Mailman 3 July 2003 - Mailman-coders

[ mailman-Bugs-778237 ] Invitations/Confirmations need expire info
by SourceForge.net 26 Jul '03

26 Jul '03

Bugs item #778237, was opened at 2003-07-26 17:58 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=778237&group_i… Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: John A. Martin (jamux) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Invitations/Confirmations need expire info Initial Comment: Both subscription invitations and subscription confirmation messages fail to indicate when they will expire. Folks get confused when stale confirmations don't work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=778237&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-777444 ] mailmanctl doesn't setgroups when run as root
by SourceForge.net 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

Bugs item #777444, was opened at 2003-07-25 10:02 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=777444&group_i… Category: security/privacy Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: mailmanctl doesn't setgroups when run as root Initial Comment: When mailmanctl is executed as root the checkprivs function performs setgid and setuid to reduce the process privileges. But mailmanctl fails to set the supplemental groups of the process to those of the setuid'ed user, effectively leaving the processes with the same group privileges as root and, potentially, without the group privileges of the setuid'ed user. This patch uses os.setgroups() to fix that. Problem definition and solution by Jonas Meurer. I'm just filing the bug fix for him. Apply the patch from within the Mailman build directory with: patch -p1 < path-to-patch-file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=777444&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-776850 ] German version: confusing interface
by SourceForge.net 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Bugs item #776850, was opened at 2003-07-24 06:09 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by bwarsaw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=776850&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jan Kellermann (werk21) >Assigned to: Peer Heinlein (pheinlein) Summary: German version: confusing interface Initial Comment: In the membership area are two submit buttons: "Submit your Changes" and "set". The 2nd on is to set everyone's moderation bit. In the german version they are "Änderungen vornehmen" and "Änderung übernehmen" which is too similar, leading users to wrongly submit. Please change this in the language-module. thx Jan Kellermann ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jan Kellermann (werk21) Date: 2003-07-24 06:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=737219 BTW you can please change "Membership Management" in "Mitgliederverwaltung" and "Privacy Options" in "Sicherheitseinstellungen" as used in older versions. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=776850&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-776850 ] German version: confusing interface
by SourceForge.net 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Bugs item #776850, was opened at 2003-07-24 12:09 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by werk21 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=776850&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jan Kellermann (werk21) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: German version: confusing interface Initial Comment: In the membership area are two submit buttons: "Submit your Changes" and "set". The 2nd on is to set everyone's moderation bit. In the german version they are "Änderungen vornehmen" and "Änderung übernehmen" which is too similar, leading users to wrongly submit. Please change this in the language-module. thx Jan Kellermann ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jan Kellermann (werk21) Date: 2003-07-24 12:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=737219 BTW you can please change "Membership Management" in "Mitgliederverwaltung" and "Privacy Options" in "Sicherheitseinstellungen" as used in older versions. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=776850&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-776850 ] German version: confusing interface
by SourceForge.net 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Bugs item #776850, was opened at 2003-07-24 12:09 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=776850&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jan Kellermann (werk21) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: German version: confusing interface Initial Comment: In the membership area are two submit buttons: "Submit your Changes" and "set". The 2nd on is to set everyone's moderation bit. In the german version they are "Änderungen vornehmen" and "Änderung übernehmen" which is too similar, leading users to wrongly submit. Please change this in the language-module. thx Jan Kellermann ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=776850&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-596215 ] html bugs in 2.0.13
by SourceForge.net 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Bugs item #596215, was opened at 2002-08-16 18:57 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by netik You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=596215&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 1 Submitted By: Chuq Von Rospach (chuqui) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: html bugs in 2.0.13 Initial Comment: Ran into some HTML bugs in 2.0.13. For instance, going to the listinfo/mailman-subscribers page and subscribing, it returns the "confirmation is required" warning. It looks good, but view source it. An unterminated "<BODY" tag, followed by a second body tag with a bgcolor, followed by a third body tag a couple of lines later. There are also two /body tags, and the <title> is in the body, not in the head. While it seems to format okay in browsers, it's seriously broken HTML, and it's driving mod_layout nuts, since it depends on the body tags to do