Re: [Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available now or not?

2001-03-30 Thread Dan Mick
> I have 2 outstanding questions about mailman configuration options: > > 1) Does mailman have a configuration setting such that everyone who is > subscribed to a list can post unmoderated, but email from a non-subscriber > will be sent to a moderator for approval? > > Yes or No? Yes > To

Re: [Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available nowor not?

2001-03-31 Thread Dan Mick
> > I'm just not sure. I mean, if it's that easy, why hasn't THIS LIST BEEN > CONFIGURED TO DO JUST THAT? > > > How do I know you aren't misleading me? If it's that easy, certainly this > list would have been properly configured. Will you grow up, JC? Is it possible that it's not so

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and port of newsserver

2001-04-09 Thread Dan Mick
There isn't one, but it looks to me like you can add a "port=1119" to the couple of places that do "nntplib.NNTP()" calls. Or, better yet, add something like NNTP_PORT_NUM = 1119 to mm_cfg.py, and then add "port=mm_cfg.NNTP_PORT_NUM" to those calls instead. Noel Koethe wrote: > > Hello, >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] URGENT Please Help: Duplicates with 2.0 final

2001-04-17 Thread Dan Mick
> I guess it depends on what list server background you have. If you're > familiar with listserv and it's relatives that have nomail, this makes > sense. If you're coming from majordomo or have no real mlist experience, I > think it's confusing. And I'm not sure if it really buys you much (and >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Ownership of config.db file

2001-04-23 Thread Dan Mick
The cron job should be running as user mailman, and user mailman's primary group should be mailman, so it should have access to those files, since they're group-mailman-writable. Changing ownership is normal; that's why everything is done with group permissions. > Hi all. > > I am running mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner & unexpected EOF

2001-04-23 Thread Dan Mick
> There is nothing strange about it.. and I dont get errors from other jobs > > > # crontab -l -u mailman | grep -v "#" > > 0 17 * * * /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs > 0 12 * * * /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests > 0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] ACK! Help! "Authentication Failed"

2001-04-24 Thread Dan Mick
Bill Bradford wrote: > Did crypt() or something change in Python 2.1? I'd been running > 2.0 / MailMan 2.0.3 before. Most of these lists have existed > since the pre-Mailman 2.0 days.. Maybe your old Python included crypt() and the new one doesn't, in which case it's trying to fall back to m

Re: [Mailman-Users] hard-resetting list admin passwords?

2001-04-24 Thread Dan Mick
log in using the site password (or have the site owner do it). > Any suggestion on how to hard-reset a list admin password? -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

2001-04-27 Thread Dan Mick
It seems to me that changing the permissions on the files you want to prevent access to anyone other than group mailman would be sufficient, no? Unless the process of adding to the files automatically resets the permissions, in which case it's probably the umask on the process creating them tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Site-Wide SPAM rejection confusion...

2001-04-30 Thread Dan Mick
> Good Morning, > > I recently started trying to figure out the site-wide SPAM handling > in SpamDetect.py and I have a few questions. > > First, it appears that I got the header SPAM prevention done correctly. > Unfortunately I can't get the message body SPAM prevention done > correc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Site-Wide SPAM rejection confusion...

2001-04-30 Thread Dan Mick
> Dan Mick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like: > > > First, it appears that I got the header SPAM prevention done correctly. > > > Unfortunately I can't get the message body SPAM prevention done > > > correctly. If I have somethi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help

2001-04-30 Thread Dan Mick
> I am running Mailman with Postfix. Attached, is a segment of my syslog > file when I try to email to the Mailman server. > > Any thoughts? Yes, but let's play a game first. What do you think "unknown user: "test-request" might mean? -- M

[Mailman-Users] "members-only"

2001-05-03 Thread Dan Mick
So of course the "members-only" thing bounced two of my messages today, that actually had content in them, because I've been subscribed for long enough that my outgoing mail address changed (because of sysadmin addr-rewrite changes here at Sun, not because I changed location or uid or anything).

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announcement list magic...

