Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a Command to extract the lists owners?

2011-07-11 Thread Barry Finkel
the membership current. mailman# cat sync_owners.exec #!/bin/csh # shell script to synchronize the mailman-list-owners subscribers # When (how often) do we run this script? # 11May09 0248PM Barry Finkel # Synchronize silently: # file is stdin (-f -) # no Welcome message (-w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Strange E-mail Message About List Description

2011-05-09 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote last Friday: I created a new list today at 13:42 (Mailman 2.1.14), and the Description field contained a + character, per the customer's request. At 14:00 I received an e-mail from From: r...@lists.anl.gov Subject: + in description for LISTNAME I cannot find anywhere in the

[Mailman-Users] Strange E-mail Message About List Description

2011-05-06 Thread Barry Finkel
I created a new list today at 13:42 (Mailman 2.1.14), and the Description field contained a + character, per the customer's request. At 14:00 I received an e-mail from From: r...@lists.anl.gov Subject: + in description for LISTNAME I cannot find anywhere in the source where this mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attempting to update Mailman, but qfiles/* has files

2011-04-29 Thread Barry Finkel
On 04/28/11 19:04, Dennis Carr wrote: Note, running Debian Stable on the server. I'm attempting to update Mailman through aptitude, but it warns me that all files in the qfiles tree will be wiped out. This includes files that have been bouncing back and forth between qfiles/out and

[Mailman-Users] Problem with bounce_matching_headers

2011-04-14 Thread Barry Finkel
I am running 2.1.14, and we had a problem where a list owner subscribed a number of persons to a list, and many of these persons want to be unsubscribed. To catch mail directed toward the list: Subject: Please remove me from your list I added a line to bounce_matching_headers

[Mailman-Users] Mailman FAQ URL

2011-04-11 Thread Barry Finkel
What happened to the Mailman FAQ? When I go to the URL http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 I get some login screen from Atlassian Confluence. That page is wider thanmy Firefox window, and there are no scroll bars. -- -- Barry S.

[Mailman-Users] Unmodetate A Subscriber via Command Line?

2011-04-11 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a list where I build the list from an external file via cron. I need to un-moderate those who are allowed to post. Obviously, I cannot use the web interface in the cron job to do the un-moderation. Is there a CLI tool? Thanks. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce Question

2011-03-15 Thread Barry Finkel
On 03/15/11 09:57, Dennis Putnam wrote: Due to some long time configuration issues, which have now been resolved, I think was missing some list events. Now I have to play catchup. I am not sure how bounce processing works. Lets assume that a list member's email address goes bad. Exactly what

[Mailman-Users] FAQ 4.70 - Renaming a List

2011-03-04 Thread Barry Finkel
The FAQ page 4.70. How do I change the name of (rename) a list? is missing one command at the end: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases -- -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ 4.70 - Renaming a List

2011-03-04 Thread Barry Finkel
On 03/04/11 12:12, Mark Sapiro wrote: Barry Finkel wrote: The FAQ page 4.70. How do I change the name of (rename) a list? is missing one command at the end: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases Just below the bin/arch --wipe newlist command, it says Finally, if your MTA uses

[Mailman-Users] Question About last_mailman_version During Migratrion

2011-02-23 Thread Barry Finkel
I am testing migrating Mailman from an Ubuntu Dapper system with my own Mailman 2.1.14 package built from the SourceForge source to an Ubuntu Lucid system with the Debian Lucid Mailman 2.1.13 package. I tested the Lucid system, and then I copied /var/lib/mailman/archives

[Mailman-Users] Permissions on Mailman Archive Directory

2011-02-17 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about permissions for the archive directory. I am migrating my Mailman server from an Ubuntu Dapper server on which I installed my own package, built from the SourceForge source, to an Ubuntu Lucid server, where I am installing the Ubuntu/Debian package. The directory in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need Script to Apend to acceptable_aliases

2011-01-13 Thread Barry Finkel
On 01/12/11 19:08, Mark Sapiro wrote: Barry Finkel wrote: I have not looked at the Mailman source, so I am not sure what is failing. Is it the case that the accept_these_nonmembers is stored in a different internal format than acceptable_aliases is? This is a 2.1.14 package

[Mailman-Users] Need Script to Apend to acceptable_aliases

2011-01-12 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a script that adds an e-mail address to accept_these_nonmembers for a number of lists. # From a Mailman-Users reply August 19, 2007 to my posting: # Mark Sapiro replied: # Not directly, but in a shell script you could prepare a file that # looks like # #

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I display/print a full list of list entrants..?

