[Mailman-Users] Admin FAQ/Instructions?

2001-11-27 Thread Richard Torrens
Is there a set of instructions for list administrators anywhere? In particular, I wanyt to know how to delete postings from the archives. A couple of the lists I run have just received copies of a virus! Can I, for instance, simply delete the html file in the relevant archive? Won't this upset

Re: [Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

2001-11-27 Thread Richard Barrett
At 17:03 26/11/2001 -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:50:46PM +0100, Andre Dieball wrote: Hi I'm trying to install htdig with Mailman 2.0.7. I saw, that there are several patches available for that, but all of them are for 2.0.6 The changes between .6 and .7 should

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 24 November 2001, marina said: Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses? With Mailman 2.0.x, this is not possible. Mailman only remembers subscriber's address, password, and options. Greg -- Greg

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 24 November 2001, Alex Franz said: Can you please tell me how to erase old posts? I've just added an entry to the Mailman FAQ wizard for this: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.003.htp This is lightly tested, and hasn't yet been vetted by the experts. Please let

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-27 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
P == Phydeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P Using bin/list_lists I can get a list of the lists. I can then P easily cycle through each list and (for each one) do the P following: P - Run bin/config_list - Run bin/list_members (once for P digested, once for regular members)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backup script...

2001-11-27 Thread Phydeaux
At 10:38 AM 11/27/2001 -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: P Next, is there anything markedly different with v2.1 that would P make this unworkable, unwise, or unnecessary? MM2.1 should have largely the same issues, except it'll have a long running daemon instead of cron-invoked qrunners, so

Re: [Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Moseley
At 07:50 PM 11/26/01 +0100, Andre Dieball wrote: I'm trying to install htdig with Mailman 2.0.7. Swish-e can also be used. Take a look at the archive search page at: http://www.swish-e.org/Discussion/search/swish.cgi That's indexing a hypermail archive, which I assume is very similar to

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change the mail format

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 November 2001, leanne lai said: Hi, is there way to change the mail format of the mailing list? eg if I want to change the List-Archive: to point to another web address or if I want to add List-Owner to the mail? Mailman is open source software -- you can do whatever you want with it.

[Mailman-Users] Post by non-member to a members-only list

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Moseley
I checked the FAQ, and the other faqw-mm I'm looking for a way to just bounce non-member posts, saying that they are not a member and they need to subscribe if they want to post. These don't need admin action. The problem with the current setup is people post (often from a different email

[Mailman-Users] Changing the mail format

2001-11-27 Thread leanne lai
Hi, is there a way to change the mail format we receive from Mailman? Ie, can I add a field List-owner: name or can I change so the the List-Archive point to another web address? Thanks in advance :) -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Add to the wishlist

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ippolito
I would like to add to the wish list. User login/password authentication should be able to use LDAP as an option. Python has an LDAP interface. See http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ My LDAP tutorial/example might help in getting started: http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialLDAP.html

[Mailman-Users] Can Mailman archives be used by Listproc lists?

2001-11-27 Thread Mike Ewall
Hi there, I'm running a bunch of Listproc lists and I'm looking for a decent program to archive the lists on a website. Can Mailman be used this way or do the archives work only for Mailman lists? Mike -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Admin Request Error?

2001-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailman seems to be a little out of sync with my list. I keep getting messages to tend to subscription requests that have already been filled. I suspect that something went awry when I manually subbed the names (via mass subscribe), instead of going through the administrative request

[Mailman-Users] Stripping Attachments

2001-11-27 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Does anyone know of some type of module, or frontend for MM that functions similar to what the Listar (http://www.listar.org) program does with attachments? Listar will strip any MIME content off of the message and dump it to an URL accessible address and will then forward the message on

[Mailman-Users] Supressing those List* headers

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Tomblin
Is there any way to suppress those List* headers. One of the people on my mailing lists is complaining that they seem to be forcing his email to be HTML. (He uses Eudora.) -- Paul Tomblin [EMAIL PROTECTED], not speaking for anybody Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Supressing those List* headers

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Moseley
At 07:36 PM 11/27/01 -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: Is there any way to suppress those List* headers. One of the people on my mailing lists is complaining that they seem to be forcing his email to be HTML. (He uses Eudora.) http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#4.1 It would be very

Re: [Mailman-Users] Supressing those List* headers

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): At 07:36 PM 11/27/01 -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote: Is there any way to suppress those List* headers. One of the people on my mailing lists is complaining that they seem to be forcing his email to be HTML. (He uses Eudora.)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Supressing those List* headers

2001-11-27 Thread John W Baxter
At 19:36 -0500 11/27/2001, Paul Tomblin wrote: Is there any way to suppress those List* headers. One of the people on my mailing lists is complaining that they seem to be forcing his email to be HTML. (He uses Eudora.) I don't see Eudora forcing my mail to be HTML because of the List* headers.

[Mailman-Users] authentication

2001-11-27 Thread Joe Wise
My students and I keep getting a user unknown message back when I try to subscribe to my list-serve. The message goes out fine. It is in the reply that something gets fowled up. Is there something I have done wrong in the configuration? My main mail server is on a W2k box on the network. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can Mailman archives be used by Listproc lists?

2001-11-27 Thread Jon Carnes
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:55, Mike Ewall wrote: Hi there, I'm running a bunch of Listproc lists and I'm looking for a decent program to archive the lists on a website. Can Mailman be used this way or do the archives work only for Mailman lists? Mike You could do this, but it would

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stripping Attachments

2001-11-27 Thread Jon Carnes
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 19:35, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Does anyone know of some type of module, or frontend for MM that functions similar to what the Listar (http://www.listar.org) program does with attachments? Listar will strip any MIME content off of the message and dump it to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Supressing those List* headers

2001-11-27 Thread Jonathan Andrew Sheen
At 01:45 AM 11/28/01 -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 19:36, Paul Tomblin wrote: Is there any way to suppress those List* headers. One of the people on my mailing lists is complaining that they seem to be forcing his email to be HTML. (He uses Eudora.) Its quite easy

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 24 November 2001, marina said: Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses? I've just added a new entry to the FAQ Wizard: 3.2. How can I track subscriber's real names? With Mailman 2.0.x, you can't:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names

2001-11-27 Thread J C Lawrence
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:54:16 -0500 Greg Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just added a new entry to the FAQ Wizard: 3.2. How can I track subscriber's real names? Nice. I've updated and extended it a bit. Umm, actually I updated and extended most of the current FAQ entries as well as

[Mailman-Users] RELEASE Mailman 2.0.8

2001-11-27 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Hot on the heels of Mailman 2.0.7, I'm now releasing 2.0.8 which fixes several cross-site scripting security holes, and a few other minor bug fixes. More information on cross-site scripting exploits in general can be found at http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html I recommend