Re: [Mailman-Users] Making a Mailman legacy archive searchable?

2014-05-23 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 23 May 2014, Peter Weyland wrote: > Anyone recommend a searchable archive for MM? We are up to date with version > 2.1.18 I like swish-e http://swish-e.org/ == Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Intern

[Mailman-Users] Setting hard limit on message size for mailman

2012-02-07 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
Is there a setting I could use to limit the size of a message mailman will process, that even a list owner can't approve to get around ? == Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stripping sig files

2010-12-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Paul Tomblin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:24 AM, bruce clark wrote: > > My problem: the users on my lists are waging a low-level war with their sig > > files. I do not allow commercial posting so they have started creating sig > > files with their commercial messages in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search tool for Mailman Archives

2010-12-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Liste Yoneticisi wrote: > Hello; > > I am trying to implement a search tool for Mailman Archives. I've always liked swish for indexing web sites and mailing list archives http://www.swish-e.org/ == Chris Candreva -- c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing from getting on spam list

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Hung Phan wrote: > We are a school district which sends out legitimate messages about school > information to parents but last week, we were tagged by spamrats as > spammer. An important message did not reach all the subscribers because > the local ISP which hosts many of o

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

2009-04-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Charles Gregory 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 guar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there > a way to do that in any version of mailman? And/or any other > convenient mechanism? The list is a bit unwieldy for plain email Under "Privacy options" you can enable the opti

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Larry Stone wrote: > That's not a "Message ID", that's a queue ID. And yes, I do the same > thing. Ah yes, of course you are right. As you said though -- either way, it works. :-) == Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Mark Sapiro wrote: > I'm confused. How do you use the Message-ID for this? Even when > messages are fully personalized, every recipient's message has the > Message-ID of the original, incoming message. It may depend on how your MTA is set up. On my lists, there is an internal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-15 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Mark Sapiro wrote: > This is a security and bug fix release and it is highly recommended > that all sites upgrade to this version. Mailman 2.1.10 also adds support Quick clarification: It's somewhat unusuall for it to be recommended that all sites upgrade to a release candid

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mbox files

2008-03-22 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Heer wrote: > reproduced the file just as I had concatenated it. Is there a way to merge > 2 same list mboxes into 1 properly sequenced mbox? If this is a one-time thing for the transition, you could load them into a mail program, move all the messages to a single fold

Re: [Mailman-Users] httpd.conf Rewrite rules with ZOPE to use mailman.

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Ignacio Valdes wrote: > I'm running a Zope instance that requires me to have re-write rules > (below) in httpd.conf that are not compatible with Mailman. I can use > mailman if I don't use the Zope re-write rules or I can use Zope but > not mailman with the re-write rules below

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught bounce notification - Out-of-Office

2007-07-24 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Barry Finkel wrote: > Are there plans for Mailman to be able to intercept out-of-office > replies and ignore them? Or is the format of the text too variable > to be able to parse the OOO message? I've solved this problem locally using a procmail rule, and I think the meth

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Dave Dewey wrote: > Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, maybe I'm just lucky. Is your server on the AOL whitelist ? == Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
> VERP doesn't work any longer for these, as of a couple months ago. > They now redact ALL information that can be used to identify the > user, including verp'd addresses. As of June ( the last one I received) they only removed the list name part, so you get a line like this Return-Path: <[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Larry Stone wrote: > That's unfortunate. At this point, what's the point of getting them if they > won't give you any useful information as to who doesn't want the list mail > they requested. It's not really supposed to be usefull on a per-mail basis, rather as a way of spot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting the FONT globally for the mailman GUI?

