Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing spam to list owners

2007-09-30 Thread Brad Knowles
rity scheme can be effective -- just make sure that keeping the list private isn't your only method of security. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing spam to list owners

2007-09-30 Thread Brad Knowles
quot; (see <http://www.sage.org/pubs/15_postmaster/>). Yes, I'm biased -- I was the co-author. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing spam to list owners

2007-09-30 Thread Brad Knowles
want to check out the latest versions. That said, SpamAssassin is most definitely not the FUSSP, and you will most likely need to also use other tools in your kit to help you fight this battle. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Beginner questions

2007-09-30 Thread Brad Knowles
address that needs to be > routed to the mailman system. That is one solution, yes. The other solution is to create an entirely different host name for the mailing lists (e.g., "lists.yourdomain.example.com") and to have the mail for that host name routed directly to the machi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing spam to list owners

2007-09-30 Thread Brad Knowles
who try to post to your list, and you'll be sending an auto-response back to the sender address, which is probably forged. This is a "lesser of two evils" choice. You have to decide for yourself and your user community as to what the lesser evil is between these two options. -- B

Re: [Mailman-Users] Beginner questions

2007-09-29 Thread Brad Knowles
y, you can still add a new hostname called "lists.yourdomain.example.com" which has the same IP address as the webserver, and has an MX record which points to the same IP address, and then you need to change all your mailing lists to be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". -- Brad Knowles &l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Beginner questions

2007-09-28 Thread Brad Knowles
with sendmail on the webserver. That sort of thing would be covered in the Mailman installation & configuration documentation, although you'd need to choose which method of integration you would want to use. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Beginner questions

2007-09-27 Thread Brad Knowles
in some way, whether that's through Zimbra or through the automated methods that Mailman makes available. However, which solution you choose will depend on what software you have and which method you prefer. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Welcome to the "Mailman-Users" mailing list (Digest mode)

2007-09-27 Thread Brad Knowles
t, including your own private password to control your subscription? BTW, you might want to change that password now. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Python Upgrade

2007-09-24 Thread Brad Knowles
equire it. But I'm pretty sure that installing Python 2.4 will break Mailman 2.1.5. See the FAQ. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help interpreting message bounces

2007-09-24 Thread Brad Knowles
he risk of that against the significantly increased hassle to real human beings when they try to post legitimate messages to your system. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] Membership List View in admin section

2007-09-19 Thread Brad Knowles
sible way to change that setting. In your case, you have a few choices: 1. Get your hosting company to change it for you. 2. Decide to live with it. 3. Decide to switch hosting companies. I don't see any other obvious alternatives. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman can't send mail

2007-09-18 Thread Brad Knowles
tor requests). What should i do to fix this problem? ( I saw > same topics in the archive,but they could not help me. ) What is in your logs as created by your MTA (qmail)? Without more information (especially the basics), there's not going to be anything that anyone can do to help yo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Has anyone done polls/surveys?

2007-09-17 Thread Brad Knowles
lman has no facilities for doing anything remotely like this. > If no one's done it already, would there be interest in such an > addition? Or should I concentrate on quick Python cgi programs instead? It might be interesting to see what you can come up with. -- Brad Knowles <

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question to mailman and postfix

2007-09-17 Thread Brad Knowles
ikely to resolve your issues by just changing to the other -- I think you have more fundamental problems that need to be fixed. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-User

Re: [Mailman-Users] Where do I find mailman log file analysis tools

2007-09-17 Thread Brad Knowles
control over what is done with our code by the people who prepare the binary package, and you should ask them what happened. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Where do I find mailman log file analysis tools

2007-09-17 Thread Brad Knowles
yone get me pointed in the right direction - i dont see any need > to re-invent what has most likely already been done... For longer periods of time, you may end up at least modifying the wheel, but for daily reports I've done everything I can think of in mmdsr, which is why the script

Re: [Mailman-Users] failing qrunner

2007-09-15 Thread Brad Knowles
is especially important since you've said you can't upgrade any of the software, and we know that more recent versions of Mailman have significantly improved their ability to handle failures of various different types and continue trying to deliver everything else. -- Brad K

Re: [Mailman-Users] urgent: no mail shows up as pending...

