Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-29 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:10:53AM -0500, Barry S. Finkel wrote: On 8/28/2015 3:03 AM, Will Yardley wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:37:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark writes: First, apologies if this has been discussed before. I run a number of mailman lists on a Centos

Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:37:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark writes: First, apologies if this has been discussed before. I run a number of mailman lists on a Centos 6 platform and mailman 2.1.12-25. This version was updated in July as follows:

Re: [Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-26 Thread Will Yardley
ps - Here are a couple of quick throwaway 'withlist' scripts I threw together to add a regexp matching the spammers' email addresses, and to purge pending subscription requests matching a similar regexp. Posting here in case someone finds them useful for this, or some other, purpose. % cat

[Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-25 Thread Will Yardley
I'm seeing massive numbers of subscription lists to various lists we host (including multiple requests to the same list). These are submitted via a distributed network of hosts, presumably botnet victims / open proxies. The requests are from foo+[0-9]{9}@gmail.com e.g., foo+55216394@ where

Re: [Mailman-Users] list subscription spammers

2015-08-25 Thread Will Yardley
And, self-followup, I had looked on list.org before, but hadn't checked the archives, so seems clear that the behavior is common. Running the RHEL5 Mailman currently (2.1.9) so still don't have the SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET feature yet. Mostly curious about the motivation behind this - what do these

Re: [Mailman-Users] need assistance upgrading Mailman

2015-08-25 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 03:32:04PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark Sapiro writes: On August 24, 2015 12:44:02 PM PDT, Nina Nicholson nnichol...@dioceseofnewark.org wrote: Andrew - I am using Plesk, and Mailman does interface with it. According to the FAQ at

[Mailman-Users] .psv files in /var/spool/mailman/in 2.1.9

2014-08-19 Thread Will Yardley
I found some .psv files in /var/spool/mailman/in/ (RHEL 5 Mailman package; 2.1.9). That seems to be too early for the stuff mentioned here (and I don't see those options in Defaults.py) https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-June/066395.html Is it safe to remove old .psv files in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Redacted Email Address in Feedback Loop

2014-08-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 04:55:52PM -0700, Peter Knowles wrote: What is the best way to deal with feedback loop messages where the provider has redacted the email address of the party who filed the complaint? I haven't looked at a FBL message for a while, but most of the ones I've seen didn't

[Mailman-Users] non-interactive newlist, but send notification

2014-01-27 Thread Will Yardley
Looking at the code, I think I know the answer already, but is there any way (with Mailman 2.1.9) to send a notification to the list owner when a list is created, but do it in non-interactive mode? Right now, you have to use '-q' to avoid hitting enter, but then no notification to the list-owner

[Mailman-Users] odd address confirmation spam

2013-07-22 Thread Will Yardley
It seems someone is trying to forge-subscribe certain addresses (mostly AOL / Yahoo / Gmail etc. addresses) on our Mailman install. For example, (slightly sanitized, though the IP address is the real one): [19/Jul/2013:09:49:17 -0700] 137.117.103.83 TLSv1 RC4-SHA GET

Re: [Mailman-Users] odd address confirmation spam

2013-07-22 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:31:03PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Will Yardley mail...@veggiechinese.net: It seems someone is trying to forge-subscribe certain addresses (mostly AOL / Yahoo / Gmail etc. addresses) on our Mailman install. Which version of mailman is that? 2.1.9. And yes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-member posting to the list

2012-11-13 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:03:32PM -0200, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes wrote: In my case, I found that the return-path header is the address of the original sender, so how could I add a rule in mailman to deny posts with return-path's address that are not members? The envelope-sender can also be

Re: [Mailman-Users] A simple unsubscribe

2012-07-28 Thread William Yardley
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 06:39:06PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0400 Brian Canty bca...@apsa.org wrote: Hello - I was wondering if anyone has a way to provide subscribers a simple and easy way to unsubscribe from a mailing list. I do not What's wrong with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread William Yardley
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:58:46PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have no idea why AOL wants to make it difficult for list administrators to unsubscribe people who don't want to be subscribed and who complain to AOL about list posts being spam. To prevent listwashing or retaliation, for one

