Re: [Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: mailman postfix ldap virtual user

2012-12-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Gökhan Alkan wrote: I uncomment the dovecot line in master.cf and virtual_transport = dovecot. But it doesn't work, Why postfix doesn't handle alias_maps when the email is delivered to virtual domains ? Do you have your domain in either virtual_alias_domains or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Postfix-style Virtual Domains (not a problem, only a question!)

2012-10-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Norbert Aschendorff wrote: I'm maintaining a server with Postfix and Mailman including Postfix-style virtual domains. This works fine so far. But is it normal that the creation of a list for a virtual subdomain ($prefix/bin/newlist -e subdomain listname) not only creates

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Brad Knowles wrote: I've got a copy of Mountain Lion server (it's only $20), and the code in question is Python, so it has to be shipped as source. So, if we want their changes, it's easy enough to get them. Actually, it doesn't have to be shipped as source. They could

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman POSTFIX Configuration Help

2012-08-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I'm not a Postfix guru, but... On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Futchko, Rose wrote: Basically, POSTFIX has been configured for base email to be sent to x...@mail-test.company.org and I would like the mail list to use x...@listtest.company.org {snip} virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

[Mailman-Users] Help! How to quell list address in personalised messages

2012-07-02 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, A bit urgent. I thought I'd turn on personalisation for an announce list I'm putting together, in order to have the person's address in the To field instead of the list address. The box will only be used for this list and messages wil only go out about once a month, so performance isn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! How to quell list address in personalised messages

2012-07-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Mark Sapiro wrote: This is intentional and by design to facilitate people replying to the list even with full personalization. Yes but for an announcement-type list you don't want this. If you don't want this, you need to modify Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py to not add

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! How to quell list address in personalised messages

2012-07-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you need help, let me know. Think I got it. Commenting out the block at line 161 (Mailman 2.1.13) seems to have done the trick. Thanks again, Geoff. -- Mailman-Users mailing list

[Mailman-Users] Using with a database and *without* a webserver

2012-06-29 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've been contracted to do a Mailman setup for a company that wants to set up a newsletter-type list. They'd like to use a database for the back-end and to hide as much of Mailman's internals as possible without creating too much work. First, databases. We'd prefer to use PostgreSQL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using with a database and *without* a webserver

2012-06-29 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Brad Knowles wrote: So far as I know, there's no official way to use an SQL database with Mailman 2, although there is the MemberAdaptor that you found which is believed to work with MySQL. If you'd like to modify the code to work with PostgreSQL instead, that would be

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-19 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: From a practical point of view my EVERP proposal may not be a good scheme for dealing with AOL's redaction policy in Email Feedback Reports. Although it would obviously fool the existing automated redaction process, a radical change to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Larry Stone wrote: Sad to say, that does appear to be how AOL thinks. Their customers never make mistakes, etc. If a customer clicked Mark as spam, then it's spam and that point is not open to discussion. They're not the only one. Roadrunner blocked all the mail from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

2012-05-15 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I'd like to make the case for considering the Debian etc Mailman instead of rolling your own. I've done several Mailman installs under Debian and Ubuntu and have had minimal problems. The key in my opinion is to look at the installation guide and make sure you actually do everything

Re: [Mailman-Users] Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

2012-05-11 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 11 May 2012, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: On the other hand we're getting spam reports for list mails (not spam!) our users sent to a list. But since it's not spam we cannot actually do anything about those mails while the LIST ADMIN could easily unsubscribe the people reporting the spam.

Re: [Mailman-Users] confirmation string is not working

2012-05-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 8 May 2012, dhanushka ranasinghe wrote: As you guys know.after sending unsubscribe request to mailing list it will send the confirmation string..,my problem is this string is not working, when i enter the string and submit it , page will just refresh to the same page. can't find in

Re: [Mailman-Users] can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail)sender address?

