[Mailman-Users] SMTP_MAX_RCPTS setting for gmail and others

2005-03-20 Thread Paul H Byerly
I've recently turned off personalisation on a couple of large lists because it was running server load up too much when I sent thousands of individual, html e-mails. Now I am getting failed with code 452: 4.5.3 Too many recipients from gmail, hotmail, aol, yahoo and others. I

[Mailman-Users] Heads Up: RoadRunner rejecting listmail

2004-10-04 Thread Paul H Byerly
Last Friday afternoon RoadRunner systems across the US began blocking e-mail send via my mailman lists. The logs show: Deferred: 452 Too many recipients received this hour. (The reason I caught this is I saw a build up in my outgoing Sendmail queue.) The odd thing is I send

Re: [Mailman-Users] All AOL members not receiving emails

2004-09-01 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 08:12 PM 9/1/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My AOL users have also discovered our mail in their SPAM folders. I run both YahooGroups! lists and Mailman lists and it has happened to messages from both lists as of ~8/26. I can say with confidante that our lists are still getting through

[Mailman-Users] Send mail through web interface.

2004-07-29 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 05:01 AM 7/29/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to add some functionality to send an e-mail to a list in MailMan through a web page. For anyone to reach this web page they will have to be authenticated as a subscriber of the list. The web page will send an e-mail to the list from a hidden

[Mailman-Users] Send mail through web interface.

2004-07-29 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 05:01 AM 7/29/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to add some functionality to send an e-mail to a list in MailMan through a web page. For anyone to reach this web page they will have to be authenticated as a subscriber of the list. The web page will send an e-mail to the list from a hidden

[Mailman-Users] Re: Send mail through web interface.

2004-07-29 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 03:45 PM 7/29/2004, I wrote: Three times. Sorry about that, my ISP was sending failed to connect - but apparently ad connected. Paul -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] Re: Minor edits to listinfo page

2004-06-08 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 11:00 AM 6/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my everlasting quest to reduce phonecalls and emails to list moderators I'd like to edit the text on the Unsubscribe or edit options button that is on the Listinfo page of all my mailing lists so that the button reads Edit Options Can I do this,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Stopping uncaught bounce notifications

2004-05-30 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 10:25 AM 5/29/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I go about stopping 'Uncaught bounce notifications' ? I seem to recall a suggestion that the spam filter (version 2.1.4 and up) could be used to discard these. Guess I need to learn how to do the regexp thing - can anyone point me to a

[Mailman-Users] Re: High CPU Load

2004-05-30 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 10:43 PM 5/30/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're using Mailman 2.1.4, Python 2.3.3, Sendmail Amavis to support an announcement only list of about 40k members on an IBM Netfinity server (1 Gb RAM). During list activity CPU load will often exceed 90% with the load being spread fairly evenly

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman list create error using Web Interface

2004-05-14 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 06:56 PM 5/14/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Mailman-2.1.3 on RedHat 8.x While creating the list using Web Interface I get this error: Error: Illegal list name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you think could be wrong here ? You have tried to create a list with an illegal character -

[Mailman-Users] Re: Skipping Mailscanner for list mail

2004-05-10 Thread Paul H Byerly
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Looks quite valid. What delivery method do you use? If mailman doesn't deliver by SMTP those filters may fail. Using the default - SMTPDirect. The relevant lines (as far as I can tell) from Defaults.py and mm_cfg.py: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' SMTPHOST =

[Mailman-Users] Skipping Mailscanner for list mail

2004-05-10 Thread Paul H Byerly
Since several of you indicated you use Mailscanner, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I have three large (1000 to 5000) VERPed announcement lists. When I send out these lists clamav shows up in top - and it eat up all available CPU for several minutes. I have read all the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Emails not processing

2004-05-06 Thread Paul H Byerly
Steffan Noord wrote: I did a fresh install of version 2.1.4 Installation went fine browser is up Cron is running aliases is set That version runs as a daemon, not from cron - did you do [prefix/mailman/ bin/mailmanctl start? Paul --

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 3, Issue 17

2004-05-06 Thread Paul H Byerly
Franco, Ruben wrote: What about the stuff in $MAILMANHOME/archives/public/$LISTNAME? Because the path to the Mailman install can vary, it's given as something like $MAILMANHOME or prefix. Likewise $LISTNAME or listname indicates the name of a list. Paul

[Mailman-Users] Re: Extreme CPU usage..

