Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:24:08PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Yes. 4) auto-archiving and searches etc would be nice too Archiving, sure, but it's arsy internal pipermail foo. SLUG uses MHonArc (as does gnome.org), and I know that Anand has patches for Mailman to use MHonArc similiarly to pipermail (our changes use external archiver support), Which is at URL: http://www.progsoc.org/~wildfire/code/ in case anyone else wants it too. Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:47, David wrote: mailman/woody is fine, and I have it running nicely and it is very reliable etc... and I highly recommend it. However if you do a simple apt-get install mailman from woody you will run into a permissions problem when you try to access your new list. Somebody stuffed up! yeah seems to be to do with creating locks I don't have the fix to hand, but it's fairly simple and I know at least one person who is on this list knows how to do it ;-) the lock dir doesn't seem to have list write permissions but increasing that doesn't seem to have helped. And maybe I'm missing something but: I run newlist but it doesn't tell me what aliases to add to /etc/aliases (like the doco says it should) and nor does emailing newlist@mydomain work. It feels like there's a step missing. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
[just replying to myself...] On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:42, David Fitch wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:47, David wrote: However if you do a simple apt-get install mailman from woody you will run into a permissions problem when you try to access your new list. Somebody stuffed up! yeah seems to be to do with creating locks not fixed this one yet I don't have the fix to hand, but it's fairly simple and I know at least one person who is on this list knows how to do it ;-) the lock dir doesn't seem to have list write permissions but increasing that doesn't seem to have helped. And maybe I'm missing something but: I run newlist but it doesn't tell me what aliases to add to /etc/aliases (like the doco says it should) and nor does emailing newlist@mydomain work. It feels like there's a step missing. ok the missing step was me reading the output from newlist properly! got that one sorted now. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:56, David Fitch wrote: Hi all, what's the current favourite software for running a mailing list? (debian woody and postfix) I've found tons of them but am after a recommendation on something simple (and preferably small) for small numbers of list members of only a couple of lists. Mailman seems to fit most, if not all, of your requirements. Some people have a real problem with it, but I think it does the job very well. Greeno signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
On 2 Dec 2002, Tony Green wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:56, David Fitch wrote: Hi all, what's the current favourite software for running a mailing list? (debian woody and postfix) I've found tons of them but am after a recommendation on something simple (and preferably small) for small numbers of list members of only a couple of lists. Mailman seems to fit most, if not all, of your requirements. Some people have a real problem with it, but I think it does the job very well. Agree. No problems here. Agree. Greeno -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Flatter government, not fatter government. - me Get rid of the Australian states. -- If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
On 2/12/2002 3:03 PM +1100 Howard Lowndes wrote: On 2 Dec 2002, Tony Green wrote: Mailman seems to fit most, if not all, of your requirements. Some people have a real problem with it, but I think it does the job very well. Agree. No problems here. Agree. FWIW, from your list of main requirements, I also think Mailman is your best choice. It can also handle large number of mailing lists users (even though you are only going to have a couple, it's good to know..) Gonz. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software
thanks guys, I'll give mailman a go. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software recommendations
On Sat 23 Mar, Andre Pang bloviated thus: So far, everything I've tried expects that I dump it into the /etc/aliases file (or whatever the equivalent is) :(. Even the specific non-root ones like minordomo etc don't really do what I want. ALL of them should be able to work in a non-root environment, but if you want to have addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] you'll need access to that /etc/aliases file. Perhaps you have access on the machine hosting your email but not the machine hosting the lists? Well with an intelligent mailer (Postfix, qmail et al) you should be able to set it up to accept mail of the type [EMAIL PROTECTED] So you could point from the first machine to the second machine and then have procmail split stuff out. The docs always talk about using /etc/aliases because that's the most straightforward way to do it. You can still do it other ways but you'll have to be creative. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams msg21843/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] mailing list software recommendations
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:05:13PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: So far, everything I've tried expects that I dump it into the /etc/aliases file (or whatever the equivalent is) :(. Even the specific non-root ones like minordomo etc don't really do what I want. ALL of them should be able to work in a non-root environment, but if you want to have addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] you'll need access to that /etc/aliases file. Many webhosting companies will have a 'catch all' mailbox which accepts mail for any email address sent to a domain, so [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] will all go to the same mailbox. So you don't need access to the /etc/aliases file; you can do it via .procmailrc or other means. (Side point: qmail has really nice support for user mailing lists, but my webhost isn't running qmail.) -- #ozone/algorithm [EMAIL PROTECTED] - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
