Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: Is there a way *I* can without the ISP doing anything? Yes. Set up your spam filters under Privacy options... then Spam filters. There is nothing called spam filters in privacy options. Then your ISP has installed a pretty non-standard version of

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: But this isn't useful to me. Oh, I'm sure some of the really bad spam would go away, but this is a health list and so there are *a lot* of false positives because we mention a lot of spam-like keywords. So I'd have to set the spam level pretty high. It

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/10/07, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: There are alternatives such as SpamBayes which may be easier to integrate. Everything is being done by her ISP, so I don't know that it's useful to discuss alternative solutions. Either way, she's got to live with whatever they give her, at least up

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: False positive means it's legit mail that is in my spam folder. Using my ISP's defaults. Sounds like you need to talk to your ISP about how those defaults can be changed to be something more suitable for you. Anything in moderation for MM must be clicked

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/10/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mailman sends a summary every morning with the From: and Subject: of the held posts waiting moderator action. Where is this option? I don't currently get these, but I'd like to... -- Best regards, Charles

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/10/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mailman sends a summary every morning with the From: and Subject: of the held posts waiting moderator action. Where is this option? I don't currently get these, but I'd like to... There is no option for this per se.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest question

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Paul Key wrote: I know senddigest is entered in cron but should other lists want digest ability they may want different times dates. Do I need multiple cron entries for senddigest? Is senddigest configurable? Can I pass in command line parameters telling senddigest which lists to send

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman never replies to e-mail

2007-12-10 Thread Dragon
Sjors Gielen wrote: I've just tried sending myself an e-mail again, and it is delivered to Mailman, but I now don't even see an error message appear in the errorlog, it doesn't even *try* to send a reply. Also, I have Postgrey installed with Postfix, so that might be why the message couldn't be

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/10/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you aren't getting the summary, either cron isn't running checkdbs or you are so diligent at dealing with held messages that there never are any outstanding when checkdbs runs. Duh... ok, there is no daily cron job for it (I had someone

[Mailman-Users] listinfo_url and optionsurl alternatives?

2007-12-10 Thread Michael Grueter
The subscribeack.txt template file uses two variables that I would like to change: 1) %(listinfo_url)s produces the following URL: http://hostname/mailman/listinfo/listname where hostname is the generic host name for the mail server. 2) %(optionsurl)s produces a similar URL with the same

Re: [Mailman-Users] listinfo_url and optionsurl alternatives?

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael Grueter wrote: The subscribeack.txt template file uses two variables that I would like to change: 1) %(listinfo_url)s produces the following URL: http://hostname/mailman/listinfo/listname where hostname is the generic host name for the mail server. 2) %(optionsurl)s produces a

[Mailman-Users] forwarding messages from one list to another not as attachments

2007-12-10 Thread David Beaumont
We need to forward moderated emails from one list to another more appropriate list. However they always arrive munged up, losing the originators email address and with the text as an attachment. I.e. looking pretty crap. This must be a common requirement however I can't find anything in the FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] forwarding messages from one list to another not asattachments

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Beaumont wrote: We need to forward moderated emails from one list to another more appropriate list. However they always arrive munged up, losing the originators email address and with the text as an attachment. I.e. looking pretty crap. FAQ 3.9

Re: [Mailman-Users] forwarding messages from one list to another not asattachments

2007-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/10/07, Mark Sapiro wrote: FAQ 3.9 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.009.htp addresses a slightly different issue, but the techniques described there will work just as well for bouncing a message to another list. Don't forget FAQ 4.39 at

[Mailman-Users] Non-member post confirmation

2007-12-10 Thread Mikael Hansen
Hello, I was reading a thread from 2003 with just this subject line. However, I don't see the feature implemented. Was it not done? Mikael -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-member post confirmation

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mikael Hansen wrote: I was reading a thread from 2003 with just this subject line. However, I don't see the feature implemented. Was it not done? Right. It hasn't been done. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use

Re: [Mailman-Users] forwarding messages from one list to another not asattachments

2007-12-10 Thread David Beaumont
yes thanks that is one FAQ I had read, with a slight amount of horror. The first suggestion is surely much too cumbersome for regular use, I take it the 'Voila' is ironic. The second suggestion I could live with except that I don't have server shell access and anyway it would not fix our

Re: [Mailman-Users] forwarding messages from one list to another not asattachments

2007-12-10 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/11/07, David Beaumont wrote: Thanks but I don't think that is relevant as the original messages are in plain text format, I have checked. Your description of: We need to forward moderated emails from one list to another more appropriate list. However they always

[Mailman-Users] Phantom Moderator Requests

2007-12-10 Thread David Hooton
Hi All, We have a mailman install which keeps sending phantom moderator requests, when we login to the admin interface there are no messages awaiting moderation. Can anyone tell me where the reminder script is seeing these messages and why the admin interface isn't seeing them? Cheers! David

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phantom Moderator Requests

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Hooton wrote: We have a mailman install which keeps sending phantom moderator requests, when we login to the admin interface there are no messages awaiting moderation. Can anyone tell me where the reminder script is seeing these messages and why the admin interface isn't seeing them? You