Re: [Mailman-Users] Batch Add/Remove Users via Mail

2012-03-30 Thread William Yardley
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:51:54PM +0200, Leo Hackstein wrote: On 27/03/2012 21:19, Mark Sapiro wrote: See the latter portion of the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/uIA9. Thank you very much, haven't seen that before. Using wget sounds a bit counterintuitive, but it seems to work. You can do

[Mailman-Users] spam filtering messages containing certain 8 bit characters

2011-10-12 Thread William Yardley
Does Mailman base64 decode the subject before applying a regex, and if so, can I use UTF-8 character names in the regex to match various types of 8-bit characters? Say, for example, that I want to block messages with 电话卡 somewhere in the subject line. Obviously, the actual raw Subject header

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription without confirmation or approval.

2011-08-25 Thread William Yardley
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:54:42PM -0400, Jack Barnes wrote: We want to have users subscribe to a list but we don't want to require approval or confirmation. Under privacy options there isn't an option for this. These lists are outgoing only for the most part, and these are lists for school

Re: [Mailman-Users] per-list personalization without enabling OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE...

2011-05-03 Thread William Yardley
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:43:15PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: William Yardley wrote: Also, is it possible to toggle personalization under the hood (using withlist / config_list to set 'mlist.personalize = 2') /without/ enabling OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION globally? I have a case where

Re: [Mailman-Users] per-list personalization without enablingOWNERS_CAN_ENABLE...

2011-05-03 Thread William Yardley
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:07:41PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: For example, you *could* put the following in msg_footer. This is *definitely not recommended* because despite the warning, users will leave this in replies and forwards, but ... Thanks. In this case, it's exactly what I want,

[Mailman-Users] per-list personalization without enabling OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE...

2011-04-27 Thread William Yardley
http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030545 seems to suggest that it's possible to enable personalization (for headers / footers of messages), without enabling VERP itself (for the envelope-sender of messages). Is that correct? Some of the mailing list messages I have seen seem to

Re: [Mailman-Users] (OT) Newbie with recurring frustrations!

2008-01-23 Thread William Yardley
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:14:02AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Brandon Sussman writes: I have had good luck so far with Dreamhost's Mailman support - they have some folks who seem to care and know Mailman fairly well. That's interesting, considering that there was some hair-pulling

[Mailman-Users] quick script to rebuild subscriber list from logs

2006-09-01 Thread William Yardley
So I had a list configuration get hosed recently, and unfortunately, my only backups were from after the configuration got hosed. Fortunately, I had a Mailman subscription log dating back to before the list was created, so I decided to throw together a little script to rebuild the subscriber

Re: [Mailman-Users] quick script to rebuild subscriber list from logs

2006-09-01 Thread William Yardley
Ok - so the attachment got stripped. Anyway, it's up at: http://veggiechinese.net/rebuild_subscriber_list.txt w -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message IDs Security

2006-08-23 Thread William Yardley
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:23:08PM +, Jon Loose wrote: I have just set up a new mailman list, which is working well. Thanks to the developers for this software. Very useful indeed. On looking at the downloadable archives, the message ids are very long indeed (over 100 characters). I

[Mailman-Users] weird (occasional) random discards

2006-08-18 Thread William Yardley
I've occasionally seen an issue where Mailman seems to randomly discard messages. I don't think the sender canceled via the web, because there's no: Reason: Sender discarded message via web. in the log, and I don't see anything in my web access logs from around then. I approved the message via

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird (occasional) random discards

2006-08-18 Thread William Yardley
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:27:59PM -0500, Dan Phillips wrote: On Aug 18, 2006, at 7:25 PM, William Yardley wrote: [ CCing the list too, in case it's useful to anyone) Any ideas? Do you have content filtering set to remove html? If the message was a single part text/html and html

Re: [Mailman-Users] site administration question

2006-08-16 Thread William Yardley
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:46:03PM -0400, Larry Johnson wrote: In the meantime we're having serious space issues with the current machine, and I have a question about the way the messages are stored here. In the archive directories under the list name messages seem to be stored in three

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question About Re-generated Mailing Lists

2006-08-14 Thread William Yardley
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:07:45PM -0500, Barry Finkel wrote: We have a number of non-subscription lists - the e-mail lists are re-generated each evening from an external database. The persons on each re-generated list have no say as to their subscriptions to the list. With majordomo, we

Re: [Mailman-Users] delete or edit message in archives?

