mailman-users@python.org discussions for December 2000

18	[Mailman-Users] Slow Performance on semi-large lists

Hi everyone, I am running mailman 2.0 beta-2 on a Dual PII 400 linux box with 384 megs of ram. We have around 7 lists, all of which run at approximately different times, and most of which are at ...

Neil Cooler
Dec 13, 2000 at 8:37 pm
Dec 16, 2000 at 6:06 am

12	[Mailman-Users] How to discard spam without review

This doesn't seem to be in the FAQ, and I'll bet there's a simple way to do it. I have a class of messages sent to one of the lists I manage. I classify this class of messages as spam based on ...

Carl Appellof
Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41 am
Dec 18, 2000 at 6:14 pm

11	[Mailman-Users] BIG FAT MESSY HEADERS, REPLY TO, and the problem with programmers.

A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1689 bytes Desc: not available Url : ...

Maczilla
Dec 9, 2000 at 7:10 pm
Dec 11, 2000 at 1:36 am

10	[Mailman-Users] Implicit Destination

I am running a very small, un-moderated list for the internal staff of my company. It is basically set up to allow non-members (job seekers) to post messages (resumes) to list members (HR). Every ...

Douglas Munoz
Dec 29, 2000 at 3:33 pm
Jan 3, 2001 at 4:52 am

10	[Mailman-Users] Newlist from a webpage?

Has anyone produced the ability for virtual domains to create their own mailman list? If so, care to share the code?

Scott Brown
Dec 22, 2000 at 1:47 am
Jan 2, 2001 at 9:56 pm

10	[Mailman-Users] List-* headers

If there's a better way to submit feature suggestions, please let me know. It's definitely not a bug report. After our recent upgrade from ancient 1.2-experimental to 2.0 release, the List-* headers ...

Sigma
Dec 6, 2000 at 1:47 pm
Dec 7, 2000 at 1:05 am

9	[Mailman-Users] For the Mailman Wishlist

Dear Mailman Team Using Mailman for a few weeks now, I've come across some features I would like to see in the next version: * support for announcement-lists (members cannot post), * personal ...

Philippe Schenkel
Dec 11, 2000 at 11:21 am
Dec 15, 2000 at 12:43 am

8	[Mailman-Users] upgrading results in duplicate Python files ?

I recently upgraded both Python (1.52 - 2.0) and Mailman (2.0b5 - 2.0) and now appear to have duplicate python files in the 'Mailman' directory. (Mac OSXS 1.2) ex: aliases.py aliases.pyc Bouncer.py ...

Michael Dunston
Dec 28, 2000 at 7:45 pm
Jan 3, 2001 at 1:15 am

7	[Mailman-Users] Recovering/resetting a list admin password

I lost the email giving me my list admin password for one list. The site admin claims that there is no way to either recover or reset that password, and that I have to recreate the list. Is that ...

Jim Trigg
Dec 26, 2000 at 2:08 pm
Jan 7, 2001 at 7:32 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Buglet or Bozo? Problems with the /mailman/admin/(listname)/members (ie, membership management admin) page

I've got a problem....I've got a large (600+ user) list When the list admin (or I, with the site password) go into this page, and try to select a different chunk of users to display on the page, the ...

Scott Brown
Dec 29, 2000 at 1:17 am
Jan 2, 2001 at 10:50 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Mandrake 7.2 install problem

Mailman 2.0 installation hangs during conftest (using Mailman tarball v2.0 and from mailman-2.0-1mdk.rpm binaries/source). The rpm will install but will hang when run. The src.rpm hangs on the ...

Roger Buck
Dec 28, 2000 at 2:38 am
Dec 31, 2000 at 6:11 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] ScanSoft

Is there a User Forum being developed for ScanSoft, or do they have no email HELP access at all for Tech Support? The Web site is confusing. S Karish skarish at pipeline.com

Shirley Karish
Dec 4, 2000 at 4:40 pm
Dec 4, 2000 at 5:44 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] config_list

I'd like to use "config_list" to transfer list ALPHA's configuration to a new list BETA. Is this the recommended procedure? 1) bin/config_list -o config.ALPHA ALPHA 2) cp config.ALPHA config.BETA 3) ...

Kenneth Jacker
Dec 26, 2000 at 7:11 pm
Jan 3, 2001 at 3:50 am

5	[Mailman-Users] BIG FAT MESSY HEADERS, REPLY TO, and the problem with programmers.

I was happy to notice the little discussion about the how to remove the extended headers that came with Mailman 2. Thanks to the response I now know what part of the problem is: the programers. In ...

Fred Craven
Dec 9, 2000 at 5:59 pm
Dec 9, 2000 at 8:39 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Archives

I am managing a set of lists and have noticed that the public archive function does not work as expected. Are there any suggestions? Del Thomas

Cordell H. Thomas
Dec 5, 2000 at 5:05 pm
Dec 7, 2000 at 4:17 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Custom templates for each list

I've updated my patch for 2.0final. http://sourceforge.net/patch/?funcÞtailpatch&patch_id0953&group_id3

Dan Mick
Dec 1, 2000 at 4:43 am
Dec 1, 2000 at 10:42 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Renaming a list...

