[Mailman-Users] Customizing listinfo HTML

2001-09-28 Thread Jim Kutter
Hello folks. I was wondering how to customize the listinfoHTML page to include my site's custom headers and footers - similar to how Apple customized their listinfo page. I can customize a per-list listinfo page, but I would like to modifiy the main listinfo page... Any suggestions on how

Re: [Mailman-Users] Clear archives

2001-09-28 Thread Jon Carnes
I have in my server : mailman 2.0.5. and i wonder if i clear some messages from an archieve ? I think, I could clear the file in the server... but is there an other way ? thanks fur your help Xavier In the past, I've just edited the Archive files. On the bright side, you should be able

Re: [Mailman-Users] Customizing listinfo HTML

2001-09-28 Thread Jon Carnes
Hello folks. I was wondering how to customize the listinfo HTML page to include my site's custom headers and footers - similar to how Apple customized their listinfo page. I can customize a per-list listinfo page, but I would like to modifiy the main listinfo page... Any suggestions on how to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Customizing listinfo HTML

2001-09-28 Thread Jim Kutter
That one is the template for list specific pages. Not the main listinfo page that list all the lists on the site. Something tells me I might have to edit pyhton code to achieve the result I desire. -jim - Original Message - From: Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim Kutter [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] What is Error decoding authorization cookie?

2001-09-28 Thread Nancy Montano
One of the list managers is unable to manage his mailing lists. He longs in to the admin page of his lists but when he tries to submit a change or attempt any other administrative duty, he receives the following: Error decoding authorization cookie. He recently moved out of the area and is now

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is Error decoding authorization cookie?

2001-09-28 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 9/28/01 1:56 PM, Nancy Montano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error decoding authorization cookie. He recently moved out of the area and is now using a Satellite connection. This is the only change he has made. That's enough -- he's now going through a proxy server, and I've seen problems

Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOSTNAME? (fwd)

2001-09-28 Thread eric-mailman
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Greg Ward wrote: One possibility is to see what the system resolver thinks your hostname is. Try this: $ python Python 2.1 (#2, May 8 2001, 10:50:59) [GCC 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2 Type copyright, credits or license for more information.

Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOSTNAME?

2001-09-28 Thread eric-mailman
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Paul Cox wrote: Why don't you just edit mm_cfg.py to contain the hostname that you want? It's easy... here's the relevant part of mine: ### # Here's where we get the distributed defaults. from Defaults import *

Re: [Mailman-Users] support of attachments?

2001-09-28 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 September 2001, Anmar M. Al-Massari said: i just want to know does mailman supports mail attachments? Yes, just like any other low-level mail-handling tool. MIME messages look like any other messages to Mailman, and it happily passes them on to list subscribers. The main problem with

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman failing to use /mailman/alias when calling .cgi scripts

2001-09-28 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 September 2001, Jon Carnes said: In the admin setup, under General Options what is the Base URL set to? Based on your example above, it should be: http://mydomain.com/mailman/ If you left off the /mailman/ on the end, then that would account for what you described... I suspect

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mail-From: Authentification

2001-09-28 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 September 2001, Franz Georg K?hler said: Unfortunately, I need mailman to just use the from:-Header as authentification, due to the fact that exim prevents me from changing my sender header to the address which i'm using on mailing lists. If you have root privileges on the Exim server

[Mailman-Users] Clear archives

2001-09-28 Thread Xavier NOEL LARDIN
I have in my server : mailman 2.0.5. and i wonder if i clear some messages from an archieve ? I think, I could clear the file in the server... but is there an other way ? thanks fur your help Xavier -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disaster Recovery - 2 Questions

2001-09-28 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:04:34 -0500 Jeffrey M Kenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe my questions are self-explanatory now, but here goes anyway: if the manager of a particular list loses the admin password for that list, how can I, as the site administrator, regenerate one? You can use the

[Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOSTNAME? (fwd)

2001-09-28 Thread listener
Here are the system values that I set before configuring: `hostname www` `hostname funkymonkeybutt.com` Here are the settings I used to configure Mailman: --build=funkymonkeybutt.com --host=www --target=/cgi-bin/mailman ...and the values I used in Mailman/mm-cfg.py (Pay special

[Mailman-Users] Is it possible to run these together?

2001-09-28 Thread stormlrd
Hi, Can Mailman-2.0.6 be run in conjunction to an exim setup using http://www.netd.co.za/mysql-mail/ as the configuration? Where do the aliases that are generated by the newlist command go? in the /etc/aliases file or the auth tables in the mysql db? My Mailman is generating a subscription

[Mailman-Users] Importing archives

2001-09-28 Thread Mike Avery
I'm in the process of migrating from another list server, Mercury by David Harris. One of the important things in the old mailing list is the archives. So, I'd like to convert them or migrate them. The existing archives are flat text files, not even mime. There are delimiters at the end

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing users

2001-09-28 Thread Jon Carnes
I'm in the process of converting from another list server to Mail-Man. I see that I can add users through the admin web interface, but I am concerned. When someone adds themselves to a list, they are prompted for a password. When I add a list, there is no password prompt. How does this

[Mailman-Users] Publicly-advertised lists not listed by listinfo

2001-09-28 Thread eric-mailman
Hello: Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this schizophrenic behavior: * admin [correctly] lists the publicly advertised mailing lists. * listinfo does not. -- Eric P. Los Gatos, CA -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOSTNAME? (cont'd)

2001-09-28 Thread Eric Pretorious
Paul Cox's recommendations (DEFAULT_HOSTNAME, DEFAULT_URL, and DEFAULT_OWNER) patched things up pretty nicely. There still seems to be some discrepancy in the values that Mailman uses to identify itself (in the blue banner across the top of the page): * admin uses the DEFAULT_HOSTNAME value in

[Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_HOSTNAME? (cont'd)

2001-09-28 Thread Eric Pretorious
Paul Cox's recommendations (DEFAULT_HOSTNAME, DEFAULT_URL, and DEFAULT_OWNER) patched things up pretty nicely. There still seems to be some discrepancy in the values that Mailman uses to identify itself (in the blue banner across the top of the page): * admin uses the DEFAULT_HOSTNAME value in

[Mailman-Users] Is this a feature or a bug?

2001-09-28 Thread listener
I have a brand-new installed Mailman 2.0.6 on mydomain.com. I set up an announcement list configured as follow: host_name mydomain.com (default) reply_goes_to_list Explicit Address reply_to_address [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact, I want to force all replies to some contact address on another

[Mailman-Users] Umbrella_List Option?

2001-09-28 Thread listener
An Umbrella List is a list of other lists. For example, you have the following lists running in Mailman: ThreeBlindMice: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ThreeBears: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ThreeMenNaTub: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Is this a feature or a bug?

2001-09-28 Thread listener
reply_to_address [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..] Messages go out fine, but the Reply-To header is created as Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you use sendmails MASQUERADE_AS and/or any of the masquerade FEATUREs? Sendmail has puzzled me with those settings and reply_to_address, until I turned all