[Mailman-Users] Multiple identical copies (100s) ad nauseum being sent asdaily digest

2001-06-25 Thread Dan and Robby Grether
Dear Mailman-Users, We are again having the problem of multiple (100s) of emails coming from our mailing list. The regular emailings are working fine, but the vol 17 msg 4 of our daily digest is spewing out 100s of copies to those who were subscribed to the daily digest. I have unsubscribe

RE: [Mailman-Users] The 386 PC and Linux

2001-06-25 Thread Jarvis, John
Hell yeah it supports 386. If you don't have alot of HDD don't install things you don't need. I used to run mailman, a webserver and a mailserver on my 486.. (hows that for propaganda) heck you would be amazed with what you can do with a stripped down kernel on a floppy disk. But hopefully if

[Mailman-Users] Wrong email addresses leading to mail-loops

2001-06-25 Thread Michael Dosser
Hello dear list members! We were running mailman 2.02beta and moved to new a new server (FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE, sendmail 8.11.4 and mailman 2.03). all lists are working fine. Problem description: Whenever a members email address is wrong, e.g. bla@.bla.org or whenever a local email adress has no

[Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits moderator approval

2001-06-25 Thread Jean-Luc
Hi. I don't know what to do anymore, I can't have an E-mail going out on the mailing list without approval, see the E-mail you receive if you post on the ML. Can somebody tell me why? The Must posts be approved by an administrator? is checked NO. I don't understand anymore. Please help. JLC

RE: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits moderator approval

2001-06-25 Thread Enriko Groen
Set allow members to post (or somthing alike) which is near the must post be apporved option to YES. -Original Message- From: Jean-Luc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 16:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple identical copies (100s) ad nauseum being sent as daily digest

2001-06-25 Thread JC Dill
On 11:55 PM 6/24/01, Dan and Robby Grether wrote: Dear Mailman-Users, We are again having the problem of multiple (100s) of emails coming from our mailing list. The regular emailings are working fine, but the vol 17 msg 4 of our daily digest is spewing out 100s of copies to those who were

RE: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits moderatorapproval

2001-06-25 Thread Jean-Luc
This one? Restrict posting privilege to list members? (member_posting_only) . -Original Message- From: Enriko Groen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 8:22 AM To: 'Jean-Luc'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits moderator

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Your message to Starsfrog awaits moderator approval

2001-06-25 Thread Gergo Soros
From: Jean-Luc [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I can't have an E-mail going out on the mailing list without approval, see the E-mail you receive if you post on the ML. Can somebody tell me why? ... The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination ... Implicit destination has been

[Mailman-Users] qrunner -- problem with huge mail messages

2001-06-25 Thread Dirko van Schalkwyk
Hi I have the following situation : Mailman 2.0.5 Python 2.0 MTA : postfix I set Mailman up, created a test list and played with it for a while. Then I send it a big whopper 5MB e-mail. I watched the logs and saw postfix running the wrapper. The cron started qrunner and all hell broke lose

[Mailman-Users] need help!

2001-06-25 Thread K. Michele Linch
Is there any way we can set the listserv up in a manner that would allow me to know who the person is who is signing up? I can't tell by E-mail address alone and this is causing us some problems. = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Your authorization is required for

[Mailman-Users] A question

2001-06-25 Thread grace
Hi, When I running my MTA (postfix) and web server(mailman) on different machines. How can I make sure the mailinglist is added to the postfix aliases database. Thanks, grace -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] How do you do a list of lists

2001-06-25 Thread evittori
I'am using Mailman 2.3 over RedHat 6.2. All comed very fine until I tried to do a list of lists. I want to do a new list with many others lists. This lists are moderated and only the subscribers can post in. I defined user's e-mail in Privacy Options field Addresses of members... but Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Problems with mailman after sendmail upgrade

2001-06-25 Thread Charlie Clark
After an update to the most recent sendmail version, mailman receives but no longer distributes e-mail, it has run perfectly up until now. This is an excerpt from the log: Jun 14 00:26:48 mail sendmail[32528]: f5DMQmK32528: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=1268, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Archives not wrapping

2001-06-25 Thread Amy Briggs
I've got mailman 2.05 up and running with a couple of lists on it. Everything seems to be working fine but when you view a message in the archives, it does not wrap. I checked the faq and browsed some of the archives but didn't see anything on this. Any ideas? Thanks, Amy

[Mailman-Users] Edit Archive

2001-06-25 Thread WendyW2
Can I edit the archive for a Mailman mailing list? I was trying to test the system, and posted a message, but now I would like to remove it, but I don't know where to go. It would be helpful if you offered that option in your admin interface. Thanks- Wendy Wulff

[Mailman-Users] ?????

