[Mailman-Users] virtual domains

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Westin
I've searched the archives and FAQ for answers, but only see questions with no replies. I hope someone makes a FAQ about virtual domains! (or makes it easier to find if it exists!) I can't get lists on virtual domains to work right. The web pages for the list properly show it as being on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bundle Htdig with Pipermail? -was- How to deletemessages from private archives

2003-01-27 Thread Greg Westin
I agree. htdig and python are both on the redhat cd's. I fear that htdig will become part of the mailman package as pipermail is. I really don't know much about this stuff, but two thoughts: -Not all of us use redhat. So what is or isn't on the redhat cds shouldn't be a deciding factor in

[Mailman-Users] list of lists fodder for spammers?

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Westin
-list if you're getting this via mailman-developers, as I'm not subscribed to that list. I am on mailman-users, though. Greg Westin -- http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] list of lists fodder for spammers?

2003-01-26 Thread Greg Westin
at 12:26, Greg Westin wrote: Hello Mailman folk, I work with a group that provides services to student groups at a university, and we're concerned that a lot of the lists have been picking up spam lately. The prime suspect, at this point, is Mailman's publishing of list names. If you can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Westin
I think what you want to do to fix this is add a carat (^) before the first slash: RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo That way, it only catches it if /mailman occurs at the beginning of the string. Personally, I use a little more inclusive regular

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Westin
Just in case anyone was actually thinking of using that regexp I sent, my limited knowledge tells me that this would be a slightly better incarnation: RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [L,R] Greg On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Greg Westin wrote: I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

2003-01-18 Thread Greg Westin
can use nested parentheses, and I don't know if the PT flag is something I'd want, but whatever works... Greg On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Richard Barrett wrote: At 14:46 18/01/2003, Greg Westin wrote: I think what you want to do to fix this is add a carat (^) before

Re: [Mailman-Users] no public lists in listinfo after move

2003-01-17 Thread Greg Westin
I know this has come up before (maybe not the same issue, but probably - where listinfo doesn't work but admin does) - try searching through the archives of this list. Sorry, but I don't remember what the solution to this is (despite the fact that it happened to me, once!) Greg On Friday,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
Is it possible to set up Mhonarc without re-archiving everything, and then try re-archiving using Mhonarc, but have things such that if I can't get Mhonarc working I can easily re-archive with Pipermail? The FAQ still says A HOWTO for this was posted to the mailman-developers list and should be

Re: [Mailman-Users] misfeature/bug in MM 2.1

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
Why should the list administrator be bothered with having to tend admin requests from spammers and other idiots? Jeff, I assume this is because people are generally more concerned about false positives in spam-checking than they are with having to glance at a few admin requests. I suppose

Re: [Mailman-Users] List names not shown in available lists page.

2003-01-14 Thread Greg Westin
I know that questions of lists showing up on admin pages but not listinfo pages are in the archives, but I don't know if any resolutions for the issue are. Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On 14 Jan 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscriber names

2003-01-14 Thread Greg Westin
This should be in the FAQ, but basically any generally-accepted format should work. For example: User 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Williams, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just make sure there's only one per line. To quote a message from me, quoting a message from Barry, found by

[Mailman-Users] Default Mail host name

2003-01-13 Thread Greg Westin
I'm just setting up my mail server and Mailman 2.1, and noticed that the configure script can't find my proper mail host name. When I ran the script earlier, it came up with my username, which for some reason was the hostname my computer was defaulting to. I changed the hostname in

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 53

2002-12-27 Thread Greg Westin
Check the archives for this... I remember reading posts about this maybe a month ago, but I don't remember if it was solved or not. Sorry I can't be of more help. -Greg From: Steve Rifkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords of members UPDATE WHOA! Here is something

[Mailman-Users] upgrade problem

2002-12-25 Thread Greg Westin
This probably means that you are trying to run check_perms from the source directory. You must run this from the installation directory instead. Did you try doing what it suggests here? Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php

[Mailman-Users] qrunner dying problem

2002-11-26 Thread Greg Westin
archives (I don't know why this is happening, either, but they show up with incorrect permissions). Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Greg Westin --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php { Description = Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing the to: field

2002-10-10 Thread Greg Westin
The To: field has the sender's address in it? Huh? It should have the list address in it. If you mean, is there a way to have each subscriber's address appear in the To: field, rather than the list address, the answer, I believe, is no. This is because Mailman doesn't send the messages one by

[Mailman-Users] Re: mass subscribing users WITH real names

2002-10-09 Thread Greg Westin
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 03:46 AM, Will-Maine wrote: Greg Westin- What is the format of the REAL NAME parameter when you mass subscribe users? I don't see any description in the manuals. Appreciate any guidance you can provide. yahoogroups uses user@domain First LastName as the input

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to remove a list with spaces

2002-10-09 Thread Greg Westin
Dear Paul, I don't know if this would work or not, but have you tried something like: rmlist -a list\ name\ with\ spaces ? Maybe that would work. Greg --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Paul Kiely wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating unique welcome messages.