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Brad Knowles wrote: > project) would agree. However, who's actually going to write the > code to do this? When is that going to be incorporated into the > mainstream codebase, and for which version? Is there a standard template library for Python, ala Template::Toolkit fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Slow delivery

2007-03-10 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Brad Knowles wrote: > > This is a common misconception of what IDENT is/was for. IDENT was not > I know what the purpose of IDENT is. I wrote the original sendmail FAQ entry > on this subject back in 1995. Sorry, automatic response of the fingers, usually reserved for IRC

Re: [Mailman-Users] Slow delivery

2007-03-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Brad Knowles wrote: > So Phil says that he runs a trustworthy IDENT server on his box. > Fine. But plenty of spammers, phishers, and other nefarious types > out there will try to use IDENT as another vector to exploit for use > in breaking into your system, or for tricking

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-08 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Have I mentioned recently how long I've been looking for a volunteer > to help make all this not suck? ;} Pipermail is just one of those > things that people either live with or ditch. I've used Hypermail for probably a decade to archive Majordomo l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm unable to configure Mailman, because when I edit and run mm_cfg.py You don't run mm_cfg.py You just edit it. It contains values that are then read by the other programs when they run. == Chris Ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Has anyone actually implemented Postfix address verification for their sites?

2006-05-07 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: > I'm curious to know -- Postfix has this address verification > feature, which is kind of like greylisting. Basically, before a > message from a given envelope sender will be accepted, the system has > to get a confirmation that the registered MXe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated announcements

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Mike Brudenell wrote: > For example we recently moved from running our lists service using an old > MLM package to GNU Mailman. One of the things some of our users are > missing is the ability to set up a repeating post to remind people of > etiquette on the list and point

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated announcements

2006-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Robert Seymour wrote: > I would like to send out announcement emails M-F (in cron?) stating > something like "Check out todays cartoon at > http://birdbreath.com/images1/20060502.png"; with the dated file name > changing each day. > Does Mailman have the capability to do this?

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman vs yahoogroups

2006-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Ted Ernst wrote: > I suggested using mailman hosted by mayfirst.org and that was accepted. We > now have two lists. Problem is, it's not like yahoogroups. I don't care, What aspect of Yahoogroups is it that they need ? No two things are exactly like, so either there is a p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Like most people who've been running mailing lists for 20+ years, I Funny, I would have guessed this was your first, comming from a marketing background with the selfishness you are showing. > have strong opinions about list policy. Please address the m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Yahoo users. Well, that's because I get a lot of incoming spam from > fake Yahoo accounts to my Mailman, and I have it configured to send > back a "you aren't a member" message. > > Is there any way to suppress "you aren't a member" only for Yahoo > sende

Re: [Mailman-Users] Goodmail spells doom for mailing lists?

2006-02-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jonathan Dill wrote: > Has anyone talked about the changes planned by AOL, Yahoo! etc. to > require "certification" via Goodmail or just be blocked? > > http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3581301 It's been beaten to death -- at this point I can't recall if here or on o

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-member posts

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: > The reason they're still asking on the list? Because they sent > messages on this subject months ago which were simply discarded instead of > being bounced, and they were never notified. Then someone should be going through them by hand, or put th

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-member posts

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tim Perdue wrote: > I'm getting flooded under requests to approve spammer posts to > lists.gforge.org and wondered if there was a way to auto-reject > non-member posts instead of sending them to me for approval. If you do anything, please discard and not reject. The from a

Re: [Mailman-Users] no confirmation required?

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, kalin mintchev wrote: > right... spamming about cancer awareness or wedding dresses si... > i kinda explained that i'm aware of this argument... > > the other option is to lose those clients The other option is to risk being put on a blacklist for running a non-com

Re: [Mailman-Users] GMane?

2006-02-15 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, John A. Martin wrote: > Not only is this list, Mailman-Users, but also Mailman-Announce and > Mailman-Developers appear to have simultaneously disappeared from > Gmane. Is there someone who doesn't like Gmane? If so, please > explain your objections. Many lists use Gmane wi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stagger script?

