mailman-users@python.org discussions for August 2004

23	[Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem

Hi, I have a problem discarding pending messages for the admin. One of our mail lists has accumulated over 10,000 (ten thousand) spam messages. The web page to show pending messages, after several ...

Robert Echlin
Aug 9, 2004 at 7:31 pm
Aug 13, 2004 at 7:52 am

20	[Mailman-Users] New user - Mailman question

HI, I am a new member of the list and a list administrator responsible for two lists. Frankly I am struggling with some of the features and functions and I thought I would ask "my elders" for some ...

Charles Mikecz Vamossy
Aug 20, 2004 at 7:39 pm
Aug 22, 2004 at 1:03 pm

16	[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.5 subject line problem

Hello, i installed mailman 2.1.5 on Linux (rh9). The problem is with letters where are used national characters (8 bit [#128..#255] from baltic cp Windows 1257 or ISOxxxx-13) in subject line. Mailman ...

Rimgaudas Laucius
Aug 28, 2004 at 12:43 pm
Sep 2, 2004 at 7:20 pm

13	[Mailman-Users] Banner and Complex code in header and footer

At the moment i can insert, such as header and footer, in the messages sent via Mailman Mailing lists only pure text and links. Is it possible, for the administrator/moderator of the lists, to insert ...

Ulisse
Aug 15, 2004 at 8:04 pm
Aug 19, 2004 at 3:21 am

11	[Mailman-Users] Wondering how long to send messages

The answer is -- it depends. A fast machine on a fast network with all recipients who are likewise on fast machines attached to fast networks, and with relatively few users, may be completely ...

Brad Knowles
Aug 28, 2004 at 12:40 am
Aug 29, 2004 at 6:46 pm

10	[Mailman-Users] Spaces in Email Addresses

I have and address that is too long. How do I get my address book to take it. secretary at hiltonchristianchurch.hrcoxmail.com It won't let me get past churc. Ruby Shutt

Rhshutt
Aug 20, 2004 at 2:14 pm
Aug 25, 2004 at 8:04 am

9	[Mailman-Users] Listowner.org is down

Greetings, I was trying to get some assistance with some configuration issues from listowner.org, but it's unavailable. I would like my announce only list to 1) only post messages from a few members ...

Fred Macondray
Aug 17, 2004 at 12:13 am
Aug 20, 2004 at 1:58 am

9	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 - Customize Look and Feel

Hello, I have recently installed Mailman 2.1.5 on Fedora Core 1 in concert with a Qmail and Vpopmail installation, using some instructions to make a unique install for each virtual domain under ...

Russell Mann
Aug 10, 2004 at 10:53 pm
Aug 12, 2004 at 9:23 am

8	[Mailman-Users] Custom header

Is there any way to add a custom mail header for a list? Regards David

David Cake
Aug 30, 2004 at 8:29 pm
Sep 13, 2004 at 1:24 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Make sure that only our newsletter can be delivered to a mailing-list that is not moderated

We will use Mailman to send our newsletter. This newsletter will be sent from the same server every time. The mailing-list will not be moderated, as the newsletter will be sent automatically by a ...

Jacob Friis Larsen
Aug 27, 2004 at 12:07 pm
Aug 27, 2004 at 2:44 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] All AOL members not receiving emails

Hello, Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere... I searched the archives and didn't find it. Did AOL make some major change affecting Mailman a couple weeks ago? I have a Mailman 2.1.5 list ...

John
Aug 31, 2004 at 7:11 pm
Sep 2, 2004 at 4:36 am

7	[Mailman-Users] Delete posting without shell access

I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting host server ...

Glenn Black
Aug 24, 2004 at 5:36 pm
Aug 25, 2004 at 6:53 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Problems installing Mailman on RedHat and Apache - Premature End of script headers

Hello everyone, i noticed that other people have a similiar issue, but there was no help yet. I installed mailman and after doing the necessary changes to httpd.conf i tried to check out if the cgi ...

Ralph
Aug 20, 2004 at 4:52 pm
Aug 22, 2004 at 11:04 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] reliable python 2.3.3 or 2.3.4 backport?

Hi folks, I've determined that the problems I'm having with Mailman now are related to the fact that I have Python 2.3.2 running in Debian (woody). Moderated messages keep erroring into logs/error ...

Jeff Garvas
Aug 4, 2004 at 1:24 pm
Aug 6, 2004 at 12:42 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Mass settings

When I populated a list with hundreds of addresses, I inadvertantly set the default of all users to "Hide". I want to unhide all of them. Is there any way I can do this en masse, rather than ...

Allen Watson
Aug 24, 2004 at 4:29 pm
Aug 25, 2004 at 4:54 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Re add members w/o confirming & a good MUA

You can also subscribe members in the List Administration web interface under Membership Management Mass Subscription. This is much easier for a non-techie. a different David ;) Hi d D ! ( grin ) ...

Marci and rex
Aug 19, 2004 at 11:25 pm
Aug 20, 2004 at 8:34 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Manking an announcement list

Hi I have read through the documentation and I havent been able to answer my problem. I want something to make so just the admin can post and the other can just read, or an annoucement list. -- ...