2012-02-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Yup. But he explained this. The list is the public face of a committee, and at least some outgoing mail should appear to be from the committee. Couldn't this be done by sending from an existing account and spoofing the From line? Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail message to list disappears

2012-01-18 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Peter STUMPF wrote: * version of mailman: 2.1.1 Are you sure? This version is *ancient*. Geoff. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Site admin per mail domain

2011-11-21 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Christian Lerrahn wrote: I have noticed that Mailman identifies lists by there names only but allows them to run in different mail domains. I realise that I can also have different domains and host names for the web interfaces. However, what I cannot find out for sure is if

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members question

2011-11-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rob McLear wrote: If I type ./add_members -wn -r - listname the shell pauses as if waiting for my input, but nothing I type has any effect. Try pressing control-d after you've finished typing, this is the unix end-of-file character. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Misleading Email response. Please fix!

2011-11-14 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Mark Sapiro wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: Please report this as a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+filebug. Nevermind. I reported and fixed it https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/889968. Thanks very much! Geoff.

[Mailman-Users] Misleading Email response. Please fix!

2011-11-04 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've been meaning to request this for ages. I don't see this very often, but when I do, it gives me a heart attack. I usually use the web interface for approving messages. But I occasionally do it via Email. When I do, I get a response back that looks like this: The results of your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with postfix, using virtual domains

2011-10-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Syafril Hermansyah wrote: That's not wise IMHO, better to separate domain for list server and virtual mailbox domain. I've *never* had to do this and believe it just creates unecesary complexity where it's not needed. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installed, now stumped

2011-09-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Michael Cooley wrote: With some slight edits to the configure script, I've successfully installed mailman on my Hostmonster user account. Not knowing where to go from there, I went into the cgi-bin dir and ran 'admin' from my shell account. This error showed up in the log:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

2011-08-19 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Prietz, Ian wrote: I am looking for a way to give subscribers a generic password that would authenticate them to be able to view the archives (so they can revisit any past messages). Note, I do not want them to be able to access their subscriber settings to be able to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Anonymous emails with the sender information

2011-06-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 6/12/2011 3:03 AM, Nigel Woodley wrote: The spam problem I have is because we have many members from different organisations linked by a private network. Emails sent from these organisations are sent out to other members however when they are

[Mailman-Users] Filtering by text

2011-06-10 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I help moderate a few lists where certain topics are not permitted. I thought it would be possible to flag a message for moderation based on text found in the body of the message, but I can't immediately see how one might do this. Presumably the administrivia scan uses a technique like

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch ( YES I KNOW THIS IS A FAQ BUT..)

2011-06-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Peter Sørensen wrote: Hi, I know this is a FAQ and yes I've tried to read all items and still I can't find my way out so hope someone Can shed some light to this. Actualy, it's probably several. Just summarizing what I am about to do. I have an old mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Khalil Abbas wrote: I have several vps servers with very limited resources running several large mailman lists, n these servers keep stopping from responding n sometimes mailq shows several errors like: too many open files in the system and not enough resourses ... etc.

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, William Ashworth wrote: A client of mine is looking to integrate more tightly to their Mailman list. There's an archive page, but we're trying to format it nicely for inclusion on their website so that it matches for members to see. I can see two possibilities right now...

Re: [Mailman-Users] Real Names on Roster

2011-05-23 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote: What change do I need to make to mailman's configuration to allow real names to show up on any lists' roster? I did some searching around and did not find an answer. I did read one post that stated that some sort of configuration setup that allows

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix Mailman not playing well together

2011-05-23 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think Geoff Shang's reply (at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-May/071602.html - only one of the problems of posting as a non-subscriber) was on target. Sorry, I didn't realise this list accepted non-member posts. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix Mailman not playing well together

2011-05-21 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 20 May 2011, Michael Soh wrote: |/var/lib/mailman/mail/ mailman post somelist@mikesoh.com (expanded from somel...@lists.mikesoh.com epicf...@lists.mikesoh.com): User unknown in virtual alias table I'm not a Postfix expert, but the following entry in your configuration file is

Re: [Mailman-Users] From address

2011-04-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Website Administrator wrote: Can you please advice why the email is going through like this? Is there anyway to change this? From: hq_test-boun...@dummy.com [mailto:hq_test-boun...@dummy.com] On Behalf Of Amyn Gilani It's actually going through just fine, it's the

Re: [Mailman-Users] regarding specific mail ids

2011-04-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Arun Gupta wrote: I do not make 2 lists according to your suggestion, and also i do not want configure with regexp matches on the Subject: or Keywords, means i am concentrating on the poster based. You cannot do what you want to do without making two lists. You can still

Re: [Mailman-Users] Copying rejection reason and email to multiple moderators?

