[Mailman-Users] Google distribution list as list admin

2010-10-21 Thread Jon Gardner
I have a list admin who is using a Google distribution list as the admin email for a Mailman list. Whenever Mailman sends an administrative email, the Google server responds thus: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: email address of Google distribution list Technical

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote: It appears that 'official' Mailman packages for lenny are a wee bit behind upstream. I believe others on this list use the Umbungo packages on lenny (Debian 5), without too many difficulties. YMMV. (I don't really have the time to take on

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Finkel
On Oct 20, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote: It appears that 'official' Mailman packages for lenny are a wee bit behind upstream. I believe others on this list use the Umbungo packages on lenny (Debian 5), without too many difficulties. YMMV. (I don't really have the time to take on

[Mailman-Users] Frequent use of clone_member

2010-10-21 Thread Ivan Fetch
Hello, We are changing student email from mailboxes, to forwarding addresses. Among other challenges, we are exploring various ways to deal with students who are subscribed to closed (only subscribers may post) mailing lists. (There are a lot of similar challenges when switching to an email

[Mailman-Users] Frequent use of clone_member

2010-10-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ivan Fetch writes: One possibility we're exploring, is to change a student's mailing list subscriptions, when they change their forwarding address. We would iterate through these address changes and run clone_member, like: Clone_member --remove --admin o...@our.domain