2007-09-12 Thread Brad Knowles
On 9/12/07, Maulwurf wrote: > the list is set to "emergency moderation" - but the message i sent just > DOES NOT Show up as pending !!! > so i cannot distribute it Check the logs of your mail server. Make sure that the message actually got to Mailman. Follow the troubleshooting tips in FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error when subscribing to list

2007-09-12 Thread Brad Knowles
aries for later versions of Mailman. > admin(16095): OSError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: > '/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/askref' None of these should be directories. They should be symlinks over to corresponding directories in the .../mailman/archives/private/... directory hierar

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List - people say their e-mails "never appear"

2007-09-06 Thread Brad Knowles
servers, whereas Oracle explicitly rules out any support for their products on other NFS servers. There's a reason for this. So, the hardware you have available to you will have a huge impact on your systems. > I'll take a look at those docs and reply back to here. Thank

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List - people say their e-mails "never appear"

2007-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
, many orders of magnitude. That said, there are occasionally times when such a system has problems that are actually unrelated to NFS. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Comcast, Yahoo, Hotmail blocking us

2007-09-02 Thread Brad Knowles
hing else to check out. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http:/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Comcast, Yahoo, Hotmail blocking us

2007-09-02 Thread Brad Knowles
est whitelisting? I > have a feeling there is a repository for this that you can search, but I > don't know where to find it. Google for "blacklist checker". Three of the top five hits are: http://www.robtex.com/rbl.html http://www.moensted.dk/spam/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Comcast, Yahoo, Hotmail blocking us

2007-09-02 Thread Brad Knowles
L.nl), but as far as the rest of the numbers are concerned, I think they're fairly representative. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Use

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for eachlist?

2007-08-31 Thread Brad Knowles
Of course, the current version is 2.1.9, and, IIRC the reason we quickly moved up to that version was a security hole. And 2.1.10 is pretty close to release. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2007, at 8:42 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAI

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with new web host and "too many complaints"

2007-08-30 Thread Brad Knowles
;d expect to see more support from your new ISP, and if they're willing to treat you this way this soon after you switched, I have to wonder how they're going to treat you in the future. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message received by mailman and archives, but won't deliver

2007-08-30 Thread Brad Knowles
backwards. I don't recall the exact FAQ number or URL, but search the FAQ wizard for "troubleshooting". -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:14 PM, "Kyle Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Further c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message received by mailman and archives, but won't deliver

2007-08-30 Thread Brad Knowles
ed as spam? -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:31 PM, "Kyle Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy all, > > I've been stumped with a problem with my installation of mailman > 2.1.9. OS is BSD, and MTA is send

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman post being blocked / filtered

2007-08-30 Thread Brad Knowles
DNS is set up correctly and do daily checks of all the known blacklists to see if the IP address of your mailing list server has been listed. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:42 PM, "Fitzpatrick, Ted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fixed the To address problem now additional issues

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
? Not sure what you're looking for here. Not sure that we can help. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.

Re: [Mailman-Users] simple newbie question re: Defaults.py

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
py and then make your modifications there. When you upgrade, the Defaults.py file should also be updated, but the mm_cfg.py file should remain untouched. At least, that's the way the upgrade should happen, if the binary packagers do their job correctly. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for eachlist?

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
nd a team of volunteers provides the application level installation, configuration, monitoring, and management. You'd just be operating on a somewhat smaller scale than we do. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Size threshold

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
in the digest.mbox file to be sent, regardless of whether or not you have reached the threshold. Check your cron jobs and the log files to see if there are any errors preventing digests from being sent. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman, Lighttpd, & file permissions

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
htp>. Thanks! -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for eachlist?

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
further questions I'll be more than happy to whop them upside the head with a clue-by-four. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limit to the Number of Subscribers for each list?

2007-08-29 Thread Brad Knowles
and then have them tell you why they are not properly supporting the product that they have installed and made available to you. Alternatively, you could find another provider that is more responsive to your requirements. See FAQ 1.17 at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=sh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipe for (mailman+postfix) <-> exchange?

