[Mailman-Users] Multiple subscribers set in mailman

2008-12-03 Thread swapan mitra
Hi, I am new to mailman and I have List Administrator access only to the mailing list. Can I do the following and if yes how can I do that: We have series of messages (all messages are interlinked by topic) which we want to share with our mailing list subscribers. Now this is fine with

[Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Amos Glenn
Hi everyone- I couldn't find an answer to this question in any of my searches, so I'm asking the list. I feel pretty stupid making the assumptions I did to get myself into this mess, but here it goes: Some time ago, I was asked to administer a mailing list for a group under their domain name.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Site Admin email Problem

2008-12-03 Thread Sean Murphy
Mark Sapiro wrote: Sean Murphy wrote: Mailman used to send me an email as the site admin that a new list has been created. I use the web interface to create new lists. This email had the aliases I needed to add to the /etc/mail/aliases file in the body of the email. I have upgraded

[Mailman-Users] How about throttling?

2008-12-03 Thread Adam Corley
I've read everything I can find about throttling mailman. Everything I found said it cannot be done. Any hope? Mailman is the slickest, easy-to-use mailer out there and I'd really like to continue using it. We just need to find a way to throttle it on shared hosting! Thanks! adam -- Too much

[Mailman-Users] Check_perms issues

2008-12-03 Thread support
What does this all mean? Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root,

[Mailman-Users] How do I change the host_name preference

2008-12-03 Thread Sean Murphy
In the general options admin page there is a setting Host name this list prefers for email. When I create a list it uses calarts.edu in the field but I would like it to automatically use the FQDN server.calarts.edu. Is there a way to set it permanently for all new list on creations. Thanks

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cannot Create a New List

2008-12-03 Thread bjk
Hi there Have spent an hour trawling through FAQ / Archives etc, but I can't find a match for my current predicament. :-) We have installed Mailman via cpanel / Fantastico on www.claverton-energy.com and have a Mailing List which has worked perfectly for a couple of weeks at;

[Mailman-Users] Having a number of problems

2008-12-03 Thread Joe Ruffolo
I've been trying for weeks to get mailman up and running. Im very new to Linux, mailman, apache and all the MTA's. I've followed all the write up's but can never seem to get mailman to work correctly. Right now im at the point where if I create a newlist it will send an email to the

[Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread Russell Christiansen
OK. Someone and I have been attempting to get Mailman working under the ubuntu platform. I've recently installed the Apache2 Web Server, Postfix, and Maliman onto my machine. Presently, I'm using Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04, mostly due to the fact that I'm not sure that all this will work on a desktop

[Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread Rusty0918
OK. Someone and I have been attempting to get Mailman working under the ubuntu platform. I've recently installed the Apache2 Web Server, Postfix, and Maliman onto my machine. Presently, I'm using Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04, mostly due to the fact that I'm not sure that all this will work on a desktop

[Mailman-Users] Problem with MySQL MemberAdaptor and Mailman 2.1.9

2008-12-03 Thread Dominik Zäuner
Hi all, I'm currently using a preconfigured system with Exim 4.66 and Mailman 2.1.9. I additionally added MySQL MemberAdaptor according to the instrucitons at: http://loeki.tv/log/archives/81-Setting-up-Mailman-to-store-members-in-a-MySQL-database.html Now everything works fine as long I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple subscribers set in mailman

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
swapan mitra wrote: I am new to mailman and I have List Administrator access only to the mailing list. Can I do the following and if yes how can I do that: We have series of messages (all messages are interlinked by topic) which we want to share with our mailing list subscribers. Now this is

[Mailman-Users] Multiple subscribers set in mailman

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
swapan mitra writes: We have series of messages (all messages are interlinked by topic) which we want to share with our mailing list subscribers. Now this is fine with already subscribed mailing list members. But who joins new into the same Mailing list we want to send them, messages from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Amos Glenn wrote: But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list admin website to turn the list off. Access the web admin interface using the IP address of the server rather than the domain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Having a number of problems

2008-12-03 Thread Chris Johnson
-Original Message- From: Joe Ruffolo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:24 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Having a number of problems I've been trying for weeks to get mailman up and running. Im very new to Linux, mailman,

[Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Amos Glenn writes: But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list admin website to turn the list off. I contacted the web host and they were unresponsive. What do you mean by web

Re: [Mailman-Users] How about throttling?

