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  • I moderate a reasonably active discussion list with about 1,000 subscribers (currently on Post.Office). I would like to move my list to Mailman, however, I'm not really set up to run it in house. Is ...
    Brian MulvaneyBrian Mulvaney
    Oct 1, 1999 at 5:39 am
    Oct 6, 1999 at 1:57 pm
  • First I'd like to say thanks to the writers of mailman. It works great. I am trying to get my archives working. The archive link does work. But it brings me to a page the says 'The ListName Archives' ...
    Bob C. RuddyBob C. Ruddy
    Oct 11, 1999 at 4:58 am
    Oct 15, 1999 at 11:12 pm
  • Tried a news gateway test. This is the error: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/other/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? main() File "/home/other/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 79, in main ...
    Michael GhensMichael Ghens
    Oct 11, 1999 at 1:23 am
    Oct 19, 1999 at 10:36 am
  • Hypothetically, what is the correct way of moving a mailman setup? I didn't get much reply to my panic plea which I posted a couple of days ago, so I thought I'd try a subtler approach... The way I ...
    Tor HoughtonTor Houghton
    Oct 8, 1999 at 11:32 am
    Oct 9, 1999 at 2:45 pm
  • Due to a mail loop, I have several hundred post requests in one of my lists. I'd like to blow them all away without clicking 300 times on some web form. I've looked around in the mailman tree, but I ...
    Marc MerlinMarc Merlin
    Oct 28, 1999 at 8:02 am
    Oct 28, 1999 at 9:15 pm
  • Thank you for the fine mailing list manager, but I'd like to suggest you to include one additional option to the Membership Management: to let/not to let the user send messages to the list. The ...
    Israel BravoIsrael Bravo
    Oct 27, 1999 at 10:31 am
    Oct 27, 1999 at 3:17 pm
  • I am seeing duplicated mail on my lists. It appears that mailman hangs after delivering a message to all or most of the subscribers on a list. Later if I reboot the system it decides it hasn't sent ...
    Justin WellsJustin Wells
    Oct 18, 1999 at 3:33 am
    Oct 25, 1999 at 11:50 am
  • After my first test on a local network, I tried to install Mailman on a mail server in the internet. Apache and Smail are running on that site, that will be called 'dom.org' The host name is 'hname' ...
    Paolo M. PumiliaPaolo M. Pumilia
    Oct 20, 1999 at 6:31 pm
    Oct 21, 1999 at 1:48 pm
  • Hi there, Is there a place in Mailman config that I can put/change site-wise (default) settings ? e.g. "send monthly pasword" is a pretty annoying "feature". As the system administrator serving many ...
    Jun YeJun Ye
    Oct 7, 1999 at 4:09 pm
    Oct 7, 1999 at 6:37 pm
  • Hi there, I need advice urgently. I own a list but I forgot my password. Now there are tons of mails pending my approval. How can I recover or change my password ? Do I have to remove the list and ...
    Jun YeJun Ye
    Oct 4, 1999 at 1:14 am
    Oct 4, 1999 at 3:14 am
  • hello to all one question: is there a easy way, to mail to all of the list-administrators or do I have to set up a list for them seperately? thanx Stefan
    Stefan NeuenschwanderStefan Neuenschwander
    Oct 28, 1999 at 3:00 pm
    Oct 30, 1999 at 6:41 pm
  • This is actually a python question, but since it's the mailman sources I need to change, I hope someone here can answer the question. I need to disable the password confirmation on subscription. I've ...
    Michael SweeneyMichael Sweeney
    Oct 29, 1999 at 11:41 pm
    Oct 30, 1999 at 12:26 am
  • Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I am having. When we send mail out using Mailman, the mail is only delivered to those with a domain of ag.arizona.edu. When I checked the ...
    Michael RoseMichael Rose
    Oct 20, 1999 at 9:46 pm
    Oct 20, 1999 at 10:27 pm
  • Can someone send me this patch so I can use an external archiver so that one can see attachment(.gif, .jpg) in the archive Thank you very much Paula... An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ...
    PaulaPaula
    Oct 18, 1999 at 10:17 pm
    Oct 18, 1999 at 11:10 pm
  • A few questions about virtual hosting. Is anyone else doing this? Im not doing anything complicated, Im not even hosting a different domain, Im simply aliasing the machinename lists.blah.com to ...
    Nicholas BrenckleNicholas Brenckle
    Oct 18, 1999 at 4:16 pm
    Oct 18, 1999 at 6:30 pm
  • Does anyone recognize this or know what to do about it? I have one Mailman list for which I can't change the settings with the web interface. What I do: * I go to the mailman/admin/LISTNAME page. * I ...
    Per StarbackPer Starback
    Oct 11, 1999 at 2:13 pm
    Oct 11, 1999 at 10:02 pm
  • I started my first mailing list a few days ago, as i told you before. First problem i noticed is that the list owner receives a lot of mail with the same two kinds of error notifications: 1) Date: ...
    OpenSoftware CrewOpenSoftware Crew
    Oct 11, 1999 at 4:33 pm
    Oct 11, 1999 at 4:41 pm
  • Hi all, I am completely new to mailing list management. Mailman has been my first choice since i guessed it should have offered an easier interface to users and to the list maintainer as well. But i ...
