Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
to be *some* way to do it. On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Somehow, a user has gotten himself subscribed to one of my lists with an address of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com. How do I get rid of this subscription? The various web interface options

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:03:26AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Barry Warsaw wrote: What I tried to say was, use bin/withlist -l mylist and call m.removeMember() explicitly. Then m.Save() to save the changes. Yep, that took care of it. Thanks! And, please note that this is in the FAQ at

[Mailman-Users] Removing invalid list members

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
Somehow, a user has gotten himself subscribed to one of my lists with an address of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com. How do I get rid of this subscription? The various web interface options just give an error that this address is not subscribed (even while showing it on the list of

[Mailman-Users] How to create site list?

2006-08-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
I just (finally) got around to upgrading my mail server from Debian Woody to Sarge, and that brought a change of my Mailman version from something a few years old to 2.1.5-8, which refuses to start unless there's a list named mailman. I don't get the need for it (yes, I have read the FAQs, but

Re: [mailman-users] incorrect 'from'

2003-02-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:36:54AM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote: I installed (seemingly successfully) v2.1, and set up all aliases as displayed at the end of the setup screen. All messages are coming from 'list-bounces', not from list. What did I miss? Nothing. You don't want bounces to go

Re: [Mailman-Users] CVS source of mailman?

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:24:04AM -0700, LuKreme wrote: Is there info on the www.list.org page about using CVS to update mailman? I noticed I'm still running 2.1b3. I'd like to avoid downloading the source and compiling manually if possible. Erm... You _are_ aware that cvs is a tool

Re: [Mailman-Users] private archives not working on 2.0.11

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:20:46AM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: I'm running Mailman 2.0.11 on Debain stable and I can get public archives to work, but private archives don't seem to work properly. As I reported in a post on Dec. 10, I've got the same problem. Sounds like Debian's package of

[Mailman-Users] Moved to a new host; two minor(ish) problems

2002-12-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
The power supply on my Mailman (among other things) server died a couple weeks ago and I decided to move it to a new host, as this was not the first hardware trouble the old one had experienced. Lists appear to be working, but I have discovered two problems: 1) List admin passwords seem to have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message has implicit destination

2002-06-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 04:02:57PM +1000, Clayton Rogers wrote: I have set up two lists. List 1: Has three members and and anyone can send to it. List 2: Has List 1 as a member and anyone can send to it. With List 2 I am receiving the error metioned in the Subject section above. Why is

Re: [Mailman-Users] first names shown

2002-04-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sherohman, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED], or even [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave Sherohman (I think - it's not normal usage, but I think I've seen it before), there are also the more esoteric possibilities such as Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ming the Merciless

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:32:14PM +0100, robin szemeti wrote: if you and a couple of others have this great 'problem' with headers (which are not normally seen unless you specifically ask for 'all headers' in your mail client anyway [1]) Depends on the MUA. The great source of annoyance,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Headers and why they suck

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:56PM -0800, David wrote: The debate goes on I know, but here is exactly why these excessive headers suck. I want to set up a news list not a discussion list. The only person who will be able to post is the list owner. I don't need all the junk about how

Re: [Mailman-Users] privacy options and a personal mailing list.

2002-04-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:10:32PM -0700, George Hartzell wrote: So, I decided to set up my own mailman mailing list, forward the messages there, subscribe myself to it, and let it digestify them for me (hurray for mailman's mime digests!). Nice hack... Almost makes me sorry I don't do

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to set up a world-writable list.

2002-03-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: How can I set up a list where everyone can write? Admin interface, Privacy Options page. Set Restrict posting privilege to list members? to no. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird @ treatment

2002-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:13:32PM -0800, Andrew Watson wrote: I subscribe to my own list e.g. mylist at abc.com with the name e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the welcome message, the subscriber page is given as http://www.abc.com/mailman/options/mylist/sam%40abc.com %40 = character ASCII 40

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:33:01AM -0600, Alex Sammons wrote: I have a question(a Unix question), what´s the best way to transport the files and directories of the users located in a ufs /export/home to another called /export/home2, i mean considering home directories, passwords,

Re: [Mailman-Users] the best way to...