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Adam Corley wrote: I've read everything I can find about throttling mailman. Everything I found said it cannot be done. Right. Any hope? Mailman is the slickest, easy-to-use mailer out there and I'd really like to continue using it. We just need to find a way to throttle it on shared

Re: [Mailman-Users] Check_perms issues

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this all mean? Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cannot Create a New List

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have installed Mailman via cpanel / Fantastico on See http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Mailman+and+CPanel. cPanel has the general effect of making you entirely dependent on the host; we can't help. However, the site owner now wants a new list created. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Rusty0918 wrote: I don't think all the installation guides or anything are going to cut the mustard for me here. I need the best way to get Mailman working on my system, and to work correctly on the web. FYI, my network is a local LAN which uses DHCP. Do I need a DHCP3 server? You need

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I change the host_name preference

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Sean Murphy wrote: In the general options admin page there is a setting Host name this list prefers for email. When I create a list it uses calarts.edu in the field but I would like it to automatically use the FQDN server.calarts.edu. Is there a way to set it permanently for all new list on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with MySQL MemberAdaptor and Mailman 2.1.9

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dominik Zäuner wrote: I additionally added MySQL MemberAdaptor according to the instrucitons at: http://loeki.tv/log/archives/81-Setting-up-Mailman-to-store-members-in-a-MySQL-database.html Now everything works fine as long I'm just using the web interface for adding/removing user or directly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Amos Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... the group let the domain name lapse and someone else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list admin website to turn the list off. I contacted the web host and they were unresponsive. rantDon't get me started on this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple subscribers set in mailman

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Welch
Mark Sapiro wrote at 08:41 AM 12/3/2008: We have series of messages (all messages are interlinked by topic) which we want to share with our mailing list subscribers. Now this is fine with already subscribed mailing list members. But who joins new into the same Mailing list we want to send

Re: [Mailman-Users] How about throttling?

2008-12-03 Thread Brad Knowles
Adam Corley wrote: I've read everything I can find about throttling mailman. Everything I found said it cannot be done. The final answer to this question is in the FAQ Wiki. Search for throttle. -- Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn Profile: http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Cannot Create a New List

2008-12-03 Thread Brad Knowles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have spent an hour trawling through FAQ / Archives etc, but I can't find a match for my current predicament. :-) We have installed Mailman via cpanel / Fantastico on www.claverton-energy.com and have a Mailing List which has worked perfectly for a couple of weeks at;

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Jan Steinman
From: Jan Steinman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd start slamming the list with thousands of messages (yea, I know, unkind to the hapless subscribers) in the hope that all the bounces and admin backscatter will spur the new domain owner into action. Before everyone starts jumping all over me for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with MySQL MemberAdaptor and Mailman 2.1.9

2008-12-03 Thread Dominik Zäuner
Mark Sapiro wrote: Have you restarted Mailman since adding the lists/LISTNAME/extend.py file? I really thought I did, but it helped. Thanks. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread Rusty0918
And how exactly do I do that? I've been trying different ways to get Mailman to work properly, and frankly I'm at a big loss, and I mean a big loss. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Amos Glenn wrote: But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list admin website to turn the list off. Access the web admin interface using the IP address of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread Brad Knowles
Rusty0918 wrote: And how exactly do I do that? I've been trying different ways to get Mailman to work properly, and frankly I'm at a big loss, and I mean a big loss. Those are questions that are not relevant to this mailing list. Try asking on a mailing list for one of your local Linux user

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Brad Knowles
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Access the web admin interface using the IP address of the server rather than the domain name in the host part of the URL. Will that actually work in a virtual hosting environment? Depends on how the virtual hosting environment was set up. If they gave you a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Andrew Hodgson
Amos Glenn wrote: But between then and now, the group let the domain name lapse and someone else now owns the domain name. Thus I can no longer get to the Mailman list admin website to turn the list off. There are a couple of techy ways you could do this: - Point the hosts file at the relevant

Re: [Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rusty0918 writes: And how exactly do I do that? I've been trying different ways to get Mailman to work properly, and frankly I'm at a big loss, and I mean a big loss. If do that refers to configure the network routing and DNS services, you're asking in the wrong place. Try the Ubuntu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple subscribers set in mailman

2008-12-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/01/2008 05:58 AM, swapan mitra wrote: We have series of messages (all messages are interlinked by topic) which we want to share with our mailing list subscribers. Now this is fine with already subscribed mailing list members. But who joins new into the same Mailing list we want to send

Re: [Mailman-Users] New User trying to get Mailman, Apache2, Postfix working on Ubuntu LTS Server 8.04 for Internet

2008-12-03 Thread David Andrews
At 12:29 PM 12/3/2008, Brad Knowles wrote: Rusty0918 wrote: However, the site owner now wants a new list created. The problem is, the link to do this; http://claverton-energy.com/mailman/create - generates a 404 Page Not Found Error... None of the documentation / trouble-shooting anticipates

Re: [Mailman-Users] How about throttling?

2008-12-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/01/2008 02:49 PM, Adam Corley wrote: Mailman is the slickest, easy-to-use mailer out there and I'd really like to continue using it. We just need to find a way to throttle it on shared hosting! I believe it is possible to have Mailman use the sendmail (binary / command) rather than

Re: [Mailman-Users] Lapsed domain name

2008-12-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/03/2008 12:35 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: There are a couple of techy ways you could do this: - Point the hosts file at the relevant IP address of the web server you use to manage the domain/Mailman setup, then point a web browser at it. It should work locally. - If you have a local

Re: [Mailman-Users] How about throttling?

2008-12-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Grant Taylor wrote: I believe it is possible to have Mailman use the sendmail (binary / command) rather than SMTP direct to send emails. Yes, but read all the caveats and warnings in Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py. Don't do it. Besides, SMTPDirect delivers via the local MTA, so if you're going