[Mailman-Users] STUPID USERS

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Gregory
Once before, I asked about possible solutions to problems that occur when people misread and/or 'reply' to mailman 'administrative' emails. I would like to cut-n-paste a latest mailing from a list subscriber to emphasize the problem. I'm not asking for an 'explanation', but I *am* asking that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Are there other users? Was: STUPID USERS

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: For your amusement, and to emphasize my point, here is the message I received as mailman-owner, because user SENT their mail to 'mailman-bounces'. (go fig) I torture them with an appropriate autodiscard + autoreply Well, my form letter has to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] STUPID USERS

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Is there NO way to get a reminder notice to come FROM the list/list-owner, even given the obvious issue with possible multiple lists? It's a simple change. Just send one reminder per list. How can I set that? (mm 2.1.5) If you look carefully at the

Re: [Mailman-Users] STUPID USERS

2009-08-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Robert Fishel wrote: I am subscribed to countless lists over 6 organizations that use mailman one of which I run, there is no way I would want to receive a reminder from each list, it's painful enough now for each organization. (nod) Perhaps a dash of intelligence in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] [mm] HELP!!!

2009-07-08 Thread Charles Gregory
Is that address properly aliased to mailman in /etc/aliases? -C When using your software I keep having the same problem and I really cannot figure out how to solve it! How do I sent a emailmessage to all the people in my mailing list that I have put in it manually. I have tried many

Re: [Mailman-Users] Displaying Entire Membership List

2009-06-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, LuKreme wrote: It's been an RFE for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266715. I understand that for lists of one or two hundred members, it might be desirable to show two to four pages of 50, but with thousands of members, the alphabetic chunks may be

Re: [Mailman-Users] [mm] Deleting messages from archive....

2009-05-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Has anyone ever developed a point-n-click tool to delete a message from an archive, preferably by just eliminating the From/To/Subject and body, but leaving the links intact, with a placeholder message that says message content removed, etc? It

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting messages from archive....

2009-05-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Barry Warsaw wrote: I've long thought that Pipermail should be split off from Mailman as a project, perhaps still bundled in whatever sumo distribution we provide. It would be very cool if a group of people worked together to make Pipermail not suck. As a side note, is

[Mailman-Users] Deleting messages from archive....

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Gregory
Has anyone ever developed a point-n-click tool to delete a message from an archive, preferably by just eliminating the From/To/Subject and body, but leaving the links intact, with a placeholder message that says message content removed, etc? I found lots of FAQ's and posts on the 'manual' way

Re: [Mailman-Users] [mm] Re: Help for mailto: in footer.

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 7 May 2009, bob 001 wrote: a href=mailto:%(list_name)s-request@ %(host_name)s?subject=unsubscribe%20emuzidembody=unsubscribeUnsubscribe/a Um, if this is a cut-n-paste, then please note you are missing a closing quote - Charles

[Mailman-Users] Monthly notice sender

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Gregory
Hallo! This may be more of a 'feature request' than a problem (smile) A few times each month I get an e-mail from someone requesting something as simple as 'please unsubscribe me' sent to 'mailman-owner' rather than to the owner of the list to which they are subscribed. It's fairly

Re: [Mailman-Users] No Admin Notification

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 1 May 2009, J.R. Constance wrote: I am having a problem with one of my lists where the administrators are not being notified of posts awaiting approval. This list is set right now to Emergency moderation so all posts are being held, but neither I nor the other administrator are

[Mailman-Users] Problems after CentOS upgrade....

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Gregory
Hallo! This may not specifically be a mailman problem, but I'm noticing strange behaviour in mailmain, as well as in general on my mail server. Background: My CentOS 4 system ran an automatic 'yum' update two days ago, and it updated many system files. I'm not an expert, but it looks like the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems after CentOS upgrade....

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Mailman seemed to 'lock up', and queued all outgoing messages until I did a restart First of all, my .02 on rebooting - If you do a yum upgrade that updates system files, you should reboot. If you don't, and there is some issue due to the upgrade, the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems after CentOS upgrade....

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Interestingly enough, when I shutdown mailman it reports an SMTP failure for a message it appears to have been 'attempting' to send... And what failure does it report? Apr 24 12:26:48 2009 (7363) Low level smtp error: (4, 'Interrupted system call'),

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce Disable processing not working?

2009-04-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: It looks like the 'disable on excessive bounces' is not working right... The issue in your case is your incoming MTA is probably not delivering mail for LISTNAME-bounces+TOKEN to LISTNAME-bounces. If the MTA is Postfix, you need (in main.cf):

[Mailman-Users] Bounce Disable processing not working?

2009-04-10 Thread Charles Gregory
It looks like the 'disable on excessive bounces' is not working right for my (only) list 'ontbirds' The bounce log contains patterns like this (trimmed to show one address behaviour, omitting 'already counted' messages): Apr 05 09:15:34 2009 (20408) _...@___: ontbirds current bounce

Re: [Mailman-Users] Soft bounces....

2009-04-06 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Brad Knowles wrote: What do (Yahoo) mean different classes of mail? Personal, Commercial, Listmail. I can see their point. If listmail tries to send mail to a 5xx address for a couple of days, that 'lowers the reputation' of that IP more than when a personal mail gets a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Soft bounces....

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Brad Knowles wrote: Yahoo expects me to respond promptly to 5xx bounces, disabling any subscriptions, otherwise it starts generating 'greylist' 4xx bounces for my mail. Unfortunately, if I try to lower the bounce threshold, the now-daily occurence of 4xx bounces

Re: [Mailman-Users] [-0.5] Re: Soft bounces....

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you're getting bounces like message undeliverable after 4 hours; will keep trying until message is 5 days old Mailman should be ignoring those. I apologize for not thinking through the fact that a 4xx would have to continue for 4 hours before mailman

[Mailman-Users] Soft bounces....

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Gregory
Hallo! Running into a small bit of frustration. Yahoo expects me to respond promptly to 5xx bounces, disabling any subscriptions, otherwise it starts generating 'greylist' 4xx bounces for my mail. Unfortunately, if I try to lower the bounce threshold, the now-daily occurence of 4xx bounces

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Patrick Bogen wrote: Bouncing back a message which tells a user his original message is held for moderation is now a bad idea if we want to stay out of the black list of spamcop Gadi. I'm not entirely sure what the point of this message was. The point *I* got

[Mailman-Users] RESOLVED: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/python -S/var/mailman/cron/senddigests

2006-10-31 Thread Charles Gregory
Hi and thanks! On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think the error comes from a messahe part that has Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 and has incorrect padding at the end. You haven't seen it before, because it is the result of an encoding error by one person's broken MUA or possibly

[Mailman-Users] PROBLEM: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/senddigests

2006-10-30 Thread Charles Gregory
Hello! I've just subscribed to see if anyone here is familiar with the error report I am now getting repeatedly from mailman (see below). Also, I'm not certain yet, but it appears my archiving may have stopped working. When I go to check archives, there are no listings for the current week.

[Mailman-Users] PROBLEM: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/senddigests

2006-10-30 Thread Charles Gregory
list members to NOT USE some particular 'function' or 'attachment'? The list is configured to only pass/permit attachments of : multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain text/html - Charles On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Charles Gregory wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [Mailman-Users] FOUND the RTFM

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Gregory
suggest adding this basic 'installation' info to the top of the site administrator docs? Thansk! - Charles On 2 Mar 2004, Jon Carnes wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:00, Charles Gregory wrote: Hallo! I'm trying to setup and run the standard mailman included with Red Hat Linux 9

[Mailman-Users] Please help me RTFM

2004-03-02 Thread Charles Gregory
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