Re: [Mailman-Users] X-SPAM-FILTER problems

2006-10-05 Thread martin moriarty
Excellent thanks, I'll upgrade and check it out. Mark Sapiro wrote: martin moriarty wrote: We run Mailman Version 2.1.5. Ive added in spam filter rules/expression: X-SPAM-FLAG:YES . Seems to work for a while, then stops working. This is a bug in 2.1.5, partially fixed in 2.1.6 and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re-enabling users who exceed the bouncethreshold

2006-10-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:05 AM -0700 10/4/06, Mark Sapiro wrote: Now this may well be a coincidence, but it is also possible that att.net had a DNS reverse lookup error at the beginning and blocked the IP. Then each subsequent mail found a 'cached' block and was itself blocked and also updated the cache

Re: [Mailman-Users] Threading for integration with message board

2006-10-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:41 PM -0500 10/4/06, Robert Hsiung wrote: #1 could be addressed by embedding, as I described, the message number in the original Reply-To: header, because then you could count on it being included in the To: header of replies. No, because the Reply-to: header has to contain an e-mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re-enabling users who exceed the bouncethreshold

2006-10-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:06 AM +0900 10/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then each subsequent mail found a 'cached' block and was itself blocked and also updated the cache expiration. When I stopped sending for over a week, the cached entry finally expired. This would be a serious violation of cache

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and qmail confuse

2006-10-05 Thread M. Onur ERGiN
Hello, I am running Mailman and qmail on a RH9 server. Both are running quite good. But in one condition, one of them confuses and mails are not delivered. I have a user account with name 'ccc' on the server. The mails, which are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be delivered. But at the same

Re: [Mailman-Users] Threading for integration with message board

2006-10-05 Thread Robert Hsiung
At 12:17 AM -0700 10/5/06, Brad Knowles wrote: #1 could be addressed by embedding, as I described, the message number in the original Reply-To: header, because then you could count on it being included in the To: header of replies. No, because the Reply-to: header has to contain an e-mail

[Mailman-Users] Customizing message to large moderation email

2006-10-05 Thread Knight, Eric Sean
We are going to start limiting the size some of our internal mailing lists and would like to customize the message that is sent to the poster to include the number of our helpdesk if their message is to large. Where is this text stored? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to subscribe an user without his/her confirmation?

2006-10-05 Thread K. Clair
On 10/5/06, Simona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm developing an unified system using PHP that I would like to use to manage users' subscriptions to my website, forums and newsletters. So, I'm asking you if there is a method to subscribe an user account to my Mailman lists without

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to subscribe an user without his/herconfirmation?

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Simona wrote: I'm developing an unified system using PHP that I would like to use to manage users' subscriptions to my website, forums and newsletters. So, I'm asking you if there is a method to subscribe an user account to my Mailman lists without his/her confirmation via e-mail (I need to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and qmail confuse

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
M. Onur ERGiN wrote: What can cause this confusion, Qmail and what can be a possible solution? You would probably be more likely to get a good answer to this from a list or other support resource devoted to Qmail. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San

Re: [Mailman-Users] Customizing message to large moderation email

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Knight, Eric Sean wrote: We are going to start limiting the size some of our internal mailing lists and would like to customize the message that is sent to the poster to include the number of our helpdesk if their message is to large. Where is this text stored? The English language text is in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Postfix on different hosts?