2001-05-03 Thread Dan Mick
> 1) Is there a way to extract only the members that are not set to nomail? >I want to exclude people who are set to nomail because of choice or >because of bouncing email. You could hack this bin/withlist script, which finds the "nomail" members: import sys import Mailman.mm_cfg def n

Re: [Mailman-Users] MHonArc

2001-05-03 Thread Dan Mick
Tanya Brethour wrote: > > Quick question: > > I am converting to use the mhonarc archiver instead of the builtin mailman > archiver because of the MIME attachment issue. I was curious how people > integrate the two. > > Do you turn off archiving in mailman? > Do you just run a cron job to upd

Re: [Mailman-Users] nomail users

2001-05-04 Thread Dan Mick
> When Mailman sets a user's 'nomail' option, there is no way that > user would know, except for realizing after the fact that they're no > longer receiving mail. Is there any sort of mechanism (even third > party) that can periodically probe those that have 'nomail' set? Maybe > once every

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to Back Up Lists

2001-05-04 Thread Dan Mick
> After some review of the list archives I do not find an answer to what I > think will be a pretty simple question. > > How do I make backups of my lists? What files are critical? Everything under "lists" should do most of the job. If you need archives too, then "archives". I'd probably al

Re: [Mailman-Users] argh!! more problems

2001-05-08 Thread Dan Mick
> For some reason, the config.db file of the list previously in question keeps > being set to an ownership of 'nobody'. help? The web server writes it. This is not a problem, because it's owned by group mailman, and write permissions are granted to group mailman. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] argh!! more problems

2001-05-09 Thread Dan Mick
Apparently you didn't read what I said. > -rw-rw1 nobody mail16875 May 8 18:16 > /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db is not group mailman. That would be the problem, and I have to believe that check_perms would find it, too. > > The web server writes it. This is not a pro

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with the config.db permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Dan Mick
> Check_perms fails to find it, and it's turning into a major problem. Doublecheck your version of check_perms; the code is there, and it works, in 2.0.5. Are you running check_perms from the installed bin/ directory as the instructions and about a billion posts on this list say? > What (exac

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with the config.db permissions

2001-05-09 Thread Dan Mick
> > check_perms should be finding all this; you need to find out what's going > > wrong with check_perms. > > I tested with changing permissions/ownerships around on a few things > to see what check_perms would and would not catch, and found an > something interesting: Check_perms wants to set

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

2001-05-10 Thread Dan Mick
> After further reading I've come to the conclusion that this notion that > making the List-* headers optional will inhibit their adoption is a red > herring. A number of MUAs already have, or said they will, implement > support for these headers including Eudora. So you have no problem. So wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] error trying to unsubscribe

2001-05-10 Thread Dan Mick
You interrupted it while it was waiting for the list lock. If it seems to be waiting a *long* time (like more than 5 minutes, say) maybe you have a stale lock. Check ~mailman/locks, and check to see that the processes that got them (their PID is in the filename) are gone or not; if they're gone,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Urgent request for assistance

2001-05-20 Thread Dan Mick
Is there a question here? I can't find a problem description or question in your mail. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.1 - problem localized

2001-05-25 Thread Dan Mick
> My crontab entries was wrong, DOH > > BUT, there is still a problem, messages only get send when crontab runs > /mailman/cron/qrunner > > This cannot be right?? I suggest reading the comment at the top of qrunner. In fact, I suggest everyone do this, right now. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bad Karma, or stupid fingers

2001-05-31 Thread Dan Mick
> MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0] > TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation. Gee, doesn't this just scream to you that you should check the value of MAILMAN_GID? It sure does to me, using nothing more than English punctuation skills... -

Re: [Mailman-Users] question

2001-06-06 Thread Dan Mick
> To the best of my knowledge, Mailman is a Linux program. That means your > operating system has to be Linux, or at least based upon Linux, or at least be > able to pass for Linux in a dark alley on a moonless night. Ah, I love the New World... What you mean is 'Unix'. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

2001-06-13 Thread Dan Mick
> How can you do more than that? ;) Well, I think we ought to call the product something with the word "Mail" in it, so people know that it's about email. And the mailing lists should be named something with "mail" in the name, too. Sarcastic-to-within-an-inch-of-everyone's-life-ly yours...

