Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing single address from multiple lists

2001-06-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:38:04PM -0700, Sarah K. Miller wrote: I know many people have asked for a way to remove a single address from multiple lists. Here's my solution (run as a script): Or, faster, a patch I wrote for remove_members:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Call for suggestions

2001-05-10 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:32:56PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I want to setup multiple servers running (the same) mailman lists. The ways I can think of doing this is either: Been there, done that, didn't work. Option 1: Setup a master machine with everything on it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with Sender Info

2001-05-10 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:20:52PM -0700, Sarah K. Miller wrote: I run a server with about 80 lists on it. Everything goes smoothly until the monthly reminder is sent out on the first of the month. Every outgoing message indicates the Sender is the same list-owner,

Re: [Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

2001-05-07 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:09:45PM -0400, Daniel Einspanjer wrote: Fortunately, it is no longer the standard hard link problem. :)  I read the FAQ and the README.LINUX and ran the secure_linux fix.  One thing that took me a bit to figure out is that you have to run that script with a

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to Back Up Lists

2001-05-07 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:25:48PM -0400, Christopher VanOosterhout wrote: After some review of the list archives I do not find an answer to what I think will be a pretty simple question. How do I make backups of my lists? What files are critical? I want to back up the email addresses

Re: [Mailman-Users] Loooooonnnnnnnngggggg archive conversion...

2001-05-07 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:35:22PM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: This one has been running for 10 hours so far. It is doing things [mostly mremaps()], but it takes way too long. This seemed to be the case that once it got to a certain point it had trouble computing the different threads.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc (partially solved)

2001-05-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: I've discovered the cause of the CPU usage problem. I had ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX set to the default of 2. It appears that the archiver eats an awful lot of processor power - so much that the backlog caused by the earlier bug was taking ages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: could not acquire qrunner lock, etc (partially solved)

2001-05-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:09:38PM +0100, Mike Crowe wrote: I've discovered the cause of the CPU usage problem. I had ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX set to the default of 2. It appears that the archiver eats an awful lot of processor power - so much that the backlog caused by the earlier bug was taking ages

Re: [Mailman-Users] the meaning of implicit destination

2001-04-30 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:16:27PM -0700, Carol wrote: I have set No to this option: Check postings and intercept ones that seem to be administrative requests. When I post to my list (called Testlist) I get the following message. Your mail to 'Testlist' with the subject

Re: [Mailman-Users] subject line spacing

2001-04-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:11:23PM +0530, Satya wrote: Anyway, what part of mailman takes care of subject lines? I'll hack that rather than change it for every list. You can rgrep the code as well as I can :-) Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer

2001-04-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:54:11AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: cvr == chuq von rospach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cvr yup. and until the spam goes away, that'll continue, cvr too. Our Exim administrator has installed the filters suggested by Marc Merlin (thanks Marc). Let's

Re: [Mailman-Users] subject line spacing

2001-04-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:50:36AM +0530, Satya wrote: Subject: [Teamct]moo ^ That's an example from one of my lists. I seem to be running 2.0.1. What happened to the space? It also happens on other lists at this installation. Sorry for the late reply (I don't think

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group write permissions necessary?

2001-04-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:58:05AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: Good Morning, With the group write permissions on the directory, it's a little less secure and I would like to get rid of that. Are there any issues with getting rid of it? Yes, as soon as root or some other privileged

Re: [Mailman-Users] PLEASE READ: Proposed change in list policy

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 01:52:06PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: The solution, although hackish, is easy: subscribe all the addresses you plan on posting from. Then set "nomail" for all addresses except the one(s) you want to receive list postings. May I make a feature request for next time

Re: Anyone? (was Re: [Mailman-Users] Two newbie questions...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:15:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:58:46AM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: 2) How can I setup an umbrella list with the following features: 1) The lists

[Mailman-Users] Re: Umbrella lists and avoiding multiple copies (was Re: Anyone? ...)

