mailman-users@python.org discussions for September 1999

18	[Mailman-Users] cron error

I'm getting errors thus. Are they important and how do I fix them? To: list at hiro.netizen.com.au Subject: Cron <list at hiro /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news X-Cron-Env: ...

Bek Oberin
Sep 13, 1999 at 6:43 am
Sep 22, 1999 at 10:49 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Problems with subscribed users

I have a closed list but for some *subscribed* users, all posts must be approved by me (error Only subscribed users may post to the list). (See Bug 126 in the jitterbug DB). Can you please have a ...

Aaron Optimizer Digulla
Sep 20, 1999 at 11:52 am
Oct 1, 1999 at 10:52 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Users to change their address themselves

I maintain a Mailman mailing list where people sometimes change addresses.. Would it be a good idea to include Mailman change address possibility to users itself where users would be able to change ...

Ilpo Kantonen
Sep 9, 1999 at 10:52 pm
Sep 22, 1999 at 7:40 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Archive Idea

I believe it would be nice to specify a size threshold on archived messages. The situation is like this: We have a certain list where the memebers throw around large attachments, but they take up a ...

Craig Kelley
Sep 15, 1999 at 3:38 pm
Sep 22, 1999 at 8:44 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Some subscribers receiving multiple copies

Help! Some of our subscribers are reporting receiving 2, 3, or even 4 copies of each post. Can anyone help? Will Leaver

Will Leaver
Sep 29, 1999 at 9:33 pm
Oct 5, 1999 at 5:02 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Duplicate message in mailman :((

hi, i have a problem , i dont if it is a bug or a misconfirution but i report this : MAilman work pretty fine for 2 Weeks and suddently every subscribers receive 2 or 3 copy for the same messages i ...

Patrick LIN
Sep 24, 1999 at 11:11 am
Sep 24, 1999 at 7:38 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] migrating from smartlist

OK, I just installed mailman and migrated a couple of small, unimportant lists over to it. Everything worked OK, and mailman looks great. Now I am looking at migrating over some of my larger lists ...

Justin Wells
Sep 11, 1999 at 8:54 am
Sep 12, 1999 at 6:40 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Several problems, including Membership Management page

Hello again. To refresh your memory, I am a volunteer with a non-profit organization who serves as their IT expert. (Please don't laugh. I truly am the most technoliterate person they have!) I ...

Listwrangler
Sep 2, 1999 at 3:58 am
Sep 3, 1999 at 3:23 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] version 1.0 vs. 1.0.2

Hi, After installing mailman at the bottom of my mailing list pages it says it is version 1.0. However, it seems as this list runs on v 1.0.2 . Look at the bottom of: ...

Mentor Cana
Sep 30, 1999 at 3:45 pm
Oct 1, 1999 at 8:20 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Reply-to feature

Hi, This is semi-urgent, as we move from Majordom to Mailman tommorow for a major corporations mailing list (Pentax Cameras)... We have a host setup to CNAME to our listserv machine: ...

Erik Parker
Sep 23, 1999 at 9:50 pm
Sep 24, 1999 at 6:26 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] umbrella lists and subject prefix (subject_prefix)

We are beginning to make use of Mailman here (good work!), and we are using it to provide company wide mailing lists. So, we have umbrella lists that distribute to other areas of the company in other ...

Dan A. Dickey
Sep 23, 1999 at 1:51 pm
Sep 23, 1999 at 8:20 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] is there a way to have the list password emailed to yourself?

Is there a way to have the administrator password mailed to yourself? Since the ISP was hit by the hurricane I haven't been able to get on -- it says 'sorry, wrong password' and the ISP isn't taking ...

Listwrangler
Sep 22, 1999 at 7:48 pm
Sep 22, 1999 at 10:26 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Attachments Not Making it to the List

Greetings. I run MailMan internally on our Corporate Intranet. It appears MailMan is not wanting to accept a simple 78k Word document attachment and disburse it to the list. There are no limits on ...

George Ellenburg
Sep 14, 1999 at 12:36 pm
Sep 16, 1999 at 6:05 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Public Lists not being displayed on ListInfo

I have at least two mailing lists which are all public, which aren't being displayed from the ListInfo pages. They are, however, displaying fine from the List Admin page. I've tried toggling their ...

George Ellenburg
Sep 14, 1999 at 12:38 pm
Sep 16, 1999 at 5:17 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] two copies of mailman on one machine?

Has anyone ever been able to get mailman running twice on the same machine before? We run mailman to manage our mailing lists, and would also like to see about using mailman for a few other projects, ...

Jeff Berliner
Sep 13, 1999 at 9:48 pm
Sep 14, 1999 at 1:43 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] htdig

How can I set up a search engine like htdig that uses the regular mailman (email+password) security? If I point it at http://hostname/pipermail/listname/ it's going to only index the ...

Bek Oberin
Sep 22, 1999 at 3:28 am
Oct 14, 1999 at 9:11 am

2	[Mailman-Users] With www.list.org

un-ping-able, who should take action?

