[Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-14 Thread Morten Brix Pedersen
Hi, At my company, we have a rather big amount of websites where users can subscribe to newsletters and more. Now we are having the problem that more than 3000 messages are coming back as mailer demons, and a person has to delete these e-mails automatically. All the e-mail addresses lies in an

[Mailman-Users] Member Passwords

2002-01-14 Thread maillists
Title: Member Passwords Hi! Is there a way that I can force to send the Monthly Reminder before the end of the month? I tried to change the server's date/time, nothing happened. :) I really just want to send all the member of our list their passwords. Thanks in advance. fritz

RE: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords

2002-01-14 Thread maillists
Title: RE: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords Oh I'm sorry. I think I sent the last message in html mode. I really am sorry folks. fritz www.mesedilla.com senior systems administrator summit interactive, inc. www.fhm.com.ph | www.femalenetwork.com | www.candymag.com --- +basta ikaw Lord

Re: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords

2002-01-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way that I can force to send the Monthly Reminder before the end of the month? I tried to change the server's date/time, nothing happened. :) Monthly reminders run once am onth, based on your crontask. By default this is at 5AM on the first of each

RE: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords

2002-01-14 Thread maillists
Title: RE: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords Oh thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much!!! You have helped me a lot! Thanks again. I think it is sending right now. I just set it to send right now. :) Thanks again!!! fritz www.mesedilla.com senior systems administrator summit

RE: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords

2002-01-14 Thread maillists
Title: RE: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords Oh thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much!!! You have helped me a lot! Thanks again. I think it is sending right now. I just set it to send right now. :) Thanks again!!! fritz www.mesedilla.com senior systems administrator summit

[Mailman-Users] Sync mailman passwords to .htaccess ?

2002-01-14 Thread Vitor Domingos
Hi, Is there a way to syncronize mailman passwords with an .htaccess file ? I want the email and password to be used as a valid user thru a private site. -- Cheers, Vitor Domingos -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Designing a PHP interface

2002-01-14 Thread Ben Franske
I know this isn't a PHP support forum, but I thought that some of you might have some ideas for me. I'm working on a PHP front end to the command line commands for Mailman. I've been working on this for quite a while and can't seem to get it, must be missing something. I've tried using the

[Mailman-Users] Errors from qrunner

2002-01-14 Thread Gregor Hlawacek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I get the following error messages, I don't have any idea where from: Found in log/error Jan 14 17:50:02 2002 qrunner(22552): Traceback (most recent call last): Jan 14 17:50:02 2002 qrunner(22552): File /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner, line

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using mailman to take care of mailer-demons

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
So the problem is that you want a list of the email addresses that are undeliverable, so they can be removed from the database (either manually or via a script). Mailman does some of this. You can read the ~mailman/logs/bounce log file and see some of the mails that are bouncing (and why).

[Mailman-Users] Import Newsletter E-mails first time - How?

2002-01-14 Thread James Radke
Hello, We have our customers e-mails in an Microsoft SQL database, and we would like to start a newsletter. Is there a way we can export the data from SQL to some type of file, and import it into a mailman list? What would be the format of the file and the command to do that? Thanks!

[Mailman-Users] Tell if a recipient reads the newsletter?

2002-01-14 Thread James Radke
Hello, We are hoping to start a newsletter to our customers. One of the questions that came up was could we determine if a customer actually READ the newsletter. Is there a way to put something in a newsletter so that it logs some type of "CUSTOMER READ NEWSLETTER" in a database through a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Just some simple operations

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
Check out the archives. A fellow just did this (and very cleverly) last week. He dumped the list members out to file, then deleted all the users, then added them back with the default being text... Of course this loses all password information. You can use dumpdb to list out the users, their

Re: [Mailman-Users] Import Newsletter E-mails first time - How?

2002-01-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
James Radke wrote: We have our customers e-mails in an Microsoft SQL database, and we would like to start a newsletter. Is there a way we can export the data from SQL to some type of file, and import it into a mailman list? What would be the format of the file and the command to do that?

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I?

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
You are not using and of the features of Mailman, so you might want to use something like Majordomo instead. Majordomo does not explicitly use passwords for the users. It can be setup so that it is very easy to unsubscribe from. To send out Newsletters to your Mailman lists, simply send a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tell if a recipient reads the newsletter?

