Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Hosting

2016-12-21 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 08:45:35PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > True. We then migrated the list to another of their servers that already > existed, but the rejections > became even more. I'd still do a gradual ramp-up to N recipients with the 'standard' type of messages/headers/patterns

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Hosting

2016-12-21 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 07:11:16PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > one of their co-lo facilities in the US closed down and they had to move to > another co-lo. This obviously involved migration of servers/ change of IP > addresses and this has not gone well for one of my mailing lists which

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems unsubscribing from lists using email address?

2016-06-14 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:45:11PM +1000, Adam Morris wrote: > in the footer of messages for lists I run I put a link for people to > unsubscribe. > > the link is > > listname dash unsubscribe@domain. > > If someone clicks on this link and sends a message there is no confirmation > and they

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-23 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:25:21AM -0700, Chris Nulk wrote: > On 3/23/2016 10:39 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/adamamyl/6909815#file-rename-list > > > >may be useful > > > >invoked as `rename-list old-list new-list` > > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a list

2016-03-23 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:02:10AM -0700, Chris Nulk wrote: > I have a copy of Mark's clone_list command and it will allow us to > rename lists. Which is great and not a problem for me. However, I > am not the person normally involved with list creation, etc. Another > group does it. Normally

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman on this server

2016-02-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:22:15PM +, Adam McGreggor wrote: > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#run-time also springs > to mind. Although with a ScriptAlias, this may not be necessary (but for /pipermail/ etc probably useful). -- "MP3s are for people who dow

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman on this server

2016-02-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 09:14:31AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 02/03/2016 02:09 PM, Peter W. Caton wrote: > > Forbidden [ … ] > Check /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. There should be a symlink https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#run-time also springs to mind. (as a side note, Peter,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for a server

2016-01-24 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:33:42PM +, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > Skip Montanaro wrote: > > I've not hosted a mailman list in a long while. I'm trying to help > > some folks migrate a list with ten years of archives and no current > > subscribers just to make the archives indexable by the various

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange interaction between mailman and google docs

2015-12-01 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 09:07:01AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 11/30/2015 02:48 PM, Ottoson Webmaster wrote: > > The problem is only *from google docs to non-google email in mailman list* > > It is difficult to even guess what might be happening without more > information. Someone needs to

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman cgi error after server restart

2015-10-07 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:25:23PM -0400, Kai Liu wrote: > Hi guys, > > My server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4. I installed mailman > 2.1.3 and postfix. It has worked for 4 years. Your version of Mailman is almost 10 years old. I'd be inclined to upgrade that. > Yesterday I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 11:43:55AM +0530, Aditya Jain wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2015 07:28 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > fail2ban runs on (in this case) the machine on which Mailman's web > > interface runs. It monitors the web server logs and looks for (in this > > case) a minimum number of 401

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:07:25AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Perhaps a per-user login attempt limit would work for you. Each > (ab)user is different. But I don't think it's a good idea for a > supported feature of Mailman, it's too fragile and it would be an > invitation to an endless

Re: [Mailman-Users] at Slayter 7pm TOMORROW Wed., FREE Beginner lesson, Live Band

2015-09-02 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:43:17PM -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote: > Why won't this message send to my group? I have sent things before, > including a message that said "help" as the subject. I tried using "help" > as a subject but it didn't go. What do you all see? Is it a case of that wonderful

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restricting access to the pipermail archives

2015-08-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 01:43:27AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: I want to give my users archives, but require authentication to access the archives. They should not be accessible to non-members. How can I tie mailman's existing authentication (which can for example conceal the member list from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restricting access to the pipermail archives

2015-08-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:08:43AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 08/19/2015 11:43 PM, Billy Crook wrote: I want to give my users archives, but require authentication to access the archives. They should not be accessible to non-members. How can I tie mailman's existing authentication

Re: [Mailman-Users] client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

2015-08-13 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 09:17:55AM +0200, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote: Hi, Trying to get mailman to behave using this guide:https://www.howtoforg e.com/how-to-install-and-configure-mailman-with-postfix-on-debian -squeeze even though I'm on Jessie. I get the above error in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

2015-08-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 01:15:57PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription? If you have shell access, https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/change_member_address.py is

Re: [Mailman-Users] View the Private mail lists from UI

2015-06-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:53:46PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: I suppose there could be an authentication requiring the site password (for various reasons, it couldn't be a list admin password) on the admin and listinfo overview pages to see 'all' lists, but there is not such a feature. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

