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

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Tomblin
iend who likes to write scripts, so I set up a cron job to send him the union of some of my mailing list subscriber lists and he automatically changes that into a sendmail alias so I can use his system for announcing that my system is down. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not going to all members

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Carl Zwanzig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a flurry of recycled electrons, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Please keep conversations on the list unless there are specific privacy > > > concerns. > > > > I know it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not going to all members

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Please keep conversations on the list unless there are specific privacy > concerns. I know it's a contentious issue, but if you want conversations to continue on the list then you should make the list set the reply-to back to the list. -- P

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Tomblin
n.domain.com/mailman/admin/ > > But it does not show up on the main admin page: > > http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin Is the list public? -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Mentally update my CV, paying special attention to the bits about

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman possible overloading Postfix

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
a server installation, it installs hundreds of programs you never use and many memory hog daemons. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail eats MM messages

2007-03-14 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Dragon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > >Quoting Ryan Steele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> any other folder. I went back to check the Exim log for failed or > >> delayed deliveries, only to find nothing (well, for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> anyways

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail eats MM messages

2007-03-14 Thread Paul Tomblin
of the "features" of gmail is that it doesn't show you the return of mail that you sent to mailing list, only the one you sent (so without the mailing list subject line prefix, headers, etc). It's annoying as hell if you ask me, but that's gmail for you. -- Paul Tombli

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weirdness

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Tomblin
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:52:54 -0800 "Jay Chandler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is on FreeBSD / Postfix. Anyone know what I might have forgotten >to do? Everything else works correctly. Any chance you have two installations of mailman and the mail aliases are pointing to the old one? ___

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Tomblin
e could also be > a mechanism to treat a bounce of this message differently from a > bounce of a post or digest. That would be awesome. That would be everything I've ever wanted in a monthly reminder. I assume it would be VERPed the way existing monthly reminders can be, right? -- Pau

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Tomblin
alue. If these requests for human intervention go up when the monthly reminder mails go away, I may have to make my own monthly reminder mail. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ You'll get access to my computer room right after you pry the Halon test key out of m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Tomblin
ss, subscribe a new address), and also where I get the majority of the requests that need the form letter. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ "It's 106 light-years to Chicago, we've got a full chamber of anti-matter, a half a pack of cig

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Tomblin
ddress to [EMAIL PROTECTED]", I'm pretty sure that without the monthly reminders I'd get three times as many. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Please say this was followed by a very serious discussion on Right and Wrong involving a blow torch, 220V,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Tomblin
o remove addresses that are set to "no mail" from the output of > > list_members. What I want is the opposite of "list_members -n" to show > > only members who aren't set to "no mail". > > > Have you tried "list_members -n enabled&

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble with mailman external responses

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Barry Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Paul Tomblin wrote: > >I tried to get around that by sending my outgoing mail through my > >ISP's outgoing mail server (using Postfix's "relayhost = > >[smtp-server.rochester.rr.com]&

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble with mailman external responses

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul has addressed your main question. I just want to add that you may > have problems trying to run Mailman from a server with a dynamic IP. > Earthlink.net for one will not accept your mail. The same is true for > some smaller ISPs. They do

Re: [Mailman-Users] header

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
.com myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain masquerade_exceptions = webmaster, root -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ In an experiment to determine the precise amount of beer required to enjoy this film, I passed out. -- Dave O'Brien, on "Highl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trouble with mailman external responses

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
ead of boffman.mine.nu. That's a Postfix issue. In /etc/postfix/main.cf, you need to specify the myhostname, mydomain, and possibly the masquerade_domains -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ It's not hard, it's just asking for a visit by the fu

[Mailman-Users] Nomail members

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Tomblin
to remove addresses that are set to "no mail" from the output of list_members. What I want is the opposite of "list_members -n" to show only members who aren't set to "no mail". -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Medication did

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newsgroup interface picking up spam

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Tomblin
ing list software could reject non-members. If you don't want non-members posting to the newsgroup or the mailing list that might be worth a try. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ FAQs are like flatulence. Any asshole can produce t

[Mailman-Users] Can email notification of approval be done?

