Re: Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

> It's likely a bit overkill for what you're after, but mailman:
>
>   <http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/>
>
> should be able to meet your needs.
>
> I believe that the default configuration sends a single message to a
> group, but it can be configured to generate/deliver individual
> messages (which can be individualized with unsubscribe links).
>
> mailman con be configured to manage the list to remove bouncing
> addresses, and can inform the list owner of such events.
>
>
>    - Richard

Hi Richard.

I have thought about Mailman as I've used it before for my charity work. 
However, I do think that as you say, it sends emails as groups to addresses 
with the same MX records which will not resolve my main problem.

Gary

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Solicited sales email distribution - advice needed

Hi Folks.

I have at work one of our salesmen who has an opt-in stock-list distribution 
that has been running for some time now. He has in excess of 2500 recipients 
on this list.

Up until now he has simply had a Distribution list in his MS Outlook which he 
maintains himself. He then sends himself an email every week containing the 
stock list and BCC's the distribution list.  Other than generating an 
excessive load on my EXIM server there has been no  real down side to this as 
it meant that I didn't have to get involved.

However, we are now experiencing problems and I would like a better solution.

I need a system that will distribute the email to each recipient as a seperate 
message, and if possible will monitor and highlight any emails that fail.

Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? Ideally I would like the salesman to 
still be able to administer it but that isn't essential. If it is a system 
that is either text file or database driven  I can create a UI that he would 
be able to use.

Gary
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What's the real-world usage of a TPM module?

Since my last system includes a TPM I'm curious as to what is the real
world usage of it in Linux.
I've read that Truecrypt choose not to use TPMs....

So, anything else? using it to encrypt my Mozilla password store?

I have to say that the first result of a Google search seems a bit
convoluted and intimidating to the uninitiated
https://www.grounation.org/index.php?post/2008/07/04/8-how-to-use-a-tpm-with-linux

TIA for your collective wisdom...
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Ok, so where do mysql bugs go, these days?

So, I've been tearing apart mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.11-1.fc18.x86_64

And I've tracked down some horrible breakage there that needs to be fixed  
upstream.

Given the state of mysql in the distro, and the pending move to mariadb,  
I'm wondering where the best place to report this bug would be. I find  
nothing but Oracle's bureaucratease, when I try to dig around mysql.com.

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problem with NTFS file system

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F18 re-add missing disk radi1

While Having a coffee,
The cat decided to dissemble 
a soft raid by playing with the sata cable.

Having replaced the cable,
still coming up as one disk short.

Looked at:
http://www.ducea.com/2009/03/08/mdadm-cheat-sheet/
mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdb1
Is this correct (check twice, run once)

for some reason the F18 Live CD calls the raid
/dev/md124  

# cat /proc/mdstat
ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2
UUID=25e07f11:ef68c858:29f9be4e:6bf24034

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] 
md124 : active raid1 sdd1[0]
      976759672 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]
      bitmap: 4/8 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk

# mdadm --detail /dev/md124
/dev/md124:
        Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Sat May 11 11:29:04 2013
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 976759672 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 976759672 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 1
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

  Intent Bitmap : Internal

    Update Time : Sun May 19 02:39:14 2013
          State : active, degraded 
 Active Devices : 1
Working Devices : 1
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

           Name : yumser.frankly3d.home:3  (local to host
           yumser.frankly3d.home) UUID :
           25e07f11:ef68c858:29f9be4e:6bf24034 Events : 7931

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       49        0      active sync   /dev/sdd1
       1       0        0        1      removed

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Yum kernel upgrades don't boot

It appears the when a kernel upgrade is applied by yum, the rebuild of 
grub2.conf seems to reset the kernel command lines to default, dropping options 
to use working video and network drivers and stable clocks. Even the vital 
"nomodeset" option is dropped from the old stanzas in the original grub2.config. 
Is this part of the war on using vendor drivers? Booting into a system with an 
unstable clock, no video even text in runlevel 3, and no working network doesn't 
make a upgrade easy.

So is dropping the kernel command line options a bug, or deliberate policy?

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taken the first step. The steps are many, but finite in number, and if
we persevere we will reach our destination.  -me, 2010

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Can't open port in firewalld

Hello all,

So I've found out that by default my script controlled ethernet
connection is in the public zone in firewalld.  I however cannot open a
port for Transmission, the torrent client.  I set Transmission to use
the static default port 51413.

I then do the following:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=51413/tcp
firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=51413/udp

Transmission shows the port as closed.  It's definitely a firewalld
issue.  As soon as I disable firewalld by using systemd the port is
shown as open in Transmission.

Am I doing something wrong here?

thanks,

Ananda
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Device Drivers in Fedora 18

Dear users,
   I am on the verge of a rather thorough hardware upgrade, ie. 
motherboard/cpu, and in addition want to migrate from XP 32 to Fedora 18 
64.  So, now it occurs to me that all the drivers from Windoze will be 
gone--are there drivers in the Fedora CD package, or will I have to hunt 
them down?  Actually, there may be a more basic driver issue--namely, 
running the CD player itself: the driver won't be loaded yet.  Is this a 
problem?  I also have an ISO image on USB, if needed.
   Thanks for any info.
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Bootable distro on Flash - Howto?

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FC18 Installation: No X comes

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