2015-05-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 07:02:38AM -0700, James Nightly wrote: How can I configure mailman on Debian to reject messages with X-Spam-Score over 8? We are getting bombarded with spam, messages are tagged by Spamassasin, but for some reason Exim4 still sends these to Mailman. Drop/Discard/Reject

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

2015-05-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 05:28:05PM +0100, Adam McGreggor wrote: I have a couple of ACLS (for check_message): the 'magic' I use is condition = ${if {$spam_score_int}{60}{1}{0}} http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-content_scanning_at_acl_time.html is still

Re: [Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

2015-05-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:43:20AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Adam McGreggor adam-mail...@amyl.org.uk wrote: Drop/Discard/Reject mails at SMTP time, before they hit Mailman? Right, but it seems like James is saying Exim4 isn't doing that. If the mails

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0100, David Osborne wrote: On 15/05/15 05:32, Bill Christensen wrote: I long ago routed real users to an alternative signup, but the spam keeps coming, unrelenting, and are now anywhere between 1k and 10k per day. One of our lists was spammed in a similar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-22 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:16:48AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 04/21/2015 09:42 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: This makes me wonder if it might be useful to have two files in the Mailman source: mailman/cron/crontab.in-system mailman/cron/crontab.in-user with -system including

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:32:48AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: The bottom line is that it's best, as always, to install a component such as a crontab using the supplied tools rather trying to second-guess the tool set and copying files directly. This makes me wonder if it might be useful to

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

2015-04-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 08:21:20AM -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: I'd say it was a much better example of not trimming content and making it presentable; Along with making one's MUA put signatures at the bottom… -- a difficulty for every solution -- Samuel, on the Civil Service

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 02:31:50AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The Justice Department has already said that the web is a place of public accommodation, and the ADA applies. It is only a matter of time before they issue specific regulations. So, in the near future, anyone

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-24 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:22:24AM +1100, Peter Shute wrote: Do we really need anything more than the ability to bold and underline? Butterick (and I agree entirely with him here) is against underlining: http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html I'd be happy with some of the basic

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with regular expression filters

2015-02-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 10:46:39AM -0800, Marino Pascal wrote: I have a filter to block the word test from Subject because some people won't receive list mail for a few hours and think it's broken so they post test People who send test mails to lists I manage usually find themselves moderated.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman equivalent of Yahoo Special Announcements?

2014-09-19 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:50:34AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Hi, I'm about to migrate a Yahoo Groups mailing list to mailman. Yahoo Groups offers four delivery modes: - individual emails - daily digests - no mail - special announcements only and I have list members set to all

Re: [Mailman-Users] New install of mailman -- web links point to non-working https address

2014-07-24 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:43:10AM -0500, James Riemermann wrote: [ … ] The Defaults.py config includes the following line: DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' rather than the folloowing: DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/cgi-bin/' which was recommended on one web tutorial

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple mailing list passwords

2014-05-26 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 02:21:50PM +0200, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: I am one of the list administrator/moderator for several mailing lists, most of which aren't based on my machine (a few are in another continent), so I am not the site admin for them. In particular three of these are on the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription flood

2014-05-08 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:31:14AM -0500, Bill Christensen wrote: I've got a problem with one of my lists where it's being flooded with spurious subscription requests. […] About 12 hrs ago I switched it to require Admin approval. 500+ subscription requests - mostly in batches of 5-10 from

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:18:33AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I hate to say it, but the days of the kinder, gentler internet when everyone played strictly by the RFCs are passing as operational control of internet services comes increasingly under the control of fewer, bigger players who

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

2014-03-27 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:32:50PM -0700, Carl Zwanzig wrote: On 3/26/2014 3:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'd be inclined to chose Postfix over Exim simply because Postfix is more popular, and new things (e.g. Mailman 3) tend to be implemented first for Postfix. FWIW, I found postfix to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman list questions about password and bounces-back for invalid emails

2014-02-28 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:11:22AM -0600, Barry S. Finkel wrote: As for passwords, I disabled the monthly password reminders. Many of my lists were auto-subscribe lists (from HR), and the subscriber almost never needed his/her password. I do not remember a case where a subscriber needed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing admins using command line

2014-02-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:49:50AM -0600, Ben Malin wrote: Is there any way to remove an admin from a list from the command line similar to the remove_members command? I have to remove old users from 150+ lists and am not looking forward to doing it one at a time from the web interface :-/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternative authentication mechanisms for Mailman

2014-01-18 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 02:51:48PM +0100, Rainer Hoerbe wrote: Does anybody have a link to answers on questions like this: - How to do container-bases authentication for mailman? (e.g., use apache authentication like mod_ssl or mod_auth_kerb) If you're still after a reply, this mail I sent in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Protect seeing the list of mailing lists, using htaccess, or similar?