2004-05-02 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 05:57 AM 5/2/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that at change of month when e-mail should be sent to all list members (the password reminder) my CPU usage increases dramatically. Right now I can see that Python consumes 93.4% of the CPU time (checked in top). Is that a sustained

[Mailman-Users] Re: Keeping the Publich_HTML subscription page from popping up.

2004-05-02 Thread Paul H Byerly
Alan Camuto wrote: I'd like for the subscription results page not to pop up every time an e-mail address is submitted, or for them to be directed to one of the other pages on my server. How do I go about turning off the subscription results Public Html page? Is there a tag I can add to keep

[Mailman-Users] RE: How does Mailman compare with YahooGroups?

2004-05-01 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 11:02 AM 4/28/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't say that HTML is not well supported. The built-in pipermail archiver isn't so great with HTML, but this can be remedied. Mailman itself does a pretty reasonable job with regards to the messages as they are actually sent out, considering

[Mailman-Users] Re: How does Mailman compare with YahooGroups?

2004-04-27 Thread Paul H Byerly
Prodos wrote: I'm writing to ask about comparing Mailman with YahooGroups. Would anyone on this list care to offer a comparison? Mailman does not allow posting from the archives. There is a program know as M2F that will tie Mailman and phpbb together - see

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question about CookHeaders

2004-04-27 Thread Paul H Byerly
Bruce Embrey wrote: I have encountered a circumstance with Eudora users when receiving messages with long subject lines from mailman lists. The subject line in their email client is blank but if you open the message the entire subject line appears on a line beneath the blank one. Is this on

[Mailman-Users] Re: Some lists not showing up in listinfo page

2004-04-26 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 11:06 AM 4/26/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read the FAQ and noted the section on this symptom. But it hasn't addressed my problem. If you hit this URI: http://cactusairforce.org/mailman/listinfo You see all lists (including Mailman?!) but if you instead hit this one:

[Mailman-Users] Re: Getting caught by SPAM Filters because of Mailman handoff

2004-04-24 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 11:00 AM 4/24/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Companies are now starting to block Mailman lists (among others) because of the way the headers are sent out stating the hand-off to the server: I fear that mail lists will become an increasingly common victim of friendly fire in the war

[Mailman-Users] Re: Editing the Confirm Subscription Request Page

2004-04-21 Thread Paul H Byerly
Jonathan Erbe wrote: Anyone know how to edit the Confirm Subscription Request page and other public pages not listed under the edit public pages section? Mailman looks in various places, in order, for each template. The last place it looks is prefix/mailman/templates/en (or what ever

[Mailman-Users] Re: open list

2004-04-17 Thread Paul H Byerly
N?lson Jorge Teixeira de Brito wrote: This must be a strange question but i'd like to know how can i open a list to non members. Can someone tell me how to do it? Easy to do from the web interface. Go to: http://yoursite.tdl/mailman/admin/listname/privacy/sender . You have two options.