Cameron Laird
Sep 25, 1999 at 12:17 pm
Sep 26, 1999 at 9:30 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Hypermail to Pipermail

Hello list, just subscribed.. I looked through the (what seem to be) unsearchable archives at python.org, and couldn't really find anything. I also downloaded every gzip and grep'd for an answer, ...

Erik Parker
Sep 21, 1999 at 3:22 am
Sep 26, 1999 at 4:11 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Hostnames..

[Note that I've sent this to the mailman-users list, which is really more appropriate than the developers list. However, I don't actually read the -users group because of a lack of time.] mm_cfg.py ...

Sean Reifschneider
Sep 24, 1999 at 8:10 pm
Sep 24, 1999 at 9:00 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] MIME

How do people handle MIME mail sent to mailman lists? I thought of writing a filter to turn incoming MIME messages into ASCII, but our users are now sending attachments and find that ability very ...

Paul Murphy
Sep 20, 1999 at 11:19 am
Sep 22, 1999 at 9:41 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] mailman still wedges on FreeBSD

Sorry to be so persistent about this, but every 2nd day I've had to unwedge mailman, and I still haven't go an answer from this list. platform: FreeBSD 3.2, Python 1.5.2, mailman 1.0 This sounds a ...

Justin Wells
Sep 17, 1999 at 7:21 pm
Sep 21, 1999 at 5:45 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Mailman, exim and QP encoding

Hi! I'm trying to use mailman with exim for a finnish speaking mail list. The problem is that mailman (or is it pipermail?) archives QP encoded messages without decoding them first. So the archives ...

Pekko Piirola
Sep 8, 1999 at 1:10 pm
Sep 8, 1999 at 9:33 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Question about moving lists from one machine to another

Anybody know of a quick and easy way to move four or five lists (complete with archives, subscribe lists, etc) from one machine to another? I'm upgrading sunhelp.org to an UltraSPARC box, and would ...

Bill Bradford
Sep 7, 1999 at 12:19 am
Sep 7, 1999 at 3:18 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Where are these variables stored?

Hi everybody, i'm trying to work around the not-really-existend virtual host support of mailman. In this case I need to know where the following variables for EACH LIST are stored. I don't need to ...

Andreas Gietl
Sep 4, 1999 at 10:05 am
Sep 5, 1999 at 11:38 am

2	[Mailman-Users] How do members of a private list access archives?

Hi, we run a couple of internal list for the company I work for where we have set the archives only visible to subscribed users. The problem is that I can not figure out how to access the archives as ...

Christian Dysthe
Sep 3, 1999 at 3:21 am
Sep 3, 1999 at 3:49 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Bug report Error message!

Hello All, Got the following error when I hit submit to approve a message. The specs are as follows: Solaris 7 Python 1.5.1 Mailman 1.0 (final, no rc anything) Sendmail 8.9.1 check_perms reports ...

Brian Friday
Sep 2, 1999 at 4:22 pm
Sep 2, 1999 at 7:46 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] ex-subscribers receiving password reminders!

It's the beginning of the month. Password reminders have gone out. Twice today I received messages from irate customers who say they unsubscribed from the list within the last 4 weeks and still ...

Joshua S. Freeman
Sep 2, 1999 at 12:55 am
Sep 2, 1999 at 3:45 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Trouble with held messages

Hi, my lists have been running fine for a while, but now I have a problem. I can not get rid of held messages. When I try I get this traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File ...

Christian Dysthe
Sep 1, 1999 at 11:04 pm
Sep 2, 1999 at 3:35 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Mailman and Exim HOWTO document

[Copy sent separately to both exim and mailman lists] I updated and cleaned up my HOWTO information for using exim & mailman together and put it up on the exim web site. The exim list is now using ...

Nigel Metheringham
Sep 29, 1999 at 4:38 pm
Oct 30, 1999 at 3:47 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] mailman and debian

Hi. I'm using the mailman release supplied with the current stable debian distribution. The package version is: ii mailman 1.0rc2-5 Powerful, web based list processor The problem I'm having is that ...

Michael Stevens
Sep 30, 1999 at 11:36 am
Sep 30, 1999 at 12:03 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Can you have a standard blurb at end of each message?

Greetings, So far so good ...!! But how can I have a standard blurb at the end of each posting? I would like to be able to update that blurb on a per list basis. Thanks, -- Tim

Timothy G. Wells
Sep 28, 1999 at 3:20 pm
Sep 29, 1999 at 6:28 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Instalation

I installed Mailman in one PC running Linux + Apache, But, when i try to view the HPages, i?ve got a 404 erroR! I think that i have 2 configure APACHE, but how i do this !? and what i changE !? ...

Claudio Martinez
Sep 27, 1999 at 5:46 pm
Sep 27, 1999 at 11:06 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] admin passwords rejected

Hi All, my mailman installation is causing me some grief. We've been running mailman 1.0 quite happily on a Linux redhat 5.2 box pretty much from the time that it was released. Recently, for a ...

Chris Albone
Sep 23, 1999 at 2:04 am
Sep 23, 1999 at 3:10 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] mail2news by itself?

Is it possible to use the mail<= news gateway part of mailman by itself? We pipe several outside mailing lists (eg bugtraq) to internal newsgroups for the convenience of staff and have noticed that ...

