Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop sendmail from spewing messages one itstarts?

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Williams
Paul Williams wrote: 1). A user added a large number of subscribers by uploading an Excel spreadsheet. Mailman accepted the file and addresses appeared reasonable when viewed with IE but not so good with mozilla (each alpha char was followed by a box). I was able to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman complie errors again

2005-12-09 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Elvis Fernandes wrote: I am compiling mailman-2.1.5 on Solaris10 (SPARC) with gcc 3.3.2 When I do make install, I get the following fatal error: Mailman compiles itself. Are you compiling -python-? (That's what it looks like.) Sort of out of scope for this

Re: [Mailman-Users] High usage -- making Mailman nice

2005-12-09 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:50 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: John Dennis wrote: If your MTA can only handle one, or a small number of client connections then each connection will be busy handling SMTP_MAX_RCPTS and other client connections will queue up. If you have 4,000 recipients then you have

[Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not going out

2005-12-09 Thread Bob Bergey
Apologies if this is a duplicate message; I sent it yesterday afternoon but never saw it show up on the list. I have about a dozen lists running on Mailman 2.1.4 on an XServe with OSX 10.3.9; all but one are set to send out monthly password reminders, but none are going out. Other than that,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman complie errors again

2005-12-09 Thread Elvis Fernandes
I installed the python binaries. But I am building mailman on this solaris10 box. So I am sure that this error is from the mailman make install. Elvis On 12/9/05, Carl Zwanzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a flurry of recycled electrons, Elvis Fernandes wrote: I am compiling mailman-2.1.5 on

[Mailman-Users] Permissions problem accessing commands via php

2005-12-09 Thread Dave B
I am trying to create some php forms that use the shell_exec function to run some of the Mailman command line commands. i.e. I have a script that lets an admin user enter an email address and then uses the find_member script to return all lists that email address is in. To do this I had to set

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

2005-12-09 Thread John Dennis
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 12:46 -0600, Dave B wrote: I am trying to create some php forms that use the shell_exec function to run some of the Mailman command line commands. i.e. I have a script that lets an admin user enter an email address and then uses the find_member script to return all

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

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

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman complie errors again

2005-12-09 Thread Elvis Fernandes
I fixed the mailman compile problem now. Just re-build the box with Solaris8! Thanks much Elvis On 12/9/05, Elvis Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the python binaries. But I am building mailman on this solaris10 box. So I am sure that this error is from the mailman make

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to create new mail list from browser.

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elvis Fernandes wrote: I changed the site passwd using bin/mmsitepass. And now when I try creating a new mail list thru the browser, it comes back with: Error: Illegal list name. Are these problems/errors documented somewhere? Is there something that I am missing? The error messages aren't

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop sendmail from spewing messages oneitstarts?

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Paul Williams wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: What Mailman version is this? Current Mailman (2.1.6) is pretty good about weeding out addresses with non-printable ascii characters. In particular, it won't accept whatever characters were displaying as a 'box'. We are using mailman 2.1.5. Is

Re: [Mailman-Users] High usage -- making Mailman nice

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Dennis wrote: Depends on whether the client waits for a success status or not, which if my memory serves me correctly (its been failing lately :-) is not the behavior in an SMTP transaction. I believe the MTA accepts the input, queues the request and control is returned, at that point I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman complie errors again

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carl Zwanzig wrote: In a flurry of recycled electrons, Elvis Fernandes wrote: I am compiling mailman-2.1.5 on Solaris10 (SPARC) with gcc 3.3.2 When I do make install, I get the following fatal error: Mailman compiles itself. Are you compiling -python-? (That's what it looks like.) Sort of out

Re: [Mailman-Users] Monthly password reminders not going out

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Bob Bergey wrote: I have about a dozen lists running on Mailman 2.1.4 on an XServe with OSX 10.3.9; all but one are set to send out monthly password reminders, but none are going out. Other than that, Mailman is running perfectly the last 2-1/2 months -- messages, digest, archives, all

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

2005-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dave B wrote: This works fine except that for some reason the permissions will sometimes revert back to 660 and then the script won't work. Only one config.pck file has to have 660 permissions for the script not to work. When I change that particular file back to 664 - the script works again.