Re: [Mailman-Users] A quick question about slicing outgoing qrunner

2016-09-08 Thread Chris Nulk
09/07/2016 02:54 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: I have read the archives regarding slicing the qrunner queues. Mailman here runs on a single system (virtual) along with the local MTA and web server. Our outgoing queue recently got bogged down. I would like to increase the number of queues for the outgoi

[Mailman-Users] A quick question about slicing outgoing qrunner

2016-09-07 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I have read the archives regarding slicing the qrunner queues. Mailman here runs on a single system (virtual) along with the local MTA and web server. Our outgoing queue recently got bogged down. I would like to increase the number of queues for the outgoing qrunner to three

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Thunderbird

2016-04-20 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello, It could be the user needs to use the manage identities feature in Thunderbird. If you have an email address A that also has an alias address B, when you set up the email address A account in Thunderbird, it will use the A email address when you reply to messages even if the message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-29 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/24/2016 11:49 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/24/2016 09:17 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: I did a little searching around our lists. It seems the attachments directory is always created and populated whether or not scrub_nondigest was ever set to Yes. So I can't really use the existence

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-24 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/23/2016 6:42 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/23/2016 11:15 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: I have done limited testing (4 member list with a few archived messages) and it appears to be working. The archives were moved and rebuilt. When I changed the scrub_nondigest setting to Yes, the list is renamed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-23 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/23/2016 10:39 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:02:10AM -0700, Chris Nulk wrote: I have a copy of Mark's clone_list command and it will allow us to rename lists. Which is great and not a problem for me. However, I am not the person normally involved with list creation

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-23 Thread Chris Nulk
Thanks for the info Bill. I agree getting off on the right foot for a new list is important. We have a basic form users fill out which includes our taxonomy for placing the lists. The message the group gets has all the information. The problem is sometimes bits of the key taxonomy are left

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-23 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/22/2016 5:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/22/2016 11:02 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: Below my message is a diff of my changes to clone_list. While I try testing my changes on a test system, I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at my changes to ensure I am not off-base with my

[Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-22 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, We have come up a few times where a list was created incorrectly. Normally, we catch the mistake, delete the list, and recreate it properly. However, there are times when the mistake is caught after having been in use. So, the delete and recreate is not available to use. I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] automating adding and removing subscribers

2015-10-20 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello, It depends on how much work you want to do and how timely the changes need to be made. Here is what we have and do... We have two lists for each group of users. Both lists are used. One list is dynamically built using LDAP. That list is considered the master list. Members are not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional questions about ban_list

2015-10-16 Thread Chris Nulk
On 10/15/2015 4:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/15/2015 03:25 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: On 10/15/2015 3:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: This was done for subscribe_auto_approval, and while it's kind of kludgy, the error log messages that you have above for 'Ban_list listfor %s references own list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional questions about ban_list

2015-10-16 Thread Chris Nulk
On 10/15/2015 9:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/15/2015 02:37 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: to the following ( I have added ** at the beginning of the lines I added to indicate the changes - in practice the ** would be spaces) def GetBannedPattern(self, email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional questions about ban_list

2015-10-15 Thread Chris Nulk
On 10/15/2015 3:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/15/2015 02:37 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: The question now is if I change the following in Mailman/MailList.py def GetBannedPattern(self, email): """Returns matched entry in ban_list if email matches. Otherwi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional questions about ban_list

2015-10-15 Thread Chris Nulk
erences itself or references non-existent list refer to 'subscribe_auto_approval' even if the error is in ban_list. Thanks to everyone for the help, Chris On 10/6/2015 5:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/06/2015 08:07 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: 1. The ban_list attribute is to help prevent unwanted people fro

[Mailman-Users] Additional questions about ban_list

2015-10-06 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I have been loosely following the discussion regarding regex in the ban_list attribute. I now find myself being asked to create a list which will most likely use the ban_list attribute. So, I have a few questions. 1. The ban_list attribute is to help prevent unwanted people

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regexp for blocking addresses

2015-09-28 Thread Chris Nulk
On 9/25/2015 9:16 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 09/25/2015 09:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Here's another idea. Find the following in /path/to/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py def GetBannedPattern(self, email): """Returns matched entry in ban_list if email matches. Otherwise

Re: [Mailman-Users] ListProc to Mailman migration -- any tools or guides?