[Mailman-Users] Re: Announce Only

2004-04-17 Thread Paul H Byerly
Paul Reilly wrote: Also how do you turn off the Create new List via webpage ? Why should one want to do it? Sure. But it does not hurt, does it? Well people click it, (thinking thats the way to create a new list), get an error, and then think it's not working, so call our helpdesk saying

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce Only

2004-04-15 Thread Paul H Byerly
Paul Reilly wrote: How did you close the list to posts? This seems may more complicated than it needs to be. I have to turn everyones moderation bit on, under membership management. Surely there should be a simple open closed radio check button under Sender Filters. Several options,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Announce Only

2004-04-15 Thread Paul H Byerly
Edward Melendez wrote: I want to set up an announce only list and I have fixed the HTML in the public info pages so that the To post a message to this list... message is gone. How can I do that in the confirmation e-mail that gets sent to subscribers? See customize welcome message in

[Mailman-Users] Re: changes to mailman/var/lists/list/en/custom.html not taking

2004-04-15 Thread Paul H Byerly
Thomas M. Parris wrote: I've been working on customizing the public html pages for one of my lists. I've succesfully changed the html for the general list infomraiton page and the subscribe results page. I've also changed the html for the user specific options page. However, when I load this

[Mailman-Users] Re: List-Admin

2004-04-15 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 05:30 PM 4/15/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to this list. I have created a couple test lists and find the list-admin address seems to be a black hole. In other words, if my list is called 'testlist', mail sent to the address testlist-admin does not seem to go anywhere. The address

[Mailman-Users] Re: Changing List Administrator

2004-04-14 Thread Paul H Byerly
Wendy Allotta wrote: We need to change the email address of our list administrator. How do we do this? For Mailman 2.1.x you can do it via the web interface by changing the admin for the Mailman list. Go to http://yoursite.tld/mailman/admin/mailman , make the change, and hit submit.

[Mailman-Users] Re: Exporting

2004-04-13 Thread Paul H Byerly
John S. Strock wrote: I'm moving from one hosting company to another, how can I export my current list so that I can import it into mailman on my new server? I'm currently running mailman v2.1.3. My experience was from a crash and restore - with a move from 2.1.2 to 2.1.4 in the process. I

[Mailman-Users] Re: Archive format

2004-04-12 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 10:30 AM 4/12/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The messages in archives don't wrap, so a line of text runs way off the screen. I've removed all content filtering commands, as well as disabling content filtering, but it still happens. When I was looking at this it seemed to me it should be

[Mailman-Users] Re: I'm BEGGING for help here

2004-04-08 Thread Paul H Byerly
Richard B wrote: Even a Texan would not believe that two people making an assertion without presenting supporting evidence makes it the truth. My point was that it's reproducible. In either both of your cases do the test messages contain a X-Content-Filtered-By: header If filtering is

[Mailman-Users] Re: I'm BEGGING for help here

2004-04-08 Thread Paul H Byerly
Tokio Kikuchi wrote: This is wrong. I should have read the page carefully. ;-) You can pass the second test by leaving pass_mime_types blank. That is how I read it. Since the first test supposedly only removed types listed, is it then not logical to assume that leaving both empty and not

[Mailman-Users] I'm BEGGING for help here

2004-04-07 Thread Paul H Byerly
After reading up on mime types and making literally hundreds of tests, it seems that the Content filtering on 2.1.4 DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY. Correct me if I'm wrong here - If I: 1) select yes for Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? 2) leave

[Mailman-Users] Re: I'm BEGGING for help here

2004-04-07 Thread Paul H Byerly
texas critter wrote: When you posted about this the other day, I did some brief tests with 2.1.3 and I got the same wrong results as you did. So I guess it's a bug, and it's in both versions. Thanks TC, this is the first time anyone has confirmed this (I owe you some catnip now). I had the

[Mailman-Users] Re: I'm BEGGING for help here

2004-04-07 Thread Paul H Byerly
Richard B wrote: You are asserting that your tests show some problem exists but from a quick look at it, the code concerned is not obviously defective. Well unless it's a Texas conspiracy, TC has taken it past an empty assertion. Can you give me a yes or no on my reasoning? Should

[Mailman-Users] Re: How to configure mailman!