2010-12-21 Thread Barry Finkel
morning gurus, As title asks, how, via the GUI, do I see all the people contained in a particular list? Its got to be done. Surely. Cut'n'Pasting from each page 26 times (A-Z) ain't no fun.. thanks for looking.. Jess General Options - admin_member_chunksize (if you are running a recent

[Mailman-Users] Setting an Address Enclosed in Apostrophes

2010-12-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a script that I use to add an address to accept_these_nonmembers It uses mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('$1') Is there a way I can invoke this C-shell script so that the address is surrounded by apostrophes? I want the resulting address to be 'u...@example.com' I

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

2010-11-11 Thread Barry Finkel
Ivan Fetch ife...@du.edu wrote: Hello, We are planning to move our Mailman installation from Solaris to Linux, and upgrade in the process. I'd love to hear from anyone who has run production Mailman on Linux. What experiences have list members had with RedHat vs. Ubuntu Mailman packages, vs.

[Mailman-Users] An Anonymous, No-reply List

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a customer who wants a announce-only list. She does not want any replies to the list or to the poster. In production we are running 2.1.13, and I have 2.1.14 on my test machine. We made the list anonymous anonymous_list = yes and the resulting mail from the list has a header line:

Re: [Mailman-Users] An Anonymous, No-reply List

2010-10-29 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: I have a customer who wants a announce-only list. She does not want any replies to the list or to the poster. In production we are running 2.1.13, and I have 2.1.14 on my test machine. We made the list anonymous anonymous_list = yes Mark Sapiro replied: Why

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Finkel
On Oct 20, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote: It appears that 'official' Mailman packages for lenny are a wee bit behind upstream. I believe others on this list use the Umbungo packages on lenny (Debian 5), without too many difficulties. YMMV. (I don't really have the time to take on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe in Footer - was: How delete attechment file ATT00xxx.txt ?

2010-06-14 Thread Barry Finkel
westernz v...@an16.org wrote: Is that possible to make a copy of a list ? That long to check all config each new list. Maybe from the serveur (unix) in the Mailman directory, maybe there are a file for each list, maybe i can copy one ? See man config_list . The command config_list -o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply address

2010-06-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Richard Smits r.sm...@tudelft.nl wrote: Hello, We have a strange problem with our mailman server and some mailclients. I will explain. Sometimes when a member sends email to a list, and someone replies to that mail, the reply goes to the list. And sometimes the To : adres is

Re: [Mailman-Users] script to remove users

2010-05-06 Thread Barry Finkel
Excellent! Now if I could figure out how to wildcard that address. There are 2 email address formats that could be used here, and I want to make sure to get them both... use...@physics.tamu.edu use...@tamu.edu Take the file that contains the userids, and edit it. Make two pieces. Append

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounces

2010-05-05 Thread Barry Finkel
In SMTP 4.y.z DSNs are temporary errors. They could be caused by a spam filter over loaded, or the system shutting down, or... i'm assuming it's retried by the mta. the settings in mailman clearly state that it should be discarded right away... The 4.y.z should be seen as an invitation for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block reply to all

2010-04-30 Thread Barry Finkel
You can do this under Privacy Options - Recipient Filters Set Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting. to 1 Then anyone hitting reply-to-all will get a message saying that their message is held because there are too many recipients, since any reply-to-all will include both the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with inappropriate breaks in messages

2010-04-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Sapiro wrote: That said, I suspect the underlying OS here is Debian/Ubuntu and Mailman is the Debian/Ubuntu package which has patches in this area which are causing this. As I have written on this forum before, the Debian/Ubuntu package for Mailman has a large number of patches. One I

[Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmbers Regular Expression

2010-04-09 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about regular expressions and accept_these_nonmembers. If I want any address in anl.gov or example.com to be able to post, is this correct for the accept_these_nonmembers box? ^.*anl\.gov ^.*example\.com Do I need a $ at the end of each regular

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages not departing

2010-03-12 Thread Barry Finkel
OK, here's what I found: Mar 12 10:08:11 2010 (31200) delivery to xell...@slayers.org failed with code 45 0: 4.1.2 x...@slayers.org: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found I've found similar messages with x...@fanfic.net at the end. Certainly mailman should be running these as bounces?

