[Mailman-Users] Rejecting all addresses from a particular domain ?

2017-12-18 Thread John Fitzsimons
Hi, thanks to the Mailman FAQ I have a fairly good idea how to do the following BUT I am not very familiar with regexp. Could someone here help me with the exact syntax please ? I want to automatically discard all non-subscribers who attempt to subscribe from the .ua domain (Ukraine ?) In

Re: [Mailman-Users] MAIL FROM envelope header query.

2012-03-16 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:18:53 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Mark, thank you for your speedy/detailed reply. :-) When Gmane sends messages (posted through the news-to-mail gateway) to the mailing lists, it uses the subscribed email address as the MAIL FROM envelope header

Re: [Mailman-Users] MAIL FROM envelope header query.

2012-03-16 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:58:25 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip Yes, but what happened to the post? Did it go directly to the list or It went to the mailing list and the Gmane newsgroup without me seeing it first. was it held for moderator action for some reason

[Mailman-Users] MAIL FROM envelope header query.

2012-03-09 Thread John Fitzsimons
Hi, I have a Mailman 2.1.14 *moderated* list that goes to Gmane for newsgroup access. The other day a post was made from someone who didn't appear to be on my list. I wasn't sure whether this was due to an error at my end, or at Gmane's. So I queried them. The problem however is that I didn't

[Mailman-Users] Getting rid of footer ?

2010-02-23 Thread John Fitzsimons
Hi, I am using the CPanel approach to Mailman. The footer to every post has.. ___ my mailing list myl...@mydomain http://mydomain Is there some way to ensure that the above does NOT appear on every post please ? If so then where/how do I remove it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Getting rid of footer ?

2010-02-23 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53:59 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Is there some way to ensure that the above does NOT appear on every post please ? If so then where/how do I remove it please ? The web admin interface Non-digest options msg_footer. Wow ! Truly staring me

[Mailman-Users] Hiding sender info query.

2010-02-10 Thread John Fitzsimons
Hi, I have a mailing list that is set to Require approval for membership. So if people aren't Members they cannot post. If I select .. Hide the sender of a message, replacing it with the list address (Removes From, Sender and Reply-To fields) (1) ...will all the members still be able to

[Mailman-Users] New mailing list moderation in cPanel ?

2010-01-29 Thread John Fitzsimons
I just made a new mailing list. Moderation of posts seems to be set as the default, but I am pretty sure that I didn't set that up anywhere. The member list doesn't show the moderation flag ticked. In the Privacy options I have By default, should new list member postings be moderated? set to

Re: [Mailman-Users] New mailing list moderation in cPanel ?

2010-01-29 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:37:44 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: I am obviously missing something obvious. Would someone here please direct me to where member moderation is set/un set in cPanel please ? What is the exact reason for the held post(s)? Post by non-member

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-27 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:57:44 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: There appears to be a problem here. I get an error. Here is what happened.. C:\mailman-subscribers.py -c http://domain listname_domain password That is not correct. The first argument is just the host name (domain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-26 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:33:07 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Mark, snip You can use something like Jim T's and my mailman-subscribers.py script[1] to screen scrape the web admin Membership List and make a .csv file of the membership together with those options except

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:42:25 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark Sapiro writes: snip Eventually, we'll find out if it works. I suspect it does, Preliminary testing suggests that it IS working. I do too, because larsi is not an idiot. I have to imagine that like 99% of messages that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:59:20 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: If your FTP session is not chrooted to your own home directory or some other limitation, you chould be able to find them. But presumably not delete them. Presumably not, but it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:12:46 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip If I did that then I could presumably start the list again. Identical to the previous list. But with archiving turned off from the beginning ? The drawback is all user options/passwords/etc. get lost. Yes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:33:07 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Yes, the loss of user options I can live with BUT the loss of passwords would be a concern. In this case the Gmane subscription. I don't think the password of the Gmane subscription to the Mailman list is important

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:38:23 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John Fitzsimons writes: Hi Stephen, snip Gmane runs a news server, but that is not how it gateways mailing lists. Mailman's Mail-News gateway is irrelevant unless you or your ISP has configured it; Gmane can't do that for you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:28:57 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John Fitzsimons writes: Hi Stephen, snip Gmane runs a news server, but that is not how it gateways mailing lists. Mailman's Mail-News gateway is irrelevant unless you or your ISP has configured it; Gmane can't do