2004-04-06 Thread Paul H Byerly
Tayfun ?zdemir wrote: I have been having problems with mailman. ev1servers.net has told me that there is a problem with suexec and that it can not run mailman scripts. But they cant fix that problem for me. I have been told that I have to configure mailman by my self. The problem is that I dont

[Mailman-Users] Re: Placing the confirmation string in email body instead of the Subject

2004-04-06 Thread Paul H Byerly
Subha Subramanian wrote: I need to find a way to send subscription confirmation emails that wont have gibberish in the email subject or in the from address. I suspect what you are calling gibberish is the confirmation string. Without that there is no way to confirm. So while you could

[Mailman-Users] Re: options page error

2004-04-01 Thread Paul H Byerly
John Hamlin wrote: We're hosted by pgHoster.com, which wisely has personalization turned off for Mailman. This makes sense -- saves processor, etc. -- but it leaves me with no python variable for the addressed_to recipient to append to the URL for the options page. Thus instead of:

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman Interface

2004-03-31 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 11:02 AM 3/31/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me if it's possible to change colours/design of the standard Mailman interface? Absolutely - although it's a bit of work if you want to do it across the board. The Edit the public HTML pages link on the administrator page

[Mailman-Users] Re: Please help - I need to add a new list

2004-03-31 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 11:02 AM 3/31/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in a huge bind. I am a low-level administrator of the mail.rx2000.org lists and the man that set all of it up in the beginning is nowhere to be found. I know how to administer the lists, but beyond that, I'm at a loss. My organization

[Mailman-Users] HTML but no images?

2004-03-31 Thread Paul H Byerly
I have asked this twice in the past 9 months of so - never received any feed back. I though it was a bug in the version I was running, but version 2-1-4 does the same thing. I have several lists that want to allow HTML styling but not allow images. I have tried all the content

[Mailman-Users] Give moderators access to member db?

2004-03-29 Thread Paul H Byerly
I have a group that want moderators to be able to manage the member section of the admin interface. I am guessing that the issue is modifying which passwords are accepted for membership tasks. Has anyone hacked this, or does anyone have any hints, suggestions or warnings before I dig

[Mailman-Users] Recreating lists (WAS: changing ISP servers)

2004-03-09 Thread Paul H Byerly
Pastor Augie wrote: I have several mailman lists setup. Because of technical difficulties with our ISP's physical server, I am being required to migrate our entire website, including lists, to a new server (new IP and new name). My ISP contact tells me that when the mailman lists are moved

[Mailman-Users] To those looking for help

2004-03-09 Thread Paul H Byerly
I've been off the list for a couple of weeks due to a server crash - when I came back I found a LOT of messages that are to vague to be answered, have nothing to do with Mailman, are answered in the FAQ, or show a lack of needed knowledge to follow an answer. So, as a public service here:

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question on forwarded admin requests.

2004-02-21 Thread Paul H Byerly
I asked: So, could the same system be tweaked to reject any mail sent with Re: listname Digest in the subject? This is a feature on another list I am on, and I'd really like to add it to my system. and Al Black wrote: There's a couple of way you can sort of do this now, fiddling Max

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question on forwarded admin requests.

2004-02-20 Thread Paul H Byerly
On 02:12 PM 2/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code that does the checking is a function called is_administrivia() in the file $prefix/Mailman/Utils.py From a quick look at the Python code (which is quite legible if you want to take a look yourself) it appears to check both the subject line

[Mailman-Users] Re: Problem related to Hotmail

2004-02-19 Thread Paul H Byerly
Nick vd Kloor wrote: since a month now our company is using Mailman 2.1.4. Our membersdatabase is for 60% filled by Hotmail users. Now we noticed that none of these hotmailusers receive our mailings. So I tested it with another mailman database with only 2 hotmail users which I copied from our

[Mailman-Users] Re: how to auto-allow messages from any address?