2011-03-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Paul Key wrote: I have a list with more than one moderator. When one moderator rejects a post to the moderated list I would like a copy of the rejected email and the reason for rejection sent to the other moderators. Wow, funny that. I was going to post requesting this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman intergaration with zimbra

2011-02-15 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Bozra wrote: Dear All, Thanks for your reply it helped me a lot. Sorry to bother you Iam getting when I ''bin/newlist -emailhost=virtual-domain1.com -urlhost=your zimbra host listname admin-email-address admin-password'' I get -bash: syntax error near unexpected token

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I display/print a full list of list entrants..?

2010-12-21 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, PatsCat wrote: As title asks, how, via the GUI, do I see all the people contained in a particular list? Its got to be done. Surely. Cut'n'Pasting from each page 26 times (A-Z) ain't no fun.. Go to the general options screen and set admin_member_chunksize to a number

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing root from receiving bounces

2010-12-21 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Rohler, Brian L wrote: My current setup is that we have a list of admins who administer our mailing lists. The problem I am having is there is also a list of users who receive email from a support@ address. The list of support@ users are getting tired of receiving EVERY

Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION not working

2010-12-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Roger D. Leonard wrote: I'm missing something here. How do I get it to accept all emails from non-members without list owner intervention? Apart from what people have already told you, if you want to make a list accept *all* non-member postings, you'll also need to set

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam emails

2010-12-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Schwartz, Robert - IS wrote: Recently I've started receiving spam messages submitted to by mailing list. How can I reject all email not submitted by members without having to add them to a list? Set the generic non-member action to discard. It's in privacy/sender

Re: [Mailman-Users] unknown user: |/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post myl...@mydomain.com

2010-11-25 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Note that Mailman/Postfix integration as described in the above referenced manual pages is for virtual alias domains and not virtual mailbox domains. You can make this work for list domains that are virtual mailbox domains if necessary. See the FAQ at

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman configuration issues?

2010-10-15 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, cmallon wrote: This may seem like a dumb question but I've been seeing a lot of this in my mail.logs All the messages are being delivered and there are no bad recipients in the list. Could there be a misconfiguration somewhere? I'd like to write a script that extracts

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix and Mailman ...

2010-10-06 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think the problem is students.wesleyseminary.edu is a virtual_mailbox_domain whereas it needs to be a virtual_alias_domain. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never had trouble using virtual mailbox domains to host Mailman lists. In fact, I'm not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Someone to install Mailman?

2010-07-30 Thread Geoff Shang
- Original Message - From: Толкунов Григорий tolo8...@yandex.ru - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - |/usr/local/mailmam/mail/mailman post test (reason: 127) Presumably this should be /usr/local/mailman, not /usr/local/mailmam. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown invirtualmailbox table

2010-07-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: 1. If i want to create a list, there is another mystery, the List creator's password, which i never had given. If i look into the doc in: http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node45.html they send me to (7):

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown invirtualmailbox table

2010-07-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: OK, again, if I have 3 virtual domains on it: example1.org example2.org example3.org and i want to have for each domain a separate list: list1 on example1.org list2 on example2.org list3 on example3.org The emailhost of each of those lists should be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknowninvirtualmailbox table

2010-07-10 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: newlist li...@lists.example4.org The above is not correct. In this deprecated newlist usage, the domain to the right of the '@' is the url host, not the email host so the equivalent to Franc's command is newlist li...@example4.org huh! Well how's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

2010-07-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: Oh yes, this is not clear to me. I don't understand where the file: /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman should come from. Have i to build it? This is built by the /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases script, providing you have Mailman configured

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown invirtualmailbox table

2010-07-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: % chown mailman:mailman data/aliases* % chmod g+w data/aliases* Ubuntu uses list and not mailman. I hope this is not a problem. You will need to chown these files as list.list or at least root.list. I thought if the packager (Ubuntu in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

2010-07-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: But now i have the problem, that i want to create another list with another virtual domain (example2.org), which is running on the same server. I guess this is only possible with this setting to get this virtual-mailman.db, but i don't know how to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allow anyone to post to a mailing list

