Re: [Mailman-Users] Bulk subscription with specific password

. thinking out loud We usually send an email to mailman (which includes the pre-defined password) for each subscription and use the 'confirm' option in mailman so the user gets a confirming email and I know their password. But, would it work to reset the list to 'approve', send the emai

[Mailman-Users] Bulk subscription with specific password

All -- You know how, despite insisting that you really need to upgrade and reconfigure some critical systems, there is always something even more pressing so it doesn't get done and then the whole thing catches on fire? That's what has happened to our custom-build Mailman subscription system.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with ONE broken list (Mailman 2.1.9) - part 2

in Mailman 2.1.9? (Remembering that I have a working version of the list on a restored snapshot of the server, where everthing actually does work.) I say this based on the results of applying the change Mark suggested, and recovering from the troubles it caused. Sorry to include all the gory

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with ONE broken list (Mailman 2.1.9) P.S.

P.S. If this error message helps, here is something that doesn't work on the production machine but is fine on the development one: root# ./config_list -v -i /path_to_file/config_from_previous_date list-name Traceback (most recent call last): File "./config_list", line 362, in ? main()

[Mailman-Users] Help with ONE broken list (Mailman 2.1.9)

scribers on 12-15 lists, and also has to handle 50-100 confirmation requests/day with people constantly adding/removing themselves. Sort of like trying to sip out of a fire hose Thinks in Advance, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailin

[Mailman-Users] Converting Subscribers from Digest to Nodigest

convert these members over to 'nodigest'? Thanks, Drew Tenenholz P.S. There is a good reason for not allowing the digest option here. The list is announce-only, and this particular distribution list receives a one-weekly email which lists only the subject lines of all of the messages pos

[Mailman-Users] Approve/Deny moderated posts via email - my failure to understand how

don't want this to happen again. I've had similar problems before, and thus stayed clear of the email method to approve/deny, but now that the web interface is down, I NEED this to work correctly. What's the trick to being able to approve/deny via email? Sincerely, Drew

[Mailman-Users] Urgent List Migration/Transfer - Need some help

in a bit of a panic, it's really just other folks making this into an emergency. Thanks for any help offered (including those who would like to get paid to do the work)., Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

[Mailman-Users] Rescuing Misdirected Mail from Moderation Queue - possible?

de that preference? Are there other ways to achieve what I'm looking to do? Thanks in Advance, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] Re-enabling suspended subscribers - bounce settings were too sensitive

mass attack via email, and that's probably best left alone. However, I need to do this in batches much larger than 12. Any thoughts? (I do have root access to the machine, so pretty much anything is possible.) -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing list address

s. So, if Mark or others with more experience have ideas on how to do this without upsetting the apple cart, I'd be happy to hear about them. -- Drew Tenenholz At 9:37 AM -0400 9/3/13, benjamin_joy...@ao.uscourts.gov wrote: >Hello, > >When I send a message out through the mailing

[Mailman-Users] Moving a List from 2.1.11 (Mac) --> 2.1.9 (RHEL linux)

g for any changes that make my 2.1.11 list (which is in Cyrillic, by the way) not work well on the 2.1.9 installation (which does mostly English, and some Spanish & Portuguese, but nothing from a non-Roman alphabet right now). Thanks, Drew Tenenholz -

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Moderation Queue - recovery possible?

iscarded? If I were able to get to a backup snapshot of the system, which file would I be looking to restore? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Ma

[Mailman-Users] RFC 2369 Headers in Digest - customizable?

st headers look like? Thanks, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Sear

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fire Wall Ports - 80, 25, others?

Does anyone know if the mailman web pages can be hosted on alternative ports than 80 & 443? University IT would like to block them. Christian -- Thanks for the confirmation. To clarify, I'm using subscribe_policy = "Confirm", so I like to have users be able to confirm via the website. (I've

[Mailman-Users] Fire Wall Ports - 80, 25, others?

[They did revert the rules before we were down for 4 days, which would have very extremely inconvenient.] Is there a good reference to what ports and protocols they should leave alone so we can keep working? -- Drew Tenenholz P.S. I didn't really get a chance to check on outgoing mail,

[Mailman-Users] Messages not arriving - deep into filtering and delivery

he DNS? That is fixable, but I don't understand why some messages get the 'special' domain and others do not. Thanks for any help you can offer, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Documenting a list-specific change

Mark -- Perfect! Thanks. P.S. Mailman is not to blame in this case, which means that I can keep the settings change and we can look alsewhere for the problem. At 11:56 AM -0700 4/1/13, Mark Sapiro wrote: >Drew Tenenholz wrote: >> >>I hope this is simple. I changed the preferr

[Mailman-Users] Documenting a list-specific change

. Thursday). Is there a simple way to figure this out? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy

[Mailman-Users] Multi-lingual confirmation messages

rtainly make the 'Welcome' message appear however I like from the Mailman administration pages, but what help is there for the confirmation message itself? -- TIA, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http

[Mailman-Users] Umbrella list behavior - subject_prefix ; undesired result

t_prefix="Child2>" When I post to the umbrella and I am a subscriber to BOTH child lists, I see: Subject: Child1> UMBRELLA> Test Post Subject: Child2> UMBRELLA> Test Post It's not really what I want to see, so I wonder if this changed in future versions of mailm

[Mailman-Users] Helping users with 'Confimation'

essage, it looks just like the confirm message except that it probably didn't confirm the subscriber. What options are available for me to help these users confirm their intention to join the list? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users maili

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

Mark, et. al. Got it! At 6:37 PM -0700 5/29/12, Mark Sapiro wrote: >Fixing it how? Do you know that it is a withlist script. It should be >saved in Mailman's bin/ directory as bin/reset_pw.py and run via a >command like > > bin/withlist -l -r reset_pw LISTNAME > >Is that how you're running it? If

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

All -- So, I found a somewhat useful script out there on the internet, and I'm able to save & run it, but it always generates a random password. I've made what I think are a couple of simple changes that should allow me to set a specific (unitary) password, but that's not what the script repor

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

aren't really interested in knowing five passwords for the five different lists they are on and unsubbing from each. Off to the list archives -- Drew Tenenholz At 4:59 PM -0500 5/29/12, Barry S, Finkel wrote: >When I was managing a Mailman installation, management (and I) conclud

[Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

This works fine for individual subscription requests, as the email command I send on their behalf includes a unitary password. Can I achieve the same result as I mass subscribe them? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changes to CookHeaders.py stop working for SOMElists!?

