Re: [Mailman-Users] Two questions

2005-01-29 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mel Sojka wrote: Just a suggestion folks. I have been using mailman since it was the new kid on the block and it is truly a fantastic package, but since series 2.1 at least once a week the VIRTUAL_HOSTS issue hits the users list. [...] someone to create

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list

2005-02-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Ballard wrote: What I would like to do is set up and announce only list that only one or two people can post to. I do want for people be able to subscribe to it but I want the default to be that they can receive posts but can't post to it. The way it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + giant lists + the infinite weight of the cosmos

2005-02-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Cabel Sasser wrote: Which version of python are you running? 2.3 includes a new db package for the pickles. My problem is not with the mailing, but seemingly rather with the user management. Adding and removing members can take up to 60 seconds to complete

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman + giant lists + the infinite weight of the cosmos

2005-02-11 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: One thing I just remembered -- if you use Berkeley DB as a storage format for either individual pickles, or the entire list, then you break the ability to use NFS as the filesystem type. The problem is that Berkeley DB makes

[Mailman-Users] Handling MM security problems

2005-02-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
[long post ahead] This has gone past silly. I run MM. I'm concerned about security holes. I want to know about holes ASAP. I want to make the decision whether they are serious enough to stop all list processing or to ignore. I don't want someone else making these decisions for me. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman list size limitations?

2005-02-16 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Joshua Beall wrote: I have a client who wants to setup a very *large* mailing list. Right now she has about 4500 people on the list (including myself). Which actually qualifies as only a moderate size, there are 15k+ lists using MM. However, she has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non members to view archives selectively?

2005-02-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Anne Shroeder - Internet Society wrote: My boss wants me to give selective access to our archives. That is, they are not supposed to be public, but she wants some selected individuals to be able to view the archives without the ability to post to the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman + postfix

2005-02-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [Jardar Eggesb_ Abrahamsen] wrote: In /etc/postfix/main.cf I am supposed to add: owner_request_special = no because: By default, Postfix treats -owner and -request addresses specially. Since we want Postfix to deliver such messages to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Major Mailing List Problems

2005-02-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: At 2:23 PM -0500 2005-02-18, Webmaster wrote: I'm not the most computer savvy person in the world, but I know a little, how do I set up your software so this cant happen again, and so that

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 initial config problems (virtual hosts andpermissions)

2005-03-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
I've successfully configured 2.1.5 to do virtual domains w/ postfix. The patches required a little tweeking to install, and the description of how things operate leaves someting to be desired. If the dieties are with me this week, I'll diff my code against 2.1.5 release and post the results.

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on ampersand in listname

2005-03-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: Larry Stone wrote: I'd stay away from an ampersand. It has a special meaning in Unix commands (means execute the previous command in the background) and unless properly escaped, will be taken for that special meaning every time it

Re: [Mailman-Users] MailMan Not Sending

2005-04-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jess Mooers wrote: This is what I get now. xserve1:/ jmooers$ sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start Password: Site list is missing: mailman That's because with 2.1.x, you must have a list called 'mailman'. I'm sure it's in the FAQ somewhere. MM

Re: [Mailman-Users] lynx html - text question...

2005-04-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Nathan Stazewski wrote: If I do indeed need to install lynx on a Mac, I have a few questions. I searched on the net and it seems that lynx is some sort of a text-only web browser.so is this what I am to install to get mailman to convert html to text? I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Accepting MSword attachments

2005-04-20 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Rick Pasotto wrote: In the pass_mime_types filter I have: multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain applica/msword ^^^?? Depending on the MUA, you may need: application/msword application/octet-stream z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help: mailman, permissions, IOError (OS X, 10.3.8)

2005-04-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Do/did you have an old installation of MM? V2.1.n doesn't use a cron job, but rather lets the qrunner daemonize. IIRC, you need to manually remove all MM cron entries. z! who is certainly not an expert on this. -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding the aliases

2005-05-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, John W. Baxter wrote: On 5/2/2005 4:36, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina What tips would you suggest to allow the adding of aliases when adding a ML through the web interface? (that would include regeneration of the alias-db and may be restarting or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman question...

