[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question

2008-02-04 Thread Marvin Raab
Hi all, I've setup ver. 2.1.9 on Fedora 8. I used yum to install (can't find 'configure' but that's not really my question) and configured it using the docs on the website including the cron section: % cd $prefix/cron % crontab -u mailman crontab.in I repeatedly receive the following email in

Re: [Mailman-Users] A small problem when migrating a mailman list

2008-02-04 Thread AlxFrag
Mark Sapiro wrote: AlxFrag wrote: List works ok in the new mail server. The problem is that i cant see it in http://mydomain/mailman/admin. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.017.htp i've tried ./withlist -l -r fix_url mylist -urlhost=mydomain

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Borks on Large Attachments

2008-02-04 Thread Lachlan Michael
Dear Mailman List, I have a problem when using mailman. The problem manifests itself when a user sends a largish attachment (say 300kB) such as a digital camera picture to a list. The lists I run are small private groups and if possible I would like to allow users to send these kind of

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Marvin Raab writes: I've setup ver. 2.1.9 on Fedora 8. I used yum to install (can't find 'configure' but that's not really my question) and configured it using the docs on the website including the cron section: yum installations do not conform to the docs on the website. That's the whole

[Mailman-Users] Permission problems

2008-02-04 Thread Melinda Gilmore
No matter what permission I set and copy from other lists that are ok, I keep getting this error message. I must have something to do with the .tmp part fo the request.pck, But can't figure out why I am still getting it. Also, when I got to check that list, that file is not there. Any

[Mailman-Users] Palm Treo user

2008-02-04 Thread Jason Bell
I have some users experiencing issues with Palm Treo's. Their e-mails arrive as attachments instead of text messages. Is there simple solution to this issue? It seems to be happening on Blackberry's as well. Please advise. Jason Bell Funnel Communications Inc.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission problems

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Melinda Gilmore wrote: No matter what permission I set and copy from other lists that are ok, I keep getting this error message. I must have something to do with the .tmp part fo the request.pck, But can't figure out why I am still getting it. Also, when I got to check that list, that file is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + STARTTLS

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Marcus
Ralf Hildebrandt, on 2/4/2008 1:18 PM, said the following: How do I tell mailman to use TLS? I let mailman talk to localhost, and postfix on localhost does all the TLS stuff Thanks Ralf, Hmmm... ok, the default is supposed to be localhost... I'm not over-riding SMTPHOST in mm_cfg_py... and

[Mailman-Users] Mails not archived (was Needs help during tranisition SOLVED)

2008-02-04 Thread Visvanath Ratnaweera
Hi all Only later I noticed that one small step is still missing: The mails are not archived! I issued # bin/check_perms -f and got a whole lot of messages like: ... article db files must be 0660: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ /database/2006-March-article (fixing) During the second run

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question FIXED

2008-02-04 Thread Marvin Raab
Thanks to Steve, Stephen, and Mark! To resolve the problem, I had root use: crontab -u mailman -e and manually edited the file; removing the mailman field In Fedora 8 using yum to install, it appears that stopping and restarting the mailman service does not copy the crontab.in file to the

[Mailman-Users] Mailman + STARTTLS = lost messages?

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Marcus
Hello, Ok, I googled and FAQ'd but didn't find the answer - if I missed it, a rtfa reference will be appreciate... We outsource our anti-spam service, and I decided to lock it down by requiring TLS encrypted sessions to my postfix server. I did this on Saturday. This morning, I discovered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Borks on Large Attachments

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lachlan Michael wrote: I have a problem when using mailman. The problem manifests itself when a user sends a largish attachment (say 300kB) such as a digital camera picture to a list. The lists I run are small private groups and if possible I would like to allow users to send these kind of

Re: [Mailman-Users] A small problem when migrating a mailman list

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
AlxFrag wrote: i've tried ./withlist -l -r fix_url mylist -urlhost=mydomain but i still can't see the mylist appear in listiinfo. Is the list's advertised attribute (under Privacy options... in the web admin interface) set to Yes? If so, do bin/dumpdb lists/mylist/config.pck | grep

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-04 Thread Steve Burling
--On February 3, 2008 6:42:54 PM -0600 Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/3/08, Jan Steinman wrote: One of my clients is considering using a paid service called Constant Contact (http://www.constantcontact.com) because they claim they can get through people's spam filters.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Palm Treo user

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jason Bell wrote: I have some users experiencing issues with Palm Treo's. Their e-mails arrive as attachments instead of text messages. Is there simple solution to this issue? It seems to be happening on Blackberry's as well. Does your list define a msg_header? If so, under some circumstances

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + STARTTLS

2008-02-04 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Ok, I googled and FAQ'd but didn't find the answer - if I missed it, a rtfa reference will be appreciate... We outsource our anti-spam service, and I'd to lock down my postfix server by requiring TLS encrypted sessions. I discovered that

[Mailman-Users] Lost messages? Changing subject...

