[Mailman-Users] Mailman+Exim+Virtual Domains - this may help someone

2002-11-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
DISCLAIMER: I HAVE NOT TESTED THESE INSTRUCTIONS SO DON'T BLAME ME. I AM GOING TO TEST THEM JUST LIKE YOU. Since this question is asked so many times on this list, I thought I should share this with the others. Credits to Alexandrov, not me. http://www.isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/exim/config.sample

[Mailman-Users] Help unsubscribing members

2002-11-19 Thread fish
I have several people listed on one of my lists that are giving me problems (not the people, just their addresses). I have tried to unsubscribe the member, but mailman tells me that they are not a member. On the admin/membership page, their address shows up in the subscribed members list, and when

[Mailman-Users] Question related to parent lists

2002-11-19 Thread Arif Mamdani
Hey folks, I've been beating my head against the wall on this one for a while, and could really use a few fresh sets of eyeballs on the following: At my job, we're running a number of lists for ourself and other organizations working on similar issues. We've started to get complaints about peo

[Mailman-Users] Emergency!!

2002-11-19 Thread karma
Dear frenz, - I use RedHat7.2 and i have mailman -2.0.13-1 with Namazu search. - I have made newlist after installation for trial. it was working fine. -Very recently i have again made a new list and so many people have joined. But i cannot see any archives after the approval of the articles

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-19 Thread David Richards
How about ACTIVE-ACTIVE sharing the same installation via an NFS mount (or possibly shared storage in a cluster)? D. > There are several ways to set this up. Here are two examples > that I've done: >  >  - Front end the servers with an LVS cluster and run the servers > in your DMZ. The LVS clus

[Mailman-Users] Re: Carriage Return in Archives

2002-11-19 Thread Will Yardley
John DeCarlo wrote: > J C Lawrence wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:22:25 -0500 John DeCarlo wrote: > I guess I should have been more precise. Any decent MUA over the past > 10-20 years should not insert extra characters in the user's message. > If the user wants to put in a line break after ev

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Carnes
There are several ways to set this up. Here are two examples that I've done: - Front end the servers with an LVS cluster and run the servers in your DMZ. The LVS cluster acts as a firewall and connects a user to an active internal server (one of many in its list) based on either an ip address o

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman instalation

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Carnes
Definitely your MTA. If you are running sendmail on Red Hat then the file you need to modify is /etc/mail/access. Add: localhost.localdomainRELAY localhostRELAY 127.0.0.1RELAY That should cover everything! Good Luck. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:34, Dani

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-19 Thread David Richards
 > I have a domain with 2 master mx servers and I want to run > mailman on > both so if 1 is down, the mailing lists still work. > I have not setup > mailman yet, but have subscribed to quite a > few lists using it. > > > Does anyone have a similar setup? >  > Most folks do this via NFS. They set

[Mailman-Users] RE: Edit html MM-variables?

2002-11-19 Thread Parker, David K
I think I found the configurable variables in a file called HTMLFormatter.py . '' : self.GetMailmanFooter(), '' : self.real_name, '' : self._internal_name, '' : self.description, '' : string.join(string.split(self.info, '\n'),

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spurious ImportError stopping the qrunner

2002-11-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "RB" == Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RB> I then stumbled across a UserDict.pyc file in the RB> $prefix/Mailman directory; just a .pyc, no matching .py RB> But, I thought, UserDict.pyc resides in RB> /usr/local/lib/python2.2/, it being a standard library R

[Mailman-Users] Front End for Mailman

2002-11-19 Thread Jonathan Chum
I was wondering if there are any nice front ends for Mailman that would allow complete list administration via the browser. That would be sending out HTML/TEXT emails, attachments, etc. all via the web interface. They would be able to view statistics of their list, number of subscribers, number of

[Mailman-Users] Edit html MM-variables

2002-11-19 Thread Parker, David K
Where can I find a list of the available MM-variables to use in editing the html pages? I'm looking for a more obvious one for list owner. Basically I'm creating an Announce only list and wish to include verbage on who to report problems to. I wish to use a variable in case the list owner address c