Re: [Mailman-Users] need urgent assistance

2001-06-18 Thread Dan Mick
> NAME-OF-THE-LIST@ > > is not the same as > > name-of-the-list@ > > People will use both- Not if one doesn't work, they won't. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2001-06-20 Thread Dan Mick
> I am trying to list all users from a list that has the option nomail enabled. Does anybody knows how can i perform this task? Use this with bin/withlist: import sys import Mailman.mm_cfg def nomail(list): for member in list.members.keys(): try: if list.user_options[member

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages pending approval

2001-06-28 Thread Dan Mick
> I am just new with Mailman, Then I hope you've paged through every single option on the mailing list administration webpage so you know what's there. If you had, you'd know the answer to this question: > so please bear with me. My question is this: if > someone is sending a message that req

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman won't deliver?

2001-10-02 Thread Dan Mick
Nigel Kersten wrote: > (in the smtp file) > > All recipients refused: (61, 'Connection refused') > > (in the smtp-failure file) > > (1620) -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignore) > > I did have this all working, and buggered if I know what has gone wrong... Have you checked the obvious other place,

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list question

2001-10-02 Thread Dan Mick
> > Is there a way to export the addresses? > > ~/bin/remove_members Actually, ~/bin/list_members but really folks, take a look at the bin/ directory, there's useful stuff there. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Apologies

2001-10-04 Thread Dan Mick
> You're not using Solaris, are you? We used to use Solaris 2.6 for our > main web server, and every so often the cron daemon would just die. > That screwed up a lot of things, including Mailman. > > I think that syslogd also died occasionally. > > More quality bug-ware from Sun... > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] wrapper issues..

2001-10-04 Thread Dan Mick
> Hi, > > Logfile : > " ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=list_request_director > T=list_request_transport: Child process of list_request_transport transport > returned 2 from command: /home/mailman/mail/wrapper " There's almost certainly a corresponding error in ~mailman/logs/error --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman using REDHAT Powertools RPM

2001-10-05 Thread Dan Mick
> Just to get ahead of the game, I didn't write it. :) Didn't say you did. > >And this doesn't mention crontabs? > > > > I think they just included the core things to get it up and running but you have to have cron running to get Mailman up and running, that's the point. It's required f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman using REDHAT Powertools RPM

2001-10-05 Thread Dan Mick
> * Run /var/mailman/bin/mmsitepass > to set the mailman administrator password. > * Edit /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py > to customize mailman's configuration for your site. > * Modify the sendmail configuration to ensure that it is running and > accepting connections from the outside worl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure of rmlist command

2001-10-18 Thread Dan Mick
> I'm in the bin directory and I type > > python -S rmlist > > which returned > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "rmlist", line 44, in ? > from Mailman import mm_cfg > ImportError: No module named Mailman > > What am I missing here? run it from ~mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Just drop it?

2001-10-18 Thread Dan Mick
One can do a very small amount of hacking to Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py and accomplish the "drop without further notice" action. It's been useful for spammers for me. Basically, you just add to the list in the file; the comments are pretty readable; take a look and see what you think. > Hi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing users

2001-10-22 Thread Dan Mick
It's already in 2.1 > It may have been discussed in the past, but wouldn't it also be a neat > idea to include this feature on the web interface? > > ~/bin/remove_members -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Throwing away Implicit messages rather than holding them

2001-10-22 Thread Dan Mick
> > "JC" == Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JC> Looking into dumping that implicit mail instead of letting it > JC> pile up it seems a bit more complex than editing the > JC> SpamDetect.py module. > > FWIW I have plans to add something like this to Mailman, but I'm no

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems building 2.1a3

2001-10-24 Thread Dan Mick
Did you install misc/email.*gz first, like the instructions say to? Mailman 2.1 now requires the "email" package, which comes as part of Python 2.2. If you are running an older version of Python, then you need to install the standalone email package by doing the following steps:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing Up / Restoring / Recovery Questions

2001-10-26 Thread Dan Mick
Greg Ward wrote: > > On 26 October 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton said: > > 1. Is there a way to backup the list information, including addresses > > and list configurations? > > > > 2. Is there a way to restore the configuration (list members, list > > setups etc.)? > > > > If it is as easy as tar'in

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.db being set to 'root'

2001-10-26 Thread Dan Mick
The directories have to be set with g+s, and your OS has to respect that (i.e. new files created in such directories need to inherit the group ownership of the parent dir). I suspect that those of you having problems are either missing a g+s bit somewhere or have an OS that doesn't implement this