header/footer insertions right. I think there's one other generated page with similar problems, too, but I'm not sure which it is yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: John Adams (netik) Date: 2003-07-21 23:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=61093 This also breaks things in an interesting way when you're attempting to change the background color of the subscribe results page (or any page, for that matter.) The doc object is created in main is built in htmlformat.py: <code> if self.title: output.append('%s<TITLE>%s</TITLE>' % (tab, self.title)) output.append('%s</HEAD>' % tab) output.append('%s<BODY' % tab) </code> The worst part is that this bug occurs on EVERY SINGLE PAGE that mailman generates! You can fix this serious bug by commenting out the line: <pre> output.append('%s<BODY' % tab) </pre> in htmlformat.py, line #281 (at least in my version, which is 2.0.9. Also, there is a secondary issue associated with page generation; lots of calls to doc.Format immediately set the bgcolor to #ffffff; There needs to be a way to set the global (or per-list) background color and not hardcode it in this way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=596215&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-775100 ] gate_news: Handling missing groups
by SourceForge.net 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Bugs item #775100, was opened at 2003-07-21 16:17 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by nizz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=775100&group_i… >Category: nntp/news Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nis Jørgensen (nizz) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: gate_news: Handling missing groups Initial Comment: At the moment, if a non-existing newsgroup is chosen for mirroring, we break out of the loop: for listname in Utils.list_names(): [...] try: conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) except (socket.error, nntplib.NNTPError): break [...] I believe that, at least for some NNTPErrors, we should do a "continue" instead. My naive patch would be this: try: conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) except nntplib.NNTPError: continue except socket.error: break But if people have good reason to break on othernNTPErrors, we might want to do a more finegrained check. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=775100&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-775100 ] gate_news: Handling missing groups
by SourceForge.net 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Bugs item #775100, was opened at 2003-07-21 16:17 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=775100&group_i… Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nis Jørgensen (nizz) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: gate_news: Handling missing groups Initial Comment: At the moment, if a non-existing newsgroup is chosen for mirroring, we break out of the loop: for listname in Utils.list_names(): [...] try: conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) except (socket.error, nntplib.NNTPError): break [...] I believe that, at least for some NNTPErrors, we should do a "continue" instead. My naive patch would be this: try: conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) except nntplib.NNTPError: continue except socket.error: break But if people have good reason to break on othernNTPErrors, we might want to do a more finegrained check. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=775100&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-744466 ] error message
by SourceForge.net 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Bugs item #744466, was opened at 2003-05-27 19:41 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nizz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=744466&group_i… Category: nntp/news Group: 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Robert Hinson (oppie) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: error message Initial Comment: I get this error message. From: Cron Daemon <root(a)oppie.oppie.net> To: mailman(a)oppie.oppie.net Subject: Cron <mailman@oppie> /usr/bin/python - S /var/mailman/cron/gate_news Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 114, in __init__ self.welcome = self.getresp() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 184, in getresp raise NNTPTemporaryError(resp) Mailman.pythonlib.nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 400 File exists writing SMstore file -- throttling I am running INN Version inn-2.3.2-5 Python version python-1.5.2-43.72 mailman version mailman-2.0.13-1 RedHat 7.2 Linux oppie 2.4.18-27.7.x #1 Fri Mar 14 05:51:48 EST 2003 i586 unknown Can someone please help me figure this out? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nis Jørgensen (nizz) Date: 2003-07-21 15:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=60889 This looks like your news server is malfunctioning. Can you connect to it with a normal nntp client? Apparently this is "normal" INN behavior when not shut down properly. Anyway, this is probably not a mailman issue - I suggest closing the bug. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=744466&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-774644 ] Pipermail ignores URL_HOST in attachment paths
by SourceForge.net 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

Bugs item #774644, was opened at 2003-07-20 11:29 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=774644&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Joel Peshkin (peshkin) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Pipermail ignores URL_HOST in attachment paths Initial Comment: In a new mailman 2.1.2 installation, the URL_HOST is set to one of the virtual domains hosted by the webserver. All of the email and web interfaces handle that properly including most fuctions of pipermail EXCEPT that URLs to attachments stored get HOSTNAME/pipermail.... instead of URL_HOST/pipermail.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=774644&group_i…

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