2006-08-03 Thread William Yardley
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:35:48PM -0400, Bill Howe wrote: Is there a way to edit a portion of a message on the archive? a subscriber accidently included some language she would like vedited out. See http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/faq.html Q. I want to get rid of some messages in my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help for small non-profit

2006-07-30 Thread William Yardley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:11:32AM -0400, Marty Beilin wrote: We are a small non-profit organization. We send out a few email announcements each month using Mailman residing at our website hosting service. We are moving our website to another hosting service that does not offer mass

[Mailman-Users] mutt script / macro for mailman moderation?

2006-07-24 Thread William Yardley
In case it's helpful to anyone, I put the first draft of a little script for mutt to simplify moderation tasks. Feedback welcome. Thought I'd post here in case it's useful to anyone. http://veggiechinese.net/mutt_mailman_approve.txt It's a perl script; it requires File::Copy, File::Temp and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: error when running arch

2004-09-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:41:16PM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote: On Sep 30, 2004, at 03:16, Will Yardley wrote: Anything further I can do to debug this? Any idea what the MemoryError refers to? How large are your archives? The mbox file is about 55M The whole indexed archive directory

[Mailman-Users] error when running arch

2004-09-29 Thread Will Yardley
I got the following error when rebuilding archives for a list (OpenBSD Mailman 2.1.5 installed from OpenBSD ports. It turned out the actual problem was a permissions problem on /var/spool/mailman/lists/[listname] (it was owned by root:_mailman instead of _mailman:_mailman). Should I file a bug

[Mailman-Users] Re: error when running arch

2004-09-29 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:25:37AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: Should I file a bug about this (that the error isn't more specific)? It would be much more helpful if this said Cannot write to /var/spool/mailman/lists/nord-modular or something rather than MemoryError. Eep. I take that back

[Mailman-Users] couple quick questions - mailman on obsd

2004-09-05 Thread Will Yardley
So I installed Mailman from ports on OpenBSD 3.5, and added the following to mm_cfg.py after from Defaults import * DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mailman.code404.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mailman.code404.com' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) yet messages that are sent out still

[Mailman-Users] Re: couple quick questions - mailman on obsd

2004-09-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 10:18:55AM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 04:57:50PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) yet messages that are sent out still reference localhost.my.domain. Did you create the list(s) before

[Mailman-Users] Re: Removing on behalf of

2004-06-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:19:12PM +0200, Thomas Hochstein wrote: John S. Strock schrieb: How do I remove the On behalf of in the 'From' field? There *is* no on behalf of in the Fom:-field. You just have to use a client that does not show it that way. This is just the way some versions

[Mailman-Users] Has anyone thought of using subject lines on their emails?

2004-05-27 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 01:34:51PM -0400, PC Specialties Inc wrote: Has anyone thought of numbering the attachments so they match the topic list ? -- Since when is skepticism un-American? Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same... (Sleater-Kinney - Combat Rock)

[Mailman-Users] Re: footers

2004-03-23 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:43:05PM -0500, jsingh wrote: When I send an attachement, why does the footer come as an attachement if I use rich text or html format? what do I need to do for the footer to appear normally at the end of the body of the message rather than as an attachement. I'm

[Mailman-Users] weird mailman hangs

2004-03-05 Thread Will Yardley
I've been seeing some weird hangs with Mailman in the last few days. We have a large number of lists, running 2.1.4 w/ htdig patches. This is a system that's been running with no problems for quite a while (without any major changes that I'm aware of). In most cases, removing all lockfiles other

[Mailman-Users] Re: Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:45:16PM -0800, Mark Dadgar wrote: On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: I can go back through the 90's, into the mid-80's if length of time is the important criteria here. I have multiple gigabytes of e-mail on my current system, and untold

[Mailman-Users] Re: GnuPG Integration?

