[Mailman-Users] RELEASED: Mailman 3.0 alpha 7

2011-04-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
I am very happy to announce the release of the seventh alpha for Mailman 3.0, code named "Mission". Here are some of the highlights of a release with lots of new stuff (a more detailed NEWS.txt file excerpt is below). * Significant improvements to the subscription model. Users can now subscribe

[Mailman-Users] Call for volunteers: convert wiki to Moin

2011-04-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
For many years, Atlassian has provided the GNU Mailman project with free (as in beer) wiki hosting on their proprietary platform. This has included a free license, free hosting, and free support. We are very grateful to them for this, as our wiki contains lots of useful information that help you,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about excessive bounces

2011-04-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: > >You need to check Mailman's 'bounce' log to see when bounces are being >received/registered, and Mailman's 'smtp-failure' log for potential >delivery issues. You also need to look at the actual bounce >notifications attached to the disabled notices to see that these seem >to b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about excessive bounces

2011-04-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
wrote: > >I administrate two Mailman mailing lists at ScienceByEmailHTML and >ScienceByEmailPlain. We have approximately 39 000 addresses in the former >list, and about 1000 in the latter. I have a question about the bounces we >receive. > >We have the lists set so after five bounces, the addre

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attempting to update Mailman, but qfiles/* has files

2011-04-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Barry Finkel wrote: > >I had a problem with qfiles/bad the last time I tried to update. >After research, I determined that those files were old and >could be deleted. I now run a cron every morning to tell me >what is in qfiles/bad so that I can research and handle before >they cause problems. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Attempting to update Mailman, but qfiles/* has files

2011-04-29 Thread Barry Finkel
On 04/28/11 19:04, Dennis Carr wrote: Note, running Debian Stable on the server. I'm attempting to update Mailman through aptitude, but it warns me that all files in the qfiles tree will be wiped out. This includes files that have been bouncing back and forth between qfiles/out and qfiles/retry.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about excessive bounces

2011-04-29 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* mike.mc...@csiro.au : > Hi, > > I administrate two Mailman mailing lists at ScienceByEmailHTML and > ScienceByEmailPlain. We have approximately 39 000 addresses in the > former list, and about 1000 in the latter. I have a question about the > bounces we receive. > > We have the lists set so aft