Re: [Mailman-Users] fixing shunted messages

2010-03-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Patrick Okui wrote: On 7 Mar, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Patrick Okui wrote: AttributeError: Message instance has no attribute 'get_type' hmm.. /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib is empty -- that could do it no? pop:/usr/lib/mailman # rpm -ql mailman | grep pythonlib /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib

Re: [Mailman-Users] Possible Bug in 2.1.13 sync_members

2010-02-04 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: I ran a test with a test list on my test virtual machine, and this is what is happening. The line in the -f file for sync_members bsf-cr...@example.com (New 1 (zzz)) is causing all of the succeeding lines in that file to be treated as part of the parenthesized

Re: [Mailman-Users] Possible Bug in 2.1.13 sync_members

2010-02-03 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote: I think I may have uncovered a bug in Mailman 2.1.13. I have not completed my research. I have a script that refreshes the subscriber list via: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no \ -f /e tc/mailman/generated_lists/LISTNAME LISTNAME where

[Mailman-Users] Possible Bug in 2.1.13 sync_members

2010-02-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I think I may have uncovered a bug in Mailman 2.1.13. I have not completed my research. I have a script that refreshes the subscriber list via: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no \ -f /etc/mailman/generated_lists/LISTNAME LISTNAME where

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding subscribed address in Welcome message ?

2010-01-14 Thread Barry Finkel
Hi, Some people with multiple email address' get confused as to which one they used to subscribe. Is it possible to put that info in the body of the Welcome to this list email ? What would be the code I need for this please ? Using CPanel version 2.1.11.cp3 Regards, John. The e-mail address

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Wayne Cook wc...@mycoachonline.com wrote: Here's my first post to this list :) I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? Thanks Wayne Change the list configuration so that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejected message Archive

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Hello, I'm learning how to use mailman mailing list. Still now, everything goes right. When a moderator refuses that a message can not be delivered, is there a way to find it in archive? I only find in archive the messages approved Thank you and best regards, Mary The list archives contain

Re: [Mailman-Users] i need help for linux ubuntu

2009-11-09 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:38:43AM -, Kemp James wrote: if you need help deciding which flavour of Ubuntu you want then you would be best asking on http://ubuntuforums.org/ and Adam McGreggor adam-mail...@amyl.org.uk replied: I'd question Ubuntu's suitability for running as a public-facing

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Password Completion Vulnerability

2009-11-05 Thread Barry Finkel
My Mailman 2.1.12 server was flagged with a low-risk vulnerability: 42057 Web Server Allows Password Auto-Completion and I cannot tell from the description what URLs have this vulnerability, nor do I know how to correct it. I know little about apache. One Google search at this URL

Re: [Mailman-Users] expost user list as csv

2009-10-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Svante Tidholm sva...@tidholm.se wrote: Hi all, I've been using a shell script to compile a list of all subscribers on a list for our intranet at a site I'm taking care of. This is done with the mailman-subscribers.py script and some smart commands that parse the csv file in different ways.

Re: [Mailman-Users] List-creation Owner E-mail Address

2009-10-02 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote: 3) When is the list-creation e-mail sent to the one owner e-mail address? It appears to be done in the newlist code, but at that time, I have not yet run the config_list command that resets the parameters. When I ran my test, was I lucky that by the

[Mailman-Users] List-creation Owner E-mail Address

2009-09-21 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a suggestion. I do not know how others create new Mailman lists, but I have around 20 template files. If I want to make a list named NEWLIST, then I copy the appropriate configuration file into newlist.config I then edit this file to change any parameters that need changing:

Re: [Mailman-Users] List-creation Owner E-mail Address

2009-09-21 Thread Barry Finkel
At 12:23 PM 9/21/2009, Barry Finkel wrote: The config_list code allows me to specify ONLY ONE e-mail address for the list owner, when I may have specified multiple owners in the newlist.config file. I would like to be able to specify multiple e-mail addresses at the list-creation prompt so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

