[Mailman-Users] DB mailman import script?

2008-01-28 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Is there a script to insert users from a mysql database into mailman? I can do it manually but I am wondering if there is a script to load a list of subscribers from a mysql database to a specific mailman list and if it is one which can be automated? Thank you in advance! Zbigniew

[Mailman-Users] ldap

2008-01-28 Thread Wanjiku Maina
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Re: [Mailman-Users] DB mailman import script?

2008-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a script to insert users from a mysql database into mailman? I can do it manually but I am wondering if there is a script to load a list of subscribers from a mysql database to a specific mailman list and if it is one which can be

[Mailman-Users] Mailman installation and WestHost account upgrade

2008-01-28 Thread Odieresis [Gmail]
I'm a newbie and I'm experiencing problems after my provider changed my account. I can't restart Mailman list service via SSH after West Host provider upgraded my account to 3.0. With this upgrade they changed Python to 2.5 and now when I try to start Mailman with one of these two commands:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing base URL for HTML GUI

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Terry Allen wrote: Outstanding - many thanks Mark, worked a treat. A shame with the years of list archives I would have to go back do a huge batch edit to remove the hostname from the archives, but they can stay that way, too much work. The URL will be correct now anyhow. You can fix

Re: [Mailman-Users] ldap

2008-01-28 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/28/08, Wanjiku Maina wrote: Hi does how does openldap work with mailman? The same as any other database. Create a flat file and use sync_members. See Barry Finkel's response on this to Zbigniew Szalbot. -- Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn Profile: http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/28/08, Mikhail T. wrote: Can our mailman installation be tweaked to eliminate all or some of the above undesirable effects? Thanks, Not without source-code level modifications, no. The elimination of duplicates being sent to individuals is something that might be implemented in a

[Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mikhail T.
Hello! Our site uses mailman to host many mailing lists. Sometimes a person would find it necessary to post to several of the lists at once incurring irritation of the subscribers for the following reasons: 1. People subscribed to more than one list will get the same message multiple

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: On 1/28/08, Mikhail T. wrote: Can our mailman installation be tweaked to eliminate all or some of the above undesirable effects? Thanks, Not without source-code level modifications, no. In Mailman 2.1.10, there is a new sibling lists feature that can be used to

Re: [Mailman-Users] korean error

2008-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
Obantec Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi FC3 running python 2.3.4 trying to install Mailman-2.1.9 ./configure (using default settings) make install produces just this error Traceback (most recent call last): File bin/update, line 46, in ? import paths File

[Mailman-Users] Mailman installation and WestHost account upgrade

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Odieresis [Gmail] writes: I'm a newbie and I'm experiencing problems after my provider changed my account. I can't restart Mailman list service via SSH after West Host provider upgraded my account to 3.0. This is a provider problem, not a Mailman problem. Talk to your provider. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outgoing qrunner stops working and outgoing mails get stuck

2008-01-28 Thread SP
Tim Bell ha scritto: The first thing I did when I got mailman set up was to create a private test list so I could send as many test emails as I pleased without bothering anyone on the real lists. I still use it from time to time. Thanks for the suggestion: this is what I did yesterday.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mikhail T. wrote: Yes, of course. But a single mailman installation hosting multiple mailing lists already has the complete knowledge, does not it? See my reply to Brad's reply. snip I think, this function is already here. When I first sent message to this list, it bounced, because I was not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mikhail T.
понеділок 28 січень 2008 02:15 по, Brad Knowles Ви написали: The elimination of duplicates being sent to individuals is something that might be implemented in a future version of Mailman, but that would require that each list have complete knowledge of who all the overlapping subscribers are

Re: [Mailman-Users] korean error

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem with RHEL 5, Python 2.4.3 and Mailman 2.1.9. If you don't need Korean support, here is a workround. Remove or comment out two lines in misc/paths.py.in before running configure.. First comment out import korean Then comment out

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Dragon
Mikhail Teterin wrote: Well, depending on the archival method, a message can appear in both, with only a single copy of it being stored. This can be achived, for example, using symbolic (or even hard) links. Similarly, if a relational database is employed, the same message can be referred to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outgoing qrunner stops working and outgoingmails get stuck

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
SP wrote: Thanks for the suggestion: this is what I did yesterday. :-) A message is sent to a test list every 2 minutes: the last sent message was that of 13:36 so whatever happened to mailman, it happened between 13:36 and 13:38, the time of the first message which got stuck in qfiles/out. Here

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mikhail Teterin wrote: But I was referring to search-results only. Regardless of how the messages are stored, if I type the search string and select several of the mailing list archives to search through, the same message may appear in my search results more than once. That duplication should not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mikhail Teterin
понеділок 28 січень 2008 05:16 по, Mark Sapiro Ви написали: AFAIU, the message will appear in the search results multiple times -- once per mailing list. That is not justified -- the results should contain no repetitions... For as many people who feel as you do, I'll wager that there are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: The concept to be implemented in Mailman 3.0 is a separate user database which has an entry per person with perhaps multiple email addresses and various roles such as member of list1, owner of list2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/28/08, Mikhail T. wrote: Yes, of course. But a single mailman installation hosting multiple mailing lists already has the complete knowledge, does not it? Nope. All you have for each list knows is a bunch of e-mail addresses that are subscribed. When sending out a message that has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/28/08, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Well, depending on the archival method, a message can appear in both, with only a single copy of it being stored. This can be achived, for example, using symbolic (or even hard) links. We do not do a single instance store within the archiving system of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Post number in subject line

2008-01-28 Thread Soben
Thank you very much for the hint. It's now working. As you said, actually there is information about attaching the post numbering in the Detail Page of the Admin - Subject Prefix. I just did not look deeply :) Regards, Soben On ច័ន្ទ ទី 28 មករា 2008, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: Hello all, Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: Most of the anti-duplication features can't be delivered until Mailman3. The sister-list concept that Mark has introduced with Mailman 2.1.10 is the best we're likely to be able to see for a long time. Actually, Tokio deserves the credit for bringing the concept and

[Mailman-Users] Moved list not creating virtual-mailman entries

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Pyne
I have a group of Mailman lists that I moved to a new server. When I run genaliases, it is correctly creating the aliases but not the entries in virtual-mailman. I made the move and ran withlist -l -r fix_url [listname] for each list, but Mailman is still not creating the virtual entries.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moved list not creating virtual-mailman entries

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Sapiro
Richard Pyne wrote: I have a group of Mailman lists that I moved to a new server. When I run genaliases, it is correctly creating the aliases but not the entries in virtual-mailman. I made the move and ran withlist -l -r fix_url [listname] for each list, but Mailman is still not creating the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: No search engine author in their right mind should ever consider doing de-duplication on their own, although they might be willing to provide that feature to customers who demand the option. Google does. --