to the C in chips... Home of the SNIPPETS archive

[Mailman-Users] Test

2002-06-01 Thread Bob Stout
- MicroFirm: Down to the C in chips... Home of the SNIPPETS archives and the DIY Loudspeaker Driver Selection Guide (LDSG): http://www.snippets.org/ -- Mailman-Users mailing l