2009-09-11 Thread Barry Finkel
On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Sure. But why bother? Well, you already get 90% of that for free in MM3 already, except it's only exposed in the test suite. Launchpad has similar functionality and for developers, it's very useful. It's probably not useful to the

[Mailman-Users] Disabling mailman/create Web Page

2009-09-04 Thread Barry Finkel
Our cyber security group sent me notice of a vulnerability in a Mailman web page: Web Application Potentially Sensitive CGI Parameter Detection I think it is the URL: mailman/create As I do not use that web page to create a new Mailman list, I want to disable that page. Is there an

[Mailman-Users] Question About Gzip'd Archives

2009-09-03 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about zipped list archives; the question arose from a subscriber to one of our lists. I am running Mailman 2.1.11 on Ubuntu from a package I built from the SourceForge source. mailman# pwd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME mailman# ls -ald 2009-August* drwxrwsr-x 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] 32 vs 64bit

2009-08-18 Thread Barry Finkel
Hicks, Robert CTR robert.l.hi...@uscg.mil wrote: I am having to rebuild a mailman server. Are there any problems running mailman under a 64bit system? I run Mailman on a Linux amd64 server. -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Word Wrap

2009-08-18 Thread Barry Finkel
On 8/17/2009, Adrean Clark (c...@clercscar.com) wrote: Also notice in the first sentence of the article a sign was added. It's not in the original -- where did that come from? Thanks for all your help. ... From Little Girls Point, we headed ... This is standard MBOX formatting rules. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved: password header!

2009-08-07 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: As a comparison, Launchpad's code review process allows for commands in the body of the message. It looks for specific commands prepended by a space. I don't particularly like that approach though because the space can be hard to see. Would it find a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Messages

2009-08-04 Thread Barry Finkel
David Andrews dandr...@visi.com wrote: I have a problem, and don't know if there is an easy or viable solution. I run a bunch of lists for an organization, over 150 lists, about 80 percent public and 20 percent private. Periodically there are messages that need to go to everyone, or almost

Re: [Mailman-Users] set up mailman, but no email notification

2009-08-03 Thread Barry Finkel
Scott Jones sanch...@gmail.com wrote: I finally got mailman working to the point I created 'mailman' list successfully. Everything has worked correctly, but despite it showing that mailman has sent a notice to the administrator email account, that email has never made it into my email inbox.

Re: [Mailman-Users] The email command interface is not working

2009-07-30 Thread Barry Finkel
Jibin jibins.jos...@lntinfotech.com wrote: Hi, Please tell me wat is the default or expected action when we send a mail to 'listname-ow...@domain.com'. Will it send to a mail to all the list owners? What is the difference between a lisy owner and a list admin. Please guide me in this.. Sorry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outlook Indenting messages

2009-07-28 Thread Barry Finkel
Gerrat Rickert grick...@coldstorage.com wrote: The twisted python mailing list is running on: unmodified mailman 1:2.1.9-9ubuntu1 install, and the Tahoe list is using: 2.1.9-4ubuntu1 Could this be an ubuntu-specific issue? I have not included the initial part of this thread, as my reply is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outlook Indenting messages

2009-07-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Sapiro wrote: Ubuntu is based on Debian. I have just confirmed by testing that this problem is caused by the Debian Mailman patch 30_pipermail_threads.patch. This patch can be found by following the links from http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/mailman (I don't want to give a more

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password reminder on private archive login page

2009-07-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark wrote: See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Emailman-coders/mailman/2.1/annotate/head%3A/NEWS When I go to that URL I get a message: Internal Server Error -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing list + message filter problem

2009-05-12 Thread Barry Finkel
Filipe Daros fzanl...@hotmail.com wrote: Does anyone know how to set up a Mailing list and make it accept e-mails from anyone and also accept email from a forwarding rule within the same domain? For example: My main e-mail address is t...@test.com and I created a list: l...@test.com. I also

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.12 - Python 2.4.[456]incompatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote, in part: Or do I have to specify something to get the Mailman-supplied e-mail package untarred? Thanks. and Mark Sapiro replied: That would be another approach. After running ./configure and before running any make commands, you could edit misc/Makefile to replace the line

