[Mailman-Users] mbox files with leading blank line

2002-10-11 Thread Greg Ward
next few seconds, and manually remove the offending blank line with a text editor. Is there a better way? Thanks -- Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Header ??????

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Ward
the right track: SMTP is most certainly involved. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating to different architechture

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Ward
beta5) Choose your poison: tar, cpio cp, rsync, scp, ... whatever works for you. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron Jobs

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Ward
paste the commented-out command line from your crontab. See what happens. * re-enable the cron job, send another message to test, and wait for the next minute to roll around and qrunner to run -- see what happens. (Does it empty the queue and move on, or sit there sucking

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pipermail/Mhonarc, archives...

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Ward
s? I don't have any, but you should post to this list with what you find out about external archivers that work well with Mailman. I'm sure lots of people would be interested. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Excha

[Mailman-Users] Bounce-handling question

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Ward
2001 (29717) mems-talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2 more allowed over 345599 secs [...dozens more skipped...] However, it never disabled the subscription. In fact, Mailman hasn't disabled *anything* since Nov 20, despite plenty of bounces. Hmmm. Ideas? Clues? Advice? Greg

Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure to exec script

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Ward
should I do now to get past this error? Read the FAQ, specifically questions 1.4 and 6.1 (both of which address this problem -- possibly redundantly, hmmm): http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.004.htp http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&fil

Re: [Mailman-Users] two instances of mailman

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 December 2001, Rick Francis said: > i'm running 2.0.5...i want to install 2.0.8 in a seperate directory... > > how to i get the lists/databases into 2.0.8 while preserving 2.0.5?? Did you try copying the files in ~mailman/lists? That should work. Or if this is just for a "just-in-case" b

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Ward
mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.008.htp > Please consider we have no access to the source code. Yes you do! Mailman is open source; everyone has access to the source code. You may not have the expertise or resources to hack on it, but that's *not* the same thing. Greg -- Greg

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dear Python

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Ward
out what all your options are. There are a lot of them, and most of them won't make sense if you don't have a solid understanding of Internet email and mailing list management. You'll learn. > Second, how do I get the ball > rolling and have Mailman send it out? Once the lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] maximun size...

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Ward
in private. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] New FAQ entry for maximum list size

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Ward
New FAQ candidate: "How big can a Mailman list be?". The answer should be pretty simple, but the biggest list I have direct experience managing is only 1600 subscribers. My impression from reading the list is that things start to get interesting somewhere in the thousands. Can those of you with

Re: [Mailman-Users] capacity

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Ward
On 11 December 2001, paul said: > How many members can a mailman list hold? There's no builtin limit. Lists up to a few thousand don't present any serious problems. Any bigger than that, and you have to carefully tune your MTA and Mailman in concert. See the FAQ at http://www.python.org/cgi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Editing Posts

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Ward
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp and read between the lines. Should be even easier to edit a message than to remove it. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailpasswords

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Ward
ceive passwords ... You wouldn't want any output from it, since that output would wind up in somebody's inbox every month. Did you try tailing Mailman's or your MTA's logs while running it? That should reveal something. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virus Filtering

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Ward
lots of other software out there for filtering viral email -- the one I keep hearing about is amavis. After all, viruses are a problem for regular email accounts, not just mailing lists. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [Mailman-Users] deleting mails from the archive

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Ward
mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/m

[Mailman-Users] Attachments in archive (was Re: What did I do wrong?)

2001-12-07 Thread Greg Ward
ution is to use a different archiver, such as MHonArc or Hypermail. This is covered in the FAQ; see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.004.htp Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error log ...