2004-01-15 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:19:58AM -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote: Hi. My team would like to run a mailing list with another team external to the company, but verything needs to be GnuPG encrypted. Those who post to the mailing list must encrypt it with the mailing list account's public key,

[Mailman-Users] Re: 2.1.2 with postfix(some progress)

2004-01-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:16:08PM -0800, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 14:27, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: Installed 2.1.2 on Mandrake 9.1 with postfix 20031231. Install was by rpm from the mandrake site. Followed the readme.postfix. Got the web interface up and running

[Mailman-Users] mailmanctl -s

2003-12-12 Thread Will Yardley
Still haven't gotten a response on this, other than the fact that other people have noticed the same thing (wrote to the list about it a long time back). When mailmanctl is run with -s (supposedly kills stale locks), Mailman spits out the default usage summary, and then No command given.. Same

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailmanctl -s

2003-12-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:16:04PM -0500, Todd wrote: Will Yardley wrote: When mailmanctl is run with -s (supposedly kills stale locks), Mailman spits out the default usage summary, and then No command given.. Same with --stale-lock-cleanup. This command also fails to clean up stale

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailmanctl -s

2003-12-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do most folks do so that Mailman will restart when the system is restarted uncleanly? Could having the system's startup script (assuming a FreeBSD style or SysV style startup script

[Mailman-Users] Re: Wrapping long lines in Mailman

2003-11-11 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:03:29AM -0800, Will Froning wrote: I have Mailman 2.1.1 w/ htDig running on FreeBSD 4.8. I have a particular user (read CIO) that never uses the Enter key when composing messages. So besides making the archive just plain ugly with these infinitely long lines, his

[Mailman-Users] Re: mailman AOL's Client TOS notification

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:33:57PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: Ricardo Kustner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my current situation is that my ISP is risking to get blacklisted and I can't do anything about it except for shutting down the lists or remove block all AOL users :( Yes, they

[Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman AOL's Client TOS notification)

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:36:58AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:54 AM, Ricardo Kustner wrote: I wish I could do that: my current mailman setup doesn't put the user's address in the To: address and since those wonderful AOL reports only include the original

Re: [Mailman-Users] personalization (was Re: mailman AOL's Client TOS notification)

2003-11-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:55:43AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: On Nov 4, 2003, at 10:52 AM, Will Yardley wrote: Do we *really* need this feature on the mailman-users list? Does anyone actually find it helpful? god, yes. Please don't assume everyone on your lists is a geek with perfect

[Mailman-Users] Re: Threading and In-Reply-To

2003-11-03 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:59:33PM -0600, McKeever Chris wrote: I have noticed that the threading on our archive does not work, looking through the Mailman Faq/Archive, I have learned that this is typically caused by the In-Reply-To not being supported via the Mail Client. Looking at the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman and Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:54:58PM -0500, Pascal Blanchette wrote: I was wondering if there was a reason why the only Mailman version available as a stable debian package is version 2.0.11? Version 2.1.3 is marked as unstable. Is the new version still in beta or is it ready to be deployed

[Mailman-Users] Re: Hosting companies

2003-10-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:50:59PM -0600, Dale schibbelhut wrote: My current hosting company does not want Mailman on their servers. Other than that I am quite satisfied with their service. I am looking for a company that will host lists using mailman software. Does anybody have any

[Mailman-Users] Re: [spam] being added to subject

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:07:20PM -0700, Mike Chambers wrote: I just set up mailman-2.1-8. Everything is working fine except it adds [spam] to every single message to the list. I have looked through the admin, and the docs and cannot figure out how to prevent this. Any suggestions? Is the

[Mailman-Users] Re: [spam] being added to subject

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:06:45PM -0700, Mike Chambers wrote: No. It is not spam (I double checked that). So the subject looks like this: [spam][listname]subject here More than likely, then, this is due to a spam filter that has nothing to do with Mailman. Are you sure that such a spam

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mail not getting through to AOL