Re: [Mailman-Users] logfile questions

2002-11-19 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:26, Tim Crouch wrote: > All - > I have the following entry in my maillog: > > Nov 19 12:11:20 ourmailhost sendmail[2032]: gAJJAISD002009: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED],<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >delay=00:00:57, xdelay=00:00:07, mailer=esmtp, pri=15109263, >relay

[Mailman-Users] logfile questions

2002-11-19 Thread Tim Crouch
All - I have the following entry in my maillog: Nov 19 12:11:20 ourmailhost sendmail[2032]: gAJJAISD002009: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED],<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:57, xdelay=00:00:07, mailer=esmtp, pri=15109263, relay=mail.someplace.edu. [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], dsn=2.0.0, s

[Mailman-Users] RELEASED Mailman 2.1 beta 5

2002-11-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
I've released Mailman 2.1 beta 5, and upgraded the python.org server to run this version, so with this announcement you are seeing its effects. :) Everything seems to be cruising along smoothly, so hopefully we'll have better luck with this version than with 2.1b4. See below for a list of changes

[Mailman-Users] mailman instalation

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Provin
I have installed mailman on the network, but when I create a new list, it only send mail to the local users, any subcribed users outside my local network do not get any copy of the mails. I found this error on sendmail: Nov 19 16:26:15 labmetro sendmail[14864]: gAJIQ5C14864: ruleset=check_rcpt, a

[Mailman-Users] Spurious ImportError stopping the qrunner

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Barrett
I have a hitherto stable Mailman server currently running MM 2.0.13 with Python 2.2.1, both built from source, under Suse 7.3 (kernel 2.4.10-4GB) When I say stable I mean the server has been running without problems for over twelve months, handling light/medium levels of traffic for 450 lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] RedHat and Mailman - recommendation

2002-11-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JC" == Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> Also, be sure that you load the Python-Dev rpm as Mailman JC> needs some basic Python modules that Red Hat has decided to JC> only include in the Dev RPM. Go figure. Specifically, Mailman needs distutils and RH decided that di

Re: [Mailman-Users] Carriage Return in Archives

2002-11-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:00 -0500 John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J C Lawrence wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:22:25 -0500 John DeCarlo wrote: >> 1) Not everybody uses a windowing interface. > Why would this be important? I can turn on word wrap on a VT100. > Automatic word wrap has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Installation

2002-11-19 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:39, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to get Mailman 2.0.13 running. I believe I followed the > installation > instructions correctly however the cron job that runs sends me the following > error messages. Any idea what I need to do to fix it. > Have you run th

Re: [Mailman-Users] msg_header help

2002-11-19 Thread Jeremy Portzer
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 01:26, Tim Crouch wrote: > I am trying to configure the msg_header to include the recipients email address. Is >this possible? > > I basically want: > > Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. What version of mailman are you using

[Mailman-Users] how can one edit the welcome_msg?

2002-11-19 Thread Chip Upsal
thank you, Chip -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration questions (majordomo, MHonArc,Yahoo!Groups)

2002-11-19 Thread John Buttery
* Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-18 15:58:37 -0500]: > (though MHonArch may one day be the archiver that is included with > Mailman...) For the record, I second that hope... :) -- John Buttery

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Carnes
> > You can also store the email addresses (one per line, and *only* the email > > address) and then use user_add to add the list of users to an existing > > mailing list. > > That sounds good - would they just get the default options? > > What about a password for the web interface? > > Using

[Mailman-Users] Variable for sender's email?

2002-11-19 Thread Andy Peed
Apologies if I have missed this in the archives... I have a mailing list in which replies are by default directed back to the list. I place a header on each message which indicates this and asks that the To: line be changed if the reply is to be sent only to the sender. I have been asked if the s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any other mailing list software?

