Re: [Mailman-Users] Hey

2002-07-08 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:58:48PM +0200, Robert Meyer wrote: Hey, i have SMTP Auth work at my Linux-System. Does mailman work with this? Mailman doesn't do SMTP AUTH, nor does it really need to Marc -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in - A.S.R. Microsoft

Re: [Mailman-Users] nested lists

2002-06-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:55:08PM -0700, Larry Guest wrote: I will be setting up mailman using lists to send mail to lists. I only want lists members to be able to post. So mailman needs to look down the chain of lists and make sure that the right people can posts to the list. It must be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing large archives ... design limit hit, and possible bug

2002-06-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:35:38PM -0400, Scott Courtney wrote: Hi, folks I think I have found a bug in bin/arch, but I imagine someone has found it before. Also, I have run into an architectural limit and would like to change a constant to fix it, if possible. As you found out, there are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Main

2002-06-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:26:41AM -0600, Ryan Schouten - ABCOffice wrote: Does your software handle bounce backs? mailman 2.0: somewhat mailman 2.1b2: yes, if you enable VERP In both cases, however, it won't work as well as Ezmlm Marc -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To option, Author Name and Archives

2002-06-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:35:02AM -0600, Chris Wiegand wrote: Here, all of my users are Windows users, and non-technical ones at that. I read on that sourceforge page: For the remaining people who do not want two copies and can't remove duplicates on their side, the next version of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply-To option, Author Name and Archives

2002-06-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:09:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While there seems to be a bug, note that: Since this is a discussion list, it's useful to have the Reply-To: option set up as This List. Note that this is a common misconception. It's all between the brain and the

Re: [Mailman-Users] multiple reply-to adresses?

2002-06-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:05:12AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Yo! Mailman (stable - 2.0.9-1 Debian pkg) seems to not allow multiple adresses in a Reply-To: field (set via web interface as explicit return address), while many mailers do not have a problem with it.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searchable archives

2002-06-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:20:11PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote: Has anyone done any work on searchable archive, preferably with a web interface? Look in the archives of this list, or in the patch manager on sf.net for the htdig integration patch Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail loop for digest members

2002-06-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:42:42PM -0400, wayne wrote: My ISP is running version 2.01 of Mailman on their Linux 7.2 box. Lots of bugs were fixed since that version. You should ask your ISP to upgrade to 2.0.11 Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman

2002-06-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:37:31PM -0400, Tony O wrote: Is there a limit to the number of subscribers the Mailman mailing list can have? No, but the web interface gets noticeably slower when you start having several tens of thousands. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-web interface

2002-06-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:14:17PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote: I have a few users without web access. I know there's some sort of email interface to Mailman, but I haven't been able to locate any documentation on it. Help anyone? send help to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc -- Microsoft is to operating

Re: [Mailman-Users] Inaccessible archives

2002-06-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:17:51PM -0500, Bob Stout wrote: According to the administration docs, if the list is in use and Options FollowSymLinks is enabled, then users should be able to get to the archives. Yet, everyone who tries gets the message, You don't have permission to access

Re: [Mailman-Users] slow web administration

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:15:37PM -0600, Tremaine Lea wrote: Hey there folks, Not sure if anyone else has run across this issue, but it's slowly driving me batty. I currently have mailman 2.0.9-1 running on a Xeon 800 with 500 megs of ram. It has a single mailing list with roughly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Greetings from Northeastern Argentina's

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 07:29:16PM -0300, Eduardo Sosa wrote: Hi! After years having used Sendmail+Majordomo+Linux, I´ve migrated to Exim+Mailman+linux http://listas.unam.edu.ar/mailman/listinfo . I do know that you receive questions like this one every day, but I would like to know from

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is mailman the thing to use with a big newsletter?

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:18:26AM +0200, Support wrote: Hello, i'm searching a software that gives me the ability to send my newsletter to nearly 240'000 recipents. Unless you plan to use the subscribe/unsuscribe architecture in mailman, you're better off rolling a shell script that loops

Re: [Mailman-Users] restricting privileges

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:10:36PM -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: Can anyone suggest a way of restricting privileges in the Mailman web admin pages? In particular I'd like to stop users with list-admin privileges from being able to change the max_message_size setting but still

Re: [Mailman-Users] large lists question

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Andreu Sanchez wrote: Well, i have a question regarding mailman, we need to create some lists with 5000 mail addresses and we ask ourselves if mailman would support that huge bunch of mails and if the answer is yes, what machine must have the mailman?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in french

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:45:11PM +0200, Laurent Rathle wrote: Hello, Is it possible to put french messages and templates in mailman 2.0.8 and if yes, how do I set it ? Not easily mailman 2.1b2 supports that out of the box. You should try it. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems

Re: [Mailman-Users] large lists question

2002-06-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:34:47PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote: Lets not forget about the biggest bottle neck of all... the Hard Drive. For maximum through-put, you need to use a SCSI drive or RAID array as the Disk Subsystem for the server. If this is mission critical the obvious choice is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filtering spam with Spamassassin / Procmail and Mailman...

