Boris:

Many Mailman users would be very happy to see your changes. Please consider wrapping them up cleanly and submitting them as a Sourceforge patch.

Boris Boruchovich wrote:

Hi,

I have setup Mailman for internal use, as well as, for our OpenAir.com service. Mailman is great. I had to make couple of changes in order for it to work the way I needed. Here is what I did:

1. I changed unsubscribe not to require a password if the body only

contained the keyword "unsubscribe". Then only the sender is unsubscribed. This way it is easier for list members to unsubscribe. All our members are subscribed by our service and have no access to their passwords.

2. I changed subscribe to accept an Admin password when subscribing someone

other than self. I have made the list open so that it does not require either Admin approval nor member confirmation. But, I did not want anyone subscribing someone else without any authority.

Questions:

1. Does anyone see any major issues with what I did? Could I have done this

another way? 2. How do I set the "not me too" option to be set by default for each new member?

Thanks,

Boris

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1. I changed unsubscribe not to require a password if the body only

contained the keyword "unsubscribe". Then only the sender is unsubscribed. This way it is easier for list members to unsubscribe. All our members are subscribed by our service and have no access to their passwords.

Tell us how to do this!!! Please!

Bob

Hi,

I manage a list with about 160,000 members. I am using Mailman version 2.0 and I seem to be experiencing a problem when I post anything to this list. The number of files in qfiles directory keeps growing and not getting any smaller.

Here is an excerpt from the smtp log: "Nov 29 23:28:55 2000 (457) All recipients refused: (111, 'Connection refused') Nov 29 23:30:14 2000 (457) smtp for 150686 recips, completed in 1412.545 seconds"

Here is an excerpt from the qrunner log: "Nov 29 23:51:01 2000 (2960) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 29 23:52:01 2000 (2987) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 29 23:53:02 2000 (3025) Could not acquire qrunner lock Nov 29 23:54:01 2000 (3083) Could not acquire qrunner lock"

Here is an excerpt from the error log: "Nov 29 23:29:48 2000 (4735) thelist db file was corrupt, using fallback: /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db.last Nov 29 23:29:48 2000 (4725) thelist db file was corrupt, using fallback: /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db.last Nov 29 23:29:51 2000 (4720) thelist db file was corrupt, using fallback: /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db.last Nov 29 23:30:05 2000 (4736) thelist db file was corrupt, using fallback: /home/mailman/lists/thelist/config.db.last"

When I run check_db on "thelist" list the result state that it is fine. I am not sure of what is happening, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Boris