2007-02-28 Thread Paul Key
nice if a third party could be cc'd this email at the same time. Can approval notification by email be done by mailman (in the same way it is done automatically for rejections)? Thanks Paul -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pytho

[Mailman-Users] Plain text message arrives with wrong encoding

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Navarre
ding. She is also receiving messages from other sources and they are showing up with the correct plain text font as set in Outlook. In seems that she is only having problems with messages from my Mailman server. Does anybody have any guesses as to what might be happening? Thanks, Pa

Re: [Mailman-Users] User with same name of a mailman list not receivinge-mails

2007-02-09 Thread Paul Tomblin
irected to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which would solve your problem, but you'd probably have to do it by hand. Look in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/virtual-mailman and /var/lib/mailman/aliases. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ I find that anthropomorphism really doesn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Challenge/response

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Tomblin
the list unless the message is PGP signed by that key. Digital signatures on email is something that is extremely overdue. PGP signatures have been grafted on in a half-assed way, but someday either no mail will travel unless it's been correctly signed or email will disappear as a viable m

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Fox
n the minor doc addition i submitted on a related aspect of lists at virtual domains. at the time i thought i might have sent the change to the wrong place (i.e. the users', not the developers' list) but now i'm just wondering if it fell through the cracks: http://www.mail-arch

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Fox
[ cc'ing the list on reply ] orlando wrote: > I think he still has to issue the genaliases command. oh, yes. in addition, all of the hash maps need to have postmap run on them. paul > > the virtual_alias_map is the one that should have a mysql entry: > > virtu

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Fox
both /etc/aliases and /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases postfix will resolve using first the virtual_alias_maps, and then the alias_maps. but i don't know how mysql affects any of that. paul =-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moved list, archiving

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Tomblin
til I fixed all of these problems that I was able to finally run arch in a way that built good archives. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Don't you just hate them? Don't you just wanna break their ribs, cut their backs open and pull their lungs out from b

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Fox
parate mappings to be in place to get postfix and mailman working together. you need the virtual domain map (which i believe you have) and you need the map that takes the result of the virtual domain map, and turns it into a "real" destination. paul =- paul fox, [EM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Subscribe/Unsubscribe Notifications

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Tomblin
mailman version are you using? I have exactly this problem, > and the sysadmins my E-list is running on are running 2.1.5, which > people here have deprecated. I don't think it's anything to do with 2.1.5 - I'm running the same and don't get duplicates. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems Exim: Child process of mailman_transport transport returned 2

2007-01-25 Thread Paul Tomblin
ll. > > Both should work, no ? Read the error message again. It told you to use "--with-mail-gid=root" and you turned around and ran it with "--with-mail-gid=mail". How could you possibly expect that to work? Although if mail is operating with gid "root",

[Mailman-Users] doc patch for postfix virtual domain config

2007-01-20 Thread Paul Fox
b-optimal especially in the face of spam dictionary attacks. (at least, i read that somewhere on the internet last night -- so it must be true!) anyway, i didn't add anything about this, because i don't really feel qualified, but again, it would have helped. thanks, paul --- mailman-in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman's root path or where to place images

2007-01-18 Thread Paul Tomblin
understand) since the Script Alias is Depending on the age of your RedHat installation, the mailman rpm should configure Apache for its own purposes by dropping a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ You had me

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > > > >You mean that if people used the Approve: header that Mailman doesn't > >strip it out before it sends it? That seems like a huge security hole. > > > No I don't mean that. It is remove

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > > >And so one thing i'm looking at > >would be a way to send an announcement to all the lists on my server. I > >understand that you can send mail to a list with an x-approved with the > >lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription question(s)

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
a "add_members" command. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ "You are a human being, capable of emotions and rational thought. A computer is only capable of floating point math and crude malice." http://

[Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
My wife is asking what she needs to do with all my servers if i'm incapacitated or dead. One of the things that would need to be turned over to somebody else are all my mailman lists. And so one thing i'm looking at would be a way to send an announcement to all the lists on my server. I und

Re: [Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error

2007-01-16 Thread Paul Tomblin
0.0.0:25. That's why I suggested he connnect on the 130.83.2.184:25 port instead. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ "Think?" I asked. "I don't think. I'm a witness. Someone asks me a question, and I answer it as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error

2007-01-16 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Patrick Franz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2007 18:38 schrieb Paul Tomblin: > > > > > Yes, Exim is running for a year or so and it is working so far. > > > > > > fb04184:~# telnet localhost 25 > > > Trying 127

Re: [Mailman-Users] Low level smtp error

2007-01-16 Thread Paul Tomblin
es, Exim is running for a year or so and it is working so far. > > fb04184:~# telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > If it's not listening on port 25 on localhost, then it's not "working so far".

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply emails

2007-01-14 Thread Paul Tomblin
the user may or may not do what you want, depending who is replying. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runway behind you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The ai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Subject Generated via Invites

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Tomblin
to the configuration of the MTA that you can safely say for sure whether VERP_CONFIRMATIONS will work or not. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ I tried staying in during a fire alarm some years ago. Unfortunately the fire warden wouldn'

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating mailman lists

2007-01-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
archives using "/var/lib/mailman/bin/arch [listname]" for each list. Note that if your archives are big, this process can consume all the memory in your system and then some, so you may have to split the mbox files up and regenerate the list archives in peices or use the &quo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Options page bombing out on a security violation

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Tomblin
mail This looks like some stupid "security" feature on their browser that is supposed to prevent them from downloading something dangerous. I bet all 20 of them have installed the same anti-virus or anti-phishing software, or "upgraded" to IE 7. Tell them to use Firefox. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] The incredible disapearing post?

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Tomblin
ailing list set to reject mail from non-members? If so, it's possible that Outlook is changing his From to something other than what he subscribed as. Is there anything in the vette log? -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Quality Control, n.: The process of t

Re: [Mailman-Users] The incredible disapearing post?

2007-01-02 Thread Paul Tomblin
> change. > > Any ideas on where to look? > Look on the admindb page to see if they're being held for some reason. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, there's going to be one big-ass fight

Re: [Mailman-Users] cron logrotate error

2006-12-29 Thread Paul Tomblin
nt to remove it and reinstall it. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ People who love sausages, respect the law, and work with IT standards shouldn't watch any of them being made. -- Peter Gutmann ---

[Mailman-Users] Using a different archiver

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Tomblin
If I switch to a different archiver (ie. not the bundled pipermail), is there any way to restrict the archives to members only? -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Case-Sensitivity Problem?

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Tomblin
p> > for some additional information. What that FAQ entry doesn't mention is that, at least they way they have it configured at Kodak, Lotus Notes will reply to the Sender rather than the Reply-To, so a reply to the message will go to the list-bounces address rather than the list address.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Case-Sensitivity Problem?

2006-12-13 Thread Paul Tomblin
e seeing is allowed by RFC 822. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ "This also tells they understand our language. They are just not willing to speak to us using it." "Who knew they were French?" - Babylon 5

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin Page

2006-12-09 Thread Paul Tomblin
th bin/arch. That might be overkill, but it worked for me. > 2 I have lost a list name on the admin page I think the list is still > working But the name is missing. Any thoughts ?? Did you mark it private? If it doesn't show on the public listinfo page, it doesn't show on the a

[Mailman-Users] Some sort of spam filter, or a bounce I'm not seeing?

