Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe and unsubscribe not working

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 23, 2005, at 00:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I send an email to (as an example) [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject subscribe - it does not subscribe me. When I send an email to (as an example) [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe it does not unsubscribe me. What happens

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission problem

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 24, 2005, at 23:53, Bob Applegate wrote: When creating a list via the mailman/creat web page, I get an error: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/njqrp.mbox' bin/check_perms can help you find permissions problems (and with the -f switch, fix

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing Contact Mailing Address

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 23, 2005, at 02:49, Staven Bruce wrote: I'm running Mailman 2.1.5 and on the standard 'Lists Overview Page', underneath the 'Welcome Message', there is a text line that states, If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I am trying to figure out how to

Re: [Mailman-Users] member_posting_only

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad == Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad Programmers tend to think that everyone else in the Brad world is a programmer, and then are amazed when others are Brad not capable of doing the things that they find so easy. I only said it's a shame that this technique is

Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Brad Knowles wrote: Obviously Mailman is forwarding a sample bounce in the probe message. No, Mailman didn't. Some user did. And that user is faking a Mailman probe message? Bounces can (and, regarding a mailing list, most probably will) countain more than one failed address.

[Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Miller
Dear Mailman-users, I had mailman working just dandy, and then I think I did something to break it. You can get the backstory if you think it's relevant, but I don't think it's relevant at this point. Since the start of this problem (Friday), I've searched the mailman-user archive for help,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Do/did you have an old installation of MM? V2.1.n doesn't use a cron job, but rather lets the qrunner daemonize. IIRC, you need to manually remove all MM cron entries. z! who is certainly not an expert on this. -- Mailman-Users mailing list

[Mailman-Users] mass subscription Mailman question

2005-04-25 Thread Ron Jeffries
I did not find this in the FAQ. As list admin, when I use the mass subscription feature, what i syntax to give real name as well as email address. Example: for an email such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if the person's name is: Scott Jackson and they work at: DorkyDorks Inc. How do I enter that

[Mailman-Users] setting topics by email

2005-04-25 Thread Alastair (UKWA)
Hi, I've had a look around the archives FAQ for this, but I can't see if you can set the topics to subscribe to via email? Is this possible, or do you have to go through the web interface? The reason I ask is that I'd like to set up a nice, easy form on the site for an announcement type list,

Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Thomas == Thomas Hochstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Brad Knowles wrote: No, bounces for a mailing list should not contain more than one failed address, especially if it's a probe message -- those are always sent out to just one specific user. Thomas As far as I

Re: [Mailman-Users] appended email addresses on probe?

2005-04-25 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
turn on personalization, and this problem goes away. I frankly wouldn't run mailing lists without at least some personalization -- because as it shows, the old style Bcc: the users style of bulk mailing (a) looks spammy and gets treated as such, and (b) users no longer are terribly tolerant

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 26, 2005, at 05:03, Carl Zwanzig wrote: Do/did you have an old installation of MM? V2.1.n doesn't use a cron job, but rather lets the qrunner daemonize. IIRC, you need to manually remove all MM cron entries. While Mailman 2.1.x doesn't use cron for the various queue runners, there are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 26, 2005, at 04:57, Jason Miller wrote: Root does receive a stack of emails, however. At least one every five minutes. The text of the email looks like this: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/python -S /Applications/mailman/cron/gate_news X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env:

Re: [Mailman-Users] mass subscription Mailman question

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Apr 26, 2005, at 05:51, Ron Jeffries wrote: As list admin, when I use the mass subscription feature, what i syntax to give real name as well as email address. Example: for an email such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if the person's name is: Scott Jackson and they work at: DorkyDorks Inc. How do I