2002-05-25 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:53:52PM -0400, Phydeaux wrote: This works fine and so far zero spam has made it onto my mailing lists. Unfortunately, however, I am now trapping up to 15 messages per day per list. I have to manually remove each piece of detritus via the administrative interface. 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade differences

2002-05-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:37:04AM -0500, Paul Croft wrote: Is there a site that lists the new features that are in this version? There are announced right here, you can read the archives, but I'll save you time, it's only bug fixes. New features are in mailman 2.1 Marc -- Microsoft is to

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user question

2002-05-17 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:21:36PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: Oops. If the site administrator allows it (via an mm_cfg.py variable), list owners can suppress the RFC 2369 headers. My bad, thanks for the correction. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] User List

2002-05-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:25:53AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: Does not work in a shared environment. PERMISSION DENIED every time! Uh? You gotta be part of the group mailman to have permissions on the db. BTW if any of the programmers are here can I ask why a .db format

Re: [Mailman-Users] User List

2002-05-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:04:52AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: What is the URL that I can go to pull a complete list of all my subscribers and their password? I don't want any sort of nice cute warm and fuzzy graphical glitzed up thing, just a quick and dirty

Re: [Mailman-Users] LISTS command

2002-05-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:13:11AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote: 1) I am running in a shared environment. When I send LISTS to the listname-request address I get a listing of all lists on the server and NOT just the one(s) for that domain. My domain should not be allowed to

Re: [Mailman-Users] New user question

2002-05-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:50:44AM -0700, Bob Weissman wrote: I hope I'm reading this right; may I infer that these headers will be supressable on a per-list basis? Nope, site-wide only. Barry already knows that mailman 3 will probably need a toggle redesign, where most options

Re: [Mailman-Users] your software

2002-05-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 02:45:37AM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote: The whole point of the GNU project is to create an operating system that is completely Free Software. Therefore, it is only proper to inform users of GNU software that this is our goal. The only reason I'm answering here is that

Re: [Mailman-Users] does GNU Mailman keep list of all members joined

2002-05-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:42:09PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:41:18 -0400 Karim R Lakhani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, hi i was wondering if GNU Mailman keeps track of all users that have subscribed (ever) to the list. Thus is there a data base that tracks

Re: [Mailman-Users] your software

2002-05-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
[I do not plan to answer mails on this thread] On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:22:26AM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote: Sandra Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear Mailman, I currently use your Mailman software at work , through my univesity system, and a fabulous system it is indeed. Do you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman in chroot environment

2002-04-27 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:34:34AM +0200, CONTRAIRE M DsigTcs wrote: Hello, I am trying to setup mailman in a chroot environment. It doesn't work and I am wondering if it's possible at all. It is possible, you can run anything in a chroot environment. For that matter, you can

Re: [Mailman-Users] I/O error in Runner.py when archiving under 2.1a3

2002-04-20 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:44:19AM -0700, Ellen Spertus wrote: A mailing list of mine works except for archiving. I am using 2.1a3 on Redhat. Ok, if you are using 2.1, you *really* want to use CVS, not snapshots, unless they just came out. Barry being a lucky guy invariably fixes a bug or

Re: [Mailman-Users] renaming a mailing list

2002-04-20 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:40:24PM -0400, Fuzzy wrote: I discovered that one of my lists sanctuary-admin conflicts with the admin address of the mailing list sanctuary, mailman is taking the posting address and appending -admin and trying use that as the admin address. this fails and

Re: [Mailman-Users] create, delete a list

2002-04-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:13:53PM -0500, Raik Nettling wrote: Is there a way to create /delete a list through a web-interface or e-mail ? http://www.acme.com/mailman/create doesn't work. I cannot find find a script for it. I'm running mailman 2.0.9 on Redhat 7.0. You cannot create or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Editability of messages

2002-04-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 07:55:01AM -0400, Tom Neff wrote: Billie R. McNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using version 2.0.8 for a moderated list. But, we aren't able to edit messages before approving them (for example, to delete just one inappropriate word). How can we do this?

