[Mailman-Users] Auto-generating messages to the list, instead of to the member

Afternoon all, Amongst others I run a mailman list for our family history society (The Maughan Society) and like many such lists we get quite a lot of new members dropping in with a specific query then dropping out again once they have that specific question answered. Our community aims to keep

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-generating messages to the list, instead of to the member

Thanks, Mark. Don't you ever sleep? :)) Regards, Mike On 25 October 2010 15:25, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: Mike Maughan wrote: Is there any way I can set up MM to send predefined posts to the list (as opposed to direct to the poster) on receipt of various triggers? I don't

[Mailman-Users] Migrating a list from Yahoo to MM

Morning all, I have a long-standing list on Yahoogroups that I want to move to MailMan. I can export reimport the users OK but I would like to also transfer the message archive. Anyone have any suggestions, please? -- Regards, Mike --

[Mailman-Users] Where's that [EMAIL PROTECTED] horse? Close that stable door!

It is good practice to keep some part of one's online presence on another web resource so as to not put all of ones eggs in the one basket. I have had this brought home in spades today as dreamhost's Mailman system is down and of course I could not tell my users ... As an interim I have set up

[Mailman-Users] Changing the name of a list

Hi all, Is it possible to change the name of a list? I don't just mean the 'public name' but the list itself? If not, is it possible to export archives from one list to another? -- Regards, Mike -- Mailman-Users mailing list

[Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject

Hi guys, I am aggravated by a few idle list posters who consistently refuse to put in a subject in their posts, and I would like to 'encourage' them to mend their ways :) I've tried putting a spam rule as per the faq, trapping subject containing .*(no subject) but no workie. The cases I'd like

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject

JIC anyone was unclear, these problems are on _my_ lists, not on here :) - Mike On 22/03/07, Mike Maughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am aggravated by a few idle list posters who consistently refuse to put in a subject in their posts, and I would like to 'encourage' them to mend

[Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

I posted earlier about problems with (no subject) postings to my lists, not complaining about such to mailman-users, but I wasn't very clear in what I said so my apologies to anyone who may have been offended. To restate my problem and renew the request for help (if anyone is still talking to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

Thanks again, Mark. I've implemented the recommendations; now all I have to do is decipher your regex :)) - Mike On 23/03/07, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Maughan wrote: The cases I'd like to trap are: 1. empty subject 2. (no subject) 3. (no_subject

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

On 23/03/07, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^subject:\s*(\(no[_ ]subject\))?\s*$ Thanks for the fix the explanation. Do you know, that's the first time I've actually understood a pattern search regex? Wunderbar! :) -- Regards, Mike

[Mailman-Users] Illegal characters in subscribed name - follow up and resolution

Hi all, I reported a problem a few days ago where - due to some finger trouble and being too tired to check properly - I had managed to mass-subscribe an id of the form username[EMAIL PROTECTED] (note the missing '' at the start of the email address. Mailman accepted the subscription and

[Mailman-Users] Removing illegal character or duplicated user names - update

--=_NextPart_000_006E_01C76497.A8D09630-- --- --=_NextPart_000_0078_01C76497.A8D09630-- On 11/03/07, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Maughan wrote: It is also possible I've discovered a bug, in which case the circumstances were a mass subscribe exercise where

[Mailman-Users] Removing illegal character user names

Hi all, Through some finger incontinence on my part (trying to do list admin w too late at night when I should have been in bed asleep) I have managed to add an illegally-named user whom I now cannot unsubscribe ... It is also possible I've discovered a bug, in which case the

[Mailman-Users] On behalf of mail header

Hi, A simple problem I'm sure but I cannot find the setting :( I'd like subscriber/poster email addresses to be reported as they are on this list: from: name email to mailman-user instead of what I presently have: from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of subscriber name