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:29:50 -0500, William Bagwell wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010, William Bagwell wrote: On Wednesday 20 January 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip It translates to http://mydomain/mailman/private/mymailinglist/mymailinglist.mbox/myma il

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:09:20 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: If I do what you did above and use .. http://mydomain/mailman/private/mymailinglist/mymailinglist.mbox/mymailinglist.mbox I get No such list mymailinglist. As I have tried to say before, where mydomain is your host name and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:18:10 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Mark, On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:28:57 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Could you please clarify those words ? *If* Gmane is in the Sender header. The sender header appears to be the list address. This is all

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:21:49 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip I don't know why this is so hard, but the URL is http://mydomain/mailman/private/mymailinglist_mydomain.mbox/mymailinglist_mydomain.mbox Try that one. Worked perfectly ! Thank you. Is this all you need

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:17:32 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Mark, snip This message was delivered by email from Gmane to mailman. It was apperently posted via NNTP to Gmane by the poster and then mailed by Gmane to the list. Hopefully Gmane waits for the reply

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:35:32 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 03:11 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Barry, snip Hey, if there's stuff we can steal or integrate with, all the better! I have a saying: the best bass amp there is, is the one you don't have to bring. :) I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:42:43 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Does anyone here know what actually goes to Mailman from Gmane ? I think you are in the best position to answer that. Er. No. I don't. I don't have root access to my hosted server, and have no idea where my Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:31:06 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Mark, snip I think you can see a full, raw message from Gmane if your list has archives. For a cPanel list x...@example.com, you would go to http://example.com/mailman/private/xyz_example.com.mbox

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:51:21 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip If I try your address I think it would translate to.. http://mydomain/mailman/private/mymailinglist/mymailinglist/.mbox I then get.. xxmailinglist Private Archives Authentication Then... Private

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:47:09 -0500, Terri Oda wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Terri, I have also contributed to public, and private, newsgroup servers for more than ten years now. However, I am not a unix expert and I do not have root access to a unix server. Incidentally

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-20 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:12:08 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip In other words, does anyone here know whether the Gmane subscription is needed ? Presumably it is needed if you are gatewaing from Mailman to Gmane because that's how messages get to Gmane from Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-19 Thread John Fitzsimons
I am hoping that someone here has an account with Gmane. This is what I did. Doing beta testing. I posted to my newsgroup from an address that is NOT on my mailing list. I then got the Gmane Authorization required email which starts.. This is a non-public mailing list, which means that you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-19 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:57:33 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John Fitzsimons writes: Hi Stephen, Then I got the next Gmane email... You are now authorized to post to the xx newsgroup. etc. I shouldn't have got that second email, or had my newsgroup post

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-19 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:57:33 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John Fitzsimons writes: snip I shouldn't have got that second email, or had my newsgroup post forwarded to the newsgroup. Can anyone here suggest where the problem may be please ? List membership is easy to spoof anyway

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-19 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:23:17 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:14 AM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Barry, It is a pity that nobody in the open source community is interested in creating an NNTP server that someone, who isn't a unix expert, could install on a hosted web site

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

2010-01-19 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:35:32 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Jan 20, 2010, at 03:11 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Barry, Yes, but there are resources for people to create web forums. Resources for people to create emailers. Resources for people to create bloggs etc. I mean people to hack code

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding subscribed address in Welcome message ?

2010-01-14 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:25:29 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: Hi Mark, snip In any case, the OP asked for a way to put the subscribed address in the message body. Possibly because To: headers may get rewritten or not completely displayed. I was thinking of the situation of re-direction. One could

[Mailman-Users] Adding subscribed address in Welcome message ?

2010-01-13 Thread John Fitzsimons
Hi, Some people with multiple email address' get confused as to which one they used to subscribe. Is it possible to put that info in the body of the Welcome to this list email ? What would be the code I need for this please ? Using CPanel version 2.1.11.cp3 Regards, John.

[Mailman-Users] Removing archives query.