2005-05-04 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to set up a mailing list so that only one designated person can send the emails? I hate to say this. but look in the FAQ and this list archive for 'announce only' lists. Mailman FAQ:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing from cell phones

2005-05-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Scot Hacker wrote: Hmm... good point. Perhaps replying to the From: address rather than the Return-Path, or vice versa. Would there be any way to fix this in mailman, or is it just a question of broken email implementations in phones? Most likely, it's a

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple domains

2005-05-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Steven Jones wrote: Can mailman be set to appear to come from multiple domains? Eg, mostly our users will be www.lists./mailman, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] but some want their own domain. Eg www.arch./mailman and [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're looking for

Re: [Mailman-Users] QRUNNER processes running high on CPU rates

2005-06-20 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Chance Eppinette wrote: The CPU rate is hovering around 45% for the qrunner bounce process. The list has purged out about 1100 disabled subscribers over this weekend, but for some reason is still churning away about nothing - it seems. Clearing the member

Re: [Mailman-Users] Privacy options

2005-06-21 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, kalin mintchev wrote: in the 2.0 version i had before in the Privacy options there was a setting for every single message to be approved - doesn't matter if the member was new or not. now i can't find this... i see that there is a way to turn that

Re: [Mailman-Users] txt files and database

2005-06-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jean-Philippe GIOLA wrote: Bill Landry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nobody has answered me so I ask my question an another time...! I'd have thought that the answer fairly was obvious... I want to know why the mailman's developpers have choosen to store

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman options on Exchange

2005-07-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Bruce N. Audie wrote: My Linux box is being decommissioned. We are firing up an Exchange server. Is there an option that will provide me with all of the same Mailman features? FreeBSD/postfix/mailman. If you're looking for a ms-exchange option that provides

Re: [Mailman-Users] Scheduled Administrative Option

2005-07-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: Remember that current structure of mailman is not good at arbitrary scheduling. You may have to run a scheduling script every hour or so. Seems like this already exists with qrunner. [knowing nothing about the internals..] If a message

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases?

2005-07-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, James wrote: Is this a correct way of adding/managingin mailman aliases database? I'm using Postfix, and mailman v2.1.5. Have you read the postfix readme file and set set up postfix integration? If you use postfix integration, newlist will automatically deal

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases?

2005-07-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, James wrote: Where can I find the postifx intergration doc? it's at the top of mailman source as README.POSTFIX, or look in the FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?query=postfixquerytype=simplecasefold=yesreq=search z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.6 slowness...?

2005-07-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: At 4:22 PM -0400 2005-07-15, Jeff Squyres wrote: thinking that this is not our problem (it was 500 in 2.1.5 as well) -- indeed, the problem seems to be the rate at which mailman gives mail to sendmail, not how many mails it gives in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.6 slowness...?

2005-07-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: Hmm. Actually, I think you may be on the right track, but not with regards to load average. The more recent versions of sendmail will also allow only so many simultaneous connections open, and that can also be a bottleneck.

Re: [Mailman-Users] 403 Forbidden Error when creating list

2005-08-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Scott Loga wrote: I was able to find a solution in the mailing list. It took a quite a bit of digging, but I realized I had to reconfigure my apache httpd.conf file. I found two versions of this solution and since I am new to FreeBSD,Apache and mailman I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] the Apache2 web interface for Mailman has not been activated!

2005-08-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Scott Comboni wrote: I cannot start mailman rcmailman start without getting this error.. Error: Starting mailman (Warning: the Apache2 webinterface for Mailman has not been activated!)Site list is missing: mailman Did you see FAQ 5.5?

Re: [Mailman-Users] HA: how to avoid mailmanSite list creation

2005-08-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply, 1) Maybe someone could tell me if there is a way to avoid creating mailman list and still run mailman properly? See FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.025.htp. You need to have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List Config

2005-09-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Sujay Thomas wrote: 1. Subscribers send mail to the mailing list address. 2. Everyone in the mailing list gets this message. 3. Any replies made to the messages get sent to everyone as well. Right now it doesn't do this and I can't seem to figure out how

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Lists to a new server

2005-10-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Dennis Putnam wrote: Can someone point me to some documentation for migrating mailman lists and archives to a new server? Thanks. Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py While the search engine appears to be out of service, the index isn't.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing List: Only administrator / owner of list shall be allowed to post

