[Mailman-Users] Upgrade instructions

2014-09-06 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I have a couple of Mailman lists on a server happily running 2.1.9 but I am also a moderator on a very active list that's running on 2.1.12. I do not host this list, just volunteer because I have some experience with Mailman. That list has started to get some significant bounces due to the

[Mailman-Users] Address change failure

2007-11-02 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Greetings: I'm having problem with administratively changing addresses. When I get a request to change addresses on this list I normally just go ahead and change it figuring that it's easier than explaining the process to those who didn't just go and change it themselves to start with. Several

[Mailman-Users] Moved list, archiving

2007-01-30 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
After moving the list to it's new home and running the script to update the archive, I ended up with a raft of messages in the January 2007 archive that are probably ancient. They show no subject, and all of them are dated this afternoon, probably at the time that I ran the script. Is there

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moved list, archiving

2007-01-30 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Paul Tomblin wrote: Quoting G. Armour Van Horn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After moving the list to it's new home and running the script to update the archive, I ended up with a raft of messages in the January 2007 archive that are probably ancient. They show no subject, and all of them are dated

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moved list, archiving

2007-01-30 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Paul Tomblin wrote: Quoting G. Armour Van Horn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After moving the list to it's new home and running the script to update the archive, I ended up with a raft of messages in the January 2007 archive that are probably ancient. They show no subject, and all of them are dated

[Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
My old Mailman host died a while back, and I'm finally getting around to getting the new one running again. Before I shut off the old host I tarred up the old files and have them on the new server. I just moved the components from the old archives and lists directories into the new locations,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
/07, G. Armour Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, where do I dig up the membership list, and how do I deal with all the old URLs? FAQ 3.4 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.004.htp should help with this. Let us know if you still have issues

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
back easily from this data? Van Patrick Bogen wrote: On 1/29/07, G. Armour Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, where do I dig up the membership list, and how do I deal with all the old URLs? FAQ 3.4 http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.004.htp should help

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

2007-01-29 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Mark, Thanks. ../../bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname worked like a charm. I'm sure there's some cleanup to do, but I'll bet that took care of most of it. Van Mark Sapiro wrote: G. Armour Van Horn wrote: The problem with the old server is that it won't accept mail for Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unkown user

2006-11-09 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Mark Sapiro wrote: G. Armour Van Horn wrote: The heart of the bounce is as follows: |/home/mailman/mail/mailman post freehand@domainvanhorn.com (expanded from [EMAIL PROTECTED]): unknown user: |/home/mailman/mail/mailman post freehand The aliases (/etc/postfix/aliases) for that list

[Mailman-Users] Unkown user

2006-11-08 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I did something, although I can't for the life of me figure out what, that broke my mailman server. The web presence hasn't changed any, user administration works fine, as does access to the archive, and monthly password reminders are being sent. But mail to any of the lists bounces. I'm

[Mailman-Users] Archives and bad timestamps

2006-08-11 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I've just noticed that one of the lists I'm moderating shows messages from next Monday in the private archive. The last message is timestamped for 8:08 (Pacific, +0700) on 14 Aug, but was actually distributed by Mailman at 08:51 on 11 Aug. Unfortunately, the archive seems to be ordered by

[Mailman-Users] Posting records

2004-07-01 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
One of the lists I moderate is fairly high volume, dedicated to art quilting. A subscriber noted this morning that we had 269 digests released in June, and wondered what the record was. Made me curious, does anyone track such things? Van --

[Mailman-Users] Grey digests

2004-06-12 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Greetings, It has come to my attention that messages with signatures from Mozilla or Netscape mail clients cause digests to be displayed in grey from the beginning of one such message to the end of the digest when received by Gecko-powered mail clients when the MIME version of the digests is

[Mailman-Users] Virtual Host - adding to Mailman

2003-06-02 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Greetings, I've been through a ton of messages, the README-POSTFIX, alternate regexp approach mentioned in there, and the alternate (by Dax Kelson) mentioned in that. It's left me confused. I have had Mailman running with Postfix for a couple of years, it currently is at 2.0b3. (I will be

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade from 2.1beta3 to 2.1 final

2003-06-02 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Well, that was reassuring, so I ran ps aux | grep mail to dig out the syntax for mailmanctl, and stopped it with /usr/bin/python2 /home/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s -q stop I went to /usr/scr/mailman.2.1.2 and ran the exact same commands I used last October to install 2.1b3. (Yes, I keep these

