Mailman 3 August 2000 - Mailman-Users

cron/gate_news problem
by JLG 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

Greetings! I've been given the task of admining a MLM for my company and I've been happy with Mailman. We've been using it for a few days now,but as of yesterday morning my mailbox has been overrun with messages from cron. The mail lists we have here also get posted to a news group, and the messages began when I misspelt the name of a group, which I have since corrected. I am still receiving the following message though: Mailman.pythonlib.nntplib.NNTPPermanentError: 501 newsgroup

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Mailman and Qmail
by Phil Barnett 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

Well, I finally gave up trying to get Mailman to run under suexec. I installed another copy of Apache just to handle the mailing lists. So far, I have created a test mailing list and it was able to notify me. I went to the admin page and subscribed. I recieved a message in my personal mailbox that I replied to. But, qmail told me that there was no user. To qmail's rcpthosts file, I added: matrixlist.com To qmails virtualdomains file, I added: matrixlist.com:matrixlist-com to the qmail/mailnames/matrixlist.com directory, I added the alias files: .qmail-owner-test .qmail-test .qmail-test-admin .qmail-test-owner .qmail-test-request For example, .qmail-test contains: |preline /home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test I have restarted qmail. Any ideas what I'm missing? -- Phil Barnett mailto:midnight@the-oasis.net WWW http://www.the-oasis.net/ FTP Site ftp://ftp.the-oasis.net

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Re: [Mailman-Users] a feature request
by J C Lawrence 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:04:19 -0500 Tom Musgrove <TomM(a)pentstar.com> wrote: > hi, would it be possible to add the following feature to mailman? > feature: multiple addresses for the same mail list- I'd like to be > able to send email to the same list from multiple accounts, > because I use a different email account based on whether I'm using > a computer from home, work, or a public terminal. No feature needs adding. Just subscribe all addresses and then set all but one to NOMAIL. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Keys etc: finger claw(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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a feature request
by Tom Musgrove 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

hi, would it be possible to add the following feature to mailman? feature: multiple addresses for the same mail list- I'd like to be able to send email to the same list from multiple accounts, because I use a different email account based on whether I'm using a computer from home, work, or a public terminal. I only need to read the email from the list once, so preferably just have a default account that it is sent to. Currently, if I want to send email from different accounts, I have to have multiple different subscriptions, which means getting the same messages from a list a bazillion times. Thanks for listening, Tom M. TomM(a)pentstar.com

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unsubscribing all or many members
by andrea kapitan 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

What I can't figure out is how to remove 1,000 members at once or all of the list members. This would be extremely tedious in the GUI and doesn't look like an option in /mailman/bin/remove_members Thanks, -Andrea

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programatic editing of list options
by Dale Bewley 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

I want to create regional lists on a topic for each of the 50 states. I did that with a little wrapper around 'newlist', but now I need to adjust several settings such as description, prefix, etc. I don't know a lick of python but I know perl perdy good. Can I edit 50 lists and bypass the web interface? -- Dale Bewley - Bewley Internet Solutions Inc. http://bewley.net/

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Mailman 2.0b5 (Redhat)
by Mike Cisar 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

Hey all... installed RedHat's RPM of Mailman 2.0b5 about a week ago (ya, ya I'm lazy I know HEHE), could have *sworn* that everything was working fine then. But today when I try to go in and approve a rejected post I'm having cookie problems... have also tried to go in to do general admin on the list and see the same problem. I have double checked that cookies are enabled. I'm using Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.50.4134.0600IS) 128 Bit ... have just checked and everything is working ok under an old beta of Netscape 6 that I have installed. So I'm guessing that this the old IE cookie problem resurfacing yet again?? Anybody else having similar experiences? Cheers, >>>>> Mike <<<<<

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Re: using swish-e searching with mailman lists
by alex khalil 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

Jack Valko jack(a)valko.org wrote on Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:55:37 -0700 >I've created a HOWTO on including SWISH-E searching into list archives. >>It's available at http://www.valko.org/mailmanswish-e/. The changes are >rolled into my 1.1 installation, and I'll upgrade it to 2.0 as soon as it >comes out of beta. SWISH-E has been out of development for a couple of years. Jack. Could you be tempted to use SWISH++, a rippoff of SWISH-E at http://www.best.com/~pjl/software/swish/ that is in active development?

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using swish-e searching with mailman lists
by Jack Valko 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

I've created a HOWTO on including SWISH-E searching into list archives. It's available at http://www.valko.org/mailmanswish-e/. The changes are rolled into my 1.1 installation, and I'll upgrade it to 2.0 as soon as it comes out of beta. Drop me a line if you have comments or questions, J

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Complaint: My E-mail address appears on this site without my permission
by J C Lawrence 26 Aug '00

26 Aug '00

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:47:05 -0400 John A Martin <jam(a)jamux.com> wrote: > How do folks respond to complaints like the one below? I respond very simply that the it is now rare for spammers to harvest web sites for email addresses due to the fact that is extremely trivial (and quite common) for sites to have traps installed that: a) feed endless numbers of fake addresses to the harvester (eg a CGI with a random address generator) b) present infinite loops of cascading/different URLs (usually seeded with dyanmically generated fake addresses for the harvester) such that the harvester gets stuck in the trap and nevre harvests any real pages. The result is that any attempted harvesy is likely to never compleat (trapped in infinite URL CGIs), and what it does return is massively salted with fake addresses (dynamically generated seemingly good addresses). -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Keys etc: finger claw(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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