[Mailman-Users] Wishlist: Posting to the list from the Web pages

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Crowley
Could it become possible for users authenticated with a cookie to post to the mailing list using some sort of Web-based interface, with a CGI script generating the actual mail? With this done, could Pipermail be enhanced so you can follow up a message in the archives using a Web-based interface?

[Mailman-Users] list admin page not loading

2001-10-26 Thread Pieter Boshoff
Hi, I would like to now if there is some one out there that can assist with the problem that I am having with Mailman. I have 50 lists running of one Redhat server using Exim as the MTA, all my list admin pages display just fine, except for one. The page did load in the beginning but now it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist: Posting to the list from the Web pages

2001-10-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On 26 Oct 2001 10:51:26 +0100 Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could it become possible for users authenticated with a cookie to post to the mailing list using some sort of Web-based interface, with a CGI script generating the actual mail? This is what I've done at Kanga.Nu using PHP

[Mailman-Users] Hide setting

2001-10-26 Thread Denis Croombs
Hi All How do I set the default for new users to hide ? Many Thanks Denis Croombs -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist: Posting to the list from the Web pages

2001-10-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Hummm, change the archive html so that when you click on an added button on the page, the message and TO field and SUBJECT field of the message get posted to a form and the information fed into a standard html Mail-form on another page (another CGI). Then you edit and add text to your hearts

Re: [Mailman-Users] list admin page not loading

2001-10-26 Thread Jon Carnes
Have your checked the lock files in ~mailman/locks/... ? Delete any spurious lock files with inactive processes (the process id is part of the lock file name). If there is nothing happening on that list, you can safely delete any lock files for it. If that fixes it, then look at the admins

[Mailman-Users] Multiple domains are easy to do ?

2001-10-26 Thread Oliver Egginger
I was wondering why we had discuss the problem, that mailman doesn't support multiple domains ? In the general options exists the host_name field. If I changed the domain this takes effect immediately. In the moment I don't have configured my MTA right, but I will do some test on a test-machine

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search Archive Feature?

2001-10-26 Thread Richard Barrett
Apologies to other subscribers for these lengthy exchanges over what I assume is a peripheral topic for most Mailman users. Mark, I suggest we take the this off list unless you object. Mark At 15:54 25/10/2001 -0400, Mark T. Valites wrote: Richard, In patch #44484, to sym-link to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist: Posting to the list from the Web pages

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Crowley
J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could it become possible for users authenticated with a cookie to post to the mailing list using some sort of Web-based interface, with a CGI script generating the actual mail? This is what I've done at Kanga.Nu using PHP and MHonArc atop Mailman.

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems getting Mailman set-up

2001-10-26 Thread Ken
On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:51 am, Denis Croombs wrote: Hi I have RedHat 7.1 Mailman 2.0.6 It installed OK and have followed the manual from www.list.org/install-final.html but my APACHE will not accept the line Exec /mailman/* /home/mailman/cgi-bin/* giving a systax error, bad

[Mailman-Users] Welcome message take while to go out

2001-10-26 Thread The Berean
It takes some of my members days before they get a welcome message. Is this considered normal? Does mailman have some kind setting where it sends out welcome messages at intervals instead of all at once? Frank Pagano (The Berean) Owner of C-SQUAD (http://www.c-squad.org)

[Mailman-Users] postfix question

2001-10-26 Thread Camel - Jay S. Curtis
Anyone have a sure-fire method for replacing sendmail with postfix?? (or know where the HowTo or Docs are...) Thanx -- Jay S. Curtis Camelid Listowner member info / subscribe / user options at: http://lrllamas.com/mailman/listinfo/camelid --

Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix question

2001-10-26 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 26/10/01 10:11 -0400, Camel - Jay S. Curtis wrote: Anyone have a sure-fire method for replacing sendmail with postfix?? (or know where the HowTo or Docs are...) I rather recommend reading the INSTALL file that comes with postfix and the FAQ. http://www.postfix.org Download postfix Read the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail vs Postfix

