[Mailman-Users] Re: Web interface for users (not admins)?

2021-05-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
n "archiver" gave me no clues as to its added functionality. I'll check it out. Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.or

[Mailman-Users] Web interface for users (not admins)?

2021-05-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
r a few minutes, but turned up nothing. Or rather, all I found related to web interfaces was the admin interface. Thanks, Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for a server

2016-01-24 Thread Skip Montanaro
I which looked straightforward to use, but I could never figure out the whole setup/authentication process, and my pleas for assistance on the (I think appropriate) Google help forum, yielded no help, so I gave up. I will take a look at your links. Skip

[Mailman-Users] Looking for a server

2016-01-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
preciate actual recommendations (or pointers to prioritized lists), not an unprioritized list. Thanks, Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
can also post spam to the lists. Perhaps both, but I suspect the email addresses are of more value. Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.o

[Mailman-Users] MM doesn't really forward me the full message

2015-07-18 Thread Skip Montanaro
attachment? Thx, Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Arch

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam filter not working

2015-07-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
second. The second should see the SA header. Also, I would use SpamBayes, but that's just me... (Let's try one of these new fangled Unicode Emojis...)☺ Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

2015-05-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
r the SpamBayes part), but I think publishing a small document about the configuration might be worthwhile. Skip Montanaro -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: h

[Mailman-Users] Mapping back from pipermail HTML to a specific message in the raw archive?

2015-05-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
x27;t mess up article numbers). Looking at one of these messages (HTML source), I see nothing like a message id which would allow me to unambiguously identify the corresponding raw message. Does something exist? If not, what heuristics have people developed to perform this mapping? Thanks, Skip Mont

Re: [Mailman-Users] ANNOUNCING: GNU Mailman 3.0

2015-04-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
Barry, Congratulations, you mail d(a)emon, you! And all the other responsible d(a)emons. Has it really been 20 years since the NIST workshop? Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Mailman-Users] A rare moment

2010-10-24 Thread skip
do mmfold $url; done } then just step through the pages it generates. Information for each held message is displayed in a single line and the default action is to discard, which I find is the most useful action. Maybe it will help to keep your held message lists dow

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to get relative paths in MM admin/moderatorlinks?

2009-12-12 Thread skip
Mark> Mailman was always intended to use relative href's in the web Mark> interface, but due to a bug , this didn't work in 2.1.x prior to Mark> 2.1.12. Thanks. I'll see if I can get the powers-that-be to upgrade. Skip --

[Mailman-Users] How to get relative paths in MM admin/moderator links?

2009-12-12 Thread skip
DN and thus get to the website via our VPN, but all the links are still http://lists/mailman/... Is there some way to tell MM to use relative URLs or at least to not include the http://hostname part? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www

Re: [Mailman-Users] fight spam !!

2009-10-13 Thread skip
>> SpamAssassin is your friend ..;; As is SpamBayes. ;-) -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users M

[Mailman-Users] Mailman+SpamBayes for Mailman 2.2

2009-04-07 Thread skip
you need some help, contact me offline or send email to spamba...@python.org. Cheers, -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ "XML sucks, dictionaries rock" - Dave Beazley -- Mailman-Users ma

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2009-04-07 Thread skip
-- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http:

[Mailman-Users] so how can I test a modified gate_news?

2008-11-20 Thread skip
at maybe I could set up a one-way gateway from some arbitrary low-traffic newsgroup to a one-off mailing list. I haven't any experience setting up gate_news. Can someone here suggest a recipe for testing this beast which doesn't require too much scaffolding? Thanks, -- Skip Montan

[Mailman-Users] Patch available for review - SpamBayes support in gate_news

2008-11-19 Thread skip
e out where gate_news is documented. Once I have I'll update that manual and upload a patch. Feedback is appreciated. After a couple extra sets of eyeballs have been aimed at it I will work with the python.org postmasters to start testing it there. -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam gatewayed from Usenet to mail bypasses our spam filters

2008-11-18 Thread skip
Stephen> In general, there really is a tradeoff here. Although Skip Stephen> seems happy enough, as I guess SpamBayes catches most (all?) of Stephen> the spam his system catches. SpamBayes is one of the things that mail.python.org does for incoming mail. Based on my own

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam gatewayed from Usenet to mail bypasses our spam filters

2008-11-18 Thread skip
cron/gate-news doesn't look all that obtuse. Perhaps I can simply import the SpamBayes machinery and run it before delivering the message to the list. Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/ma

[Mailman-Users] spam gatewayed from Usenet to mail bypasses our spam filters

2008-11-17 Thread skip
t out of the box (but I would love to be wrong here). Has anyone tried implementing that? If so, got a patch or a recipe for how to configure Mailman to operate this way? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/ -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not recognizing some bounces?