2005-10-31 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Oliver [K_nig] wrote: Hello, I want to set up a mailing list, where only the administrator / owner of list shall be allowed to post messages to the list. How do I configure this? please check the FAQ, url is below. (look for 'announce only' or some such) z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Questions about Mailman

2005-11-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hi, In a flurry of recycled electrons, Nelly Yusupova wrote: I am a newbie to mailman but I can not figure out how to 1. Create an announce only list That's a FAQ. 2. Automatically subscribe registrants to our lists using a script. For example, when someone becomes a member of our

Re: [Mailman-Users] Different servers

2005-11-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Benjamin Mack wrote: So, the hardest part was actually the rewriting of sendmail, which does not work quite well yet. Maybe I should switch to exim or so. If you are going to switch MTAs, seriously think about Postfix. z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce List (nOOb Question)

2005-11-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Ken at Meancode Media wrote: Where is the setting for an announce list? Thanks! In the FAQ? Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Please check there. z! -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uhhuh, my GID blues goes on... :(

2005-11-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Niemi Hannu wrote: I have two sets of the lists: 1) Lists that operate all right, when /etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is 65533(nobody (vintage lists) 2) Lists that operate all right, when /etc/mailman/mailman.mail-gid is 67 (mailman) (newly created lists)

Re: [Mailman-Users] Quick question ..

2005-11-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Rob Poe wrote: I'm running Mailman for a list, and one of my subscribers is getting this message from spamalert.net (VIRUS) Re: [CWC] Fuel Tank Removal Received: Wednesday, Nov 23, 2005 at 9:03pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (removed) mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] how many mailman subscribers?

2005-12-08 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many users (subscribers) can Mailman handle? It's been suggested to me that if you have over 1500 users, that one should consider using L-Soft's Listserv. Can anyone comment on there experience with Mailman and how many users it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman complie errors again

2005-12-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Elvis Fernandes wrote: I am compiling mailman-2.1.5 on Solaris10 (SPARC) with gcc 3.3.2 When I do make install, I get the following fatal error: Mailman compiles itself. Are you compiling -python-? (That's what it looks like.) Sort of out of scope for this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Installation Owner

2005-12-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Kory Wheatley wrote: I have a very critical question. I installed Mailman 2.1.6 under a user account called wheakory and this account needs to be removed off of our system fast. I would like to change ownership of the Mailman installer owner to mailacct

Re: [Mailman-Users] Backing up your mailing list

2006-01-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Hujjah 313 wrote: Is there a feature on mailman whereby we can backup our mailing list on hard disk? Well, they're already on the server's hard disks. If you want to back up the lists, all you need to do is copy them, they're in the mailman/lists dir. Given

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need help setting up a list

2006-01-07 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Phillips wrote: How do I set up a list so it is for announcements only? The recipients can -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why are footers sent as attachments?

2006-01-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Strictly speaking, this depends on the MUA, too. In the message I'm replying to Gnus added no less than 16 clickable items, including everything in the footer (every line except the title Mailman-Users mailing list). It's a shame

Re: [Mailman-Users] about python

2006-02-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, reema jamil wrote: hello, I want a detailed tutorial on python. Also want to know that does this language support pointers, enumeration, record ,union , abstract data types etc... You might try http://www.python.org/ and possibly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails With Attachments

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Marlowe McClasky wrote: We are unable to send an email with an attached file. Can it be done? Make the attachment smaller than 40k. (Or better, put the file on a web site and send the URL.) We receive the following error message: -- Your mail to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Not a list member notification email

2006-02-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: Lawrence Bowie wrote: 3) When typing, mailq, on the server, it does not list the corresponding held messages. These are message Mailman has in its qfiles that PostFix does not know about. In which qfiles? If it is

Re: [Mailman-Users] GMane?