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/2/2015 12:44 PM, bill.co...@unh.edu wrote: Chris Nulk cn...@scu.edu recently wrote, in part... Remember that communications with the list owners is extremely important. Indeed! [snip] We did change how we populated several of our lists though which was a bit of a challange (we went

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Nulk
On 3/2/2015 9:53 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/02/2015 08:22 AM, bill.co...@unh.edu wrote: My question is, are there any quirks or gotchas that I should be aware of in going from the old RHEL/Python platform to the new one? Is there anything I can do on the old system now that will make

Re: [Mailman-Users] ListProc to Mailman migration -- any tools or guides?

2015-03-02 Thread Chris Nulk
A few years ago, we switched from ListProc to Mailman. We didn't have as extensive a set of lists as do you however. Remember that communications with the list owners is extremely important. What we did was: 0. Have a firm timeframe to complete the change over. 1. Try to weed out as many

[Mailman-Users] Small issue (hopefully) with upgrading/migrating from v2.1.9 to v2.1.18-1

2015-01-14 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello, In a previous message, I mentioned my plans on upgrading/migrating a customized v2.1.9 installation to a customized v2.1.18-1 installation. I have analyzed the changes needed and made to the v2.1.18-1 installation. I have run into a small problem. One of the customizations I did was

Re: [Mailman-Users] Small issue (hopefully) with upgrading/migrating from v2.1.9 to v2.1.18-1

2015-01-14 Thread Chris Nulk
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: On 01/14/2015 04:11 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: I have run into a small problem. One of the customizations I did was to ​.​ I think that addtional check is preventing my additional attribute/property from accepting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Small issue (hopefully) with upgrading/migrating from v2.1.9 to v2.1.18-1

2015-01-14 Thread Chris Nulk
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: On 01/14/2015 09:38 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: DRY ​DRY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself ​ Well, I try not to but sometimes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrading/migrating Mailman v2.1.9 - v2.1.18-1

2015-01-14 Thread Chris Nulk
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: On 01/14/2015 09:31 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: ​..​ LDAPMemberships.py is not part of GNU Mailman. I think the latest version is yours, but in any case you can continue to use whatever you're using. ​Yeah, I know

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrading/migrating Mailman v2.1.9 - v2.1.18-1

2015-01-14 Thread Chris Nulk
On 1/14/2015 7:57 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Thanks for your help Mark. On 01/13/2015 09:04 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: Are there any issues I should watch for using the following process? ... Does the process seem reasonable and workable? It looks OK to me. Great. The question about

[Mailman-Users] Upgrading/migrating Mailman v2.1.9 - v2.1.18-1

2015-01-13 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I will be upgrading/migrating from a v2.1.9 Mailman installation to a v2.1.18-1 Mailman installation. In addition, I will be upgrading the hardware and will be keeping the name of the system the same. I have a few questions if anyone can help. I will be keeping the current

Re: [Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Nulk
On 7/3/2013 9:44 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 07/03/2013 07:40 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: Okay. Makes sense. Here is the modified do_discard_globalban code: def do_discard_globalban(mlist, msg, sender): # forward discarded message to site administrator(s) if defined

Re: [Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-03 Thread Chris Nulk
On 7/2/2013 5:23 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 07/02/2013 03:09 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: In the updated code, I did change the populating of the banlist in the Read_GlobalBan_File function. Now, it strips and lowercases the addresses before it checks if the address is in the banlist. Before

Re: [Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Nulk
Thank you Mark for your time. I went through and made the syslog change, removed the usenet bit, and correct my typing error. On 7/1/2013 3:35 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 7/1/2013 10:24 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: Hello user, I am writing a custom handler to globally ban email address from sending

Re: [Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Nulk
On 7/2/2013 10:16 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 07/02/2013 08:48 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: You could change your code as follows: 1) Make the banlist global by putting # First, initialize the banlist banlist = [] ahead of def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): and remove that from the process

Re: [Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Nulk
On 7/2/2013 12:17 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 07/02/2013 11:38 AM, Chris Nulk wrote: I did forget about some of my other questions. I plan on writing another custom handler for a list-specific issue. Where would I look if I wanted to intercept messages related to subscribing, unsubscribing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Nulk
On 7/2/2013 2:37 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you raise some exception other than the Mailman.Errors exceptions DiscardMessage, HoldMessage or RejectMessage, it will be the same as if you didn't catch the exception, i.e., the exception will be logged in the 'error' log with a traceback and the

[Mailman-Users] Writing a custom handler

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello user, I am writing a custom handler to globally ban email address from sending messages sent to Mailman. I know I can use Mark's add_banned.py script to add an address to all lists. However, if I add an address to be banned, as the administrator for all lists, I don't want a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman LDAPMemberships Adapter

