[Mailman-Users] Hi, how to re-configure mailman to mail-gid ...

2007-03-12 Thread TRON478
hi, how can i re-configure mailman with the option --with-mail-gid=mailman or changing postifx to execute the mailman script with user mailman. thank you ERROR-MESSAGE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Command died with status 2: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post test. Command output: Group

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Local customizations is being ignored

2007-03-12 Thread Henrik Rasmussen
I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. I've read*) that to avoid customize the original templates, it is adviced to Create a directory lists/yourlist/en (assuming English :) and copy templates/subscribeack.txt to this directory. Then edit this file for your specific wording. Mailman will use this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weirdness

2007-03-12 Thread chandler . lists
Jay Chandler wrote: When a user was unsubscribed (through the web interface), they continued to receive emails. And when additional users were subscribed, they still haven't received any of the list traffic. Do your subs and unsubs require approval? Any admindb requests waiting. Nope to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weirdness

2007-03-12 Thread chandler . lists
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:52:54 -0800 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is on FreeBSD / Postfix. Anyone know what I might have forgotten to do? Everything else works correctly. Any chance you have two installations of mailman and the mail aliases are pointing to the old one? Nope--

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weirdness

2007-03-12 Thread chandler . lists
Mailman maintains a current version of its config file and a backup that is one generation older. It sounds to me like the current config is corrupt and it is falling back on the backup. This should show up in the logs, probably the error log or maybe qrunner. Something you can try is to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hi, how to re-configure mailman to mail-gid ...

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
TRON478 wrote: how can i re-configure mailman with the option --with-mail-gid=mailman If you installed Mailman from source, this is an option to the configure command. If you are running a package, this is a question for your packager. or changing postifx to execute the mailman script

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Local customizations is beingignored

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Henrik Rasmussen wrote: I've read*) that to avoid customize the original templates, it is adviced to Create a directory lists/yourlist/en (assuming English :) and copy templates/subscribeack.txt to this directory. Then edit this file for your specific wording. Mailman will use this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Weirdness

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jay Chandler quoted me and replied: Is the unsub still in Membership management...-Membership list? Are the new subs there? Yes. It LOOKS correct within the web interface... So if I understand correctly, you have new subscribers on the admin Membership list pages with delivery enabled and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which parts of mailman are platform-dependent?

2007-03-12 Thread Jerold Stratton
On Mar 11, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Steve Burling wrote: Or have I missed something? Anything else that will care? We used to run the mail server portion on an old Solaris box, and the web portion on a Mac OS X Server box. As I recall, Mailman has a means of compiling itself for multiple

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hi, how to re-configure mailman to mail-gid ...

2007-03-12 Thread TRON478
Hi, thank you. I have solved it: * First i deleted the mailman dir at /usr/local/mailman with rm -R /usr/... * Then i create it again as described in the mailman manual * after this i configured the mailman source with the --with-mail-gid=nobody (is this not an security hole? Why NOBODY?) * then

[Mailman-Users] What about mailman backup

2007-03-12 Thread TRON478
Hi, i have now my list up and running, but now im asking myself how to backup the already subscribed users and lists? so if my machine one day chrashes, i want to set it up again an dont want to subcribers subribe again to my lists. is there a documentation for this point? or how are you doing?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hi, how to re-configure mailman to mail-gid ...

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
TRON478 wrote: but why nobody?? Because 'nobody' is the group as which Postfix executes the wrapper, so you have now compiled the wrapper to expect to be invoked by the 'nobody' group. Again, see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.016.htp. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Removing illegal character or duplicated user names - update

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Maughan
To update you on this issue, I have a user whom I managed to subscribe incorrectly to the list and now cannot remove her. There appear to be two hidden subscriptions, neither of which appear in the subscriptions page. If I leave her normal sub active, she gets three copies of list messages; if I

Re: [Mailman-Users] What about mailman backup

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
TRON478 wrote: i have now my list up and running, but now im asking myself how to backup the already subscribed users and lists? so if my machine one day chrashes, i want to set it up again an dont want to subcribers subribe again to my lists. is there a documentation for this point? or how are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing illegal character or duplicated user names- update

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Maughan wrote: To update you on this issue, I have a user whom I managed to subscribe incorrectly to the list and now cannot remove her. There appear to be two hidden subscriptions, neither of which appear in the subscriptions page. If I leave her normal sub active, she gets three copies

[Mailman-Users] subscribing users

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Minor
Can I as a admin send a subscription request to subscribe other users? I don't want to do this via http I am looking to email the list serve and subvert the confirmation process. I want regular subscribers to continue to go through the confirmation process.

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribing users

2007-03-12 Thread Dragon
Bob Minor wrote: Can I as a admin send a subscription request to subscribe other users? I don't want to do this via http I am looking to email the list serve and subvert the confirmation process. I want regular subscribers to continue to go through the confirmation process. End

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribing users

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bob Minor wrote: Can I as a admin send a subscription request to subscribe other users? I don't want to do this via http I am looking to email the list serve and subvert the confirmation process. I want regular subscribers to continue to go through the confirmation process. You can

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribing users

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Minor
Thanks I have shoppers that I want to be able to check a box if they want to add themselves to our announcement list and I wanted to avoid the confirmation process I can only imagine that I could do this via curl as well. On Mar 12, 2007, at 7:22:39:0, Mark Sapiro wrote: Bob Minor wrote: