[Mailman-Users] OS X installation

2002-07-06 Thread Greg Westin
Preferences, has a home directory, etc... but configure doesn't work. Do you have any ideas? Thanks, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mail

[Mailman-Users] Mailman with Postfix and OS X

2002-07-10 Thread Greg Westin
w to get Postfix to start automatically when I log in? The tutorial I used to set it up gave instructions to do so, but I still have to start it manually every time I restart. Thanks, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman with Postfix and OS X

2002-07-10 Thread Greg Westin
he mailman folder, etc, but other than that I don't think I've done anything Postfix-specific. Thanks, Greg On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 12:24 AM, Greg Westin wrote: > I'm trying to set up Mailman on OS X with Postfix as my MTA, but I've > had some trouble. Here are

[Mailman-Users] archives only display list e-mail

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Westin
ms to be working fine, but when I look at my archives, I notice that it displays the list e-mail address next to every person's name, rather than that person's e-mail address. Is that normal? Is there any way to change that? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Greg Westin [

[Mailman-Users] Mailman home HTML

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Westin
but how would one go about changing the HTML for other things, like the listinfo page or something? Would that be a poor idea on my part, or would it just be harmless fiddling? Thanks for contributing to this UNIX-newbie's education, Gre

[Mailman-Users] Lists show in admin but not listinfo

2002-07-14 Thread Greg Westin
For some reason, my publicly-advertised lists are showing up on the admin page, but not on the listinfo page. Does anyone know why this could be? Thanks, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Mailman-Users] e-mail addresses in archives

2002-07-15 Thread Greg Westin
to change this so that the individual's name appears, without changing the list to reply to the individual? Thanks for any help, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

[Mailman-Users] only mbox appearing

2002-07-15 Thread Greg Westin
Are messages only saved in the archives when posted by list members? Is there a way to change this? I accidentally posted to a list from an e-mail address that's not the one I subscribed from, and I don't see the message in the archives. Thanks, Greg -

Re: [Mailman-Users] MAILMAN- LIST

2002-08-04 Thread Greg Westin
You can do that, as an admin, in the admin section. Or, users can add themselves via the form on the listinfo page. Is there another kind of form you'd want? Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, August 4, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Steven C. Young wrote: > is it possible to have mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] A long URL - 2 lines - second line is notclickable.

2002-08-20 Thread Greg Westin
All four of those links work, and none break into two lines. > What happens when you send a really long link through the system? In > this case, I suspect that the line is broken before Mailman ever sees it > - it would be broken if you sent it to a standard mail client just the > same. But what

[Mailman-Users] archiving

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
With all this discussion of archiving, I have to ask: What does it say about the developers' confidence in Mailman that this list isn't archived by Mailman, but by an external service? This is like when I was having trouble setting up Mailman on Mac OS X, and then discovered that Apple doesn't u

[Mailman-Users] Suddenly - a "bug"

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
t ignorance is bliss. The most recent entry from my apache error log is below. If you have any ideas for me, please help! Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [- Mailman Version: 2.0.13 -] [- Traceback --] Traceback (most recent call last):

[Mailman-Users] upgrading to 2.1b3

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
While trying ot fix this problem of Mailman not working, I decided to upgrade to 2.1b3. I am, however, having some trouble. I'm not sure why, but I've had a number of different problems. This is the most current. I copied all my old files into the new home directory, chowned and chgrped them a

[Mailman-Users] bug bite, again

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
g the new error page below. I can't figure out how to send it as HTML, so I'll just cut and paste the text. I checked check_perms, and it says there're no problems. What else could this be? Thank you, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Bug in Mailman version 2.1b3 We're so

[Mailman-Users] bug fixed

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
The 'bug' was fixed by chmod'ing all my log files to 660. Is this appropriate, or does this mean I don't have mailman set up correctly? Thanks, Greg -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mai

[Mailman-Users] Mailman not connecting to MTA?