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread Dan Mick
> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:32, J C Lawrence wrote: > > Restoring a dumpdb file is a bit of a pain as you end up having to > > wrap it in a bit of python that mays it look like an object and > > marshalling that to disk. Not a big pain to be sure, but more pain > > than you get with configdb. Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime

2001-10-29 Thread Dan Mick
> Has anyone know if there is any chance the mailman web archives will ever > understand mime? Experimental pre-features are available in 2.1 now. It's a long way from polished, but the ideas are interesting. Go browse Sourceforge CVS for Scrubber.py if you're interested. ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sudden error

2001-10-30 Thread Dan Mick
Your footer probably has a "%C" (where C is some format character) in it that you didn't intend. Use config_list to dump the footer text and post it. > The ~/mailman/logs/error file is too big because the data: > > Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Delivery exception: not enough > arguments for fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't people see my lists?

2001-11-01 Thread Dan Mick
I don't understand this discussion. /mailman/listinfo/ is indeed the default "list of known advertised lists". It's constructed on the fly by Mailman and should include every list that 1) matches and 2) is advertised as "public". > ah so. > > understood... > > So.. there's no way, from withi

Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't people see my lists?

2001-11-01 Thread Dan Mick
ng up when I run http://www.mysql.org/mailman/listinfo > > They are meant to be advertised lists yet they're not showing up. > > J. > > On Thu, 1 > Nov > 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > > > I don't understand this discussion. > > > > /mailman/l

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.0.6 feature questions

2001-11-01 Thread Dan Mick
> I'm a longtime Smartlist admin who's migrating to Mailman 2.0.6 and I've > got a few questions regarding features: > > I have several legitimate 'non-opt-out' type of lists; Ie: our department > wants to make sure that *every* faculty member is given a certain message, > so we use a smartlist

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman wrapper not sending out mail

2001-11-01 Thread Dan Mick
> A second test message was sent. Reconfiguring with daemon (GID 1) > took care of the error message, but now Mailman won't respond to > e-mail. A message sent to the list (or to [list-request] seems to be > handed off to mail/wrapper correctly: > > Oct 31 22:24:17 straylight sendmail[60410

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gzipping archives

2001-11-08 Thread Dan Mick
.pyo > spine[root] /home/mailman/cron> > > > -Steve > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Dan Mick wrote: > > > > > > > Steve Dinn wrote: > > > > > > Can someone run down the steps required to have the downloadable version > > > o

Re: [Mailman-Users] ImportError: No module named Mailman

2001-11-08 Thread Dan Mick
> % bin/list_members mylist > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "bin/list_members", line 59, in ? > from Mailman import MailList > ImportError: No module named Mailman > > Anyone have any ideas what I have wrecked? 1) are you in the $prefix directory when you execute this? 2) is t

Re: [Mailman-Users] max length for email address

2001-11-08 Thread Dan Mick
> I just loaded 10,000 email address into a new list and a bunch (200+) > bounced because it looks like their email address got truncated at 30 > characters. Is this a default setting? Can it be changed? I looked > through the admin interface and couldn't find anything related... I'm not awar

Re: [Mailman-Users] max length for email address

2001-11-08 Thread Dan Mick
> While I'm posting... Is there some way to automatically discard posts that > need to be approved by the admin? No one will ever be able to post to this > list who isn't approved... Not without hackery. I've done such hackery, but it takes a little Python boilerplating. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gzipping archives

2001-11-09 Thread Dan Mick
> On 08 November 2001, Dan Mick said: > > Your Python has to have the 'gzip' module installed, which not all do. > > Don't you mean "zlib"? The import is for the module named 'gzip'. When

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce: 0 more allowed over 166798 secs

2001-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
> Once again I will plug my favourite network debugging tool: Ethereal, a > fantastic GUI packet-tracing tool. ...and of course there are many other packet-tracing tools if you don't happen to have Ethereal that accomplish the same thing: etherfind, tcpdump, snoop just to name a few. One of t

Re: [Mailman-Users] a ? from United Nations Cyberschoolbus

2001-11-12 Thread Dan Mick
Although the display on the web page may show only an excerpt, when you approve you approve the entire message. You can change how much text appears on the web page independently. > Hi Mailman people, > > I have never used our Mailman before, and I'm the sort of asst. admin > person for it. My

