[Mailman-Users] Forced Migration nightmare

2015-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
Our guru kicked off his mortal coil and left me with a bunch of old linux servers. Not normally a problem normally, as I'm fairly adept and learn quickly. Our list server crashed, unrecoverably. I'm trying to resurrect it - from rhel5 to rhel7, on a new VM. Using Mailman version: 2.1.9

[Mailman-Users] monthly reminders not being sent

2015-10-02 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
Greetings all; I'm a relative noob to the list server realm, having inherited 60-odd lists running on a few different servers 4months ago from a coworker who passed on. The following week our list server crashed hard - disk issue on old hardware. I've rebuilt and recovered all the active

Re: [Mailman-Users] analytics tool for mailman?

2018-05-25 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
, 2018 3:06 PM To: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] analytics tool for mailman? On 05/24/2018 12:19 PM, Jeffrey Westgate wrote: > > anybody got any tools that do analytics? See the mmdsr script in the contrib directory of the Mailman 2.1 source distribution. -- Mark Sap

[Mailman-Users] analytics tool for mailman?

2018-05-24 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
I have a list-owner asking if there is a way for us to provide him " list analytics like number of posts over time, new members over time, etc? " I don' know of any, or how that would even work except for a horrible stroll through the archive... anybody got any tools that do analytics?

[Mailman-Users] Trying to secure the list server web page

2019-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
Help? We have been running the list server on port 80 for ... years. Yesterday we created an ssl certificate, and move the http to https. Seems to be going fine, except for a few thing -- when a list owner tends to the moderator requests, and hits the Submit All Data button... depending on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to secure the list server web page

2019-02-27 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
for the quick response. From: David Gibbs Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:13 AM To: Jeffrey Westgate; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to secure the list server web page On 2/27/2019 10:01 AM, Jeffrey Westgate wrote: > when a l

[Mailman-Users] google/gmail issues

2020-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
We run a list of our mailman listserver that our public school sysadmins use to share info. The problem is - a lot of them have become Google schools, and Google has a problem with list servers. Each post winds up going to multiple Google mail domains, and they bounce: stat=Deferred:

[Mailman-Users] better filtering - help?

2020-05-27 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
We've been running a mailman server, pushing more than 45 lists, for as long as I've been here, and recently spammers and phishers have found us. We're trying to find the right combination to filter in the "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded." under

[Mailman-Users] looking for just one command...

2020-06-01 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
I am running v2.1.20, looking to upgrade to 2.1.32 (or 33), but the upgrade path seems to me to want the same options used in the previous install. I didn't do the previous install, so the one command I'm looking for is -- the one command that will tell me what options were used in the

[Mailman-Users] is there a short instruction guide available?

2021-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
We are trying to determine the best methods of taking a long-working mailman list server, with 43 active lists, and 'moving' it behind an F5. We're not sure how mailman would handle inbound email from the F5... as part of our issue is we'd like to maintain the same URL for the frontend as we

[Mailman-Users] migrations questions

2023-01-26 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
Greetings all - My current build is running Mailman version: 2.1.20, on a long-in-the-tooth Scientific Linux release 7.9 (Nitrogen), with sendmail I'd like to go RHEL9, and Mailman 3.3.8 (Tom Sawyer), with postfix, on a new parallel VM - plan is to build a parallel server, same hostname,

[Mailman-Users] changes - need clarity

2023-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
Greetings all. As I have time, I've been migrating to a new, updated, upgraded list server - from SciLin 7.9 / Mailman 2.1.20, to RHEL 8.7 and Mailman 2.1.39. I've done my best to 'match' the created file systems during the config/make phases, but their distribution between /usr/lib/ and

[Mailman-Users] rebuilding and replacing.

2023-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Westgate
Greetings. It's been a while since I've had an issue, mostly because mailman just works. (and thank you for that) We're running old - SciLin 7.9 / Mailman 2.1.20, but are upgrading out of necessity. We've chosen RHEL 8.7 and Mailman 2.1.39 All installed, created a new list... and stopped.