2006-02-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
All this discussion is starting to sound like a game of Who struck John? (BTW, before this, I'd never heard of Gmane.) Taking what everyone's said a face value, Gmane provides a service that some people like. The admins/owners of the MM list don't like Gmane's policies, thus don't want to

Re: [Mailman-Users] One way mailing list

2006-02-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Steven Jones wrote: What would be the right settings for a mailing list where one or two people post to a list of subscribers but those subscribers cannot post themselves to the list? Search the FAQ for announcement or one-way lists. z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Batch Processing

2006-03-29 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Dana Nevins wrote: I have an announcement list with 45,000 members, when I send an email not only does it severely overload the server but it also gets blocked from performing DNS lookups after the first few thousand lookups. Which MTA are you using? You

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron setup

2006-04-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: Do the other scripts in /etc/cron.daily run? This is not the normal way to run a script with cron. The normal way is to put an entry in the crontab of the user that specifies what to run and when. See 'man crontab' and 'man 5 crontab'.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help me; What serve my needs???

2006-04-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: Somtimes over 10 mail. It is only needed to send the mail out. And the most important is the speed. Is there another listsoftware there is better for oneway maling ??? Maybe, but mailman does it quite well. and how many mails,

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is your injection speed???

2006-04-07 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jonas Jacobsen wrote: I would like to know how fast mailman can inject mails to the postfix mail spool?? I think the bigger question is usually how fast can postfix deliver the messages. Mailman will batch the addresses it sends to the MTA, I think that 500

Re: [Mailman-Users] A little help please

2006-04-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Said Sr Manager decided that they did not like the name we had chosen for our domain, so they asked us to change it. When we changed it, the mail does not work. Sigh. I can launch the web pages, add subtract, modify and view the

Re: [Mailman-Users] No Mailman web pages appear.

2006-04-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Andy wrote: Thanks for your reply. The admin tried everything he could and it still does not work. He has virtual hosts, and he suspects that perhaps Mailman cannot work with virtual hosts, only with proper WWW servers. Can you please confirm? What is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner restarts every 15 minutes

2006-05-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Joern Allmers wrote: Mailman works great and everything could be fine if not it was restarting every 15 minutes: Perchange, is qrunner being run every 15 minutes in a cron job? Newer mailmans just start qrunner once at boot time and it deals with it's own

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner restarts every 15 minutes

2006-05-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Joern Allmers wrote: Perchange, is qrunner being run every 15 minutes in a cron job? Newer mailmans just start qrunner once at boot time and it deals with it's own scheduling. I don't think so. In cron.d theres no entry for it. Any idea why the qrunners

Re: [Mailman-Users] one way or no-reply list

2006-05-04 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lucy Rasmussen wrote: sent to all list members. Is there any way that I can make this list a no response list? Alternatively, is there a way that I can have responses posted to me for screening? Thanks for your help. I suppose an alternative is to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom footer based on sender's email

2006-05-04 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Rob Jackson wrote: Was hoping to use some regular expression and just remove some lines. The lines I need to remove will always be the same. The problem is that it won't always the the same. As you see below, now the footer has in front of each line.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't run mm_cfg.py

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jim Popovitch wrote: I am no Python expert either, but i am a competent perl and C++ programmer. After about 4 years of tweaking and changing Python code, I've learned to appreciate it's power, but also it's simplicity. Python is a very well designed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Members list settings

2006-06-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: I prefer however to think in terms of the RFEs on this which ask for various things from simply exposing the parameter in the web interface to providing a radio button selection (e.g. 20, 50, 100, all) on the pages to paginating without

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman minimal (memory) requirements?

2006-07-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I'm trying to run mailman 2.1.8 on a system with only 32 MB RAM (and ~100 MB swap). So, at an absolute minimum, this machine would require ~236MB swap space and ~56MB of real RAM, plus the OS requirements.

Re: [Mailman-Users] implicit destination

2006-07-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Dr. John Caccavale wrote: I just cannot seem to get a workable solution to a problem I am having with Mailman. Although the list is set up to be unmoderated, I am still getting message to accept or deny a message from members. The reason is always the same:

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML Formatted Email

2006-07-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Ki Song wrote: Question: Does Horde and/or Squirrel Mail send HTML Mail that is sent as source code? I've found that these programs allow me to send HTML email that is already FORMATTED, but I want to be able to just copy/paste HTML code from an HTML editor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fedora 5/Mailman: Lot of memory being used while sending email

2006-07-21 Thread Carl Zwanzig
B.G. Mahesh wrote: When we post anything on a list that has about 360k email ids, python is using 4GB of memory [2 GB physical and 2 GB of virtual] and the process is taking a long time [to send out emails] How do I fine tune it? You might start with FAQ 4.11 and possibly the appropriate

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman export/import

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, glgavpc wrote: How do you export the mail list from one server and import it into another??? you check the FAQ? (or the message archive) Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py z! --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Exporting Lists

2006-07-26 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Aaron Oliver wrote: Hopefully someone can help me out. The list server that is currently in use in our organization has completely stopped sending e-mails. It has been restarted several times and will no longer function like it should. What doesn't work?

