[Mailman-Users] [Mailman-User]Localhost settings

2007-11-01 Thread Smita
Hi I have installed and configured mailman One issue is still remaining please help me regarding .. need some help how do settings related to web interface my company url is www.google.com/a/oscpro.in and my mail-Id is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also my gmail-id is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web server is

[Mailman-Users] How to change the creation of a new list email from the through-the-web interface?

2007-11-01 Thread Williams, Paul
We are planning to implement spam blocking as I found in some postings on the net. Presenty, when we create a new list it sends an email of the form The mailing list `xyz' has been created via the through-the-web interface. In order to complete the activation of this mailing list, the proper

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Steven **
But those two files are identical. -Steven On 11/1/07, Steve Burling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On November 1, 2007 8:59:53 PM -0500 Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. $ cat /etc/aliases ## mailman mailing list mailman: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman

[Mailman-Users] User aliases

2007-11-01 Thread Mikael Hansen
I am sorry to ask such a basic question, but would it be possible for a list member (or the moderator or the list admin or the site admin) to create a user alias, defined as allowing a user's second email address to post to a list based on the membership of that user's primary email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Brad Knowles
On 11/1/07, Steven ** wrote: Seems like my [EMAIL PROTECTED] listinquestion lines are not being parsed. Are those supposed to go in the aliases file? I'm thinking no. So, where should they be? Yes, in the aliases file. However, you should have a colon after the alias and before the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Brad Knowles
On 11/1/07, Steven ** wrote: 3. $ cat /etc/aliases [ ... deletia ... ] $ sudo newaliases WARNING: local host name (montgoss-server) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? /etc/mail/aliases: 21 aliases, longest 52 bytes, 1218 bytes total Note that these two file names are

Re: [Mailman-Users] User aliases

2007-11-01 Thread Brad Knowles
On 11/1/07, Mikael Hansen wrote: I am sorry to ask such a basic question, but would it be possible for a list member (or the moderator or the list admin or the site admin) to create a user alias, defined as allowing a user's second email address to post to a list based on the membership

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Steven **
Upon further inspection, they are identical... now. I'm guessing they weren't before. Because, now when I run newaliases, I get: $ sudo newaliases WARNING: local host name (montgoss-server) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? /etc/mail/aliases: line 28: missing colon /etc/mail/aliases:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Steve Burling
--On November 1, 2007 8:59:53 PM -0500 Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. $ cat /etc/aliases ## mailman mailing list mailman: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman mailman-admin:|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman snip $ sudo newaliases WARNING:

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman list read-only

2007-11-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ben O'Shea wrote: Ok, I'm across all that. The thing is, we have had a few users actually post messages to this list and I get a message saying the post requires moderator approval. I then go and approve the message, however each day I am notified about the same messages (i.e. ones I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Steven **
I just took those virtual mappings out of the /etc/mail/aliases file and re-ran newaliases. I tested via telnet and the message posted to the list! So, apparently my listinquestion aliases weren't in both aliases files originally. -Steven On 11/1/07, Steven ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upon

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change the creation of a new list emailfrom the through-the-web interface?

2007-11-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: If you're going to implement any kind of anti-spam system, make sure to implement that only within your MTA (sendmail, postfix, Exim, whatever). Make sure that you don't ever accept a message and then try to bounce it --that's called backscatter and makes you as bad as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts to list returned

2007-11-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steven wrote: I just took those virtual mappings out of the /etc/mail/aliases file and re-ran newaliases. I tested via telnet and the message posted to the list! So, apparently my listinquestion aliases weren't in both aliases files originally. There are two separate things. Aliases of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] User aliases

2007-11-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: In addition, an admin can also subscribe users and set them to be NOMAIL, or add an address to the whitelist. whitelist = Privacy options...-Sender filters-accept_these_nonmembers -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area,

Re: [Mailman-Users] User aliases

2007-11-01 Thread Mikael Hansen
On Nov 1, 2007, at 20:40, Mark Sapiro wrote: whitelist = Privacy options...-Sender filters- accept_these_nonmembers I like this because it does not artificially inflate the number of members on a list. But it is unfortunately very probable I would one night wake up bathed in sweat fearing

Re: [Mailman-Users] User aliases

2007-11-01 Thread Mikael Hansen
On Nov 1, 2007, at 21:32, Mikael Hansen wrote: On Nov 1, 2007, at 20:40, Mark Sapiro wrote: whitelist = Privacy options...-Sender filters- accept_these_nonmembers That's interesting. Your sentence was wrapped so that the greater than sign came to begin the following line and as such was

Re: [Mailman-Users] User aliases

2007-11-01 Thread Brad Knowles
On 11/1/07, Mikael Hansen wrote: I like this because it does not artificially inflate the number of members on a list. But it is unfortunately very probable I would one night wake up bathed in sweat fearing that I may not have removed a corresponding whitelist entry at the time a given