[Mailman-Users] Full personalization and HTML problems

2008-03-17 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I am being told by some subscribers that the HTML emails they receive via a list run by Mailman contain attachments, although the original emails have none. In message body they only have their email address and attached they have a file called ATT00351.htm and two inline images which

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-17 Thread Frank Griffin
Mark Sapiro wrote: But here's the thing: the only occurrence of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the fresh system is a .forward file in /root, /var/spool/postfix, and /home/ftg. The test message is sent from the 'ftg' ID whose home directory is /home/ftg. Do you guys follow or look at .forward files ?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/17/2008, Frank Griffin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My test machines all use a third-party relay server which requires From: to be one of a fixed set of pre-registered values. I handle this by using Postfix's generic file to rewrite the sender on outbound messages to the 'frank.griffin'

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-17 Thread Frank Griffin
Charles Marcus wrote: On 3/17/2008, Frank Griffin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My test machines all use a third-party relay server which requires From: to be one of a fixed set of pre-registered values. I handle this by using Postfix's generic file to rewrite the sender on outbound

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-17 Thread Frank Griffin
Charles Marcus wrote: Most ISPs in the US simply allow relaying on their IP blocks... But, they don't absolutely need to support *secure* smtp auth - basic smtp auth would be much better than using and easily forged 'From:' header... I'd find another ISP/3rd party relay service...

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/17/2008, Frank Griffin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: They don't seem to want the risk of basic SMTP auth being cracked or sniffed, so they just refuse to relay for anything outside their IP block, period, no matter what. snip Since I don't want to have to reconfigure may laptop every time

[Mailman-Users] lists name caracters

2008-03-17 Thread Antonio Guerrero
Hi, Greetings from spain. Actually, our lists name includes a dot “.” in their names (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In our new hosting, they are unable to configure mailman in order to accept the “.” dot character in the list name. If I create a list with a dot in the name it will be created

[Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Ki Song
I tried starting up my mailman installation this morning (mailmanctl start), and I got the following message: Traceback (most recent call

Re: [Mailman-Users] lists name caracters

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Antonio Guerrero wrote: Actually, our lists name includes a dot '.' in their names (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ' In our new hosting, they are unable to configure mailman in order to accept the '.' dot character in the list name. If I create a list with a dot in the name it will be created ok, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-17 Thread Frank Griffin
Charles Marcus wrote: I'm confused... above you say that they don't allow relaying from outside their network 'no matter what'... then you say you need their relay service while outside their IP block... The ISP and the third-party relayer are two different companies. I need the relay

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ki Song wrote: One major error I see is that there is no more disk space on the server. How can I remedy this situation? Buy a bigger disk. :-( Seriously, this is an OS question, not a Mailman question. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Ki Song
One major error I see is that there is no more disk space on the server. How can I remedy this situation? Buy a bigger disk. :-( Seriously, this is an OS question, not a Mailman question. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Ki Song
One major error I see is that there is no more disk space on the server. How can I remedy this situation? Buy a bigger disk. :-( Seriously, this is an OS question, not a Mailman question. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ki Song wrote: The weird thing is that until this Friday, there was approximately 70-80% free space on the 75GB partition. I know this is not a mailman question, but how should I go about looking for files that may have suddenly taken up all that disk space. Tools like du and find with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ki Song wrote: OK. What if I installed a second hard drive. How easy is it to tell mailman and other programs to use the second hard drive? You'd have to copy the current partition to the new drive and then umount the old partition and mount the new one. Or, would it be easier/better to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full personalization and HTML problems

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I am being told by some subscribers that the HTML emails they receive via a list run by Mailman contain attachments, although the original emails have none. In message body they only have their email address and attached they have a file called ATT00351.htm and two inline

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full personalization and HTML problems

2008-03-17 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/3/17, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I am being told by some subscribers that the HTML emails they receive via a list run by Mailman contain attachments, although the original emails have none. In message body they only have their email address

[Mailman-Users] postfix-to-mailman problem

2008-03-17 Thread Jean-Christian BEDIER
Hi guys, I have some problem with mailman on debian sarge. When i try to send mail to lists, i can see in my mail.log the following message: Mar 17 18:34:01 box postfix/pipe[374]: 312F06A0051: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mailman, delay=1105, delays=1105/0.14/0/0.07, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full personalization and HTML problems

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I did have %(user_address)s in full personalization which I now changed to no personalization and removed the string. I hope this helps. Thanks! If you had a msg_header and removed it, that will help. The fact that the header had personalized information is not relevant

[Mailman-Users] fetchmail with gmail to mailman

2008-03-17 Thread billc
Hi all, I was hoping to not have to ask this, but I'm stumped. I'm setting up fetchmail to pull mail from a Gmail account (taking advantage of their spam filtering) and dump it into mailman. That way I can avoid opening up Postfix as a POP, and just use it for the SMTP out portion (which

