[Mailman-Users] Umbrella List + Monthly Password Reminders = List Security Issue?

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Brudenell
Greetings - Can someone help me with this please? We are using Mailman 2.1.8 under Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC). We have a small number of umbrella lists, each with (only) other lists subscribed as their members. A fictional example: The umbrella list [EMAIL PROTECTED] has members

[Mailman-Users] problem with GID and postfix

2006-06-01 Thread Timo Schoeler
hi list, after hours of searching on the net (finding that the problem is not unknown, but not yielding a solution for me) and several rebuilds of mailman (mailman-2.1.8rc1, from NetBSD pkgsrc) i'm stuck. as advised, i built mailman with --with-mail-gid=nobody (for postfix), but this leads me

[Mailman-Users] pruning archives

2006-06-01 Thread Anne Ramey
Is this still the easiest way to prune archives? Seems rather labor intensive... http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.003.htp http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.003.htp -- Anne Ramey --

[Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
Hi. I'm unable to configure Mailman, because when I edit and run mm_cfg.py (python ./mm_cfg.py) I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./mm_cfg.py, line 44, in ? from Defaults import * ImportError: No module named Defaults Well, Defaults.py, Defaults.pyo and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Carl Fink wrote: I'm unable to configure Mailman, because when I edit and run mm_cfg.py You don't run mm_cfg.py You just edit it. It contains values that are then read by the other programs when they run. == Chris

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umbrella List + Monthly Password Reminders = ListSecurity Issue?

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Brudenell wrote: All the documentation I've read and help pages I've managed to locate give no clue of this behaviour. Instead they strongly imply that by setting the umbrella_list setting to YES that password reminders are sent to the list's owners by adding the specified suffix

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with GID and postfix

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Timo Schoeler wrote: i figure that i need to tell postfix to run /usr/pkg/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request [EMAIL PROTECTED] as nobody. can i force postfix to do this? You have two choices. Postfix runs the pipe as the user:group that owns the alias file that the pipe came from. You could

[Mailman-Users] password reminders, subscribers with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-06-01 Thread Dewhirst, Rob
I have a mailing list set up to send monthly password reminders. Today, two of these reminder messages ended up in the Administrative requests for the list as being posted to the list from non-members. Coincidentally, the subscriber's email addresses are [EMAIL PROTECTED] Their email address

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carl Fink wrote: I'm unable to configure Mailman, because when I edit and run mm_cfg.py (python ./mm_cfg.py) I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./mm_cfg.py, line 44, in ? from Defaults import * ImportError: No module named Defaults As Christopher said in another

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Dragon
Mark Sapiro wrote: Carl Fink wrote: I'm unable to configure Mailman, because when I edit and run mm_cfg.py (python ./mm_cfg.py) I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./mm_cfg.py, line 44, in ? from Defaults import * ImportError: No module named Defaults As

Re: [Mailman-Users] pruning archives

2006-06-01 Thread Mike Brudenell
Greetings - --On 1 June 2006 09:02:15 -0400 Anne Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this still the easiest way to prune archives? Seems rather labor intensive... http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.003.htp

Re: [Mailman-Users] password reminders, subscribers with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-06-01 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/1/06 7:51 AM, Dewhirst, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mailing list set up to send monthly password reminders. Today, two of these reminder messages ended up in the Administrative requests for the list as being posted to the list from non-members. Coincidentally, the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:30:34AM -0700, Dragon wrote: Yeah, that all seems a bit strange but if he can stop and successfully restart his qrunners, then the edits are syntactically correct and mailman can at least understand what is there. Whether those edits are then lexically and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:14 PM -0400 2006-06-01, Carl Fink wrote: I actually did restart Mailman, with no errors, and so far it seems to have taken my changes. If mm_cfg is just there to be read from, why is it a script instead of a text file /etc/mailman? Because with a text /etc/mailman.cf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: When the configuration is done in the Python language in a Python script, you can let Python do all the parsing, and do the equivalent of #include in order to pull in all your configuration details. Fair enough. Like I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/1/06 9:30 AM, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: When the configuration is done in the Python language in a Python script, you can let Python do all the parsing, and do the equivalent of #include in order to pull in all your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Jim Popovitch
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: When the configuration is done in the Python language in a Python script, you can let Python do all the parsing, and do the equivalent of #include in order to pull in all your configuration details. Fair

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Jim Popovitch
John W. Baxter wrote: On 6/1/06 9:30 AM, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:18:04AM -0500, Brad Knowles wrote: When the configuration is done in the Python language in a Python script, you can let Python do all the parsing, and do the equivalent of #include in

[Mailman-Users] Admin can't login

2006-06-01 Thread J. Lee
Hello all, I am new to mailman. When I entered password on admin page ( http://lists.mysite.org/mailman/admin/mailman) and clicked the login button, it take no effect. Tha page just refresh. I am running Mailman on debian with exim4. Please help. Thanks! Jesse

[Mailman-Users] Some Users Unable to Post

2006-06-01 Thread David Andrews
Hi: I run a Sun Cobalt RAQ 550 with Mailman, and about 90 lists. I have a few users, on various lists who are subscribed to a given list, who can reply to an existing message, but who can't post an original message. they are then rejected as a non-member. Any ideas? David Andrews David

[Mailman-Users] VERP active where it shouldn't

2006-06-01 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hi, I am running a Mailman from Debian stable (2.1.5-8sarge2), and I experimented the following issue: - even if disabled in Defaults.py and not enabled in mm_cfg.py, VERP seems to be activated from time to time. I am guessing it is activated only when something already bounced on a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jim Popovitch wrote: I am no Python expert either, but i am a competent perl and C++ programmer. After about 4 years of tweaking and changing Python code, I've learned to appreciate it's power, but also it's simplicity. Python is a very well designed

Re: [Mailman-Users] message body is blank for some users

2006-06-01 Thread Heal Secretary
Hi Brad Thank you for this. The user's messy headings reveal Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed. Is this all I need to know? I am using Eudora which shows plenty of messy headings. I don't know if it is a MUA or not. Please could you explain this term. Also, the messy headings don't have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/1/06 1:10 PM, Carl Zwanzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, I agree, but I question a language that relies on indent level for blocking and don't let you include blank lines for readability. I guess it's ok when you get used to it. But then again, I mostly work in tcl at this

[Mailman-Users] Taking word bounces out of received emails......

2006-06-01 Thread The Lafferty
...IS THERE AN EASY WAY TO DO THIS? When clients see the word bounces in the email it makes them nervous. Like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help please. We are running windows, is there any easy way to take this word out by using the web interface? thanks

[Mailman-Users] Why can't anyone post to mailing Lists

2006-06-01 Thread The Lafferty
I want to use our mailing list more like a mail alias, I need it to be open so anyone can mail to it without seeking approval from the moderatordoes anyone know how set this up? thanks -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] message body is blank for some users

2006-06-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:02 PM +0100 2006-06-01, Heal Secretary wrote: The user's messy headings reveal Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed. Is this all I need to know? That's unlikely to be all that you need to know. I am using Eudora which shows plenty of messy headings. I don't know if it is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Taking word bounces out of received emails......

2006-06-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:32 PM -0700 2006-06-01, The Lafferty wrote: We are running windows, is there any easy way to take this word out by using the web interface? See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq02.003.htp. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why can't anyone post to mailing Lists

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
The Lafferty wrote: I want to use our mailing list more like a mail alias, I need it to be open so anyone can mail to it without seeking approval from the moderatordoes anyone know how set this up? In the admin interface Privacy options...-Sender filters set generic_nonmember_action to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carl Zwanzig wrote: In general, I agree, but I question a language that relies on indent level for blocking and don't let you include blank lines for readability. I guess it's ok when you get used to it. The forced indentation is something there will probably never be even close to universal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin can't login

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
J. Lee wrote: I am new to mailman. When I entered password on admin page ( http://lists.mysite.org/mailman/admin/mailman) and clicked the login button, it take no effect. Tha page just refresh. I am running Mailman on debian with exim4. If the refreshed page said Authorization failed. in red at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin can't login

2006-06-01 Thread J. Lee
Hi, I just found the problem, which was caused by Slash(www.slashcode.com, my main site running it). When stopped Slash, my browser can receive cookies from Mailman, everything works well. When slash start, mailman's cookie doesn't work, I can't login to admin page. Thanks for your reply. Sorry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some Users Unable to Post

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Andrews wrote: I run a Sun Cobalt RAQ 550 with Mailman, and about 90 lists. I have a few users, on various lists who are subscribed to a given list, who can reply to an existing message, but who can't post an original message. they are then rejected as a non-member. Any ideas? There

Re: [Mailman-Users] VERP active where it shouldn't

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a Mailman from Debian stable (2.1.5-8sarge2), and I experimented the following issue: - even if disabled in Defaults.py and not enabled in mm_cfg.py, VERP seems to be activated from time to time. I am guessing it is activated only when something