RE: [Mailman-Users] hi resource usage

2002-09-25 Thread Roelf
Hi What I noticed is that I stopped archiving the biggest list that we have. It received 200-250 e-mail during 8 working hours. Now the system resources seem to be normal. Surely the archiving should be able to handle this?? Roelf -Original Message- From: Odhiambo Washington

[Mailman-Users] Real Names

2002-09-25 Thread Ian Holder
Hi, Is there anyway to specify the real names of subscribed e-mail users? ie: When you access a list of subscribers it just shows john at doe.com, is there anyway to specify the subscribers real name next to the e-mail address? Thanks.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change real_name for multiple domains?

2002-09-25 Thread Norbert Bollow
I saw a comment here: http://www.zope.org/Members/bwarsaw/MailmanDesignNotes/VirtualHosting that sounded like there were some practical ways to have lists with the same name in multiple domains. The suggestions all required editing the Mailman source. Having multiple Mailman installations

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Norbert Bollow
I do I setup Mailman so that all emails being sent out are encrypted? Or do I need to specify this in the Sendmail? This is not trivial at all; I think the most tricky issue will probably be the matter of key management (and this definately needs to be done at Mailman level, not at the

[Mailman-Users] OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

2002-09-25 Thread Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli
Hi, I receive this error into the error log: Sep 25 12:05:01 2002 qrunner(19598): File /opt/mailman-2.0.11/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py, line 896, in write_TOC Sep 25 12:05:01 2002 qrunner(19598): self.sortarchives() Sep 25 12:05:01 2002 qrunner(19598): File

[Mailman-Users] How to kill the evil that is sendmail

2002-09-25 Thread Angel Gabriel
Yes you guessed it, sendmail is pissing me off!! What I would like to do, is to get rid of all the email that sendmail is STILL strying to send. You know when it tries to deliver mail for up to five days or whatever. I stopped short of uninstalling it, and re-installing it in case it picks up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Real Names

2002-09-25 Thread Greg Westin
There is in 2.1b3. You can specify it either when mass subscribing names, or later with the membership interface. Greg On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 04:56 AM, Ian Holder wrote: Hi, Is there anyway to specify the real names of subscribed e-mail users? ie: When you access a list

[Mailman-Users] change of domain name

2002-09-25 Thread Chad Rebuck
I moved an existing list to a new domain. Instead of just adding my old list name to the Alias names (regexps) which qualify as explicit to or cc destination names for this list field under privacy options is there a way I can forward the email addressed to the old list to the new list and

Re: [Mailman-Users] OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

2002-09-25 Thread Jon Carnes
Either your archive is corrupt, or one of the emails has a corrupt header, or one of the emails has a header with bogus info in it that is causing the Archiver to barf. Take a look at the last message in your archives, then look at the next message in your lists mbox and see if it is indeed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Jon Carnes
I find it hard to believe that you would want an open mailing list manager like Mailman *and* want to run encrypted email out of it... Wouldn't you be happier with a semi-static mailing alias and then having all your folks use PGP (or GPG) to encrypt their email? On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 05:09,

Re: [Mailman-Users] OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

2002-09-25 Thread Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli
On 25 Sep 2002, Jon Carnes wrote: Either your archive is corrupt, or one of the emails has a corrupt header, or one of the emails has a header with bogus info in it that is causing the Archiver to barf. Take a look at the last message in your archives, then look at the next message in your

[Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem

2002-09-25 Thread Know How
Hi, I have installed mailman 2.0.13 and HP-UX 11.00. The messages in the qfiles directory does not get processed. I have entry in crontab for mailman account to run qrunner every 1 min. Here is the entry: * * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /opt/mailman-2.0.13/cron/qrunner Python version 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem

2002-09-25 Thread Jon Carnes
It is a rights issue. Have you run the check_perms program to look for any rights issues? On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:01, Know How wrote: Hi, I have installed mailman 2.0.13 and HP-UX 11.00. The messages in the qfiles directory does not get processed. I have entry in crontab for mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem

2002-09-25 Thread Know How
Jon, Thank you for the reply. I ran check_perms and it came with No problems found. I ran check_perm as root and mailman user and both the time i got No problems found. Any other suggestions?? Thanks in advance. From: Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Know How [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Stonewall Ballard
I've been trying out the moderation system in 2.1b3, and have found that using the reply mechanism has no effect - the message stays in the approval queue. The reply goes to the list-request address. The Subject is confirm a long string. I put the line Approved: listpassword on the first line of

[Mailman-Users] Routine List Moderation?

