Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: feature request?

2001-11-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
J C Lawrence wrote: That would mean having to log you out on that page (or upon clicking on those links). I would prefer it didn't log me out (actually that would both annoy me and destroy the utility of the feature). As a site administrator, I can see this worthwhile. After all,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: feature request?

2001-11-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:58:28 -0700 Ashley M Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J C Lawrence wrote: I would prefer it didn't log me out (actually that would both annoy me and destroy the utility of the feature). As a site administrator, I can see this worthwhile. After all, hitting /admin

[Mailman-Users] Re: feature request?

2001-11-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
J C Lawrence wrote: Who said I can't access any other lists? Exactly. I was going after single list admins doing this, not site wide administrators (or even admins that have multiple lists). :) -- H | Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

[Mailman-Users] Multi-characters in subject

2001-11-26 Thread Reed Lai
Seniors, I just found multi-characters in subject, for example, a big5 Chinese encording that came from Mutt mail client Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=F6=A9=F3=BC=D0=C3D=AA=BA=A4=A4=A4=E5=BDs=BDX?= The Mailman (2.0.7) sometimes translated above to correct big5 codes in the html Archive page,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: 'generator' object has no attribute 'insert'

2001-11-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Well, one thing you are doing wrong is sending this to the users list. All comments and problems for the 2.1 alpha should be directed to the dev list. The code base for 2.1 changes often enough that only the developers and a few power users are up to date on it. Jon Carnes === On Sunday 25

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archiver after updating server.

2001-11-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Ok, I finally figured out that I was reading the trace back backwards. I added a line to the code in makelink to print the names of the new and old file specs involved in the links. In moving the server the mailman files were moved from /home/mailman to /var/mailman The link it is trying to

RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archiver after updating server.

2001-11-26 Thread Paul Rubin
OK, I found move_list, scratch this entire communication stream. Thank you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Rubin Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Problem with archiver after

[Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread David Ball
Hi there Some of our users never receive messages from the list, despite the fact that I can see the message leaving our system as normal. This always affects the same users, and there are no error messages or bounces received by us or them. Messages sent from the console arrive correctly, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread Norbert Bollow
Some of our users never receive messages from the list, despite the fact that I can see the message leaving our system as normal. This always affects the same users, and there are no error messages or bounces received by us or them. Most likely there's a spam filter on the receiving

RE: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread David Ball
Most likely there's a spam filter on the receiving mailserver. Some of them just discard spam messages without sending a bounce; this is nasty is the case of false positives. I thought this too, but what I can't understand is why mail sent from the console gets delivered correctly. Is there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread Norbert Bollow
Most likely there's a spam filter on the receiving mailserver. Some of them just discard spam messages without sending a bounce; this is nasty is the case of false positives. I thought this too, but what I can't understand is why mail sent from the console gets delivered correctly.

[Mailman-Users] demime only archives, not list

2001-11-26 Thread Milivoj Ivkovic
Hi, I have a list for which I would like to Demime mails before they are archived by pipermail, but not when sent to the list members. Is there a way to insert demime just before archiving? I looked at the code, but unfortunately I don't know Python, and couldn't quite understand the flow of

[Mailman-Users] Automatically Deleting Held Messages

2001-11-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Description: On some of my mailman lists, I don't want to look at the held messages - I just want them deleted. Also, I'm never going to approve any subscribe requests for those lists - I just want them deleted as well! In the example below Mailman was installed in /home/mailman. I will use

[Mailman-Users] umber of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Simon Faulkner
Where the members admin displays 30 members per page - can it do more? I would sacrifice a bit of speed for all 200 members on one page... Simon -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread Jerry Feldman
There are a few reasons for this. The SPAM filter is valid. I had a similar problem with majordomo. All email to my recipients at bellsouth.net were being bounced and unknown user. When I moved the list over to mailman (and Postfix) the problem was eliminated. Another possibility, is that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:53:54 - David Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This always affects the same users, and there are no error messages or bounces received by us or them. Messages sent from the console arrive correctly, and other bounce messages are received correctly too (ie address

