Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't send messages to list

2006-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: At 12:31 AM -0400 2006-08-27, David Diskin wrote: What is happening lately is that new posts are visible in the archives, but in general are not mailed out or may not be mailed out for several hours to several days. There are no errors in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't send messages to list

2006-08-27 Thread Eric Howland
On 8/27/06, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Knowles wrote: At 12:31 AM -0400 2006-08-27, David Diskin wrote: What is happening lately is that new posts are visible in the archives, but in general are not mailed out or may not be mailed out for several

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in frames

2006-08-27 Thread Todd Williams
I had looked for FAQs on frames, not cookies. Me bad. That FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.065.htp is pretty generic, is there a repository for fixes? I found the following two solutions using IE 6.0 (+ every Microsoft patch). 1) I dropped my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
Peter Green Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:44:54 -0700 wrote Apologies for this, but... I can't get my lists to return a list of those members subscribed to them. I have followed the email commands in the FAQ and get replies saying that my command 'WHO' has been run, but I don't get a list in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bob Landman wrote: Peter Green Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:44:54 -0700 wrote Apologies for this, but... I can't get my lists to return a list of those members subscribed to them. I have followed the email commands in the FAQ and get replies saying that my command 'WHO' has been run, but I don't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Hall
Hi Bob, I agree that there should be a way to download the list and asked that question a while back. Basically this is what they said ro me. The alternatives if you only have web access are also described in the FAQ. Both Jim's and my scripts work and have been used on lists with thousands

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
Not true Mark. My list has that option turned off and I checked A,B,C list pages and none of the subcribers had that box checked. And as for running a script - how can I do that when I don't have command line authority as Mailman for me is hosted by a commercial website? How do I run such a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in frames

2006-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Todd Williams wrote: I had looked for FAQs on frames, not cookies. Me bad. That FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.065.htp is pretty generic, is there a repository for fixes? The archives of this list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
Gary, Thanks for the advice, we'll give it a try. I've a friend who is an IT manager and he maintains a Mailman list and he's one who wants to solve this issue so I'll have him give it a go and contribute to the RFE if necessary. Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bob Landman wrote: Not true Mark. My list has that option turned off and I checked A,B,C list pages and none of the subcribers had that box checked. OK. Then resend your 'who' request to the listname-request address and if the response doesn't contain the list and it is not evident why, post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Dragon
Bob Landman sent the message below at 09:24 AM 8/27/2006: Not true Mark. My list has that option turned off and I checked A,B,C list pages and none of the subcribers had that box checked. And as for running a script - how can I do that when I don't have command line authority as Mailman for me

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't send messages to list

2006-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:17 AM -0400 2006-08-27, Eric Howland wrote: I take it that the Low level smtp errors are comming from my MTA (postfix). In my case the problem was intermittent untill about a week ago when it became steady. I have posted to the postfix list but I still have no understanding of who

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't send messages to list

2006-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:04 AM -0700 2006-08-27, Mark Sapiro wrote: The symptoms are those of a hoplessly backlogged 'out' queue in Mailman. If you have access to them, you can look at Mailman's qfiles/out/ directory, which will probably contain a large number of entries waiting to be processed, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:24 PM -0400 2006-08-27, Bob Landman wrote: And as for running a script - how can I do that when I don't have command line authority as Mailman for me is hosted by a commercial website? How do I run such a script (provided I can find someone to write it for me)? Most of those scripts

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
Brad, I was very happy running qmail on my own Linux server until my dear sweet cable provider declared that it didn't like me doing that so I had to move to a commercial webhost. I run several lists, most are a public service (not related to my business) as I'm a volunteer planning

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
Mark, I tried the method of going to the subscriber list from the listinfo page or directly at something like http://example.com/mailman/roster/listname and that worked ok. I then cut and pasted the addresses into a text file. Not as handy as a text file sent to me but better than nothing at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
Mark, Brad, I finally got it to work! The password I used was my SUBSCRIBER password - that failed. What works to get the list is my ADMINISTRATOR password and that works REGARDLESS of if the list is set (Privacy) for Administrator only or List Members inquiry. All I did was to send a blank

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Bob Landman
You gave me the key Dragon - it was the TYPE of password that made all the difference! Thank you! Bob -Original Message- From: Dragon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Mark Sapiro;mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Dragon
Bob Landman sent the message below at 11:24 AM 8/27/2006: Mark, Brad, I finally got it to work! The password I used was my SUBSCRIBER password - that failed. What works to get the list is my ADMINISTRATOR password and that works REGARDLESS of if the list is set (Privacy) for Administrator

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bob Landman wrote: I sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with who password in the body of the mail (my password that I retrieved via the usual way) after I had set the list to allow all list members to get the subscriber list. This is what came back (I replaced my password with the word password):

[Mailman-Users] Error posting to a mailman list.

2006-08-27 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I seem to be having an ongoing error with mailman, at least one list is failing to work after working for a period The list from the mailman end seems to work as I can subscribe people and they get an email, but I can no longer send to the list...it bounces. =8- -bash-2.05b$

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error posting to a mailman list.

2006-08-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steven Jones wrote: I seem to be having an ongoing error with mailman, at least one list is failing to work after working for a period The list from the mailman end seems to work as I can subscribe people and they get an email, but I can no longer send to the list...it bounces. snip -

[Mailman-Users] Changing the 'reply-to'

2006-08-27 Thread JT Thompson
I've been using other mailing list software for a number of years (major domo). I am now moving all my clients to Plesk servers and they use Mailman. So I need to configure the lists. I had changed major domo so that anytime you sent to the list, when the email came in, if you hit 'reply' it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the 'reply-to'

2006-08-27 Thread David Gibbs
JT Thompson wrote: I had changed major domo so that anytime you sent to the list, when the email came in, if you hit 'reply' it would send back to the list, and show 'on behalf of username' so you'd know who sent it. Surely this must be possible in mailman but I couldn't find any real info

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stupid newbie request

2006-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:51 PM -0400 2006-08-27, Bob Landman wrote: If the intent was to make a useful product for people to use for the fun and education of doing it as a collaborative effort (that is what GNU is all about isn't it?), then I'd expect the writers of such code to cut those of us who use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the 'reply-to'

2006-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:07 PM -0500 2006-08-27, JT Thompson wrote: Surely this must be possible in mailman but I couldn't find any real info on reply_to in the config for the test list I set up. Yes, you can do this. However, we strongly recommend that you do not do so -- see