2008-08-27 Thread skip
hon-list mails in the second part of the dsn. Stephen> If you think it's spam-related, feel free to send copies to me Stephen> (off-list) and I can probably verify for you. Just in case, I'll send one your way. Thanks, Skip --

[Mailman-Users] Mailman not recognizing some bounces?

2008-08-26 Thread skip
;m not sure what the problem is with the others. Is this a known issue with Mailman? Are there workarounds? We're running 2.1.10. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ -- ELON MUSK: If fuel cells were good, don't think you'd see them somewher

[Mailman-Users] Updated mmfold.py

2008-07-14 Thread skip
fault browser). Unless you're running this on a shared machine there should be little risk in recording list passwords in a file. (If you manage several lists you probably have them recorded online somewhere anyway.) The updated mmfold.py script is here: http://www.webfast.com/~skip/python

[Mailman-Users] How to search private archives

2005-07-13 Thread Skip Taylor
I understand there's a patch to allow searching private archives. The system I'm using has 2.1.5p1 I think. Can someone tell me where to find the patch(es)? Thanks! Skip - Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your

[Mailman-Users] Searching archives

2005-07-03 Thread Skip Taylor
Is there a way to search private list archives in Mailman? I thought I had seen something about patches but it seems that link has disappeared on me. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. --

[Mailman-Users] Script to condense the review page

2004-06-25 Thread Skip Montanaro
eally interested in are the subject and the disposition buttons. I wrote a script to display just that information (and set the default disposition to "discard"): http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/mmfold.py The subject links to the full review page for that message, so you still have ac

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reason: Message body is too big: 225276 bytes with a limit of 40 KB

2004-02-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
Steen> Reason: Message body is too big: 225276 bytes with a limit of 40KB Steen> Where can I change the limit? Change the value of max_message_size on the general options page. Skip -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
s not really a bad idea, but you could also just install the Todd> python2 (and associated -devel package) from the RH 7.3 distro. Oh, yeah. Forgot about that. I've been building Python from source for so long I tend to forget that RH has a python2 package. ;-) Skip -

Re: [Mailman-Users] error running change_pw

2004-02-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
hing like export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH make clean ./configure make make install I think that will get the #! lines adjusted to refer to /usr/local/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/python. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.

[Mailman-Users] confused about -owner/-admin/-bounce addresses

2004-01-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
2.1 differences, I don't think that will help me much. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://spambayes.sf.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://m

Re: [Mailman-Users] who command

2004-01-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
ss in tha last slot and click "Unsubscribe or edit options". On the page which is displayed there's an "Email my password to me" button. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to block spiders?

2004-01-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
any spiders/crawlers would look for it lower down. Instead, add a Disallow: rule which references /pipermail: User-agent: * Disallow: /pipermail/ -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http:

[Mailman-Users] What is the "mailman" mailing list used for?

2004-01-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
the FAQ at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.025.htp but it doesn't explain why a list (as opposed to a simple alias) is required. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://spamb

[Mailman-Users] "mailman" list - why can't it just be an alias?