Alexandro Colorado
Aug 9, 2004 at 6:59 pm
Aug 12, 2004 at 3:17 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] RE: don't delivery messages

I forgot to say I hav these 4 hotmail e-mails, one from yahoo and another one from another domaine, suscribed to the mailing list so that I can verify if it's delivered the messages without problems. ...

David Elias Sanchez Vasquez
Aug 6, 2004 at 6:35 pm
Aug 7, 2004 at 4:00 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.5 and virtualdomains and/or subdomains

Hi, I'm trying to setting up mailman and having trouble with virtualdomains and subdomains. I need a listing name schema of: xyz at a.fh-konstanz.de xyz at b.fh-konstanz.de xyz at c.fh-konstanz.de ...

Konrad Mauz
Aug 16, 2004 at 11:03 am
Sep 9, 2005 at 1:22 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Using python format strings

Hi! I want to customize our mailman installation (2.1.5) and need to edit the languange templates for that. I've read the docu how to use the python format strings but especialy the %(host_name)s ...

Christian Schoepplein
Aug 31, 2004 at 3:46 pm
Aug 31, 2004 at 10:52 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] New Subscriptions (2.1.5)

I have installed Mailman 2.1.5 used the mass add to subscribe a bunch of existing users, all received a confirmation regarding their subscription. However, when a new user subscribes no confirmation ...

A.Zeneski
Aug 31, 2004 at 5:17 pm
Aug 31, 2004 at 8:05 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Problem with https:// admin interface URL

We use only https:// for web interface access and in the past I changed the URL_PATTERN in mm_cfg.py and everything was fine. That worked until 2.1.5 RC1. Now I have set up a fresh 2.1.5 on a new ...

Kai Schaetzl
Aug 26, 2004 at 8:47 pm
Aug 27, 2004 at 4:19 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Problem with archives

Hi, I am having troubles with the archives displaying for the month of August. When I run arch in the bin directory everything shows up working great. Do I need to setup a cron job to do this for me ...

Jared Nyland
Aug 23, 2004 at 10:29 pm
Aug 27, 2004 at 5:36 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Block "out off office" autoreply messages

Friends, I?m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn?t know that you must not use out of office ...

Luis Fernando C. Talora
Aug 23, 2004 at 12:55 pm
Aug 23, 2004 at 4:31 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] messages stuck in queue after approval

Hi, I'm running mailman 2.0.13 on a RH 7.1 box. I'm having problems with some moderated lists... when the administrator approves a message the message gets stuck... the lists keeps locked, since I ...

Juan Nin
Aug 12, 2004 at 9:43 pm
Aug 13, 2004 at 7:02 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Security

Is anyone aware of the safety/vulnerability of these lists? Are these appropriate to use for kids? Thanks, Jonathan

Zzizzle
Aug 11, 2004 at 9:58 am
Aug 12, 2004 at 8:55 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Mod Bit

Does anyone know how to set it so all new subscribers are moderated, without affecting the current subscribers' settings? Thanks

Zzizzle
Aug 4, 2004 at 5:47 pm
Aug 5, 2004 at 7:22 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Rogue address in mailing list

I'm running Mailman 2.1.5 on Gentoo. My list had about 60K members. I have this rogue email address that is half subscribed and half not. When I try to list the address with list_members, I get an ...

John Price
Aug 26, 2004 at 10:14 pm
Aug 30, 2004 at 5:09 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Master List

I have two MailMan lists for my son's school's football teams -- Varsity and JV. I need to create a master list that has the two lists as its only members such that an email sent to master at ...

Mike Phillips
Aug 30, 2004 at 12:21 am
Aug 30, 2004 at 3:33 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Mystery with user_option URL

Help! I set some lists up a year ago and on most of them a note I append appears like this (it's entered into "msg_footer" on the Non-digest Options page): Changes to your subscription may be made by ...

Allan Trick
Aug 29, 2004 at 4:45 am
Aug 30, 2004 at 12:50 am

4	[Mailman-Users] help!!!!!

I am a webmaster for my school and we are migrating from sendmail and minimalist to mailman and exim. We currently are running a daily announcement mailing list with a perl script. there is a long ...

Cameron Tuckerman
Aug 22, 2004 at 11:11 pm
Aug 28, 2004 at 10:17 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Disable email commands

How do I disable email commands to the list server? // Christian Wix -- M.Sc. Student Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering, DTU

Christian Wix
Aug 25, 2004 at 8:44 pm
Aug 26, 2004 at 8:23 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)

The items below have come up lately as things we'd like to be able to do with our mailman setup. I'm open to any alternative suggestions, hacks or comments... One of my biggest mailman lists is used ...

Mark T. Valites
Aug 26, 2004 at 3:56 pm
Aug 26, 2004 at 4:38 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] regular expressions/wildcards in remove_members?

Hi All I'm wondering if it is possible to use regular expressions in 'remove_members'. I have a subscriber who has a curly quote in their subscribed address - which has thrown the web membership ...

