Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Khalil Abbas khillo...@hotmail.com: hi, I have several vps servers with very limited resources running several large mailman lists, n these servers keep stopping from responding n sometimes mailq shows several errors like: too many open files in the system and not enough resourses ...

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Khalil Abbas
m.. what if I did this: create small lists instead of large ones, then schedule the same message to be sent every hour to a different list ? this way the servers will not halt.. what do u think? -Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 1:58 AM To:

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Mollatt Ntini
On 6/1/2011 10:24 AM, Khalil Abbas wrote: m.. what if I did this: create small lists instead of large ones, then schedule the same message to be sent every hour to a different list ? this way the servers will not halt.. what do u think? I think Ralf is right. Lower the process limit,

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Khalil Abbas wrote: I have several vps servers with very limited resources running several large mailman lists, n these servers keep stopping from responding n sometimes mailq shows several errors like: too many open files in the system and not enough resourses ... etc.

[Mailman-Users] Setting options via email - confirmation rather than password?

2011-06-01 Thread Andrew Hodgson
Hi, Is there any way in Mailman to allow the users to set options (usually nomail style options) without the password argument? The system would then send out a confirmation email which the user could reply or click a link in the email to confirm. We have a lot of users who subscribe by

[Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread William Ashworth
I've searched for a bit and perhaps nothing is available (or I'm typing the wrong searches). A client of mine is looking to integrate more tightly to their Mailman list. There's an archive page, but we're trying to format it nicely for inclusion on their website so that it matches for members

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Mailman Admin
Hi William Ashworth On 06/01/2011 06:44 AM, William Ashworth wrote: I've searched for a bit and perhaps nothing is available (or I'm typing the wrong searches). A client of mine is looking to integrate more tightly to their Mailman list. There's an archive page, but we're trying to format

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, William Ashworth wrote: A client of mine is looking to integrate more tightly to their Mailman list. There's an archive page, but we're trying to format it nicely for inclusion on their website so that it matches for members to see. I can see two possibilities right now...

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Mailman Admin
Hi William Ashworth There is no database, but a file in mbox format. You can find it under /${path_to_mailman}/archives/private/${listname}.mbox/ It contains all emails in order of arrival with all attachents. Hope this helps a bit, Christian Mack On 06/01/2011 04:37 PM, William Ashworth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting options via email - confirmation rather than password?

2011-06-01 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/1/11 1:56 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Hi, Is there any way in Mailman to allow the users to set options (usually nomail style options) without the password argument? The system would then send out a confirmation email which the user could reply or click a link in the email to confirm.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting options via email - confirmation rather than password?

2011-06-01 Thread Andrew Hodgson
From: Mark Sapiro [m...@msapiro.net] Sent: 01 June 2011 16:27 To: Andrew Hodgson Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting options via email - confirmation rather than password? On 6/1/11 1:56 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Hi, Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

2011-06-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 6/1/2011 3:31 AM, Mollatt Ntini wrote: I think Ralf is right. Lower the process limit, else your load will stay on high and you may lose or end up having duplicated messages. Maybe other problems too. Defintely. If you don't have the resources for instant use, you need to get them or use

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Richard Damon
On 6/1/11 12:44 AM, William Ashworth wrote: I've searched for a bit and perhaps nothing is available (or I'm typing the wrong searches). A client of mine is looking to integrate more tightly to their Mailman list. There's an archive page, but we're trying to format it nicely for inclusion on

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread C Nulk
Hello, I will drop in my two cents worth here. At my location, we needed a way to manage and age out old messages from the archives. The way the archives are presented aren't really an issue here. However, to do the management, I used the PHP IMAP interface to access the mbox files. With the

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 6/1/11 12:44 AM, William Ashworth wrote: I've searched for a bit and perhaps nothing is available (or I'm typing the wrong searches). I'd really love something to sit on top of (or behind) Mailman that would give me: Authenticated file storage Group calendar Group database Yes, I know.

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

2011-06-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 01, 2011, at 01:54 PM, Glenn Sieb wrote: But it would *seriously* be awesome if Mailman could have, I dunno, plugins for the lack of a better word, where you *could* extend Mailman into more of a YG arena if you choose to. I agree that this would be very cool. I'd love to see MM3 as part

[Mailman-Users] error on attempting t start mailman

2011-06-01 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I ran out of disk space so I added 400gb to /var/lib/mailman2 and moved the archives with, cd /var/lib/mailman ; tar cf - . |(cd /var/lib/mailman2 tar xf -) So permissions should have stayed OKthen I did, unmount ~mailman2 and mounted it as ~mailman, permissions look right but I seem