2001-12-06 Thread Greg Ward
is to restore the corrupted file from your most recent backup. (You *do* run nightly backups, don't you?) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large Lists manipulations

2001-12-05 Thread Greg Ward
en wondering why Mailman crashes whenever it tries to load it. Should remember to ask "Did you edit this file with a text editor?" next time someone complains of tracebacks in marshal.load(). Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchan

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Managers Guide

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Ward
elete a thread or individual > mkessages from the archive. This is indeed an FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://

Re: [Mailman-Users] bizzare non-reporting error

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Ward
On 03 December 2001, Jacob Singh said: > So I finally got wrapper to work properly, by setting the gid to mail > (the user and group of sendmail) and by placing a symlink to wrapper in > etc/smrsh/. And looking at the mail log, nothing seems to be wrong. > The program can send mail fine (i.e. cre

[Mailman-Users] General questions (was Re: Mailman refusing to send remote emails)

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Ward
Mailman is fine for this. > Is there any way to maintain such a list including and > comments (phone/addr) That's a FAQ: see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.002.htp Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.6: open failed: No such file or directory

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Ward
h Sun's build of Python from sunfreeware.com. Sigh. You could try complaining to Sun. (Good luck!) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Sync Problem

2001-12-04 Thread Greg Ward
/tmp/ise-all_list", "w") before "cat" even gets a chance to open it for reading. (Possibly even before it forks and execs cat.) Hmmm: perhaps the shell forks and execs cat, and *then* opens /tmp/ise-all_list for writing: bang, you've got a race condition, which exp

Re: [Mailman-Users] private script behaveing oddly

2001-12-03 Thread Greg Ward
entication page again > and so in an endless loop. I never get to see the actuall archives. Sounds like you're not accepting the Mailman authentication cookie. You need to enable cookies in your browser. (Modern browsers let you do so selectively by site.) Greg -- G

Re: [Mailman-Users] ImportError: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/python: fatal: libssl.so.0.9.6: open failed: No such file or directory

2001-12-03 Thread Greg Ward
esn't understand some instructions. Sun has a long and glorious history of shipping broken software. (Come to think of it, so does every other computer manufacturer and software company on the planet.) Try gcc -- I've never had a problem building Python with gcc on Solaris. Gre

[Mailman-Users] New FAQ entry: broken autoresponders

2001-12-03 Thread Greg Ward
3.6. What can I do about users with broken autoresponders? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.006.htp -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Every time certain microsoft programs find a virus

2001-12-03 Thread Greg Ward
uot;. Well, you can disable the subscription of users with broken autoresponders. For politeness, you should probably send them a note that you are doing so, cc'd to the postmaster of their domain. Hmmm, I think I'll add a FAQ entry for this... Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bad dating of cron mailings?

2001-12-03 Thread Greg Ward
;Date" header (I don't know if this is mandated by any RFC, but most MTAs seem to do it to workaround stupid SMTP clients). What's in that header? And, of course, what does the "date" command show? Greg -- Greg Ward - softwa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
mail agent's documentation, and the INSTALL file > * for details > > command line was > 'configure --with-cgi-gid=nogroup --with-mail-gid=-1 --with-cgi-ext=.cgi' You're taking the FAQ way too literally. Read YOUR error message and do what it says. The -1 in the FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] sudden mailman problem

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
someone listening to port 25? What happens if you telnet localhost 25 on the host in question? (I assume your Mailman host and mail server are the same host.) Try a simple SMTP session, emulating what Mailman does, eg. EHLO localhost MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
See http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/am_conf/byteorder.html Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up Mailman list installations

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
rm independent. Also, since when are Berkeley DB files platform-dependent? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-User

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Postfix

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
On 29 November 2001, Geoffrey King said: > This has probably been answered a thousand times before but I have a problem > with postfix+mailman on Suse 7.2 Linux. At *least* a thousand times. ;-) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd hlmods".

Re: [Mailman-Users] help

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
how&file=faq03.002.htp Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command

2001-11-29 Thread Greg Ward
Mailman release; which version are you running? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mailman-Users] question..

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Ward
> I can provide > some configuration if you want, though I am new at adminstrating qmail > and mailman. Are you new at Internet email administration in general, too? If so, you're in for a lot of hard work. Good luck. Greg -- Greg Ward - softwar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Ward
On 28 November 2001, marina said: > Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and > it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that > collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that > CGI will then email Mailman to start the subscript

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change the mail format

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 November 2001, leanne lai said: > Hi, is there way to change the mail format of the mailing list? > > eg if I want to change the List-Archive: to point to another web address or > if I want to add List-Owner to the mail? Mailman is open source software -- you can do whatever you want with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
e experts. Please let us know how it works for you! Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAI

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
r, can Mailman 2.1 track real names? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
s. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi-characters in subject

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Ward
an can do about that. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem during compiling

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 20 November 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I always get this error messages even though I've already created the > username as 'mailman' and group as 'mailman'. I am running Solaris 8 with > python version 2.1.1 on UltraSpac 10. [...] > checking for mailman UID... Traceback (most recent call

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Mails

2001-11-22 Thread Greg Ward
t, eg. the original poster or her MUA or MTA. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] not being told of pending administrative requests

2001-11-21 Thread Greg Ward
On 21 November 2001, Peter Jay Salzman said: > i have "should admin get immediate notice of new requests" set to "yes". > and the list admin's email address is correctly set to me. > > however: > > 1. user subscribes to list > 2. user gets confirmation notice > 3. user replies to confirmation no

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd little Error message

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Ward
etty sure that this very bug is one of the reasons Mailman 2.0.7 was released: it crashed when interpreting a certain type of bounce message. Your guess was spot-on. > Mailman 2.0.6, Python 1.5, etc. ^ Bingo -- congratulations, you get to upgrade! Greg -- Greg Ward

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-Responses/Digest Delivery

2001-11-16 Thread Greg Ward
oresponder that sends you email every time someone sends me email with the word "foo" in it. Broken? Stupid? You bet. But perfectly feasible. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I demime

2001-11-15 Thread Greg Ward
d mish-mash; the man page is much better. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing subscription addresses

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 10 November 2001, Scott Brown said: > Feel free to tell me that I'm just too stupid to see it, but I cant see (on > MM 2.0.6) where to change a subscription address > > Is the only way to do this to unsub/resub?? Unfortunately, yes. Mailman uses the subscriber address as a database key o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems getting wrapper to work with sendmail

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Ward
ou have to run newaliases after updating /etc/aliases with sendmail? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users mail

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

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
is? I don't think so. Mailman should send the complete message to the list just fine. > Thanks. I know this may be a dumb question. There are no stupid questions, only stupid ... oh wait, I'm supposed to be polite on this list, aren't I. >smirk< Greg -- G

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ and help

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
ght be nice to mention them in the FAQ entry. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
SMTP conversation right there? (www.ethereal.com, or "apt-get install ethereal" if you're running Debian.) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ and help

2001-11-12 Thread Greg Ward
;t want to remove them 2) hack the code 3) tweak your MTA config to remove these headers on the way out (if possible) Someone who understands #1 and the RFC behind should probably write an FAQ entry for this... ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMA

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gzipping archives

2001-11-09 Thread Greg Ward
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"? Greg -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Vacation email loop

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Ward
been set to "the list" and I would like to keep this > setting. I believe that "stupid autoresponders" is one of the canonical reasons why reply-to "the list" is Considered Harmful. IOW, if you insist on having reply-to "the list", you will probably have t

Re: [Mailman-Users] List recieves, but doesn't send...

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Ward
as user. But, when I send mail to the list, I just isn't send... Did you setup the Mailman cron jobs? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.

Re: [Mailman-Users] python 1.5 and 2.1.x along side

2001-11-01 Thread Greg Ward
an installs -- eg. change the #! line to refer to /usr/bin/python2.1. Of course that'll break when you upgrade to Python 2.2... yecch. Howl at Red Hat for not catching up with 21st century Python? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PR

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin password

2001-10-31 Thread Greg Ward
Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing Yahoo ads.

2001-10-31 Thread Greg Ward
it does... ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sudden error

2001-10-30 Thread Greg Ward
On 30 October 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > My list server suddenly developed an error message that is all > consuming. I now have an error message that is 2gig in size. This > is only since the 18th of October, 01. > > I had found the error upon receiving the Cron Daemon message: > ***

Re: [Mailman-Users] Crontab of Mailman user ...