Re: [Mailman-Users] upgrade from 2.1beta3 to 2.1 final

2003-06-02 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Silly me, I searched the FAQs at www.list.org instead. But hey, you nailed it and the lists appear to be up and running again. Thanks. Van Tom Eastep wrote: On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:30:57 -0700, G. Armour Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I restarted mailmanctl I get [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] rejecting non-subscriber postings

2002-10-26 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
On my lists I probably have a two to one ratio of spam or virus postings to legitimate messages. The legitimate postings come entirely from users who either have multiple addresses or slight variations of their address, and I really don't feel like throwing them away. Mailman 2.1 handles this a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Password frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Well, at the time I had a permissions issue. So I chowned the whole tree to mailman:mailman, and went back and did "config.status" and "make install" to ratify it. Then I did a couple of other little things I had overlooked in the INSTALL file. Nothing is being logged in the mailman/logs to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Install frustration - 2.1b3

2002-10-09 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
to setup postfix virtual domains, please post here and possibly send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - the address I'll be checking for the next week while I'm out of town. Van Larry Rosenman wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:33, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: I discovered from the /var/log/maillog file that I

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade failure to 2.1b3

2002-10-03 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I've been running Mailman for most of two years, going from 2.0.5 to 2.0.12+ on a very lightly loaded K6-233. I've finally been convinced to move up. Last night I reved RedHat from 6.2 to 7.2, installed Python2 2.2.1, and generally brought things up to date. I also added virtual host support to

[Mailman-Users] Can someone please look at these errors?

2002-10-03 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I sent this early this morning when I gave up on the upgrade for the day, I'd really like to have someone look at this so I can try again tonight. Van G. Armour Van Horn wrote: I've been running Mailman for most of two years, going from 2.0.5 to 2.0.12+ on a very lightly loaded K6-233. I've

Re: [Mailman-Users] Beta upgrade FAQ or How-To?

2002-10-01 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Larry Rosenman wrote: On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:46, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: I've decided that it's time to make the jump to the beta, and I'm wondering if anyone is maintaining any guides for the process. I have a new list to setup, which will be my first with a virtual domain, but I

[Mailman-Users] Replies getting lost

2002-09-25 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I have a small group of lists for one client (one company wide, one each for four offices, one for the managers, etc.) that are all set to Reply to sender as the default. For most users it works just fine. However, some of the Outlook 2000 users seem to end up with their replies directed to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing messages to archives

2002-09-24 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
TP; 18 Feb 2001 21:05:13 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:08:09 -0800 From: "G. Armour Van Horn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---etc--- Now, here is one that a recipient of the proposed list has (with a little obscuring) From ???@??? Th

[Mailman-Users] Importing messages to archives

2002-09-23 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Greetings, I have been asked to possibly host a list previously kept in another system. They would like to include archives from their existing list, and have the messages in mbox format. The format appears to be compatible, but when I appended a sample to one of my test lists the other messages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing messages to archives

2002-09-23 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
pied the old > lists mbox file over the Mailman one, then ran the Mailman arch > command, and told it to re-create the archives. Worked a charm! > > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 04:35, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I have been asked to possibly host a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Does mailman support a MySQL backend?

2002-09-20 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
When I first was investigating Mailman I read enough of the site to see that Postfix was probably the best bet. It sounded like Barry was running it, which meant that Mailman would always work with Postfix! So I installed RedHat and Postfix, and then setup Mailman. I still run Sendmail for my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergancy Help!!!!!

2002-09-19 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Mailman needs to run as user mailman, presumably 514 is the gid of whoever you were logged in as when you got that error. If mailman has run in the past and nobody has changed anything on you, that's probably all it is. The configuration files refer to compiling the source, and I have no idea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searchable archives

2002-09-19 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Richard, Perhaps you could take a minute to sketch the advantages of the options mentioned, the FAQ tells me that there are three but gives no clue as to establishing a preference among MnoGoSearch, HT:Dig, and Pipermail itself. I have never tried to set any of these up, and the only one I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Big headers

2002-09-18 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
So far, I've dealt with this entirely by getting my server whitelisted with the ISPs that are doing that. I believe that there is a setting for the number sent in a batch, but to go from 500 (default, I think) to 1 would be an excruciating hit to your performance. I believe all of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Bouncing Mail - How is it treated?