Re: [Mailman-Users] PW Reminder Override?

2002-04-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 03:42:25PM -0400, Tim Miller wrote: Sorry I was not clearer about this. Each list has a setting of whether or not to send out the monthly password reminder (Send monthly password reminders Y/N). I want to send them to every list regardless of how this is set.

Re: [Mailman-Users] newbie question

2002-04-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:24:02PM -0600, Brian Noecker wrote: Update on this: Seems that the problems with the admin(21776): OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted error stem from the following observations: the /opt/mailman/lists and /opt/mailman/lists/test/config.db file has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple emails to lists

2002-04-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:22:23PM -0700, Philip Rowe wrote: Hey, I've been going through the documentation in order to stop Mailman from sending multiple emails to users for lists that contain another list name. You cannot do this with mailman 2.0 Mailman 2.1 could almost do this, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] editing pending messages

2002-04-09 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:46:53AM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 07:05:27 -0400 (EDT) sean pambianco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it possible to edit messages that are held for approval in the administrative interface? The header and the text? Please see the FAQ:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Envelope-to:-header

2002-04-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 05:37:44PM -0800, Thomas Bartke wrote: Hi: why is it that the Envelope-to:-header in posts from my mailing list lists all recipients? I noticed that he mails from this list (Mailman-Users) only puts a single e-mail address in the Envelope-to:-header. Can we do that,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribing safely

2002-04-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:40:40AM +0200, Herve Cassagne wrote: Hi, It is possible to Mass Subscribe Members from the Membership Management page. How many at a time should I add ? My list is not very long: only 400 members. 4 times 100, or less, or more ? What is your advice, -

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to change the default value for ACK and DIGEST ?

2002-04-01 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:20:39PM +0200, Herve Cassagne wrote: Hi folks, For a new subscriber, by default the setting account is (ampongst other things): - NOACK (the member does not get acknowledgements of his posts) - If DIGEST, the format is PLAIN. I'd like to change the defalt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: set up the mailman list as a newsletter ?

2002-03-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:07:17AM -0600, Catherine Mannix wrote: Or you can set the Reply-to to Poster. Hint: setting Reply-To does _not_ let you redirect answers reliably. Reply to all with reply to the list and the original sender regardless of what Reply-To is set to. Your best bet if you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:42:14PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: MM == Marc MERLIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MM Ah, you want as a site owner to not have dupe removal enabled? MM Ok, then after installing mailman-cvs, make sure you set MM DEFAULT_NEW_MEMBER_OPTIONS to 0

Re: [Mailman-Users] testing lists using IP addresses

2002-03-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:25:44PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: Most MTA's are setup to use the Domain Name. I think the ip address would screw them up considerably. You could configure your local MTA to handle The RFCs say that you can send Email to listname@[192.168.101.202] (you need

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search capability

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:23:45PM -0500, Sandra Cann wrote: We have over 4500 users on our listserv. We are absolutely desparate for a search capability for the archives. PLe! Look in the archives, someone made a patch to get htdig to work with mailman. Marc -- Microsoft is

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin unsubscribe

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:44:38PM -0800, Andrew Hon wrote: Hi there, Mailman is nice, but I'm searching for a way to unsubscribe a list member without him knowing. Currently it seems the member is notified, and there is no option for not notifying. I think if you have an unsubscribe

Re: [Mailman-Users] How many

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:31:13PM -0600, Paul H Byerly wrote: Hi all, Can someone tell me how many members a list on version 2.0.7 can have? I've been thru the gnu site and can't find information on that. An old reference I saw says 1000, but that was for a previous version.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Blocking a user from subscribing

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Margaret Levine Young wrote: We have set up a series of actions for a list manager to take if a subscriber is breaking the list rules, starting with one-week hand-moderation (so the list managers have to approve the subscriber's posts). The final

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up a Mailman List

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:25:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the max # of users, I can register with Mailman? 10,000 to 100,000 per list Number of list is currently limited (by your filesystem) to 16,000 Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commands via email...

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:39:18AM +0530, Frederick Noronha wrote: Is it possible to send in approval commands via email (I used to do it with Majordomo and Yahoogroups, but they are both difficult in other ways) instead of having to log on via the Net? Mailman 2.1 which will be out soon

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which file are the email addresses stored in???

