Re: [Mailman-Users] A few questions about mailman 2.1.14 install onDreamhost

2012-01-04 Thread hk
Thanks again for these answers. Now I'm wondering . . . how does one export a mailman user list to mass-add to another list? I've looked everywhere, don't see a way. This is in Mailman 2.1.11 if that matters. Thanks, Howard, Chicago Mark Sapiro wrote: hk wrote: I'm considering the move of a

Re: [Mailman-Users] A few questions about mailman 2.1.14 install onDreamhost

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 1/4/2012 6:05 PM, hk wrote: Now I'm wondering . . . how does one export a mailman user list to mass-add to another list? See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/aYA9. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your

Re: [Mailman-Users] A few questions about mailman 2.1.14 install onDreamhost

2011-12-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
hk wrote: I'm considering the move of a longstanding discussion list with 600+ members from L-Soft Listserv (hosted at a university) to Mailman on Dreamhost (v2.1.14.) There are a few management features I've really grown to like from hosting other lists -- I was hoping if someone can tell me

[Mailman-Users] A few questions about mailman 2.1.14 install on Dreamhost

2011-12-14 Thread hk
I'm considering the move of a longstanding discussion list with 600+ members from L-Soft Listserv (hosted at a university) to Mailman on Dreamhost (v2.1.14.) There are a few management features I've really grown to like from hosting other lists -- I was hoping if someone can tell me if

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
(Disclaimer: I'm not a Debian maintainer or user) Brad Knowles wrote: On 8/25/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: Do the debian maintainer of Mailman frequent this mailing list? Not so far as I know. Improved contact between our project and the other projects which take our code and create

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Manlio Perillo
Brad Knowles ha scritto: On 8/25/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: Do the debian maintainer of Mailman frequent this mailing list? Not so far as I know. Improved contact between our project and the other projects which take our code and create binary packages is one thing that we would like

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/26/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: That's strange. One of the Debian policicy is the strict contact between the package maintainer and the upstream software authors. See my previous message on this thread. The Debian maintainer(s) of Mailman can be easily found at:

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/26/07, Todd Zullinger wrote: AFAICS, The Debian patches to Mailman are here: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mailman/trunk/debian/patches/ And our development page on SourceForge is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman, although internally all the new work is being maintained

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Brad Knowles wrote: There's no way we can possibly track down every single developer on every single platform that is creating localized patches for Mailman on their platform. The only way this process can possibly work is if they use our mechanisms to send their patches to us. FWIW, I was

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-25 Thread Manlio Perillo
Barry Finkel ha scritto: [...] Sorry for the late response. I think that the lack of documentation in the code can be considered a bug. Then I would have to file a bug report on almost all of the Debian/Ubuntu patches to Mailman. I looked at them all, and I discarded most. I kept a few

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-25 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/25/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: Do the debian maintainer of Mailman frequent this mailing list? Not so far as I know. Improved contact between our project and the other projects which take our code and create binary packages is one thing that we would like to work on, but of course the

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-22 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel ha scritto: [...] The patches were, for the most part, undocumented, so I had no idea exactly what they did. Nor did I know if they would fit into the 2.1.9 source, as some of the patches were based on pre-2.1.5 code. Manlio Perillo replied: This was unexpected! Do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-21 Thread Manlio Perillo
Barry Finkel ha scritto: [...] The patches were, for the most part, undocumented, so I had no idea exactly what they did. Nor did I know if they would fit into the 2.1.9 source, as some of the patches were based on pre-2.1.5 code. Manlio Perillo replied: This was unexpected! Do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-20 Thread Manlio Perillo
Mark Sapiro ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manlio Perillo wrote: 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log Is Mailman's cron/gate_news being run every five minutes from

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Sapiro
Manlio Perillo Mark Sapiro ha scritto: Is Mailman's cron/gate_news being run every five minutes from Mailman's crontab? Thanks: the cron tab entry is still commented. However I think that this should be documented in the admnistrative web interface. The istallation of the crontab is

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manlio Perillo wrote: 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log Is Mailman's cron/gate_news being run every five minutes from Mailman's crontab? If so, it might

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/7/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: Well, having a pre-built packages systems has also some benefits. True enough, and where it makes sense we do make wide use of binary packages for other things on the system. The Debian Secutiry team still supports Debian Sarge. And in theory, if a

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-07 Thread Barry Finkel
Brad Knowles wrote in reply to a posting: And I'm not at all convinced that security problems are not a problem, with Debian or any other OS, for that matter. Especially not with an old binary package that is based on old code that is known to have security flaws. When I was comparing the

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-07 Thread Manlio Perillo
Barry Finkel ha scritto: Brad Knowles wrote in reply to a posting: And I'm not at all convinced that security problems are not a problem, with Debian or any other OS, for that matter. Especially not with an old binary package that is based on old code that is known to have security

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-07 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel ha scritto: Brad Knowles wrote in reply to a posting: And I'm not at all convinced that security problems are not a problem, with Debian or any other OS, for that matter. Especially not with an old binary package that is based on old code that is known to have security

[Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Manlio Perillo
Hi all. I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. I have enabled the NNTP Gateway but there are some problems. 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log 2) When sending a message to the newsgroup, Mailman does not obscure the

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/6/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. BTW, the most recent version of Mailman is 2.1.9, which has a number of new features and some fixes for certain security holes. I'd strongly encourage you to upgrade. I have enabled the NNTP Gateway but there are some problems.