2014-01-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:27:57PM +0100, Peter Heitzer wrote: On 1/7/2014 at 22:51, Mark London m...@psfc.mit.edu wrote: Hi - I want to hide our list of mailing lists from the public, but still make the list viewable to administrators. Is this possible, i.e. through an htaccess file,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reporting messages counts/size by user

2013-12-13 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:12:00AM -0800, Carl Zwanzig wrote: This came up on another list I read- is there any relatively simple way to (a) report individual message activity to a user and (b) temporarily moderate a user when a count is exceeded? The first would send an email to the user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman cannot deliver email to a particular domain

2013-11-19 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 11/19/2013 02:24 PM, Hung Phan wrote: ... it seems that Mailman thinks canby.k12... domain is hosted at 10.30.xxx.xx, which is our internal DNS service. Is there a tool for us to trace the email sending route? You could

Re: [Mailman-Users] unable to start Mailman

2013-11-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:43:55AM -0600, c cc wrote: I just moved our mailman to a new server, but I can't start mailman--I keep getting the following message: Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman I do have a list named mailman moved over, and have moved over about 30 lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] unable to start Mailman

2013-11-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:51:32AM -0600, c cc wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Adam McGreggor adam-mail...@amyl.org.ukwrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:43:55AM -0600, c cc wrote: I just moved our mailman to a new server, but I can't start mailman--I keep getting the following

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing list name

2013-10-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:49:22PM -0400, William McQueen wrote: I've been asked to change a list I manage to a different name. How is that done? https://gist.github.com/adamamyl/6909815 may be helpful to you; it's what I use. http://wiki.list.org/x/mYA9 may be of interest. If that can't be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman has a mobile version too?

2013-09-30 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 08:05:08PM -0400, Richard Damon wrote: The mailman web pages are just web pages so they CAN be accessed while mobile. The command line tools can be accessed via a SSH app while mobile (much nicer to have a real keyboard though). If you use an Android device, the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I know what I joined the mailing list ?

2013-09-11 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:49:07PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 09/09/2013 09:02 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: There's a third-party plugin -- first hit for me on Google with Mailman ldap (and then one link to click) https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558093 That's the MySQL

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I know what I joined the mailing list ?

2013-09-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:39:37PM +0200, Mailman Admin wrote: You will at least for mailman-users get a monthly reminder email. Unless you've switched those off (I do). And, Mailman and OpenLDAP can integrate? No, mailman uses its own authentication. There's a third-party plugin -- first

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing disclaimers/specific text in body

2013-09-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:42:21PM +0100, Tim Walter wrote: Recently the NHS email service has in its wisdom decided to add a couple of disclaimers to every message that passess through its service and I can't seem to get a way of removing them and was hoping for some advice. I'd rather

Re: [Mailman-Users] IP blacklisted by att

2013-06-17 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:07:29AM -0400, Jason Fayre wrote: I've submitted the form that att tells you to in order to get your IP removed from the blacklist. I then get a response back saying that the IP is not blacklisted. Usually, there's a contact address to use here. However, I've got

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail

2013-04-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:33:31AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: I can also tell you that in the three cases just mentioned, it doesn't matter what your footer says. All three have terms of service that allow them to decide what is spam based on any driteria they like. AFAIK, having an

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

2012-10-24 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:06:28AM -0700, Brad Knowles wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Lindsay Haisley fmouse-mail...@fmp.com wrote: Another very useful tool for analyzing mail issues is swaks. Now that's a tool I had not heard of before. I'm assuming you mean the tool at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman for Newsletters

2012-08-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 07:04:47AM +0100, Peter D Sparkes wrote: Hi I am currently using exim4 on Linux Debian and intend to install Mailman. Mailman Requirements:: * Collect email addresses * Send out newsletters * No subscriber to have access to the list * administrator to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives for Yahoo Groups like Web Features

2012-08-19 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 11:16:22AM -0500, Jason Glazer wrote: I am looking for some suggestions on how to provide some Yahoo Group like web features for some existing mailing lists. I run a variety of mailings lists related to building energy performance on the onebuilding.org web site using

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

2012-05-16 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:31:41PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: That sounds good, but evidently, judging from the number of Debian/Ubuntu packge users who come to this list with mail delivery issues because they have ended up with some Postfix configuration that combines Mailman aliases and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

2012-05-11 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:37:20PM -0700, Barry Warsaw wrote: - Probably the best way to get authoritative answers is to contact the Debian Mailman packaging team: pkg-mailman-hack...@lists.alioth.debian.org I don't know whether anyone from that team is on this list, or

Re: [Mailman-Users] which firewall ports does Mailman require to be opened?