2002-01-14 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
James Radke wrote: We are hoping to start a newsletter to our customers. One of the questions that came up was could we determine if a customer actually READ the newsletter. Is there a way to put something in a newsletter so that it logs some type of CUSTOMER READ NEWSLETTER in a database

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: on behalf of

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
This is an exim specific question, it's possible that you already got an answer, but if not: 1) Ask the Exim mailing list. 2) Use Google: http://www.google.com and search for the answer: http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-19981221/010607.html HtH - Jon Carnes -

[Mailman-Users] nntp / mailman sync

2002-01-14 Thread Terry Davis
Hello, I am having difficulty keeping my news server and lists in sync. When a message is posted the the list, mailman updates the newsgroup just fine. However, if a post is made to the newsgroup, the list is not updated. There is an option in the admin pages of mailman that says this

Re: [Mailman-Users] nntp / mailman sync

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
Since it is posting to the News server, the News server information must be correct. - What version of Mailman are you using? - Look in the log files ~mailman/logs/.. and tell us if you see any errors or warnings Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Terry Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I?

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
For real digesting, you can integrate MonArch with mailman fairly easily (or so I'm told). Pipermail comes with Mailman, but is not too nifty in this modern age of Mime. My preference over archiving is to port the list to a local News server. You get pretty much the same effect as archiving

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I?

2002-01-14 Thread Michael Johnson (firewing)
Actually, I was talking mostly about dispatching _mail_ to users who want to recieved daily digests (as opposed to web archive functionality.) At 03:45 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: For real digesting, you can integrate MonArch with mailman fairly easily (or so I'm told). Pipermail

[Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - Access Forbiden to Web Page

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Gifford
Hello, I'm trying to set up mailman on a RH system, but get the following error 403: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /mailman/ on this server. Apache/1.3.22 Server at my.server.org Port 80 I assume that this is because the permissions aren't set as readable by the web, however I

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - AccessForbiden to Web Page

2002-01-14 Thread Christopher Mende
Mike, What you need to do is modify your apache httpd.conf file to create a script alias for mailman, like such: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/ I believe there's a file called README.linux or redhat to that effect. You should also be able to find the info on the web. There are

[Mailman-Users] Trouble using Mailman mailing lists

2002-01-14 Thread info
Sir, My Guru's website by the name of GurujiOfGurgaon.com is hosted on the iconic server. This is a purely devotional site without any commercial interests. This server has given me an option of creating mailing lists for the users. The mailing list is powered by Mailman. The trouble is

[Mailman-Users] urgent

2002-01-14 Thread Sara Ronald
Hello, i'm using your mailman service.and i have some problems or let's call them questions. first i have hosted my domain with a new host who is using your mailing list. and i already have old e-mails and i need to import them to my new host but i don't know how? they are in text file 2nd

[Mailman-Users] bsddb2 and SuSE 7.3 Pro

2002-01-14 Thread Scott Cleary
Hello, Has anyone been successful at getting Mailman 2.1a4 running under SuSE 7.3 Pro? I'm running into a Python problem. Most of the Mailman command line commands return: File /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py, line 37, in ? import bsddb3 as bsddb ImportError: No module named

[Mailman-Users] Mailman with AOLServer

2002-01-14 Thread Laine Jarkko
Hi everybody, Has anyone managed to get Mailman to work with AOLServer? If so, are there any special issues that should be taken into consideration? E.g. which MTA should work best? Thanks, Jarkko -- Jarkko Laine[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology

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

[Mailman-Users] Query

2002-01-14 Thread Tao Wu
Dear Sir or Madam, I am a user of mailman 2.0.7 system. These a couple of days, I lost quite a lot of pending administrative requests. The server always notifies me there are some requests, however, while I log in, the system always says the pending requests lost due to some errors. What's

Re: [Mailman-Users] nntp / mailman sync

2002-01-14 Thread Terry Davis
Jon Carnes wrote: Since it is posting to the News server, the News server information must be correct. - What version of Mailman are you using? - Look in the log files ~mailman/logs/.. and tell us if you see any errors or warnings Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Terry Davis

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - AccessForbiden to Web Page

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Gifford
Hello Christopher, Thanks for the quick reply. On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 17:07, Christopher Mende wrote: What you need to do is modify your apache httpd.conf file to create a script alias for mailman, like such: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/ I've added this: #Added by Mike for

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - AccessForbiden to Web Page