2002-03-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:07:26PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: They probably stored in a simple database, but you can dump them out by ~mailman/lists/listname/config.{db,pck} dumpdb will list the content of those files Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

[Mailman-Users] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
[I'm Ccing mailman-developers in case a few people there aren't on mailman-users, but please reply on mailman-users] Ben Gertzfield wrote a patch which Barry recently included in mailman-cvs which allows you to not receive the list copy of a message in you were Cced in the headers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:59:32PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hi Marc gang, I think that having those options would be nice, but also please allow for reply-to being forced back to the list (regardless of user settings). Some of us require that. If you read my patch, you'll see that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

2002-03-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Fil wrote: @ Marc MERLIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] : If you think the patch is stupid and shouldn't be in mailman, you can tell us that too :-) If you want opinions, here's mine: I want to receive two copies if I'm CCed. Not as an option

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

2002-03-10 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:30:03AM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: Mailman could look at the To and Cc lines of the message and make sure it doesn't sent to members which are listed on those lines. This would result in each person getting one copy, either from the list or from the sender

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply Question

2002-03-08 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:13:33PM -0600, Jorge Cuevas wrote: Hello everybody, I have a question, that I consider tha has been asked before, but I wasn't able to find it on the internet nor in the mailman-user list. Is it possible to configure mailman so when you press the reply

Re: [Mailman-Users] IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test2/config.db'

2002-03-01 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:00:36AM -0800, Robert Koberg wrote: File /home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, line 869, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/lists/test2/config.db' Doesn't ~mailman/bin/check_perms -f help? Marc -- Microsoft is to

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

2002-02-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:48:45PM +, Michael Johnson wrote: More importantly, how to prevent such things as future occurences. Certainly, manually checking and removing the lock may work on a per instance basis, but, in reality, it appears less than ideal. This problem happens way to

Re: [Mailman-Users] qrunner lock

2002-02-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Jay S Curtis wrote: Hmmm.. qrunner not running no lockfile found (using postfix) Am I barking up the wrong tree? Hold on, so you are saying that your qrunner is running once a minute from cron, that it complains that it's finding a lockfile and hence

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribe all

2002-02-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:30:34PM +0100, Daniel Furter (SUB) wrote: hello in the mailman version 2.0beta5 we have installed at our university the subscribe all button in the menu administrative requests for mailing list has disappeared. i appreciated this function very much. now i have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-25 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:38:56PM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: John, Thanks for responding. The Mailman version is 2.0.5 patched by Marc MERLIN on SourceForge. The Python version is 1.5. Are you talking about the python version on lists.sourceforge.net? Because if so: usw-sf-list1:~# python -V

Re: [Mailman-Users] Regular Expressions

2002-02-25 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:47:31AM -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: Marc MERLIN knows which version of Python runs on the SF list server. I hope he is reading this thread, so he can enlighten us. Already done, but please, if you need sf.net support, submit a support request on the sf.net web

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info!

2002-02-20 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:27:08PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question... Undoubtedly you are using Konqueror as your web browser. Konqueror cannot handle the new cookie layout (in version 2.0.8). Since it mis-reads the cookie, the authentication it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe users without confirmation

2002-02-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
should use the mailman setting here: # does this site allow completely unchecked subscriptions? ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE = 0 Marc MERLIN wrote: Of course, it then lets me unsubscribe you, but in some cases that's an acceptable tradeoff Actually it's different. Open unsubscribes

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe users without confirmation

2002-02-18 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:13:57AM +1100, Joe Mizzi wrote: How would i be able to subscribe users through the web interface without having them reply to a confirmation email? You can write a small CGI that calls ~mailman/bin/remove_members listname email Of course, it then lets me

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding subscribers

2002-02-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 05:40:21PM -0800, Andrew Watson wrote: I recently migrated a list to mailman, and after setup and testing, I tried to move the list of subscribers to the new list. I did this by pasting about 20 addresses, one per line, into the text box on the Membership Management

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin features via email vs web

2002-02-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:11:49PM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: Can an admin do mailman functions via email, like approve emails on a moderated list, instead of using the web? You need mailman 2.1cvs for that. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems security

Re: [Mailman-Users] What do you think of this idea to keep external people from subscribing?