2001-10-30 Thread Greg Ward
ity. You need to be user `mailman' (or whatever you specified as --with-ownername) to perform this step. Add $prefix/cron/crontab.in as a crontab entry by executing these commands: % su - mailman % cd $prefix/cron % crontab crontab.in --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing config.db using cron

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Leo So said: > Hi I want to (semi)randomly rotate the footer appended > to the mailman mails using cron. I guess the footer info > is stored as binary in config.db. What is the best way > to do it? Thanks!! Use The Source, Luke. Read enough Mailman source to understand the ri

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

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Rob Brandt said: > 2) New problem - I've created a new list for the first time in a few > months, and set the file permissions just like other lists I have > that work fine. After getting everything set up and configured, I > try and send messages through. The first messa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Paul Cox said: > On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, Greg Ward wrote: > > Yes. It *sounds* like Mandrake's Mailman RPM is broken, so you'll have > > to build from source. > > Not broken, just built specifically for Postfix as that's the Mandrak

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

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
or its archive is in ~mailman/lists/foo-list; the archive is in one of ~mailman/archives/{public,private}/foo-list. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Shortening URLS

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
as directive only works for mapping URLs to filenames; symlinks only map filenames to filenames. > Hadn't thought about rewrites...thanks, new avenue to explore. mod_rewrite lets you map any URL on your site to any other URL (on your site or not). It's a great tool. Greg

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archiving problem

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
s to get around this? Umm, don't use mailx? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Shortening URLS

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
On 25 October 2001, Michael H Moran said: > Running mailman 2.0.6, on Linux with Apache, is there a way to > shorten the URL to the listinfo page for a specific list ? > > i.e. http:///mailman/listinfo/ > becomes >http:/// This should be doable with a simple RewriteRule. Try this:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
le here have said Sendmail's not so bad. I'm just morally opposed to config files that look like line noise. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Courier

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
f it can't parse the address, *or* if the address is an empty string. So the answer is: yes, Mailman does emit correct RCPT TO commands, but it might screw up in pathological cases. Use Ethereal (or a similar tool) to see what's going wrong between Mailman and Courier. Greg --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
r to release a pile of free crap.) Mailman and Python are, thankfully, among the exceptions. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- M

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems getting Mailman set-up

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
On 25 October 2001, Denis Croombs said: > I have RedHat 7.1 & Mailman 2.0.6 It installed OK and have followed the > manual from www.list.org/install-final.html but my APACHE will not accept > the line Read those instructions more carefully. It says *something like one of the following*, not "all

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
should complain to Mandrake. In the meantime, build Mailman yourself and revel in the total control that process gives you. ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangeh

Re: [Mailman-Users] missing footer for html mail?

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Ward
Look for demime, stripmime, or similar tools. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP: python error starting MM2.1a3

2001-10-23 Thread Greg Ward
" package (surely this is covered in the Mailman 2.1 install docs) * upgrade to Python 2.2b1 (which includes the "email" package out of the box) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://w

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubbing people who don't know their address

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Ward
ot; users on "foo-list": cd ~mailman ./bin/list_members foo-list | grep '@aol\.com' Good luck -- Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + Postfix

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Ward
it, though, as 34 of those runs are unnecessary. However, that's not a Mailman question -- you'll have to consult the docs for your virus scanner. Probably you want to skip scanning on messages with the SMTP sender set to your list admin address. Or something like tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] allowing postings from anything

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Ward
iately before this one: "Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field". Set it to "No". Don't do this on a public list, of course, as you'll get lots more spam this way. You should probably restrict the list of allowed posters.

Re: [Mailman-Users] list hosting

2001-10-17 Thread Greg Ward
to be your MTA. Also relevant is the quality/speed of DNS service. For large lists, it sounds like Postfix is the MTA of choice. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchan

Re: [Mailman-Users] Giving descriptive names to mail adresses

2001-10-17 Thread Greg Ward
I worked in Perl nearly full-time), and waaay more productive then I ever was with C. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list not working

2001-10-15 Thread Greg Ward
On 14 October 2001, Abigail Marshall said: > my mailing list simply quit working. I don't know why. > > The error logs show this series of entries for all messages sent. > > > Oct 14 19:46:01 2001 (45918) Delivery exception: > > Oct 14 19:46:01 2001 (45918) Traceback (most recent call last): > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing some lines in normal emails (mailman2.0.6)