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.12 - Python 2.4.[456] incompatibility

2009-04-22 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:52:05 Mark Sapiro wrote: There is an internal inconsistency in the 3.0.2 email package that shipped with Python 2.4.4 through 2.4.6. This has to do with the Charset.Charset() constructor setting input_charset to a unicode which then causes TypeError: decoding Unicode is not

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set default list settings

2009-04-01 Thread Barry Finkel
Salvatore D'Agostino sdagost...@tropotel.net wrote: Does anyone know where I can set the default settings for all newly created lists so that I won't have to always log in to the website each time and set them individually? Thanks in advance =) I have 25 list template files that I use when I

Re: [Mailman-Users] uncaught bounce notification

2009-03-13 Thread Barry Finkel
Ted Frohling t...@frohling.org wrote: I'm getting an uncaught bounce notification from a particular user on one of my mailing lists. In a message in the archives, one respondent said they could look at the message, but would need the original email. I'm using mailman 2.1.9 and postfix as the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-02-06 Thread Barry Finkel
On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:13 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: On another site I help administer, FreeBSD works just fine. But again, I run the version from our source and not the ports version. Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.org replied: I have found that using the FreeBSD ports system installation

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
Tim Ferguson t...@ccs135.com wrote: Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until I get that fixed I just thought I'd ask. Thanks

Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional scripts and web forms

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
David Lubkin lub...@lubkin.net wrote: Are there Internet repositories of Mailman scripts and customization beyond what comes with the distribution? I keep having ideas for obvious capabilities that are missing, e.g., - an inverse of add_members (instead of an input file of users to add to a

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:51:48PM -0600, Barry Finkel wrote: I was surprised to learn last week that RFC 2822 has been made obsolete by RFC 5322, and 2821 by 5321. I think that the major changes wre to clear up sections where there were differences of interpretation. and Adam McGreggor adam

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-28 Thread Barry Finkel
The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: on 1/27/09 9:07 AM, Tim Ferguson said: Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so, until

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to asubscriber onlylist

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:03 -0600, Barry Finkel wrote: We had a case last week when someone sent mail with a spoofed From: line that contained the e-mail address of the list owner. I also wrote: In our case, the list owner temporarily moderated his e-mail address. And Lindsay

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounced addresses stays there

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Kirke Johnson kjohn...@pcc.edu wrote: I have been attempting to test out the bounce processing on a test list and am confused by the results so far. We are running Mailman 2.1.9 on RHEL, installed with the OS. The test list (tsstst) has the following settings: bounce_score_threshold: 1.0

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Please see Sec. 3.6 of RFC 2822 for a full discussion of various e-mail header fields and their proper uses and meanings, and RFC 2821 for a discussion of the trace fields, such as Return-Path. It is not a misconfiguration of a MTA for for the envelope sender to be of the form

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber onlylist

2009-01-26 Thread Barry Finkel
Steve Lindemann wrote: Had something strange occur early Saturday morning. A non-subscriber managed to successfully post to two member only lists (and, of course, it was spam). The bogus sender (thelevisstoreonl...@levis.rsys1.com) is not a member of these member only lists and is not in the

[Mailman-Users] Preserving S/MIME-Encoded Mail

2009-01-16 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a collegue who is experimenting with signed mail (S/MIME). He sent me a test mail and he also sent it to a test Mailman (2.1.11) list. Here is the basic MIME header structure for the mail sent directly to me: ++ MIME-Version:

[Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Barry Finkel
I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. Should this be added to the FAQ?

Re: [Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

2009-01-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: I need to rename two Mailman 2.1.9 lists. The FAQ 4.70 gives explicit instructions, but it does not mention changing the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (location on my Unbutu system) file to reflect the new name and then running the newaliases command. Should

[Mailman-Users] Questions About 2.1.9 to 2.1.11 Upgrade

2008-12-19 Thread Barry Finkel
When I upgraded my test Ubuntu system from Mailman 2.1.9 to 2.1.11 I saw messages for each list: Updating mailing list: mailman Updating the held requests database. - updating old private mbox file looks like you have a really recent CVS installation... you're

