[Mailman-Users] Finding abandoned lists and most recent activity

2005-06-08 Thread Mike Alberghini
I'm the admin of a Mailman system with several hundred lists. I'm trying to write some scripts that will scan the mailman directory tree and find lists that are abandoned, never used, etc. The main thing I'm trying to figure out is how to know when the last post to a list was. We have lists

[Mailman-Users] Setting sitewide defaults that can't be changed?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Alberghini
I'm the admin of a Mailman server that is quickly running out of disk space. One of the solutions our fearless leader wants to implement is a sitewide limit on message size. I know I can set a default limit in mm_cfg.py, but the list owners can always change that. Is there a way to lock certain

[Mailman-Users] Archives disk space: are .txt files needed?

2005-02-09 Thread Mike Alberghini
I'm doing the admin of a Mailman server with 280+ lists and I'm fighting with archive sizes. Mailman is on a 5 gig partition, and 4 gigs of that is taken up by ~mailman/archives. In some cases the archives are big because the list gets dozens of posts a day. In other cases, people use them to sen

[Mailman-Users] bad message has killed moderator page

2005-01-11 Thread Mike Alberghini
We have hit a problem where a non-ascii character has made Mailman blow up. I have deleted the held messages for the list, but we still get the bug page with the ASCII encoding error. Is there a way to purge the held message info so we can get moderator functions back? I have checked the FAQ with

[Mailman-Users] how to fix ASCII encoding error in admindb?

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Alberghini
I'm fighting with a bad message in one of my lists. I click on "Tend to pending moderator requests" on the admin page and get the "We hit a bug!" page that dumps with UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) I know i've got a bad char somewhere in a held message, but when

[Mailman-Users] Unicode problems with admindb

2004-11-15 Thread Mike Alberghini
I'm having some trouble with 2.1.4. When I try to go to the list admindb page, I get a "UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)" I tried deleteing everything for the list in ~mailman/data, with no luck. The details: We are running Mailman 2.1.4 on Solaris 8. http://mailbo

Re: [Mailman-Users] optionsurl not using full domain

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Alberghini
name for the server. I've submitted a bug on this. On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:34:18PM -0500, Mike Alberghini wrote: > For some reason my new subscriber messages are going out with only > my hostname, not the full domain name in the urls. > > For example the welcome messages tell

[Mailman-Users] optionsurl not using full domain

2003-10-31 Thread Mike Alberghini
For some reason my new subscriber messages are going out with only my hostname, not the full domain name in the urls. For example the welcome messages tells people to click http://mailbox/mailman/listinfo/galileo instead of http://mailbox.gsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/galileo I can't find a way t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not sending mail problem

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Alberghini
2003 at 11:17:56AM -0400, Mike Alberghini wrote: > Last week I upgraded mailman from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3. Over the weekend mailman > apparently stopped sending mail. Sunday night it just stopped posting. > I have spent the morning fiddling around with it and here is what I know: > > 1.

[Mailman-Users] Mail not sending mail problem

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Alberghini
Last week I upgraded mailman from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3. Over the weekend mailman apparently stopped sending mail. Sunday night it just stopped posting. I have spent the morning fiddling around with it and here is what I know: 1. almost 22,000 have built up in mailman/qfiles/in 2. moving all of these

[Mailman-Users] UnpicklingError: could not find MARK???

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Alberghini
While trying to accept and reject postings in the admin interface, one of my users got the following error: Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/apps/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/apps/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 212, in main sho

[Mailman-Users] Migrating from Listproc to mailman

2003-05-29 Thread Mike Alberghini
Bossman just gave me the fun job of migrating 430 active lists from Listproc to mailman. It appears I can do this with some creative scripting to chew up the Listproc config files and hand the data off to the newlist, config_list and add_members scripts. Has anyone here had to jump through thes