Re: [Mailman-Users] URL in List info text is suddenly "quoted" HTML

2004-05-05 Thread Martin Maechler
Hi, > "Hilton" == Hilton J Ralphs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Wed, 5 May 2004 19:50:40 +0200 writes: Hilton> That's the problem, you "simply edited the list information bit". Hilton, you misunderstood:N I did what every list maintainer is supposed to do: Goto http://./mai

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Size Issues

2004-05-05 Thread Kory Wheatley
I have a critical situation that I need addressed, and it deals with large messages being sent to mailman mailing lists. Currently, we have a lot of large mailing lists (some have 10,000 to 15,000 subscribers) and some of these lists is all Faculty/Staff email subscribers that have an account

[Mailman-Users] Script to clean shunt directory

2004-05-05 Thread David Vasil
Until I can figure out how to stop the UnicodeDecodeErrors and mail quits getting shunted, I figure it would be best to keep the shunt directory somewhat clean. To do this I wrote a script that checks each .pck in the shunt directory for the X-Spam-Level header to determine the liklihood of the me

[Mailman-Users] News -> Mail: no mail! (repost)

2004-05-05 Thread NFN Smith
I posted this one last week, but no response, yet. Any takers on this one? I thought this was a fairly simple one -- or is it just uninteresting? Thanks. Smith I'm in the process of setting up a server with the following: - Fedora Core 1 - Mailman 2.1.4 - Sendmail 8.12.10 - INN 2.3.5 M

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 without nls

2004-05-05 Thread John Poltorak
How do I avoid installing support for lots of languages I don't need when installing Mailman 2.1.5? -- John -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.pyth

Re: [Mailman-Users] URL in List info text is suddenly "quoted" HTML

2004-05-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Martin Maechler wrote on Wed, 5 May 2004 17:19:44 +0200: > As ML administrator, I've simply edited the list information > [text box] shown on the ./mailman/admin/ess-help page. > You didn't edit the whole page? It looks weird on other parts as well. F.i. on top there is https://www.stat.ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] No module named Japanese

2004-05-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lynn Poythress wrote on Tue, 4 May 2004 10:28:23 -0700: > ImportError: No module named japanese > AFAIK this is actually from Python. The standard install on some OS's seems to require Japanese and Korean, for no good reason. That's why I uninstalled these parts and I got the same error when up

Re: [Mailman-Users] URL in List info text is suddenly "quoted" HTML

2004-05-05 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
That's the problem, you "simply edited the list information bit". This is what is on your page For more info, see the ; ESS site. This is what it should read. (in html) For more info, see the http://www.analytic

[Mailman-Users] Delete list archives

2004-05-05 Thread Franco, Ruben
I have a list admin that wishes to delete all archives for a particluar list but the admin interface does not have such an option. Can I simply delete the files found in the "archives" sub-directory? -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMA

[Mailman-Users] Mass setting of MODerate option?

2004-05-05 Thread John
Is there any way, in a mass subscription txt file containing 'real-name ' to turn the MODerator option on at the same time? Doing it manually is a chore, as I have all MOD bits set to off in my list. John Weersing -- Ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias problem

2004-05-05 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Sure dude. The problem is in the first line of your alias file. Should read... my-list: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post my-list" -- Regards Hilton Quoting nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I create a list and it seems to work fine, exept that all mail from users > going only to root user. > I b

[Mailman-Users] Case sensitivity for email addresses

2004-05-05 Thread Ralph Siemsen
I'm using mailman 2.1 and have managed to get one of my lists into a somewhat odd state. A user [EMAIL PROTECTED] was originally added through the mass-subscription web interface. Later, I added [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note capitalization) with the add_member script on the commandline. Or perhaps

[Mailman-Users] Updated exim configuration

2004-05-05 Thread Joerg Mauer
Hi, there is a new exim doc. for mailman 2.1 : You probably want to update the link on the documentation page. http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html regards, joerg -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mai

[Mailman-Users] No module named Japanese

2004-05-05 Thread Poythress, Lynn
Hi, I'm a new subscriber and am having a problem installing Mailman 2.1.4. I am trying to install it on HP-UX 11.00. I was able to download Python 2.3.3 from HP's porting site. I was able to successfully run 'configure' for Mailman. When I try and run 'make install' I get an error message. I'm

[Mailman-Users] URL in List info text is suddenly "quoted" HTML

2004-05-05 Thread Martin Maechler
It's probably easiest to see what I mean when you look at https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help one of the lists I manage. The link "" is suddenly `shown' (because the "<" etc are quoted in the html source). How can this happen? As ML administrator, I've simply edited the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Lists, Authorized Posters and Virus/Worm Access

2004-05-05 Thread George Theall
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:28:59AM -0700, Bob Bowers wrote: > In my community last week, someone gained access to a mail list with > hundreds of subscribers by mimicking an email address authorized to post to > the list (moderation bit set OFF). The shortcoming of this approach to moderation i

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail to my list -> mta result: user unknown

2004-05-05 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
You need to do all this in the aliases table. -- Regards Hilton Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On sending a eMail to my mailing-list I get the following error. > > (from "tail -F -n 30 /var/log/maillog") > May 5 15:44:03 smesrv sendmail[24051]: i45Di3D5024051: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > union.org>...

[Mailman-Users] mail to my list -> mta result: user unknown

2004-05-05 Thread walter . mauritz
Hi, On sending a eMail to my mailing-list I get the following error. (from "tail -F -n 30 /var/log/maillog") May 5 15:44:03 smesrv sendmail[24051]: i45Di3D5024051: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] union.org>... User unknown May 5 15:44:03 smesrv sendmail[24051]: i45Di3D5024051: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, siz

Re: [Mailman-Users]

2004-05-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Bob Bowers wrote on Wed, 05 May 2004 01:28:59 -0700: > In my community last week, someone gained access to a mail list with > hundreds of subscribers by mimicking an email address authorized to post to > the list (moderation bit set OFF). In such a case, moderator approval was > not required. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Lists, Authorized Posters and Virus/Worm Access

2004-05-05 Thread Lloyd Tennison
Set the mm_cfg.py and see Default.py for this info: # The envelope sender is set by the SMTP delivery and is thus less easily # spoofed than the sender, which is typically just taken from the From: header # and thus easily spoofed by the end-user. However, sometimes the envelope # sender isn't s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Lists, Authorized Posters and Virus/Worm Access

2004-05-05 Thread Richard Barrett
On 5 May 2004, at 09:28, Bob Bowers wrote: In my community last week, someone gained access to a mail list with hundreds of subscribers by mimicking an email address authorized to post to the list (moderation bit set OFF). In such a case, moderator approval was not required. What resulted was t

[Mailman-Users] Mail Lists, Authorized Posters and Virus/Worm Access

2004-05-05 Thread Bob Bowers
In my community last week, someone gained access to a mail list with hundreds of subscribers by mimicking an email address authorized to post to the list (moderation bit set OFF). In such a case, moderator approval was not required. What resulted was that a worm of the W32Beagle variety was sen

Re: [Mailman-Users] on mailing to my list: user (=listname) unknown; (sendmail-mailman config error?)

2004-05-05 Thread Thomas Hochstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Successfully created a list, got a confirmation eMail from list. But on mailing to > the list listname = "mylist", I get the following error: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 217.136.223.232_does_not_like_recipient./Remote_host_said:_550_5.1.1_<[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > me-uni