On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Bill Catambay wrote:
If by "send a message", you mean email a message to the normal foo-
list email address, then I'm back to square one (i.e., it will never
reach anyone on the list because of the aliases being whacked).
Honestly, I don't see Mailman doing anyt
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
An ever-increasing number of software packages support the
installation
of 3rd party extensions, said extensions supporting the activities of
installation, deactivation and removal, leaving the core system
unaltered. This provides end users
Terri Oda wrote:
>
>Maybe a nice in-between solution would be making sure the
>FAQ/Documentation had an entry saying "if you need to get an emergency
>message out and Mailman is not working, here's how to get the whole
>subscriber list and send a Bcc'ed mail" Anyone want to volunteer to
>stick
At 8:52 AM -0800 on 11/23/09, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Catambay wrote:
If by "send a message", you mean email a message to the normal
foo-list email address, then I'm back to square one (i.e., it will
never reach anyone on the list because of the aliases being whacked).
But, I hope you unde
Bill Catambay wrote:
>
>If by "send a message", you mean email a message to the normal
>foo-list email address, then I'm back to square one (i.e., it will
>never reach anyone on the list because of the aliases being whacked).
But, I hope you understand that your specific need/situation - email
At 1:32 PM +0200 on 11/23/09, Gadi Evron wrote:
Actually, I spoke of a possible _announcement_ feature, not an
emergency feature.
"Announcement" feature would be better, since it's not always going
to be an "emergency" (and would still work in my situation).
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On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 09:42 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote:
> However, the laundry list of "useful features" that could be added to
> Mailman is several miles long and almost as wide, and I'm not
> qualified to judge where on that laundry list this particular feature
> would/should fall -- I'll leave th
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
I knew I'd seen that somewhere. Problem was I looked for it as an RFE
and not as an existing feature :)
:)
-Barry
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Barry Warsaw wrote:
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>On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> The second request, which might also satisfy the first if it were
>> implemented as a web service, seems to be for a way to send a message
>> right now to all members of a list (or all lists?) regardless of
>> digest and n
At 11:05 AM -0500 on 11/23/09, Barry Warsaw wrote:
The second request, which might also satisfy the first if it were
implemented as a web service, seems to be for a way to send a message
right now to all members of a list (or all lists?) regardless of
digest and nomail settings.
Actually, MM2
At 7:56 AM -0800 on 11/23/09, Mark Sapiro wrote:
I see two requests in this thread. The original appeared to be a
request for a way to send a regular post to a list via the admin web
interface, which would be useful in cases where for whatever reason,
the list was working but email delivery to
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The second request, which might also satisfy the first if it were
implemented as a web service, seems to be for a way to send a message
right now to all members of a list (or all lists?) regardless of
digest and nomail settings.
Actually, MM2 al
At 7:32 PM +0900 on 11/23/09, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Bill Catambay writes:
> 1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
> 2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
> for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
> 3. My email is broken, but my internet i
Gadi Evron wrote:
>
>Actually, I spoke of a possible _announcement_ feature, not an emergency
>feature.
I see two requests in this thread. The original appeared to be a
request for a way to send a regular post to a list via the admin web
interface, which would be useful in cases where for whatev
On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> Brad Knowles wrote:
>> At the very least, you should find a different provider where they actually
>> give you the support you require.
>
> Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
I can see that it might be a us
Bill Catambay wrote:
1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working
However, even with these reasons, I wouldn't consider
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Gadi Evron writes:
> crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful
> feature?
I think that, as Mark alludes to, this feature would be harder to
implement usefully than you'd think. It sounds easy, but remember, in
a very large share cases where it wou
Bill Catambay writes:
> 1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
> 2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
> for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
> 3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working
>
> However, even with these reasons, I w
1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working
However, even with these reasons, I wouldn't consider it a big deal,
especi
Gadi Evron writes:
> crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful
> feature?
I think that, as Mark alludes to, this feature would be harder to
implement usefully than you'd think. It sounds easy, but remember, in
a very large share cases where it would be useful *your mail syste
LuKreme wrote:
On 22-Nov-2009, at 17:14, Gadi Evron wrote:
Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
It could be useful in a very narrow set of circumstances. the question is, is
it worth putting resources into such a feature for those very few times this
wou
On 22-Nov-2009, at 17:14, Gadi Evron wrote:
> Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
It could be useful in a very narrow set of circumstances. the question is, is
it worth putting resources into such a feature for those very few times this
would be useful?
My
Brad Knowles wrote:
At the very least, you should find a different provider where they actually
give you the support you require.
Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
I remember a few occasion when I needed to grab the subscribers list and
email everyone
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On Nov 22, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> This could be done with bin/inject on the Mailman server to inject a
> message directly into Mailman's in/ queue bypassing the MTA, but you
> don't have the required access. Since you don't have the required
> access, I do see the need in you
On 22-Nov-2009, at 13:53, Bill Catambay wrote:
> When I used Autoshare listserver software, it ran on my home server (a Mac),
> and I never had to rely on anyone for support (handled everything myself).
> Unfortunately, that software has not been updated in over 10 years and is no
> longer supp
On 11/22/09 2:53 PM, Bill Catambay at and...@excaliburworld.com wrote:
> When I used Autoshare listserver software, it ran on my home server
> (a Mac), and I never had to rely on anyone for support (handled
> everything myself). Unfortunately, that software has not been
> updated in over 10 years
The weekend crew at my ISP are general tech support (i.e., they
really only handle internet connection issues). My ISP does have an
Operations group which usually are pretty knowledgeable, but I they
simply aren't working on the weekend.
For what it's worth, they are the best ISP I have had i
On Nov 22, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> This could be done with bin/inject on the Mailman server to inject a
> message directly into Mailman's in/ queue bypassing the MTA, but you
> don't have the required access. Since you don't have the required
> access, I do see the need in your case,
Bill Catambay wrote:
>Given my current situation (as rare as this situation may be), I have
>come to realize that an emergency broadcast feature would be an
>indispensable tool to have right now. Since my host made the alias
>change on my mailing list, but did not create the MX record for the
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:55:31AM -0800, Bill Catambay wrote:
> Given my current situation (as rare as this situation may be), I have
> come to realize that an emergency broadcast feature would be an
> indispensable tool to have right now. Since my host made the alias
> change on my mailing li
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