Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Barrett
At 23:09 15/06/2003, Jonas Meurer wrote: hello, i have in my mm_cfg.py: PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = lurker-index -l `lurker-list -c /etc/lurker/lurker.conf | grep -B2 ^%(listname)s$|head -n1` -m is some thing wrong with this syntax? mailman doesn't restart: The problem is that in mm_cfg.py you

Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver

2003-06-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 16/06/2003 Richard Barrett wrote: hello, i have in my mm_cfg.py: PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = lurker-index -l `lurker-list -c /etc/lurker/lurker.conf | grep -B2 ^%(listname)s$|head -n1` -m is some thing wrong with this syntax? mailman doesn't restart: The problem is that in mm_cfg.py

[Mailman-Users] mailman authentication

2003-06-16 Thread John P. Looney
I'm using INN to host some newsgroups, with mailman running an NNTP to mail gateway. I then have NewsPortal providing a web front end to threading and posting. It all works nicely. However, I now want to setup a webpage that can authenticate new users. I don't mind what the authentication

[Mailman-Users] Problems to startup Mailman

2003-06-16 Thread Rupak Mohan
Dear All, I have installed Mailman 2.1.2 successfully. The problem is : I created a newlist,it says # /bin newlist mylist Enter the email of the person running the list:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Initial mylist password: --- mylist:

[Mailman-Users] security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, I created an announce-only list. To do this in 'Privacy section' I set the moderation on, the poster receives a rejection notice which explains that this is an announce-only list. In 'membership management' I disabled moderation for people who should be able to send msgs to the list.

[Mailman-Users] Problems to startup Mailman after installation

2003-06-16 Thread Rupak Mohan
Dear All, I have installed Mailman 2.1.2 successfully. The problem is : I created a newlist,it says # /bin newlist mylist Enter the email of the person running the list:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Initial mylist password: --- mylist: |/var/mailman/mail/wrapper post

[Mailman-Users] How to check if SendMail is running

2003-06-16 Thread Rupak Mohan
Dear All, Could Plz suggest a way to check if SendMail is running ( and also to know if it is installed successfully).. and also could anyone suggest me a good MTA (mail server) on redhat..so that i will install it.. Thanx in advance.. regards Rupak

Re: [Mailman-Users] security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Jeroen Valcke
To answer my own question. There's an entry in the FAQ on this. http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.11 Best thing to do is use the approve header or an approve line in the msg. However I would like to know if a seperate moderation would be possible. Or alternatively restrict the

Re: [Mailman-Users] security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:57:29AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: Best thing to do is use the approve header or an approve line in the msg. IMHO, the problem with the approve passwd is that anybody who knows (or guesses) the approve passwd can post to the list. So even non-members can post when

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade to version 2.1 - latency on processingincoming messages

2003-06-16 Thread Gardener, Ray A
Hi Last week I upgraded to 2.1 - after a few problem things seems to be almost working fine. However I notice that mails sent in regularly take over 20 minutes to be delivered. The logs directory files for mailman don't show any problems and the system is lightly loaded. Are there any

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to version 2.1 - latency onprocessing incoming messages

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Barrett
At 13:32 16/06/2003, Gardener, Ray A wrote: Hi Last week I upgraded to 2.1 - after a few problem things seems to be almost working fine. However I notice that mails sent in regularly take over 20 minutes to be delivered. The logs directory files for mailman don't show any problems and the

[Mailman-Users] custom welcome message

2003-06-16 Thread Jay Palter
I am writing to clarify if there is any current upgrade to deal with the problem of custom welcome messages. We would like to have a custom message, but we have these dliemmas. We want to turn off the default welcome message and replace it with a custom one, but we cannot do this. We can prepend,

Re: [Mailman-Users] custom welcome message

2003-06-16 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Palter wrote: We would like a web interface so we could customize the stock default welcome message. I'm not sure what implications, security or otherwise, this would cause, but you can tweak ~mailman/Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py and add the

[Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Paul H Byerly
Jeroen Valcke wrote: IMHO, the problem with the approve passwd is that anybody who knows (or guesses) the approve passwd can post to the list. I'm still trying to figure out how to put the password in the first line and not have it show up in the post. What I am using is Approved: password

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to version 2.1 - latency on processingincoming messages

2003-06-16 Thread Ray Gardener
Richard, the logs indicate that posts are being accepted into the mailman in queue within a minute from being sent by the MUA. From the mailman post logs I can see the messages being sent by out mailman, after which they arriving in the mailing list members mailbox within a minute. So the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade to version 2.1 - latency on processing incoming messages

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Barrett
At 16:25 16/06/2003, Ray Gardener wrote: Richard, the logs indicate that posts are being accepted into the mailman in queue within a minute from being sent by the MUA. From the mailman post logs I can see the messages being sent by out mailman, after which they arriving in the mailing list

[Mailman-Users] Newbie issues

2003-06-16 Thread Troy Davis
Hello, I've just installed mailman (2.1-8 rpm) on a Red Hat 9 system I'm using at work. Back a few months ago when this machine was running Red Hat 8, I tried to set up this system with mailman, and it appeared to be working. I had a learning curve to deal with, but it was functional. But

[Mailman-Users] mailman api documented ?