2007-08-28 Thread Brad Knowles
you have. We can't really officially support such configurations, but it doesn't hurt us to have more information we can provide to people when they ask about them. At the very least, it can be handy for us to know where to point people when this question comes up again. -- Brad K

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Brad Knowles
no way we can possibly track down every single developer on every single platform that is creating localized patches for Mailman on their platform. The only way this process can possibly work is if they use our mechanisms to send their patches to us. There are no other scalable options. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-26 Thread Brad Knowles
, and then it's up to us as to whether or not those are accepted and incorporated into the mainstream codebase. There simply are no other scalable options. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invit

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-25 Thread Brad Knowles
t a fire under them to get them to come participate on this list, we'd appreciate that. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help please

2007-08-24 Thread Brad Knowles
access. Therefore, if you try to use Mailman outside of this environment, you are then completely dependant on the hosting provider. If you want to look for a more friendly provider, take a look at the Mailman FAQ Wizard page at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&fi

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem updating mailman in Plesk from 2.15 to 2.19

2007-08-23 Thread Brad Knowles
o this at Rackspace, 1&1, or any of those other lowest-common-denominator hosting facilities. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tin

Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2007-08-22 Thread Brad Knowles
ters whether bounces or auto-replies are sent back to the original sender or not. Since you provide the sender address as input to the process when the message is generated, you can make this whatever you want. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <h

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual host problem - mail not originatingfromsubdomain

2007-08-20 Thread Brad Knowles
ver > host. Use an A record. Even if it is exactly the same A record you use for other machines. It will work. Trust me. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done using Mailman?

2007-08-17 Thread Brad Knowles
I've always wondered how the "topics" stuff worked, and I've never had the chance to do much work with them -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing to my list

2007-08-17 Thread Brad Knowles
trol over their systems and if you have any questions as to what is going on, you need to talk to them -- we don't run your mailing lists, until you told us about this site we had no idea they were using our software, and we do not have any influence with them. -- Brad Knowles <

Re: [Mailman-Users] Footers and Outlook: Looking for patch updated to 2.1.9

2007-08-17 Thread Brad Knowles
t maybe they're interested in continuing to try to bring this forward. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F

Re: [Mailman-Users] apache permissions issue

2007-08-17 Thread Brad Knowles
y take a closer look at all the various related entries in the FAQ Wizard. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Out of the Office Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 27

2007-08-16 Thread Brad Knowles
me damn stupid auto-response. >I just > want to know in case I forget to disable any lists that I am on. Or is it > something specific to him because he is a co-moderator of this list? He's not the co-moderator, I am. And I kill subscriptions from people with bad auto-resp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Out of the Office Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 27

2007-08-16 Thread Brad Knowles
python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/brad%40shub-internet.org > >Security Policy: >http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Member of the Python.org Postmaster Team Co-m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restore deleted list!

2007-08-16 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/16/07, Bert Homveld wrote: > How can I restore a mailinglist, which has been deleted? Restore the affected Python "pickle" files from your most recent backup. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu&

Re: [Mailman-Users] new users not getting email

2007-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
ep, search the FAQ Wizard for "troubleshooting", and follow the guidelines there. If that doesn't turn up anything, come back and tell us what you got at each stage, and we'll see if we can provide any more specific assistance. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing by email?

2007-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
our aliases to support that. Mailman doesn't actually see anything of the addresses that were used to submit the messages, it just takes the command-line options it's passed via the alias definition. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Prof

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe Message

2007-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
to replace the standard goodby message, I think you'd need to modify the source code. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://t

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to enable piping in /etc/aliases?

2007-08-14 Thread Brad Knowles
sonally familiar with how to integrate Mailman and Exim. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML-format Attachments in the List Archives

2007-08-14 Thread Brad Knowles
atabase for your webserver and see if there's anything obvious there. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.c

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman have email commands for administrators?

2007-08-14 Thread Brad Knowles
org/mailman-member/node10.html>, and is intended for end-users and not admins. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4>

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to enable piping in /etc/aliases?

2007-08-14 Thread Brad Knowles
upport a wide variety of OSes and several different MTAs, in conjunction with Mailman. That said, we don't have that many subscribers as a whole. So, the odds of finding someone here with the exact same configuration you do is pretty slim. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cons

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to enable piping in /etc/aliases?