Re: [Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Wilder
And another possibility. The recipients themselves may be operating spam filters, for example procmail filters, which screen out messages not apparently addressed to them. To operate such a filter successfully, exemptions need to be written in for lists. On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:19:58PM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:48 PM 11/25/01 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I'm posting this for the sake of the archive. And please correct me if anything is wrong here. File /home/mailman/cron/qrunner IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db' Here's the problem, I think. My mistake

[Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

2001-11-26 Thread Andre Dieball
Hi I'm trying to install htdig with Mailman 2.0.7. I saw, that there are several patches available for that, but all of them are for 2.0.6 What do I have to do to let htdig search my archives? Thanks in advance Rgds. Andre --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permission denied:'/home/mailman/lists/test/config.db'

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Mick
Now, the install directions say: - Add a new user called `mailman'. Typically this is added to your /etc/passwd file. If username `mailman' is already in use, choose something else unique and see the --with-ownername flag below. - Add a new group called

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got a setup where all mail that comes in to hank.org (except for a few other people) gets delivered to me. This is done with sendmail's virtusertable. The problem is that virtusertable seems to override the settings in the aliases file for Mailman. In my virtusertable I have: @hank.org

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Bill Moseley wrote: In my virtusertable I have: @hank.org moseley+%1 So if I have a list [EMAIL PROTECTED], and add aliases test:|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test test-admin: |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test test-request:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Edit your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file (See your Default.py file for the values to copy over and edit). Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Simon Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:04 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] umber of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:12 PM 11/26/01 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: In your virtusertable: #mailing lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] test [EMAIL PROTECTED]test-admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-request [EMAIL PROTECTED]test-owner #catchall rule @hank.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem during compiling

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 20 November 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I always get this error messages even though I've already created the username as 'mailman' and group as 'mailman'. I am running Solaris 8 with python version 2.1.1 on UltraSpac 10. [...] checking for mailman UID... Traceback (most recent call

[Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Bill Moseley wrote: Do people use shell scripts to do all this work? Nope, by hand. su - mailman bin/newlist foo su edit /etc/mail/aliases newaliase edit /etc/mail/virtusertable makemap hash virtusertable virtusertable restart sendmail Actually, the problem with that is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Wilder
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:18:39AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: At 12:12 PM 11/26/01 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: In your virtusertable: #mailing lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] test [EMAIL PROTECTED]test-admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] test-request [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi-characters in subject

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 November 2001, Reed Lai said: I just found multi-characters in subject, for example, a big5 Chinese encording that came from Mutt mail client Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=F6=A9=F3=BC=D0=C3D=AA=BA=A4=A4=A4=E5=BDs=BDX?= ^^ This means the subject line is encoded

[Mailman-Users] spot of trouble migrating lists.

2001-11-26 Thread F. Ross Lord
Hello all. I have a problem and I'm not quite where to start. I have looked through the documentation as best I can, and I haven't found any good guides. I have about 40 mailing lists with archives on a mail server that is due to be turned off in about 2 weeks. I need to migrate all of

[Mailman-Users] Need help

2001-11-26 Thread Alex Franz
Can you please tell me how to erase old posts? Thanks, Alex Franz http://alcione.org/mailman/private/lista_alcione_alcione.org/2001-October/thread.html __ I would like to erase the BOLD samples Sample: 001-October Archives by Thread Messages sorted by: [

[Mailman-Users] Problem with archiver after updating server.

2001-11-26 Thread Paul Rubin
I very recently upgraded my server, in the process I went from exim to sendmail, I went from redhat 7.0 to redhat 7.2 I re-formatted the drive and restored the mailman files from the backup. I appear to have a problem of some sort with the archiving. can someone tell me how to diagnose this

[Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-26 Thread marina
Hi, Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses? We're moving over to Pairlist a list where this is particularly important (i.e. being able to keep track of the NAMES of the members), and I would appreciate

[Mailman-Users] feature request

2001-11-26 Thread EdE
hi, i'm using mailman for about one year at my site. during this time i realized that it would be nice to have a feature to include one or more email-adresses temporarily to the list (without the prior subscribing-stuff): example: you start a discussion and send your mail to a list and also to

[Mailman-Users] Password

2001-11-26 Thread Christopher Rajah
Hi All I want to remove password checking for individual users . So a user is able to unsubscribe , make perference changes etc without having to type in a password. I can easily change the html , but the cgi programs are already compiled , where can I get the source! best regards

[Mailman-Users] Migrate/export lists to other programs

2001-11-26 Thread Jose Guevarra
Hi, Is there a way to export the mailing list in MailMan to some universal form? I want to import them into a windows-based list server. thanx, -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Password really necessary??