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Nulk
Hi Mark, I don't know about others but I still use the LDAP adapter here. And I still appreciate the assistance you gave to get it working. Thanks again, Chris On 6/5/2013 5:47 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 06/05/2013 08:29 AM, Lennart Barfod wrote: Hi Mark, I'm using the LDAPMembership.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subject line message filtering

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Nulk
On 2/11/2013 6:40 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Nulk wrote: {SNIP} The only issue I have now is the boss wants to be able to send a reject message if a message is rejected when it matches a rule. The only option I have is to hold the message and let the moderator send the rejection notice

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subject line message filtering

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Nulk
On 2/8/2013 4:28 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Nulk wrote: My regex filter is: ^Subject:[\s\+]*\[.*\]\s+(Invitation|Canceled Event):.* I know you've resolved this and that the issue was that header_filter_rules are processed way before the subject_prefix is added so you didn't want

[Mailman-Users] Subject line message filtering

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I am trying to stop a particular group of messages from going to several of my lists. I am looking at the Subject line of the message to do the filtering and I am using the header_filter_rules in Spam Filtering. My regex filter is:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subject line message filtering

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Nulk
On 2/8/2013 11:44 AM, Richard Damon wrote: On 2/8/13 12:52 PM, Chris Nulk wrote: Hello all, I am trying to stop a particular group of messages from going to several of my lists. I am looking at the Subject line of the message to do the filtering and I am using the header_filter_rules in Spam

[Mailman-Users] Using set_mod.py

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I am trying to change moderation settings on some lists via a script so I can automate the list management for several lists (approx. 30 lists). In the script I use the following to run set_mod.py: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist --run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/set_mod LISTNAME

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information about config_list and change_pw

2013-01-28 Thread Chris Nulk
On 1/25/2013 6:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Nulk wrote: Can I create a file (properly formatted) to input into config_list containing only the values I want to change? Or, do I have to dump the entire file, make the changes, then reload? You can include in the input to config_list only

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information about config_list and change_pw

2013-01-28 Thread Chris Nulk
On 1/28/2013 10:53 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Nulk wrote: It seems to make a little more sense to use scripts/programs that are more targeted to specific changes I want to make to a list and I can document what I am doing a little easier. If you know what you are doing, you can do anything

[Mailman-Users] Information about config_list and change_pw

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, Before I go and completely savage the lists we have here, I thought I would try to get a little more information about using config_list. I get the list information from a file sent to me. I want to use a script to process the file, output the processed data to a file, then use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email command to find out what lists I am on

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Nulk
Thanks, Mark. Given that I couldn't find anything, I suspected that was the case. Chris On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: C Nulk wrote: Is there a command I can send to Mailman VIA EMAIL so that Mailman send a list of all the lists of which I

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up notificationsforMembershipManagement?

2009-06-09 Thread Chris Nulk
I am not asking for nor suggesting any changes but it might be easier for Ulf (if he is doing the mods) to use a bit mask. Have the admin notify option use the following bits for differentiating between the subscribes and unsubscribes: 0x00: no notifications 0x01: notify subscribes 0x10:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman password reminders - Resolved

2009-04-03 Thread Chris Nulk
...@msapiro.net Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:22 PM Chris Nulk wrote: I know I can stop password reminders from going out to list members by turning off the reminders in the list configuration. I also know I can comment out the cron entry for mailpasswd to stop it for all lists. In addition, I know I can

[Mailman-Users] Mailman password reminders

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I know I can stop password reminders from going out to list members by turning off the reminders in the list configuration. I also know I can comment out the cron entry for mailpasswd to stop it for all lists. In addition, I know I can send reminders using mailpasswd to a

[Mailman-Users] LDAP and case-sensitive memberlist - UPDATE

2009-03-31 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, Earlier this month, I asked about an issue I was having with the LDAPMembership adaptor and case-sensitivity. Mark Sapiro most graciously helped me with the problem including making several changes to the LDAPMemberships.py file. Mark was an outstanding help and resource for

[Mailman-Users] LDAP and case-sensitive memberlist

2009-03-18 Thread Chris Nulk
Hello all, I have recently set up Mailman v2.1.19 and added the LDAPMemberAdaptor I picked up from See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=871062group_id=103atid=300103. I did check the FAQ and search the list for the LDAP stuff. I configured it as per the docs and it