Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests heldmsg files

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Waltham
On May 7, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Can you think of an easy way to discard all the messages in request.pck _except those_ which still have tokens remaining in pending.pck? If you're willing to accept that the only messages that have unexpired tokens left

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests heldmsg files

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Waltham
On May 8, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Chris Waltham wrote: On May 7, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Can you think of an easy way to discard all the messages in request.pck _except those_ which still have tokens remaining in pending.pck? If you're willing to accept

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests heldmsg files

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi Mark, Just to re-visit this... On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: With the exception of 3-4 lists (out of 800+), I let the make update command run so I presume that actually upgraded the lists. I think I might just delete the holdmsg files en masse, I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests heldmsg files

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Waltham
On May 7, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I looked at my heldmsg files (all 40,000 of them :-)) and there are a number patterns. Most heldmsg files are from a handful of lists (let's call them baseball and football). If I do a dumpdb of the hockey list's pending.pck file, this is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests heldmsg files

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Waltham
On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: A couple of weeks ago our Mailman 2.0 server crashed (a physical problem, it wasn't Mailman's fault!) and we had to upgrade to 2.1 in a real hurry. As a result, I had to copy the entire ~mailman/data directory... which

[Mailman-Users] Phantom moderation pending requests heldmsg files

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Waltham
A couple of weeks ago our Mailman 2.0 server crashed (a physical problem, it wasn't Mailman's fault!) and we had to upgrade to 2.1 in a real hurry. As a result, I had to copy the entire ~mailman/data directory... which may not have been such a good idea: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/data]$ ls -al |

[Mailman-Users] Archives for a single list mysteriously stopped

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Waltham
? Bad HTML/MIME in a message? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Waltham Systems Engineer Bowdoin College Tel: (207) 798-7029 Cel: (207) 607-1939 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI list creation?

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Waltham
Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are privilege concerns and security questions involved in this, but I'm curious to hear if there's a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI listcreation?

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Waltham
On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are privilege concerns

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI listcreation?

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Waltham
On Mar 25, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Allen, Geoff wrote: Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are privilege concerns and security questions involved

Re: [Mailman-Users] word bounces in from address

2008-03-18 Thread Chris Waltham
On Mar 18, 2008, at 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem with my lists. Until recently we ran on an old version of Mailman. Users with Outlook saw messages coming from listname[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of sender Now they see messages coming from listname[EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Manipulating membership management flags (e.g., nomail) from the command-line?

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Waltham
I administer a Mailman 2.0.12 server that runs many (870) mailing lists, the vast majority are used internally where I work. However, we have the odd external recipient; more problematically we have a bunch of internal recipients (e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) that forward their mail to an

Re: [Mailman-Users] How does one back up the email address in a list...

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Waltham
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Mark Schlaudraff wrote: I'm sorry if this is posted some where however, I am unable to locate it... How do I export or backup the email address that are in a list? There are many ways to skin this cat. How do you want to do it -- from Mailman's web GUI, or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Desactivate a mailing liste

2007-10-25 Thread Chris Waltham
On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:51 AM, pierre lacoste wrote: Hello everybody, How can I desactivate a mailing list? I don't want to remove but juste desactivate temporarly. You can make the list moderated, or you could even remove the aliases for your list. There are other ways also. Chris

[Mailman-Users] Confusion between sendmail and mailman for hostnames

2007-09-19 Thread Chris Waltham
I must confess that it has been, well, years since I've used sendmail, and I guess things have changed in the meantime. Apparently there's this new sendmail.mc file? :-) Seriously though, I'm having difficulty getting sendmail (8.13.1) and Mailman (2.1.9) to play nice under RHEL 4. I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confusion between sendmail and mailman for hostnames

2007-09-19 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi Mark, On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: I have a new server called bingham.testing.bowdoin.edu, which has a CNAME in DNS so that newlists.bowdoin.edu points to bingham.testing.bowdoin.edu. Because bingham will do other things than just Mailman, I

[Mailman-Users] How to allow mail from domain.edu but no others?

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Waltham
. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Waltham Systems Engineer Bowdoin College Tel: (207) 798-7029 Cel: (207) 607-3643 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to allow mail from domain.edu but no others?

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: I'd like to allow both list members and non-list members to be able to post to a mailing list I help admin. So, I want to allow [EMAIL PROTECTED] to post, but no other domain names. Is there an easy way to do accomplish

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin user passwords

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Is there an easy way to change a list admin's password in 2.0.x? My version (2.0.12) lacks a change-pw command. I have no experience with Mailman prior to 2.1.4, but from the code, it appears that you change

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin user passwords

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 10, 2007, at 3:56 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: On Sep 7, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: Is there an easy way to change a list admin's password in 2.0.x? My version (2.0.12) lacks a change-pw command. I have no experience with Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Two questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Michael Anderson wrote: 1. Is there a way to mass unsubscribe all the members of a 5k list? bin/list_members $LISTNAME your_list_members # (this will create a file with the members' addresses) bin/remove_members $LISTNAME your_list_members # (this will use the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to get

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Waltham
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:10 AM, BG Mahesh wrote: We have several mailing lists running on our list server. I am looking for a script that will extract the number of active users in each list. Is there such a utility? Here is a simple bash script to accomplish it: (snip) #!/bin/bash for i

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin user passwords

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi Mark, On Sep 4, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Not the only do membership management part. Each list can have its own admin password and a separate moderator password. These allow access respectively to the list's admin interface and to the list's admindb interface. They do not

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to protect list archives?

2007-08-14 Thread Chris Waltham
On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: On 8/13/07, Chris Waltham wrote: Is there a relatively straightforward mechanism to protecting list archives from prying eyes? From what I can tell, anyone that can guess the URL of the archives (e.g. www.foo.org/pipermail/listname) can

[Mailman-Users] How to protect list archives?

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Waltham
Is there a relatively straightforward mechanism to protecting list archives from prying eyes? From what I can tell, anyone that can guess the URL of the archives (e.g. www.foo.org/pipermail/listname) can view the archives of the list, even if they're not a subscriber to the list. Rather

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sanity-checking individual lists for health?

2007-08-02 Thread Chris Waltham
On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Chris Waltham wrote: I have been tasked with moving a Mailman 2.0.12 installation from a Solaris (SPARC) server to a Linux (x86) server. The Linux server will be receiving a copy of Mailman 2.1.9, so obviously I am making the 2.0.x - 2.1.x

[Mailman-Users] Sanity-checking individual lists for health?

2007-07-24 Thread Chris Waltham
Hi folks, I have been tasked with moving a Mailman 2.0.12 installation from a Solaris (SPARC) server to a Linux (x86) server. The Linux server will be receiving a copy of Mailman 2.1.9, so obviously I am making the 2.0.x - 2.1.x jump in there. Also, on Solaris, Mailman lives in /