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Mailman and Googlemail -> Gmail: A three step approach…
Jun 2nd
I thought other listadmins might be having fun with gmail now being available in the UK (rather than “googlemail”, as it has been for a while (despite ‘gmail’ originally being available, back in the days of invitation only)), and thought I’d share my hackish way around this, so listfolks can post from their gmail.com addresses.
It’s not pretty, but works for me — pre-requisite, Mark’s very useful “non-members” script: http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/non_members
- find who you need to work with:
mkdir ~/tmp/gmail && list_lists -b | while read L; do list_members ${L} | grep googlemail > ~/tmp/gmail/${L}; done
- Zap annoucement lists from the files, remove empty files, too.
- Let them post!
/var/lib/mailman/bin$ ls -1 ~/tmp/gmail | while read L; do sed 's/@googlemail.com/@gmail.com/' ~/tmp/gmail/${L} | while read X; do ./non_members --list=${L} --filter=accept --add ${X} --verbose; done; done
(nb: the path (/var/lib/mailman/bin) is from a Debian machine — Mailman installed via packages — and in my case /var/lib/mailman/bin being in
my ${PATH} — so replace those as appropriate in your cases.)
Which seems to have done the trick.
Can’t upload images to a Wordpress blog?
Oct 15th
If, like the guys in the ORG HQ, you find yourself unable to upload images in a Wordpress Blog, and are befuddled by the reams of posts &c on the web, well, here’s another idea that might sort you out:
Remove the crap from old installs, in your ~/.mozilla directory. And by crap, well, I mean:
- appreg
- mozver.dat
- pluginreg.dat
- plugins/
cd .mozilla
rm -rf plugins/
rm appreg
rm mozver.dat
cd firefox/
rm -rf pluginreg.dat
Astonishingly, by removing a couple of bits of pelt, the uploads worked for the guys.
Seeing as this is my blog, and people expect me to be miserable, here’s my whine: why the fuck don’t people SEARCH THE FUCKING ARCHIVES on forums before posting a new question? I gave up, and went back to old-fashioned testing.
Oh, and I should probably plug a fairly new site I recently discovered: stackoverflow — about all I can whine about with that is that is uses OpenID…
oh yeah…
Mar 27th
i should say ‘helo’, really… seeing as I’ve just re-stated blogging on my own blog for the first time in aeons.
Expect irregular updates, rants, course language, sarcasm, vitriol, and general other blogosphere crap.
Occasional brokenness may happen too