Is there any quick and dirty way of renaming a list under Mailman? I've run into a situation where I've got 2 lists with about 200 members on each and their names are so close that a quick typo seems ...

Mike Cisar
Dec 24, 2000 at 7:34 pm
Dec 28, 2000 at 9:04 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Password bug in Mailman 2.0

The Administrator name can be used as password to go into and change administrative and users options in theirs respective html pages. It's this a bug?

Juan Eliseo Carrasco Diaz
Dec 26, 2000 at 3:48 am
Dec 26, 2000 at 6:21 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Deleting a message

I need to delete a specific message in a list. The FAQ says: Q. I want to get rid of some messages in my archive. How do I do this? A. David Rocher posts the following recipe: remove ...

Ken Kyler
Dec 19, 2000 at 10:22 pm
Dec 20, 2000 at 11:25 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] smtp-failures

When users from the net try to subscribe, they never get a confirmation. However, users with an address from our server have no problem subscribing/confirming. /logs/smtp-failures gives a "relaying ...

METAgency
Dec 18, 2000 at 1:22 am
Dec 19, 2000 at 12:07 am

4	[Mailman-Users] vhosts

Can Mailman function correctly in a virtual host environment, or better yet, in several vhosts? Say I want to have lists.domainA.com, lists.domainB.com, lists.domainC.com, (all on the same physical ...

Ashley M. Kirchner
Dec 13, 2000 at 7:50 am
Dec 13, 2000 at 6:51 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Variables

How do I force the name of the sender to show up in the text of a message? Pat Healy US District Court WDNY

Patrick_Healy
Dec 7, 2000 at 6:38 pm
Dec 8, 2000 at 6:06 am

4	[Mailman-Users] mhonarc recipe?

Does anyone have a working mhonarc installation they could share? I am interested in how to set Mailman to archive with it, including private archives and decoded MIME attachments. Also if the ...

Jerry Adlersfluegel
Dec 2, 2000 at 1:44 am
Dec 2, 2000 at 5:49 am

4	[Mailman-Users] For Mailman wishlist

Option to select period for password reminders (much like digest volumes). Now it is either off or monthly. I would like yearly (monthly is too often, yearly seems right for me). Best regards, Tom ...

Tom Verhoeff
Dec 1, 2000 at 7:42 pm
Dec 1, 2000 at 11:07 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Is this a bug, or just because I called it from an unpriveledged account?

Traceback (most recent call last): File "./newlist", line 223, in ? main() File "./newlist", line 219, in main mlist.Unlock() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1348, in Unlock ...

Scott Brown
Dec 22, 2000 at 1:42 am
Dec 26, 2000 at 5:00 am

3	[Mailman-Users] GID Error...

I know that I have to set up the Gid when I do the ./configure... How would I set this if I installed from RPM? Just a quick question. Thanks jason

Jason
Dec 22, 2000 at 6:03 pm
Dec 25, 2000 at 7:05 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Problem with AOL mail

Hello, A customer of ours has a mailing list that includes a large number of AOL users. When these users send mail, everything works fine with non-digest mode. However, with other (non-AOL) list ...

Matt Singerman
Dec 21, 2000 at 3:05 pm
Dec 21, 2000 at 3:47 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. problem

Hi I'm sure there is a simple answer to this problem, but I've spent all afternoon on it and no joy so far. When I send a reply to the list regarding a subscription, I get this in my sendmail log: ...

Pete Phillips
Dec 20, 2000 at 4:34 pm
Dec 21, 2000 at 9:15 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Q: Mailman & Qmail

The installation procedure seemed to go ok, but when I run the check_perms, I get the following error message: /home/mailman bin/check_perms Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/check_perms", line ...

Mika Ylianttila
Dec 20, 2000 at 3:46 pm
Dec 20, 2000 at 6:55 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] web error correction

on http://www.list.org/faq.html at question Q. Okay, the archive link works, but I can't access the public archives. Why? A. If you are using Apache, you must make sure that FollowSymLinks is ...

Funk Gabor
Dec 19, 2000 at 12:28 am
Dec 20, 2000 at 12:18 am

3	[Mailman-Users] adult advertisement

From: "Med Tech Industries" <room5 at bellsouth.net Subject: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:28:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; ...

Medxyz2
Dec 18, 2000 at 6:31 pm
Dec 18, 2000 at 8:19 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] adding subscribers

Hello I may have missed this but I'm new to mailman and have set up a list at our site to try. My question is there a way of adding subscribers in a bulk format other than cut and paste on the web ...

Con WIELAND
Dec 14, 2000 at 11:07 pm
Dec 15, 2000 at 1:56 am

3	[Mailman-Users] customized welcome messages?

Hello, Is it possible for list managers to customize the welcome messages that are sent out to list subsribers without them having login rights to the machine itself? As in, can it be done via the ...

