Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-03 Thread Savoy, Jim
Jim Savoy wrote: I am not all that familiar with cron. Is that crontab -u mailman crontab.in something you need to run every time you reboot the system? Or does it add something to /etc/cron.d or /etc/cron.daily or /etc/crontab? (I don't see anything new in those). Mark Sapiro wrote: As you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Savoy, Jim wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: For the others, you need to at least read the comments in crontab.in and understand what the job does before deciding not to run it. I will probably leave the gateway news stuff out forever. And also the password reminder thing, as we don't want to bombard

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-03 Thread Savoy, Jim
Jim Savoy wrote: I will probably leave the gateway news stuff out forever. And also the password reminder thing, as we don't want to bombard our students with more info... Mark Sapiro wrote: Fair enough, although the sending of reminders is a list option. You can set DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS =

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Savoy, Jim
Jim Savoy wrote: Reading this reminded me that I have a similar problem. All of our lists are set by default to be admin_immed_notify=yes, but the list owners only get a message when something new arrives (that is put on hold). They never get a daily reminder about the queued-up stuff. Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Savoy, Jim
Jim Savoy wrote: I am not all that familiar with cron. Is that crontab -u mailman crontab.in something you need to run every time you reboot the system? Or does it add something to /etc/cron.d or /etc/cron.daily or /etc/crontab? (I don't see anything new in those). Jim Savoy answers himself:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Savoy, Jim
I think I have my phantom requests (eg the -1 request(s) pending) question answered. Googling it I see that Mark provided a fix, but also said that by going to that admin page once should clear it. That may save me from manually having to fix hundreds of lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-03-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Savoy, Jim wrote: The answers to your questions are: yes, yes yes. But I don't think the person who installed Mailman many years ago ever did the crontab -u mailman crontab.in bit, so I just did it now. First I commented out everything in that crontab.in file except the checkdbs line, and set

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread george bannerman
Hi all-- Ummm... strangely, this appears to be working again. Not sure why, but I'm happy! george On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:29 PM, george bannerman georgebanner...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all-- I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server. Right now, I have admin_immed_notify set to yes,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread Savoy, Jim
George Bannerman wrote: I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server. Right now, I have admin_immed_notify set to yes, but I'm not getting notifications when there are emails to approve. I'm also not getting the once-a-day # list moderator request(s) waiting either. Forward messages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Tricky admin_immed_notify problem

2009-02-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Savoy, Jim wrote: Reading this reminded me that I have a similar problem. All of our lists are set by default to be admin_immed_notify=yes, but the list owners only get a message when something new arrives (that is put on hold). They never get a daily reminder about the queued-up stuff. Is this a