Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, AOL and server names

2007-03-22 Thread Dennis Morgan
Thanks for your reply Brad. Yeah, I read and reread the FAQ. Mailman has one of the best faq's I've ever seen. The percentage of our mail that AOL rejects is just huge - around 90% - I was hoping that maybe someone could see something that we were doing wrong. It'd be nice to get the

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2007-03-22 Thread lookaroundcornwall.com
A few months ago, I set up mailman to manage bulk email of a subscription-based newsletter. Only the admin can post. For some reason, it's stopped working. All posts are moderated, so I usually send a message to HYPERLINK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] and I get a response asking me to

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2007-03-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 3/22/07, lookaroundcornwall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions as to where I should start looking? If you have shell-level access to the server at mydomain.com (by the way, please see RFC 2606 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt, about what domain names to use for examples.

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, AOL and server names

2007-03-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
To reiterate what Brad said, please see FAQ 3.42. It specifically talks about this issue. On 3/22/07, Dennis Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The percentage of our mail that AOL rejects is just huge - around 90% - I was hoping that maybe someone could see something that we were doing wrong.

[Mailman-Users] Broken mailman

2007-03-22 Thread lookaroundcornwall.com
Thanks Patrick, I'll start looking It's getting through to the server - this from the exim log 2007-03-22 14:44:34 1HUOWo-0006sQ-9Z = |/usr/local/home/mailman/mail/mailman owner announce [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=system_aliases_all_local_domains T=alias_pipe Oddly, I seem to be getting mail addressed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Broken mailman

2007-03-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 3/22/07, lookaroundcornwall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's getting through to the server - this from the exim log 2007-03-22 14:44:34 1HUOWo-0006sQ-9Z = |/usr/local/home/mailman/mail/mailman owner announce [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=system_aliases_all_local_domains T=alias_pipe This isn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members

2007-03-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to this list and to using Mailman. I am stepping in temporarily in caring for the list I'm working with, and I have been asked to un-ban a member. I don't know the reasons behind this banning, but since I have been asked to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disappearing posts [was: (no subject)]

2007-03-22 Thread lookaroundcornwall.com
One likely cause is that Mailman's qrunners (IncomingRunner in particular) are not running. Spot on Mark, thanks. Next time we have a server outage I'll try and remember that one. Is there any way to have it happen automatically? Ken -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disappearing posts [was: (no subject)]

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogenwrote: On 3/22/07, lookaroundcornwall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions as to where I should start looking? If you have shell-level access to the server at mydomain.com (by the way, please see RFC 2606 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt, about what domain names to

[Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Peter
I'm resending this one. Can anyone help? I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine (running 2.1.8).  It appears that the move was successful since I can access its page at: http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin/listname But it does not show up on the main

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm resending this one. Can anyone help? I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine (running 2.1.8).  It appears that the move was successful since I can access its page at:

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Dragon
Peter wrote: I'm resending this one. Can anyone help? I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine (running 2.1.8). It appears that the move was successful since I can access its page at: http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin/listname But it does not show up on

[Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Maughan
Hi guys, I am aggravated by a few idle list posters who consistently refuse to put in a subject in their posts, and I would like to 'encourage' them to mend their ways :) I've tried putting a spam rule as per the faq, trapping subject containing .*(no subject) but no workie. The cases I'd like

[Mailman-Users] Posts with no subject

2007-03-22 Thread lookaroundcornwall.com
Hi Mike, It wasn't laziness, just an oversight, which I corrected in subsequent posts. Sorry if I aggravated you. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.16/729 - Release Date: 21/03/2007 07:52

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Peter
Le Jeudi 22 Mars 2007 13:14, Dragon a écrit : Peter wrote: I'm resending this one. Can anyone help? I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine (running 2.1.8). It appears that the move was successful since I can access its page at:

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members

2007-03-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
First off, please keep all replies on list, so that other folk can give their input. Check Mailman's 'vette' log to see why her posts are being held. On 3/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I checked everything you said... I found her email, but it is listed under Sender

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Maughan
JIC anyone was unclear, these problems are on _my_ lists, not on here :) - Mike On 22/03/07, Mike Maughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I am aggravated by a few idle list posters who consistently refuse to put in a subject in their posts, and I would like to 'encourage' them to mend

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members

2007-03-22 Thread reikiiii
I checked everything you said... I found her email, but it is listed under Sender Filters in List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted. She is not listed in the subscribers at all, and the list still won't accept her. Any further suggestions? Thank you!

[Mailman-Users] permissions, mailman, postfix, virtual .ugh!