2003-10-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:31:02AM -0400, Sean wrote: You're best bet is to have your AOL users complain to AOL directly about not getting their mail. I've been dealing with this for two years and have got nowhere contact AOL. Their postmaster and anti-spam departments have gotten a lot more

[Mailman-Users] Re: Clear Cache

2003-10-08 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:25:00PM +, Hostmaster wrote: On our maiden voyage, we were mass subscribing to our list when we realized it was sending the subscription message for each address. We decided we did not want this, so we stopped the MTA. Now, we have lots of unsent messages in

[Mailman-Users] not allowing mass-subscription (web interface)

2003-10-03 Thread Will Yardley
Is there an option to disable mass-subscription from the web interface, so that users can't add non-confirmed addresses themselves? Is there an option to require re-confirmation for addresses added (I guess only allowing invite but not subscribe would take care of this. Lastly, is there a way to

[Mailman-Users] affecting public name of list

2003-10-03 Thread Will Yardley
Is it possible to change the public email address of a list (that reported in the rfc2369 headers, message footers, etc.) while maintaining a different name internally? Would there be any obvious problems I'm missing with such a feature? For our virtually hosted lists, we need independent

[Mailman-Users] Re: not allowing mass-subscription (web interface)

2003-10-03 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:07:54PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: This would be a fairly simple hack to the source. You would simply grep for the option you want to comment out and when you find it in the source, comment it out. Then it won't appear in the web pages (that would be for every

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sobig forces unsubscribes

2003-09-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:04:19PM -0400, Rob Carlson wrote: My list owners are getting Sobig files bounced to them through the administrative addresses. One of their ISPs has decided to reject those relayed messages with a 550 User Unknown because they contain Sobig. The mailman-owner gets

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sobig forces unsubscribes

2003-09-02 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:05:51PM -0400, Rob Carlson wrote: On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 19:59 US/Eastern, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: My list owners are getting Sobig files bounced to them through the administrative addresses. One of their ISPs has decided to reject those relayed messages

[Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:00:53PM -0700, jsmith wrote: [ Two layers of miserable Lookout! TOFU corrected ] My Footers are being sent to our mailing list participants as Attachments rather than being inserted into the message text. Please advise what I setup incorrectly and what I

[Mailman-Users] Re: mail server recommendations?

2003-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:43:54PM -0400, Raymond Wood wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:13:10AM +0200, Brad Knowles imagined: For smaller sites, or sites wishing to have a simpler configuration file, I find that postfix generally works very well. It has one of the simplest configuration

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Footer ?

2003-08-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:58:22PM -0700, jsmith wrote: [ Stop top posting! ] If you've really tried sending mail from all these other mailers, why does THIS message have the footer as part of the message body and not as an attachment? I have asked that question so many times here and get

[Mailman-Users] Re: non-member bounces

2003-08-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:19:38PM -0400, Clay Stuckey wrote: Is there a way to allow posts from all non members? I have 20 or so lists for my company. I want to allow anyone to email any list even it they are not a member. I am using this purely as a centrally managed group email solution.

[Mailman-Users] Re: non-member bounces

2003-08-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:19:38PM -0400, Clay Stuckey wrote: Is there a way to allow posts from all non members? I have 20 or so lists for my company. I want to allow anyone to email any list even it they are not a member. I am using this purely as a centrally managed group email solution.

[Mailman-Users] Re: So far, I'm very disappointed with Mailman

2003-07-05 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:51:44PM -0700, SysAdmin wrote: I've had nothing but problems with it. Majordomo sucked, but at least it stayed up and running. So don't use it. -- Since when is skepticism un-American? Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same... (Sleater-Kinney -

[Mailman-Users] Re: Flat Threads when posting usingOutlook/Exchange clients

2003-06-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:56:59PM -0700, Roy Santos wrote: I have seen a few postings regarding problems getting flat threads while posting using Outlook clients. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03011.html. But what I haven't seen is an answer on how or what needs

[Mailman-Users] Re: Starting qrunner for FreeBSD

2003-06-26 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:10:20AM +0200, Amardeo Sarma wrote: I am a newbie and running Mailman 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.7 / VPSv2, which works with the old technique of running qrunner every minute from cron. The INSTALL instructions give some hints on how to start the qrunner daemon at startup

[Mailman-Users] Re: Red Hat 9 - Mailman not working out of the box

2003-06-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:59:04AM +1000, Peter Russell wrote: Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee (or responsible for delivery of the message to the addressee), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Commercial provider for Mailman 2.1?