2001-06-25 Thread scriptures
To whomit may concern, WHY is it taking this long to correct the problem with may MailMan 1.1 account? God Bless, Rosario Abate, Scriptures(tm) ---Original Message-- Bug in Mailman version 1.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug!If you would like to help us identify

[Mailman-Users] System Jams after I send out a message

2001-06-25 Thread Performing Arts News
I rolled my system our for the first time this morning and I am having problems. The system jams up. I can't access the administer area; my mailing list people can't access their options page and people can't subscribe. It appears that his happens a few minutes after I forward a message and then

Re: [Mailman-Users] This is unixstuff warning

2001-06-25 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:04:00 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and passwords on unsubs are silly (sorry, Barry). Users who want to unsubscribe want off. they don't want to play games, they just want to leave. I have, in the last decade, seen ONE instance of forged unsubs on my

[Mailman-Users] help plisss

2001-06-25 Thread Lukasz Gruszczynski
helou i have a small problem witch mailman config i get allways this msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd lista". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 555, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) after instal with

[Mailman-Users] I am receiving this error message.

2001-06-25 Thread Wayne Wieseler
I am receiving this error message for any of the distribution lists that I have tried to join. Bug in Mailman version 1.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing users to join without specifying pas swords

2001-06-25 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:46:57 -0500 Joel Votaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, the README says that script only currently works with unsubscribe requests, but does not handle subscribe requests. Is there any way to subscribe without supplying a password? If you subscribe by mail as versus

[Mailman-Users] Pb when post a msg to all the list

2001-06-25 Thread Cyril Ballesta
hello, when i post a message to all the list with [EMAIL PROTECTED] the members never receive the message but the email admin have got it. What the matter please For information i use Apache, Exim on RedHat 7.0. Thank You

[Mailman-Users] Up and running

2001-06-25 Thread scriptures
To whomj it may concern Thank you for reparing the MailMan 1.1. It is up and running. God Bless, Rosario Abate CEO Scriptures(tm) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

[Mailman-Users] Strange Subscription Problem

2001-06-25 Thread Karl Austin
Hi, We are experiencing a strange problem with some of the mailing lists that we host and seen as I couldn't find an easy way to search your archives I thought I would email. The error occurs when someone tries to subscribe to a list, once they have subscribed they get the confirmation email

[Mailman-Users] Request: support for attachment file extensions

2001-06-25 Thread Colm Smyth
Hi! I find mailman an astonishingly useful tool on the mail.gnome.org web-site, but there is one feature that I really miss - attachments show the file-name as a URL within the mail message, but they are saved as binnumber.bin files. If they were saved as binnumber.extension, they would be

[Mailman-Users] Re: Changing Welcome Message

2001-06-25 Thread Vizi Szilard
Hello, Specifically I want to remove the line that says To post to this list, send your email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't want members to post, only the moderator. [vizisz@tatooin vizisz]$ rgrep -r To post to /home/mailman/templates/ /home/mailman/templates/subscribeack.txt:To post to

[Mailman-Users] Debian upgrade hell...

2001-06-25 Thread Deirdre Saoirse Moen
For reasons that have to do with grad school and having started my final project for The Class From Hell on another platform, I upgraded (hand-compiled) Python 2.1 on my debian system (the only weirdness is that I'm running sendmail rather than exim, but otherwise it's a pretty stock

[Mailman-Users] subscribing without password, default password

2001-06-25 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi, Just installed Mailman for the first time, 2.0.5. 1) The listinfo page requires subscribers hit in a password when joining. I feel this is counter-productive. IMO, it would be better to _always_ generate passwords. This way they're truly random, aren't valuable and the user doesn't have

[Mailman-Users] spam filter?

2001-06-25 Thread Steven Nguyen
Title: spam filter? Hi, I just want to say I love your Mailman program ever since I tested it. Just one thing though, I notice you said it does integrated spam filters... how do you enable this feature? Is it on by default? Also I had created several list for my known address such as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Discard non-member postings automatically?