2002-09-25 Thread Stonewall Ballard
In 2.1b3, the help text for respond_to_post_requests in General Options says: Approval notices are sent when mail triggers certain of the limits except routine list moderation and spam filters, for which notices are not sent. For some lists, I want them to be routinely moderated and avoid the

[Mailman-Users] FW: Cron mailman@raw-talent /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/senddigests

2002-09-25 Thread Angel Gabriel
What the hell is this!?!? all of a sudden I got this in my email... -Original Message- From: Cron Daemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron mailman@raw-talent /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/senddigests

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: Cron mailman@raw-talent /usr/bin/python-S /var/mailman/cron/senddigests

2002-09-25 Thread alex wetmore
It sounds like the config.db for one of your lists was corrupted. Did you have an unexpected power failure recently? I did on Sunday and lost the config.db for two of my high traffic lists. About half of the file was written over with null bytes. I wrote a tool (Win32, although it should be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Henrik Larsson
At 10:54 25-09-2002 -0400, you wrote: I've been trying out the moderation system in 2.1b3, and have found that using the reply mechanism has no effect - the message stays in the approval queue. The reply goes to the list-request address. The Subject is confirm a long string. I put the line

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.0.13 pipermail problem

2002-09-25 Thread mailman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Palo Segec wrote: I have problem with pipermail archive of the mailman 2.0.13 distribution, I'd done installation as was at INSTALL file, but I can't access to the pipermail archive. Answer from web server is The requested URL /pipermail/list/ was not found on this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Stonewall Ballard
On 9/25/02 12:08 PM, Henrik Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:54 25-09-2002 -0400, you wrote: I've been trying out the moderation system in 2.1b3, and have found that using the reply mechanism has no effect - the message stays in the approval queue. The reply goes to the list-request

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to change to archiving settingafter list has already been created?

2002-09-25 Thread mailman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, David A Gilbert wrote: I need to change a bunch of existing lists that are currently doing 2 below (archive to both mbox and builtin mailman html archiving) to 1 below (archive to mbox to use an external archiving mechanism only). # ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX #-1 - do not do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:45:45 -0400 Stonewall Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/25/02 12:08 PM, Henrik Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:54 25-09-2002 -0400, you wrote: I've been trying out the moderation system in 2.1b3, and have found that using the reply mechanism has no

Re: [Mailman-Users] newsletter question

2002-09-25 Thread mailman
On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, J. Alec West wrote: I'm considering switching to a webhost that allows Mailman use and had one simple question. Can Mailman be set up to be used as a newsletter ... that is sent to a number of subscribers in such a way that subscribers cannot reply to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] configuring mailman for a simpler purpose

2002-09-25 Thread mailman
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, drumguru wrote: Hi! My new hosting service, clevelandhosting.com, has recommended Mailman. I have need of a simple one way newletter email program to broadcast announcements to my customer email list, with the only recipient options being to subscribe or unsubscribe: no

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to kill the evil that is sendmail

2002-09-25 Thread mailman
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Angel Gabriel wrote: What I would like to do, is to get rid of all the email that sendmail is STILL strying to send. You know when it tries to deliver mail for up to five days or whatever. I stopped short of uninstalling it, and re-installing it in case it picks up where

RE: [Mailman-Users] How to kill the evil that is sendmail

2002-09-25 Thread Angel Gabriel
Okay, I'm feeling the volcano part, and also the brutal killing of sendmails queue. Lucky for the sendmail queue, it's empty, but I will cut and paste that solution, and file it away in case of emergencies! How do I check mailmans queue? I checked running proccesses to see if there where any

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to kill the evil that is sendmail

2002-09-25 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Angel Gabriel wrote: How do I check mailmans queue? Look in ~mailman/qfiles/ Sendmail is only evil when not properly configured. -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem

2002-09-25 Thread Know How
Jon, Thanks for the reply again. When i run qrunner from mailman i see following messages shown below are logged into mailman log files (three logs files, those are smtp-failure, post and smtp). For every qrunner i run from mailman account I see ignore in smtp-failure log file, i see

[Mailman-Users] Perms?