Adam Steer
Aug 24, 2004 at 6:21 am
Aug 25, 2004 at 7:38 am

4	[Mailman-Users] upgrade 2.0.13 to 2.1.4, no mail goes out, no bounces come back

All the web stuff seems to work. I even ran /home/mailman/mail/mailman post list and supplied it with a mail message, and it vanished into thin air without a trace. I have check_perms'ed, made sure ...

Hacksaw
Aug 23, 2004 at 4:53 am
Aug 23, 2004 at 10:39 am

4	[Mailman-Users] File attachement problems after install Mailman

Hi, I have a problem that appeared just after installing Mailman. I have a cron job that sends a picture every day to some of my users. To do this I use : cat picture.jpg |uuencode picture.jpg|mail ...

Mailing Caranta
Aug 17, 2004 at 3:50 pm
Aug 18, 2004 at 3:49 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Character problems..

I've noticed a small problem... If I enter a "Welcome to the list message" in welcome_msg that includes international characters like our Swedish ? ? ? ? ? ? then the e-mail sent to list user ...

Anders Norrbring
Aug 12, 2004 at 1:44 pm
Aug 13, 2004 at 8:33 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Request help: MM 2.1.5 Install on BSD; setGID errors.

Hello folks: I'm coaching a friend on installing MM on a BSD server. I use and administer a Debian box myself here at the office. While I administer (in the sense of creating lists and assigning ...

Hesco
Aug 12, 2004 at 6:35 am
Aug 12, 2004 at 3:31 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Soooooo sloooooow

I'm running Mailman 2.1.4 on a 1GHz machine with 1.5G RAM. I have a list that has about 60K members, and all interaction with mailman is very slow when there is no load on the machine, and SUPER slow ...

John Price
Aug 4, 2004 at 3:30 am
Aug 6, 2004 at 6:31 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Converting Majordomo archive files to Mailman archives?

Hi -- I just moved a small, but very long lived, mailing list system from Majordomo to Mailman. The basic conversion went just fine, thanks. I have archives of the old lists going back almost ten ...

John R. Ackermann N8UR
Aug 3, 2004 at 4:47 pm
Aug 4, 2004 at 12:56 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] E-mail configuration

Hi, I have intall the mailman and configured it but i can't get receive email from the users. How do i need configure it? Savas -- Zon Gratis ADSL. De voordelen van gratis internet met de snelheid ...

S Aslan
Aug 31, 2004 at 11:16 am
Sep 1, 2004 at 4:31 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] list of lists per host?

Is there a way to browse a list of lists hosted by this mailman server? (Like the MajorCool interface works) -- -Brian

Brian Cain
Aug 31, 2004 at 11:14 pm
Aug 31, 2004 at 11:33 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Redirect reply's to list messages

Greetings All, I just set up Mailman as provided by my hosting service. I've currently got my list up and working so that the following are true: 1) The list is in "announce only mode" 2) A few ...

Fred Macondray
Aug 17, 2004 at 12:23 am
Aug 28, 2004 at 6:49 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman vs bcc

Can mailman send mail just as fast as if I send 1 mail to 1000 addresses in bcc, assuming that the mta accepts 1000? Thanks, Jacob

Jacob Friis Larsen
Aug 26, 2004 at 3:28 pm
Aug 26, 2004 at 4:15 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman has stopped processing mail

Our Web host provides Mailman for our use and I am the new listkeeper. We generate a sizeable number of messages daily but the last one received (according to the archive) was early yesterday ...

Judy Petersen
Aug 25, 2004 at 11:20 pm
Aug 26, 2004 at 1:39 am

3	[Mailman-Users] debian upgrade to 2.1.5

mailman appeared in the list of potential upgrades this morning but when I try to install it I'm told that there are files in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles so the upgrade won't happen. There are no *files* ...

Rick Pasotto
Aug 25, 2004 at 12:57 pm
Aug 25, 2004 at 5:43 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Help, let me out of here

First, all my announcements to my new mailman list were bounced back, and I couldn't figure out how to correct it. Then my postings (like this one) to the mailman-users list were also held up. Now, ...

Harv Teitelbaum
Aug 23, 2004 at 3:01 pm
Aug 24, 2004 at 1:33 am

3	[Mailman-Users] False Moderator Requests?

Greetings, We have just begun using mailman and are discovering it's mysteries. Please be patient with ignorant questions! I have a dozen lists, none actively used yet, that are set up ready to ...

Mike Cullum
Aug 23, 2004 at 3:21 pm
Aug 23, 2004 at 3:50 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman/Apache hostname

Folks, I?ve built a server named edoras for Mailman, using Fedora Core 2. My DNS have entries for both http://edoras.mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com, both pointing to the same IP address. When I ...

Luis Fernando C. Talora
Aug 20, 2004 at 11:51 am
Aug 20, 2004 at 9:09 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] "Failure to find group name" error

Hello, I am trying to set up Mailman on a Fedora Core 2 system running apache 2.0, using the Mailman 2.1.5 tarball downloaded from www.list.org. I have followed the installation instructions, and ...

Paul Bromiley
Aug 17, 2004 at 7:52 pm
Aug 20, 2004 at 8:28 pm

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