2003-06-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:41:57PM -0700, Karen G. Schneider wrote: However, at present Dreamhost is using Mailman 2.0.13, and there are several must-have features I need for two large lists I manage (5,000 and 16,000 subscribers). The last time I checked, they were testing 2.1 but hadn't

[Mailman-Users] Re: Majordomo-style moderation

2003-06-10 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:30:16AM +0400, Moscow School of Human Rights wrote: In my opinion the only and very important trait of Mailman is impossibility to moderate the lists in Majordomo style, by adding approved: password line at the top of technical e-mail message and then sending it to

[Mailman-Users] possible bug with mail confirmation

2003-04-04 Thread Will Yardley
I wrote earlier about some suggested improvements with the confirmation by mail function. Here's another thing - if you insert an 'Approved: ' string that's incorrect, the message is deleted (in a way that's unrecoverable, AFAICT). My suggestion is that you get an error message back instead,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

2003-03-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:34:02AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: In DNS you would have something like: lists.mlsnet.com.A 216.216.23.43 MX 10 lists.mlsnet.com MX 100 mail.mlsnet.com In this scenario all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

2003-03-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:57:47PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote: OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am getting a connection

[Mailman-Users] Re: Internal Domain Resolution

2003-03-31 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:10:59PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote: Here is a chunk of the maillog file. Mar 31 12:01:57 localhost sendmail[780]: h2SKs2Rg011995: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=2+20:07:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6439538, relay=mail.majorleaguesoccer.com.,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record

2003-03-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:38:15PM -0500, Sullivan, John wrote: Ahh that's my problem - I can NOT connect to port 25. Can someone help me out with trying to get that working? My deadline is quickly approaching and I am nervous. It sounds from your original message like you're using Red

[Mailman-Users] Re: filtering Importance headers

2003-03-24 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: Is there a way that Mailman can remove certain headers before a message is posted to a list? In particular, I want to remove the Importance header, which some posters will set to high or urgent unnecessarily. Some MUAs do all kinds

[Mailman-Users] Re: subscribers' passwords

2003-03-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:09:24AM -0500, Duke wrote: I recently installed Mailman, replacing Majordomo, and I just used the mass subscription feature and fed it my Majordomo subscriber lists. I'm wondering what, if any, my subscribers' initial passwords are, or how I could set them. I

[Mailman-Users] Re: sitewide list

2003-03-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:21:45PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:48, Mark McEahern wrote: 3. Is there any reason to display this site-wide list in the list of lists displayed by listinfo? No. This should always be a private list. I was wondering about this - the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Archives and Attachments

2003-03-06 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:02:45PM -0800, Staven Bruce wrote: We are using Mailman 2.0.13 with Sendmail 8.12 on a RedHat Linux 8.0 system. We send 'Word' and '.pdf' documents once a month or so to our mailing list. Is there a way for these files to be retained as separate attachments in

[Mailman-Users] Another feature request (for email commands)

2003-02-19 Thread Will Yardley
A couple other feature requests 1) A setting which lets people confirm their own messages (as with TMDA) - this way lists can stay open but still require some sort of confirmation before letting a message through. 2) The response from email confirmation is the same, whether or not the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Another feature request (for email commands)

2003-02-19 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:26:30PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:41:53 -0800 Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple other feature requests 1) A setting which lets people confirm their own messages (as with TMDA) - this way lists can stay open but still

[Mailman-Users] Re: plain text vs html email (no footers in html email)

2003-02-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:42:44PM -0900, Andy Firman wrote: Couple of quick questions to the Mailman gurus. And I apologize in advance if this is not appropriate for this list. I think almost all of your problems will be fixed if you upgrade to Mailman v 2.1.1. -- Since when is skepticism