2004-02-19 Thread Paul H Byerly
Luka wrote: Is there any way for mailman to except mail from any address, ... Easy.. Go to http://server.tld/mailman/admin/listname/privacy/sender . At the bottom you will see: Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined. Choose Hold or

[Mailman-Users] Re: adding email address to footer

2004-02-19 Thread Paul H Byerly
E Publisher wrote: How do I add the member's email address to my message? For example, in the footer of messages that come from this Mailman users list it has: This message was sent to: {my email address} How can I do that to my own lists? First you need to turn on personalization. Go to

[Mailman-Users] Re: adding email address to footer - correction

2004-02-19 Thread Paul H Byerly
Lost a % in the cut and paste. %(user_delivered_to)sis the users e-mail Paul -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] Choose NoMail on sign up?

2004-02-18 Thread Paul H Byerly
I've been looking to see if I can add an option to the listinfo page that will allow a subscriber to choose NoMail when they sign up. In subscribe.py I see this: try: userdesc = UserDesc(email, fullname, password, digest, lang) mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote) results =

[Mailman-Users] Mailman with phpBB M2F?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul H Byerly
I see that there is FINALLY a public beta for the mail-to-forum phpBB addon. As described on the development web site Mail 2 Forum (or M2F) is an add-on software to the phpBB forum system. M2F combines the functionality of a mailing list system and a phpBB forum in order to add

[Mailman-Users] Re: Customizing archived pages?

2004-02-14 Thread Paul H Byerly
Mark wrote: Hey, is there any way to customize the HTML templates for the archives on a per-list basis? I tried copying arch*html into .../lists/list-name/en and editing them, but the next time the archiver ran the output was generic. You need to restart mailman prefix/mailman bin/mailmanctl

[Mailman-Users] Re: editing of archive index.html file lost after post

2004-02-13 Thread Paul H Byerly
Richard D. Dover wrote: I edited the archive index.html folder for my mailing list. I also edited the date.html and subject.html to have the appearance I wanted. Everything looked good until there was a post. When a post is made to the list all my data is erased and the archive index.html,

[Mailman-Users] Re: Text Attachments

2004-02-12 Thread Paul H Byerly
Mike Phillips wrote: This question has been discussed at length, but I don't know if there ever was a definitive answer. Is there a way to cause MM not to send the nuisance text attachments that accompany HTML posts to the list? My server is 2.1.3. Forget about how, and think about if

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTML in list descriptions

2004-02-10 Thread Paul H Byerly
Jon Carnes said: There simply are no (mailman) problems to adding in your own HTML to the Listinfo pages. Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: There are, and they are here. I get: Do you have more than one body tag in the source? You don't need to out one in, as there is one to start with. Can you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Extract or dump of subscribers from mailman?

2004-02-09 Thread Paul H Byerly
At 09:59 AM 2/9/2004, you wrote: Message: 11 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:51:54 +0100 From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Extract or dump of subscribers from mailman? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Mailman-Users] ~ Can't make everyone happy

2004-02-06 Thread Paul H Byerly
Chuq Von Rospach wrote: This isn't the answer some will want to hear, but -- the defaults are the desired behavior for the majority of new mailman lists, based on the combined wisdom of the Mailman developers, and after long consideration and not a little enthusiastic discussion among interested

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Paul H Byerly
I asked I have never understood why this poster is recommended, nor why it is the default. I've been on a lot of lists, on a lot of systems, and have never been on one that defaults to sending a response only to the author of the post I am replying to. and Thomas Hochstein replied

[Mailman-Users] Re: Reply to list

2004-02-05 Thread Paul H Byerly
My apologies for bringing it up at all!! I think the issue for the developers is theory vs. reality. What is the desired behaviour for the majority of new Mailman lists? Should not that be the default, with appropriate explanations? Personally I am very happy with Mailman, and

RE: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list

2004-02-04 Thread Paul H Byerly
Remko Lodder wrote: actually it is on the general page, which opens up here when you start the administrative interface... a carefull watch should have told you that there is this option: Where are replies to list messages directed? Poster is strongly recommended for most mailing lists. I