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
on my computer. I don't know why this would be, but I noticed it when the membership management page wouldn't work, because the links all referenced http://westin/mailman/... I hope I didn't mess up this installation. Thanks, Greg Wes

[Mailman-Users] Can't create lists from web interface

2002-08-22 Thread Greg Westin
problem before that it didn't report, too. I would think the problem is that somehow these scripts should be running as mailman rather than under the cgi gid, or they won't create list files with owner and group mailman. Please help if you have any ideas. Sincerely, Greg Westin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Resetting list admin password if list admin forgot password

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
recommended for production environments. Hope this helped, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > Is there an easy way to overide a list admin password and reset it to a > default password if the admin forgets the password? Changing the > password by finding the password withi

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to mass unsubscribe members

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
Dear David, This feature is on its way... it is available in the 2.1 betas, but these are not recommended for production environments. Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > I know there is a mass subscribe option in membership management to > subscribe people. Is there also a

Re: [Mailman-Users] web server user conflict

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
on job problems, but then again I deleted those lists pretty quickly, because they were just my attempts to experiment with virtual domains. Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi folks, > > I sense that this may be a FAQ, but I can't find a clear source of > information about it.

Re: [Mailman-Users] web server user conflict

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
No, I don't have any idea what the problem was, unfortunately. Let me know if you find out, please. Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php > So, you're saying that this has happened to you as well? Did you find > the fix? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
Check out this link: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#unknown_virtual_loop I'm guessing you don't have Postfix set up properly to receive mail for lists.dstiny.net. Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php > Hi, > > I installed ma

[Mailman-Users] launching mailmanctl

2002-09-09 Thread Greg Westin
I'm using Mailman 2.1 on OS X, and wrote a script to start mailmanctl on startup, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have to manually start it with the -s flag later... what does mailmanctl require to start? Maybe I need to have it run at the end of the startup process? Thanks, Greg -- [EM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix alias files

2002-09-23 Thread Greg Westin
# STANZA START: test # CREATED: Mon Sep 23 07:49:27 2002 test: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test" test-admin: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin test" test-bounces: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test" . . . # STANZA END: test > Question, what are the al

Re: [Mailman-Users] Real Names

2002-09-25 Thread Greg Westin
There is in 2.1b3. You can specify it either when mass subscribing names, or later with the membership interface. Greg On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 04:56 AM, Ian Holder wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there anyway to specify the real names of subscribed e-mail users? > > ie: When you access a

[Mailman-Users] Apache redirects

2002-09-25 Thread Greg Westin
Is there a way to use Apache Rewrite directives to direct requests for lists.domain1.com to lists.domain1.com/mailman/listinfo? I have a couple of virtual domains, and want all of their list traffic to run off the same Mailman installation. If someone requests www.domain1.com, they should obviou

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM & Mac OS X ?

2002-09-29 Thread Greg Westin
The only real stumbling block I found to setting up Mailman with Postfix on OS X client was making sure to run the install as the mailman user. I don't know anything about OS X Server's configuration, nor about using Mailman with sendmail or qmail or anything. I am going to sit down with a c

[Mailman-Users] customizing welcome messages list by list?

2002-10-02 Thread Greg Westin
Is there a way to allow list administrators to customize the welcome message sent out to new subscribers, or does this have to be done on a site-wide basis? Thanks, Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php --

Re: [Mailman-Users] customizing welcome messages list by list?

2002-10-03 Thread Greg Westin
So you're saying that there isn't any way to modify it on a list by list basis? Thanks. Greg > Hello Greg Westin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > I am running mailman 2.0.13 on Debian testing. > In my case, just modify /etc/mailman/subscribeack.txt. > > > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating unique welcome messages.

2002-10-07 Thread Greg Westin
I posted about this, as well, except not the HTML e-mail part. It looks like the answer is no, because you can only customize the message the each list adds to the top of the welcome e-mail, or change the e-mail site-wide. I'd guess that you could modify the welcome e-mail template to make it HT

[Mailman-Users] Re: mass subscribing users WITH real names

2002-10-09 Thread Greg Westin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I hope that answers your question. Greg On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:46 AM, Will-Maine wrote: > Greg Westin- > What is the format of the REAL NAME parameter when you mass > subscribe users? I don't see any description in the > manuals.

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to remove a list with spaces

2002-10-09 Thread Greg Westin
Dear Paul, I don't know if this would work or not, but have you tried something like: rmlist -a list\ name\ with\ spaces ? Maybe that would work. Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Paul Kiely wrote: >

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the to: field

2002-10-10 Thread Greg Westin
The To: field has the sender's address in it? Huh? It should have the list address in it. If you mean, is there a way to have each subscriber's address appear in the To: field, rather than the list address, the answer, I believe, is no. This is because Mailman doesn't send the messages one by

[Mailman-Users] qrunner dying problem

2002-11-26 Thread Greg Westin
permissions on my private archives (I don't know why this is happening, either, but they show up with incorrect permissions). Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Greg Westin --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php {