2007-03-22 Thread Washakie Wyoming
Greetings everyone, Please know that I have tried to resolve this without posting, but I have been unable to produce a solution from searching the web. I'm incredibly frustrated!!! Please, if someone as an idea as to what is going on, your input would be GREATLY apprecaited!! I have the

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members

2007-03-22 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 3/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I find the 'vette' log? To get to the vette log, you need shell access to the server. Where the log is actually located on the filesystem is dependent upon your Distribution and how mailman was installed. One way to find it is to

[Mailman-Users] checkdbs error

2007-03-22 Thread Adam Miller
Hi, I'm getting some errors with a mailman cron job is running. I am using mailman version 2.1.9 on an FC5 i386 box. /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs, line 203, in ? main() File /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs,

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, AOL and server names

2007-03-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:10 AM -0500 3/22/07, Dennis Morgan wrote: The percentage of our mail that AOL rejects is just huge - around 90% - I was hoping that maybe someone could see something that we were doing wrong. It'd be nice to get the rejection rate down. If you can show us complete copies of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, AOL and server names

2007-03-22 Thread vancleef
The esteemed Patrick Bogen has said: To reiterate what Brad said, please see FAQ 3.42. It specifically talks about this issue. On 3/22/07, Dennis Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The percentage of our mail that AOL rejects is just huge - around 90% - I was hoping that maybe someone could

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disappearing posts [was: (no subject)]

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
lookaroundcornwall.com wrote: Spot on Mark, thanks. Next time we have a server outage I'll try and remember that one. Is there any way to have it happen automatically? If you installed Mailman from source, there is a shell script scripts/mailman in the Mailman's install directory which has

[Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Maughan
I posted earlier about problems with (no subject) postings to my lists, not complaining about such to mailman-users, but I wasn't very clear in what I said so my apologies to anyone who may have been offended. To restate my problem and renew the request for help (if anyone is still talking to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Maughan wrote: The cases I'd like to trap are: 1. empty subject 2. (no subject) 3. (no_subject) Is there an easy way? Am I (as has been known on occasion :) missing something obvious? You can trap all 3 of the above cases with a header_filter_rules rule with the regexp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Maughan
Thanks again, Mark. I've implemented the recommendations; now all I have to do is decipher your regex :)) - Mike On 23/03/07, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Maughan wrote: The cases I'd like to trap are: 1. empty subject 2. (no subject) 3. (no_subject) Is there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Maughan wrote: I've implemented the recommendations; now all I have to do is decipher your regex :)) snip $subject:\s*(\(no[_ ]subject\))?\s*$ Ooops! It's wrong. It should be ^subject:\s*(\(no[_ ]subject\))?\s*$ The original wouldn't match anything. It says: ^ - the start of the line

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trapping posts with no subject, and an apology

2007-03-22 Thread Mike Maughan
On 23/03/07, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^subject:\s*(\(no[_ ]subject\))?\s*$ Thanks for the fix the explanation. Do you know, that's the first time I've actually understood a pattern search regex? Wunderbar! :) -- Regards, Mike

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me in plain english how to do this? I am not experienced in programming. Thanks! Go to the admin interface web pages and go to the Privacy options...-Subscription rules page and look at the List of addresses which are banned from membership in this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umbrella lists.

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lech Karol PawBaszek wrote: What i would like is to have true lists only at the lowest level. But be able to accept incoming mail at the highest level and not to worry about accepting the same mail on the other lists (if it is not from my company domainname). I've tried

Re: [Mailman-Users] listname-request who command

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogen wrote: On 3/21/07, Jennifer Oxelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue is I can send the 'who' email command with the admin password from /*any*/ email address (not even subscribed) and get the roster... is this right? Wouldn't it be better if the 'who' command only worked for

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Peter wrote: I accessed the list's admin page [I don't know how it worked with the password I gave (it was the one I use for my other test lists)] and any links I choose (like the privacy options; to make it advertised) does not use the correct URL. It uses localhost.my.domain. I thought

Re: [Mailman-Users] permissions, mailman, postfix, virtual .ugh!

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Washakie Wyoming wrote: I set up a virtual domain, and everything works with postfix alone. In main.cf: virtual_alias_domains = my.virt.domain virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual ### Now, changes for Mailman: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases #if I

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Peter
Le Jeudi 22 Mars 2007 14:01, Peter a écrit : Le Jeudi 22 Mars 2007 13:14, Dragon a écrit : Peter wrote: I'm resending this one. Can anyone help? I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine (running 2.1.8). It appears that the move was successful since I

Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Peter wrote: I fixed the URL problem (I forgot the vital option: the URL) except I see that for one link the URL did not change. In the archives More information about this list is still the old one. Any ideas why this may be? Those links are built when the archive pages are created. If the

Re: [Mailman-Users] checkdbs error

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Adam Miller wrote: I'm getting some errors with a mailman cron job is running. I am using mailman version 2.1.9 on an FC5 i386 box. /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs, line 203, in ? main() File

[Mailman-Users] how do i edit the digest email?

2007-03-22 Thread Tina Forsyth
hi there, i want to edit part of the email that gets sent out as a daily digest... specifically to remove the text at the top with all the list details about how to send to the list, etc... i'm using this as an 'announcement only' list and i don't want people to be able to access that