2006-10-05 Thread Anders Norrbring
Anders Norrbring skrev: Eric Howland skrev: On 8/30/06, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: Simple question, would it be possible to run mailman on one host, and the Postfix MTA on another host? The reason is that I'm configuring a new in/outgoing server that

[Mailman-Users] automatically subscribe

2006-10-05 Thread John Heim
I need to write a script to add users to a Mailman list. The trick is that the script will not be running on the same machine that Mailman is running on. When I add a user to our system, I need to kick off this script so that if the new user is in the faculty group, their email address is

[Mailman-Users] Sporadic, fractional non-delivery

2006-10-05 Thread Jason LaMar
We have an on-campus list with about 1,900 student subscribers that has been functioning properly for months. Recently, however, an extremely small percentage of students -- about 1% that we're aware of -- have stopped getting messages from the list. Here are some of the specifics ... 1. Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Cron gate_news

2006-10-05 Thread Ki Song
For some reason, the gate_news cron starting giving this error every 5 minutes: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.pck' To the best of my knowledge, this list does not have a mail/news gateway. Can someone let me know how I can get rid of this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron gate_news

2006-10-05 Thread Ki Song
For some reason, the gate_news cron starting giving this error every 5 minutes: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.pck' To the best of my knowledge, this list does not have a mail/news gateway. Can someone let me know how I can get rid of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sporadic, fractional non-delivery

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jason LaMar wrote: We have an on-campus list with about 1,900 student subscribers that has been functioning properly for months. Recently, however, an extremely small percentage of students -- about 1% that we're aware of -- have stopped getting messages from the list. The same students for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Threading for integration with message board

2006-10-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:56 AM -0500 10/5/06, Robert Hsiung wrote: That would require potentially re-parsing and modifying every single message in the archive, every time a new message comes into the list. Why would it imply that? The message comes in, you determine which thread it belongs to, and all you

Re: [Mailman-Users] automatically subscribe

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Heim wrote: I am thinking that I could do this via the email interface. Ie. Generate a mail message to faculty-request. That sort of works. The only problem is that I need to do it as the list administrator or moderator so that the user doesn't get a confirmation message. Essentially, I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Making Archives password protected

2006-10-05 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 15:49 -0300, Douglas Denny wrote: Hello, I am list administrator on a Mailman list. Users have asked me to password protect the archives. I cannot find this option in my list interface. This option does not seem to do anything: I s archive file source for public or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Threading for integration with message board

2006-10-05 Thread Robert Hsiung
At 11:05 AM -0700 10/5/06, Brad Knowles wrote: That would require potentially re-parsing and modifying every single message in the archive, every time a new message comes into the list. Why would it imply that? The message comes in, you determine which thread it belongs to, and all you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Making Archives password protected

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Douglas Denny wrote: I am list administrator on a Mailman list. Users have asked me to password protect the archives. I cannot find this option in my list interface. This option does not seem to do anything: I s archive file source for public or private archival? * private This setting should

[Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Jon Forrest
I'm a new Mailman user. So far things are working OK. I just discovered a wrinkle that I suspect that other mailmen and mailwomen have faced. I follow good Sendmail/Postfix practice by breaking my email aliases file into two sections - one where I define a canonical email name for each person,

[Mailman-Users] %variable for fullname in verify.txt

2006-10-05 Thread Jimmy.do
Hi all, We are trying to customize the verify.txt which is used in the Email subscription confirmation to the user. We would like to personalize it by adding the user's fullname when they registered. What is the %variable for the user's fullname we can use in the verify.txt file? Since the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Another puzzler

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Martin Dennett wrote: Brad Knowles wrote: At 7:23 AM +0100 10/4/06, Martin Dennett wrote: There is no other information in the bounce message, so how do I find out who the message is really trying to be delivered to? This kind of problem is what VERP was designed to make much easier to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: snip To show what I mean, I'll have something like this: smith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] list1: smith list2: smith list3: smith So when smith moves to yahoo.com, I only have to change the first line. However, I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Jon Forrest
Mark Sapiro wrote: You have a more serious issue to contend with first and that is that Mailman does not accept email addresses consisting of only a local-part ('smith' in your above example). I didn't know that. I had read the following: # The host_name is the preferred name for email to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs. Email Aliases

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jon Forrest wrote: I didn't know that. I had read the following: # The host_name is the preferred name for email to mailman-related # addresses on this host, and generally should be the mail host's # exchanger address, if any. This setting can be useful for selecting # among alternative names