Bek Oberin
Sep 23, 1999 at 3:01 am
Sep 23, 1999 at 5:15 am

1	[Mailman-Users] ack! security bug and question.

While resetting my subscriptions to digest, I decided to experiment a bit. I notice that you only have to enter an email address in order to get access to the page of edit options -- no password ...

Listwrangler
Sep 22, 1999 at 5:19 pm
Sep 22, 1999 at 10:24 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] How to change URL base for cookies

How do I change the URL which is beeing used to generate the cookies for a single list ? I want to administer the list related to the project. For every project, I have a virtual web server. This ...

Aaron Optimizer Digulla
Sep 20, 1999 at 11:53 am
Sep 22, 1999 at 2:11 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] archive search

Somebody posted patches a while back to add a search facility to the archives - is there any intention to fold this back into the distribution? And could somebody bounce it to me - I'm having trouble ...

Bek Oberin
Sep 20, 1999 at 5:22 am
Sep 20, 1999 at 4:19 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] install/setup conundrum

Folks: After thinking paranoid thoughts, I decided to reinstall Mailman following the advice not to do the configure and make install steps as root. Okay, I redid the installation as the mailman ...

Berto
Sep 17, 1999 at 3:54 pm
Sep 20, 1999 at 3:22 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Missing documentation for "Must posts be approved by an administrator?"

What is the difference between "Must posts be approved by an administrator?" and "Restrict posting privilege to list members?" ? Does the former mean "Must *all* posts be approved..." ? If so, please ...

Aaron Optimizer Digulla
Sep 20, 1999 at 11:59 am
Sep 20, 1999 at 2:00 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] subscribe via mail

Mornin' from windy/rainy North Carolina! I have two questions for you gentlemen: 1) I'm trying to judge the impact of moving from majordomo to mailman. My main concern is this: I have web GUI's ...

Hal Flynn
Sep 15, 1999 at 1:43 pm
Sep 19, 1999 at 7:10 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] number of mailing lists

Here is my question. I am going to install mailman on a Compaq 450MHZ 64mb 13gb hard drive with the platform being Red Hat Linux 6.0. I will be subscribing over a hundred and fifty mailing lists in ...

Kory Wheatley
Sep 17, 1999 at 10:09 pm
Sep 18, 1999 at 2:28 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] email addresses

Hi, I have over 700 email addresses in a mailing list which I wish to delete quickly. Is there any other way to delete them apart from clicking each member one by one via the web interface. Surely ...

Gavin Bullough
Sep 14, 1999 at 11:36 am
Sep 14, 1999 at 12:01 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Problems with GID for mail

Ok. Here's the issue. I've been working on debugging this one for a couple of hours, and I don't seem to be making any progress. I'm running mailman on a Sparc w/ Solaris 2.6. I can get everything ...

Hal Flynn
Sep 13, 1999 at 10:31 pm
Sep 14, 1999 at 2:14 am

1	[Mailman-Users] continuing saga of our broken installation...FW: qmail errors

Here is an error message qmail generated that may explain what we need to fix to get our lists back up... any ideas anyone? -----------snip------------------------ Josh, the following is the type of ...

Joshua S. Freeman
Sep 10, 1999 at 4:21 pm
Sep 11, 1999 at 7:49 am

1	[Mailman-Users] web interface keeps prompting for password

I installed Mailman on a FreeBSD 3.2 machine. Everything installed with no errors, and check_perms shows no problems. When I go to the web interface and log in with the password, it logs me in fine. ...

Daniel Jacobs
Sep 11, 1999 at 12:24 am
Sep 11, 1999 at 7:44 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Question about cgis

Is there any documentation on the CGIs in the cgi-bin directory in Mailman? I'd like to have Mailman running on a different machine than the html pages use to configure it (unfortunately an NT box), ...

Glen Malley
Sep 10, 1999 at 9:27 am
Sep 10, 1999 at 11:39 am

1	[Mailman-Users] our sad attempt to upgrade to 1.0 final

Unfortunately, we're driving without a sysadmin. we downloaded and unpacked 1.0 source into the same directory where our 1.0b10 source lives. we cd'd into the 1.0 directory, ran configure and then ...

Joshua S. Freeman
Sep 9, 1999 at 5:27 pm
Sep 9, 1999 at 6:50 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] the patch Barry sent me...

Hi Barry, A few weeks ago, you sent me, embedded in an email message, a patch for our b10 version of mailman. Will running the patch bring us up to 1.0 final? Thanks, J.

Joshua S. Freeman
Sep 9, 1999 at 2:15 pm
Sep 9, 1999 at 3:12 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Read Only list

What steps are necessary to create a readonly list where only the admin has posting privelages? I'd like to create a announcement style list and do not want users to post to the list. Also is there ...

Bradley Glonka
Sep 8, 1999 at 6:28 pm
Sep 8, 1999 at 8:15 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Archive Searching

I'm using htDig to index my list archives. Works great for the publicly accessible archives but since it locates documents via spidering, the only way to index the private archives is to turn them ...

Grace, Terry
Sep 4, 1999 at 9:21 pm
Sep 6, 1999 at 10:30 am

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