[Mailman-Users] Some config questions

2004-02-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Just started using mailman (2.1.4) and can't find good answers for the following questions in the documentation. They may have been answered already on this list, but unfortunately the archive isn't searchable. 1. how to make a one-way mailing-list for sending out newsletters to customers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-08 Thread John Buttery
* Paul H Byerly [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-05 12:27:00 -0600]: Mailman does not destroy the original senders identify or e-mail, so this part of the argument is moot. OK, I promise this will be my last post on this topic unless someone posts to me by name in non-quoted text, but I just had to

Re: [Mailman-Users] password reminders with an invalid sender domain (and thus bouncing)

2004-02-08 Thread Rejo Zenger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ++ 07/02/04 20:16 -0500 - Jon Carnes: If your running 2.1.x (and from the problem I think you are) then you need to use the ~mailman/bin/withlist command to reset the host names inside the configuration database. I see, the problem is however that I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some config questions

2004-02-08 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:32 AM +0100 2004/02/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: 1. how to make a one-way mailing-list for sending out newsletters to customers etc.? See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.011.htp. Note that the FAQ *is* searchable. Putting in one-way or announce only should have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-08 Thread John Buttery
* Buddy Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-08 03:15:46 -0800]: Since this is a pet peeve of yours, maybe you should explain to me what is wrong with overwriting the reply to header. Well, OK...where to start? I guess a little background is in order. Basically, the idea is that every email has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some config questions

2004-02-08 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 07:04, Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:32 AM +0100 2004/02/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: 1. how to make a one-way mailing-list for sending out newsletters to customers etc.? See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.011.htp. Note that the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-08 Thread John A. Martin
jb == John Buttery Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:12:50 -0600 jb * Buddy Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-08 03:15:46 jb -0800]: Since this is a pet peeve of yours, maybe you should explain to me what is wrong with overwriting the reply to header.

Re: [Mailman-Users] password reminders with an invalid sender domain (and thus bouncing)

2004-02-08 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 06:03, Rejo Zenger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ++ 07/02/04 20:16 -0500 - Jon Carnes: If your running 2.1.x (and from the problem I think you are) then you need to use the ~mailman/bin/withlist command to reset the host names inside the

[Mailman-Users] Extract or dump of subscribers from mailman?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Frenkel
Hello mailman-users, I would like to dump/extract all subscribers (emails only is OK) from my mailman list as a backup. I'm the list owner. Is there a utility to do this or something I can code without root on the server? PLEASE answer to me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I don't want

[Mailman-Users] Tech question

2004-02-08 Thread Indrik Kalnins
Hi Folks, I am looking for a listserver. 100 - 200 users. Password logon. Search capability for posts (sometimes called searching the archives) Mailman is supported on a number of web hosting packages. Please let me know if Mailmal will support the above requirements. Thanks... Indrik

[Mailman-Users] script: move_list

2004-02-08 Thread john walsh
Hi, NB. I'm not subscribe to the list (just for this one question), so please reply directly. I've got the latest mailman-2.1.4, and in the documentation it says there is an admin command (in ./bin/) called 'move_list' - Use this script when you move Mailman to a new installation location.

[Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
I have a client who has a miling list with about 6,000 subscribers. When he sends out mail, about a dozen emails show up in the mail queue. It appears that the system is breaking the send of the mail to the list into that many individual emails with several hundred address in each.

[Mailman-Users] fetchmailrc and Mailman

2004-02-08 Thread Tom Caudron
I'm trying to administer several small mailing lists on my home server. I have a domain mx server hosted elsewhere and I want to grab the mail from the list accounts, and forward them to the approriate list members. On the home server, I've got postfix for smtp (thanks to Simon White for that!

[Mailman-Users] New ML creation problem

2004-02-08 Thread Yves Bougardier
Hi, I just installed mailman on my Linux Mandrake 9.2 where there's a postfix server, but i have the following problem when i want to create a new ML : Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver, line 87, in run_main main() File

Re: [Mailman-Users] New ML creation problem

2004-02-08 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yves Bougardier wrote: I just installed mailman on my Linux Mandrake 9.2 where there's a postfix server, but i have the following problem when i want to create a new ML : Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmailrc and Mailman

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Tom Caudron schrieb: # mailinglist2 mailing list poll pop.MyMXDomain.com protocol pop3 username mailinglist2uid with #list address password secretword, is mailman here; [...] That means you send ALL mail from your POP3-boxes to the Account mailman at your home server

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas Hochstein
David A Boothe schrieb: Why do these emails sit in my mail queue for days? Probably there is at least *one* recipient for each of these mails the mail can not immediately be delivered to. Your MTA (Exim, I presume?) will try to deliver the mail to those recipients as long as the retry limit you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
Ok but what are the YN, etc in front of each address? - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Bob Franklin
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, David A Boothe wrote: Ok but what are the YN, etc in front of each address? http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_49.html#CHAP49 ... in the Exim documentation - Specification - Chapter 49: Format of spool files, it explains all. It's a list of people to whom the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
You know I really HATE that kind of answer. In all the time that one takes to write what he did he could have easily said what each character stood for. Yet all he did was tell me that I could go search through miles of documentation and try to find it. Sorry if I sound like I am pissing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread David A Boothe
I read that and it made about as much sense to me as a medical text book on brain surgury written is greek. All I want to know is what the two letters indicate! I have no clue what they mean by parent and child rewiter spool tree branch things. I just want to find out in simple terms what is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David A Boothe wrote: I read that and it made about as much sense to me as a medical text book on brain surgury written is greek. All I want to know is what the two letters indicate! I have no clue what they mean by parent and child rewiter

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmailrc and Mailman

2004-02-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 04:20:42PM -0500, Tom Caudron wrote: I'm trying to administer several small mailing lists on my home server. I have a domain mx server hosted elsewhere and I want to grab the mail from the list accounts, and forward them to the approriate list members. On the home

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmailrc and Mailman

2004-02-08 Thread Tom Caudron
Thomas Hochstein said, That means you send ALL mail from your POP3-boxes to the Account mailman at your home server (which is, AFAIS, the mailman site list). [...] If you have a list named tom, you'll have that mail to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Exactly what I needed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 18:31, David A Boothe wrote: You know I really HATE that kind of answer. Then don't use Open Source. In all the time that one takes to write what he did he could have easily said what each character stood for. Yet all he did was tell me that I could go search through

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Bob Franklin
On Mon, 8 Feb 2004, Jon Carnes wrote: Maybe I'll delete this email before I send it - Maybe not. ... To end this [hopefully!] I sent David a [fairly long] reply with more information in, along with an explanation of the Y/N lines (in that 'they're an optimisation and don't have anything to do

[Mailman-Users] change the sending email address

2004-02-08 Thread Andrew Barter
Hi, I would like to change the email address that sends out the emails to a mailman list. The emails come from the following address: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED] where xxx is our IP address. Because this is an IP address, a lot of the outward mail is getting bounced because of the following:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Queue

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas Hochstein
David A Boothe: Ok but what are the YN, etc in front of each address? Read your Exim documentation: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_49.html#CHAP49 | Following the options there is a list of those addresses to which the | message is not to be delivered. This set of addresses

[Mailman-Users] RELEASED: Mailman 2.0.14 patch-only release

2004-02-08 Thread Barry Warsaw
I have just released Mailman 2.0.14 as a patch-only release. This fixes a DoS bug to be described in CAN-2003-0991. See here for details: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=97760 Please note that since I am no longer actively maintaining Mailman 2.0, this release has had