2010-07-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Wang, Mary Y wrote: The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Am I missing something here? This is being caused by the item I mentioned in recipient filters which tells Mailman to reject messages that don't include the list address in the To or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

2010-07-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: You don't create users or mailboxes for Mailman's list addresses. This is handled by alias_maps, virtual_alias_domains, and virtual_alias_maps in Postfix, or, since this is Debian/Ubuntu, possibly by postfix_to_mailman.py. Having set up Mailman on 3

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

2010-07-08 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: I am very confused now. Could you indicate me the doc where you followed the installation? The installation guide can be found at http://list.org/site.html The specific sections on Postfix can be found at http://list.org/mailman-install/node12.html

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allow anyone to post to a mailing list

2010-07-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Wang, Mary Y wrote: I'd like to have it setup so that anyone can post to my mailing list (he/she does not need to be subscriber). How do I do that? The first thing you need to do is set the default non-member action to accept. (see Privacty Settings/Sender Filters) If

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin address have to be a member?

2010-07-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Adam Parker, OD wrote: does the admin address have to be a member? No. will the emails get moderated if it's not in the membership list? If you mean Will a list admin be moderated when posting to the list if they are not a member of that list, then this will depend on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman configuration

2010-06-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Keith Blackie wrote: I have a mailing list that I need to setup. This mailing list will comprise of several hundred addresses that will be subscribed by using the mass subscription function. I need the following in place: 1) Only admins, moderators and list owner may post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman bug or browser behaviour?

2010-05-24 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Reserecting an old thread. On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: I've noticed that if I go to pending Moderator requests and approve a message from a particular user, if I leave the resulting page open which says Click here to reload this page and another message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block reply to all

2010-05-02 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Frankly, I think the best approach would be just to moderate the list. If people realise that follow-ups aren't going to get posted, they'll stop sending them. Geoff. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: The steps I sent the other day are OK as is, but some uncertainty is removed. Just to report that, so far as I can tell, everything went as expected. There was no reference to the domain in the config.pck file, so I could just run the withlist command

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-15 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Basically cPanel Mailman is Mailman. In particular, config.pck files are the same (there are no additional list attributes) and the file structure within the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman PREFIX directory seems completely unchanged. So does this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-12 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: It's actually not as bad as it looks. Mark wrote an assembler language level description of where to get the data you'll need, and what to do with it. Oh I'm not particularly daunted by it, especially after rereading it a couple of times. But

[Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-11 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I'm aware of the FAQ entry on this topic.. Hopefully what I'm about to ask isn't really covered there, I don't think it is. I have someone moving their lists off our server which runs regular Mailman to a server running Mailman under CPanel. Since it's a Mailman variant, I'm a bit

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2010-04-11 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I will assume the people on the cPanel side have shell access to the server. If not, there's not much that can be done. Wow, that's quite a daunting list of things to do. I'm not sure the admin at the hosting provider will be game to try this, but I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

2010-03-17 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: There is an issue that affects memory usage in the qrunners. They keep a cache of list objects in memory to reduce disk IO. The cache is supposed to free the space used by a list object when there are no more references to that object, but it turns out

[Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

2010-03-12 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, We run a VPS running Debian with Mailman 2.1.11 and Postfix. Python is 2.5.2. Up until a couple of weeks ago, we were running a number of quite small mailing lists (max 200 members) with no problems. But then we imported the subscriber list of a list that we'd moved from

[Mailman-Users] Mailman bug or browser behaviour?

2010-03-06 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, I've noticed an odd thing but am not sure if it's Mailman (2.1.11) or my browser (Lynx 2.8.7dev.9) which is at fault. I've noticed that if I go to pending Moderator requests and approve a message from a particular user, if I leave the resulting page open which says Click here to reload

[Mailman-Users] Disabling list archiving

2010-03-03 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, We've got an archive taking up a fair amount of space, but much of the traffic on that list is transient and doesn't need to be archived. So we've decided to stop archiving it and to remove existing archives. Apart from turning off archiving in the list configuration and removing the

Re: [Mailman-Users] what's going on ???