2012-04-19 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31:04PM -0400, David wrote: On an Ubuntu 10.04 server that does nothing but run Mailman (with Postfix) in a completely standard installation, which ports should be opened in iptables? Everything except Mailman and SSH is going to be denied. I'd enable DNS, NTP,

Re: [Mailman-Users] finding moderators of a list

2012-02-23 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 02:22:25PM -0500, Hone, Don wrote: Is there a way as list owner or as system admin, to sort a mailman membership list based on whether someone's moderation flag is set, or perhaps export that list into a format that includes all of the various option columns that could

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to show Human Name but not email address

2012-02-14 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:52:58AM -0500, Gregory Beyer wrote: I would like for my users to be able, in the Web Admin interface, to be able to see the HUMAN name of subscribers, but not the actual email address. For example, if I mass add addresses, in this format Bob

Re: [Mailman-Users] Change of member address via web fails

2012-02-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:11:24PM -0500, Rob McLear wrote: just amazing how many users won't even bother to click a confirmation link to finalize an address update! Spam-trapping may, partially, be to blame. -- There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While

Re: [Mailman-Users] Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

2012-01-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:05:20AM +0100, Mailman Admin wrote: On 2012-01-19 19:32, Geoff Mayes wrote: I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for this list. The University of Oregon is migrating

Re: [Mailman-Users] identifying moderator that approved a post

2012-01-18 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:42:52PM +, Bruce Harrison wrote: I don't think the headers show who the moderator would be. Message-ID, perhaps? -- In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing -- The Importance of Being Earnest

Re: [Mailman-Users] identifying moderator that approved a post

2012-01-18 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 05:03:57PM +, Bruce Harrison wrote: Is there any way to identify which moderator approved a post. I've looked thru the /logs files and didn't see anything. Check your web-server logs for the IP address, and work from there? Or if by email, look at headers? -- Ink

Re: [Mailman-Users] contact email incorrect

2011-12-30 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0600, Eric Hansen wrote: Installed mailman and have confirmed that everything works fine…except the “If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact mail...@example.com.” doesn’t send an email that I can find anywhere on the server or in my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Missing archives and deleting archive messages.

2011-12-19 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:47:43PM -0800, JRC Groups wrote: Hello, everyone. I am experiencing two problems with my Mailman lists and wanted to ask if any of you know the solutions. Question 1: Two (2) out of the five lists I created on my Mac OS X server are not displaying their

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for a new Mailman host

2011-12-07 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:39:30AM -, Malcolm Austen wrote: I have several lists hosted (just the lists, nothing extra) by Mythic Beasts (based in Cambridge, UK) - see down at the bottom of: URL:http://www.mythic-beasts.com/other.html Apart from the matter of them still running

Re: [Mailman-Users] Server request addresses not active

2011-11-07 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:39:41PM -0500, Carlos Palomino wrote: I'm new to mailman and have recently installed the software on my CenOS server. All is working quite well, accept for the specified join leave dedicated addresses for members to subscribe/unsubscribe. When sending to

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to turn off plain text passwords?

2011-11-01 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 07:52:08AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Its the first of the month, and I'm receiving my passwords from Mailman servers. Happy Mailman Day! (I disable Mailman-day crontab entries.) I don't want my passwords stored in the plain text, and I don't want them stored with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman lists are set up but posts to the lists arenot arriving

2011-09-16 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:45:39AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20, jhock jh...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 22:07 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: jhock wrote: Did you read the note at the beginning of section 6.2 which says in part The updated

Re: [Mailman-Users] Domain problem in post action on admindb forms for multi-domain mailman

2011-09-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:41:18PM +0100, Martin Brampton wrote: I'm running Mailman 2.1.13 from the Debian Squeeze repositories (on Debian Squeeze) to provide mailing lists across several domains. The domains that are not the primary mailing list domain have 301 redirects of URLs such

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman on windows?

