mailman-users@python.org discussions for July 1999

12	[Mailman-Users] mailman aliases

Wow! I'm impressed. Once past the initial hurdle of the vsnprintf problem and Solaris 2.5, I had mailman installed and working in less that an hour. Beautiful! In case this hasn't been discussed ...

Todd Pfaff
Jul 28, 1999 at 8:18 pm
Sep 2, 1999 at 8:31 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] CLosed unsubscribe?

Hi all, how can I run a mailing list with a "close unsubscribe"? So, how can I configure mailman to stop any unsubscribe request and put them on hold to be approved by an administrator? Thanks in ...

Massimiliano Lehmann
Jul 26, 1999 at 7:46 pm
Jul 30, 1999 at 1:55 am

8	[Mailman-Users] users object to [listname] prefix

I just switched our internal lists over to Mailman (yay!!!!) without making an announcement on the list. The switch went smoothly, once I figured out how to get the old archives into mbox format! ...

James Strickland
Jul 29, 1999 at 4:12 pm
Jul 30, 1999 at 4:15 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Performance question

Hi all, Just wondering, what are the biggest lists that anyone is running though mailman? I've got a non-profit group I'm getting ready to set a list up for and their current sub list is approx. ...

Jeff Barger
Jul 21, 1999 at 8:03 pm
Jul 22, 1999 at 12:59 am

7	[Mailman-Users] Message w/ attachment goes into archive but no mail sent

Has anyone had messages go into the archive but does not send any email? The only messages so far have been one's with attachments. All other work just fine. Any Ideas? Thanks Chris Christopher T. ...

Christopher T. Griffiths
Jul 26, 1999 at 2:41 pm
Jul 29, 1999 at 10:52 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] sender/envelope addresses esp with mailed commands

I tried experimenting with the mail command interface to MailMan with total lack of success until I discovered some oddities regarding the detection of sender addresses. I am using Mailman 1.0rc3 ...

Nigel Metheringham
Jul 12, 1999 at 11:47 am
Jul 19, 1999 at 11:42 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Question

Below is what I got when I sent to my test list. I am using sendmail 8.9.1 on freebsd 3.2 with mailman-1.0rc3. Any suggestions?? I have looked through the email archive with no such luck althought it ...

Christopher T. Griffiths
Jul 21, 1999 at 6:17 pm
Jul 22, 1999 at 10:11 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Admin Pages Problem

Please email me any response directly, as I'm not subscribed to the list. I'm having a problem with Mailman 1.0rc3. After a myriad of changes to the server that my Mailman installation is running ...

Michael W. Ryan
Jul 16, 1999 at 1:14 am
Jul 17, 1999 at 12:19 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Migrate majordomo to Mailman

My question, is there someway to migrate majordomo lists over to mailman and have them totally functional. I want to do this because I don't want to have to create all my lists over in mailman, ...

Kory Wheatley
Jul 13, 1999 at 9:05 pm
Jul 15, 1999 at 2:30 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Getting Started

Hello and happy Friday, Come Monday I will commence my first attempt at creating a system using Mailman. It shall be a Sparc20 with Solaris 2.7 and lots of memory and 2 internal SCSI disks with swap ...

Jeff Schneiter
Jul 9, 1999 at 10:27 pm
Jul 13, 1999 at 12:18 am

5	[Mailman-Users] How to disable -admin?

I want to set up an announcement list and the mail sent from the admin's of the list should have only "listname at my.dom" in the "From:" line. Q1: how do I prevent anyone but the admin's from ...

Joerg Stenger
Jul 27, 1999 at 3:10 pm
Jul 28, 1999 at 5:16 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] does ~mailman _REALLY_ need to be (2)775?

Because I stash sendmail aliases in ~mailman/aliases, I _don't_ have the mailman directory (2)775. But all the relevant places (that is, everything _BUT_ ~mailman/aliases). Is there some reason that ...

Soren Dayton
Jul 20, 1999 at 1:56 am
Jul 21, 1999 at 2:23 am

5	[Mailman-Users] To and Sender address seem wrong ?

Hi All, There's something not right here.. I want my listserver to appear to be running on a system with the name "lists.domain.org" instead of its full-qualified domain name "box.domain.org". ...

Andy McClements
Jul 6, 1999 at 3:29 pm
Jul 16, 1999 at 8:02 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Mailman German

Hello, did I get that right? To get all messages in German I need to rewrite most of mailman programms? Did anybody already translate mailman to german? Thanks Ulli -- ----------------- Die Website ...

Ulrich Wisser
Jul 26, 1999 at 1:52 pm
Jul 28, 1999 at 11:19 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] mailman-1.0rc3, Solaris 2.5 and vsnprintf

When building mailman-1.0rc3 on Solaris 2.5 or 2.5.1 I get a linker error about the unresolved name vsnprintf used in common.c. How are other people dealing with this problem? -- Todd Pfaff \ Email: ...

Todd Pfaff
Jul 28, 1999 at 6:04 pm
Jul 28, 1999 at 10:14 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Admin pages not working via Navigator 3

Hi All, I'm getting desperate for fix for this one, if anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know. I created a list in the same manner I've used to create six or seven previously which are all working ...

