Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman to RSS

2010-01-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 08:20:46AM -0600, mark lane wrote: Hope things are going well! Do happen to know an easy way to setup a mailman to RSS feed? From the listinfo: You might want to start by reading the Mailman FAQ Wiki. Also check out the official searchable archives.

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman to RSS

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
On Jan 10, 2010, at 9:20 AM, mark lane wrote: Hi, Hope things are going well! Do happen to know an easy way to setup a mailman to RSS feed? I have a patch set for 2.1.12 that also works with 2.1.13 that we've been using for a while now that does the job if you're interested. e.

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make the web form subscription more of a hurdle for spammers, e.g. captcha, etc? e.

[Mailman-Users] API Version Mismatch

2010-01-12 Thread Young, Darren
I'm calling config_list to take backups and get the following: /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/korean/c/euc_kr.py:24: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module _koco: This Python has API version 1012, module _koco has version 1011. The dump appears to work correctly, is that error

[Mailman-Users] Mailman backup script

2010-01-12 Thread Young, Darren
We've been using a config_list based shell script for the past several years to backup all of our Mailman mailing lists. While I was in making some changes today I thought I would post it, perhaps the community can get some value out of it as well. It is available at:

Re: [Mailman-Users] API Version Mismatch

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Young, Darren wrote: I'm calling config_list to take backups and get the following: /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/korean/c/euc_kr.py:24: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module _koco: This Python has API version 1012, module _koco has version 1011. The dump appears to work

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Terri Oda
Elaine Ashton wrote: Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make the web form subscription more of a hurdle for spammers, e.g. captcha,

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Terri Oda wrote: I'm not a big believer in captcha's (advances in tech have made a lot of them trivially easy to in an automated way, making them annoying to users for little gain) but it might be worth thinking about a plug in architecture for this in mm3 in

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:59:57PM -0500, Elaine Ashton wrote: Even if it only serves to annoying and slow down spammers, I'd use it. I noted ~2000 zeusmail.org subs overnight Have you thought about rate-limiting? -- ``What does it mean? It means I never have to work again.'' (Don McLean,

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elaine Ashton Even if it only serves to annoying and slow down spammers, I'd use it. I noted ~2000 zeusmail.org subs overnight and it concerns me that this is just the opening salvo since this will drive lists which are already closed to subscribers only to moderate traffic even from

[Mailman-Users] Help!

2010-01-12 Thread John Ditzel
I'm a new member and I'm not sure how to use the system or the capabilities of mailman to be useful to my bennefit. This may sound silly but I need to be educated some what in mailman and/or if it is even useful for me. I'm just stating to learm (some) html, long way to go, and could use help.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help!

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Ditzel wrote: I'm a new member and I'm not sure how to use the system or the capabilities of mailman to be useful to my bennefit. This may sound silly but I need to be educated some what in mailman and/or if it is even useful for me. I'm just stating to learm (some) html, long way to go,

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Elaine Ashton
On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: My .02 - every list to which someone can subscribe without admin approval should moderate new members by default. When they post, if their post is on topic, you can clear their mod bit while approving the post from the web admindb interface

[Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after moving list to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Watson
I recently moved a list to a new host, but retained the domain name. After many travails, and help from this list, I got my list working. After about a week of function, I am suddenly getting many Subscription disabled messages (about 10% of the 4411 subscribers, so far, but still growing as I

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: Elaine Ashton Even if it only serves to annoying and slow down spammers, I'd use it. I noted ~2000 zeusmail.org subs overnight and it concerns me that this is just the opening salvo since this will drive lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Andrew Watson wrote: I recently moved a list to a new host, but retained the domain name. After many travails, and help from this list, I got my list working. After about a week of function, I am suddenly getting many Subscription disabled messages (about 10% of the 4411 subscribers, so far, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after moving list to new server

2010-01-12 Thread James Reid
Hi Andrew, I'd have a look to see if the email addresses that are being disabled come from similar domains... problem might be caused by reverse dns or spf records - check out http://knol.google.com/k/ruben-rubio-rey/mail-servers-spam-and-dns-records/2zt8z36uq2soj/5# for some ideas. Regards,

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Watson
The bounce notices I get look legitimate. They typically include something like: Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address Diagnostic code: smtp;550 alb...@cvc.uab.es... User unknown Mailman's smtp-failure log contains many instances of lines like this (edited, vsad...@mysite.com is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Watson
PS: I independently tested one of the offending addresses, and it bounced. So perhaps they really are bad. I looked in the bounce log on the old server, and this same address bounced many times, but bounce info got reset often. The new bounce log has many messages, largely about resetting stale

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 1/12/2010 3:38 PM, Andrew Watson wrote: The bounce notices I get look legitimate. They typically include something like: Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address Diagnostic code: smtp;550 alb...@cvc.uab.es mailto:alb...@cvc.uab.es... User unknown In that case, they are probably

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 1/12/2010 4:07 PM, Andrew Watson wrote: Are the configuration data stored in a readable file? I could go back to the old server and find out what bounce options I used there. If you still have the installation on the old server except for web access, you can do bin/config_list -o -

[Mailman-Users] How to delete archives

2010-01-12 Thread David Anderson
I am trying to back up some mailman archives on a cPanel hosted website. I know your stance on cPanel, and quite understand it, but unfortunately I have to work in those constraints. I have got my provider to move all the archive files to an ftp area where I am trying to clear the message files.

[Mailman-Users] can't display listinfo page

2010-01-12 Thread myron
I recently e-mailed the list about my web server crashing and having to move to a new machine. I thought I knew what was going on, but obviously not. I started a web sever on my mail server that also has the mailman directory. Everything is on one box, so I thought this should be easy. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't display listinfo page

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
myron wrote: I changed mm_cfg.py to reflect the new DEFAULT_URL_HOST I get the following error. There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists on ... Is there something else I need to change? See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/mIA9. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error Sending to newly created list

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 1/12/2010 10:28 AM, Robert Cannon wrote: Hello All, I am very new to the mailman system, I have recently taken over a client that uses this and has approx 10,000 email addresses in it. I have receive a request to create new list which I was able to successfully, and have added myself to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to delete archives

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Anderson wrote: What needs to be in the archive directory for things to work properly? An 'empty' list archive for a list named 'junk' looks like the following [m...@sbh16 ~]$ ls -ld mmv/archives/private/junk* drwxrwsr-x 2 mark mailman 4096 Jan 12 16:48 mmv/archives/private/junk

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Watson
The old server had essentially the same bounce options as the new. It was mailman 2.1.5, and I see many probe messages in the bounce log. Maybe you are right about the VERPed probe. On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 1/12/2010 4:07 PM, Andrew Watson wrote: Are the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change configs for ALL lists?

2010-01-12 Thread David Andrews
At 12:47 PM 1/12/2010, Terri Oda wrote: Elaine Ashton wrote: Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make the web form subscription more of

[Mailman-Users] How to delete archives

2010-01-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Anderson writes: I am trying to back up some mailman archives on a cPanel hosted website. I know your stance on cPanel, and quite understand it, but unfortunately I have to work in those constraints. Note that the stance on cPanel is not that we *won't* support Mailman users on

Re: [Mailman-Users] many Subscription disabled messages after movinglist to new server

2010-01-12 Thread Mark Sapiro
Andrew Watson The old server had essentially the same bounce options as the new. It was mailman 2.1.5, and I see many probe messages in the bounce log. Maybe you are right about the VERPed probe. If there weren't any disabling due to probe bounce received messages in the log, only sending