2001-10-11 Thread Greg Ward
On 12 October 2001, Spades said: > How do I get rid of all these headers on the mailman 2.0.6 mailing list mail? AFAIK there are only two options: * hack Mailman to not emit those headers * tweak your MTAs config to remove them Pick your poison... Greg -- Greg Ward - softw

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archived Message Attachements

2001-10-11 Thread Greg Ward
On 11 October 2001, Timothy M. Brauch said: > Is there an easy way to get attachments of messages from an archive of the > sent messages. For example, another group I am on has their messages > archived. Someone sent a Word document as an attachment. I would like to > be able to get that Wor

Re: [Mailman-Users] default hostname

2001-10-11 Thread Greg Ward
ns? > Only set this value in Default.py had the desired effect. > But is overwitten by every new instalation. What does INSTALL (section 5) say about mm_cfg.py? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question regarding MailMan settings...

2001-10-10 Thread Greg Ward
www.qmail.org.) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question

2001-10-10 Thread Greg Ward
On 10 October 2001, Philip Arthur said: > Are you allowed to attach images to your emails that go out from the > list? Assuming you're already running a Mailman server, why don't you try it on a test list and see what happens? (Hint: it should work; Mailman doesn't look at MIME headers or attach

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrading Prob

2001-10-10 Thread Greg Ward
ssage. How about explaining precisely *how* Mailman is "not working". While you're at it, you should mention which version of Python and which MTA you're using. (Not everyone uses Red Hat, and presuambly not every Red Hat user uses the same MTA.) Greg -- Greg Ward - sof

Re: [Mailman-Users] Negative regular expression for deny list

2001-10-09 Thread Greg Ward
t;$", this regex will match "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", meaning you will deny senders from this domain. Without the "$", that lame attempt to fool your regex would work. This double negative stuff makes my head hurt. Maybe Mailman should have a "sender accept" regex

Re: [Mailman-Users] installing on OS X

2001-10-05 Thread Greg Ward
2.1.exe "python.exe" != "python". Are you sure that's a Mac OS X executable? You should probably rename it to "python" if so. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] wrapper issues..

2001-10-04 Thread Greg Ward
On 05 October 2001, stormlrd said: > 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 " > > I do not know what "returned 2" means... therefo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Apologies

2001-10-04 Thread Greg Ward
On 04 October 2001, Jim Kutter said: > I certainly have egg on my face. The most obvious solution is always > the answer. The solution to my earlier problems was quite simply this > and nothing more: my cron daemon died. That's why qrunner wasn't > starting, and that's why messages were flooding m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Major problem

2001-10-03 Thread Greg Ward
y character buffer, None OK, maybe qrunner is running, but it's crashing. Try running qrunner manually -- ie. "su - mailman" and run the qrunner crontab line at the shell prompt. Do you still get this traceback? (I would expect you to.) BTW, you forgot to mention: * Mailman versio

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 mailmans with 1 exim

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Ward
or MAILMAN?_HOME). I think you could get away with only one set of transports, as long as the UID and GID are the same. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org -

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML interface still quirky

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Ward
On 02 October 2001, Eric Pretorious said: > What is happening? I think you'll find that painting was by Edvard Munch. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get you to feeling like "Starry Starry Night" over Mailman, which is probably much more agreeable. ;-) Greg ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] PDF Attachments

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Ward
On 02 October 2001, Larry Hansford said: > Thanks, Greg! The problem seems to be solved, but I'm not sure why. I > checked my Eudora setup, and all seemed well. I went into the "TEST" group > admin page, and changed the setting for message size from the default of > 40K to 120K -- the actual

Re: [Mailman-Users] getting a subscriber's lists

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Ward
ts/* ; do ./bin/list_members $list | grep -s $address && echo $list done Any user in group "mailman" should be able to run this as well. It's inefficient, but as long as you don't have 100 lists with 1 subscribers each, it shouldn't be too painful.

Re: [Mailman-Users] PDF Attachments

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Ward
On 02 October 2001, Larry Hansford said: > The problem is that in testing sending this newsletter as an PDF > attachment, Mailman sends it out as an embedded text message -- unreadable > 50Kb of ASCII code. > > Is there a setting that allows me to set it up to keep the PDF file as an > attachm

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