[Mailman-Users] Re: AOL Bounce action notification

2004-02-04 Thread Paul H Byerly
At 11:03 AM 2/4/2004, you wrote: Does anyone know why I am getting a 4.0.0 server refused mail service message from AOL? My Mailman is a very straightforward setup. Never had one of those, and I have a lot of AOL users. My first guess would be some spam rejection system. AOL resets their

[Mailman-Users] Annoying auto-response to everything sent to this list

2004-02-03 Thread Paul H Byerly
/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i139cx118551 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:39:00 -0600 Received: by mailrelay2.lrz-muenchen.de for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:38:35 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:38:35 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul H

[Mailman-Users] Re: subscribing per email

2004-02-03 Thread Paul H Byerly
Ken Adcock wrote: This is probably such a basic question that it didn't make it into the documentation. If someone wants to subscribe per email to my list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] what do they write in the email? I tried subscribe in the subject line, but the admin settings though that the person

[Mailman-Users] Re: RE: Period Mailings; Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail

2004-02-02 Thread Paul H Byerly
nb wrote: you can simple write a cron that sends mail to your list announcing the birthdays or whatever, but, as Paul Byerly says you can do a script for that purpose. It will be more usefull for sure -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL

[Mailman-Users] Re: RE: Period Mailings; Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail

2004-02-02 Thread Paul H Byerly
nb wrote: you can simple write a cron that sends mail to your list announcing the birthdays or whatever, but, as Paul Byerly says you can do a script for that purpose. It will be more usefull for sure. Maybe someone can give me a hint here on my attempt to do this by modifying edithtml.py.

[Mailman-Users] RE: Period Mailings; Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail

2004-02-01 Thread Paul H Byerly
doug wrote: I've been using Yahoo Groups, but have tired of the all the ads. So, I've setup a mail list using MailMan. However I really miss the ability to have monthly and yearly e-mails automatically sent. Is there anyway to automatically send e-mails to the list on specific dates in the future?

Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.4 info/html issue

2004-01-31 Thread Paul H Byerly
Fred Stutzman wrote: Does anyone have any last ideas about my issue, described in the thread below? If not, i'll submit a bug. and I played around with one of my own lists, and was able to replicate the behavior. You can check that out at: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/somewhat

[Mailman-Users] Re: Subscription/UnSubscription withoug a password

2004-01-31 Thread Paul H Byerly
Andrew Stebakov wrote: I was wondering if it's ever possible in mailman not to use any password when the user subscribes or unsubscribes? It can be done. Actually a password is generated, but you can remove any hit of this if you want. You will have to edit the subscribe form (or make

[Mailman-Users] Auto reject Re: Digest ....

2004-01-27 Thread Paul H Byerly
I have just joined a mail list run by Lyris. The system is configured to reject, with explanation, any post that has something like Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 16, Issue 61. Anyone come up with a hack to do that on Mailman? It looks like I could set up a regexp in Spam filters, but

[Mailman-Users] Re: Undeliverable Mail

2004-01-26 Thread Paul H Byerly
Nik Engel wrote: Anyway how is the procedure when bounces happen? Does somebody get informed ? Is there a possibility that the owner of the lists gets notified ? You really don't want to be notified of every bounce, trust me. You can be notified of suspensions and removals for bouncing, if

[Mailman-Users] Re: Too Many Headers

2004-01-25 Thread Paul H Byerly
Dan Phillips wrote: From: Dan Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Too Many Headers To: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Jan 23, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:

[Mailman-Users] Content Filters hate html?

2004-01-23 Thread Paul H Byerly
I've tried this every way I can think of, and can not get it. Please don't tell me html e-mail is of the evil one - it's what the user wants. I need for html formatted text to go through, but images to be rejected. The only way I have been able to get html to pass is by turning off

[Mailman-Users] Re: From field displayed by MS Outlook

2004-01-22 Thread Paul H Byerly
gagel wrote: What is wrong with the mailman authors making their product superior enough to compensate for Microdummies poor programing and faulty RFC interpretation? 1) It's a moving target. 2) Fixing their non-standard way of dealing with things could cause problem for systems that actually do

[Mailman-Users] Content Filters hate html?