[Mailman-Users] Not Mailman-related: Open Source mavens please read

2001-11-19 Thread Dan Mick
I participate on the fringes of Open Source, so perhaps someone here can clue me in. Please respond privately so as not to pollute Mailman-Users overmuch: Why do all the '-config' tools (gtk-config et. al.) seem to refuse to include -R options in their "libraries" output to set the dynamic runti

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied:'/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Mick
> Now, the install directions say: > > - Add a new user called `mailman'. Typically this is added to > your /etc/passwd file. If username `mailman' is already in use, > choose something else unique and see the --with-ownername flag > below. > > - Add a new group cal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Mick
> I've tried this with a couple lists, and it does NOT seem to work - still get the 30 members, no matter what you set that value in Defaults.py (or mm.cfg.py) to. > Did you see my answer to this? Defaults value is for new lists; it's stored in a list variable at list-create time.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-28 Thread Dan Mick
> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote: > > > > > "B" == Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > B> So how do you change it for a list already created? Export the > > B> config file, mess with it, then re-import? > > > > Make bin/withlist your best friend! :) > > Could you describe exactly h

Re: [Mailman-Users] New 2.0.6 install, input OK, output nil

2001-10-08 Thread Dan Mick
What's between Mailman and your subscribers? The MTA. Whose logs should you be checking? The MTA's. "Connection timed out" sounds a lot like there *isn't* an MTA running. Are you sure there is? Bill Horne wrote: > > Thanks for reading this. I've just installed Mailman 2.0.6 on Redhat > Linu

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman-users@python.org

2001-10-08 Thread Dan Mick
Eric Engelhard wrote: > > I just installed mailman-2.0.5 on Mandrake 8.0 running apache 1.3.19 and > postfix 20010228. The installation seemed to go well, but after using > the newlist command to set up a test list, my email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced back with an "uknown user:"test"" messa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated List

2001-10-09 Thread Dan Mick
I bet the <> around the To: address is confusing MM. > craver voun wrote: > > I still don't get it, this is the header of the sent message: > Received: from [213.96.140.87] (helo=aragorn) >by alexandria2.dnsnodes.com with smtp (Exim 3.20 > #1) >id 15q

Re: [Mailman-Users] Worth upgrading from 2.0.6 to 2.1a2 ?

2001-10-10 Thread Dan Mick
After the last round of fixes, I'm finding it pretty stable. I would think it's a lot better at not dying on slower machines (although I have a fast server again so it's not so bad). I really like some of the new admin features (the 'search for subscriber by RE' alone is nearly worth it to me).

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

2001-10-11 Thread Dan Mick
It's a crontab entry, right? > Is there? -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] why can't othe people see the listinfo/ page?

2001-10-11 Thread Dan Mick
This, by the way, is explicitly and completely documented in the files you should have read before installing Mailman, and reread before asking the mailing list... > THAT WAS IT... actually, one of my colleagues and I got together and > figured it out.. but thanks a million Jon.. HUGELY helpful!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems installing 2.1a2

2001-10-11 Thread Dan Mick
mimelib 0.6 doesn't really work; current CVS uses a site package called 'email'. If you want to be that bleeding edge, I'd use current CVS; it's more stable. > Hi, > > I'm trying to run a "make install" on 2.1a2 on a Redhat 7.1 box, > but am running into an error before the 'make install' compl

Re: [Mailman-Users] check_perms after RPM installation

2001-10-11 Thread Dan Mick
What directory are you in when you run bin/check_perms? > Hello. I installed Mailman on a RH7.1 box with the RPM from Rawhide > (Mailman version 2.0.6). When I run check_perms, I'm getting the following > error: > Traceback (innermost last): >File "bin/check_perms", line 50, in ? > MA

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

2001-10-11 Thread Dan Mick
> Dan Mick wrote: > > > It's a crontab entry, right? > > No. RTFM. It's not, eh? Then what do you call this, in crontab.in? # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpass

Re: [Mailman-Users] is there any way to have Mailman NOT to send out monthly membership reminder?

