Re: [Mailman-Users] Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...

2019-09-05 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Mark, I have updated the script to fix this. Just a quick note to thank you for the fix. Muchly appreciated! -- Cordially, the UNH Mailing List Server Admins Bill Costa, Adjunct Admin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...

2019-08-26 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Way way back in August 2016, we had a problem with submitting too many members via the web interface. As a solution, the following was suggested: You'd need a custom script to do the 'extra text'. I have added an invite_members script I use at a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Yahoo rejects

2018-03-19 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Hello - FWIW, I've seen this recently from Yahoo as well, and have been unable to get a reponse from Yahoo about it. It seems very likely that, as Grant Taylor suggests, its a filtering issue. It's been an occasional recommendation here for users of high priority lists to use a mail provider

Re: [Mailman-Users] HELP! Just broke Mailman with a bogus list.

2018-03-08 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Mark Sapiro recently wrote... I would be interested in knowing what's wrong and how it happened. Unfortunately, this issue probably prevents even running withlist on this list. I.e., Mailman's 'bin/withlist LISTNAME' will probably throw the same error. It does. I did try compiling the origina

[Mailman-Users] HELP! Just broke Mailman with a bogus list.

2018-03-07 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
I just added a new list where I wanted to experiment with the topics feature. But after adding the list, the list_lists utility no longer works: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mladmin/Util/MM2/list_lists", line 130, in main() File "/home/mladmin/Util/MM2/list_lists", li

Re: [Mailman-Users] Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...

2016-08-27 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Mark Sapiro recently wrote (in part): You could use the script ... to list the pending subscriptions. Some may have been accepted already, so the fact that one isn't there doesn't mean it wasn't sent, but if you know the order from the original input, you can probably figure how far it got. B

Re: [Mailman-Users] Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...

2016-08-27 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Mark, once again thank you for your valued expertise... With regards to the failed thousand invitations submission via the Web UI: The admin CGI is processing the mass subscribe/invite list. While it is doing this it is not generating any output. If it takes 'too long' the web server will time

[Mailman-Users] Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...

2016-08-26 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Dear Mailman Cognoscenti, I'm helping one of my list owners send out 5K plus invitations to students to subscribe to his mailing list. Our current configuration: Mailman v2.1.20 RHEL v5.11 Semdmail v8.13.8 Apache v2.2.3 Since this was the first time doing this, I suggested breaking

[Mailman-Users] Cloning a Mailman server to a virtual machine.

2016-08-17 Thread The Mailing List Server Admin
Dear Mailman Cognoscenti, We have Mailman (and ListProc) running on a physical machine which needs to be decommissioned. Cloning the system to a virtual machine (VM) shouldn't be a problem, but I am unsure about the tasks needed to make a smooth transition. I've looked at several articles about