2003-06-16 Thread John P. Looney
I think my last question was quite poorly phrased. How can I poke settings directly into mailman's database ? For instance; subscribing a user to a list giving a user a password changing a user's subscription settings config_list works really well. Something similar for users would rock.

[Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i still have in my mm_cfg.py: PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'lurker-index -l `lurker-list -c /etc/lurker/lurker.conf | grep -B2 ^%(listname)s$| head -n1` -m' that doesn't work. how can i do this (showed in shell prompt) for every message mailman gets: listlurker=`lurker-list -c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie issues

2003-06-16 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Troy Davis wrote: I've just installed mailman (2.1-8 rpm) on a Red Hat 9 system I'm using at work. Back a few months ago when this machine was running Red Hat 8, I tried to set up this system with mailman, and it appeared to be working. I had a

[Mailman-Users] FreeBSD 5.1, Python 2.1.3, Mailman 2.1.2 Install

2003-06-16 Thread Tim Legg
Hello, I have installed mailman before on a different machine. I installed: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0 Apache 1.3.27 (source) Python 2.1.3 (from ports) Postfix 2.0.9,1 (from ports) I run, #./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.1 (I know this is far from complete as far as parameters

Re: [Mailman-Users] FreeBSD 5.1, Python 2.1.3, Mailman 2.1.2 Install

2003-06-16 Thread Vivek Khera
TL == Tim Legg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TL and FreeBSD likes to have a redundant file called /etc/master.passwd which TL I added the same: TL mailman:*:501:502:Mailman MLM:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin TL Apparently there is a problem with this. If you editied the /etc/master.passwd file, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:25:33AM -0500, Paul H Byerly wrote: Jeroen Valcke wrote: IMHO, the problem with the approve passwd is that anybody who knows (or guesses) the approve passwd can post to the list. I'm still trying to figure out how to put the password in the first line and

[Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread LuKreme
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 02:31 Canada/Mountain, Jeroen Valcke wrote: In 'membership management' I disabled moderation for people who should be able to send msgs to the list. NO, tun on moderation for EVERYONE. When someone wants to post, the start their message with Approved: listpassword

[Mailman-Users] regenerating archive problem

2003-06-16 Thread ViNiL
Hello there! I'm running Mailman 2.1.2. While regenerating the archive I encountered following problem: Ukldm stav archivu do/home/mailman/archives/private/czu/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File bin/arch, line 187, in ? main() File bin/arch, line 175, in main

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:35:07PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 02:31 Canada/Mountain, Jeroen Valcke wrote: In 'membership management' I disabled moderation for people who should be able to send msgs to the list. NO, tun on moderation for EVERYONE. Sorry, I meant to say

Re: [Mailman-Users] FreeBSD 5.1, Python 2.1.3, Mailman 2.1.2 Install

2003-06-16 Thread Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net]
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Vivek Khera wrote: TL and FreeBSD likes to have a redundant file called /etc/master.passwd which TL I added the same: TL mailman:*:501:502:Mailman MLM:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin TL Apparently there is a problem with this. If you editied the /etc/master.passwd file, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Barrett
At 18:29 16/06/2003, Jonas Meurer wrote: *** PGP Signature Status: unknown *** Signer: Unknown, Key ID xE25F2102 *** Signed: 16/06/2003 18:29:16 *** Verified: 16/06/2003 22:14:37 *** BEGIN PGP VERIFIED MESSAGE *** hello, i still have in my mm_cfg.py: PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'lurker-index -l

[Mailman-Users] Re: security on an announce-only list

2003-06-16 Thread Paul H Byerly
Jeroen Valcke wrote: When I put the Approved: passwd MailMan passes the msg and strips the first line with the passwd. This is on MailMan 2.1.1. After a lot of trial and error I find that it works for plain text messages, but not for html messages. If there is any html in the message it

Re: [Mailman-Users] FreeBSD 5.1, Python 2.1.3, Mailman 2.1.2 Install

2003-06-16 Thread Vivek Khera
CA == Christopher Allen [BigFatPipe.Net] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is to use the vipw command. You can also add users using the pw program. CA Actually, editing the /etc/master.passwd then rebuiding the DB is an okay CA route to go. Issuing the command: CA /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb