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

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John Williams writes: Is it possible to create a custom handler for digests only? Yes. The standard pipeline contains a handler named ToDigest or something like that. You edit the pipeline either in mm_cfg.py (for global effect) or create a local pipeline with bin/with_list (this has some UI

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

2009-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
on 8/7/09 12:48 AM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina said: 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

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

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Brad Knowles b...@shub-internet.org: The way I read this, it has nothing to do with the number of MXes you have. It has to do with how many SMTP delivery sessions you'll attempt over the same connection before you drop the connection and re-connect (if you have more than this number of

Re: [Mailman-Users] erroneous unsubscriptions

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Lakshmi 80.laks...@gmail.com: 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

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: 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...

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-07 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/7/2009 5:44 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull 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: First, if you're sure you know why Mark said

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

2009-08-07 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/7/2009, Stephen J. Turnbull (step...@xemacs.org) wrote: Is it possible to create a custom handler for digests only? snip I want a mail list that automatically strips out duplicated quoted text in digests, Yes. Wow, I'd be interested in this if you get it working... and I'd think the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email command in Mailman to get by e-mail a message(like ezmlm has)

2009-08-07 Thread Ricardo Dias Marques
Hi Mark, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009, Mark Sapirom...@msapiro.net wrote: No. There are no email commands for retrieving archived messages. Thanks for your quick reply. Is there any reason for not implementing this functionality -OR- is it just that there are other more urgent things to implement for

Re: [Mailman-Users] MailMan For LAN Only

2009-08-07 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:54:44AM -0400, Carlos Williams wrote: 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

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

2009-08-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 7, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: The idea is to require the square brackets so a mere approved: in the subject (such as this message) doesn't trigger a match. We only match if we find Approve: or Approved: followed by a single word inside the square brackets and then we remove

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
I'm sorry, I missed the OP and can't at the moment check the archives... On Aug 7, 2009, at 5:44 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: However, in this case, I was assuming that Mark simply took you at your word that mailmanctl lives in /bin, not in something like /usr/lib/mailman/bin (which is where

Re: [Mailman-Users] erroneous unsubscriptions

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lakshmi wrote: 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. As Ralf suggests, if you have access, look at

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

2009-08-07 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: As a comparison, Launchpad's code review process allows for commands in the body of the message. It looks for specific commands prepended by a space. I don't particularly like that approach though because the space can be hard to see. Would it find a

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

2009-08-07 Thread Khalil Abbas
WOWZERS.. I never knew I'd result in such a big fuss.. well I'm sorry I didn't quite understand, what should I do with this file you sent me (approve.patch.txt) ?? where should I put it and what to name it and what to do with its permissions n stuff? I'm sorry I'm still zero in tghis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom handler applied to digest tofilter excessive quoted text?

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John Williams writes: Is it possible to create a custom handler for digests only? Yes. The standard pipeline contains a handler named ToDigest or something like that. You edit the pipeline either in mm_cfg.py (for global effect) or create a local pipeline with

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

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Khalil Abbas wrote: well I'm sorry I didn't quite understand, what should I do with this file you sent me (approve.patch.txt) ?? where should I put it and what to name it and what to do with its permissions n stuff? I probably shouldn't tell you because if you don't know how to apply a patch,

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

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Oscar Balladares wrote: 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. OK The email service is working properly, but I had configured

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: However, in this case, I was assuming that Mark simply took you at your word that mailmanctl lives in /bin, Exactly. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan

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

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steve Wray wrote: 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 respect to this sort of thing? There is a script in the distribution - tests/fblast.py It doesn't produce a report, but you can use

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

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steven Owley wrote: 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

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman user password

2009-08-07 Thread tanstaafl
On 8/7/2009, Mark Sapiro (m...@msapiro.net) wrote: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: However, in this case, I was assuming that Mark simply took you at your word that mailmanctl lives in /bin, Exactly. Ok, but... well, I didn't exactly say that, but yes, that was what the command in question

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

2009-08-07 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Barry Finkel wrote: Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: As a comparison, Launchpad's code review process allows for commands in the body of the message. It looks for specific commands prepended by a space. I don't particularly like that approach though because

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email command in Mailman to get by e-mail a message(like ezmlm has)

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ricardo Dias Marques wrote: No. There are no email commands for retrieving archived messages. Thanks for your quick reply. Is there any reason for not implementing this functionality -OR- is it just that there are other more urgent things to implement for Mailman first? A bit of both.

[Mailman-Users] MailMan For LAN Only

2009-08-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Carlos Williams writes: 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