2007-08-13 Thread Brad Knowles
allout. Try using their documentation, their FAQs, their mailing lists, etc... to sort out this issue. You're not likely to be able to get anything in the way of support on an OS or MTA-specific question like this on a mailing list devoted to supporting Mailman. -- Brad Knowles <[E

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Filtering

2007-08-13 Thread Brad Knowles
could make this change in your mm_cfg.py file, and that should resolve your issue. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to protect list archives?

2007-08-13 Thread Brad Knowles
obably want to do that using a "withlist" script and a bit of Python code. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41

Re: [Mailman-Users] hold_these_nonmembers

2007-08-10 Thread Brad Knowles
veryone"? Which takes precendence? You should be able to have a master list of "everyone", but I couldn't tell you which takes precedence. You'd need to hear from Mark, Tokio, or Barry on that. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author Lin

Re: [Mailman-Users] hold_these_nonmembers

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Knowles
then the result should be the same. I think. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spontaneous spillover at a certain cue

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Knowles
to re-generate the archives once the "raw" mbox is fixed. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done using Mailman?

2007-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
is? I would think so, yes. But you should probably wait for an answer from someone who knows better how that part of the code actually works, like maybe Mark Sapiro or Tokio. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Too much spam = how to hide a list?

2007-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
links to the appropriate online manual for Mailman, as well as documentation for other roles. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Ta

Re: [Mailman-Users] Better Bounce Log

2007-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
hose changes with the community through the appropriate Mailman patches page on SourceForge. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F

Re: [Mailman-Users] user passwords

2007-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
allation process for Mailman, and one of those is the one to handle the sending out of passwords. After making sure that you've got all the right cron jobs created for Mailman, you could take the specific cron entry for sending out the passwords and instead do that one by hand, as a one-

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can this be done using Mailman?

2007-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
ge, even if they're subscribed to multiple topics. At least, that's the way I understand it. > It is not clear to us from the docs or from any information we have been > able to find. Thanks, If I haven't been able to clarify this issue for you, please let me know. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages approved

2007-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
ere's probably going to be a certain number of messages that will already have been delivered and you won't have any way to get those back. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks:

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
where the expectations of one group conflict with the expectations of the other. And I'm not sure that anyone here can give you any hard rules to follow in such cases. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
. If you're a Python programmer, it shouldn't be hard for you to add your own module to the system to handle these things, and to hook that into the appropriate place in the flow of messages through the system. In that case, we'd ask you to contribute your changes back to the pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

2007-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
rest of the subject. But one of the core Mailman developers would be more likely to know the answer to that question, and they're also on this list. Hopefully they'll be able to respond to you within a few days. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help syncronizing privite/public archives

2007-08-06 Thread Brad Knowles
ue. Mailman doesn't "synchronize" archives of any sort, either private or public. Can you explain in more detail what it is that was previously happening but which doesn't happen now? Maybe then we'll be more likely to be able to help. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: problem in Makefile for mailman

2007-08-03 Thread Brad Knowles
e going to be able to get much help here, at least in terms of answering FreeBSD questions. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest not being sent

2007-08-02 Thread Brad Knowles
lems with digests, the first thing to look for is the cron jobs. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest not being sent

2007-08-02 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/2/07, Christopher Adams wrote: > I know there is a senddigests cron, but how does this actually work, > and what could be the reason that no lists are sending the digest > unless I manually choose that it be sent? Did you search the FAQ wizard on this matter? -- Brad Knowle

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman, attachment and digital sign

2007-08-02 Thread Brad Knowles
s unfiltered and to apply the filtering rules only to unsigned messages. Even if there were such a method, the attackers could get through by simply forging fake signatures that look valid. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.co

Re: [Mailman-Users] Admin access for list creator

2007-08-02 Thread Brad Knowles
The site admin password gives you full web admin access, at least as far as Mailman goes. You can access any list you want -- this is the Mailman equivalent of root password, and should be treated with great care. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Aug 2, 20

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages take over an hour to pass throughmailman

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
ailman is connecting to port 25 and doing the initial delivery. That's the machine you need to check. As far as this is concerned, there's nothing within Mailman itself that you can check or fix -- this is an MTA issue instead. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Con

