On 28-Feb-08, at 4:40 PM, Jennifer Redman wrote:
3) Has anyone developed something similar in the past few years which
provides similar functionality that may be an acceptable alternative?
How similar is this to the Topic functionality that's around now?
(all messages matching a topic regex
On 24-Jul-07, at 12:31 PM, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
So we just specify a header to put it in, and subscribers will be
able
to use it, per definition of a canonical URL.
It is the archive server's job to decide what is the canonical URL
for a message. There's a good chance these archival URLs
On 20-Jul-07, at 8:39 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I've looked at a few lurker archivers and I wasn't blown away by its
user interface. That's apparently highly configurable though.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about interface, and I'm coming to
the conclusion that something more like a web
On 5-Jul-07, at 12:09 PM, John Dennis wrote:
A little over a year ago I went on a search to find the best open
source
archiver and at that time I came up with Lurker
(http://lurker.sourceforge.net) Since then I believe Lurker has seen a
major new revision. I also believe Lurker is the
Since I've largely finished up the coding contract that was eating up
a lot of my time, I'm thinking that I'd like to do some coding for
fun. And nothing says fun like trying to fix the Mailman archives! ;)
I'm trying to remember all the things people have suggested for the
archives in the
On 7-May-07, at 11:37 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Here is my current thinking, and I'd like to know what you all think
about this. Andrew created the mondernize_21_webui branch and
applied the xhtml and css patches to it. We could conceivably keep
these changes very conservative, i.e. just u/i
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On 4-May-07, at 7:05 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
I'm just now trying to catch up on this thread. Mostly, I have nothing
to contribute because I have no experience with any dvcs.
That said, for me personally, I don't mind learning something new.
I,
On 27-Apr-07, at 4:53 PM, Aaron Crosman wrote:
That said, I'm not clear where this project stands. I've been
reviewed
the summary from last summer's SoC work, and while that's given me
some
idea of what was done, I don't have a good sense of how and where
to get
started on helping.
Oh, goodness, Ethan... I was excited when Barry told me we were getting
a SoC student to do this, and you sound *exactly* what we need. I'll
try to restrain myself from declaring everlasting love until I've seen
some finished work, but I will say that I'm very happy to have you on
the
On Aug 29, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
I've done backporting the changes in Release_2_1-maint into the MAIN
branch which was not updated more than a year and this has caused
confusion for the people who want to try CVS checkout. For I was a
little bit tired of maintaining two
On Apr 24, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
I have just uploaded a patch that will make the web UI for MM 2.1.6rc1
XHTML 1 strict compliant. This patch allows for some CSS formatting as
well.
I haven't looked at the patch itself yet, but +1 to the idea of making
the interface XHTML and
On Apr 4, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Mikhail Sobolev wrote:
Environment
central user database, with its own methods of add/removing/modifying
users, as well as disabling (temporarily of permanently)
apache2 serves all stuff
Access to the website (to any part of it) is restricted to
authenticated
On Mar 4, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Tobias Eigen wrote:
Waiting for MM3 might be too long for me - I am in the process of
overhauling Kabissa's interfaces and integrating them, and need to be
making more rapid progress on making Mailman work for me or replacing
it with something easier.
Fixing some of
On Mar 4, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
I think we have to prioritize things and decide what can feasibly be
looked at to fix in the 2.x tree, and what's going to have to wait for
mm3.
... and all of this is a moot point until we see what people actually
want in the way of improved
On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Tobias Eigen wrote:
I'm sorry to say it, but Mailman's web interfaces are extremely
daunting and confusing.
As someone who's spent time documenting them... yes! They're useable,
and people can learn them, but I know I noticed things that simply
don't make sense to
On Feb 17, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
It's unfortunate that your developer can't adapt to the Mailman coding
style. I work on tons of open source software, and of course lots of
software at my job, and each project has its own coding guidelines.
When in Rome... is the operative phrase
On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:10 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 06:39, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I have to agree. Doesn't it make more sense to move to something like
reStructuredText if you need to produce somewhat nice-looking web or
printed documents without much effort?
