Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] !Help with Configure
by David Carter-Tod 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

At 06:43 AM 11/5/2002 -0500, "Mike Ingram" <ingram_michael(a)attbi.com> wrote: >I want only one of the members of this list to be able to send to the list >without being moderated. >I want all other members restricted from posting, or if that is not >possible I want all of the other members' posts to require administrative >approval. > >I have followed (I think) the instructions to do this (although I don't >see a way to prevent posting of specific members entirely). I suspect I >am just getting bleary eyed and missing something obvious. Depends on the version, but you're basically looking for a newsletter-style list: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp In 2.1b you'll probably need to auto-discard postings by moderated members. Relatedly, what I'd like to know is if there is a command-line way to set a certain member to be non-moderated, or alternatively to allow a certain non-subscribed address to post (again via the command line). David -- David Carter-Tod <wccartd(a)wcc.vccs.edu> Instructional Technologist/Distance Education Contact Wytheville Community College, 1000 E. Main St., Wytheville, VA 24382 (wk) 276-223-4784 http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/ Online certificate in web site design: http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/websiteDesign

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Bug in Mailman version 2.0.3
by MITCHELL,STEPHANE (HP-France,ex2) 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hello, I am novice with Mailman, but I have to admistrate it :o) I get this message when I try to open my Web interface for administration : Bug in Mailman version 2.0.3 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. In logs files, I found : ARCHIVES CORRUPT ... I have renamed my <list>.mbox to <list>.mbox.sav, created a new <list>.mbox and run ./arch I have always the save message... I tried to find anything in the logs files, but I found nothing explicite ! My OS is HP UX 10.20 Thank's for any help ! Stephane Mitchell PS. Sorry for my english, I'm French :o)

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Translation in E-mail
by Rafael Cordones Marcos 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi folks, I have been searching the Mailman website and have not found any reference to what I am looking for, i.e. translating e-mail. I am not talking about translating the Mailman software or documentation but translating the e-mails that people send to the mailing list. I am looking for the following functionality in a mailing list software: - As an administrator: - set up some default machine translation (MT) engine. For example, I want to use Babelfish for translating between English and Spanish but I wat to use some other engine for translating between German and Swedish. - specify the subject of the mailing list and thus improving the translation results. For instance, I can specify that the mailing list is about "Technical -> Operating Systems -> Minix" (just kidding). - As a user: - I want to subscribe to the mailing list and specify my language (natural) language preferences. Say I want specify {Catalan, Spanish, German}. - e-mail going to the list gets sent to a machine translation before it gets sent to me. I can optionaly say to the mailing list software that I want to receive also the original message. - If I do not like the translation of an e-mail I can choose some other machine translation engine. I may decide that some other translation engine does a better job or even pay to get get better translations. Maybe the administrator forgot to specify a machine translation engine for Euskera<->Farsi and I know of one that just started operating. I would appreciate any information you may have on this topic. Maybe somebody has started implementing this in Mailman or is already implemented? Send me any comments, problems you see on the aforementioned working schema, flames, ... Thanks a lot for your time! Rafa -- Link of the week: Der flexible Mensch. Robert Kurtz. [es] http://www.rebelion.org/economia/rkurz011002.htm [de] http://www.krisis.org/r-kurz_flexible-mensch_folha.html [en] If you find it, tell me!

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too many log-files
by Frank Olaf 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Every now and then my harddisk gets filled up with about 200000 files in the /var/log/mailman dir. This is too much for linux to handle, so it hang. When I try removing the files with rm *, it reports that there are too many arguments. Obviousley it is quite annoying that this happens and I would very much like to turn the "feature" of. Does anyone know what happens and how I can prevent it? You can find a printout of the fillelist here: http://kolaf.dynu.com/filliste.txt Frank Olaf

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!Help with Configure
by Mike Ingram 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Any help would be appreciated. I want only one of the members of this list to be able to send to the list without being moderated. I want all other members restricted from posting, or if that is not possible I want all of the other members' posts to require administrative approval. I have followed (I think) the instructions to do this (although I don't see a way to prevent posting of specific members entirely). I suspect I am just getting bleary eyed and missing something obvious. Thanks in advance for any help. Mike

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A question about Mailman
by Simona Tubertini 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

I have recently installed Mailman version 2.0.3 on my list server (Sendmail on RedHat Linux 7.3), and I have a question: how can I automatically reject messages from forbidden posters (without helding their messages for approval) ? This would be useful because we have a lot of mailing lists, we receive a lot of messages from spammers, and the list administrators must discard these messages manually every day... Many thanks for your help, regards, Simona Tubertini - Simona Tubertini National Research Council - Research Area of Bologna Via Gobetti, 101 40129 BOLOGNA (ITALY) Phone # 00 39 51 6399411 Fax # 00 39 51 6399432 E-mail: S.Tubertini(a)area.bo.cnr.it

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe
by David Carter-Tod 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

At 12:01 PM 11/4/2002 -0500, John Wards wrote: >Brian Read <brianr(a)bjsystems.co.uk> >John Wards <j.wards(a)sportnetwork.net> Do it like this in 2.1b3: brianr(a)bjsystems.co.uk (Brian Read) j.wards(a)sportnetwork.net (John Wards) David -- David Carter-Tod <wccartd(a)wcc.vccs.edu> Instructional Technologist/Distance Education Contact Wytheville Community College, 1000 E. Main St., Wytheville, VA 24382 (wk) 276-223-4784 http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/ Online certificate in web site design: http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/websiteDesign

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mailman-i18n
by antonin 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi, i'm french user of mailman and i'm looking for mailman-i18n to switch mailman in french... where i can find it ? tanks a lot antonin -- ________________________________________ (0> Antonin Hily //\ Administrateur Système & Réseaux LAN / WAN V_ Responsable du Service Informatique Délégation Académique Formation COntinue Rectorat de Créteil mailto:antonin.hily@magic.fr mailto:antonin.hily@ac-creteil.fr web : http://www.forpro-creteil.org

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need help bad!!!
by Doug Griswold 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

I don't seem to be able to get any administrative requests. Everything looks good as far as I can tell. I am getting one error in /var/log/mailman/qrunner it is "could not acquire qrunner lock" I installed this from redhat 8.0 distribution cd. I don't receive info on bounces or anything. This is mailman -2.0.13 I don't get any other errors in any of the logs. Thanks,

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RE: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 6
by Harding, Rick 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

please unsubscribe me to this list. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-request(a)python.org [mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 7:01 AM To: rick.harding(a)am.sony.com Subject: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 6 Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to mailman-users(a)python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailman-users-request(a)python.org You can reach the person managing the list at mailman-users-owner(a)python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mailman-Users digest..."

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