2001-11-26 Thread Daniel Abad
Hi, I was looking for a mailing list system and Mailman seems to be very interesting... but I have a question. The Password is really necessary for the users?? I was thinking just to validate the email address, shoud this be possible?? Tks. Dan

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1602 - 1 msg

2001-11-26 Thread David L Brown
Oh, I was going to include the old membership list from gbt-software-reports-digest. Here it is. -- Dave Joe Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ramon Creager [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Granados [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gareth Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:30:50 -0700 Ashley M Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: Do people use shell scripts to do all this work? Nope, by hand. Some of us use MTA configurations so that we don't need any list-specific aliases. Exim is particularly good at this. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password

2001-11-26 Thread Jon Carnes
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq01.005.htp - Original Message - From: Christopher Rajah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 3:34 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Password Hi All I want to remove password checking for

Re: [Mailman-Users] sh: /home/mailman/mail/wrapper: Operation not permitted

2001-11-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Looks like a smrsh problem. You need to create a link from /home/mailman/mail/wrapper to the smrsh directory. Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Joe Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] sh:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrate/export lists to other programs

2001-11-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Check out the commands in ~mailman/bin/.. You will find everything you need there. Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Jose Guevarra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 2:51 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Migrate/export lists to other programs Hi,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

2001-11-26 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
J C Lawrence wrote: Some of us use MTA configurations so that we don't need any list-specific aliases. Exim is particularly good at this. Everyone to their own elements (or toys), no? -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.

Re: [Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

2001-11-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:50:46PM +0100, Andre Dieball wrote: Hi I'm trying to install htdig with Mailman 2.0.7. I saw, that there are several patches available for that, but all of them are for 2.0.6 The changes between .6 and .7 should be so minor that the patch should apply as is.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi-characters in subject

2001-11-26 Thread Reed Lai
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:35:52PM -0500, Greg Ward wrote: On 26 November 2001, Reed Lai said: I just found multi-characters in subject, for example, a big5 Chinese encording that came from Mutt mail client Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C3=F6=A9=F3=BC=D0=C3D=AA=BA=A4=A4=A4=E5=BDs=BDX?=

[Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-26 Thread Phydeaux
There have been questions here of late regarding backups. Using bin/list_lists I can get a list of the lists. I can then easily cycle through each list and (for each one) do the following: - Run bin/config_list - Run bin/list_members (once for digested, once for regular members) - Copy the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Bob Puff/NLE
Edit your ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py file (See your Default.py file for the values to copy over and edit). Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: Simon Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:04 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] umber

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Dan Mick
I've tried this with a couple lists, and it does NOT seem to work - still get the 30 members, no matter what you set that value in Defaults.py (or mm.cfg.py) to. Did you see my answer to this? Defaults value is for new lists; it's stored in a list variable at list-create time.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Mick wrote: I've tried this with a couple lists, and it does NOT seem to work - still get the 30 members, no matter what you set that value in Defaults.py (or mm.cfg.py) to. Did you see my answer to this? I was replying to your answer! g Defaults value is for new lists; it's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-26 Thread John W Baxter
At 21:49 -0500 11/26/2001, Phydeaux wrote: Using bin/list_lists I can get a list of the lists. I can then easily cycle through each list and (for each one) do the following: - Run bin/config_list - Run bin/list_members (once for digested, once for regular members) - Copy the complete archive or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page

2001-11-26 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
B == Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B So how do you change it for a list already created? Export the B config file, mess with it, then re-import? Make bin/withlist your best friend! :) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] not being told of pending administrativerequests

2001-11-26 Thread jgo
Peter Jay Salzman at 2001-11-21 09:03:02 -0800 wrote: 1. user subscribes to list 2. user gets confirmation notice 3. user replies to confirmation notice 4. i get no email that there's a pending request waiting for me the only way to learn of the pending request is to visit the admin page.