2004-01-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
ust those who actually administer the mailman installation? That would be just me on this particular machine and is how I have it set up. Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? http://spambayes.sf.net/ [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] pending subscriptions sent to -owner address not -admin address

2004-01-14 Thread Skip Montanaro
mailman request cedu" cedu-subscribe:"|/etc/smrsh/mailman subscribe cedu" cedu-unsubscribe: "|/etc/smrsh/mailman unsubscribe cedu" I suppose I could try changing cedu-owner to be an alias for cedu-admin. Do others do that? Thanks, -- Skip Mo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-membr submissions & regex's

2004-01-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
them. It ain't Chris> working. The star isn't repeating anything. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. (Dunno if the ^ is required or not. It may perform match() instead of search() calls.) -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/submit.html Got spam? htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam Issue

2004-01-05 Thread Skip Montanaro
non-member email or check Lee> Discard for all messages? I'm sure there are other solutions by now, but awhile ago I wrote a simple script to do a bulk discard: http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/mmdiscard.py I've only ever used it with MM 2.1. YMMV with other versions. -- S

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lists stopped working

2004-01-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
nner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s mailman 24543 0.0 0.6 6316 5160 ?S04:02 0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s mailman 24544 0.0 0.6 5976 4808 ?S04:02 0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s sk

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message from Cron Daemon

2004-01-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
ot; for some of the regular monthly upkeep. Just create such a list in the usual fashion using bin/newlist and subscribe to it. Older versions of Mailman used to be happy with a "mailman" alias. For some reason that's no longer sufficient. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enquiry

2003-10-27 Thread Skip Montanaro
eck the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq05.002.htp Note that q&a was last updated over a year ago. YMMV. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http

Re: [Mailman-Users] email looping - autoresponders - how to stop it?

2003-10-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
ame was not in the cache | ($FORMAIL -rA"Precedence: junk" -A"$MY_XLOOP" ; \ cat .../auto-reply.txt) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t A shell script in /etc/cron.weekly deletes the .msg.cache file, thus nobody gets the auto

[Mailman-Users] how is content filtered in the presence of multipart/alternative?

2003-10-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
text/plain convert_html_to_plaintext: Yes if a message is sent as multipart/alternative and it contains one text/plain and one text/html section, is the text/html section deleted or just stripped of HTML tags and retained as (a roughly duplicate) text/plain section? Thx, -- Skip Montanar

[Mailman-Users] Auto-discard notifications?

2003-10-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
x27;t seem that either applies. (Both pages suggest that I should get a reason along with any messages forwarded to me.) Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http://s

Re: [Mailman-Users] dump the queue??

2003-10-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
mmdiscard.py script the other day not realizing the attachment would get stripped. I just added it into my Python Bits page: http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/python/ It's crude (no command line parameters and the password is embedded in the script), but wor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not knowing what address is subscribed

2003-10-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
hile the message is still on mail.python.org as well as in #4 once it gets to dolly1.pobox.com. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http://spambayes.sf.net/ -- Mailman-Users mailing l

Re: [Mailman-Users] ban_list example?

2003-10-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
g and should never be used in a regex Scott> for the regex libraries with which I am familiar. I realized it was superfluous shortly after posting. I was focusing on the missing '.' (really, just about anything) in the OP's post. "@xyz.com" should be sufficient, u

Re: [Mailman-Users] ban_list example?

2003-10-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
David> I tried ... David> [EMAIL PROTECTED] David> [EMAIL PROTECTED] David> ... but got an invalid value error. Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs? http://www.musi-cal.com/ http://www.mojam.com/ Got spam? http://spam

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with posts from non-subscribers efficiently

2003-10-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
quot;Discard" button for a couple of hundred rubbish messages. I wrote the attached script during the latest worm debacle. Worked well for me to keep the python-help list cleaned out. At the height of the furor, I was discarding over 1,000 messages per day. -- Skip Montanaro Got gigs

[Mailman-Users] pending_subscriptions.db format?

2003-10-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
ubscriptions.db")) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/pickle.py", line 982, in load return Unpickler(file).load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/pickle.py", line 597, in load

RE: [Mailman-Users] Nothing gets archived...

2003-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
Skip> I've been using Mailman for a couple years to run several small Skip> private, non-archived mailing lists. Today, I tried creating a Skip> public, archived mailing list for the first time. The list mail Skip> comes and goes just fine, but nothing turns u

[Mailman-Users] Nothing gets archived...