2001-06-25 Thread Donal Hunt
I think JB is looking for a way to get rid of pending admin requests for held postings. I posted a python script to the list at the end of April (around then i think!) that did just that. Have a look through the archives (I think they are searchable now) for clear_requests or something similar,

[Mailman-Users] A short question

2001-06-25 Thread Black Dwarf
Hi there, I was wondering whether you can help me with a simple problem. I am using your Mailman list manager to provide my site with a mailing list. Some time ago I came upon the idea to make a script to archive the messages that were sent to the list. After doing some research I stumbled upon

[Mailman-Users] list moderator wiht password

2001-06-25 Thread pedro
Hi your mail list software are great , but a try to found a feature that permit moderate list readonly like a distribucion list that check the from of the sender and a password that permit only autorized user ditributed news . thanks and sorry my english.

[Mailman-Users] Email Subscription

2001-06-25 Thread 2ninety Limited
Hi, How do users sign up to a mailing list by sending and email? I've tried using 'Subscribe' in the subject line although it does not work Thanks Robert Kerry -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Saving names of list members

2001-06-25 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
JCL == J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am going to start a Mailman-based list. The tool looks very convenient, but I am stuck with the following problem: the list owner-to-be insists on knowing names of the list members in addition to their email addresses.

[Mailman-Users] Borland C++5

2001-06-25 Thread Karl Carlile
I downloaded a free copy of bcc55. But having great difficulty finding a way of installing it. It seems more difficult than the usual cases. Do you know what I must do to install it. Karl -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Amanda
Chuq Von Rospach wrote: Did the guy who set up the mailbot give mailman any way of telling this was a mailbot, or a loop? Did they include any keywords, like out of the office or vacation or I am an idiot who's mailbot is going to make you crazy now? [snip] If you can find something the

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 04:22 PM, Amanda wrote: I now have a filter that reads something like this: If this text appears in the subject or body of the message, send it to the trash mailbox: out of the office; [..etc...] And once you've done that, add in german, french, russian,

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH-7.1 mailman instalation problem

2001-06-25 Thread Dirko van Schalkwyk
/var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd dezo. Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) I checked /var/log/maillog: Jun 21 17:31:24 pc postfix/local[2504]: 2721FEB67: GID (Group ID) 99 is usually for user nobody. This means your

[Mailman-Users] need help!

2001-06-25 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any way we can set the listserv up in a manner that would allow me to know who the person is who is signing up? I can't tell by E-mail address alone and this is causing us some problems. http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm Bob

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:21 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Relatively easy. Set a limit on how many messages a user can post in say a 10 minute period. Make it user editable. If you get 8, you've got a loop! that slows it down, but doesn't catch any but the worst loops. It's just as

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chuq Von Rospach wrote: On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:21 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Relatively easy. Set a limit on how many messages a user can post in say a 10 minute period. Make it user editable. If you get 8, you've got a loop! that slows it down, but doesn't catch any but

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
CVR == Chuq Von Rospach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be nice if Mailman was more resistant to these mail loops [2]. CVR Suggestions on how? One approachable suggestion: put a governor on the number of messages any one address is allowed to post to a list per time period.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 09:13 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: That was one wild autoresponder! yeah. Made ME much more aware of why these things need to behave properly. I try, although sometimes I fall short with my stuff. But I still maintain that having the two variables I mentioned, x

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
CVR == Chuq Von Rospach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CVR Could the new queueing system be set up with a timed-backoff CVR delay? you'd have to keep a fair amount of state, but the CVR minimum time between postings for a given user is, say, 30 CVR minutes, and every time they post

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 09:19 PM, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: Nope, and I agree with everything you've said. What I was thinking of was flagging situations where you see 10 or 50 or 100 posts from the same address in the span of a couple of minutes. But you won't see that, Barry. Think

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loops: list-request and vacation messages

2001-06-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 09:41 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: I agree that false positives are bad. But let's take a look at the past few messages people have posted, true -- but it's no excuse to fix it badly. Or simply create other problems. I doubt even the most prolific poster is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachements

2001-06-25 Thread Juha Saarinen
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, L Gallegos wrote: Is there are way to for this tired list admin to not allow posters to post attachments? Set the maximum attachment size to 0KB? -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attachements

2001-06-25 Thread claw
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:39:37 -0400 L Gallegos L wrote: Is there are way to for this tired list admin to not allow posters to post attachments? Configure the list to hole all messages which have a Content-Type string of other than text/plain. -- J C Lawrence