[Mailman-Users] upgrade problem

2002-12-25 Thread Greg Westin
> This probably means that you are trying to run check_perms from the source > directory. You must run this from the installation directory instead. Did you try doing what it suggests here? Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 53

2002-12-27 Thread Greg Westin
Check the archives for this... I remember reading posts about this maybe a month ago, but I don't remember if it was solved or not. Sorry I can't be of more help. -Greg > From: Steve Rifkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords of members UPDATE > > WHOA! Here is somethi

[Mailman-Users] Default Mail host name

2003-01-13 Thread Greg Westin
I'm just setting up my mail server and Mailman 2.1, and noticed that the configure script can't find my proper mail host name. When I ran the script earlier, it came up with my username, which for some reason was the hostname my computer was defaulting to. I changed the hostname in /etc/hostconfi

Re: [Mailman-Users] List names not shown in available lists page.

2003-01-14 Thread Greg Westin
I know that questions of lists showing up on admin pages but not listinfo pages are in the archives, but I don't know if any resolutions for the issue are. Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On 14 Jan 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscriber names

2003-01-14 Thread Greg Westin
This should be in the FAQ, but basically any generally-accepted format should work. For example: "User 1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Williams, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just make sure there's only one per line. To quote a message from me, quoting a message from Barry, found

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
Is it possible to set up Mhonarc without re-archiving everything, and then try re-archiving using Mhonarc, but have things such that if I can't get Mhonarc working I can easily re-archive with Pipermail? The FAQ still says "A HOWTO for this was posted to the mailman-developers list and should be c

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: Archives in HTML? (Jim Hale)

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.4 You want the second option, on adding an archiving address to each list. I hope that helps, Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On

Re: [Mailman-Users] misfeature/bug in MM 2.1

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
> Why should the list administrator be bothered with having to > tend admin requests from spammers and other idiots? Jeff, I assume this is because people are generally more concerned about false positives in spam-checking than they are with having to glance at a few admin requests. I suppose mo

Re: [Mailman-Users] no public lists in listinfo after move

2003-01-17 Thread Greg Westin
I know this has come up before (maybe not the same issue, but probably - where listinfo doesn't work but admin does) - try searching through the archives of this list. Sorry, but I don't remember what the solution to this is (despite the fact that it happened to me, once!) Greg On Friday,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Westin
I think what you want to do to fix this is add a carat ("^") before the first slash: RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo That way, it only catches it if "/mailman" occurs at the beginning of the string. Personally, I use a little more inclusive regular express

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Westin
Just in case anyone was actually thinking of using that regexp I sent, my limited knowledge tells me that this would be a slightly better incarnation: RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [L,R] Greg On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Greg Westin wrote: I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Westin
7;t know if you can use nested parentheses, and I don't know if the PT flag is something I'd want, but whatever works... Greg On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Richard Barrett wrote: At 14:46 18/01/2003, Greg Westin wrote: I think what you want to do to fix this is add a

[Mailman-Users] list of lists fodder for spammers?

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Westin
perhaps when home on vacation. Thanks for any help. Please reply off-list if you're getting this via mailman-developers, as I'm not subscribed to that list. I am on mailman-users, though. Greg Westin -- http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php --

Re: [Mailman-Users] list of lists fodder for spammers?

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Westin
Jon Carnes On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 12:26, Greg Westin wrote: Hello Mailman folk, I work with a group that provides services to student groups at a university, and we're concerned that a lot of the lists have been picking up spam lately. The prime suspect, at this point, is Mailman'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bundle Htdig with Pipermail? -was- How to deletemessages from private archives

2003-01-27 Thread Greg Westin
I agree. htdig and python are both on the redhat cd's. I fear that htdig will become part of the mailman package as pipermail is. I really don't know much about this stuff, but two thoughts: -Not all of us use redhat. So what is or isn't on the redhat cds shouldn't be a deciding factor in de

[Mailman-Users] virtual domains

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Westin
I've searched the archives and FAQ for answers, but only see questions with no replies. I hope someone makes a FAQ about virtual domains! (or makes it easier to find if it exists!) I can't get lists on virtual domains to work right. The web pages for the list properly show it as being on the vir

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domains (virtual hosts)

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Westin
the world. Thanks, Greg --- http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On Wed, 28 May 2003, hooch wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 2003 14:23:24 -0400 (EDT) > Greg Westin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've searched the archives and FAQ for answers, but