2001-10-11 Thread Dan Mick
> > It's not, eh? > > > > Then what do you call this, in crontab.in? > > # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. > > 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds > > > > "RTFM" indeed! Which M did you have in mind? > > THAT, is for *every si

Re: [Mailman-Users] new user, can't 'stat'

2001-10-12 Thread Dan Mick
> I am getting the following error: > [Fri Oct 12 17:19:48 2001] [error] [client 207.17.248.136] script not found > or unable to stat: /var/mailman/cgi-binadmin > I have been through the INSTALL document several times. I don't know where I > am going wrong. All of the permissions look right.

Re: [Mailman-Users] web interface not working...

2001-10-12 Thread Dan Mick
> Now, the mailman logs don't show anything. However the httpd error log > shows the following output (below), which makes me think there is some kind > of permission thing going on. Yes, certainly. So surely the permissions on /usr/local/mailman/logs/error are gonna be interesting, yes?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question

2001-10-17 Thread Dan Mick
> > Does anyone if it is possible to have the messages displayed en another > > languaje than English??? Version 2.1 (in alpha) already does: Traditional Chinese German

Re: [Mailman-Users] How alpha is 2.1a2?

2001-10-17 Thread Dan Mick
> I haven't been monitoring Mailman development for a while, so I'm a > bit confused. It might be time to upgrade my installation, though.. > > If I access the download pages of http://www.list.org, it says the > current stable version of Mailman is 2.0.6 which is almost as new as > the install

RE: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOST_NAME | virtual host | 'Admin Lin ks' domain definition

2001-12-06 Thread Dan Mick
> First off, is there any additional documentation for the apps within > $BASEDIR/bin, like list_move and such? Many of the scripts are prefaced with a big comment; many of them have a -h help screen; many of them are surprisingly readable, even if you don't read Python. But I don't know of an

RE: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOST_NAME | virtual host | 'Admin Lin ks' domain definition

2001-12-07 Thread Dan Mick
> > > "Below is the collection of publicly-advertised mailman mailing lists on > > > domain2.com." > > > >Sensible; fixed in 2.1, too. > > 2.1 is still unstable for production use, correct? Well, I'm using it for "production" (a smallish list with ~300 active members). I'm pretty happy with i

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to retrieve lost password (admin pass...)

2001-12-09 Thread Dan Mick
J C Lawrence wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:08:51 -0500 > Jean-Philippe Boily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of my client is using MailMan and he forgot his admin > > password, is there a way to get it back ? > > Reset it with the site password. ...now FAQ 3.8 http://www.python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using procmail with mailman

2001-12-11 Thread Dan Mick
> I was all set to write up a faq entry for using procmail to filter mail > before it hits mailman, but after I typed it in it asked for a password > which I don't know. The password is Mailman, which Barry posted here when he announced the FAQ.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Secure server

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Mick
alex wetmore wrote: > > On 12 Dec 2001, Rodolfo Pilas wrote: > > Is there are any way to have the passoword authentication under a secure > > server (https) ?? > > > > Can you give me some tip? > > Sure, you can configure apache-ssl to do this. > > What would be the point though? The list st

Re: [Mailman-Users] List restoration help needed ASAP

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Mick
Well, or if what Shaun means is "mailman is installed, now I just need to move the lists", copy over lists/ and archives/ and you should be mostly there. Run bin/check_perms after, and if the home dir of mailman has changed, use bin/move_list to update the list home path. That should be about it

Re: [Mailman-Users] About Mailman

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Mick
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py just posted this FAQ yesterday. > Hello, > > Is there a way to retrieve an administrative password from a mailing list? > > I lost it, can't remember it at all. > > Thanks > > Michel Côté -

RE: [Mailman-Users] mailman v2.0.5 fails

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Mick
What do you mean "if I send mail to a list member"? Do you mean "if I send mail to the list", or what you said? > yes i do. > > i found the default crontab file and it is exactly as > the source. > > the aliases file is perfect, i newaliases'd it and it > works perfectly. > > > --- Richard I

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2001-12-12 Thread Dan Mick
> Qmail, Mailman. I have 1376 mails in the queue, but Mailman's /qfiles > directory only has about 4 messages in it, and they are being sent out > pretty regularly. So, I am assuming that this is a non-deliverable or > long-wait-deliverable problem. It's a Qmail issue at least, if not a normal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Doesn't work: ./configure --with-mail-gid=12

2001-12-13 Thread Dan Mick
> When I try to send it commands, I get this bounce message from Sendmail: > >- Transcript of session follows - > Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2. (Reconfigure to take > 2?) > 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2 > > I understand what's happening here, but my attempts

RE: [Mailman-Users] Bouncing address problems....