Andy McClements
Jul 22, 1999 at 1:37 pm
Jul 25, 1999 at 6:46 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Virus detection and filtering.

I just discovered that one of our lists was used to distribute a worm called Win32/Ska.A (A.K.A. Happy99.exe). This got me thinking, has anyone plugged in any type of virus detection software into ...

The List Server Administrator at UNH
Jul 22, 1999 at 2:05 pm
Jul 23, 1999 at 1:27 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Strip 'return receipt'

Not only is a request for return reciept post annoying, it is also a way to fish for mailing list members. I feel proper action should be to strip this line from the header and pass on the post. I ...

Dave Cinege
Jul 20, 1999 at 6:44 pm
Jul 21, 1999 at 2:58 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Timezone problem

I have mailman up and running for the most part, but am bothered by one little problem. I thought maybe it was unique to me, until I noticed the same problem after subscribing to the mailman-users ...

Brian Knotts
Jul 19, 1999 at 3:57 pm
Jul 19, 1999 at 10:05 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Removing Archives

I have two mailing lists that used to have archives, and now don't. I have gone into the admin and turned the archiving off there, but the "archive" link still showing up in the listinfo page for ...

Bek Oberin
Jul 28, 1999 at 3:38 am
Jul 29, 1999 at 10:13 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] rc3 compile failure under OSF4

Hi everyone. I am having trouble getting this to the jitterbug database, so I thought that I would post it here. We have been running rc2 without incident. With rc3 the configure seems to go well ...

Christopher Kolar
Jul 13, 1999 at 7:58 pm
Jul 14, 1999 at 3:43 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] install problem with check_perms

using mailman-1.0rc3, after a (./configure; make install) I run check_perms. But it gives me this error. I'm not able to figure out exactly what it means. [root at csociety mailman]# bin/check_perms ...

Andrew Sydelko
Jul 13, 1999 at 6:51 am
Jul 13, 1999 at 3:03 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] password problems on new install

Hi All, I've just installed Mailman 1.0rc2 without any obvious problems. When I create a new list using the newlist script, as per INSTALL Section 5. called "test-list", with my own address as the ...

Andy McClements
Jul 1, 1999 at 6:18 pm
Jul 2, 1999 at 11:00 am

2	[Mailman-Users] open source/open science using mailman

To the Authors and maintainers of mailman. I want to thank you for providing such a nice mail list server software package. I've set it (1.0rc3) up on openscience.bnl.gov which is the main web server ...

Stephen Adler
Jul 25, 1999 at 5:38 pm
Jul 29, 1999 at 9:17 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Unmarshal config?

I'm starting to see this message: --- Subject: Output from "cron" command Your "cron" job on lists /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/checkdbs produced the following output: Traceback ...

Roy Rapoport
Jul 15, 1999 at 12:08 am
Jul 26, 1999 at 8:44 am

2	[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

unsubscribe solilove ric_smith at ipsd.org

Ric Smith
Jul 1, 1999 at 11:50 am
Jul 20, 1999 at 12:26 am

2	[Mailman-Users] masquerading?

I'm using mailman with lists on virtual hosts... The web and inbound work fine. But when you set the hostname in the web page, isn't that support to masquerade outbound, or did I misunderstand it's ...

Ron Jarrell
Jul 19, 1999 at 10:17 pm
Jul 19, 1999 at 11:00 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Installation Problem.

I compiled the mailman 1.0rc3. When I try installing it using "make install" command, it failed with following message. -------- Undefined first referenced symbol in file vsnprintf common.o ld: ...

Han, SangBeom
Jul 18, 1999 at 3:30 pm
Jul 18, 1999 at 4:55 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] confirmation e-mail problem

It sounds like you either a) didn't add the aliases to your MTA's config file or b) didn't let your MTA know you updated your aliases. For sendmail, this is usually adding them to /etc/aliases and, ...

Deirdre Saoirse
Jul 9, 1999 at 6:14 pm
Jul 9, 1999 at 8:32 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Patch for ListAdmin.py

Had a piece of spam clogging up the admindb section because of a "%" in the Subject: This patch against 1.0rc2 fixed it *** ListAdmin.orig.py Wed Jul 7 19:33:01 1999 --- ListAdmin.py Wed Jul 7 ...

Dan Busarow
Jul 8, 1999 at 2:37 am
Jul 8, 1999 at 4:27 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] URGENT HELP SOUGHT

Hi All, Sorry to shout, but I need to evaluate this system asap. and I cannot because the admin password is broken. Please will anyone who might be able to suggest why the adminstrative passwords ...

Andy McClements
Jul 5, 1999 at 12:24 pm
Jul 6, 1999 at 8:59 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Using Mailman With qmail

Hi, I like to use mailman with qmail. I like to know if anyone have successfully configure them to work together. Please help with the setup and configuration if you have done this. Thanks, Matthew

Matthew Kaing
Jul 30, 1999 at 5:59 pm
Jul 30, 1999 at 10:25 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] How do i subscribe a huge number of member >>With Password<<

Is it possible to subscribe a huge (20000) number of members with password (migration to mailman) using either mass subscribe on the web-interface or add_members script ??? PS: Specified password is ...

