Re: [Mailman-Users] Making a Mailman legacy archive searchable?

2014-05-23 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 23 May 2014, Peter Weyland wrote: Anyone recommend a searchable archive for MM? We are up to date with version 2.1.18 I like swish-e http://swish-e.org/ == Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet

[Mailman-Users] Setting hard limit on message size for mailman

2012-02-07 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
Is there a setting I could use to limit the size of a message mailman will process, that even a list owner can't approve to get around ? == Chris Candreva -- ch...@westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester

Re: [Mailman-Users] Stripping sig files

2010-12-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Paul Tomblin wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:24 AM, bruce clark brucecl...@icon.co.za wrote: My problem: the users on my lists are waging a low-level war with their sig files. I do not allow commercial posting so they have started creating sig files with their

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search tool for Mailman Archives

2010-12-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Liste Yoneticisi wrote: Hello; I am trying to implement a search tool for Mailman Archives. I've always liked swish for indexing web sites and mailing list archives http://www.swish-e.org/ == Chris Candreva --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Soft bounces....

2009-04-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: Yahoo expects me to respond promptly to 5xx bounces, disabling any subscriptions, otherwise it starts generating 'greylist' 4xx bounces for my mail. Unfortunately, if I try to lower the bounce threshold, the now-daily occurence of 4xx bounces

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to prevent un-subscribing?

2008-10-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: I've been asked to prevent the students from un-subscribing. Is there a way to do that in any version of mailman? And/or any other convenient mechanism? The list is a bit unwieldy for plain email Under Privacy options you can enable the option

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Mark Sapiro wrote: I'm confused. How do you use the Message-ID for this? Even when messages are fully personalized, every recipient's message has the Message-ID of the original, incoming message. It may depend on how your MTA is set up. On my lists, there is an internal

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Larry Stone wrote: That's not a Message ID, that's a queue ID. And yes, I do the same thing. Ah yes, of course you are right. As you said though -- either way, it works. :-) == Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-15 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Mark Sapiro wrote: This is a security and bug fix release and it is highly recommended that all sites upgrade to this version. Mailman 2.1.10 also adds support Quick clarification: It's somewhat unusuall for it to be recommended that all sites upgrade to a release

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mbox files

2008-03-22 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Heer wrote: reproduced the file just as I had concatenated it. Is there a way to merge 2 same list mboxes into 1 properly sequenced mbox? If this is a one-time thing for the transition, you could load them into a mail program, move all the messages to a single

Re: [Mailman-Users] httpd.conf Rewrite rules with ZOPE to use mailman.

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Ignacio Valdes wrote: I'm running a Zope instance that requires me to have re-write rules (below) in httpd.conf that are not compatible with Mailman. I can use mailman if I don't use the Zope re-write rules or I can use Zope but not mailman with the re-write rules below.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught bounce notification - Out-of-Office

2007-07-24 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Barry Finkel wrote: Are there plans for Mailman to be able to intercept out-of-office replies and ignore them? Or is the format of the text too variable to be able to parse the OOO message? I've solved this problem locally using a procmail rule, and I think the method

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's Client TOS Notification

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Larry Stone wrote: That's unfortunate. At this point, what's the point of getting them if they won't give you any useful information as to who doesn't want the list mail they requested. It's not really supposed to be usefull on a per-mail basis, rather as a way of

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's Client TOS Notification

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
VERP doesn't work any longer for these, as of a couple months ago. They now redact ALL information that can be used to identify the user, including verp'd addresses. As of June ( the last one I received) they only removed the list name part, so you get a line like this Return-Path: [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL's Client TOS Notification

2007-07-14 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Dave Dewey wrote: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow, maybe I'm just lucky. Is your server on the AOL whitelist ? == Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting the FONT globally for the mailman GUI?

2007-04-25 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Brad Knowles wrote: project) would agree. However, who's actually going to write the code to do this? When is that going to be incorporated into the mainstream codebase, and for which version? Is there a standard template library for Python, ala Template::Toolkit for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Slow delivery

2007-03-10 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Brad Knowles wrote: This is a common misconception of what IDENT is/was for. IDENT was not I know what the purpose of IDENT is. I wrote the original sendmail FAQ entry on this subject back in 1995. Sorry, automatic response of the fingers, usually reserved for IRC

Re: [Mailman-Users] Slow delivery

2007-03-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Brad Knowles wrote: So Phil says that he runs a trustworthy IDENT server on his box. Fine. But plenty of spammers, phishers, and other nefarious types out there will try to use IDENT as another vector to exploit for use in breaking into your system, or for tricking you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

2006-12-08 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Barry Warsaw wrote: Have I mentioned recently how long I've been looking for a volunteer to help make all this not suck? ;} Pipermail is just one of those things that people either live with or ditch. I've used Hypermail for probably a decade to archive Majordomo

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

2006-06-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Carl Fink wrote: I'm unable to configure Mailman, because when I edit and run mm_cfg.py You don't run mm_cfg.py You just edit it. It contains values that are then read by the other programs when they run. == Chris

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated announcements

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Mike Brudenell wrote: For example we recently moved from running our lists service using an old MLM package to GNU Mailman. One of the things some of our users are missing is the ability to set up a repeating post to remind people of etiquette on the list and point

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman vs yahoogroups

2006-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Ted Ernst wrote: I suggested using mailman hosted by mayfirst.org and that was accepted. We now have two lists. Problem is, it's not like yahoogroups. I don't care, What aspect of Yahoogroups is it that they need ? No two things are exactly like, so either there is a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated announcements

2006-05-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Robert Seymour wrote: I would like to send out announcement emails M-F (in cron?) stating something like Check out todays cartoon at http://birdbreath.com/images1/20060502.png; with the dated file name changing each day. Does Mailman have the capability to do this? If

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Greg Lindahl wrote: Yahoo users. Well, that's because I get a lot of incoming spam from fake Yahoo accounts to my Mailman, and I have it configured to send back a you aren't a member message. Is there any way to suppress you aren't a member only for Yahoo senders? How

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-01 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Greg Lindahl wrote: Like most people who've been running mailing lists for 20+ years, I Funny, I would have guessed this was your first, comming from a marketing background with the selfishness you are showing. have strong opinions about list policy. Please address the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Goodmail spells doom for mailing lists?