2001-10-26 Thread Julio Calvo
I agree with Bob. Every configuration is simpler with postfix. All text files human-friendly - Original Message - I also decided on Sendmail because I want to host many domains with their own virtual mail server ... I don't know if PostFix will do this ... The recommendation to

[Mailman-Users] Backing Up / Restoring / Recovery Questions

2001-10-26 Thread Jeffrey M. Kenton
Hey everyone. I have Mailman 2.0.6 running, and things are going well with it. The server that I originally put Mailman on is underpowered to do the other things it is also doing, so I want to move mailman to another server. Now, to prevent having to reinvent the wheel for the 30+ lists I

[Mailman-Users] mail to list in loop

2001-10-26 Thread Sandra
Hello, We had a problem yesterday with a mail in a list from Mailman that was in loop. The message was sent during all the day until we could see what was wrong. I had to stop the postfix system, and I was trying to remove the message from deferred and other queues, because I was planing to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Wishlist: Posting to the list from the Web pages

2001-10-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On 26 Oct 2001 13:15:49 +0100 Paul Crowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J C Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I've done at Kanga.Nu using PHP and MHonArc atop Mailman. See the list archives here (or -developers) to get the various RCs and how to install.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, Jon Carnes wrote: Mandrake 8.1 should use nobody as the owner of apache, mail as the The owner of apache is 'apache' in Mandrake 8.1 (and 8.0). -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.8-30.1mdk - Uptime: 16 hours 7 minutes.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing Up / Restoring / Recovery Questions

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton said: 1. Is there a way to backup the list information, including addresses and list configurations? 2. Is there a way to restore the configuration (list members, list setups etc.)? If it is as easy as tar'ing the /home/mailman directory and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, Amanda wrote: RPMs under Drake, in my experience, are evile. I have gotten precisely one RPM for Mandrake 8 to install correctly on my system. Not using RPMs was the lesson I learned right after how to find downloaded files (imagine, webbing all these years, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
I'm that one that's done the last couple of Mandrake .rpm's for Mandrake. Let me help you out. On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, David Pierron wrote: My first initial problem was with smrsh but overcame that with a symbolic link ... First question, is smrsh a sendmail thing? What is it exactly?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, Greg Ward wrote: So what I'm getting here is that I should start the Mailman installation all over again? Yes. It *sounds* like Mandrake's Mailman RPM is broken, so you'll have to build from source. Not broken, just built specifically for Postfix as that's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Paul Cox said: On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, Greg Ward wrote: Yes. It *sounds* like Mandrake's Mailman RPM is broken, so you'll have to build from source. Not broken, just built specifically for Postfix as that's the Mandrake default. OK, that makes perfect sense.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing Up / Restoring / Recovery Questions

2001-10-26 Thread Dan Mick
Greg Ward wrote: On 26 October 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton said: 1. Is there a way to backup the list information, including addresses and list configurations? 2. Is there a way to restore the configuration (list members, list setups etc.)? If it is as easy as tar'ing the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Oct 26, 2001, Greg Ward wrote: Yes. It *sounds* like Mandrake's Mailman RPM is broken, so you'll have to build from source. Not broken, just built specifically for Postfix as that's the Mandrake default. OK, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying, and sorry

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Jon Carnes
If you could just name the rpm: mailman-using_postfix-2.xxx.rpm that would solve a lot of mysteries. IMO, you really don't need to make a sendmail based one, as long as users know to use postfix with the install. For the typical user postfix is going to be easier. Plus from the list

[Mailman-Users] Last Ditch Effort for fix.

2001-10-26 Thread Eugene Allen
I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE and Postfix 20010228. I installed Mailman from the FreeBSD ports collection. So far the installation whent ok. I've created a new list and am able to configure it via the web. However, when I send a reply to the list I get this: (Command died with status 2:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Last Ditch Effort for fix.

