[Mailman-Users] Queue delays

2008-01-07 Thread Grigory Batalov
Hello! I have regular delays in message processing. Say, my server (Linux/Postfix) receives a letter at 17:36 and quickly delivers it to the mailman queue (?). Then message is hold for about 25 minutes and is processed again at 18:01. It is strange to me, why mailman keeps the message so long?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Queue delays

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Grigory Batalov wrote: I have regular delays in message processing. Say, my server (Linux/Postfix) receives a letter at 17:36 and quickly delivers it to the mailman queue (?). Then message is hold for about 25 minutes and is processed again at 18:01. It is strange to me, why mailman keeps the

[Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread Troy Knabe
I want to set a list so that users cannot self subscribe. Is there a way to do that? I only see confirm, require approval, or confirm and approve. I would like not allowed Thanks -Troy -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread Troy Knabe
Ok so that brings up 2 questions for me. 1. What would I put to ban everyone from being able to subscribe? 2. If I banned everyone from subscription then I wouldn't be able to add them manually either, or is that not a correct assumption? Thanks -Troy On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:27 AM, charlie

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread charlie derr
Looks like ban_list under Privacy Options will do what you desire. ~c Troy Knabe wrote: I want to set a list so that users cannot self subscribe. Is there a way to do that? I only see confirm, require approval, or confirm and approve. I would like not allowed Thanks

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Troy Knabe wrote: Ok so that brings up 2 questions for me. 1. What would I put to ban everyone from being able to subscribe? ^. Ie, a pattern that matches any address with at least one character. 2. If I banned everyone from subscription then I wouldn't be able to add them manually

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread Barry Finkel
Troy Knabe wrote: I want to set a list so that users cannot self subscribe. Is there a way to do that? I only see confirm, require approval, or confirm and approve. I would like not allowed Thanks -Troy And charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Looks like ban_list under Privacy

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/7/08, Troy Knabe wrote: I want to set a list so that users cannot self subscribe. Is there a way to do that? I only see confirm, require approval, or confirm and approve. I would like not allowed What's wrong with requiring approval, and then just not approving any requests? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

2008-01-07 Thread Jim Coberly
Brad Knowles wrote: On 1/7/08, Troy Knabe wrote: I want to set a list so that users cannot self subscribe. Is there a way to do that? I only see confirm, require approval, or confirm and approve. I would like not allowed What's wrong with requiring approval, and then just not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman won't 'start' - but is working?

2008-01-07 Thread Charles Marcus
I'm trying to be patient, but NO ONE has a clue or idea where I might look to solve this? I've asked here because I'm getting deafening silence on the Gentoo forums too... :( Charles Marcus, on 1/6/2008 1:15 PM, said the following: Anyone? This is actually now a little worse - I updated the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman won't 'start' - but is working?

2008-01-07 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/7/08, Charles Marcus wrote: I'm trying to be patient, but NO ONE has a clue or idea where I might look to solve this? I've asked here because I'm getting deafening silence on the Gentoo forums too... Everything I've seen on this subject leads me to believe that the problems you're

[Mailman-Users] Secure Email List Services using Mailman and GnuPG

2008-01-07 Thread Meenal Pant
This might be of interest to the Mailman User Community. Our team has recently released SELS v0.4 software. http://sels.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ This software release has two parts. One for the List Server (LS), which enables a list administrator to set up a Secure List Server using Mailman and GnuPG.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman won't 'start' - but is working?

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Charles Marcus wrote: I'm trying to be patient, but NO ONE has a clue or idea where I might look to solve this? As Brad says, we don't. Here is an example of the init.d/mailman script that we distribute after 'configure'.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 02:32 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: Look in Defaults.py for things like PREFIX, EXEC_PREFIX and VAR_PREFIX, and then for things defined in terms of these such as LIST_DATA_DIR, LOG_DIR, etc. Then look in mm_cfg.py for possible overrides. - -- Mark

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/7/08, Dennis Putnam wrote: I knew it wasn't going to be that easy. Everything you mentioned seems copacetic. I guess the next question is, can I set some kind of debug that will give me some useful information in the logs? There is no debug mode with Mailman. What you get in the logs

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks again. Please see the embedded responses. At 07:10 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: What does Mailman's bin/list_lists show? It shows my lists correctly. What exactly is in mm_cfg.py and Defaults.py for VAR_PREFIX and LIST_DATA_DIR. Note that if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Queue delays

2008-01-07 Thread Grigory Batalov
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:59:10 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: I have regular delays in message processing. Say, my server (Linux/Postfix) receives a letter at 17:36 and quickly delivers it to the mailman queue (?). Then message is hold for about 25 minutes and is processed again at 18:01. It is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just discovered something that may or may not be useful. Just for grins I tried sending a request to the request mail box. I saw some errors in the syslog but the main one is that there is a group error. The mailman wrapper expected to be run as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Queue delays

2008-01-07 Thread Grigory Batalov
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 03:41:23 +0300, Grigory Batalov wrote: What does Mailman's smtp log look like? Does it show evidence of 'continuous processing'? Well, there are messages like this: Jan 08 01:55:11 2008 (12250) [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp to sisyphus for 1 recips, completed in 30.005

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: At 07:10 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: What does Mailman's bin/list_lists show? It shows my lists correctly. I am confused. Your original post said Well, mailman works but it does not recognize any of my old lists. How do I get Mailman to see the lists again? Now you say

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I just discovered something that may or may not be useful. Just for grins I tried sending a request to the request mail box. I saw some errors in the syslog but the main one is that there is a group error. The mailman wrapper expected to be run as group 'mail' but ran as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Queue delays

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Grigory Batalov wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:59:10 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Why are there 121 messages being retried. What is in Mailman's smtp-failure log? It is full of errors: Jan 08 01:55:00 2008 (13316) All recipients refused: {'[EMAIL PROTECTED]': (450, '4.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Queue delays

2008-01-07 Thread Grigory Batalov
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:31:27 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Why are there 121 messages being retried. What is in Mailman's smtp-failure log? It is full of errors: Jan 08 01:55:00 2008 (13316) All recipients refused: {'[EMAIL PROTECTED]': (450, '4.1.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address