2004-01-22 Thread Paul H Byerly
I've tried this every way I can think of, and can not get it. Please don't tell me html e-mail is of the evil one - it's what the user wants. I need for html formatted text to go through, but images to be rejected. The only way I have been able to get html to pass is by turning off

[Mailman-Users] Re: Bounces

2004-01-19 Thread Paul H Byerly
Charlie Hazlett wrote: I have a subscriber who received a bounce warning and I have no idea why she received it. Her email address is correct and she has had no problems with her email that I am aware of. Start with the mailman bounce log prefix/mailman/logs and look for her bounce

[Mailman-Users] Re: How do I limit posts?

2004-01-17 Thread Paul H Byerly
Corky Seevinck wrote: How do I configure a list so that members can't post. I want only the moderators to be able to post. Thanks http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.11 A side note to the developers - we see this question here several times a month. I realize it's easily

[Mailman-Users] Re: 4 things:

2004-01-14 Thread Paul H Byerly
I wrote: Ultimately a bad guess would be better than something a decade or two in the future. Go check out http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ and see how things like April 2024 and December 2006 make a mess. and Brad Knowles responded: You're always free to

[Mailman-Users] Re: 4 things:

2004-01-12 Thread Paul H Byerly
Andrzej Kasperowicz wrote: 2 I think that there should be an option allowing to archive mails according to date of reception of the posts by mailman, and not date set by user who sends it. That would make a mess of time stamps, especially on an international list. Maybe it would be better

[Mailman-Users] Re: 4 things:

2004-01-12 Thread Paul H Byerly
I wrote: Maybe it would be better to override the sending time stamp only when it's, say, 2 days or more away from the Mailman server time? and Brad Knowles wrote: To really do it properly, you'd have to parse the date/time stamps on every hop that the message passed through,

[Mailman-Users] Re: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create

2004-01-08 Thread Paul H Byerly
Robin Lynn Frank wrote: Sorry to ask another question, but I am seeing this happen: [Wed Jan 07 15:11:09 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.1] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create The following lines are in my apache config: ScriptAlias /mailman/

[Mailman-Users] bounce detection

2004-01-05 Thread Paul H Byerly
I've been trying to assimilate the way the bounce handling is done by Mailman so as to set up ways to handle the odd ball bounces that clog my in-box. I see that BouncerAPI runs through the BOUNCE_PIPELINE. I assume that adding an entry there and putting the appropriate py file in

[Mailman-Users] manually set to bouncing?

2004-01-03 Thread Paul H Byerly
Apparently the folks over at sbcglobal.net have not been informed there are standard ways to do things like send over quote mail bounces. As a result I am getting a slew of uncaught bounce messages. I'd like to manually set the member to bouncing rather than just putting them to NoMail

[Mailman-Users] Re: tokens for confirmations are too long

2003-12-27 Thread Paul H Byerly
Brett Dikeman: The problem is that any URL longer than 80 characters will be chopped by many mail clients- Eudora, for example. I use Eudora and have no such problem. I just sent myself one as a test, and the confirmation URL, at 144 characters, is on one line. Even when I down size the

[Mailman-Users] RE: how to configure mailman to use a specific python?

2003-12-24 Thread Paul H Byerly
Jon wrote: The install on Ensim systems is documented by myself and a few other hardy individuals, but it is not easy even for practiced professionals. Trying to swell my head? I did it as an absolute novice to not only Ensim, but also to Linux. Of course it took me months to get it right,

[Mailman-Users] RE: how to configure mailman to use a specific python?

2003-12-23 Thread Paul H Byerly
Ben wrote: We have an old version of python installed which is heavily used by the Ensim, so I need to compile the up-to-date version to an isolated place and assign mailman to use this installation. Can someone tell me how to do the configuration for mailman before installation. Thanks.

