Mailman 3 March 2005 - Mailman-coders

[ mailman-Patches-645297 ] Add PGP support
by SourceForge.net March 22, 2005

March 22, 2005

Patches item #645297, was opened at 2002-11-28 14:54 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by vanbaal You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=645297&group_i… Category: None Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Ben Laurie (benl) Assigned to: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Summary: Add PGP support Initial Comment: Support PGP encrypted lists using GnuPG. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Joost van Baal (vanbaal) Date: 2005-03-22 08:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28781 One might like to take a look at patch #1167696 too. It implements about the same functionality. As an added bonus, it has some documentation :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Arthur Lutz (arthur_lutz) Date: 2004-12-20 14:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=848508 another +1 for this patch, I've been looking for this functionality too... willing to contribute ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Justin Mason (jmason) Date: 2003-11-10 18:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=935 another +1 for this patch, I've been looking for this functionality too... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2003-03-17 22:17 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=34209 I'll look at incorporating this when I look at the SecureList patch by NAH6 (SF patch #646989, currently.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nicolas Marchildon (elecnix) Date: 2003-02-06 05:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=106549 My vote goes to a PGP whitelist and blacklist feature. Messages signed with a key present in the whitelist could go skip moderation, messages in the blacklist would be either ignored or rejected, and all other messages could go through moderation. That way, PGP signatures are not required, but those using them would see their messages delivered quickly. Mailman would have two keyrings, and would manage them by specifying --keyring to gpg. PGP keys would be retreived from a PGP key server. When moderating a message that was signed with a key missing from the whitelist, there would be an option named "Add key to whitelist", and an other one for the blacklist. Keys could be added to the white/blacklist through the web interface by specifying at least a key ID, and mailman would ask gpg to fetch the key from mailman's default key server. Initially proposed in French on: http://www.linux-quebec.org/archives/general/msg03787.html Nicolas Marchildon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: David Shaw (dmshaw) Date: 2003-01-04 19:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=606006 Another vote of support. I actually submitted an enhancement request earlier today for exactly this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: captain larry (captainlarry) Date: 2002-12-23 19:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=147905 Adding a vote of support for this patch. Please add it as soon as it's appropriate! I've been waiting a long time for this functionality and I'd hate to see the patch bitrot. :-) Adam. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-12-12 03:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 I have to defer this patch until after MM2.1 since we're about ready for the first release candidate. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=645297&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-1072002 ] admin_member_chunksize not available in GUI or config_list
by SourceForge.net March 21, 2005

March 21, 2005

Bugs item #1072002, was opened at 2004-11-23 10:38 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jonhowell You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1072002&group_… Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: admin_member_chunksize not available in GUI or config_list Initial Comment: admin_member_chunksize is set from DEFAULT_ADMIN_MEMBER_CHUNKSIZE when a list is created, but it is not visible in the admin GUI or bin/config_list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jon Howell (jonhowell) Date: 2005-03-21 13:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=70921 "Me too." Please add this line after the 'max_message_size' entry in Gui/General.py: ('admin_member_chunksize', mm_cfg.Number, 7, 0, _('''Number of members to display at a time.''')), I was going nuts being forced to look at my membership list in 26 steps, one bucket at a time. I finally bothered today to find the problem, and fixing this bug would fix the problem. Although it would be nice if the membership list page also had a "show entire list" button, so the next guy doesn't have to scrape the source to find this option. :v) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1072002&group_…

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[ mailman-Patches-1167696 ] handle PGP encrypted and signed posts
by SourceForge.net March 21, 2005

March 21, 2005

Patches item #1167696, was opened at 2005-03-21 16:28 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=1167696&group_… Category: None Group: Mailman 2.1 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Joost van Baal (vanbaal) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: handle PGP encrypted and signed posts Initial Comment: This patch is based upon a patch by Stefan Schlott ( http://medien.informatik.uni-ulm.de/~stefan/gpg-mailman.html ) It extends Mailman to: - A post will be distributed only if the PGP signature on the post is from one of the list members. - For sending encrypted email, a list member encrypts to the public key of the list. The post will be decrypted and re-encrypted to the public keys of all list members. (Later, the patch will handle RFC 2633 (S/MIME) messages too, next to RFC 2440 (OpenPGP)). In order to achieve this, each list has a public and private key, as well as a key passphrase. Furthermore, new list settings are defined: gpg_postings_allowed: Is it allowed to send to this list postings which are encrypted with the GPG list key? gpg_msg_distribution: Are subscribers allowed (or even forced) to upload their GPG public key in order to receive all messages encrypted? gpg_post_sign: Should posts be GPG signed with an acknowledged subscriber key before being distributed? gpg_msg_sign: Should the server sign encrypted messages? Finally, each subscriber can upload her PGP public key using the webinterface. Latest version of the patch is available from http://www.non-gnu.uvt.nl/pub/mailman/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=1167696&group_…