I think the
On Dec 4, 2004, at 5:50 AM, Simmo Siil wrote:
I have 3 lists, which are [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and they all are in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When i send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whitch has the users in,out
office,
then i get next message form all of them:
name post from
On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
Hmm, I think that this whole conversation is not seeing the wood for
the trees. Why would anyone want to sort a list by date? The date of a
posting isn't really relevant except:
[snip several good reasons]
3. Helping users sort the email in their
On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Russ Pagenkopf wrote:
Not quite sure where to post this, so I thought I'd send it here. I've
just started working with Mailman and when I started to print out the
administrator commands with --help I noticed, ummm, a bit of, well,
shall we say, inconsistency. :) Now
On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:39 AM, Russ Pagenkopf wrote:
Not quite sure where to post this, so I thought I'd send it here. I've
just started working with Mailman and when I started to print out the
administrator commands with --help I noticed, ummm, a bit of, well,
shall we say, inconsistency. :) Now
On Nov 4, 2004, at 4:31 PM, Steel City Phantom wrote:
if someone replys to the email they receive from mailman, how to i get
mailman to either post the reply into the mysql database, or another
option will be send my JBoss servlet the email formatted into some
kind of xml that the JBoss can use
On Oct 24, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I think you'd have to change this in a backward compatible way. A
counter proposal would be to add name:domain (simply change the '@' to
a
':') so it doesn't look like an email address. Continue to support the
original argument syntax for
On Oct 18, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If your list machine isn't the same box as the webserver machine, then
the web-based create isn't going to work. :-) I still think it makes
sense.
Good point -- I'd forgotten we were still talking about web based
creation. I was
On Oct 16, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
Here is the diff for current NEWS file. (I believe Barry can
fix my poor English.) More will come later because I get requests
of merging patches personally. But, please be patient as I will
check the patches and bugs for assigning to myself when
On Oct 11, 2004, at 1:31 AM, Joe Rhett wrote:
Note that you may want to run bin/fix_url.py to change the domain of an
existing list. fix_url.py must be processed by the withlist script,
like so:
bin/wishlist -l -r bin/fix_url.py listname
This sounds more clear to me.
Also, we might want to put
On Aug 31, 2004, at 5:00 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
I'd tend to take this as:-
* Mailman is a bitch to package
* RH have packaged it for a while
* RH found a good few of the gotchas in packaging Mailman
* RH have subsequently learnt from their mistakes and recently
On Aug 31, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Adam Boettiger wrote:
I've read both FAQ's and used the FAQ Search Tool and it came up
empty, so this is something else you may want to add to the FAQ:
I see that you can insert customized fields into outgoing messages by
using the MM-Field-Name tag. Where can I
On Aug 30, 2004, at 7:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ugh: we have, at last count, 2,459 lists. Many are inactive and could
probably be culled, but even so, there's no way I could go through all
those request files by hand during an acceptable amount of downtime.
Even if I could, they're not my
If I recall correctly, Mailman still doesn't always deal gracefully
with old pending stuff, so you may have to clear out those files before
doing the upgrade (as well as upgrade python, as was already
mentioned).
This used to be mentioned in the README or INSTALL files, and I'd
assume it's
On Jul 18, 2004, at 4:43 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
For Mailman 2.1.5, we find the following update which is mentioned in
the mailman-2.1.5/NEWS file:
- The admindb page has a checkbox that allows you to discard all
held
messages that are marked Defer. On heavy lists with lots of
On Jul 17, 2004, at 8:25 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
I'm managing some Mailman based lists and get some spam each day.
Actually, 95% of all emails kept for being revised is Spam, and it
takes some time to navigate through all of them and click on their
discard radio button. But changing the
On Jul 12, 2004, at 8:26 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:56:09AM -0400, J C Lawrence wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:38:42 -0300
Christian Robottom Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a heads-up for bug 930819, which has a patch (two now) that adds
onload form focus to
On Jul 13, 2004, at 3:58 PM, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
It would be nice if 'list_members' also listed all the other secondary
info to ease exports/imports and/or list moves,
- Digest on/off
- Members name (if entered)
- mod/hide/etc/etc
Sounds good as long as it's optional and can be turned off.
On Jul 6, 2004, at 8:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bouncer.py needs a mailing list as one of its parameteres. Is it
trivial
to change the code so that it functions just as a filter for a single
file? I do not know that much of Python, so it would take too much time
for me to see if it doable in
Well, if I'm not completely of track (which I may well be) then this
setting will apply to all users at once - which is not what I need.
I need this setting to apply for some users only so I can't set it
globally.