Re: [Mailman-Users] connect to exchange server

2008-12-17 Thread Barry Finkel
Jeanne Ilchuk ilc...@wrlc.org wrote: Was anything ever developed to allow mailman to work with a microsoft exchange server ? In what respect? What are you trying to accomplish? -- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information

[Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list Regular Expression

2008-11-21 Thread Barry Finkel
I have a question about the ban_list regex. In a reply on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:59:28 Mark Sapiro wrote So set Privacy options...-Sender filters-generic_nonmember_action to Accept so anyone can post and set Privacy options...-Subscription rules-ban_list to a regex that matches all addresses

Re: [Mailman-Users] listname-bounces@

2008-11-17 Thread Barry Finkel
Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in reply, in part: Over the several years I've been acting as one of the co-owners of this list, I don't recall getting any messages being sent by users to mailman-users-bounces. I have some Mailman lists, and if a recipient does a reply-all from a BlackBerry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu version number

2008-10-29 Thread Barry Finkel
Bob Lydiate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell what actual version of Mailman I have. I am using mailman on an Ubuntu server and the Ubuntu version number is not in the same general format as the mailman version numbers. Did you install the Ubuntu/Debian package? If so, then you have a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Command output: local: fatal: execvp/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied )

2008-10-28 Thread Barry Finkel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in reply: /etc/aliases is the location of my aliases file and that's where postfix is pointing. I cannot change the owner to the aliases and aliases.db or else I can't run newaliases. I ran ./configure --with-mail-god=nobody and I have default_privs = nobody Any other

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bulk update of list member names?

2008-10-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Beau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If one has an existing mailing list with just email addresses, is there any procedure available to bulk-update the list membership with the subscribers' names (short of unsubscribing and re-subscribing the list members)? The set email command does not appear to

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating Mailman

2008-09-23 Thread Barry Finkel
Shambhu Sharma wrote: I would like to migrate my Mailman from one server to another server which has already Mailman running and some lists are created. I searched Mailman archives but didn't find any scenario like this. Here is detail: I have two servers (A and B) and on both Mailman is

Re: [Mailman-Users] bin/upgrade has been broken since 2.1.5 (orpossibly longer)

2008-09-19 Thread Barry Finkel
Knut Auvor Grythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part, This week, when attempting to upgrade further to Ubuntu Hardy, with Mailman 2.1.9, the upgrade script crashed as soon as it reached one of these lists, without releasing the lock. The attached patch is what I used to be able to upgrade cleanly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit list subscribers by domain

2008-08-29 Thread Barry Finkel
David Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello - I want to deny list subscriptions to any user whose email address does not include my domain. I realize that I can do that by having the list admin approve subscription requests, but I'd prefer to automate the process. I would hope that a rejection

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers suddenly disappear

2008-08-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Max Lanfranconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mailman 2.1.11 Python 2.4.4 OS Solaris 2.11 Hi, I have been able to reproduce this bug consistently by running the replicate_bug script: replicate _bug is the following: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist testlist1 /usr/local/mailman/bin/rmlist

Re: [Mailman-Users] Periods in user email addresses rejected

2008-08-05 Thread Barry Finkel
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: | Jay Deiman writes: | | I just got mailman up and running with Postfix and everything has been | working perfectly except when someone tries to subscribe to the list | that has a period in the user portion of the address. For example: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] It

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions on Symbolic Links Files

2008-07-30 Thread Barry Finkel
I wrote (): with Mark Sapiro's comments interspersed (): I have on my Mailman 2.1.10 production system and my 2.1.11 test system both created from the SourceForge source and installed on Ubuntu dapper via packages I built: mailman% ls -al /var/lib/mailman total 40 drwxrwsr-x 10 root list 4096

[Mailman-Users] Permissions on Symbolic Links Files

2008-07-28 Thread Barry Finkel
I have on my Mailman 2.1.10 production system and my 2.1.11 test system both created from the SourceForge source and installed on Ubuntu dapper via packages I built: mailman% ls -al /var/lib/mailman total 40 drwxrwsr-x 10 root list 4096 2007-02-28 11:11 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-04-04

Re: [Mailman-Users] using moderation - admin not on mx

2008-07-25 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Heer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running 2 mail exchangers that handle the mailman list distribution and a third machine serves up the list administration web gui. Trouble is that when a message is held for moderator approval, I click on the url mailman provides or go to the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] went live - big mistake - please help