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full personalization and HTML problems

2008-03-17 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/3/17, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I did have %(user_address)s in full personalization which I now changed to no personalization and removed the string. I hope this helps. Thanks! If you had a msg_header and removed it, that will help. The fact

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

2008-03-17 Thread Hank van Cleef
The esteemed Ki Song has said: One major error I see is that there is no more disk space on the server. How can I remedy this situation? Buy a bigger disk. :-( Seriously, this is an OS question, not a Mailman question. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmail with gmail to mailman

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
billc wrote: Let me know if I should be asking this on a fetchmail list instead, but I think the part where i'm stuck is with the mda /usr/local/mailman post testlist When I run this manually instead of as a daemon, it appears to be looking for the mailman app, not the folder. Where

[Mailman-Users] We need a mail-list

2008-03-17 Thread 杨觅
Hi all, We are a group of volunteers in China, we need a mail-list to share information. We will be really appreciate if you supply us a long-term free mail-list. Best Regards! Yours sincerely, Bill Yang -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmail with gmail to mailman

2008-03-17 Thread billc
At 11:18 AM -0700 3/17/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: billc wrote: Let me know if I should be asking this on a fetchmail list instead, but I think the part where i'm stuck is with the mda /usr/local/mailman post testlist When I run this manually instead of as a daemon, it appears to be looking

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmail with gmail to mailman

2008-03-17 Thread billc
At 12:03 PM -0700 3/17/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'm still getting /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman is a directory Which it is. An empty one, at that. It shouldn't be. It should be an executable binary something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/mailman/mail total 20 -rwxr-sr-x

Re: [Mailman-Users] We need a mail-list

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bill Yang wrote: We are a group of volunteers in China, we need a mail-list to share information. We will be really appreciate if you supply us a long-term free mail-list. The Mailman project provides Free Open Source Software for managing mailing lists. We do not provide mail list

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmail with gmail to mailman

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
billc wrote: No, no --exec-prefix, and I don't see any glaring errors in the install log. Some permissions issues on language files was pretty much all. But I'll try again, just to make sure. It should be enough to just run 'make install' in the unpack src/ directory (or maybe just copy the

[Mailman-Users] Spam backscatter: Which aliases to remove

2008-03-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
I want to remove aliases from my mailman installation to avoid spam backscatter. Which aliases do I absolutely need? Here's a list from mm-handler: @ValidActions = qw(admin bounces confirm join leave owner request subscribe unsubscribe);

[Mailman-Users] Personalising Content

2008-03-17 Thread Jacqui Owen
Hi All, I am hoping someone can help, one of our customers would like to send out emails where the content is personally addressed. e.g Dear Jacqui. I have searched the FAQ but am probably using wrong terminology. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. Cheers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalising Content

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jacqui Owen wrote: I am hoping someone can help, one of our customers would like to send out emails where the content is personally addressed. e.g Dear Jacqui. I have searched the FAQ but am probably using wrong terminology. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam backscatter: Which aliases to remove

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Kenneth Porter wrote: I want to remove aliases from my mailman installation to avoid spam backscatter. Which aliases do I absolutely need? Here's a list from mm-handler: @ValidActions = qw(admin bounces confirm join leave owner request subscribe unsubscribe); You do not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam backscatter: Which aliases to remove

2008-03-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, March 17, 2008 6:53 PM -0700 Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'join' and 'leave' are synonyms for 'subscribe' and 'unsubscribe'. Jo Rhett would say you don't need any of these because nearly everyone uses the web. He might also say you don't need/want 'request' and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalising Content

2008-03-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, March 17, 2008 5:33 PM -0700 Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition, Mailman can personalize the To: header of the message. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.015.htp for information about personalization options. The use of the subject

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalising Content

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Kenneth Porter wrote: The use of the subject prefix is the subject of a common flame war in many lists, so it would be nice if that could be personalized. See: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=350103aid=1104433group_id=103 See

Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix-to-mailman problem

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Jean-Christian BEDIER wrote: I have some problem with mailman on debian sarge. When i try to send mail to lists, i can see in my mail.log the following message: Mar 17 18:34:01 box postfix/pipe[374]: 312F06A0051: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=mailman, delay=1105, delays=1105/0.14/0/0.07,

Re: [Mailman-Users] fetchmail with gmail to mailman

2008-03-17 Thread billc
At 12:58 PM -0700 3/17/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: billc wrote: No, no --exec-prefix, and I don't see any glaring errors in the install log. Some permissions issues on language files was pretty much all. But I'll try again, just to make sure. It should be enough to just run 'make install' in the