rayners

I've got my email client setup to look for "X-Spam-Status: Yes" in the email header, and if so, move the email into my caughtspam folder.

Perl is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Then again, I've been using it since '96, knee deep in it at work all day, and I release some perl software on my own, so I may be a little biased.

They are modules for Perl. Some let you access MySQL through Perl, some give you functions to manipulate dates and timestamps. All kinds of good stuff.

Do you ever check mail for your main account (i.e. the username you signed up to SNH with)? If not, that may explain why your mailbox has gotten so big.

Did you try IP-Address/cpanel or IP-Address/~username/cpanel?

I understand. But, unfortunately, you can only push the system so much before you have to spend more money.

If you're making changes through CPanel, with most modern browsers, you should be able to use some form of a Password Manager to keep track of all your usernames and passwords if you wanted. If you're making changes through FTP, most reasonable FTP clients will allow you to store username and password information for different servernames.

I imagine you'd probably run into some problems trying to access the db files directly (permissions and such). I suppose you could write a little script to grab the web page with all the email on it, and then reformat it however you'd like. Should be relatively easy with regular expressions.

Oh, and the listinfo web interface for the list can also be configured to report the list of member emails (spam protected or not).

Well, one way you could go about exporting the list of list members would be to just go to the web admin interface for the list, hop over to Membership Management, and just copy-n-paste right out of the Membership List table. And theoretically, you should be able to copy just the cells in the address column and paste them whereever you'd like (I just did it in Phoenix, but I haven't tried any other browsers).

Well, as best I can tell from looking at a local installation I tinkered with many moons ago, the data for each list is stored in db files in a directory under the Mailman installation (e.g. /usr/local/mailman/lists/ on my FreeBSD box at home). Is there any data in particular you want access to?

If you register a domain the regular (i.e. not private) way, the information you register with is effectively a matter of public record, which anybody can get to through the internet. That's why the private option is available.

I've got a Olympus D-510 Zoom. Pretty good for the price I paid at the time.

Well, off the top of my head, I'd say you could create a new email address, and then set the default mail address to the address you just created. Other than that, I can't think of another way to do it.

I use SpamAssassin as well. It's a wonderful piece of software. One caveat though: instead of automatically trashing all incoming email that's marked as spam, I suggest you have it moved to a folder (for example, I use one I called caughtspam). Then every once in a while, take a quick skim through the emails to make sure an email wasn't placed in there mistakenly. Then purge the whole folder. I am on a number of mailing lists and a couple times a week a legitimate email or two gets marked as spam by SpamAssassin. 95% of the time, it's right on the money though.

I seem to be able to get to my mailing lists just fine, but I imagine I'm on a different server than you are (if that makes a difference). Anyways, with regards to which method is more efficient, my gut says the second one would be better. But, to be honest, it's not something I've ever really looked into before, so take that with a grain of salt.

Is using something like Mailman out of the question? You can setup a mailing list in Mailman through CPanel in seconds, and it works quite nicely, with a little web interface and everything.

I voted. And that's all that really matters, isn't it?

It certainly wasn't a waste of time. In any software development project, 90% or so of it is just debugging, or other various methods to just get the darn thing to work. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask me or post something there. And please feel free to use as many of my plugins as you can. (And FYI, I think you meant to say that http://www.tellthepeople.us/mt/mt-check.cgi was working, not http://www.tellthepeople.us/movabletype/mt-check.cgi, which is currently giving me a 500 error.) Happy blogging!

Okay, so how did the files currently in your directory get there? Did you unpack the archive on your home computer and upload the files individually, or did you upload the archive and unpack it through CPanel's file manager?

Well, my first thought is that your database username is actually snhname_dbusername. For example, on my site, it's rayners_rayners.

Which version/archive of MT are you trying to install? What are the steps you have taken, and in what order (as specific as you can be)? And what error(s) are you getting? And while I'm thining about it, would you by any chance know what server you're on?

I imagine you'd have to contact your soon-to-be old hosting service and tell them you want to close your account.

Ahh, you must not be on server 4. I had the same issues when I was setting up MT. It's not anything you can install yourself. Just submit a help desk ticket and it will be taken care of promptly. Happy blogging.

/usr/bin/perl has been working just fine for me.