Romain GRIFFITHS
Jul 30, 1999 at 1:36 pm
Jul 30, 1999 at 5:04 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] 'user lacks a password'

can someone tell me what it means when mailman sends me a message like the one below and what I should do about it. Thanks, J. ---------- From: paperport-win32-admin at list.scansoft.com To: ...

Joshua S. Freeman
Jul 29, 1999 at 1:51 pm
Jul 29, 1999 at 10:42 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Strange error

I don't know python and don't grok this error, anybody give me any clues? bekj ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at tertius.net.au ----- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 ...

Bek Oberin
Jul 29, 1999 at 8:09 am
Jul 29, 1999 at 10:41 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Regarding archives

I don't believe anyone ever answered my question about automating the gzipping of the archives, such as is done on the Mailman-users list... -- ...

Glen Malley
Jul 29, 1999 at 1:27 am
Jul 29, 1999 at 10:40 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Can´t confirm a subscrible

Hi there! I?m using Mailman under AIX, when i try to confirm a subscribe 4 a new user, i get the msg - ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper ...

Claudio Martinez
Jul 26, 1999 at 6:17 pm
Jul 29, 1999 at 10:02 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Anyone added logging to private.py?

I'd like to track successful reads of private archives.

Len Lattanzi
Jul 28, 1999 at 2:24 am
Jul 28, 1999 at 3:42 am

1	[Mailman-Users] directory structure options

At my request someone installed mailman for me in the www.lumiere.net/lists/ directory (as opposed to the default "mailman" directory). I'd like to be able to have the listinfo page for my mailing ...

Kevin Shrieve
Jul 26, 1999 at 6:50 am
Jul 26, 1999 at 8:40 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Virtual hosted listservers? How do you do it?

We are running a red hat 6.0 and we want to be able to host domains and then service each domain with there own listserver. What is the best way to set this up? Patrick Wagner

Patrick Wagner
Jul 22, 1999 at 10:07 pm
Jul 25, 1999 at 6:39 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Doubles being sent by MailMan.

We tested our newsletter out and the program sent everyone two copies? Where can I modify this or what is the problem? Patrick Wagner

Patrick Wagner
Jul 22, 1999 at 9:43 pm
Jul 25, 1999 at 6:38 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Macintosh IE 4.5, cookie decoding problem status?

Saw this mentioned in the archives, but no solution was posted. I'm running mailman-1.0rc3, and I can't do -squat- from IE 4.5 because mailman can't decode the cookies. The cookie is there, it has ...

Brett Dikeman
Jul 21, 1999 at 3:41 pm
Jul 21, 1999 at 9:18 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] install mailman error message

I found error message when installing mailman. Please help.

Jack Tsai
Jul 21, 1999 at 3:33 pm
Jul 21, 1999 at 4:17 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] bin commands

Hi, I would like to have a better understanding of all commands that are in the mailman/bin directory. Can you help me, please, in find a documentation for them ? Regards, Mariella Get your own FREE, ...

Mariella Di Giacomo
Jul 20, 1999 at 4:12 pm
Jul 21, 1999 at 1:56 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Format of config.db

Hi, I am trying to remove manually some large pending mails. It seems that these mails are included in $prefix/lists/listname/config.db My questions: - What is the format of this database file? - ...

Peter Jacob Slot
Jul 20, 1999 at 10:29 am
Jul 21, 1999 at 1:55 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Adding members via scripts ...

Hi! Does anyone know how to add members to a list via Shell or Python Scripts? I generate User-Lists from our system-database sorted by membership in some groups and need to add those lists of emails ...

Thomas Ackermann
Jul 20, 1999 at 6:19 pm
Jul 20, 1999 at 7:04 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] List owner address on Web pages

I'm evaluating Mailman as a replacement for Majordomo, which we currently use for over 370 lists totalling over 12,000 subscribers. It looks good so far! A few questions: 1: I notice that the footers ...

David Osborne
Jul 20, 1999 at 10:24 am
Jul 20, 1999 at 3:40 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] os.error: (2, 'No such file or directory')

Hello, I've installed the mailman-1.0rc3 and as suggested on the INSTALL file I'm running the ~/bin/check_perms script. Unfortunately at a certain point the script looks for checking perms on ...

Mariella Di Giacomo
Jul 19, 1999 at 9:24 pm
Jul 19, 1999 at 11:10 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] not able to clear pending admin requests.

Hi, I have a test site running mailman. Someone has send a large Email (with very large attachement) As I have setup, this posting is send to the administrator. ---- Pending posts: From: ...

Peter Jacob Slot
Jul 19, 1999 at 2:01 pm
Jul 19, 1999 at 2:13 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] problem installing on FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE, Python 1.5.1, Apache, sendmail

First of all, let me say that I think Mailman (and Python!) are the greatest things since sliced bread. I do, however, have a 1.0rc3 install problem which I'm at a loss to solve. The web interface ...

James
Jul 13, 1999 at 6:07 pm
Jul 18, 1999 at 8:06 pm

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