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages take over an hour to pass through mailman

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
ut the only way I know of. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stuck Notifications

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/1/07, Jon Berry wrote: > I have a mailing list that every day sends me reminders that there are > messages awaiting moderation, however, when I go to the admin area, there > are no messages shown. Did you read FAQ 3.38? -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant &a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce processing

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
FAQ 4.78 that should be mostly applicable to your situation. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman refusing to stop/start with errors PID unreadable

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
't be 100% certain. You really need to find someone who has deep knowledge of those other bits of code, as well as knowledge of how those interface to Mailman. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is it possible to filter what is archived?

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
our own custom handler, it should not be difficult to achieve what you're looking for. Check the Mailman patches page at SourceForge, just in case someone has already done the same sort of thing. Other than that, I am not personally aware of any obvious ways to achieve your goal. -- B

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Knowles
ny obvious solution to this problem that doesn't involve writing custom code. However, you should check the Mailman patches page on SourceForge to see if anyone else has had this problem and created a suggested solution. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author Li

mailman-users@python.org

2007-07-31 Thread Brad Knowles
Sorry, my assumption was that the outbound service could also directly deliver the mail locally, thus skipping the additional "inbound" phase. My fault. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Mike Peachey <[EMAIL PROTECTED

mailman-users@python.org

2007-07-31 Thread Brad Knowles
Outbound e-mail from Mailman should always bypass any spam filtering stages -- those things should have been done on input and not be necessary to perform a second time. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Mike Peachey <[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] help please

2007-07-29 Thread Brad Knowles
the old one, then the old provider may not be very helpful in terms of getting your data copied over, so you might want to talk to your new provider first. But we don't run the systems at either place, so there's nothing we can do to help you with this process. -- Brad Knowles <[

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderation and Whitelisting

2007-07-27 Thread Brad Knowles
I'm sure that there are parts of the system that I am not as familiar with. > or [b] come up with an easy hack to mailman to allow it > to use that value for member posters as well as nonmember? Easy hack? Again, not so far as I know. But you should check the patch datab

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber question

2007-07-22 Thread Brad Knowles
w of any other way to achieve this objective. If you do discover another solution, please let us know. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 09 F

Re: [Mailman-Users] Content Filtering Scrubs PDF Attachment

2007-07-20 Thread Brad Knowles
t spammers have recently latched onto the fact that most people do seem to let *.PDF files through, although I'm not sure what MIME type these messages are being tagged with. If you allow application/octet-stream and *.PDF through your lists, this may also open a much wider hole for

Re: [Mailman-Users] searchable archive interface desired

2007-07-18 Thread Brad Knowles
mailman-users mailing list (see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.018.htp>). -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem in archiving the large mbox file

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Knowles
lists servers with regards to numbers of subscribers or numbers of messages, but I don't know that anyone has tried to gather any specific information with regards to large sizes of archives. The largest archives I am personally aware of are the ones we have for python-list, but I'd

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages not being delivered.

2007-07-15 Thread Brad Knowles
ersion number scheme is problematic. Can you upgrade the new machine to a more recent version, like 2.1.9? -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> Slides from Invited Talks: <http://tinyurl.com/tj6q4> 0

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
ant to subscribe, > they will have to do so from a "real" ISP. For as long as I worked at AOL, and ever since, I always tried to encourage people with half a brain to go somewhere else. I even finally got my Mom off AOL. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & A

Re: [Mailman-Users] Format conversion

2007-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
at I end up with a > .html attachment and two .txt attachments (for the list header and > footer) which makes it very difficult to read messages on portable > devices. Hopefully, this will solve your problem. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Auth

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
l - 10/20/05) That's cool too, but is not scalable -- larger lists simply can't afford to put in that kind of separately work maintaining the list of users who are rejected for reasons like this. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profile: <htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's "Client TOS Notification"

2007-07-14 Thread Brad Knowles
rotect all your other users from what may happen with any AOL-related addresses. By the way, these measures were enacted *after* I left. If I had still been there, I assure you that things would be different. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Consultant & Author LinkedIn Profil

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