Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Stefan Förster
* Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net: Stefan Förster wrote: list_lists | awk '(NR 1){print $1}' | \ or list_lists --bare | \ Thank you, tbh, I didn't read list_lists manpage. I'm running a Debian package of Mailman and I know that it is modified, I just don't know to which extent.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stefan Förster wrote: Since Mailman's bin directory has 755 permissions on Debian, every user can attempt to run these commands. Most directories (except private archives) in /var/lib/mailman have world read/execute permissions, but it seems that the actual data is owned by group list and

[Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-06 Thread Khalil Abbas
Dear Mailman admins, I have a suggestion for you .. I'm running 42 lists for my clients, I let them use microsoft outlook to send their newletters to their customers and I do the management part .. since someone hacked into one of my lists and started posting to it using the modertor's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange Wiki entry for Postfix Tuning

2009-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
on 8/4/09 5:11 AM, Stefan Förster said: So, what is the reason for that setting? From man 5 postconf: ,[ man 5 postconf | less +/^smtp_mx_session_limit ] | smtp_mx_session_limit (default: 2) | | The maximal number of SMTP sessions per delivery request before | giving up or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Khalil Abbas wrote: my suggestion is, before I had the honor to use outlook I had Smartermail .. they have a cool feature of approving messages with passwords is to use it in the subject line itself : [password: PASSWORD] Subject bla bla bla.. then it removes the password part of course ..

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: If your clients insist on posting HTML only messages and can't add an actual Approved: header to the message, then you can try patching Mailman/Handlers/Approve.py to recognize [Approved: password] in the Subject: header. The attached Approve.patch.txt file contains a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
on 8/6/09 9:14 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull said: I'll consider this as a feature for Mailman 2.2 I think this is unwise. The subject header is read by everybody, and you can't just delete it, so you have to munge it. More complexity. It's not so hard to add an Approved pseudo-header. Some

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: on 8/6/09 9:14 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull said: I'll consider this as a feature for Mailman 2.2 I think this is unwise. The subject header is read by everybody, and you can't just delete it, so you have to munge it. More complexity. It's not so hard to add an Approved

[Mailman-Users] erroneous unsubscriptions

2009-08-06 Thread Lakshmi
Hi i am the owner of a mailing list. Recently people on the list were getting unsubscribed mysteriously. I have even disabled the bounce process. A few hours ago i received 30 unsubscription notifications. This is a serious error. Can someone please suggest how to fix this problem. Thanks

[Mailman-Users] [Fwd: confirm c0003074d812bbe0fa6cf95465cf94cbd247fe60]

2009-08-06 Thread Oliver Glueck
Hi Mark and Co., I get this Email (see below) with the notice that I have to confirm my membership because mails couldnot delivered to my mailbox. BUT: my mailbox is ok! Some other users (not all!) on the mailing list info get the same notice from mailman, but all mailboxes are ok and I cant

[Mailman-Users] MailMan For LAN Only

2009-08-06 Thread Carlos Williams
I am wanting to implement MailMan for my company LAN. I am currently running my email server on Postfix. I am wondering if someone can answer these questions for me. If I install MailMan / Apache on my mail server, will the MailMan list be visible by anyone on the web who can access my mail server

Re: [Mailman-Users] STUPID USERS

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Fishel
I agree, I am subscribed to countless lists over 6 organizations that use mailman one of which I run, there is no way I would want to receive a reminder from each list, it's painful enough now for each organization. -Bob On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Mark Sapirom...@msapiro.net wrote:

[Mailman-Users] Custom handler applied to digest to filter excessive quoted text?

2009-08-06 Thread John Williams
Hi all, Is it possible to create a custom handler for digests only? I want a mail list that automatically strips out duplicated quoted text in digests, so the same quoted text doesn't appear over and over. Such a thing doesn't appear to exist in any mailing list software, so I'm looking for the

[Mailman-Users] Custom handler applied to digest to filter excessive quoted text?

2009-08-06 Thread John Williams
Hi all, Is it possible to create a custom handler for digests only? I want a mail list that automatically strips out duplicated quoted text in digests, so the same quoted text doesn't appear over and over. Such a thing doesn't appear to exist in any mailing list software, so I'm looking for

[Mailman-Users] postfix2mailman interface

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Socha
Helo, Sorry for my english. It's not my native language. I created simple program to integrate postfix with mailman. I do that because none other solution was ideal for my configuration of postfix (my postfix system use only virtual users without local recipients). My program is writen in C

[Mailman-Users] mailman is not emailing to mailing list users.

2009-08-06 Thread Oscar Balladares
Hi everybody! this is my first post.!! Thank you very much, in advance. I have a functional email server: a domain name system (bind9), Postfix + courier + virtual users (mysql). domain name: uccleon.edu.ni; server alias: mailserver; host name: uccleon.edu.ni; OS: Centos 5.2. The email

[Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

2009-08-06 Thread Steve Wray
Hi there, we are considering deploying a mailman mailing list server. I want to ensure that its fairly lean and that it also performs adequately. So I'd like to do some load testing on it to measure its performance. I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with

[Mailman-Users] Trying to get attachments to another partition

2009-08-06 Thread Steven Owley
Hello everyone, Using a soft link as a substitute for the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/my_list_name/attachments directory, I have tried to get my mailman installation to start putting attachments on another partition. This has not worked--I always get a permission denied error in the log.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-06 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/2/2009 5:13 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: It's not supposed to work. mailman privileges should only be accessible by the system administrator, ie, someone who has the root password. Ah, ok, that makes sense... It's not a problem with the password for the mailman user. :-) The init

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-06 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/2/2009, Mark Sapiro (m...@msapiro.net) wrote: This is the real issue. mailmanctl should always be run by root. Hmmm... ok, thanks. So, on linux, when an init script runs at startup, it runs as root? Your init script should just contain /bin/mailmanctl -s start /dev/null 21 without

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-06 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/2/2009 10:05 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: This is the real issue. mailmanctl should always be run by root. Your init script should just contain /bin/mailmanctl -s start /dev/null 21 without the su - mailman Ok, I tried this, but it did the same thing... however, I tried something else -

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-06 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/2/2009, Stephen J. Turnbull (step...@xemacs.org) wrote: (There's no good reason for *any* mailman program to be on anybody's PATH, so yes, just having /bin/mailmanctl makes your installation nonstandard.) Hmmm... Mark didn't seem to agree... he said: Your init script should just contain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

2009-08-06 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, we are considering deploying a mailman mailing list server. I want to ensure that its fairly lean and that it also performs adequately. So I'd like to do some load testing on it to measure its performance. I'm wondering if anyone can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

2009-08-06 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
08/06/2009 06:29 AM, Steve Wray: I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with respect to this sort of thing? I think you should firts enquire the debian and python mailing list managers. They could give you some statistics (CPU usage, Network used, what