Re: [Mailman-Users] Troubleshooting posting of a message (SOLVED)

2007-05-07 Thread Rolf E. Sonneveld
Eino Tuominen wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: The log you posted previously seems to say the MTA delivering to Mailman is 'middleman'. I don't know anything at all about this MTA. Another hint in a prior post tells me it may have some programatic way (rather than aliases) for determining

[Mailman-Users] Approve held msg by replying

2007-05-07 Thread John Fleming
I can't find it in the FAQ or listname-request help dialogue, but I thought there's a way to approve held messages by replying to the notice that I have held messages? Tnx - John -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve held msg by replying

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: I can't find it in the FAQ or listname-request help dialogue, but I thought there's a way to approve held messages by replying to the notice that I have held messages? Tnx - John There is no way to approve messaged by replying to the summary 'nn listname moderator

[Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a Mailman 2.1.9 list where the membership is re-built from an external source. The list contains all of the occupants of a certain building who list an e-mail address in the Human Resources Database. I assumed that anyone on the list should be able to post to the list, but the building IT

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Barry Finkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that I cannot easily turn off the moderated bit on the moderators' e-mail addresses, as the list is rebuilt nightly from the HR Database. How do you rebuild the list? Do you use symc_members? Or do you remove everybody and add them later? -- Ralf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Barry Finkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Note that I cannot easily turn off the moderated bit on the moderators' e-mail addresses, as the list is rebuilt nightly from the HR Database. How do you rebuild the list? Do you use symc_members? Or do you remove

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is not scrubbing attachments in thearchives

2007-05-07 Thread James Dinkel
Mark Sapiro wrote: James Dinkel wrote: For some reason our archive web pages try to display attachments inline instead of displaying a link to download the attachment. If I understand correctly, this process is called scrubbing. From what I've read the default behavior is to scrub

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Barry Finkel wrote: We added some moderator e-mail addresses via the administrative web page, and we set a moderator password. There is one minor problem: the moderators are set to those persons whom we want to be able to post to the list (e.g., the building manager). But those moderators are

[Mailman-Users] Temporarily Diable Entire List

2007-05-07 Thread Robin Bartholomew
I want to make sure some lists are definitely not used before deleting them. To temporarily disable a list, is moving the list directory (/home/mailman/lists/list_name) to a temporary directory an acceptable solution or is there a better way to go about this? Thanks you, -- Robin D.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman is not scrubbing attachments inthearchives

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
James Dinkel wrote: They have all been pdf files. Will it not scrub pdf files? I don't exactly know what the MIME Content-Type: is. For purposes of the scrubber, MIME Content-Type: is the value of the Content-Type: header of the respective MIME message part. PDF attachments should be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Temporarily Diable Entire List

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Robin Bartholomew wrote: I want to make sure some lists are definitely not used before deleting them. To temporarily disable a list, is moving the list directory (/home/mailman/lists/list_name) to a temporary directory an acceptable solution or is there a better way to go about this? If you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Temporarily Diable Entire List

2007-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 7, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Robin Bartholomew wrote: I want to make sure some lists are definitely not used before deleting them. To temporarily disable a list, is moving the list directory (/home/mailman/lists/list_name) to a temporary directory an acceptable solution or is there a better

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote: Note that I cannot easily turn off the moderated bit on the moderators' e-mail addresses, as the list is rebuilt nightly from the HR Database. and Ralf Hildebrand replied: How do you rebuild the list? Do you use symc_members? Or do you remove everybody and add them later? I meant

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Barry Finkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We sync our lists like this: bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no -f file_with_membership_addresses.txt name_of_list I use ./remove_members --all --nouserack --noadminack $destfile ./add_members -w n -r $destdir/$destfile because I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not Moderating a Moderator's Posting

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Ward Comfort
On May 7, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Barry Finkel wrote: Ralf Hildebrand replied: We sync our lists like this: bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no -f file_with_membership_addresses.txt name_of_list I use ./remove_members --all --nouserack --noadminack $destfile ./add_members -w n

[Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers

2007-05-07 Thread Jason LaMar
We have a fairly large list (more than 26,000 subscribers), and recently it appears a very small fraction of the subscribers have started receiving duplicate messages -- sometimes as many as a dozen or more. This behavior just started happening within the last couple of weeks, and it seems to only

Re: [Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers

2007-05-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jason LaMar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have a fairly large list (more than 26,000 subscribers), and recently it appears a very small fraction of the subscribers have started receiving duplicate messages -- sometimes as many as a dozen or more. This behavior just started happening within the last

Re: [Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers

2007-05-07 Thread Dragon
Jason LaMar wrote: We have a fairly large list (more than 26,000 subscribers), and recently it appears a very small fraction of the subscribers have started receiving duplicate messages -- sometimes as many as a dozen or more. This behavior just started happening within the last couple of weeks,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers

2007-05-07 Thread Dragon
Dragon wrote: Far more likely is that the subscribers are getting multiple copies of replies to their posts or they have filter rules that are copying the posts instead of moving them. End original message. - That didn't come out exactly how I meant it. What

Re: [Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers

2007-05-07 Thread bjames
-- Jason LaMar wrote: -- We have a fairly large list (more than 26,000 subscribers), and recently it -- appears a very small fraction of the subscribers have started receiving -- duplicate messages -- sometimes as many as a dozen or more. This behavior -- just started happening within the last

Re: [Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers

2007-05-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dragon wrote: Are you committed to Red Hat's way of doing things? If you don't really care about their file hierarchy system, I would suggest dumping the RPM and compiling from source yourself. Even if you do care about FHS, you can still install from source. RedHat's FHS patch is attached to