2010-03-03 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Khalil Abbas wrote: I've been getting hundreds of complaints from people that they're not getting any mail from the lists.. I checked the lists and found that LIST1 has only 574 members!! while the other list (LIST2) has not changed.. My guess is that one or more mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] one-click subscription

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, David Newman wrote: For a read-only announcement list, I'm looking for a way to set up one-click subscription where a user enters an email in a form on a web page and gets subscribed right away, with no confirmation needed. Note that you're going to open yorself up to the

[Mailman-Users] Spam filtering

2010-02-17 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I have two spam-related questions, one relevant to Mailman and one not. Apologies for the one that isn't, but I hope you will endulge this query. A person has been spoofing Email addresses on a number of blindness-related Email lists this week. I won't go into the particulars as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving a list from one domain to another

2010-02-03 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: I need to move a list from one domain to another. ... Thanks for this Mark, it's exactly what I needed and went off without a hitch. I also put the old list address in as an acceptable alias and put a forward into Postfix

[Mailman-Users] Moving a list from one domain to another

2010-02-02 Thread Geoff Shang
Hello, I realise this is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find anything specificly about this in the FAQ. I need to move a list from one domain to another. The domains are both hosted on the same machine so there's no need to *physically* move anything. I figure I don't need to worry about

[Mailman-Users] Bug: couldn't subscribe to dev list by simply replying

2010-02-01 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Figured this would be the best place to report this. I just tried again to subscribe to the developers list and discovered that you couldn't confirm your subscription just by replying. The message text implies that the confirmation key should be in the subject, but the confirmation key

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug: couldn't subscribe to dev list by simplyreplying

2010-02-01 Thread Geoff Shang
+token@... . I don't think it's the third alternative in this case. Well I still have the message I sent: Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:30:24 +0200 (IST) From: Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com To: mailman-developers-confirm+519716b18b6d4ddef39fd87d0e5abdf8c5ced...@python. org Subject: Re: Your

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: [#ZPK-731315]: Mailing list constantly rejecting a member email - please assist

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, John Grivas (wotsnext) wrote: I had email lists under a sub-domain, but decided to move the subdomain to its own webhosting. Part of that migration included moving some email lists across. The problem I have that any list that email are being rejected for list that now

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: [#ZPK-731315]: Mailing list constantly rejecting a member email - please assist

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Putting this back on the list. On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, John Grivas (wotsnext) wrote: Hi Geoff The following is the error message received: This email has been automatically rejected because you are not a member of the redfurina-ow...@shnc.org.au mailing list. This looks very odd

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on setting up mailman

2010-01-24 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, james Tanit wrote: Now, I run the apache webserver under username say, tatac, which is also the group name. I have suexec configured for apache. Why the following configuration doesn't work? Can you give us the eror message that you get? Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-22 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: I would like to know how to access the archive file so that I can delete it by FTP. I cannot however find it ! Maybe my web hoster has somehow made the directory invisible ? Mailman files are usually put somewhere other than in your hosting area.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-22 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: I would like to know how to access the archive file so that I can delete it by FTP. I cannot however find it ! Maybe my web hoster has somehow made the directory invisible ? Sorry. I missed the above query.

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: I don't know if CPanel have futzed with that, never having used their bastardization. Well, not everyone is a unix expert. I need to use CPanel. The point is that CPanel include their own version of Mailman with changes that they've not released

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2010-01-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: They say... 1. Install the component via standard install procedures. What are standard install procedures ? For windows users that is simply double clicking an .exe file. What does that mean when translated to unix ? If it is as simple as FTPing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up redundant mailing lists in OS XSnowLeopard.

2010-01-04 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, JRC Groups wrote: This is indeed the case. All subscribers will either belong to one list or the other. Never both. One of the issues I noticed when reading the post has to do with replies from subscribers. Considering subscribers are either receiving mail from Sublist1 or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Excuse the top-posting. :) When I first had to look at the FAQs and subscribe to this list to get some problems sorted, there were two FAQs. There may will still be. It appeared to me that the much shorter one was by far the more visible, and I only found the main WIKI-based FAQ when I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Sapiro m...@msapiro.net To: Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com; Mailman-Users@python.org Sent: Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List Geoff Shang wrote: And of course unmoderate the list admin and anyone else you want to be able to post. This is not good

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searching across lists and making global changes