2001-04-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:14:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a useful tool for recipients who have it available, but we're looking for a tool at the list management end that will handle it. Mailman doesn't do that, sorry. First, because not all of our subscribers will be able

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe without separate accepting it

2001-04-17 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:11:06PM +0200, Futureweb.at - Patrick Bey-Neuner wrote: hi, is there any way to let people subscribe to mailman but don't have to double confirm it? Yes (allow open subscribes in mm_cfg.py) but you sure do not want to allow this unless it's internal to your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recherche candidat

2001-04-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:55:28PM +0200, stephanie wrote: Bonjour, Je recherche actuellement des dveloppeurs python. Si a vous intresse, contactez moi. Etre stupide ce point, c'est difficile. Go away evil spammer, not only what you did breaches all rules of netiquette, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

2001-04-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:53:43PM -0400, Neil Cooler wrote: It's windows 2000 that isn't compatible with mailman :-) (the best part, is that mailman being 95%+ python, it could run on windows with few modifications, but I don't think any of the people able to do this would see

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

2001-04-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:12:58PM -0400, Neil Cooler wrote: Is this better for performance? It can be, but it depends (fork times, how many receipients are included in each mail, etc, etc...) Can I tell mailman to use another server to send the mail? SMTPHOST in

Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?

2001-03-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:12:54PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: Third, there are certain spam filters that the MTA can apply that should catch more stuff. I thought that the Exim installation on {python,zope}.org was all hooked up to RBL, etc., but since spam is getting through, it may not

[Mailman-Users] autoresponder

2001-03-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
I setup the autoresponder for a list "thank you for submitting post, we will review it, etc, etc..." I have two problems with that. 1) The user gets one autoreply when the message hits the list and an approval message is fired off to the list admin, and then he/she gets a second autoreply

Re: [Mailman-Users] Prob1: How to disble unsubscribe for some users

2001-03-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:27:52PM +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: I set up a list, i did a mistake and so after one month all subscriber received their password valid to unsubscribe. Since some user MUST NOT unsubscribe the list, there is a way to "change" the password for them (i have root

Re: [Mailman-Users] *UN*restricted posting not working

2001-02-18 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:18:11PM -0500, Andy Harrison wrote: I have a list that I want people to be able to post on who are not members of the list. I have it set correctly, but it still holds posts. I'll show you a screen shot if you want, but suffice it to say I've checked the config

Re: [Mailman-Users] fund management[private confidential]

2001-02-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:10:04AM -0500, Arthur J. Byrnes wrote: At 07:20 PM 2/11/01 -0800, jeff utarzi wrote: Attn: The President Dear sir, FUND MANAGEMENT / BUSINESS OFFER. Blah, blah, blah spam removed Ok, I started this earlier, and decided that I was just being a whiner, but now,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mime encoding ?

2001-01-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:52:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to have binary attachments not encoded in the list archives? Not with pipermail, the default archiver. If you change archivers, then yes. See the docs and this list archives for answers to your question. Marc

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookie feature request

2001-01-18 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:37:41PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I've been bitten again. I normally run junkbuster so cookies are turned off. Can mailman check for this situation and alert that cookies are not functioning instead of just asking again for the name/password with no indication of

[Mailman-Users] Can HTML archiving be done asynchronously?

2001-01-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
I've recently disabled HTML archiving on sourceforge's mailman because after some tests I found that on big lists, it looked like qrunner has to wait while the list archive is updated after each post. It's not a huge deal until you have lists with many posts, and at that time, updating the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Abnormal problem with mailman.

2000-12-30 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:21:23AM -0400, Jason wrote: If anyone would know how to do that. Because I can't recompile it with --cgi-gid because it won't compile... thats why I installed it via rpm (slackware package manager actually)... Fix your slackware or use a decent/recent

Re: [Mailman-Users] GID Errors...

2000-12-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Jason wrote: Hey I was wondering If I installed mailman with spm (slackware package manager) because for some reason I can't install it from source. I installed the rpm version and its giving me GID errors... I was wondering if there is a way to

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