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:06:06PM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: Quoting Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /export/home2 Or my personal favourite tar cvfB - . | (cd /export/home2; tar xvBPf -) I've always stuck with cpio because I've heard that tar has

[Mailman-Users] Unhappy config.db (was Relocating Mailman 1.1 lists)

2001-07-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:24:08PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: Traceback (innermost last): File /var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver, line 112, in run_main main() File /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py, line 168, in main FormatConfiguration(doc, lst, category, category_suffix

[Mailman-Users] Relocating Mailman 1.1 lists

2001-07-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've recently had a drive go flaky on me and when the machine died, several files were corrupted. I'm now trying to bring everything back up on a new machine, copying over only what I must. This is turning out well, except that I haven't been able to get my mailing lists working. I've cpio'd

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reminders

2001-06-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:56:55PM +0100, kevin jacks wrote: I wish to remind the users of my list at a set date every month, of action that should be taken. How do I do this within Mailman. On any *nix machine of your choice (well, OK - pick one that's always on, like, say, the mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding anonymity features?

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:41:14AM +0100, Yanuar Nugroho wrote: The idea is basically hiding the identity of the sender so that the communication will be based on what is being communicated and not who is communicating in the group. This feature already exists at the list level. On the

Re: [Mailman-Users] timed delivery

2001-06-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:11:59PM -0400, Dennis J. McCombs wrote: I am developing a web site that will require daily e-mail to my subscribers. I would like to write several mailings and program each one to be mailed at a certain date in the future. Is there a format that can schedule

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing List-* headers?

2001-04-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:40:24AM -0500, Chris Burch wrote: Sorry if this has been asked a million times; I browsed through 2001-04 archive and didn't see anything (not a very thorough search, I admit)... It has. I'd say the 4 most frequently asked questions here are (in no particular

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is is possible to...

2001-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:10:11AM -0500, Peter Dominguez wrote: Store a subscriber's real name along with their e-mail address when a user subscribes. i.e. "real name [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSourceZealotry Of course it's possible - you have the source! /OpenSourceZealotry More to the point,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:01:25PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: No, this is not the case. Approved headers, while perhaps slightly inelegant, are more secure (FSVO "secure") than simply allowing a set of posters to post. Anyone can trivially fake a "From" header in an email address,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved header

2001-02-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:26:33PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Does majordomo remove the Approved header while forwarding messages? If not, finding out the password is even more trivial than forging From:. Yes, it does. In that case, I stand corrected. Thanks for straightening me

Re: [Mailman-Users] RFCs ... (mailman+mailer) ...

2001-01-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:38:29AM +, CJoe wrote: i.e. sending the message with distribution list to a server and "exploding" the contents due to some routing tables arrangement, saving much bandwidth and cpu time, etc. ... Mailman does it the smart way. (b) also, i would like to

Re: [Mailman-Users] list password

2001-01-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:57:48AM -0600, Thomas Hillson wrote: Sorry if this is a RTFM questions, but I can not find the answer the docs I have. How do you change the password in a list you create and you forgot it. I created a list for a user and he typed in his password for it and not

Re: [Mailman-Users] duh!

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 02:47:49PM -0800, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: That would be too easy! If you don't want to believe me... I would assume that we at least have to create a DNS entry (probably both A and MX along with a reverse) for the host name and setup an alias for it in Apache. You

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookie feature request

2001-01-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:40AM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 12:37:41 -0500, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I normally run junkbuster so cookies are turned off. Can mailman check for this situation and alert that cookies are not functioning instead of just asking

Re: [Mailman-Users] something for the wish list?

2001-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:33:26PM -, Hubbard, Matt wrote: 1. Ability to disable certain features through the global configuration in a similar way to the "ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE" option. More specifically to be able to disallow the private rosters being visible to anyone. This probably

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to allow posting withou approval?

2001-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:43:02AM +0100, Marian Heddesheimer wrote: Reason: Message has implicit destination I suspect, there must be a problem with the list address, because of mentioning the "implicit destination" as reason. I have sent the posting to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to prevent posting?

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:46:45PM -0500, Mike Diehn wrote: * Sacred Heart Webpastor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [01 10, 2001 10:55]: We would like to set up both lists as announcement systems: i.e. only one or two administrators can post messages to it, subscribers flat-out cannot post at all