2002-02-08 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:55:20PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: Try it, it should work fine. Your users will be stuck using the web, but that's not so bad. Just for info, that's what I've done at my company for the last 2.5Y :-) I want them to use the authenticated web interface to be *really*

Re: [Mailman-Users] digests wouldn'd send

2002-02-08 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:07:38PM -0500, Jay S Curtis wrote: First time I've ever seen this message.. Anyone know what might cause it? -- Forwarded Message -- From: root (Cron Daemon) To: mailman Traceback (innermost last): File /var/www/mailman/cron/senddigests,

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookies

2002-02-05 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:38:31AM +, Oliver Egginger wrote: For some reason, konqueror sends back cookies with marks around them. But this should mean that konqueror somehow works with mailman 2.05, right? (I have a konqueror user complaining that it's not working either) I

Re: [Mailman-Users] cookies

2002-02-03 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:54:41AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: Around 9 o'clock on Feb 1, Oliver Egginger wrote: if MM-version 2.06 and browser is konqueror then MM don't will work with passwords. For some reason, konqueror sends back cookies with marks around them. But this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and auto-responders?

2002-01-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:45:42PM -0800, Paul Thomas wrote: Howdy, Is Mailman vulnerable to mail-loops caused by auto-responders that are configured to look like an email sent by a person? Yes. Autoresponders are not supposed to answer mails with a precedence of list or bulk, and they

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman for NT Servers ?

2002-01-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0500, ITC wrote: Hello, Do you have a Mailman version that runs on a NT platform, or know were I can find one. There were a few words about this, but I don't think anything ever came out of it. For the most part, people interested in mailman are not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with Mailman under 'secure' Linux kernels

2002-01-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: Content-Description: message body text Has README.LINUX not helped? I'm attaching a few files from Mailman 2.1 just in case they have more useful or up-to-date information. The script itself is probably too MM2.1-centric, but it

Re: [Mailman-Users] arch python errors, bad marshall data

2002-01-07 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:41:49PM -0800, Tom Perrine wrote: I guess what I'm getting at is that the arch program uses LOTS of memory when building some of the indexes, and that incremental arch-ing may be more efficient and less likely to exercise memory-related bugs in Mailman, Python, or

[Mailman-Users] [ alexandria-Support Requests-497696 ] mailman authentication broken

2002-01-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
Level Support Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tavis Rudd (tavis_rudd) Assigned to: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin) Summary: mailman authentication broken Initial Comment: Mailman's authentication mechanism on the administrative pages is broken for all of the 6 lists that I manage. Nothing has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending out mail

2001-12-29 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:42:55AM -0800, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: Yes, actually, I had a very similar problem to this on my system, that all the configuring of sendmail short of making it an open relay could not fix. I eventually switched to postfix and I havent had a single problem since.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing vacation autoresponder mail bombs

2001-12-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:18:33PM -0500, The Berean wrote: Is there any workaround in Mailman to prevent this from happening again? Yes, ban the domain the autoreponder came from if it's from the MTA, or ban the Email it came from if it's a home cooked script. Unfortunately, there isn't much

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman wrapper generates OS error

2001-12-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:54:18PM -0600, Chris Menzel wrote: xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30015, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Operating \ system error GIDs are correctly set for running mailman scripts. Any suggestions appreciated. Look for clues in ~mailman/logs/ Marc -- Microsoft is to

Re: [Mailman-Users] stripping out HTML

2001-12-11 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:49:44AM +, Nigel Metheringham wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 15:27, David Gibbs wrote: My personal recommendation ... upgrade to mailman 2.0.6 (at minimum, probably best to go to 2.0.7) and apply Geoff Dairiki's demime patch.

[Mailman-Users] Running mailman on a linux/grsecurity kernel

2001-12-04 Thread Marc MERLIN
Just in case this is useful for someone, I wrote the following quick doc for using mailman on a linux/grsec kernel Steps you need to take to run mailman on a linux grsecurity protected kernel 1) Install and run

Re: [Mailman-Users] best way to upgrade from 2.0.6

2001-11-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:46:00PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: well, I guess I was wondering whether to do that or to try patching what i've got... what are the pros/cons of each method? Err, why? I've always patched/upgraded my source tree, and typed make install. Marc -- Microsoft is

Re: [Mailman-Users] best way to upgrade from 2.0.6

2001-11-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:01:30PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: i'm admittedly a very low-level sysadmin, trying to learn best practices. Which are, trust me, having the source tree of the installation you're running (with python, you can patch the installed version directly, but with

Re: [Mailman-Users] question about headers

2001-11-28 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Donna wrote: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 (101270) List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe:

Re: [Mailman-Users] htDig in 2.0.7

2001-11-26 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 07:50:46PM +0100, Andre Dieball wrote: Hi I'm trying to install htdig with Mailman 2.0.7. I saw, that there are several patches available for that, but all of them are for 2.0.6 The changes between .6 and .7 should be so minor that the patch should apply as is.