2006-01-25 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Daniel/The Fold wrote: > >I was told by my hosting company that I need to pick a mailing list > >manager for my 14,000+ subscriber e-mail list that would stagger the > >sending of the email to something like 300 e-mails per hour to lower the > Where

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in 2.1.7, can't edit Public HTML pages & text files

2006-01-11 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: > Sorry for the inconvenience but I've put a new bug in the code while tighten > up the security of the script. Work around is to put a line > > import re > > in the top part of the Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py. > > The bug was reported in > http://sourcefo

[Mailman-Users] Bug in 2.1.7, can't edit Public HTML pages & text files

2006-01-10 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
Mailman is telling me there is a bug whenever I try to submit a page from the "Edit the public HTML pages and text files" menu. The page returned says: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.7 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spamassassin/Mailman - filter messages tolist-owners

2006-01-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Messages to the -request address will not be filtered, but spam to this > address is normally just returned to the sender with an error message, > not forwarded to an owner/moderator. Except spam often has a forged sender address, so sending an error to th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large mailing lists

2005-12-22 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > At 10:46 PM -0500 2005-12-21, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > I'm working on the web developer to implement some better checks. It'd > be awesome if when we got a subscription request from a client, some code > made sure they didn't type [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions problem accessing commands via php

2005-12-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, John Dennis wrote: > 2) The php script invokes a wrapper just like the CGI does. This is > preferred for a variety of security reasons. It would not be hard to > create a new wrapper from the existing wrapper src code. I'm giving serious thought to writing a mailman 'server',

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM Control

2005-11-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm an AMD-64 Gentoo Linux, Postfix, Mailman server - does anyone have any > suggestions for a system wide anti-spam tool that integrates well? If you aren't already, DNSbl's to block connects from dynamic IPs, known infected networks, spammers, etc.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatically unsubscribe someone

2005-11-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Nelly Yusupova wrote: > How can I automatically unsubscribe someone from an announce list, using a > php script? If you are the site admin and have access to the command line tools, you can call the remove_members program in mailman/bin . It has an option to not send a not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing someone from a CGI script

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: > If you'd like to see this get fixed, please file an RFE on the Mailman > RFE page at SourceForge. Better still, come up with a patch (or have someone > else come up with a patch) and upload that to the Mailman patch page at > SourceForge, which woul

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing someone from a CGI script

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: > The command-line tools are the API. If you can't use them > because your web server is trying to run them under the wrong group > id, I don't know that there's anything else we can do for you. As a site admin I see a slight problem with the comma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archiving

2005-10-21 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >lists or not. I don't seem to see any place that allows trimming the > >archives if they start taking up too much space or just get too many in > >general if I want to do it on weekly basis. Is that option available > >some place? > > There is no o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the from header

2005-09-28 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:13 AM -0400 2005-09-28, Jeremy Leonard wrote: > > > Joe the CEO wants a message to go to all the members of our > > organization. His secretary creates the message and sends it to the > > list. She is also the moderator of the list. In Majordomo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail Delivery Problems

2005-09-21 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: > Here is the text of the emails. They are pushing the BondedSender like crazy > > - especially since I received an email direct from BondedSender. > at the address I only used with this ticket to hotmail. I would turn the problem around. Tell

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending in Batch

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Jim Null wrote: > My host only allows 200 emails per hours and 50 emails in five minutes to go > out. We have 97 members on one list that is growing. Does Mailman offer a > timed-batch feature that I can set to send out emails over a period of time > that won't violate my hos

Re: [Mailman-Users] Making list inactive

2005-05-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sun, 8 May 2005, John Poltorak wrote: > I would like to have a list of members who subscribed to a list and > possibly want to reactivate it at some point in the future. Backup the mailman/lists/listname directory, delete the list, restore the directory if you want to reactivate it. You can

[Mailman-Users] Edit public HTML/text files sets incorrect permissions

2005-04-26 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
I've just opened Bug 1190404 on this issue. System is Solaris 8, gcc 3.4.0, python 2.4, Apache 1.3.33 On mailman 2.1.6rc1 and rc2, when I use the "Edit the HTML pages and text files" option, the directories and files created are mode 600 , owned by nobody.mailman . After this, subscriptions f