Re: [Mailman-Users] problem with default domain

2006-08-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Kim Leandersson wrote: My problem is that when the server was being installed someone misspelled the hostname so it was entered as plisk.example.com instead of plesk.example.com. This error are now corrected, but somewhere in the mailman installation the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual sites

2006-09-13 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jay Vaagen wrote: If I understand all this correctly, there's no current feature that will allow mailman to send mail from the correct virtual domain's hostname, and not localhost.. correct? As I understand the current implimentation of virtual domains, much

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM lists on Gmane

2006-09-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jason R. Mastaler wrote: On 9/16/06 11:32 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: If the Gmane folks had actually come to us first, we might well have approved their request to set up a gateway. So because you feel personally offended, you choose to punish all Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] invalid checksum while doing portinstall

2006-09-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have a problem installing mailman under FreeBSD 6.1. When I go to ports to install mailman, it gives me an error message about invalid checksum. Could anyone offer any advice on how to install mailman? I tried deleting the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-30 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jon Forrest wrote: Maybe I'm old fashioned, but building from source can sometimes be a good way to go here. It's not very hard, and you learn more about the package you're building. This can help a lot of something goes wrong because then you don't see the

Re: [Mailman-Users] spam, spamcop and mailman moderation

2006-11-10 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Gadi Evron wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Patrick Bogen wrote: Bearing that in mind, you shouldn't be using moderation as a first-line anti-spam defense. Your MTA should be tagging emails as spam (e.g., using Spamassassin, or something better suited to your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Mac OS X Server 10.3: Outgoingmessagesstuck in qrunner/in folder

2006-12-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
[not speaking for Mark, Barry, or really anyone but me] This is really the classic IT problem of unsupported configurations. In a flurry of recycled electrons, Pierre Igot wrote: But the reality was that, in all likelihood, this was a pretty basic problem that had to do with Mailman itself,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman on Mac OS X Server 10.3: Outgoing messagesstuck in qrunner/in folder

2006-12-18 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: Well, I updated the listinfo page for mailman-users in three places. The first paragraph now reads: This mailing list is for users and other parties interested in the Mailman mailing list management system, as provided

Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating mailman config

2007-01-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Peter Matulis wrote: I am looking for guidance on migrating a mailman setup to a separate server. Is it better to start fresh? Install 2.1.9 on the new server. Read FAQ 3.4 and check this list's archive, it was discussed in the last couple of months. z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Daylight savings

2007-02-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Jewel wrote: Still a newbie and was concerned about the daylight savings time issue. The server I have which runs Mailman only runs Mailman and nothing else. Will I need to install a patch or will Mailman not be affected with the time change? Mailman,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail not going to all members

2007-03-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Paul Tomblin wrote: Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please keep conversations on the list unless there are specific privacy concerns. I know it's a contentious issue, but if you want conversations to continue on the list then you should make the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Splitting Subject

2007-05-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: Am having a problem where Mailman is splitting a subject and adding a \n and what seems to be a tab in the subject line in the mail logs.(The tab is what can be seen in the headers after the message is sent.) This of course, makes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Splitting Subject

2007-05-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: I saw that, but it is not really an answer as te problem is that it is inserting a TAB, not whitespace, and that is what is causing the problem. A carriage return and spaces would be fine. The tab is what most clients cannot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: problem in Makefile for mailman

2007-08-02 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: This is not our Makefile. I can only guess that it is a FreeBSD port Makefile. But after installation (FreeBSD 6.2, /usr/ports/mail/mailman) when I send Yep, it's a FreeBSD port. While I run both free and open bsd, I've found that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: problem in Makefile for mailman

2007-08-03 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geo wrote: I installed FreeBSD6.2 by FTP from ftp.freebsd.org and installed Mailman This is not our Makefile. We don't know what it looks like. We can't tell you how to make it work. To repeat myself, the solution is to -not- use the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Template with Mailman?