[Mailman-Users] feature request (email confirmation)

2003-02-05 Thread Will Yardley
It seems like it would be nice to setup a method of confirmation for *approving* messages that uses a unique token instead of the list password; while (hopefully) in most cases, the moderator will be sending approval messages over SSL or from the same machine the list is on, it seems like a bad

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Bug] Cookie from older version

2003-01-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:14:05AM +, Simon White wrote: 29-Jan-03 at 13:37, Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : If you have an old cookie from Mailman 2.0.x, you'll have to re-login for every page until you manually clear the cookie from your browser (after upgrading to 2.1

[Mailman-Users] Re: 'Pre-sales' questions...

2003-01-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:06:22PM +, Simon White wrote: 29-Jan-03 at 09:32, Abbo Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : Before I consider Mailman as a newsletter mail list solution, I have a few questions. I hope you have time to answer them... I hope the 'Pre-sales' part is a joke...

[Mailman-Users] cc headers in 2.1

2003-01-29 Thread Will Yardley
Since upgrading to 2.1, I notice that instead of: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Realname [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Q. Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The headers appear as: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Realname [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John Q. Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this

[Mailman-Users] Re: Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-20 Thread Will Yardley
assuming that your nfs server and kernel deal with locking properly, but I don't know how much risk there would be with this method. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net . -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Mailman-Users] HTML mail (was Re: Can I approve a mailing from the command line?)

2002-11-20 Thread Will Yardley
better, but we all know how likely that is to happen. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net . -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org

[Mailman-Users] Re: Carriage Return in Archives

2002-11-19 Thread Will Yardley
to word wrap at sending time because so many brain-damaged message viewers are out there. But it is still a messy and hopefully short-lived kludge. Well the convention is still to use the lowest common denominator and wrap at 80 characters (generally 72-74). -- Will Yardley input: william

[Mailman-Users] Re: preferred sendmail replacement?

2002-10-21 Thread Will Yardley
of qmail, although I've used it in the past. See http://lifewithoutqmail.org/. Exim would also be worth looking into. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net . -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Mailman-Users] Re: spam

2002-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
itself can solve. v2.1 authenticates on envelope as well. Does it do this by default? This sounds like a bad idea as forging the envelope-sender is pretty trivial (and common), and there's no reason that the envelope-sender needs to match the 'From:' header. -- Will Yardley input: william

[Mailman-Users] Re: Re: One Button Direct Subscription

2002-10-02 Thread Will Yardley
confirm the subscription; otherwise anyone can subscribe anyone else to your list. This is known as confirmed opt-in, and if you don't use a system like this, you're very likely to get booted by your ISP for spamming. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net

[Mailman-Users] confirm problems with beta mailman?

2002-09-30 Thread Will Yardley
: XX at code404 dot com (Will Yardley) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: confirm 8a73a2be104ba0be21f1516299b4d8f3d00b4483 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Status: RO Content-Length: 443 Lines

[Mailman-Users] Re: members of a list

2002-09-29 Thread Will Yardley
Elisha Wong wrote: Just wonder if I get a text file of all the members of a list I could not find any options in the web interface $mailman_base/bin/list_members -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net . -- Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] Re: force plain text format mail

2002-09-26 Thread Will Yardley
Patrick Hsieh wrote: Is there any way to configure mailman to convert HTML mail to plain text format before delivery? If not, is there any patch available? See the FAQ. Either use the beta version or pipe mail through demime or stripmime first. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq

[Mailman-Users] cookies on beta version

2002-09-25 Thread Will Yardley
version from the Mailman site - is this intentional? Even if I go to the specific site for the beta version, the only links I can find are to the sourceforge page (where I was able to download the beta), or the link to the stable version. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream . net

[Mailman-Users] Re: Stopping PGP signatures

2002-09-20 Thread Will Yardley
(clearsigned) messages. I believe this is probably the behavior you want. Given the fact that most MUAs do not support PGP/MIME and many can't read PGP/MIME messages at all, I don't think that demiming this type of attachment is a bad idea at all. -- Will Yardley input: william @ hq . newdream

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