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Manlio Perillo
Brad Knowles ha scritto: On 8/6/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. BTW, the most recent version of Mailman is 2.1.9, which has a number of new features and some fixes for certain security holes. I'd strongly encourage you to upgrade. Mailman runs on a Debian Sarge

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/7/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: Mailman runs on a Debian Sarge server, so this can be a problem without an upgrade to Etch (but security problems are not a problem, with Debian). You could always install Mailman from source on that system, or you may be able to find a pre-built package

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Manlio Perillo
Brad Knowles ha scritto: On 8/7/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: Mailman runs on a Debian Sarge server, so this can be a problem without an upgrade to Etch (but security problems are not a problem, with Debian). You could always install Mailman from source on that system, or you may be able

[Mailman-Users] A few questions:

2004-04-09 Thread Jim Swift
I am exploring the features of Mailman 2.1.3 because of a problem I've run into with my Lyris 4.2. For some years I have been running the 200 subscribers version of Lyris 4.2, as a free community list service, but have just run into the 50 list limit and I need to move some of those lists,

[Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-04-09 Thread Rama Kesava BVTS
Hi, I'm considering switching a list of around 9,000 subscribers to Mailman. Currently we are using eMerge and it's rather bad. I had a few questions, that I hoped you could answer: 1) How large can the mailing list be? Is 9,000 too large? If not, is there a way to tell Mailman not to send all

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-04-09 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:37 +0100 Rama Kesava BVTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How large can the mailing list be? Is 9,000 too large? If not, is there a way to tell Mailman not to send all the message all at once -- I am thinking about this so that it all doesn't get bounced back saying too

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-01-14 Thread Justin Zygmont
ok, here it is, I spent some time on this so far so any help would be appreciated. It still looks to me like make doesn't finish. Thanks for your help! On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, C. Bensend wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote: this is a new install, straight from tar.gz and it

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions (fwd)

2002-01-13 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting C. Bensend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): from common.h:27, from ./common.c:20: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [common.o] Error 1 Now, to fix it... On one of my linux boxen, I did a 'locate errno.h'. It

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions (fwd)

2002-01-13 Thread C. Bensend
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Paul Tomblin wrote: Now, to fix it... On one of my linux boxen, I did a 'locate errno.h'. It appears in '/usr/include/errno.h', and from the output of 'rpm -qf /usr/include/errno.h': No, the compiler was looking for linux/errno.h, not errno.h. The word linux is

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions (fwd)

2002-01-12 Thread C. Bensend
use the plane again. --Rules of the Air, #8 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:14:02 -0600 (CST) From: C. Bensend [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Justin Zygmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions On Sat

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-01-12 Thread Justin Zygmont
hmm, I thought I almost had it but when I check, here's what I get: [jzygmont]# rpm -q glibc-devel glibc-devel-2.1.3-15 [jzygmont]# find / -name errno.h find: /proc/6/fd: Permission denied /usr/include/bits/errno.h /usr/include/errno.h /usr/include/sys/errno.h /usr/lib/bcc/include/arch/errno.h

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-01-11 Thread Terry Davis
are you upgrading your mailman or is it a new install ? Justin Zygmont wrote: when I get to the 'make install' step everythink looks fine except for this last part: Upgrading from version 0x0 to 0x20008f0 no lists == nothing to do, exiting Please let me know if this is still ok, or I

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-01-11 Thread Justin Zygmont
this is a new install, straight from tar.gz and it still doesn't create the wrapper program and who knows what else. On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Terry Davis wrote: are you upgrading your mailman or is it a new install ? Justin Zygmont wrote: when I get to the 'make install' step everythink

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-01-11 Thread C. Bensend
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote: this is a new install, straight from tar.gz and it still doesn't create the wrapper program and who knows what else. Time to see _exactly_ what's happening... Could you use 'script' to document the steps (and all output) you're taking from tarball,

[Mailman-Users] a few questions

2002-01-10 Thread Justin Zygmont
when I get to the 'make install' step everythink looks fine except for this last part: Upgrading from version 0x0 to 0x20008f0 no lists == nothing to do, exiting Please let me know if this is still ok, or I have midded something. I cannot get meail man to work and i've tried several times. I