2002-09-25 Thread Dave Magill
Hi, I've run check+perms and it has no complaints, but mailman crashes on every request. I have no idea about python, so can someone point me in the right direction? What is going on here? Regards, Dave. Sep 25 19:14:01 2002 (25006) Delivery exception: Sep 25 19:14:01 2002 (25006)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread J C Lawrence
On 25 Sep 2002 09:37:03 -0400 Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it hard to believe that you would want an open mailing list manager like Mailman *and* want to run encrypted email out of it... There are a number of uses for crypted lists ranging from cypherpunks to discussion of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Stonewall Ballard
On 9/25/02 10:54 AM, Stonewall Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying out the moderation system in 2.1b3, and have found that using the reply mechanism has no effect - the message stays in the approval queue. The reply goes to the list-request address. The Subject is confirm a

[Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread Kalin Mintchev
hi all, i had to upgrade to mailman from another list server (listar). listar uses a text file for each list called dist that has all the email addresses subscribed to that list to send the messages out to them. it looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc... .. how can i

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread Stonewall Ballard
How about using the Mass Subscription section under Membership Management on the admin page? At least in 2.1b3, you can supply a file with just addresses. - Stoney On 9/25/02 3:19 PM, Kalin Mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i had to upgrade to mailman from another list server

[Mailman-Users] Apache redirects

2002-09-25 Thread Greg Westin
Is there a way to use Apache Rewrite directives to direct requests for lists.domain1.com to lists.domain1.com/mailman/listinfo? I have a couple of virtual domains, and want all of their list traffic to run off the same Mailman installation. If someone requests www.domain1.com, they should

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread Kalin Mintchev
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Stonewall Ballard wrote: How about using the Mass Subscription section under Membership Management on the admin page? At least in 2.1b3, you can supply a file with just addresses. - Stoney cool. that sounds like it... any limitations on how many you can do at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Henrik Larsson
Web approval works for me in 2.1b3, but I've never tried email approval. When i press Approve (or Reject), and press Submit All Data it just loops back to the same page without doing anything. Then i can try to Submit All Data again, but still without success. Any idea on what is going on?

Re: [Mailman-Users] email list into mailman list

2002-09-25 Thread mailman
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Kalin Mintchev wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Stonewall Ballard wrote: How about using the Mass Subscription section under Membership Management on the admin page? At least in 2.1b3, you can supply a file with just addresses. - Stoney cool. that sounds like it...

[Mailman-Users] Problem with setup on debian 3.0 (woody)

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Pemstein
I installed mailman 2.0.11-1woody1 using apt-get and then went through all the configuration details listed on the mailman web-site. I'm not sure I did everything right because the debian dir structure for mailman is a touch on the confusing side. It is unclear what debian configured and what I

[Mailman-Users] How do I ...

2002-09-25 Thread Nestlerv
configure the mailing list so that no users can post. I want is only as a vehicle for me to be able to distribute information to people who subscribe to my list. Thanks

Re: [Mailman-Users] Routine List Moderation?

2002-09-25 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:40:46 -0400 Stonewall Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2.1b3, the help text for respond_to_post_requests in General Options says: Approval notices are sent when mail triggers certain of the limits except routine list moderation and spam filters, for which notices

[Mailman-Users] Replies getting lost

2002-09-25 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I have a small group of lists for one client (one company wide, one each for four offices, one for the managers, etc.) that are all set to Reply to sender as the default. For most users it works just fine. However, some of the Outlook 2000 users seem to end up with their replies directed to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 12:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am inclined to agree with Jon (that what you really want is for your list members to do the encrypting) That would only work in a shared-secret environment. If you want to use public key crypto, then Mailman would have to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail List Encryption

2002-09-25 Thread Kyle Rhorer
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 13:43, J C Lawrence wrote: A common definition of a crypted list: Mail sent to the list is crpyted with the list's public key. The list uncrypts the mail and broadcasts it to each member. Prior to transmission each message is crypted with that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Qfiles problem

2002-09-25 Thread Jon Carnes
Are you running spam filtering? Could it be some vicious anti-relay rules setup on your MTA? Can it be that only root has access to localhost (127.0.0.1)on your machine? What happens if you telnet to smtp while logged in as mailman: su mailman telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Looks like mailman isn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Perms?

2002-09-25 Thread Jon Carnes
In the same directory their is an app to check the configuration of a list. You can run that to see if your list's configuration file is corrupt, but it may be something simplier... have you checked in the ~mailman/locks/.. directory? Delete any old locks (or new locks if your not running

[Mailman-Users] Re: Approval via email response broken in 2.1b3?

2002-09-25 Thread Harald Koch
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Henrik Larsson had to walk into mine and say: Web approval works for me in 2.1b3, but I've never tried email approval. When i press Approve (or Reject), and press Submit All Data it just loops back to the same page without doing

[Mailman-Users] cookies on beta version

2002-09-25 Thread Will Yardley
I just started testing the beta version of mailman (2.1b3 in this case) on one of my machines. My friend was complaining about having to re-authenticate each time in OS X IE. He was able to fix the problem by switching to Mozilla. However, now, I'm having hte same problem. I'm using Mozilla 1.0