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Marcus
I'm re-sending this because the subject was too close to the other one, but its a different problem... Charles Marcus, on 2/4/2008 1:07 PM, said the following: This morning, I discovered that messages to our lists weren't being delivered, and found the following errors in the smtp-failure log:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Marvin Raab wrote: I've setup ver. 2.1.9 on Fedora 8. I used yum to install (can't find 'configure' but that's not really my question) and configured it using the docs on the website including the cron section: % cd $prefix/cron % crontab -u mailman crontab.in That's your problem. As Stephen

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + STARTTLS

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Charles Marcus wrote: So, the question is, why do I get these errors when I enforce TLS on port 25? Ralf is suggesting that you not enforce TLS on SMTP transactions from localhost to Postfix on localhost. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question FIXED

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
- Original Message --- Subject: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question FIXED From: Marvin Raab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:09:59 -0800 To: mailman-users@python.org Thanks to Steve, Stephen, and Mark! To resolve the problem, I had root use: crontab

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mails not archived (was Needs help duringtranisition SOLVED)

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Visvanath Ratnaweera wrote: Only later I noticed that one small step is still missing: The mails are not archived! I issued # bin/check_perms -f and got a whole lot of messages like: ... article db files must be 0660: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ /database/2006-March-article (fixing)

[Mailman-Users] News Groups (local) mirrored with mailinglists

2008-02-04 Thread David Hláčik
Hi to all , i am looking for a solution to provide : News Groups (local) mirrored with mailinglists Best solution i see is INN + mailman. What i am looking for is some script which will make my life easier. I want to be able to automatically create News Group with same Mailinglist name . I want

[Mailman-Users] Mailman issues during migration (test to production)

2008-02-04 Thread Darren G Pifer
Hello, I am having an issue where I am migrating lists/archives/data from one machine to another machine. The machine I am migrating from is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 machine running mailman 2.1.6b4. Mailman was built from source code. The machine I am migrating to is a Red Hat Linux 5

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + STARTTLS

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Ok, I googled and FAQ'd but didn't find the answer - if I missed it, a rtfa reference will be appreciate... We outsource our anti-spam service, and I'd to lock down my postfix server by requiring TLS encrypted sessions.

[Mailman-Users] Mailman + STARTTLS

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Marcus
Hello, Ok, I googled and FAQ'd but didn't find the answer - if I missed it, a rtfa reference will be appreciate... We outsource our anti-spam service, and I'd to lock down my postfix server by requiring TLS encrypted sessions. I discovered that mailman doesn't like this... How do I tell

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman issues during migration (test to production)

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Darren G Pifer wrote: When I started sendmail and mailman, I started to see a lot of messages in /var/spool/mqueue. The sendmail (qf) queue files had these lines: ... H??MIME-Version: 1.0 H??Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii H??Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H??Subject:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission problems

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Melinda Gilmore wrote: All permissions are the same as the others and have rws. I guess I should mention that along with that error I get 4 other emails. These are just the last error line as in the other one. OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mails not archived

2008-02-04 Thread Visvanath Ratnaweera
Hi Mark Ref: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04.02.2008 20:53 Visvanath Ratnaweera wrote: The testmails are also delivered. But not archived. What could be missing? Is ArchRunner running? That was it! It did a lot of processing. At the end Feb 2008 archive appeared with the second

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lost messages? Changing subject...

2008-02-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/4/2008, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Assuming standard archiving settings, You know the old saying... Because of the nature of these lists, archiving has always been disabled. So, I gather from what you said, the messages are gone. Thankfully this isn't a big problem, even if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lost messages? Changing subject...

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Charles Marcus wrote: I'm re-sending this because the subject was too close to the other one, but its a different problem... Charles Marcus, on 2/4/2008 1:07 PM, said the following: This morning, I discovered that messages to our lists weren't being delivered, and found the following errors

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Borks on Large Attachments

2008-02-04 Thread Lachlan Michael
Mark Sapiro さんは書きました: Lachlan Michael wrote: I have a problem when using mailman. The problem manifests itself when a user sends a largish attachment (say 300kB) such as a digital camera picture to a list. The lists I run are small private groups and if possible I would like to allow

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steve Burling writes: wasn't getting marked as spam, but the behavior of Constant Contact's mailer was causing red flags at our end that caused their mail to be blocked. Ooh! yea. UM always did play tough D! Former-OSU-prof-shouldn't-find-much-to-like-about-UM-but-I-*like*-it-ly

[Mailman-Users] Palm Treo user hijacks thread

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Please don't hijack threads. Unless you know how to avoid that, that means it is *rude* to reply to an unrelated message, *especially* if you change the subject. In a threading MUA, it will appear that the original message has already been answered, and their problem may get no attention.

[Mailman-Users] question on unsubscribe

2008-02-04 Thread Abdul Javid
Hi I have question on unsubcribe. I get few emails from mailman-bounces@list,org wtih subjectect listname unsubcription result. the content is the email id that got unsubribed. Is there a way to know if this unsubcription happened due to invalid email id or user initiated

Re: [Mailman-Users] question on unsubscribe

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Abdul Javid wrote: Hi I have question on unsubcribe. I get few emails from mailman-bounces@list,org wtih subjectect listname unsubcription result. the content is the email id that got unsubribed. Is there a way to know if this unsubcription happened due to invalid email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question FIXED

2008-02-04 Thread Marvin Raab
Thanks for the response. Yup, it does. So, I should simply comment out all lines in the crontab.in file? I said: To resolve the problem, I had root use: crontab -u mailman -e and manually edited the file; removing the mailman field In Fedora 8 using yum to install, it appears that