Gadi Evron writes:
crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful
feature?
I think that, as Mark alludes to, this feature would be harder to
implement usefully than you'd think. It sounds easy, but remember, in
a very large share cases where it would be useful *your mail system
1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working
However, even with these reasons, I wouldn't consider it a big deal,
Bill Catambay writes:
1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working
However, even with these reasons, I
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Gadi Evron writes:
crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful
feature?
I think that, as Mark alludes to, this feature would be harder to
implement usefully than you'd think. It sounds easy, but remember, in
a very large share cases where it
Bill Catambay wrote:
1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
3. My email is broken, but my internet it still working
However, even with these reasons, I wouldn't consider
On Nov 22, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
Brad Knowles wrote:
At the very least, you should find a different provider where they actually
give you the support you require.
Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
I can see that it might be a useful
Gadi Evron wrote:
Actually, I spoke of a possible _announcement_ feature, not an emergency
feature.
I see two requests in this thread. The original appeared to be a
request for a way to send a regular post to a list via the admin web
interface, which would be useful in cases where for whatever
At 7:32 PM +0900 on 11/23/09, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Bill Catambay writes:
1. Mailman aliases not working (like in my case)
2. Unable to access my email, but have access to web (which is common
for those of us behind corporate firewalls)
3. My email is broken, but my internet it
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The second request, which might also satisfy the first if it were
implemented as a web service, seems to be for a way to send a message
right now to all members of a list (or all lists?) regardless of
digest and nomail settings.
Actually, MM2
At 7:56 AM -0800 on 11/23/09, Mark Sapiro wrote:
I see two requests in this thread. The original appeared to be a
request for a way to send a regular post to a list via the admin web
interface, which would be useful in cases where for whatever reason,
the list was working but email delivery
At 11:05 AM -0500 on 11/23/09, Barry Warsaw wrote:
The second request, which might also satisfy the first if it were
implemented as a web service, seems to be for a way to send a message
right now to all members of a list (or all lists?) regardless of
digest and nomail settings.
Actually,
Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The second request, which might also satisfy the first if it were
implemented as a web service, seems to be for a way to send a message
right now to all members of a list (or all lists?) regardless of
digest and nomail
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
I knew I'd seen that somewhere. Problem was I looked for it as an RFE
and not as an existing feature :)
:)
-Barry
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On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 09:42 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote:
However, the laundry list of useful features that could be added to
Mailman is several miles long and almost as wide, and I'm not
qualified to judge where on that laundry list this particular feature
would/should fall -- I'll leave that to
At 1:32 PM +0200 on 11/23/09, Gadi Evron wrote:
Actually, I spoke of a possible _announcement_ feature, not an
emergency feature.
Announcement feature would be better, since it's not always going
to be an emergency (and would still work in my situation).
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Bill Catambay wrote:
If by send a message, you mean email a message to the normal
foo-list email address, then I'm back to square one (i.e., it will
never reach anyone on the list because of the aliases being whacked).
But, I hope you understand that your specific need/situation - email
At 8:52 AM -0800 on 11/23/09, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Bill Catambay wrote:
If by send a message, you mean email a message to the normal
foo-list email address, then I'm back to square one (i.e., it will
never reach anyone on the list because of the aliases being whacked).
But, I hope you
Terri Oda wrote:
Maybe a nice in-between solution would be making sure the
FAQ/Documentation had an entry saying if you need to get an emergency
message out and Mailman is not working, here's how to get the whole
subscriber list and send a Bcc'ed mail Anyone want to volunteer to
stick that
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
An ever-increasing number of software packages support the
installation
of 3rd party extensions, said extensions supporting the activities of
installation, deactivation and removal, leaving the core system
unaltered. This provides end
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Bill Catambay wrote:
If by send a message, you mean email a message to the normal foo-
list email address, then I'm back to square one (i.e., it will never
reach anyone on the list because of the aliases being whacked).
Honestly, I don't see Mailman doing
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:55:31AM -0800, Bill Catambay wrote:
Given my current situation (as rare as this situation may be), I have
come to realize that an emergency broadcast feature would be an
indispensable tool to have right now. Since my host made the alias
change on my mailing list,
Bill Catambay wrote:
Given my current situation (as rare as this situation may be), I have
come to realize that an emergency broadcast feature would be an
indispensable tool to have right now. Since my host made the alias
change on my mailing list, but did not create the MX record for the
On Nov 22, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
This could be done with bin/inject on the Mailman server to inject a
message directly into Mailman's in/ queue bypassing the MTA, but you
don't have the required access. Since you don't have the required
access, I do see the need in your case,
The weekend crew at my ISP are general tech support (i.e., they
really only handle internet connection issues). My ISP does have an
Operations group which usually are pretty knowledgeable, but I they
simply aren't working on the weekend.
For what it's worth, they are the best ISP I have had
On 11/22/09 2:53 PM, Bill Catambay at and...@excaliburworld.com wrote:
When I used Autoshare listserver software, it ran on my home server
(a Mac), and I never had to rely on anyone for support (handled
everything myself). Unfortunately, that software has not been
updated in over 10 years
On 22-Nov-2009, at 13:53, Bill Catambay wrote:
When I used Autoshare listserver software, it ran on my home server (a Mac),
and I never had to rely on anyone for support (handled everything myself).
Unfortunately, that software has not been updated in over 10 years and is no
longer
On Nov 22, 2009, at 9:36 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
This could be done with bin/inject on the Mailman server to inject a
message directly into Mailman's in/ queue bypassing the MTA, but you
don't have the required access. Since you don't have the required
access, I do see the need in your
Brad Knowles wrote:
At the very least, you should find a different provider where they actually
give you the support you require.
Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
I remember a few occasion when I needed to grab the subscribers list and
email everyone
On 22-Nov-2009, at 17:14, Gadi Evron wrote:
Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
It could be useful in a very narrow set of circumstances. the question is, is
it worth putting resources into such a feature for those very few times this
would be useful?
My
LuKreme wrote:
On 22-Nov-2009, at 17:14, Gadi Evron wrote:
Brad, crappy providers aside, do you think this might be a useful feature?
It could be useful in a very narrow set of circumstances. the question is, is
it worth putting resources into such a feature for those very few times this
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