2008-07-22 Thread Barry Finkel
drb wrote: Hello Mark, Could you please let me know how to access smtp-log? So the mailman will bounce if it can't send email to a valid email ID? how many attempts will it take before it quits? I saw the email in the archives, but I cannot see who got it. Is there a feature where mailman can

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist auto-generate password

2008-07-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Don Hone wrote: There doesn't seem to be an option to have a system generated password when running bin/newlist from the command line. Is this correct? If so, I would appreciate this be added as an enhancement request. The ability to create a list from the command line is good since it creates

Re: [Mailman-Users] newlist auto-generate password

2008-07-16 Thread Barry Finkel
Don Hone wrote: When I add a new list via the CLI, I must enter a password and it is sent in the email to the list admin: The mailing list `cgilist' has just been created for you. The following is some basic information about your mailing list. Your mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.

2008-07-03 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel writes: I have not yet installed my 2.1.11 package on my test machine, but my records show that I had the identical messages when I built my 2.1.9 package, which I use in production. I am not an expert in the C language and what type conversions are done. But I would not worry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.

2008-07-01 Thread Barry Finkel
* Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am happy to announce the final release of the Mailman 2.1.11. Ralf Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: I get lots of these: initialization differ in signedness src/_koco_uhc.h:2349: warning: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness

Re: [Mailman-Users] Standard Footer

2008-06-30 Thread Barry Finkel
Webmaster PF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must be an idiot because I just do not get it. I must be missing an integral part because the footer is still posting as an attachment rather than in the body of the posting. This is what I have in the non-digest options: Can subscribers choose to receive

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Address Format

2008-06-03 Thread Barry Finkel
Carlos Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why when something is sent to a mailman alias address is the actual email address manipulated to show a different non existing address. For example, I create a mailman group everyone so now people can email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and when the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription errors

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Finkel
Duncan Drury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently upgraded my Mailman installation to 2.1.10 and the online subscription system that I set up stopped working completely (users fill out a form, which generates an email, which subscribes them to the list). This seems to be related to the known

Re: [Mailman-Users] why do i keep getting awaiting approval messages ?

2008-05-27 Thread Barry Finkel
Anant Maringanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part: I have looked up the archives and the FAQ but perhaps I dont even know what I am looking for. I have recently set up a mailing list. I think I have set up the list for not holding up any member's posting for admin approval. But each time there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10 has been released

2008-05-23 Thread Barry Finkel
On April 23 Mark Sapiro wrote: | I am happy to announce the release of Mailman 2.1.10. I have discovered a few problems with the release. None is a major show stopper, but the most significant so far is that I broke cmd_subscribe so that email subscribe to the -subscribe or -join address or the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with 2.1.9 acceptable_aliases

2008-05-22 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: There was a posting to a number of lists here yesterday To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] all of the lists are linked; some of the lists are subscribed to others. I took that address and added it to acceptable_aliases And Mark Sapiro replied: What did you add

[Mailman-Users] Problem with 2.1.9 acceptable_aliases

2008-05-21 Thread Barry Finkel
There was a posting to a number of lists here yesterday To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] all of the lists are linked; some of the lists are subscribed to others. I took that address and added it to acceptable_aliases for each of the lists. This morning I saw a posting to the same address held

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10 Patch Release?

2008-05-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Mark Sapiro wrote April 23: | I am happy to announce the release of Mailman 2.1.10 I have discovered a few problems with the release. None is a major show stopper, but the most significant so far is that I broke cmd_subscribe so that email subscribe to the -subscribe or -join address or the -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with 2.1.9 acceptable_aliases

2008-05-21 Thread Barry Finkel
Barry Finkel wrote: There was a posting to a number of lists here yesterday To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] all of the lists are linked; some of the lists are subscribed to others. I took that address and added it to acceptable_aliases And Mark Sapiro replied: What did you add

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman not working

2008-05-08 Thread Barry Finkel
Jeff Hedglen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mailman program just quit working - the mail is sent back undeliverable after over a year of working just fine Anyone else have this issue. I did nothing different and none of my lists work You have not given us enough information on which to do

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