[Mailman-Users] Change Footer On HTML Info and Subscription Results pages

2006-09-11 Thread Sivakatirswami
I have completely customized the list info page and subscription results page by basically install our own complete HTML code with inline CSS using the mail man web Admin GUI for editing the html pages. Basically I just removed most of the mail main includes and install raw source code. It wo

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman integration with web pages (user passwords)

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:01 AM +0100 2006-09-12, Alain Williams wrote: > * can mailman store email/password elsewhere (eg mysql database), possibly > in addition to pickle files ? There is an unofficial patch to allow a MySQL MemberAdapter, yes. But it will take some work to set up, as well as to configure the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:15 PM + 2006-09-11, Jon Loose wrote: > Brad - apologies for not getting the point from the FAQ first. Sorry, that's a pet peeve of mine. ;) > Thanks for being willing to repeat yourself anyway. I'm going to advise > folks to register for a different address. Very interesting to se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternate SMTP setup

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:54 AM -0700 2006-09-11, Jack Stone wrote: > 4) Have been looking at all logs for errors - none found, except the > firewall logs show no packets -- ipsumdump -- no packets to port 1313 There's got to be something in the Mailman and MTA logs. If not, then the configuration was not chang

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman integration with web pages (user passwords)

2006-09-11 Thread Glenn Sieb
Alain Williams said the following on 9/11/2006 7:01 PM: > I wish to integrate mailman with some (other) web pages. The users > would be able to login and do whatever, part of which would be to subscribe to > a mail list. > > To make it nice I would like a common user authentication, ie > email_ad

[Mailman-Users] mailman integration with web pages (user passwords)

2006-09-11 Thread Alain Williams
Hi, I wish to integrate mailman with some (other) web pages. The users would be able to login and do whatever, part of which would be to subscribe to a mail list. To make it nice I would like a common user authentication, ie email_address/password pairs. Mailman seems to hold this stuff in pytho

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

2006-09-11 Thread Jon Loose
Brad - apologies for not getting the point from the FAQ first. Thanks for being willing to repeat yourself anyway. I'm going to advise folks to register for a different address. Very interesting to see your background with AOL. Thanks again, and to Gail, Jon - Original Message Fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread John W. Baxter
On 9/11/06 10:35 AM, "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:20 PM -0400 2006-09-11, Matt Herzog wrote: > >> Not exactly. I have >> >> MTA = "Postfix" >> >> in mm_cfg.py. Do the spaces matter? > > In this case, I don't think that the spaces will be a problem > (although Python does

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternate SMTP setup

2006-09-11 Thread Jack Stone
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:At 9:12 AM -0700 2006-09-11, Jack Stone wrote: > In an effort to further tuneup/speedup the list deliveries (being choked > again today), I have used the method below about an alternate smtp for > mailman's use. However, I have yet to see any packets go

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:20 PM -0400 2006-09-11, Matt Herzog wrote: > Not exactly. I have > > MTA = "Postfix" > > in mm_cfg.py. Do the spaces matter? In this case, I don't think that the spaces will be a problem (although Python does normally care a great deal about spacing), but the double versus single quotes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:52 AM -0400 2006-09-11, Gail wrote: > My experience with AOL, unrelated to Mailman, maybe of more help. Almost > without exception is all part of AOL's misguided attempts to block SPAM. Correct. Why is why I wrote FAQ 3.42. I should know, since I was the first Internet mail operations

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternate SMTP setup

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:12 AM -0700 2006-09-11, Jack Stone wrote: > In an effort to further tuneup/speedup the list deliveries (being choked > again today), I have used the method below about an alternate smtp for > mailman's use. However, I have yet to see any packets go through port 1313. What is in the logs?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Security Bulletin

2006-09-11 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:59 AM -0500 2006-09-11, Barry Finkel wrote: > There was a CIAC bulletin last week pertaining to Mailman: Which is part of why we're working on release version 2.1.9 as quickly as possible. Version 2.1.9rc1 is already out, and we're already running it at python.org (the home of all offici

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread Matt Herzog
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:31:21PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Matt Herzog wrote: > > When I try try to accept an invitation to a group I get this bounce message: > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > > "/usr/pkg/lib/

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread Todd Zullinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Herzog wrote: > When I try try to accept an invitation to a group I get this bounce message: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Command died with status 2: > "/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mung". Command > output: Group mismatch error.

[Mailman-Users] Alternate SMTP setup

2006-09-11 Thread Jack Stone
In an effort to further tuneup/speedup the list deliveries (being choked again today), I have used the method below about an alternate smtp for mailman's use. However, I have yet to see any packets go through port 1313. My posting lists are not huge, each under 1000. Sockstats shows t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Security Bulletin

2006-09-11 Thread George A. Theall
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 07:59:44AM -0500, Barry Finkel wrote: > This bulletin only mentions Red Hat. Does the bulletin apply only > to Red Hat distributions, or does it apply to all Mailman distributions? The general Mailman distribution is affected as well; see: http://sourceforge.net/project/

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread Matt Herzog
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:04:31PM +0400, Oleg Dambaev wrote: > > > echo "mailman:*:92:" >> /etc/group > > replace ``92'' with needed groupid I sould preface this by saying it is 99% certain that all my mailman problems are due to NetBSD's pkgsrc being completely fubar, and I mean ALL of pkgs

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

2006-09-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<> I've only a couple dozen on 7 Lists and they SCREAM, Gail!! -:) AOL = PITA Ed -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

[Mailman-Users] Question about Security Bulletin

2006-09-11 Thread Barry Finkel
There was a CIAC bulletin last week pertaining to Mailman: __ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ ___ ___

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

2006-09-11 Thread Gail
My experience with AOL, unrelated to Mailman, maybe of more help. Almost without exception is all part of AOL's misguided attempts to block SPAM. I doubt its a Mailman issue, even the POS we're going to replace with Mailman hasn't been the cause of issues with AOL. Usually this has happened whe

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Newsletter Setup

2006-09-11 Thread David Ellsworth
Thanks to Larry's timely and knowledgeable help, I can now get the HTML to the list this way. The problem now is that the HTML doesn't work in the arrived email. The text is centered and the top graphic (which is correctly linked) isn't showing up. I'm not even using any settings in Content Filter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

2006-09-11 Thread Jon Loose
Sure, they simply do not receive invitations to join that have been sent out. Note, I am working on a small sample here - there are 5-10 affected people. However, no-one else (outside AOL) has had this kind of problem. I assume also that the 'evictions' issue is also relevant, but I don't kn

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread Oleg Dambaev
Matt Herzog wrote: > I'm running mailman-2.1.6 on NetBSD 3.0 Sparc64. > > 1. Mailman is user 1003, group 1003 and all the scripts and binaries in > /usr/pkg/lib/mailman/Mailman are owned by root:mailman except for: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 www mailman 21200 Sep 10 21:02 Defaults.pyc > -rw-r--r-- 1 w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternative to Mailman

2006-09-11 Thread Sven Deichmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, we came accross the same problems a while ago. While we still use Mailman for this purposes as these requirements were not too important for us, we already did some research. But apart from mass mailing (aka SPAM tools) we only found an extensi

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few details

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Matt Herzog schrieb: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms", line 50, in ? > MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam(MAILMAN_GROUP)[2] > KeyError: 'getgrnam(): name not found: ' Do you *have* a group called "mailman" in your /etc/groups (or whereever)?