7; date? (I was previously told the version was 2.1.9 release 6.el5.) Mark Sapiro wrote: >Do you mean /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl restart? Yes, that's what I get for typing from memory... So, the /bin/mailmanctl restart only restarts the qrunners, but that is enough

[Mailman-Users] Changes to CookHeaders.py stop working for SOME lists!?

chine, so there should be no restrictions on what I can do; but I'm a novice when it come to linux usage. Any help is appreciated, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/m

[Mailman-Users] Mass Subscribe options

..) Thank in advance, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchabl

[Mailman-Users] Subscriber Counts - daily report

day's total, difference, %change, and list name. Is anyone doing something similar in Mailman/Python? Are you willing to share your code? Thanks, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.o

[Mailman-Users] Inadvertent Postings - Approved Header; how does it work?

the Approved: header, correct? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

just have my users upgrade to the newest version. Thanks Again, Drew Tenenholz One thing I will mention about thunderbird- IMNSHO, version 3 is bad news. I use it, but there are several obvious things that don't work well or correctly (list omitted as being off-topic). I haven't be

[Mailman-Users] Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario

ns from folks experienced with a specific email client and Mailman are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Drew Tenenholz Read on if you like too much detail. I work part-time for a non-profit which has a subscriber base of about 50,000-60,000 across a number of lists. Some lists are s

[Mailman-Users] Real or Fake Mailman message?

y now. I'm the only subscriber/owner/moderator though, and there is nothing the moderation queue. I can't find anything with this subject line in the wiki. -- Drew Tenenholz At 3:15 PM -0500 3/12/10, mailman-ow...@myserver.org wrote: X-Original-To: mailman-boun...@myserver.org D

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

then. I know that we'll have to replace this with launchd at some point, so please keep us informed if you find true solution to the problem. Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.or

[Mailman-Users] Sender address domain expanded - posts rejected by privacy options

. The real question is why did this happen? Is it expected? Has it been changed in later versions? If there is a FAQ or something to tell me how this works, I'd love to read it. Thanks in Advance, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Renaming a List

of my Apple paths anyway, but I did use it as a step-by-step guide in parallel to the steps listed in FAQ 4.70. Right now, all seems good, I have set the oldlist to emergency moderation until the posters of this announce-only list catch up to the change. We'll go through various tests

[Mailman-Users] Renaming a List

as a first step, confirm the 'new' list is working, and then go back and run bin/rmlist? I'm a bit paranoid about the setup, and would like to be able to make non-catastrophic mistakes. If so, any opinions on whether to use cp versus ditt

[Mailman-Users] Line Wrapping - on/off by list.

e that I should be able to specify which list(s) I want to wrap and which ones not. Any ideas on how to go about doing that? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-

[Mailman-Users] Archives and International Character Sets (Mailman 2.1.11)

(all "?"). 1) What can be done to get the monthly archive in a readable format? 2) Is there any way to correct the existing monthly archives? Thanks in Advance (and have a good weekend), Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing lis

[Mailman-Users] Trouble with moderator password

t seem to login. What are your ideas? Sincerely, Drew Tenenholz P.S. It seems to me that running /bin/change_pw is NOT what I want to do. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-user

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade questions - Best method suggestions requested

r the data drives. Where does Mailman end up living? Thanks again, Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Retrieving list membership via email

riber list anyway. Either password works from the /listinfo/listname page to show the subscribers on the web interface. I am puzzled by the differences in behavior. Should I be worried about something in the setup? TIA --Drew Tenenholz Drew wrote: ... >A message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

[Mailman-Users] Retrieving list membership via email

(from a list owner email address) I send "who admin_password", I get: - Results: You are not allowed to retrieve the list membership. Is this expected behavior? -- Drew Tenenholz -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@pytho

[Mailman-Users] Date for Posts - How is it decided?

ow the exact day the message was posted (today or yesterday). 3) Individual posts are being received with delivery dates exactly ONE MONTH in the FUTURE! Is this a Mailman setting, or is could it be the moderator has set their clock incorrectly set? Thanks in Adv

[Mailman-Users] Adjusting Digest Settings

entity code (e.g. $#85114;𔱷 etc.) which really eats up space quickly. So, I changed the size up to 5x30 since I had received up to four digests in a single day. Then, no digests went out. I have changed the setting to 60kb, but would appreciate any insight into the correct settings. Drew

Re: [Mailman-Users] huge delays in email posts?

So it sort of hunted around for an available DNS server somewhere in the world for EACH outbound message. Once the sysadmin tracked down what was happening and reinstated the server's own DNS resolution, everything returned to normal speed. HTH, Drew Tenenholz >Hi Drew, > >Thanks f

[Mailman-Users] NEWBIE Seeking Reference Materials/Developers

below and can recommend ways to get started using Mailman/Python, I would greatly appreciate it. If not, what is the 'best' way to look for Mailman resources? Sincerely, Drew Tenenholz Database Designer/Web Administrator International Society for Infectious Diseases The situation: I am a