Ahh. Per user is harder, yes -- it wasn't clear in your original post
that
On May 8, 2004, at 9:23 AM, Martin Häcker wrote:
I want to create an option that allows my users to have the
mailinglist set a reply-to header to itself in their e-mails.
Could you please give me some advice about where to start implement
this?
Um. No need to implement it -- it's built in!
On May 5, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Bill Moseley wrote:
I'd like a subscription mode where someone will receive all messages,
but when they post their message is only delivered back to them.
I don't think this is really appropriate for Mailman as a whole, but it
shouldn't be impossible for you to
This'd be a great thing to have linked in the FAQ (as well as our
documentation pages?). Would you be interested in doing this? You can
add it yourself (the url is http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
and the password is Mailman) or, if you don't have time, I can add it
(or a link to it)
On Apr 8, 2004, at 9:54 AM, Mike Holderness wrote:
I've just spotted that in the archives for a list with
Reply-to:list many messages appear as coming from
the list, some with no record of the sender.
Is this a known bug?
What version of Mailman are you using? It was an issue I noticed with
On Apr 8, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Dave Kliczbor wrote:
I just set up mailman on my Debian woody box, using the mailman
2.1.4-2.backports.org debian package from backports.org.
I haven't looked at more recent mailman packages, but I've been largely
unimpressed with the debs I've seen in the past --
On Apr 4, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Can we please drop this? It's been beaten into the ground. I don't
think the mailman development crew has shown itself well here, either,
especially Brad, who seems to be grumpy beyond the needs of the
discussion for some reason. I don't think
I'm beginning to think that Mailman should strip all incoming headers
down to the bare minimum (leave From:, Subject:, Cc:,
Received:, and that's about it), at least by default.
At least making this an option would make quite a few people happy, I
imagine, although a more configurable
On Feb 13, 2004, at 5:14 AM, Istvan Kollar wrote:
Moreover, the present Hungarian sentences are partly wrong, or
unfinished.
A series of corrections are necessary. Is there anybody who maintains
tese texts?
According to http://www.list.org/i18n.html, the current maintainers of
the Hungarian
On Feb 18, 2004, at 7:57 PM, boud wrote:
http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node40.html
11.2 What does Mailman do to help protect me from unsolicited bulk
email (spam)?
My guess in version 2.1.4 is that the file archtocnombox.html has to
be chosen sometime during installation if the user wishes to
I don't think the explanation of how to do this belongs in the user
manual, which is the only documentation I've written currently (and I
assume why you specifically CC'ed me on this message), but the FAQ is a
good place for now since the other manuals for 2.1 haven't been
completed.
If you
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:07:39AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Fails ADA and accessibility requirements badly. I'd argue against any
solution that fails such basic needs without any real way to fix it.
What about reverse turing tests that aren't graphics-based? It's easier to
beat What is
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:17:33AM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
if it can be made accessible, I have no problem with it. But I think
it's solving the wrong problem, because the data is still accessible to
a motivated person. you're not fixing the issue, simply raising the bar
and hoping
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:06:21PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
TypeError: HoldSubscription() takes exactly 6 arguments (4 given)
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `update'
Well, I'm clueless. Anybody got any tips? Known issue? PEBCAK?
Known issue --
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:17:14PM +0200, J?rgen A.Erhard wrote:
Please, give me (us) some way to look at a bounce message. I feel
so... powerless. It feels Microsofty... or, worse, Apple-y (sorry
Chuq ;-). You don't need to look at a bounce message, you won't
understand it anyway. Well, I
I know, I should probably be able to find this, but for some reason it's
eluding me...
Is there some way in which people can manually be marked as bouncing so that
the are you there? notices still go out? We get a fair number of uncaught
bounces and it'd be handy to be able to do that rather
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:42:40PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
I also made the source-code modification so that the default
action for held messages is discard as opposed to defer. This
way, I can get rid of hundreds of held messages in a single button
click. Yes, more dangerous, but
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:39:19PM +0300, Madsen Wikholm wrote:
While reading an article about spam-prevention it hit me that one way to
easily cut down on spam on an open list, would be to have mailman send out a
confirmation message for non-member posts. If the sender confirms then,
address
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:45:06AM -0500, Mike Lucas wrote:
So, my question is, where can i change this so it will let me just hit
the reply button and either leave it as is to delete the mail or add
Approved password to release it to the list.