2011-08-26 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:40:28PM +0530, dhruv kumar wrote: hello, I have a windows xp machine. the wiki discusses about windows 2000. Try it out, and report back with your experiences? any another idea? VirtualBox / VMWare? -- Minister if you are going to promote women just because

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Management

2011-08-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:01:18PM -0300, Douglas D. J. de Macedo wrote: My problem is that I have more than 50 lists and every time time that one of the users go out of the company I have to go one per one list removing this user. remove_members ? (-a is useful) And the other way, when a

Re: [Mailman-Users] exim says 'unrouteable' on new list [SOLVED]

2011-08-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:44:41AM +0100, Rich Lott wrote: Thanks for patient explanations. That'll be Mark ;o) I've changed my config to the Mailman Official Way, because it seems slightly cleaner than Debian's (only have to edit exim config to add a new sub domain). Seems to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] exim says 'unrouteable' on new list

2011-08-07 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Rich Lott wrote: Hi I have exim4 and mailman running successfully on my server. I have a working list that runs at somelistn...@artfulrobot.com and a working web admin iface. All good. I looked at the output from this command: $ exim4 -d -bt

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman problem with exim

2011-07-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 07:29:50AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Lorenzo Coronati wrote: what I understand is that exim (which is configured to manage the email addresses stored in a mysql database) tries to expand the mailing list looking for subscribers via sql, instead of letting mailman to

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade question

2011-07-25 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:53:47PM -0700, Maria Mckinley wrote: However, mailman is missing some stuff that happened while I was upgrading the new machine, so I must be rsyncing the wrong directory. I thought it should be /var/lib/mailman/, but I think this must not be the directory that

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade question

2011-07-25 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:40:44AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: You could try 'locate mailman'. And/or 'dpkg -L mailman' -- There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today -- David, Vice-Admiral Beatty (re: the Battle of the Jutland)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Odd Subscriptions

2011-07-17 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:53:39AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: bin/withlist -a -r add_banned -- '^.*[@.]apot(mail)?\.com$' Thanks for the heads-up. Only hit one of the five sets of lists I maintain, but still killed off. -- Jim Hacker: What appalling cynicism. Sir Humphrey: We call it

Re: [Mailman-Users] sharing userbase with WordPress

2011-06-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:43:12AM +0200, Luigi Rosa wrote: Is there a way to share the userbase of Mailman with WordPress? In-part, I'd suggest... What I need is that the master database is Mailman and I would like to replicate (also via script) the accounts and passwords to WordPress.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing latest Mailman updates via automaticbash script file possible?

2011-03-30 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:19:46AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: René Linke wrote: In one of a short news of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 is the latest Mailman version available then. My provider don't accept any Kernel upgrades. This is really a Debian/Ubuntu question and not a mailman question,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Run mailman web interface as another user

2011-03-25 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:46:49PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you install Mailman from source, you can set the expected group with the --with-cgi-gid= option to configure. Debian/Ubuntu may or may not provide a package specific way to do this for their Mailman package. apt-get source mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives Link

2011-03-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:50:47PM -0400, Dennis Putnam wrote: For reasons unknown I am suddenly not at to access list archives (as admin). I ran check_perms but it found no problems and there is nothing in the logs. Which logs? Can someone suggest a course of action to debug this? TIA.

Re: [Mailman-Users] AV/AS on lists

2011-03-13 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:02:48PM +, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 20:40, Andrew Hodgson and...@hodgsonfamily.orgwrote: Hi, What is the best practise for doing AV/AS on lists? I do strip out attachments which works well enough, but we are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Explicit destination causes implicitdestination bounce

2011-03-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:26:29PM -0600, Larry Stone wrote: The lesson in this is that SMTP, like almost all computer command sets, is very intolerant of even the slightest mistake. It does exactly what you tell it to do and has no idea what you meant when you get it wrong. Using Telnet

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman to manage a voting process?