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin McCann
At 08:25 AM 19/11/02 -0500, Jonathan Chum wrote: Hi, One of our clients which we put them on Mailman finds the administration of the list very unfriendly and complex. They are now questioning whether there are any other applications comparable to Mailman's performance, but more user friendly. Eve

Re: [Mailman-Users] RedHat and Mailman - recommendation

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Carnes
Red Hat has a nice website for 8.0 users that want to move to Postfix. I suggest you read it. Red Hat 8.0 comes setup for use with Postfix (though Sendmail is the default MTA). Also, be sure that you load the Python-Dev rpm as Mailman needs some basic Python modules that Red Hat has decided to on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any other mailing list software?

2002-11-19 Thread Franco Rinaudo
Have a look at Communigate Pro (http://www.stalker.com) Franco Rinaudo === > Hi, > > One of our clients which we put them on Mailman finds the administration > of the list very unfriendly and complex. They are now questioning > whether the

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about archiving HTML messages

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Carnes
Pipermail is not going to be of much help to you. Try MHonArc. It will do exactly what you want and works well with Mailman. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 09:50, Marcelo Assis wrote: > Hi all, > > We currently have 2 moderated lists and we are migrating them to a mailman > server. Everything is already

[Mailman-Users] Any other mailing list software?

2002-11-19 Thread Jonathan Chum
Hi, One of our clients which we put them on Mailman finds the administration of the list very unfriendly and complex. They are now questioning whether there are any other applications comparable to Mailman's performance, but more user friendly. Even if it costs them $$$. The only problem though is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Carnes
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:17, Ian Chilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have a domain with 2 master mx servers and I want to run mailman on > both so if 1 is down, the mailing lists still work. I have not setup > mailman yet, but have subscribed to quite a few lists using it. > > Does anyone have a simila

[Mailman-Users] RedHat and Mailman - recommendation

2002-11-19 Thread John DeCarlo
Hello, I have a RedHat 8 server that is currently not being used for any email. I also ended up with a mailman install, but I would like to test the beta. Given that I would have to check the Sendmail configs and get that working first, I am also interested in checking out Postfix. Has anyone a

[Mailman-Users] question about archiving HTML messages

2002-11-19 Thread Marcelo Assis
Hi all, We currently have 2 moderated lists and we are migrating them to a mailman server. Everything is already set and working, but when we were importing the mbox message archives we found out that mailman (pipermail?) didnt accepted the HTML in the messages, and since they are educational list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Carriage Return in Archives

2002-11-19 Thread John DeCarlo
J C Lawrence wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:22:25 -0500 John DeCarlo wrote: >Hello, Just wanted to make the point that MUAs should *not* put in >line breaks except for new paragraphs. Any decent MUA that is reading >the message will perform the line wraps for you based on the size of >your win

[Mailman-Users] automating daily send to moderated list

2002-11-19 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hello, I'm trying to set up a large mailing list (~80k subscribers) using mailman. It is a moderated list. I would like to automate send of a daily newsletter to all the subscribers (by script that runs as a cronjob on the same machine as mailman). However, I don't want to go and approve the m

[Mailman-Users] Can not approve message sent outside the list.

2002-11-19 Thread Dmitri Gofmekler
Hello, Have a following problem with 2.0.13. When someone who not member sending mail to closed only for members list, administrator can not approve this message. Can someone make and advice. drwxrwx---2 mailman mailnull 4096 Nov 18 17:01 qfiles Users mailman and apache are members of gr

[Mailman-Users] How to install Mailman on RaQ3

2002-11-19 Thread Davis
Ahoy All I am going nuts trying to install Mailman on a Cobalt RaQ3. When compiling, it craps out right here: Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/smtplib.py ... Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/tempfile.py ... Compiling /home/mailman/Mailman/versions.py ... Built-in exception clas

[Mailman-Users] Multiple Servers for a List?

2002-11-19 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, I have a domain with 2 master mx servers and I want to run mailman on both so if 1 is down, the mailing lists still work. I have not setup mailman yet, but have subscribed to quite a few lists using it. Does anyone have a similar setup? I was thinking the best way would be to alias [EMAIL