Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Use something like Mhonarc as your archive application. Pipermail doesn't do a good job with html. Another alternative is to write a small script that converts the html into text inside the mbox that the archive program uses (lynx will help you do this). Then you can delete the old archives and

[Mailman-Users] RE: Archives in HTML? (Jim Hale)

2003-01-15 Thread Armstrong, Scott Mr CECOM RDEC NVESD
You could also use hypermail to do this. In our implementation of Mailman, we only use pipermail as a backup to hypermail. We maintain a subscribed user in each list which runs a hypermail pipe to keep the archives up to date. The pipermail mbox becomes a backup in case the html archives are

[Mailman-Users] Help with content filtering ...

2003-01-15 Thread David Gibbs
Folks: I'm trying to get content filtering working, but have run into a jam ... I've got a subscriber that is using some weird email program called Incredimail (or something like that). His posts seem to come through as html only. I've got content filtering activated, and the following values

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
Is it possible to set up Mhonarc without re-archiving everything, and then try re-archiving using Mhonarc, but have things such that if I can't get Mhonarc working I can easily re-archive with Pipermail? The FAQ still says A HOWTO for this was posted to the mailman-developers list and should be

[Mailman-Users] Genaliases script

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Maddox
Hi, everyone, I just recently tried to upgrade to Mailman 2.1, but I must have been doing something wrong with genaliases. Genaliases spits out plaintext output about the changes that need to be made, but it doesn't actually make them or regenerate the aliases.db file. Sorry if this is a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Genaliases script

2003-01-15 Thread David Gibbs
Tom Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I just recently tried to upgrade to Mailman 2.1, but I must have been doing something wrong with genaliases. Genaliases spits out plaintext output about the changes that need to be made, but it doesn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] RE: Archives in HTML? (Jim Hale)

2003-01-15 Thread schuetzen - RKBA!
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:47:01 -0500, Armstrong, Scott Mr CECOM RDEC NVESD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . We maintain a subscribed user in each list which runs a hypermail pipe to keep the archives up to date is this a basic feature or have I missed a tip and how does it work? thanks chas ...

[Mailman-Users] General posting filters

2003-01-15 Thread Ahmad Osman Ahmad
hi, currently i'm using mailman 2.0.12 i would like to get help in doing a restriction to the list as below : 1) only members selected email @ (eg. @yahoo.com @netscape.net) can sent email to the list 2) others email address will be held for approval which part or setting should i change/modify

[Mailman-Users] how do I block attachments

2003-01-15 Thread dana hoffman
Hello, I am owner of a list serv using your software and I want to bock so no member may post an attachment without owner permission, how do I do that? dana Hoffman International Investigations LLC Dana Hoffman LLC Denver, CO GMT -7 voice 800 813-8884 fax 800 814-7388 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Is there a way to remove references to the web interface on emails?

2003-01-15 Thread John_Minkle
I am running Mailman behind a firewall. It works GREAT!. Is there a way to remove references to the web interface on emails so I am not pointing people to a machine they can not get to? We would like to use the web interface internally and for now that is the only option. -John

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscriber names

2003-01-15 Thread Darrell Duane
Con, Its not documented, but there is a way to add the name.. Just put the name in Parenthesis after the email address in the subscription window. I.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darrell Duane) Now, my question is, how can we get the real names to show up in the subscriber list that shows up from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ok.. got everything working..

2003-01-15 Thread Glenn Sieb
At 07:27 PM 1/12/2003 +, Richard Barrett wrote: VIRTUAL_HOSTS MAILMAN_SITE_LIST DEFAULT_HOST_NAME DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST Arrgh. The problem was I was missing: add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) in mm_cfg.py. Now it's mch better :) Thanks again,

[Mailman-Users] trying to disable web interface...

2003-01-15 Thread John_Minkle
I was in the process of removing references to the web interface from mailman/scripts and mailman/Mailman Suddenly I ended up with this message being sent every minute Traceback (most recent call last): File /var/mailman/cron/qrunner, line 83, in ? from Mailman import mm_cfg File

RE: [Mailman-Users] Re: Genaliases script

2003-01-15 Thread Tom Maddox
What MTA are you using? Sendmail? If so, then you have to make the changes manually ... I think if you use postfix the changes are made automatically. david I am indeed using sendmail. I guess I'll have to write a script to process the output from genaliases, then.

[Mailman-Users] MM 2.1: how to set up moderated lists

2003-01-15 Thread Jeff A. Earickson
Y'all, After much head-banging, I have *finally* figured out how to configure Mailman 2.1 to do a newsletter-only style list. I have updated FAQ 3.11 to reflect my findings. My initial assumptions are: * postings to the list by nonmembers should be rejected. * postings to the list by

[Mailman-Users] Authentication question (newbie?)

2003-01-15 Thread Chris De Young
Hello, I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question, though I didn't find anything about it in the archives or FAQ... I've recently upgraded to mailman 2.1 on a redhat 8.0 system, and since the upgrade list administrators are seeing a problem where they go to the administration web page

[Mailman-Users] misfeature/bug in MM 2.1

2003-01-15 Thread Jeff A. Earickson
Y'all, In my study of my mailing lists today (both new in MM 2.1, and upgraded from 2.0.13), I made the sad discovery that generic_nonmember_action = 0 for **all** of my lists. The bend over and take spam setting. I noticed that DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION is set to one in

[Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_URL_HOST problem

2003-01-15 Thread Richard Pyne
I am tyring to install and configure mailman 2.1 on a machine and am running into a problem. It appears that the only value it will accept for the DEFAULT_URL_HOST is the generic one listed the ISPs reverse DNS. If I try to configure the DEFAULT_URL_HOST as one of the virtual names for the