2007-11-26 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Hans Reil wrote: can I make a template for one or all my lists? You do it with your mail program, not with mailman. You know with company logo and nice background. So the emails oft the lists gets a nice coporate style. Some/many people would consider that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Several domains

2008-01-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Melinda Gilmore wrote: One feature that is important to us is the ability to support multiple domain names - i.e., with our current use of Communigate, we can create lists for ecqnet.org, oh-pin.org, etc. Is this possible with mailman? Current

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

2008-01-24 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Khalil Abbas wrote: ok, I have a dedicated server .. and I use mailman to send a daily newsletter.. I recenly got a list of 1,000,000 email addresses that I want to use to promote my website and mailing list .. Not what you want to hear, but -even-if- 100%

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman lists migration

2008-02-11 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, eras mus wrote: how to migrate lists from one mailman version to another Try FAQ 3.4, the second block of text is probably what you want. Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py from here... z!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Groupwise

2008-02-11 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Adam Gabriel wrote: Greetings all! Will mailman function with Groupwise as an MTA? I'm not too clear as to how mailman communicates with the mta, so I couldn't see an obvious way of doing this (Any docs for a non-python coder that might elaborate?). I want

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Groupwise

2008-02-11 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: Incoming mail is the issue you're concerned about, and this is normally delivered via a pipe to the mail wrapper with ten specific addresses per list and the corresponding ten pipe commands established via aliases or programattically

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Groupwise

2008-02-12 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Brad Knowles wrote: GroupWise is a PC-based LAN e-mail package, so you're unlikely to get postfix also running on that same box, unless you're using virtual machine technology to run multiple different server OSes on the same physical box. It's not a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce only mailing list

2008-02-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Adam Gabriel wrote: I want to create a list that's only used for announcements, and only one or two member can post to it. I have made users moderated by default, and set the moderation to reject posts from mod'ed users. I also set it to discard all

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailmain starting twice

2008-02-19 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Adam Gabriel wrote: maybe you should grep your entire /etc/ for mailman_enable to find it. Not exactly: grep -i mailman /etc/rc* (don't look for the _enable var) FWIW, even though I really the bsd ports system, I still install mailman from source. z!

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

2008-10-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting this message but yet the person posting IS a member. Any ideas? Did it ever work for them? Has their email address changed recently? AFAIK If they're subscribed receiving mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the server is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and SMS

2008-10-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Rick Bragg wrote: It is very important that all web pages be totally customizable, and mobile screen friendly, and also that all text message text be very short and also totally customizable. They are all customizable, provided that you don't mind hacking

Re: [Mailman-Users] performance tuning

2008-11-27 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: What sorts of configuration can I do to help improve performance? A quick search of the FAQ will turn up a number of interesting pages on this. z! -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-02-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Barry Finkel wrote: Do you know what changes to the source, if any, were made by FreeBSD? You can see the entire set at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/mailman/, look in the files dir. The reality is that there are very few changes, and most

Re: [Mailman-Users] MM-2.1.12 Bug (non critical)

2009-05-15 Thread Carl Zwanzig
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote: Please let me know specifically what you would like to see instead. Really, I'd prefer a button to select from regex or text search. That aside, a note at the top of the box stating this is *not* a text search, see help for more

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman with Multi Mail Server

2009-10-23 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hien HUYNH HUU wrote: Dear all, Could Mailman be configured with multi mail server (at least 2 mail server) at the same time ? So that It can transfer huge numbers of emails at the same time . If yes, please let me know how to configure It. You really don't need to do that. Have you read the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to monitor mailman transaction

2009-11-11 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Hien HUYNH HUU wrote: Dear all, How can we monitor mailman transaction with Mail Server ? It means how could we know that how many email are delivered from mailman to mail server at a time point ? I check qfile/out but It didn't show exactly . You can either look at mailman's logs, at the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Increasing the Speed of Email Delivery

2009-12-17 Thread Carl Zwanzig
Lots of it depends on the MTA (general opinion is that postfix seems to be the fastest), connectivity, and list settings (personalized email will take much longer). Check out the FAQ for performance, and as Adam mentioned, the list archives) FWIW, before you change hardware, have you

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