2002-09-17 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Au contraire! Every version of Mailman I've used (back to 2.0.4, now on 2.0.12+) has handled bounced message with aplomb. Check out: http://your.server.here>/mailman/admin/listname>/bounce for the options. Van Will Yardley wrote: Angel Gabriel wrote: > I'd like to know how bouncing mail is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is one-way possible?

2002-09-05 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
On the Privacy Options page, set Must posts be approved by an administrator? to yes so the occasional post will not pass. On General Options, set Where are replies to list messages directed? to Explicit address and make sure that address ends up in one of your inboxes. There is no way to

Re: [Mailman-Users] A long URL - 2 lines - second line is notclickable.

2002-08-20 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
What happens when you send a really long link through the system? In this case, I suspect that the line is broken before Mailman ever sees it - it would be broken if you sent it to a standard mail client just the same. But what you are sending is a text URL, not a link. The link the reipient

Re: [Mailman-Users] A long URL - 2 lines - second line is notclickable.

2002-08-20 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
. quote who=G. Armour Van Horn What happens when you send a really long link through the system? In this case, I suspect that the line is broken before Mailman ever sees it - it would be broken if you sent it to a standard mail client just the same. But what you are sending is a text URL

[Mailman-Users] Missing footer

2002-08-17 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I'm using Mailman 2.0.12 with the almost-2.0.13 patch. I have a new list that I created a couple of days ago, and the messages from the list do not have the footer on them. The information in the last part of the Regular-member (non-digest) Options page matches at least two other lists that are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I pay for Technical support? re: MailMan?

2002-08-13 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Yeah, I have my Mailman machine, along with three webservers and my private home network, on a DSL line, and I don't think the proposed mail volume would be any problem on his DSL line, which is faster than my 768K/768K line here. In two years I've had two outages. One was resolved by updating

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist Items

2002-08-12 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Tom Whiting wrote: (2) A feature that allows a user to register someone else (a friend) with an Introduction ADDED to the subscription email that is sent. So I could subscribe a friend and add a personal messge so they know I sent this to them ... VERY VERY not good idea (though that's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Members vs. Subscribers

2002-07-16 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I'm certainly not brave enough to attempt to change it, but I have often been bothered by the terminology. Subscriber is the exact right word in this case, member or employee might be a good fit, but then again, they might not. I have lists in which member, employee, and stockholder would be

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner crash with 2.0.12

2002-07-15 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Locate the two oldest files in /qfiles and move them out of the directory (or delete them if the .msg file appears to be unimportant). At least in my case the problem was that the oldest message was damaged and there was no body. I'm working on the assumption that the lack of a message body is

[Mailman-Users] Additional information

2002-07-14 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
I left out a little information in the last message that might be useful with that last message: This server does almost nothing other than Mailman, I think there is one very quiet website other than the mailman pages. The OS is RedHat Linux, probably 6.1. Python is at 1.5.2 Mailserver is

[Mailman-Users] Everything stopped after upgrade

2002-07-14 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Greetings: I was on something of a maintenance tear this week, so when I got Barry's announcement of 2.0.12 I decided it was time to catch up. I've been running Mailman since 2.0.1, and had been running 2.0.8 from the week it was released until this morning. I fetched the four patch files, all

[Mailman-Users] Everything stopped yesterday

2002-07-13 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Greetings: I was on something of a maintenance tear this week, so when I got Barry's announcement of 2.0.12 I decided it was time to catch up. I've been running Mailman since 2.0.1, and had been running 2.0.8 from the week it was released until this morning. I fetched the four patch files, all

Re: [Mailman-Users] Everything stopped yesterday

2002-07-13 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
Andy, For me it turned out not to be the case at all. After hours of hair-pulling I found that the oldest message in /home/mailman/qfiles/ was truncated. Deleting that one message opened the floodgates. I've left the error entry in the original message below. It was the 'string' object has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Everything stopped yesterday

2002-07-13 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
did the upgrade to 2.0.12? -Jim P. -Original Message- From: G. Armour Van Horn Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Everything stopped yesterday Andy, For me it turned out not to be the case at all. After hours

Re: [Mailman-Users] duh!

2001-01-23 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
That would be too easy! 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. Anything else, from those that have done this? Van Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:12:30PM

Re: [Mailman-Users] copy a list

2001-01-15 Thread G. Armour Van Horn
It's a piece of cake, and one that I am very appreciative of since my first client had me set up five new lists all at once. The key is config_list in the script directory (/home/mailman/bin by default). Get the right syntax from the help page, of course, but basically you setup all of your