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Oct 26, 2001, Eugene Allen wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE and Postfix 20010228. I installed Mailman from the FreeBSD ports collection. So far the installation whent ok. I've created a new list and am able to configure it via the web. However, when I send a reply to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread David Pierron
At 01:27 PM 10/26/2001 -0500, you wrote: I'm that one that's done the last couple of Mandrake .rpm's for Mandrake. Let me help you out. Speaking as a newbie .. Thank you ... On Thursday, Oct 25, 2001, David Pierron wrote: My first initial problem was with smrsh but overcame that with a

[Mailman-Users] config.db being set to 'root'

2001-10-26 Thread Rob Brandt
Hi. I've had a long standing problem and now a new second problem with file permissions/group ownership. Maybe connected? 1) Long standing problem - when I create a new list, I have to manually change the group permissions of the files in the /list/listname directory before the list would

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Amanda
heehee - oh yeah, I tried to use a metric screwdriver on an English screw... But seriously - a valid question, if'n you dunno how fussy I tend to be, and missed the part where I said RPM for Mandrake 8. They were 'drake rpm's. They was no worky. Along with a host of other things I've had to

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.db being set to 'root'

2001-10-26 Thread Dave Klingler
I've had this same problem for quite a while on some of my lists. It drives me bonkers. Dave Klingler Hi. I've had a long standing problem and now a new second problem with file permissions/group ownership. Maybe connected? 1) Long standing problem - when I create a new list, I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.db being set to 'root'

2001-10-26 Thread Dan Mick
The directories have to be set with g+s, and your OS has to respect that (i.e. new files created in such directories need to inherit the group ownership of the parent dir). I suspect that those of you having problems are either missing a g+s bit somewhere or have an OS that doesn't implement this

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.db being set to 'root'

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Rob Brandt said: 2) New problem - I've created a new list for the first time in a few months, and set the file permissions just like other lists I have that work fine. After getting everything set up and configured, I try and send messages through. The first message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing config.db using cron

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Ward
On 26 October 2001, Leo So said: Hi I want to (semi)randomly rotate the footer appended to the mailman mails using cron. I guess the footer info is stored as binary in config.db. What is the best way to do it? Thanks!! Use The Source, Luke. Read enough Mailman source to understand the right

[Mailman-Users] virtual host

2001-10-26 Thread leanne lai
Does anyone know how to setup virtual host in mailman? Changing the Host name this list prefers just solve part of the problem. The reply-to field still reflects the original host name Thank u :-) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Oct 26, 2001, Amanda wrote: But seriously - a valid question, if'n you dunno how fussy I tend to be, and missed the part where I said RPM for Mandrake 8. They were 'drake rpm's. They was no worky. Along with a host of other things I've had to bludgeon into submission. I've been

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing config.db using cron

2001-10-26 Thread Leo So
Thanks Greg for the pointer. There is a command bin/config_list which can get me started. Thanks again, leo. -- Leo So [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Greg Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Leo So [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:20 PM

Re: [Mailman-Users] config.db being set to 'root'

2001-10-26 Thread Rob Brandt
Problem 2) is solved! The directory /lists/listname did not have setgid turned on. Thanks Rob The directories have to be set with g+s, and your OS has to respect that (i.e. new files created in such directories need to inherit the group ownership of the parent dir). I suspect that those of

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and exim problem (relay trouble)

2001-10-26 Thread Moacir
I wrote re: qrunner not delivering on 24 October 01: Jon Carnes wrote on 24 October 01: In you ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py and Defaults.py what is the value of your Delivery defaults? They aren't declared in mm_cfg.py, and the Defaults.py are, as I've been instructed, untouched. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread Ken
On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:22 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: I generally recommend new *nix users to use Exim. Its secure, fast, has a human readable config file (that you can easily understand years later), excellent documentation, and a good security history. The rpm I installed comes with

[Mailman-Users] Header options

2001-10-26 Thread William Nyden
I help administer a L-Soft ListServ list which is fast approaching the 500 subscriber limit for free licenses. While complex to maintain, ListServ has some nice features which I haven't found on other list software, including two that our subscribers have argued over: subscriber control over the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:00:17 -0400 klowther Ken wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:22 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: I generally recommend new *nix users to use Exim. Its secure, fast, has a human readable config file (that you can easily understand years later), excellent documentation, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old Question, New Twist

2001-10-26 Thread J C Lawrence
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