2011-03-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:15:57AM +, Peter Hitchmough (Twokan) wrote: I am investigating approaches to manage a lightweight process to approve documents for a shortlist. This process takes place several times a year and has 20-30 interested parties and 1 administrator. A mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber Counts - daily report

2011-01-06 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:11:33PM -0500, Drew Tenenholz wrote: In our majordomo (yikes!) system, someone created some PERL and a *cough* http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq1.html#What%27s-the-difference-between-%22perl%22-and-%22Perl%22%3f cron to send a daily message to the list admins

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search tool for Mailman Archives

2010-12-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:49:47AM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: I looked at a few archive searchers, but it appears they all either make the list archives public, or you can do a htaccess thing which will require you to change the password every time somebody leaves the list and tell all the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying again from the start -- Re: Help in understandingMailmansetup

2010-12-06 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:21:53PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 12/06/2010 02:59 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: What exact Mailman related directives do you have in this VirtualHost block? VirtualHost *:80 ServerName mailman change that to a FQDN (mailman.example.org). ScriptAlias

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying again from the start -- Re: Help inunderstandingMailmansetup

2010-12-06 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 04:31:27PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: [Mon Dec 06 16:18:32 2010] [error] [client 208.83.67.149] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/mailman/error' Is probably what I'd fix first, from that Trackback. -- a moat is an effective barrier, especially if

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin help

2010-12-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 11:15:04PM -0500, Christian Lefler wrote: I just started a new mailing list and its great. I would like to know how to keep subscribers from getting to any screen by screen I'm assuming that you mean web page. where they can manage their settings or post to the list.

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin help

2010-12-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 11:30:56AM -0500, Gary Mort wrote: I'd say it should also be fairly important to him as well considering current spam legislation and the penalties associated with not providing an opt out mechanism. Your Jurisdiction May Vary. (YJMV) -- In this world there are only

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phrase count

2010-12-01 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:43:37AM -0500, David Doria wrote: Is it possible to download the entire archive as one file? I see that they are broken down into months: http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/ http://lists.example.org/mailman/private/example-list.mbox/example-list.mbox, perhaps?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Phrase count

2010-12-01 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 04:02:51PM +, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I don't believe you should be able to directly download the mbox files like that. Why ever not? What's so different about grabbing one mbox at once, rather than however many iterations/scraping? -- They accused us of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved message is discarded

2010-11-13 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:12:18PM +0100, Andre van Kan wrote: - cluster 1: runs the MTA (Postfix) and MM - cluster 2: runs Horde and the MM-webinterface - cluster 3: runs Cyrus-imapd Cluster 1 and 2 share - via NFS - the MM-lists etc. I found out however that data/heldms* was only

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving / upgrading Mailman from Solaris to Linux

2010-11-11 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:23:17PM -0700, Ivan Fetch wrote: At this point, even though I prefer to use packages when possible, I am leaning toward compiling Mailman from source because of: 1. Red Hat packages are typically more ancient 2. Ubuntu packages seem to include non-standard patches

Re: [Mailman-Users] Frequent use of clone_member

2010-11-02 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:31:26PM -0600, Ivan Fetch wrote: Ivan Fetch writes: One possibility we're exploring, is to change a student's mailing list subscriptions, when they change their forwarding address. We would iterate through these address changes and run clone_member, like:

Re: [Mailman-Users] API version 1012-module hangul 1011 runtime error

2010-10-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:46:15AM -0400, Williams, Theona wrote: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/u004/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck How do I go about resolving this problem? The clue might be in there (IOError...). What are the permissions on that file/directory. Maybe look at

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

2010-10-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Alessandro Bruchi wrote: Do you know when mailman 2.1.14 will be included as package in some debian distribution? The XSS patch, per 2010-September's announcement, seems to now be in Debian's repositories:

Re: [Mailman-Users] one line command to change generic_nonmember_action

2010-10-18 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Steff Watkins wrote: bin/config_list -o /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt SomeList Which dumps the config into a file /usr/tmp/somelist-conf.txt Then save the text file and read the configuration BACK to the list: bin/config_list -i

Re: [Mailman-Users] number of subscribers

2010-10-04 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:35:42PM -0700, Con Wieland wrote: Does anybody already have a script to get the total number of subscribers across all the lists on a system? something like: list_lists -b | while read L; do echo List is ${L}; list_members ${L} | wc -l ; done perhaps? If you're

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to block / discard automatically a specificemail from email ID

2010-08-03 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:20:04PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 3-Aug-2010, at 14:17, Balaji Ramanathan wrote: Unfortunately, yes I am running 2.0.5 version. Upgrading is not under my control. Mailman 2.0.5 is pushing ten years old. If your host is unwilling or unable to update then find

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test messages

2010-07-29 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Steff Watkins wrote: One thought/idea I've had is to have a test list which has only my work email address, an offsite email address and maybe one or two of my colleagues (for verification purposes), lock it right down so that only the members can use

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