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Gifford
Hello Christopher, I just noticed this page here: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/install-check.html Which gave me this error: /var/mailman]# bin/check_perms -f Traceback (innermost last): File bin/check_perms, line 50, in ? MAILMAN_GRPNAME = grp.getgrgid(MAILMAN_GID)[0]

Re: [Mailman-Users] nntp / mailman sync

2002-01-14 Thread Henrik Lewander
Thank you for your reply! I am using version 2.0.7. The error log shows nothing. The usenet log shows this every 5 minutes: Jan 14 14:50:01 2002 (2264) test: [1..3] Jan 14 14:50:01 2002 (2264) nothing new for list test Jan 14 14:50:01 2002 (2264) test watermark: 7 Jan 14 14:50:01 2002

[Mailman-Users] .htaccess in pipermail

2002-01-14 Thread Vitor Domingos
I selected, in the archive options, the file source for public archive. So now, i dont need the password to access the public archives. But i need to put some kind of authentication for users. I've got the usual .htpasswd files for that. But i dont know where can i put the .htpasswd file. In

Re: [Mailman-Users] nntp / mailman sync

2002-01-14 Thread Terry Davis
Henrik Lewander wrote: Thank you for your reply! I am using version 2.0.7. The error log shows nothing. The usenet log shows this every 5 minutes: Jan 14 14:50:01 2002 (2264) test: [1..3] Jan 14 14:50:01 2002 (2264) nothing new for list test Jan 14 14:50:01 2002 (2264) test watermark: 7 Jan

Re: [Mailman-Users] no require password for unsubscribe?

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Carnes
you can setup your lists so that folks can unsubscribe via email without a password. This is simple to do, but requires some setup. This setup is good for any number of email triggers that you might want to use with Mailman. - In the aliases file, add an entry for the unsubscribe email:

Re: [Mailman-Users] I don't really know what is right or wrong

2002-01-14 Thread Tim Legg
Here is my update to everybody out there who has helped me. Everybody's info was very helpful! I have apache and postfix successfully installed on my FreeBSD 4.4 box. * I rm'd all files/directories pertaining to mailman from /home/mailman * I created /usr/local/src/mailman and de-arc'd the tar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stone Age

2002-01-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nissley == Nissley Ron Nissley_Ron writes: Nissley Forgive me for being a bit sarcastic but doesn't Nissley preventing list members from unsubscribing reek of stone Nissley age practices? No matter how closely related the members Nissley are to the source of the mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - AccessForbiden to Web Page

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Gifford
Hi Colin, On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 19:09, Colin Mackinlay wrote: In URL:news:local.mailman on Mon 14 Jan, Mike Gifford wrote: I'm trying to set up mailman on a RH system, but get the following error 403: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /mailman/ on this server. Isn't this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Member Passwords

2002-01-14 Thread John W Baxter
At 8:27 -0700 1/14/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. 0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python -S /people/mailman/cron/mailpasswds Change that to whatever time and day you want (read 'man crontab'). And having changed the system clock by a fairly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tell if a recipient reads the newsletter?

2002-01-14 Thread John W Baxter
At 11:24 -0700 1/14/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Problem is, you have to send out HTML. Other problem is that not all users who receive the newsletter will let the HTML be interpreted. Since the population was customers, you can't control that (unless you have really eager customers). [Some

[Mailman-Users] Moving Mailman to another Machine

2002-01-14 Thread Tina Harshbarger
I need to move my lists to another machine. Can I simply copy over the /lists directory? Or is there another approved way to do this? I don't want to have to setup these 30 lists again and try to get subscriber lists, etc. Any help would be appreciated... we're moving from RedHat Linux to

[Mailman-Users] Mail Not Being Sent - RH, Sendmail RPMs

2002-01-14 Thread Mike Gifford
Hello, I think that this might be another tricky RPM issue.. I can send mail with elm just fine, however when mailman tells me it is sending me a note (either from the web interface or the command line) it never gets to me. I've snipped most of these log files, but think there is likely

[Mailman-Users] Upgrading from 2.0.5 to 2.0.8

2002-01-14 Thread Ash
I'm currently running Mailman 2.0.5 on a Solaris 8 box, and am planning on upgrading it to 2.0.8. I've noticed that there are patch files available on SourceForge for the patch command. After I apply the patch files and run the make and make install commands, will this erase the mailing