2001-12-13 Thread Dan Mick
> Whoa... me thinks you're on to something, I'm running v2.08 which I upgraded > a few days ago. when i run chec_db on that particular db I get : > > > root@lists bin]# ./check_db ../lists/affiliates/config.db > /home/mailman/lists/../lists/affiliates/config.db/config.db cannot be > opened: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman Problem

2001-12-22 Thread Dan Mick
> When making ANY changes to ANY of the *.py files under mailman, you must > delete the corresponding *.pyc (compiled py for faster processing > through the python interpreter). Not true; the interpreter compares the dates and regenerates the .pyc if necessary. Without clock glitches, that sh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1

2002-01-08 Thread Dan Mick
> On the mailman page, it states taht mailman 2.1 is still alpha. I would > like to move to it. Is it worth my time or should I wait? Well, I'm using it happily. It adds a lot. Try it out at least on a test list. -- Mailman-Users maillist

Re: [Mailman-Users] ImportError: No module named Mailman

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Mick
documentation is shady at best.) > Dan Mick hit me over the head and suggested strace, so full strace output > can be seen at: > > http://hank.org/images/mailman.txt > > This all started after a reboot one day. I've run make install from the > distribution directory

Re: [Mailman-Users] ImportError: No module named Mailman

2002-01-10 Thread Dan Mick
__init__.py. Does it? (It can be empty, but it > must exist). > > (The "import" documentation is shady at best.) > > > Dan Mick hit me over the head and suggested strace, so full strace output > > can be seen at: > > > > http://hank.org/images/mailman.txt &

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman lost list passwd

2002-01-11 Thread Dan Mick
> Hi! > What can I do, if I lost my mailman list password? > how can I change it? FAQ 3.8 (http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Dan Mick
> I > would find it helpful if mailman distinguished addresses for users asking to > go "no mail" and bouncing addresses mailman disabled. Part of 2.1 -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/m

Re: [Mailman-Users] mass unsubscribe

2002-01-16 Thread Dan Mick
Patrick Aland wrote: > > has any work been done on a mass unsubscribe function? > > We have a couple lists of 1000+ members that are repopulated monthly and > its a hassle to have them call me so I can do a remove_members on the > list. > > We're running 2.0.1 So, first of all, you can use b

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to save edited text when approving message ?

2002-01-16 Thread Dan Mick
Use The FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.009.htp > Hello everybody, > > I'm using Mailman version 2.0.5 and opposite Majordomo's behaviour I'm > not able to save edited mail message when approve ;( During approval > process I can't modify message; The message

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question

2002-01-28 Thread Dan Mick
You really need to read the instructions. > Hey, thanks for the help. I can get to everything through apache now. But > the links that it uses does not make sense. For example: > http://readinks.info/mailman/listinfo/test ... listinfo is a file not a > folder. I know I have access to it because i

Re: [Mailman-Users] email address datastore

2002-02-05 Thread Dan Mick
Hint: it's not in a "file" per se; that information is part of the MailList object, which is stored in the marshal 'config.db' in the list data directory. But surely you can change this with web commands. Figure out what you want to change, and there's certainly going to be a web admin interface

Re: [Mailman-Users] email address datastore

2002-02-06 Thread Dan Mick
Email() > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> m.Save() > >>> > Unlocking (but not saving) list: jack > Finalizing > --- > > The next time I run the withlist script, the old values are still there. > > Anyone know how to get that value to s

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing to plain text

2002-02-12 Thread Dan Mick
> I hope you can help. we're using mailman for two lists for greyhound > rescue and adoption. we would like to have the lists only accept plain > text but we can't seem to make it work that way. there is an option to > check for plain text in the membership options and everyone has that >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature requests

2002-02-12 Thread Dan Mick
> It would be nice to search the membership list for a text string, to > find a particular bouncing member. 1) find_member does that from the command line 2) 2.1 has a feature like that on the web page (regexp, in fact) > It would be nice to be able to download the mailing list. You mean the

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