Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing users

2001-10-19 Thread Detlef Neubauer
Clean Air [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to mass-UNsubscribe users from the system?  I handle at least 50 unsubscribe requests a week, and it's not fun to do it one at a time. ~/bin/remove_members Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing users

2001-10-19 Thread fred backman
It may have been discussed in the past, but wouldn't it also be a neat idea to include this feature on the web interface? On Friday, October 19, 2001, at 03:28 PM, Detlef Neubauer wrote: Clean Air [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to mass-UNsubscribe users from the system?  I handle

Re: [Mailman-Users] Failure of rmlist command

2001-10-19 Thread Paul Flint
Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2001 08:33 am, Paul Flint wrote: What should I try now? I don't have to run the commands in bin through the interpreter with Mandrake 8. Tried just doing ./rmmlist? If not, maybe I could try sending you my file. Nope. something else is

[Mailman-Users] unsubbing people who don't know their address

2001-10-19 Thread Joshua S. Freeman
OK, we have some people subscribed to a list (a list with some 5,000 people on it)... and they can't remember what email address they used to subscribe to the list so that they can unsubscribe themselves. They write and ask me to just search for any subscribers from 'thisdomian.com'... in these

[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Users]2.0.6 upgrade configuration question

2001-10-19 Thread Christopher Adams
Thank you for your reply. I did try that and it worked. Not sure why, since the mail GID is not 60001, but stranger things have happened. So, I got version 1.1 working. Then I upgraded to version 2.0.6. I only had one test list, so it was not a big operation. I simply ran the configuration with

Changing Header - Old Posting: [Mailman-Users] Dummyfunction Newsletter

2001-10-19 Thread Bart Frackiewicz
Jon (and all other Mailman-Friends), this morning i thougth that i have solved this problem, but after a telephone call i know that my customer means something other: This is the original Header: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] appears in Outlook as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; im Auftrag von;

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubbing people who don't know their address

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Ward
On 19 October 2001, Joshua S. Freeman said: I noticed in /mailman/bin a script called 'find_member' but I don't 'read' python and don't know if that's some kind of utility to do what I'm trying to do. You don't have to read Python, just English. Running find_member without arguments gives a

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubbing people who don't know their address

2001-10-19 Thread Joshua S. Freeman
Thanks Greg... I was reluctant to run the script until I knew what it did and what parameters it took.. I guess I didn't give the creators of mailman enough credit and for that I am truly sorry! cheers, J. On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Greg Ward wrote: On 19 October 2001, Joshua S. Freeman said: I

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubbing people who don't know their address

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Joshua S Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, we have some people subscribed to a list (a list with some 5,000 people on it)... and they can't remember what email address they used to subscribe to the list so that they can unsubscribe themselves.

Re: Changing Header - Old Posting: [Mailman-Users] Dummyfunction Newsletter

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:04:50 +0200 Bart Frackiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon (and all other Mailman-Friends), this morning i thougth that i have solved this problem, but after a telephone call i know that my customer means something other: This is the original Header: Sender:

[Mailman-Users] Downloading a copy of the users emails?

2001-10-19 Thread Jeremy Luebke - RockHosting.com
Is there a way that I can download a copy of all my members email addresses so I can transfer them to a different program on a different server? Thanks -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Downloading a copy of the users emails?

2001-10-19 Thread Amanda
Hm. Do folks not know of the existence of the bin directory, or are they frightened of it? I suppose I use the same methods of evaluating and exploring software that I do when playing that minefield game... make your best guess, and then click on it and see if it blows up... Jeremy: cd to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Downloading a copy of the users emails?

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:17:52 -0500 Jeremy Luebke - RockHosting.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way that I can download a copy of all my members email addresses so I can transfer them to a different program on a different server? ~/bin/list_members -- J C Lawrence -(*)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Downloading a copy of the users emails?

2001-10-19 Thread Amanda
Hm. All I did was give him what he asked for, not perhaps what he really needed. Guess I've caught admin's disease after all. :-) Thanks for sharing this handy tidbit... =) Amanda Mark T. Valites wrote: Ah, but if you want to preserve the preferences, settings, and archives from a previous

[Mailman-Users] stripmime or demime w/Exim 3.33 anyone?

2001-10-19 Thread Rob Lingelbach
I'd like to use demime or stripmime with Mailman 2.0.6 and exim 3.33, so I'll need to have a pipe transport set up. Can someone who is doing this send me their exim config? thank you. -- Rob Lingelbach http://www.alegria.com System Administrator

Re: [Mailman-Users] Downloading a copy of the users emails?

2001-10-19 Thread Amanda
Yeah, but I'm not entirely sure precisely where the file originated. I have it pinned to my corkboard right over my head, and it says Mailman Site Administration Documentation at the top. Anybody remember where it came from? heh =) Amanda Joshua S. Freeman wrote: Are all of those utilities

Re: Changing Header - Old Posting: [Mailman-Users] Dummyfunction Newsletter

2001-10-19 Thread Jon Carnes
Again, this is something that will have to be done on the email client. Mailman does not affect this. As an example, your name shows up in my Outlook as: Bart Frackiewicz and the header information in the email is: From: Bart Frackiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailman did not change this. This

Re: [Mailman-Users] We're sorry, we hit a bug! (resolved)

2001-10-19 Thread mailman
Alright, I tracked down the problem and found out it had nothing to do with mailman. But in case someone has the same problem I'll post it (even though it's really really embarassing). Okay, I should I have been able to figure it out, it happened for no obvious reason, was just sitting there.

[Mailman-Users] Mailman commands from ~mailman/bin/...

2001-10-19 Thread Jon Carnes
This is a summary of the mailman commands available via the console in ~mailman/bin/ === add_members: add regular or digested users to a list. arch: rebuild a mailing list's archives. check_db: check a mailing list database for corruption. check_perms: check the permissions on the Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Throwing away Implicit messages rather than holding them

2001-10-19 Thread Jon Carnes
This seems like an interesting thing to do... Looking into dumping that implicit mail instead of letting it pile up it seems a bit more complex than editing the SpamDetect.py module. Mailman runs mail through the following pipeline of modules (in order): 'SpamDetect', 'Approve',

[Mailman-Users] Customize confirmation, password reminder and subscription messages

2001-10-19 Thread Alexis Bellido
Hi, i run my web site at a hosting provider, i have a shared account so i don't have root access to my Red Hat server. My hosting company uses Mailman and i would like to be able to customize the messages sent to the user when he/she subscribe, i mean the confirmation message, and also customize

Re: [Mailman-Users] We're sorry, we hit a bug!

2001-10-19 Thread Aaron Nikula
I checked all the processes and the only ones given to mailman is /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner, so I cleared out the processes and still get the bug message. I've tried it on 3 different computers each with different browsers, but I tried it with netscape 4.7 and it still gives