Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Par Leijonhufvud wrote: >Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.27] wrote: >> You might try doing a 'mass_catchup'. If somehow the list's >> usenet_watermark is too high, this will reset it. > >Is there a way to do this from the command line? I don't have the list >admin password... You could

Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-30 Thread Par Leijonhufvud
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.27] wrote: > You might try doing a 'mass_catchup'. If somehow the list's > usenet_watermark is too high, this will reset it. Is there a way to do this from the command line? I don't have the list admin password... BTW, this advice (together with setting th

Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-27 Thread Brad Knowles
On 3/27/08, Par Leijonhufvud wrote: > Nope, that is there and uncommented. Nor does it make a diffeence when > run manually. I have localhost allowed as per default in INNs > readers.conf, and then some special bits to control access to different > groups for different users. But the fact tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Par Leijonhufvud wrote: > >Nope, that is there and uncommented. Nor does it make a diffeence when >run manually. I have localhost allowed as per default in INNs >readers.conf, and then some special bits to control access to different >groups for different users. But the fact that it woerks one way

Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-27 Thread Par Leijonhufvud
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.27] wrote: > Par Leijonhufvud wrote: > > >I'm trying to set up the news gateway. But it only appears to work one > >way; from the mailinglist to the (local) newsserver. Any idea where the > >problem may lie? > > > Check Mailman's crontab (crontab -l -u ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Par Leijonhufvud wrote: >I'm trying to set up the news gateway. But it only appears to work one >way; from the mailinglist to the (local) newsserver. Any idea where the >problem may lie? Check Mailman's crontab (crontab -l -u mailman) to be sure the gate_news entry is not commented or removed.

[Mailman-Users] News-gateway

2008-03-27 Thread Par Leijonhufvud
I'm trying to set up the news gateway. But it only appears to work one way; from the mailinglist to the (local) newsserver. Any idea where the problem may lie? /Par -- Par Leijonhufvud [EMAIL PROTECTED] MBA or equivalent work experience, say, two weeks

[Mailman-Users] news gateway question, importing archive

2007-09-28 Thread Chip Mefford
Good day; I have mailman archive with ~4K emails going back a couple of years. I'd like to copy these over to a newsgroup on a local innd server. The archive is the regular mbox format, and I've played around with formail and mailpost a bit, with no joy. Is there a simple way of doing this that

Re: [Mailman-Users] News gateway mess up message-id

2005-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jan Eri wrote: >It seems that noone knows about this. Where should I take the problem if >this list can't answer it? > >I have been able to locate several other reports of the same problem - >but never a solution. Look at the Python code in Mailman/Queue/NewsRunner.py The changing of the Messa

Re: [Mailman-Users] News gateway mess up message-id

2005-01-17 Thread Jan Eri
It seems that noone knows about this. Where should I take the problem if this list can't answer it? I have been able to locate several other reports of the same problem - but never a solution. regards, Jan Jan Eri wrote: Has anyone else noticed that Mailmans news-gateway sometimes changes the

[Mailman-Users] News gateway mess up message-id

2005-01-16 Thread Jan Eri
Has anyone else noticed that Mailmans news-gateway sometimes changes the message-id when sending to nntp? As an example, this is from a message sent to the maillist: From - Fri Jan 14 14:34:02 2005 X-Account-Key: account3 X-UIDL: 1105709609.H417769P12176.lindis.dis-norge.no X-Mozilla-Status: 0001

Re: [Mailman-Users] News gateway

2003-11-10 Thread vicnoise .
While trying to connec to an external news server I had this msg back: "Include the username and password in your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file (look for details in the file Default.py) ". How can I overcome this issue since I have mailman istalled by default as a service on my hosting server and

Re: [Mailman-Users] News gateway

2003-11-07 Thread Jon Carnes
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:52, vicnoise . wrote: > Hi, > under the "Mail-News Gateways" option there is a field > that asks for "The Internet address of the machine > your News server is running on". I was wondering what > exactly is this feature and if there is a chance to > use an external news ser

[Mailman-Users] News gateway

2003-11-07 Thread vicnoise .
Hi, under the "Mail-News Gateways" option there is a field that asks for "The Internet address of the machine your News server is running on". I was wondering what exactly is this feature and if there is a chance to use an external news server or if it must be as one already installed on the local

Re: [Mailman-Users] News Gateway not spam

2002-02-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Jon" == Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jon> Take a look at the code. It's very easy to read and edit. Not only that, but remarkably often the obvious change is the correct one. So-o-o-o-o cool! -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac

Re: [Mailman-Users] News Gateway not spam

2002-02-22 Thread Jon Carnes
Mailman is Open Source so you should be able to modify the news to mail gateway and change the sender so that it is always -admin. Yes, yes, yes. You believe it is beyond your abilities or it will take a monstrous amount of work on your part, alas, but you are wrong. Take a look at the code.

[Mailman-Users] News Gateway not spam

2002-02-22 Thread MikeT
I am curios how to stop a news group poster from getting spammed by my list server. When he writes the news group that is connected to my list server via "Mail-to-News and News-to-Mail gateway services." Does that make sense? In the case a list member of the suspect group is not reachable.

[Mailman-Users] News Gateway

2002-01-10 Thread MikeT
I am running Mailman 2.0.8 Every time I try to use the Mail-News and News-Mail gateways I get error messages. Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/h

[Mailman-Users] News gateway and member_posting_only

2001-11-28 Thread 依瑪貓
Dear all, Hi. I'm new to this list. I don't know whether someone has mentioned before. I have a list that is trading posts with a news gateway. I want to restrict this list to member_posting_only (to avoid spams), while allowing posts from this trusted news gateway (they will deal wit