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Sorry again for the top-post, not using my regular Email client. This is a temporary condition. First, your members can do this for themselves, and I for one encourage them to do this. They can simply change these in their options page for one of the lists and then choose to change it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-18 Thread Geoff Shang
Message - From: Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com To: mailman-users@python.org Sent: Friday, 18 December, 2009 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:17 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: Howver, thinking about it further, there's one thing I don't like about

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Barry Finkel wrote: I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? Change the list configuration so that all subscribers are moderated. And then set each

Re: [Mailman-Users] Member unable to post to list

2009-12-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, TomSherlock wrote: With Mailman version 2.1.11.cp3 I received the following message for a message posted by a member of the list: Post by non-member to a members-only list Any ideas? Was their message sent from their subscribed address? This message usually means what

Re: [Mailman-Users] rejecting messages *to* non-members

2009-11-26 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, glen martin wrote: I've got some rude users who occasionally cc non-list members on their messages to a restricted list that is actually intended to be private (membership by invitation only). Then, as you might expect, when the non-member replies, that message is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Access

2009-11-17 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, John Ditzel wrote: Please help me to access my admin. account I can't get in. You need to contact Supergreen Hosting about this, we can't help you with this. Also is there an info page for me to learn just how to use mailman? Try http://list.org/./admins.html

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with reply in the mailing list

2009-11-13 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, berna...@outpost.be wrote: I have a question on how to manage a mailing list in order that all the members can only send a mail to the admin and not to everyone on the list. First, set the list up so that everyone is moderated by default, and so that the default

Re: [Mailman-Users] Quick question for a newbie

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Joe Ruffolo j...@mrkgroup.com: I want my list members to be able to respond back to the original poster. So when they hit reply the actually reply back to the person who posted the message. How do I do this? That's the default. Reply to Sender

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving my Mailman list

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, TG Platt - WW Publ wrote: 1. Can someone tell me if my hunch about not being able to move to a new server and back without access to the mailman command line utils is right? hmm. I had to do this recently, and as long as the hostname and Email domain is the same, I think

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recommended howto for using with postfix apache2 mysql virtual hosts

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, John Griessen wrote: I find some howtos that are close to my situation using debian, but there are differences from there to the comments in files like: /etc/mailman/postfix-to-mailman.py /etc/mailman/apache.conf I've set this up on 3 systems using

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hiding the To:

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Allen Armstrong wrote: Is there a way to hide: to: field went sending to the list? I want to hide my email address and my users email addresses. Is it the To field or the From field you want to hide? It sounds to me like you want to hide the From field (i.e. the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Administrator Authentication

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Kuntz, Taina M. wrote: I am the List Administrator for a couple of mailing lists. I am unable to get into the system. I'm not sure if I typed my password incorrectly too many times or if I've forgotten my password. Is it possible to get my password reset? Yes. Contact

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't get off a list.

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Allison wrote: Years ago, I was subscribed to an email list. Since then, the owner lost the domain, but each month I still get a user name and password reminder. I'd love to unsubscribe, but the domain is no longer registered, therefore email and links do not work. I just

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a way to allow messages from non-members to go to a list without any moderation?

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Deb Seidman wrote: Hostgator uses mailman to provide mailing list features. So I used it to set up several lists and started playing with them. The problem is that I really am looking for the lists to work as a multiple destination alias (which hostgator doesn¹t appear to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable To Create Mailman Lists

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Carlos Williams wrote: I just installed Mailman 2.1.9-4 on my Linux mail server and configured it according to the online guide straight from the Mailman site. It appears to be working fine and I get hit the main page via Apache and see the only pubic list available called

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to alias the listinfo page to lists.site.com?

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, John Griessen wrote: I have a working installation with listinfo at http://lists.metalartists.org/mailman/listinfo/ I'd like to see that page when I web browse to http://lists.metalartists.org Is that easy? Depends what you want to do. If you only want this domain to

Re: [Mailman-Users] regexp help

2009-11-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Savoy, Jim wrote: I also just noticed that all of the other handlers have an accompanying .pyc file, but my Foo.py does not. Perhaps that 'c' stands for compiled It does. and I was supposed to compile the code first? (probably seems obvious to someone familiar with

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