2003-01-30 Thread Skip Montanaro
looks like so: % ls -lR archives archives: total 2 drwxr-s--x 24 skip mailman 1024 Jan 28 21:44 private/ drwxrwsr-x2 skip mailman 1024 Jan 28 21:46 public/ archives/private: total 22 drwxrwsr-x2 skip mailman 1024 Jan 28 21:4

Re: [Mailman-Users] use of MIME stripping plugins

2002-04-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
strips everything through the last pipe character. You need to write a little shell script that does the above piping and make it the target of the alias. That said, I have no idea if this is the cause of your problems, but it might be worth one last try before throwing in the towel on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: stripmime

2002-03-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
A/MLM combination, but it might be worth mentioning this trick related to sendmail on your web page. Thanks for the help, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: stripmime.pl doesn't?

2002-03-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
Alex, Thanks for the reply and the test case. I verified that it seems to do the right thing when fed your mimehtml test case or one of my test messages at the shell prompt. I will have to check into things deeper to see what's going on w/ mailman. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[Mailman-Users] stripmime.pl doesn't?

2002-03-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
t digest I can't see that stripmime.pl did anything. None of the five messages was lost, but none appear to have been altered in any way. Am I perhaps missing something? I thought it's main thing was to zap HTML attachments. Thx, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PRO

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mm friendly ISP/web host?

2002-03-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
0 subscribers. If you want to run more mailing lists or run a list with more users you can for an extra fee. I have a Hostway account, but have not used Mailman there and have no financial interest, yadda, yadda, yadda. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
In particular, you can use the Web site to have your password sent to your delivery address. ... The following commands are valid: subscribe [password] [digest-option] [address=] ... unsubscribe [address] ... ... -- Skip Montanaro ([EM

[Mailman-Users] AOL disabling Reply All button - is this unique?

2002-03-03 Thread Skip Montanaro
bling the Reply All button? That is, is it something AOL doesn't like about Mailman or is it something specific to this user? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML formatting in digests

2002-02-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
think) can't, however. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> I would find it helpful if mailman distinguished addresses for users >> asking to go "no mail" and bouncing addresses mailman disabled. Dan> Part of 2.1 Praise ! Thx, Skip -- Mailman-Users maillist

[Mailman-Users] feature request - distiguish bouncing from "no mail" addresses

2002-01-15 Thread Skip Montanaro
n instead of having to go back and forth between the bounce log and the membership management pages unchecking some and leaving others alone. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Premature End of Headers

2002-01-04 Thread Skip Montanaro
Scott> Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 48, GOT gid 501. (Reconfigure Scott> to take 501?) Scott> Where 46 = GID of apache . Did your apache runtime GID change? Sounds like Mailman needs to be reconfigured with the correct --with-* flags and reinstalled. -- Skip

Re: [Mailman-Users] Premature End of Headers

2002-01-04 Thread Skip Montanaro
#x27; in the browser window. Scott> in httpd/error.log I receive the 'Premature end of headers' error, Scott> I recieve no error in syslog (messages) or maillog. What's the full traceback? It should be in error.log and will probably help pinpoint the source of th

[Mailman-Users] Mailman doesn't understand email address details?

2001-12-29 Thread Skip Montanaro
27;t, however. This makes it impossible to use dated addresses with closed mailing lists. Any chance that Mailman will recognize such addresses in the future? -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Cron /usr/bin/python/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs]

2001-12-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
ngth of 5. To figure out what size it is, you might try this: stuff = mlist.GetRecord(id) print ">> output:", stuff when, addr, passwd, digest, lang = stuff -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] loops with "out of office/vacation" autoresponders

2001-12-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
20-30 instances of such bad responders. Now that your users have seen the potential damage from such runaway responders, you might explain to them that the reply-to-all setup had a hand in this debacle and ask them if they'd prefer tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in digests?

2001-12-13 Thread Skip Montanaro
or people who choose to read the digest version of your list? -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] struggling with "minor" mailman upgrade

2001-12-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
suggestions, however, smsrh was compiled with /etc/smrsh as the link directory and /etc/smrsh/wrapper is a symlink to /home/mailman/mail/wrapper already. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/) -- Mailman-Users maillis

[Mailman-Users] struggling with "minor" mailman upgrade

2001-12-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
r* which, when dereferenced, seems fine to me: # ls -lL /etc/smrsh/wrapper -rwxr-sr-x1 skip mailman 39212 Dec 10 13:41 /etc/smrsh/wrapper* If I run the above wrapper command manually, it complains: # /home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner cedu Failure to exec scri