    Paolo M. PumiliaPaolo M. Pumilia
    Oct 8, 1999 at 10:31 pm
    Oct 9, 1999 at 5:35 pm
  • I need to have some kind of 'cert' that mailman is y2k compliant. I didn't find anything on the mailman website. If I can't provide this, I'm afraid I won't be allowed to 'keep' it by our new IT ...
    Joshua S. FreemanJoshua S. Freeman
    Oct 1, 1999 at 12:04 pm
    Oct 2, 1999 at 6:05 pm
  • Why does Mailman show all pending request at one time when one can process only one at a time ? -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla Team AMIGA AROS Head of Development Author of XDME, ResTrackLib, CInt. ...
    Aaron Optimizer DigullaAaron Optimizer Digulla
    Oct 1, 1999 at 10:50 am
    Oct 1, 1999 at 10:51 pm
  • Dear all, I have switched the 'monthly membership reminders' off for both my lists. Does this affect Mailman's bounce-behaviour? (Are the bounces to these 'monthly reminders' essential for the ...
    Karel van der WaardeKarel van der Waarde
    Oct 1, 1999 at 12:28 pm
    Oct 1, 1999 at 2:29 pm
  • Is it possible to hook up a way to search mailman archives for keywords or strings in the messages? If so what is the preferred approach on a Red Hat Linux box (5.1 or later)? Is anyone on this list ...
    John A. MartinJohn A. Martin
    Oct 30, 1999 at 2:24 pm
    Oct 30, 1999 at 3:35 pm
  • I maintain a Mailman mailing list and have had problems with users sending messages in HTML format. Is there any way to either filter or bounce these messages before they appear on the list? Any help ...
    CeverettCeverett
    Oct 27, 1999 at 4:45 am
    Oct 28, 1999 at 8:00 pm
  • I have also asked for this feature - very long ago. The situation that I have is that I do not want people from external to our company being able to mail or subscribe to any of our internal mailing ...
    Richard EllerbrockRichard Ellerbrock
    Oct 27, 1999 at 11:13 am
    Oct 28, 1999 at 7:58 am
  • I'm trying to get ht://dig to index my mailman private archives. The relavant bits of the config file are this: === start_url: http://netizen.com.au/mailman/private/ local_urls: ...
    Bek OberinBek Oberin
    Oct 27, 1999 at 3:18 am
    Oct 27, 1999 at 3:46 am
  • Hi, I am a newbie to Mailman, but comfy with running unix boxes. I have one list (call it ALL) that has 29 member lists. (one for each class year) Each of the member lists can send messages to all of ...
    Warren OverholtWarren Overholt
    Oct 26, 1999 at 9:27 pm
    Oct 26, 1999 at 10:13 pm
  • Greetings, Just tried to go to http://www.list.org to get mailman 1.0 and am unable to get in: 'connection refused by server'. Is www.list.org still down from it move? Where else can I get mailman ...
    Lance A. BrownLance A. Brown
    Oct 25, 1999 at 3:58 pm
    Oct 25, 1999 at 7:30 pm
  • How can I creat a mailing list using Mailman? Plse, advise ASAP Eyobolites
    EYOBOLITESEYOBOLITES
    Oct 23, 1999 at 4:44 am
    Oct 23, 1999 at 4:25 pm
  • Hi mailman-users, I've been using mailman for a while now. I use it for three lists: for an organisation, a family list and a silent one about changes on my homepage. I recently upgraded from RedHat ...
    Herman Van KeerHerman Van Keer
    Oct 23, 1999 at 4:10 am
    Oct 23, 1999 at 4:20 pm
  • I think have found te reason why mailman builds a fully qualified doman name of recipients. It gains that information from the variable DEFAULT_HOST_NAME in mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = ...
    Paolo M. PumiliaPaolo M. Pumilia
    Oct 22, 1999 at 5:36 pm
    Oct 22, 1999 at 5:43 pm
  • OK here is the story... I have a mailing list that is primarily graphics based meaning emails with gif's & jpg's in them... Now with pipermail no one can view the attachments/graphics. Now I heard ...
    HostmasterHostmaster
    Oct 21, 1999 at 5:26 pm
    Oct 21, 1999 at 7:06 pm
  • Many thanks for that, forgive me if these questions seem basic but I couldn't find answers in any FAQ or online resource. Next question, how do I go about setting up "umbrella lists" ? Assume I can ...
    Judge, JackJudge, Jack
    Oct 21, 1999 at 1:16 pm
    Oct 21, 1999 at 2:04 pm
  • Hi, I've just started playing with MM and I've a couple of questions. First of all, where is the URL for the overall server administrator ? I can find the pages for the individual list admins easily ...
    Judge, JackJudge, Jack
    Oct 20, 1999 at 10:54 am
    Oct 21, 1999 at 8:45 am
  • Hello to all! We now have set up a listserver successfully. But we have the problem, that we have to move old lists to our new listserver. Is there a built-in way to import a userlist and get them ...