I do this by replying to the attachment rather
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:46:45PM +0400, Roman Sinelnikov wrote:
In my opinion the only and very important trait of Mailman is
impossibility to moderate the lists in Majordomo style, by adding
approved: password line at the top of technical e-mail message and
then sending it to the listserv.
Now, to everyone else... where do I get to play with the
templates for the archives? I know they're in there
somewhere, because of internationali{s|z}ation
discussions here. I'm using MM running on an ISP's
machine, so I can't just grep for them...
The templates are in, unsuprisingly,
We want for example these (different!) lists:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The aliases needed for these mailing lists are stored in the same
alias file and so they cannot exist together.
On one of my servers, we solve this problem by having, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
I'm writing the mailman list subscriber documentation and I'm trying to find
a good way to explain how topics work. Most if it isn't too hard to do,
but, unfortunately, I'd have to explain regular expressions to people for
them to be able to look at any topic and figure out how to post to it.
I've spent the past few days fighting with outdated Zope documentation and I
got to thinking... has Mailman got updated docs for 2.1, or are people
learning Mailman for the first time now suffering from the same but that
option doesn't exist in this version! problems I'm having with Zope docs?
A
In 2.0, the mailman aliases used to include a little blob about who created
the list and when it was made:
## tartparty mailing list
## created: 13-May-2002 terri
But the new one doesn't do the second comment line... is there any reason
for the change? It's hardly essential, but I found it
1. Do nothing, everything's fine just the way it is
0
2. Do a + b
+1
3. Do a + b + c
0
4. do a + b + post summaries to mailman-developers
+1
I don't mind getting the SF messages, even on those my poor laptop's on
dialup days, but to be honest, they get procmailed to another folder and I
tend
In the longer term I think we'll need to reorganize how holds are put
on messages. I'd like to see Hold.py and Moderate.py simply tag the
messages with hold criteria, and then there would be a separate
configuration for the precedence of criteria. And in the admindb
page, you'd get to see
Someone suggested that on our job posting list, there was no point to
keeping postings more than, say, 3 months old. It sounds like everyone
agrees that it's a waste of space and it's probably up to me to implement
something.
It shouldn't be too hard to make a little cron script to move the
Has anyone developed a web forget password form, where the user can
type in their email address and it will send them their mailman
subscribers password. I would appreciate it if anyone would share their
code. I'm trying to learn python.
That's already there but not, as far as I've seen
Because in Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express, if a
user is in your addressbook and you send a message to that
user, only their friendly name (Keith Moore) appears in
the To: line. You must click your mouse on the name to
see the user@host form of the name. The workaround is
to put
At 10:07 AM 23/04/02 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
This is an emerging worm, and it looks pretty ugly. It has hit Hong Kong and
Great Britain worst so far, but it's spreading rapidly accordind to people
I've talked to.
I have to say, I've seen it already quite a bit on some of the linuxchix
At 08:50 PM 14/04/02 -0700, you wrote:
You are correct, majordomo isn't all that bad, it's just rather inefficient.
It wasn't bad at all... except that time when one of my list admins went
and subscribed majordomo to one of its own reply-to-list lists. So someone
sent somethign to the list,
At 08:52 PM 04/03/02 -0800, James J. Besemer wrote:
4. It would be nice to reuse the existing list security as an umbrealla to
cover
other arbitrary, list-members-only web pages. E.g., some listers hate large
graphics attachments (and they are problematic generally). I'd like to
remove the
Two changes: I made the background grey since that looks a little
better on my Moz 0.9.6+ browser, and I converted it to PNG (GIFs are
taboo for GNU projects ;).
I should have thought of that orginally! Actually, I thought about
it after I put it up on my server, but I was too tired and lazy
At 10:47 AM 18/02/02 -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
On 2/18/02 10:37 AM, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'll have to forgive me, but this sort of 'too-clever by all' solution
gives me hives.
And you have to be wary of solutions that make it tough for the naïve/novice
net user to
At 01:09 AM 11/01/02 -0500, you wrote:
Of course, I'm a musician[1] not an artist, so I need your help.
I'm a musician too (well, more so than artist) but at 16x16 I can at least
blame the medium. :) Here's a first attempt.
http://terri.zone12.com/mm.gif
BTW, hi everyone. I'm new. I
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