2002-10-07 Thread Greg Westin
I posted about this, as well, except not the HTML e-mail part. It looks like the answer is no, because you can only customize the message the each list adds to the top of the welcome e-mail, or change the e-mail site-wide. I'd guess that you could modify the welcome e-mail template to make it

Re: [Mailman-Users] customizing welcome messages list by list?

2002-10-03 Thread Greg Westin
So you're saying that there isn't any way to modify it on a list by list basis? Thanks. Greg quote who=Patrick Hsieh Hello Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am running mailman 2.0.13 on Debian testing. In my case, just modify /etc/mailman/subscribeack.txt. On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:12:36

[Mailman-Users] customizing welcome messages list by list?

2002-10-02 Thread Greg Westin
Is there a way to allow list administrators to customize the welcome message sent out to new subscribers, or does this have to be done on a site-wide basis? Thanks, Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php

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] 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] Postfix alias files

2002-09-23 Thread Greg Westin
# STANZA START: test # CREATED: Mon Sep 23 07:49:27 2002 test: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test test-admin: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin test test-bounces: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test . . . # STANZA END: test quote who=Kory Wheatley

[Mailman-Users] launching mailmanctl

2002-09-09 Thread Greg Westin
I'm using Mailman 2.1 on OS X, and wrote a script to start mailmanctl on startup, but it doesn't seem to be working. I have to manually start it with the -s flag later... what does mailmanctl require to start? Maybe I need to have it run at the end of the startup process? Thanks, Greg --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Resetting list admin password if list admin forgot password

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
for production environments. Hope this helped, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote who=David Luu Hi, Is there an easy way to overide a list admin password and reset it to a default password if the admin forgets the password? Changing the password by finding the password within the program scripts

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to mass unsubscribe members

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
Dear David, This feature is on its way... it is available in the 2.1 betas, but these are not recommended for production environments. Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote who=David Luu Hi, I know there is a mass subscribe option in membership management to subscribe people. Is there also

Re: [Mailman-Users] web server user conflict

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
, but then again I deleted those lists pretty quickly, because they were just my attempts to experiment with virtual domains. Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote who=Michael Geary Hi folks, I sense that this may be a FAQ, but I can't find a clear source of information about it. I am running mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] web server user conflict

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
No, I don't have any idea what the problem was, unfortunately. Let me know if you find out, please. Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php quote who=Michael Geary So, you're saying that this has happened to you as well? Did

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem

2002-08-26 Thread Greg Westin
Check out this link: http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#unknown_virtual_loop I'm guessing you don't have Postfix set up properly to receive mail for lists.dstiny.net. Greg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php quote who=MaX Hi, I

[Mailman-Users] Can't create lists from web interface

2002-08-22 Thread Greg Westin
that it didn't report, too. I would think the problem is that somehow these scripts should be running as mailman rather than under the cgi gid, or they won't create list files with owner and group mailman. Please help if you have any ideas. Sincerely, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Bug

[Mailman-Users] Suddenly - a bug

2002-08-21 Thread Greg Westin
. The most recent entry from my apache error log is below. If you have any ideas for me, please help! Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [- Mailman Version: 2.0.13 -] [- Traceback --] Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] A long URL - 2 lines - second line is notclickable.

2002-08-20 Thread Greg Westin
All four of those links work, and none break into two lines. quote who=G. Armour Van Horn What happens when you send a really long link through the system? In this case, I suspect that the line is broken before Mailman ever sees it - it would be broken if you sent it to a standard mail client

Re: [Mailman-Users] MAILMAN- LIST

2002-08-04 Thread Greg Westin
You can do that, as an admin, in the admin section. Or, users can add themselves via the form on the listinfo page. Is there another kind of form you'd want? Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, August 4, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Steven C. Young wrote: is it possible to have mailman add

[Mailman-Users] e-mail addresses in archives

2002-07-15 Thread Greg Westin
this so that the individual's name appears, without changing the list to reply to the individual? Thanks for any help, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman

[Mailman-Users] only mbox appearing

2002-07-15 Thread Greg Westin
Are messages only saved in the archives when posted by list members? Is there a way to change this? I accidentally posted to a list from an e-mail address that's not the one I subscribed from, and I don't see the message in the archives. Thanks, Greg

[Mailman-Users] Lists show in admin but not listinfo

2002-07-14 Thread Greg Westin
For some reason, my publicly-advertised lists are showing up on the admin page, but not on the listinfo page. Does anyone know why this could be? Thanks, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Mailman-Users] archives only display list e-mail

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Westin
to be working fine, but when I look at my archives, I notice that it displays the list e-mail address next to every person's name, rather than that person's e-mail address. Is that normal? Is there any way to change that? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Mailman-Users] Mailman home HTML

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Westin
about changing the HTML for other things, like the listinfo page or something? Would that be a poor idea on my part, or would it just be harmless fiddling? Thanks for contributing to this UNIX-newbie's education, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Mailman-Users] OS X installation

2002-07-06 Thread Greg Westin
directory, etc... but configure doesn't work. Do you have any ideas? Thanks, Greg Westin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org