    Stefan NeuenschwanderStefan Neuenschwander
    Oct 19, 1999 at 6:53 am
    Oct 19, 1999 at 9:17 am
  • No it didn't. It wanted a better solution. I don't have this problem. Perhaps things aren't SGID? Soren gary <gary at rattler.cameron.edu writes:
    Soren DaytonSoren Dayton
    Oct 19, 1999 at 6:10 am
    Oct 19, 1999 at 6:48 am
  • Hello, Recently, I installed mailman-1.0 on a SuSE 6.1 box which uses sendmail as the MTA. The install appeared to be flawless. Each step in the INSTALL document was carefully followed. The configure ...
    GaryGary
    Oct 16, 1999 at 9:18 am
    Oct 18, 1999 at 8:33 am
  • Hi all, I'm a Brazilian, and I'm NOT a programmer, I'm a network administrator, but I need a tool to run a maillist, and publish it in html format, easy no ? yeah, but the problem is that I need a ...
    Felipe TonioliFelipe Tonioli
    Oct 13, 1999 at 6:24 pm
    Oct 14, 1999 at 3:17 am
  • Hi - I've run across an odd problem with one list on a system running Mailman 1.0. For this one list, if I choose to reject a message from the administrative requests page, the rejection notificaiton ...
    Jeffrey HaasJeffrey Haas
    Oct 12, 1999 at 5:46 pm
    Oct 12, 1999 at 10:10 pm
  • Hello... I was wondering if there was a way so that when a person views the archives, that if there is an attachment with it(say a jpg) that when it stores it you see the gif/jpg instead of the ...
    HostmasterHostmaster
    Oct 12, 1999 at 7:24 pm
    Oct 12, 1999 at 8:01 pm
  • Are there any attempts to translate Mailman into other languages or better to make Mailman ready for an easy translation into whatever language? Pol email: pumilia at est.it
    OpenSoftware CrewOpenSoftware Crew
    Oct 11, 1999 at 4:39 pm
    Oct 12, 1999 at 6:48 pm
  • I know this is a simple question and I am probably overlooking something really stupid. I have installed Mailman without any problem. Where can I find the users manual or the documentation on how to ...
    Betty HarveyBetty Harvey
    Oct 7, 1999 at 1:36 pm
    Oct 11, 1999 at 2:58 pm
  • Sometimes when I try to access the list admin pages I get "internal server error" errors with the logs just showing: [Sat Oct 9 17:40:02 1999] [error] [client 203.30.75.129] Premature end of script ...
    Bek OberinBek Oberin
    Oct 9, 1999 at 7:46 am
    Oct 11, 1999 at 9:21 am
  • Hi all! Im sorry if this has come up on the list before. I have two questions: 1. When i edit the html for the public list pages (trying to translate it into swedish), i still get some text in ...
    Mats HaglundMats Haglund
    Oct 7, 1999 at 3:51 pm
    Oct 7, 1999 at 5:33 pm
  • Well, I am a newcomer to Mailman in general, and I have hesitated to speak up. However, let me say this: I own an ISP in Washington State. We are running Mailman on its own machine, with very little ...
    Will LeaverWill Leaver
    Oct 6, 1999 at 3:58 pm
    Oct 7, 1999 at 1:23 pm
  • I just started using Mailman and we previously used Majordomo as our list serve. We have started up with a few liststo see if they are functioning properly and I have run into a problem. When I send ...
    Michael RoseMichael Rose
    Oct 6, 1999 at 6:55 pm
    Oct 6, 1999 at 8:03 pm
  • Hello: I have successfully installed Mailman and am in love. I do have a question, though. When I go to: <http://memes.org/mailman/listinfo/daily and then click on the "Daily Archives" wherein are ...
    Chris AbrahamChris Abraham
    Oct 5, 1999 at 3:11 pm
    Oct 5, 1999 at 3:39 pm
  • Hi, I just installed Mailman several days ago. However, almost every post requires my "approval". Pain ! Look at this: Your authorization is required for a mailing list posting request approval: ...
    Jun YeJun Ye
    Oct 5, 1999 at 12:49 am
    Oct 5, 1999 at 2:46 am
  • I've recently setup mailman for the first time and the install went flawlessly. However, after starting a few mailing lists I noticed that some of the mail in the archive is getting mixed up under ...
    Casey AjalatCasey Ajalat
    Oct 3, 1999 at 12:23 am
    Oct 3, 1999 at 11:16 am
  • How should one approach converting to mailman from listproc characterized by about 120 lists 3K subscribers about 70 lists archived from 1995 (/home/listproc/httpd/html) df gives Filesystem ...
    John A. MartinJohn A. Martin
    Oct 30, 1999 at 3:24 pm
    Oct 30, 1999 at 3:24 pm
  • Hi I am running MailMan 1.0 on Solaris 2.6 and have several mailing lists. list1 with subscribers lista, listb, listc, listd lista with subscribers a, aa, aaa, aaaa listb with subscribers b, bb, bbb, ...
    Igor DukhovichIgor Dukhovich
    Oct 29, 1999 at 6:47 pm
    Oct 29, 1999 at 6:47 pm
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