Re: [Mailman-Users] misfeature/bug in MM 2.1

2003-01-15 Thread Greg Westin
Why should the list administrator be bothered with having to tend admin requests from spammers and other idiots? Jeff, I assume this is because people are generally more concerned about false positives in spam-checking than they are with having to glance at a few admin requests. I suppose

[Mailman-Users] Re: RE: Archives in HTML? (Jim Hale)

2003-01-15 Thread Scott Armstrong
Since most of our lists are used as moderated distribution lists and are synchronized via scripts, it wasn't very difficult. You have your standard mailman list aliases - which we partition into their own alias file /etc/mail/aliases.mailman fubar:|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post fubar

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases in README.QMAIL

2003-01-15 Thread Stanton Schell
one would indeed need to change the aliases, but the changes I mentioned omit newer ones in 2.1, which are covered in Ed Lau's patch to README.QMAIL: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/ index.php?func=detailaid=664611group_id=103atid=300103 also, his Jan. 7 email:

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I block attachments

2003-01-15 Thread Jon Carnes
Check out the FAQ (a link is at the bottom of this email) On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 15:16, dana hoffman wrote: Hello, I am owner of a list serv using your software and I want to bock so no member may post an attachment without owner permission, how do I do that? dana Hoffman International

Re: [Mailman-Users] Authentication question - cookie problem

2003-01-15 Thread Jon Carnes
I haven't seen this problem myself, but others who have seen it say to delete all the old Cookies (that were generated from Mailman v2.0x). There appears to be a problem with the structure of the old Cookie files. Apparently, the problem goes away if you delete the old files and then let the new

[Mailman-Users] MTA interoperability question

2003-01-15 Thread Tony Paterra
Hey guys I'm setting up Mailman to be used on a RedHat 7.1 system. Due to my IT dept. if I can use MMDF as the MTA that would be ideal. Has anyone set these up successfully? Please let me know ASAP. Thanks, Tony -- Mailman-Users mailing

[Mailman-Users] Sub-lists and authorized posting

2003-01-15 Thread Neulinger, Nathan
Is there any way to grant permission to post to list Y to [anyone on list X]? This is a pretty common option used on listserv lists. I didn't see anything that would directly allow this, but seems like it wouldn't be too hard to have it be an added feature. Has anyone put together a patch to

[Mailman-Users] Mailman example site

2003-01-15 Thread Erick Thompson
Hello, I'm in the process of looking at various email list software. Mailman sounds like it might fit the bill, but I have a few questions. Does the moderation handle multiple languages? How does the moderation system handle attachments? I would really like to see the Mailman interface, to see

[Mailman-Users] mailinglists for multiple domains on one server

2003-01-15 Thread mailings
Hi all, At this moment i am using majordomo and looking into the option to change to Mailman. With majordomo i have mailinglists from multiple domains running on one emailserver. Can this also be done with mailman? -- Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Johan Barelds

RE: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Jim Hale
I went and pulled mhonarc and have it installed but I need to find out how to make Mailman look at it instead of Pipermail - problem is that I'm running all this on an SME server so everything is not in the exact location like in the instructions. I guess you could say that I'm running

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Matthew Davis
* Jim Hale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I went and pulled mhonarc and have it installed but I need to find out how to make Mailman look at it instead of Pipermail - problem is that I'm running all this on an SME server so everything is not in the exact location like in the instructions. First

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailinglists for multiple domains on one server

2003-01-15 Thread Matthew Davis
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At this moment i am using majordomo and looking into the option to change to Mailman. With majordomo i have mailinglists from multiple domains running on one emailserver. Can this also be done with mailman? Yes. Check

[Mailman-Users] qrunner troubles after install: Uncaught runner exception

2003-01-15 Thread A.N.Varady
Hello, Just upgraded from 2.0.13 for all the new features and have run into a dead end. I installed mailman with the following configure: ./configure --with-cgi-gid=99 --with-mail-gid=mailman --prefix=/home/mailman --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.2 and my MTA is postfix. I followed the

[Mailman-Users] qrunner troubles after install: Uncaught runner exception

2003-01-15 Thread A.N.Varady
Hello, Just upgraded from 2.0.13 for all the new features and have run into a dead end. I installed mailman with the following configure: ./configure --with-cgi-gid=99 --with-mail-gid=mailman --prefix=/home/mailman --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.2 and my MTA is postfix. I followed the

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailinglists for multiple domains on one server

2003-01-15 Thread Richard B. Pyne
Yes, except it does not have the ability to set the domain at or before the time of list creation. If you want to do it in a true virtual hosting manner, you need to send the listowner notification email to yourself when you create the list. You can then log in to the admin interface, set the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives in HTML?

2003-01-15 Thread Matthew Davis
* Jim Hale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Believe me - I'M the ignorant one when it comes to this. :) Then there's only one thing to do, and thats learn :) The SME Server is just a distribution of Linux (www.e-smith.org) that has all the stuff built in to run everything for web that you configure

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailinglists for multiple domains on one server

2003-01-15 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:07:03 -0700 Richard B. Pyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, except it does not have the ability to set the domain at or before the time of list creation. If you want to do it in a true virtual hosting manner, you need to send the listowner notification email to yourself

[Mailman-Users] Question.

2003-01-15 Thread GoD5837333
I am not as computer literate as I need to be. I am using Mailman through Hostway and cannot figure out how to send messages to my members. After adding my members from my previous list with another company how do I send them monthly emails? I am sorry if I have the wrong address, can you