Matt Singerman
Dec 13, 2000 at 2:54 pm
Dec 13, 2000 at 4:55 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Admin only posting list

I know this has probably been asked a thousand times before, but I could find no way to search the archives, other than downloading the whole 21 mb archive. But, how do I configure a list to be ...

Rick Roberts
Dec 12, 2000 at 6:06 am
Dec 12, 2000 at 6:54 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Counting subscribers

I want to be able to run a script similar to list_lists and have it return the name of the list *and* the number of members on that list. Has anybody done this and, if so, would you be willing to ...

Sarah K. Miller
Dec 7, 2000 at 6:35 pm
Dec 8, 2000 at 10:29 am

3	[Mailman-Users] problem with web authentication

Hi; I've installed Mailman 2.0 (final) on a Linux-Mandrake 7.2 box with python 1.5.2. Installation seems ok (check_perms says so). I've created a test list. I could sign-in to the admin web pages but ...

Sacit Uluirmak
Dec 6, 2000 at 11:45 am
Dec 8, 2000 at 7:28 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Error trying to login to admin

I installed the per-list custom templates patch and now when I try to log into adminstration page, I get the following error in the error log: Dec 04 05:35:12 2000 admin(17961): ...

Joel Shellman
Dec 4, 2000 at 11:33 am
Dec 5, 2000 at 7:53 am

2	[Mailman-Users] 2.0final bin/withlist patch for -r and -l available

Users of bin/withlist may have noticed that the -r and -l options were broken in 2.0final; I just uploaded a SourceForge patch to fix that (and I've asked Barry what he wants to do process-wise with ...

Dan Mick
Dec 20, 2000 at 11:56 pm
Jan 3, 2001 at 3:46 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Attachments

Is there anyway to strip attachments from posts?

J.D.K. Chipps
Dec 29, 2000 at 2:56 pm
Dec 31, 2000 at 3:54 am

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Hong Feng
Dec 19, 2000 at 3:52 pm
Dec 30, 2000 at 6:57 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] stopping HTML posts

sorry if this is a trivial question.. but how do I prevent people from posting in HTML (ie, text only posts allowed). I would like to bounce anything that is not text only, or that has an attachment. ...

David
Dec 25, 2000 at 11:24 am
Dec 25, 2000 at 4:32 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Feature suggestion

I haven't actually checked to see if this feature exists, but I've never heard of it existing, so chances are it doesn't. One of the problems evident with many mailing lists is the spam that finds ...

Robert Thomson
Dec 24, 2000 at 2:20 am
Dec 24, 2000 at 11:12 am

2	[Mailman-Users] [Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

Any idea why this was rejected? I have to send through another mail server to keep from getting my messages bounced from python.org... Bob From: MAILER-DAEMON@nlenet.net (Mail Delivery System) ...

Bob Puff@NLE
Dec 21, 2000 at 6:37 pm
Dec 21, 2000 at 11:23 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Anyone have a patch to Barry's log rotater so it works with 2.0??

Went looking through sourceforge tonight... Found a log rotater...[ Patch #101847 ] Log rotation which mails admin with errors. Tried it... and it dies on Utils.SendTextToUser('Mailman Log Report -- ...

Scott Brown
Dec 21, 2000 at 4:08 am
Dec 21, 2000 at 6:24 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 1.1 doesn't work with Sendmail?

Using v 1.1, it apparently it does not work for non-local users who try to subscribe. The error message in smtp-failures: Dec 17 16:40:57 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: To user at isp.com: Dec 17 16:40:57 ...

METAgency
Dec 18, 2000 at 9:27 pm
Dec 18, 2000 at 10:37 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] multiple domain

hi i was wondering how to use mailman with mutliple domains. i haven't had to much sucess and the documentation doesn't have to much of an explanation. could you send me an example of some kind? ...

Greg McGuire
Dec 18, 2000 at 8:16 pm
Dec 18, 2000 at 8:40 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] command addresses

Is there a way for users to unsubscribe without having to know their password? I would like for subscribers to be able to unsubscribe just by sending an email from their address without having to ...

James Sintz
Dec 14, 2000 at 10:38 pm
Dec 15, 2000 at 5:36 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] RE: Mailman

Hola Sandra, si me podrias describir tu problema un poquito mas exacto, tal vez te puedo ayudar. Saludos, Gottfried -- Gottfried Hamm Phone +49 (6249) 905005 | Fax +49 (6249) 905004 mailto:ghamm at ...

Hamm, Gottfried
Dec 9, 2000 at 3:40 pm
Dec 14, 2000 at 8:10 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] "from" field - how can I change it?

First of all, please reply to my message directly as I am not a member of the list right now, I can't go through the messages daily. My Mailman machine is called xxx.domain.com but I have a DNS alias ...

Meredith, Robert
Dec 13, 2000 at 4:16 pm
Dec 13, 2000 at 5:51 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Easy way to remove a user w/o sending a notification to them?

Hi All, Anybody have any ideas on how to remove a user without sending them any sort of notification that they're being removed? I sorta RTFM, but didn't find anything in there about it. The only ...

Support
Dec 11, 2000 at 8:43 pm
Dec 12, 2000 at 3:52 am

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