[Mailman-Users] Re: Excessive or Fatal Bounces

2003-12-12 Thread Paul H Byerly
Tim Erickson wrote: 1) They can't see our messages hitting their mail relay 3) They cannot resolve our domain mnforum.org 4) A friend told me that he is able to resolve our domain. In find that http://mnforum.org/ is 404. DNS Lookup says no A record

[Mailman-Users] Re: Admin functions don't

2003-12-10 Thread Paul H Byerly
-- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This

[Mailman-Users] Max reciepients

2003-12-04 Thread Paul H Byerly
jeff wrote: i have created a bunch of lists. Now i just noticed that the max_num_recipients is set to 10 on all messages -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

[Mailman-Users] Re: Partial list mail delivery

2003-11-29 Thread Paul H Byerly
Rod Neep wrote: List members can all post OK to the list The messages all appear in the archives for each list. However. User A receives mail from some lists, but not from others User B ditto (but not the same lists necessarily). Therefore there is nothing wrong with the user's address or

[Mailman-Users] Re: Web interface to mailing list

2003-11-28 Thread Paul H Byerly
At 02:25 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: I'm wondering if there is some software that is a web interface to a gnu mailman mailing list that would allow people to log in and send/read messages to the list.. and mailman would of course retain its original functionality where users could do everything from

[Mailman-Users] It's Yahoo's fault

2003-11-17 Thread Paul H Byerly
A while back I mentioned that some of my digests are getting posts which have a second post, including full headers, tacked onto them. I have now tracked this to the way Yahoo is sending two part mail. Each of the examples below is of a Yahoo message as it appeared in the preview screen

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question About Implicit Addresses

2003-11-16 Thread Paul H Byerly
Rejean Proulx wrote: I don't understand why NMailman rejects these notes. I don't want to have to approve them as administrator all the time? How do I fix this? Here is the note that vet rejected. I had to approve it in order to receive it You have now asked this AT LEAST four times/

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question on SignUp via HTML

2003-11-16 Thread Paul H Byerly
scott wrote: I can not find in the documentation how to add the HTML code to my website to allow a user to fill in the request via my web site to join the mailing list as opposed to having to connect via the Mailman site. Is there a spot I can find some example code to allow this?

[Mailman-Users] Re: Question on SignUp via HTML

2003-11-16 Thread Paul H Byerly
Steven Scott wrote: I actually tried to use this, but when I changed and used my domain and list, the POST action did not do anything. Could this be a result that the List is provided via cPanel? I can not seem to get much information from their site about the lists. I know

[Mailman-Users] Explicit Reply-To: header does not work for digest

2003-11-12 Thread Paul H Byerly
I have a list that is selected posts from a much busier list. Replies go to the main list via the Explicit Reply-To: header. This works fine for individual e-mails, but a reply to the digest goes to the sending list, ignoring the reply to set in the general options section. Just

[Mailman-Users] Bad dates set to today's date in archives

2003-11-09 Thread Paul H Byerly
I am moving the archives of some YahooGroups to Mailman. When I run bin/arch it works fine, except when it hits posts with a bad date. All files sent to a list by Yahoo's internal mailers (reminders, polls, file notifications) have improper dates: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 15

[Mailman-Users] Bad dates set to today's date in archives - follow up

2003-11-09 Thread Paul H Byerly
As the first date (the from_date ?) is correct, is there any way to get the archive to use this date? Or, is there a way to lie to HyperArch about the current date, or modify the current date for that program? Paul - Original Message -- I am moving the archives of some

[Mailman-Users] Re: Digest problem

2003-11-07 Thread Paul H Byerly
I wrote: I'm seeing a seemingly random problem with digests. The first line of the post as found in the mbox (From ) is stuck right onto the end of the last line of the proceeding post, without even a space. The message is not recognized as a new message in the contents or in the body

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