2006-02-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Jonathan Dill wrote: Has anyone talked about the changes planned by AOL, Yahoo! etc. to require certification via Goodmail or just be blocked? http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3581301 It's been beaten to death -- at this point I can't recall if here or on other

Re: [Mailman-Users] no confirmation required?

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, kalin mintchev wrote: right... spamming about cancer awareness or wedding dresses si... i kinda explained that i'm aware of this argument... the other option is to lose those clients The other option is to risk being put on a blacklist for running a

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-member posts

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tim Perdue wrote: I'm getting flooded under requests to approve spammer posts to lists.gforge.org and wondered if there was a way to auto-reject non-member posts instead of sending them to me for approval. If you do anything, please discard and not reject. The from

Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting non-member posts

2006-02-17 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Brad Knowles wrote: The reason they're still asking on the list? Because they sent messages on this subject months ago which were simply discarded instead of being bounced, and they were never notified. Then someone should be going through them by hand, or put them

Re: [Mailman-Users] GMane?

2006-02-15 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, John A. Martin wrote: Not only is this list, Mailman-Users, but also Mailman-Announce and Mailman-Developers appear to have simultaneously disappeared from Gmane. Is there someone who doesn't like Gmane? If so, please explain your objections. Many lists use Gmane with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman stagger script?

2006-01-25 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: Daniel/The Fold wrote: I was told by my hosting company that I need to pick a mailing list manager for my 14,000+ subscriber e-mail list that would stagger the sending of the email to something like 300 e-mails per hour to lower the Where is this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in 2.1.7, can't edit Public HTML pages text files

2006-01-11 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Tokio Kikuchi wrote: Sorry for the inconvenience but I've put a new bug in the code while tighten up the security of the script. Work around is to put a line import re in the top part of the Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py. The bug was reported in

[Mailman-Users] Bug in 2.1.7, can't edit Public HTML pages text files

2006-01-10 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
Mailman is telling me there is a bug whenever I try to submit a page from the Edit the public HTML pages and text files menu. The page returned says: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.7 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spamassassin/Mailman - filter messages tolist-owners

2006-01-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: Messages to the -request address will not be filtered, but spam to this address is normally just returned to the sender with an error message, not forwarded to an owner/moderator. Except spam often has a forged sender address, so sending an error to this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large mailing lists

2005-12-22 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Ross Vandegrift wrote: At 10:46 PM -0500 2005-12-21, Ross Vandegrift wrote: I'm working on the web developer to implement some better checks. It'd be awesome if when we got a subscription request from a client, some code made sure they didn't type [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Permissions problem accessing commands via php

2005-12-09 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, John Dennis wrote: 2) The php script invokes a wrapper just like the CGI does. This is preferred for a variety of security reasons. It would not be hard to create a new wrapper from the existing wrapper src code. I'm giving serious thought to writing a mailman 'server',

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatically unsubscribe someone

2005-11-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Nelly Yusupova wrote: How can I automatically unsubscribe someone from an announce list, using a php script? If you are the site admin and have access to the command line tools, you can call the remove_members program in mailman/bin . It has an option to not send a

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPAM Control

2005-11-04 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm an AMD-64 Gentoo Linux, Postfix, Mailman server - does anyone have any suggestions for a system wide anti-spam tool that integrates well? If you aren't already, DNSbl's to block connects from dynamic IPs, known infected networks, spammers, etc.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing someone from a CGI script

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: The command-line tools are the API. If you can't use them because your web server is trying to run them under the wrong group id, I don't know that there's anything else we can do for you. As a site admin I see a slight problem with the command

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archiving

2005-10-21 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Mark Sapiro wrote: lists or not. I don't seem to see any place that allows trimming the archives if they start taking up too much space or just get too many in general if I want to do it on weekly basis. Is that option available some place? There is no option

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the from header

2005-09-28 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: At 9:13 AM -0400 2005-09-28, Jeremy Leonard wrote: Joe the CEO wants a message to go to all the members of our organization. His secretary creates the message and sends it to the list. She is also the moderator of the list. In Majordomo she

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hotmail Delivery Problems

2005-09-21 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Lloyd F. Tennison wrote: Here is the text of the emails. They are pushing the BondedSender like crazy - especially since I received an email direct from BondedSender. at the address I only used with this ticket to hotmail. I would turn the problem around. Tell

[Mailman-Users] Edit public HTML/text files sets incorrect permissions

2005-04-26 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
I've just opened Bug 1190404 on this issue. System is Solaris 8, gcc 3.4.0, python 2.4, Apache 1.3.33 On mailman 2.1.6rc1 and rc2, when I use the Edit the HTML pages and text files option, the directories and files created are mode 600 , owned by nobody.mailman . After this, subscriptions