Re: [Mailman-Users] renaming a list

2001-11-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:53:58PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: I have an installation of mailman with one list running. It's for my daughter's school. Currently, the list name is 'atrium' and it's description is 'atrium school email list'. I won't go into all the details, but I think

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving a Mailman list

2001-11-14 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:07:44PM +, Paul Crowley wrote: I have a mailing list on my home machine, running Mailman 1.1, which I'd like to move onto a colocated host, running Mailman 2.0.6. Is it simply a question of tarring up the relevant directory in /lists and unpacking it in the new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Vacation email loop

2001-11-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:19:15PM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: On Monday 05 November 2001 10:47, Marc MERLIN wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:22:53PM -0500, Clark Cooper wrote: I had a situation where a user on one of my lists had the vacation utility turned on and a posting to the list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-Responses

2001-11-13 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:26:04PM -0500, Camille K. Powell wrote: Thanks, but I hope there's a better way. I just switched from EZMLM to Mailmain and I never had this problem. The auto-replies used to go to the person that posted the message, not to the list. Actually both are wrong,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Subscription of 7,000 Addresses

2001-10-31 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:35:23PM -0500, Camille K. Powell wrote: Are there any foreseeable problems with doing a mass subscription of approximately 7,000 users? No, as long as you use ~mailman/bin/add_members instead of trying to paste your list in the admin web page. Marc -- Microsoft is

Re: [Mailman-Users] moderators replies

2001-10-24 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:03:58PM +0100, Anthony Worrall wrote: Is it possible to customise the moderators replies on a per list basis. I would like to change the Your message to awaits moderator approval and the Request to mailing list rejected replies. You have the source

Re: [Mailman-Users] list hosting

2001-10-18 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:56:24AM -0700, J. St. Clair wrote: Am thinking of using your software on my server ... I have a 5,000 subscriber list, does your softare handle that many subscribers? Yes, and many more It can start to get slow when you go beyond 50-100k users in one list. Marc --

Re: [Mailman-Users] removing some lines in normal emails (mailman2.0.6)

2001-10-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:14:25PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote: On 12 October 2001, Spades said: How do I get rid of all these headers on the mailman 2.0.6 mailing list mail? AFAIK there are only two options: * hack Mailman to not emit those headers * tweak your MTAs config to remove them

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing a list name

2001-10-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 04:05:47PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Mike Avery wrote: I'd like to change the name of a Mailman hosted mailing list. The only way I see to do that is to delete it and start over, but I really don't want to do that. Is there a clean way to rename a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Search Archive Feature?

2001-10-08 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +0200, Norbert Bollow wrote: Does Mailman provide a feature for searching archives? That would be an awesome feature... The mailman archives are all text based, so they should be easy to search and index. There's a patch at Sourceforge which adds

[Mailman-Users] feature request: searching the list membership

2001-10-08 Thread Marc MERLIN
Ok, I'm not holding my breath because 1) I'm not contributing the code, and 2) like most people _I_ personally don't need it, but it's a feature request from sourceforge users: List admins have no way to do a quick grep on the list membership without shell access to the list server (which

Re: [Mailman-Users] sending out list and getting error message of Too many open files in system

2001-09-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:13:20AM -0700, Rick Backer wrote: Too many open files in system I get this error after sending out a email to are list. The size of the list is 149271. Does someone know what is happening to create this error Of course, if you told us what OS you were using,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help please!!

2001-09-23 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:25:26PM -0400, Tania Rodriguez wrote: Hi I'm running Mailman-2.1a2 and I got a big problem. I have a mailing list called modulos and everything seemed to be ok, you know, every single message was well delivered, but today I got an alarm from my monitoring

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman lists

2001-09-21 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:48:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello my name is Barry W. Grubbs and I am very new to this. Is it possible to have an open subscription to a mailing list, so you don't have to have a password to join? What I want is for people to be able to subscribe to

[Mailman-Users] problem in replybot.py

2001-07-12 Thread Marc MERLIN
My logs are being filled with: Jul 12 12:44:02 2001 usw-sf-list1 (17423) Delivery exception: __int__ Jul 12 12:44:02 2001 usw-sf-list1 (17423) Traceback (innermost last): File /var/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py, line 82, in do_pipel ine func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File

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