2010-01-08 Thread John Fitzsimons
From looking at the FAQ it appears that one can only remove mailing list archives if one has shell access. Is that correct ? If it is then are there any plans for us CPanel users to be able to remove archives in a future Mailman release please ? Regards, John.

[Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread John Fitzsimons
Okay, I think I have messed up somewhere. Using version 2.1.11.cp3 I have setup new member applications to require approval. To avoid just anyone joining the list. That works fine. I get an email to allow/disallow them as subscribers. The problem however is that even though they become members

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:16:30 +, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:09:55AM +1100, John Fitzsimons wrote: How/where in the web interface do I set things up to block anyone subscribing themselves without my approval BUT once becoming a member to post without needing any

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:17:52 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: snip As Adam said, go to the list's web admin interface Privacy options... - Sender filters and set default_member_moderation to No so future new members won't be moderated by default. Done. Then go to Membership

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 01:08:59 +0200 (IST), Geoff Shang wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: Well, not everyone is a unix expert. I need to use CPanel. The point is that CPanel include their own version of Mailman with changes that they've not released back to the community

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 18:00:12 -0500, J.R. Constance wrote: On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:21 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: snip I have list membership set at Require approval but once someone has become a subscriber I want their emails to go to the list without my getting an email that says... You have

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

2010-01-07 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:27:39 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Well, actually I am porting to/from a news server. Gmane. snip I had set The moderation policy of the newsgroup to moderated. Thank you. This may be where my problem is. If I now set that to none then do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2010-01-03 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:56:19 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 1:49 AM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Brad, Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? Search the FAQ wizard

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-31 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:26:01 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Adam McGreggor writes: However, with those caveats, one should be able to use the same *database*, and Joomla/Kunena/Drupal/phpBB2 could all co-exist, in the same database, just using different database table prefixes, e.g.,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-24 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:56:19 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 1:49 AM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? Search the FAQ wizard for web forum

Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP server for local newsgroups ?

2009-12-23 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:57:49 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/22/09 22:24, John Fitzsimons wrote: Okay, IF an NNTP setup were part of Mailman then that would IMO encourage a huge number of hosters, that currently install Mailman, to consider opening that port. Particularly as you could put

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:59:40 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John Fitzsimons writes: Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? Precisely what does a web forum do? Have threaded

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:49:44 +1100, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi, Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? snip Since my post I have come across... http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:47:40 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: snip if work is going to be done, I hope it will be done in a modular fashion so that other forum software (with a plugin architecture) will be able to work with it. snip Simple Machines is the one to pick if you are going to support

Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP server for local newsgroups ?

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:13:15 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:36 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Barry, In another thread we were talking about Mailman to web forum options. As Mailman can manage NNTP I wondered whether anyone here had come across an NNTP server for local

Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP server for local newsgroups ?

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:59:56 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:35 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Barry, Thank you for explaining things more. snip As you appear to have already provided email to NNTP mirroring ability eg. Gmane would your version 3 provide the install

Re: [Mailman-Users] NNTP server for local newsgroups ?

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:15:40 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:21 PM, John Fitzsimons wrote: One can run a local NNTP server now. That connects to Mailman. I assume that you are meaning that if Twisted were installed then Twisted, or will it be Mailman, would provide

[Mailman-Users] Web access to Mailman.

2009-12-22 Thread John Fitzsimons
I am new to Mailman so there is something I didn't consider in the recent web forum to Mailman discussions. The existing Mailman web forum facility. It seems to me that the majority of the Mailman to web work has already been done. All that is needed is a new post, and reply button, addition to

[Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
Hi, Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? I believe that something like this could work with phpbb2 but not the current release. Can anyone help please ? Regards, John.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:52:25 +, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:49:44PM +1100, John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Adam, Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? snip

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:06:29 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:49 AM, John Fitzsimons wrote: Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? I would invite anybody interested

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman forum ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:21:10 -0500, Terri Oda wrote: John Fitzsimons wrote: Hi Terri, Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? I believe that something like this could work

[Mailman-Users] NNTP server for local newsgroups ?

2009-12-21 Thread John Fitzsimons
In another thread we were talking about Mailman to web forum options. As Mailman can manage NNTP I wondered whether anyone here had come across an NNTP server for local (not usenet) newsgroups ? One that doesn't require root access and could be put on a hosted Linux site. I have doubts that