2006-12-09 Thread Paul Tomblin
27;t bounce. And she hasn't complained about missing any messages from the mailing list. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Welsh sheep aren't intellectuals. Welsh woodlice look down on them as utter lusers. Welsh sheep even make stu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Tomblin
e mucking > about with packages that include certain features by default in order > to remove those features, then there's not much I can do to help the > poor souls that are stuck with that kind of stuff. I don't know what John is experiencing, but I'm using Mailman inst

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Todd Zullinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mark Sapiro wrote: > > Paul Tomblin wrote: > >>Quoting Barry Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >>> It already does escape From lines in the body of the message. It > >>> does this by way of the email package'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Barry Warsaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Paul Tomblin wrote: > >Speaking of which, is there any way to modify Mailman so that when it > >puts a mail message in the mbox, it pre-escapes the "^From " lines in > >the message? Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
e it would be a good excuse to learn python. But on the other hand, I've been seriously considering moving to mhonarc. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ "Man in the tower, this is the man in the bird, I'm ready to go, so give me the word." "

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Paul Tomblin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 8. Discover that the mbox file had a bunch of un-escaped "From " lines > that confused bin/arch and so you have a bunch of half-articles in today's > archive page that shouldn't be there. Run bin/cleanarch to fix them, blow

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
I just checked my blog, and found I message a step: Quoting Paul Tomblin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've just spent two days manipulating a bunch of mbox files into archives. > Let me tell you how it goes: > > 1. Blow away the html archives. You may prefer to use that arch comma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
es that bin/cleanarch didn't fix because somebody was quoting the mail headers of another message. Fix them with sed, then blow away the html archives, then resplit the mbox and run bin/arch on the splits. 11. Discover you missed a "From " line in one message, say "to hell with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Brad Knowles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Tools like bin/arch are much safer, albeit also slower. I've lost more files to badly written programs than to PEBKAC errors. So I'd be more inclined to trust "rm" than "arch". -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Tomblin
an remove all messages from a list's pipermail archive by > > bin/arch --wipe listname /dev/null What, "rm -rf" not good enough for you? -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ 10 ways to stop users mistaking you for a normal person (4): When b

[Mailman-Users] Help with umbrella lists

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Choi
Hello, I have a newbie question... I was wondering if someone could help me with an issue I'm having. We're trying to set up an umbrella list (I think that's the term). For example, we have lists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on... and [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] old mailserver interfering with new one??

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Tomblin
e new host. I recently switched IPs, and 90% of the traffic switched within a few hours, and all of it had changed in a day, but I have a strict "NO USING OUTLOOK OR OUTLOOK EXPRESS" rule on most of my mailing lists. Your mileage may vary. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP! My lists have lost their minds

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > >The config.db was fine, but the config.pck *was* corrupted. Or rather, it > >appeared to be a copy of another lists, since doing a "list_members" on > >both lists returned the same list. > > A

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP! My lists have lost their minds

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > > > >Nope, I checked that - partyhats/config.pck looks fine, as does > >techhats/config.pck. > > > >> >I've shut down all my lists, but how do I fix this? > > > Did you

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP! My lists have lost their minds

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > >All the email to one of my lists is coming with the [listname] header from > >another list, and all the email to that list is coming with the [listname] > >header from the other. Even when I go to > >ht

[Mailman-Users] Another hint

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 599, in __init__ self.__super_init(dir, reload=1, database=db) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 289, in __init__ d = pickle.load(f) cPickle.UnpicklingError: could not find MARK -- Paul Tomblin <[EM

[Mailman-Users] HELP! My lists have lost their minds

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Tomblin
://list.xcski.com/mailman/listinfo/techhats/ (although the techhats pages seems ok). The partyhats archive is toast as well. I've shut down all my lists, but how do I fix this? -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, there's goi

Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Note that there is such a script already in the distribution. It is > bin/cleanarch which as Stephen notes, may or may not work for you. Oh. I wish I'd discovered this about 8 hours ago. Oh well, file it away for next time. -- P

[Mailman-Users] Another archive questions

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
I noticed that the messages.html files only have 6 digits in them. Does that mean that it will break when we reach 999,999 messages? I'm already up over 300,000 on one of my lists. I know, we'll all be communicating by neural implant by then. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
lding my breath in expectation since it's not likely to affect anybody else for 94 years or so. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Is it so difficult to master your bloody pride and admit that yes, a bunch of hackers turned out a better suite of utilities than your

Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paul Tomblin wrote: > >slowed my computer down to a crawl. I gave up and used the mbox splitter > >awk program I found in the list archives and I'm now building the archives > >500 messages at a time. Hope that works. > &

Re: [Mailman-Users] mbox files

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
lding the archives 500 messages at a time. Hope that works. -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Using vi is kind of like having sex. The first time to use it, it's kind of awkward, but after using for a while you s

[Mailman-Users] mbox files

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Tomblin
m go from 1999 to mid-2005, and the ones on my VPS go from the beginning of 2005 to the present)? -- Paul Tomblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://blog.xcski.com/ Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runway behind you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach

[Mailman-Users] Python API

2006-10-27 Thread Paul Gevers
by python directly. However, I want to be as sure as possible that my code does not break on software update. I tried to locate a document with the python API, but I didn't find it. It appears that the Mailman API is defined in MailList.py. Is this true? How stable is this API? With kin

[Mailman-Users] tending to moderator requests

2006-10-09 Thread Paul Carter
says: "There are no pending requests." But I still get emails about these messages every few days. Any advice? Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http:/

[Mailman-Users] posting to any list also gets posted to local mailman list (v 2.1.2)

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Waterstraat - UC Davis Geology
Greetings, For the last week or so it seems that messages posted to any of my lists also get posted to local mailman list. (Version 2.1.2) Any ideas or pointers? --Paul. Trust no one; and be careful out there. -- Paul "maddog" WaterstraatInternet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dep

[Mailman-Users] Strange behaviour after a file system filled up...

2006-08-10 Thread Paul Armor
d the archives here a bit, and google'd this, but can't seem to find an answer... Thanks in advance! Cheers, Paul -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] Strange address

2006-08-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Hi, Very quick question. Do you know of any easy way to remove this e-mail address from a list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@explido.de I have tried remove_member and the web interface, but neither works: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/mailman]# bin/find_member wjdtnsdlr [EMAIL PROTECTED] found in: brdcst-

[Mailman-Users] Problem with long term mailman setup.

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Rubin
ding half a dozen messages, it appears to be happening again. The seventh message showed up in the archive and has not apparently gone anywhere else. Is there any information from the mailman daily status report that might provide any clue to what is happening? Thanks. Paul. -

[Mailman-Users] sendmail not seeing 'mailman' as a local account, and bouncing it back and forth between my servers until failure.

2006-06-16 Thread Dickson, Paul
The following recipient(s) could not be reached: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/16/2006 10:53 AM A configuration error in the e-mail system caused the message to bounce between two servers or to be forwarded between two recipients. Contact your administrator. < mailgw1.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail problems with initial configuration.

2006-06-15 Thread Dickson, Paul
an/mail/mailman leave mailman" test-owner:"|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" test-request: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" test-subscribe:"|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" test-unsubscribe:

[Mailman-Users] mail problems with initial configuration.

2006-06-15 Thread Dickson, Paul
ed, and looked through the faq for related issues to no avail. -Paul -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Search

Re: [Mailman-Users] sysadmin held messages reviewer?

2006-06-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 20:08 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone on this list has written or knows of an > > interactive command-line application to allow a sysadmin on a mailman > > server to review all the held messages and subscription requests for all > > lists associated with

[Mailman-Users] sysadmin held messages reviewer?

2006-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, [please CC me, I am subscribed, but have nomail set] I'm wondering if anyone on this list has written or knows of an interactive command-line application to allow a sysadmin on a mailman server to review all the held messages and subscription requests for all lists associated with a mailm

[Mailman-Users] welcome messsage and help message formatting

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Navarre
before before a hard return for it to be recognized. Why? Why doesn't it just work like any plain text renderer? Thanks, Paul Navarre -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

[Mailman-Users] How do I change web_page_url config item?

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Aitkenhead
My server has more than one hostname. My email headers, and message footers, are not coming up with the one I want. It traces back to web_page_url in Mailman/Defaults.py. I do not see anyplace on the web admin to alter this. Is this something I am supposed to control through mm_cfg.py? --

[Mailman-Users] mail to

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Bruce
) I ask this because some of my list recipients have strange mail software - I think it is called Mdaemon, that seems to parse the headers and decide where it is going to send the email. If an appropriate email address does not exist then the Mdaemon does strange things Thanks in advance Paul

[Mailman-Users] Insert customized Reply-To in welcome letter?

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Aitkenhead
My list serves a membership whose cross-section could be described as "casual" residential computer users that won't pay close attention to written instructions and have little patience when learning technology that is new to them. Very frequently, they'll receive their new member acknowledgement

[Mailman-Users] How to manage archives

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Williams
We have about 500 lists and the archives keep growing. We are now over 12 Gigs and are rapidly running out of space. How does one go about trimming back on the older archives. Here is what I have been doing with a list with the name test but just realized my logic was flawed. I have a script tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade problems from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6

2005-12-30 Thread Paul Williams
spool/mailman/qfiles' but the actual qfiles were in a different location so I made the following substitution. QUEUE_DIR = '/opt/mailman/qfiles' The update program was using this file name which was causing a problem. That seemed to make things happy.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade problems from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6

2005-12-30 Thread Paul Williams
I am running mailman-2.1.5 on a redhat linux AS 4 system with all the latest redhat fixes. I just ran the mailman-2.1.6 upgrade and encountered the following messages for each (but not all my lists) Updating mailing list: 4h-northern^M Updating the held requests database.^M - updating old private

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop sendmail from spewing messages one itstarts?

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Williams
> Paul Williams wrote: > >>1). A user added a large number of subscribers by uploading >> an Excel spreadsheet. Mailman accepted the file and >> addresses appeared reasonable when viewed with IE but >> not so good with mozilla (each alpha char was

[Mailman-Users] How to stop sendmail from spewing messages one it starts?

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Williams
I just ran into 2 problems. 1). A user added a large number of subscribers by uploading an Excel spreadsheet. Mailman accepted the file and addresses appeared reasonable when viewed with IE but not so good with mozilla (each alpha char was followed by a box). I was ab

[Mailman-Users] Mailman newbie admin deletes customization/configuration - Please help

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Calamai
After spending hours one day configuring two mailing lists and custom editing the General List Information Pages for these two mailing lists I managed (don't ask) to blow everything away a couple of days later. The good news is that my server gets backed up daily. The bad news is that I have no ide

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umbrella lists - mixing lists and subscribers

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Williams
I have an Umbrella list which has both lists and subscribers as members of the list. The default setting for an Umbrella list is Suffix for use when this list is an umbrella for other lists, according to setting of previous "umbrella_list" setting set at -owner This causes a problem wh

[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Small reply address problem

2005-09-26 Thread paul collen
Hello again, Yep, works fine in any client apart from Outlook!! ;o) Does anybody know how to manually edit the Sender address mailman uses? Cheers, Paul. -- Forwarded message -- From: Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 25, 2005 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users]

[Mailman-Users] Small reply address problem

2005-09-23 Thread paul collen
tual reply address to digi-tech@ or test@ but the display names are still prefixed with bounces-... Is this prefix hidden in a text file somewhere? Thanking you in advance :o) Best regards, Paul. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@p

[Mailman-Users] Mailman newbie admin deletes customization/configuration - Please help

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Calamai
After spending hours one day configuring two mailing lists and custom editing the General List Information Pages for these two mailing lists I managed (don't ask) to blow everything away a couple of days later. The good news is that my server gets backed up daily. The bad news is that I have no

[Mailman-Users] Bounce Processing Problems

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Rubin
Mailman 2.1.6 Python 2.4.1 27 Lists Average 8000 people per list Average message size 100k Largest list gets around 200 messages per day Total load average 2million messages per day give or take. We have been using mailman successfully for about 4 years. Basic Problem: Since about 12/2004 The

[Mailman-Users] Improving SMTP performance?

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Key
seems a long time to me ? Is it? Does anyone know how I can speed this up? Thanks Paul -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman

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