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[ mailman-Patches-1161505 ] Appropriate text for private archive login
by SourceForge.net March 21, 2005

March 21, 2005

Patches item #1161505, was opened at 2005-03-11 16:58 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by tkikuchi You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=1161505&group_… Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.1 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Appropriate text for private archive login Initial Comment: Much of the template templates/en/private.html is based on (copied from) the template templates/en/admlogin.html. Thus, the language about cookies is not appropriate for this function. The patch changes the text to something more appropriate for private archive login. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=1161505&group_…

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[ mailman-Bugs-1085651 ] Broken PGP/MIME signature of messages with attachments
by SourceForge.net March 20, 2005

March 20, 2005

Bugs item #1085651, was opened at 2004-12-15 09:54 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by shevek You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1085651&group_… Category: mail delivery Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Broken PGP/MIME signature of messages with attachments Initial Comment: Hi, When I send a PGP/MIME signed message *with* attachments (in addition to the PGP signature) to a Mailman-based mailing list, Firefox/Enigmail fails to verify the signature of the message forwarded by mailman. I have uploaded an example message with a broken signature as attachment to this bug. You can also see how Mailman's automatic archives don't even handle such messages correctly by looking at how it archived that message at: http://sablecc.org/lists/sablecc-user/2004-December/000159.html I've looked in the bugs database and found that a somewhat related problem was reported a while ago, but note that the current bug is different. The original bug was about PGP/MIME signed messages without attachments that were handled incorrectly by Enigmail. This one is about messages with attachments, and it is likely that the bug is Mailman's, at least accroding to the reply I got in: http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8466 Thanks for your help (and for the magnificient software)! Etienne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bas Wijnen (shevek) Date: 2005-03-20 14:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=42389 That function does indeed not conserve whitespace. E-mail doesn't say whitespace in headers (or even the message) must be preserved, so strictly speaking it's not a bug. However, it is a missing feature, and I think python is the place to implement it, not mailman. The point is that signed e-mails with attachments are sent as two parts: One which is a complete e-mail by itself, and one which holds the signature for that e-mail. This is because in attachments whitespace must be preserved (as opposed to the situation in the message itself). It would be very convenient if such e-mail can be handled by python programs without rewriting the things which work fine for non-signed e-mails. If the attachment is really changed, of course the signature will be broken. However, if it is not, it should not be hard to write out the same message (with whitespace preserved) as was read in. If this is not possible, it is quite hard to do it in the program, as python doesn't seem to support loading a part of an e-mail which has headers of its own as a binary attachment (without touching whitespace, in particular). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jonas Berlin (xkr47) Date: 2005-03-19 13:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=66259 from python's Message.py: def _get_params_preserve(self, failobj, header): # Like get_params() but preserves the quoting of values. BAW: # should this be part of the public interface? According to my analysis of the comment, the function in question does _not_ guarantee to preserve the header as-is, it only preserves _quoting_. Thus, I don't think we can call this a bug in python. If there's more official documentation elsewhere that states that it should preserve everything as-is, then ignore this comment altogether :). I didn't have time to grasp how mailman actually uses that Message class, but I think mailman should be changed to use functions that don't alter the message, and/or re-implement that work according to the requirements of mailman (or, users of mailman :). Anyway, an alternative could be to continue to use the Message.py functions to parse the values while analyzing the contents of the message, and then copypaste the original headers as-is after checking. - xkr47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Date: 2005-01-29 18:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=15365 Dear Bas, Thanks a lot for identifying the source of this bug and flagging an upstream bug on Python. Etienne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bas Wijnen (shevek) Date: 2005-01-24 12:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=42389 I checked the source, and this appears to be a bug in Python. It can read and write e-mails, including headers, and they are interpreted. However, it doesn't preserve their whitespace, which is of course fatal for pgp signatures. The bug is filed for python here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=968430&group_id=54… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Date: 2005-01-18 18:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=15365 I am attaching a screen shot of the content filtering settings (see the options.png attachment I have added to this bug report). In short, content filtering is disabled, so I don't think it is the cause of the problem. :-/ Etienne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brad Knowles (shub) Date: 2005-01-17 01:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18417 Look at your content filter settings. What MIME-types are you configured to pass? At the very least, you should be configured to pass the following: multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain application/pgp-signature multipart/signed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Toni Willberg (toniw) Date: 2005-01-08 02:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=190645 I can reproduce this bug also. Here's a diff what happened to me: diff -u mail.valid mail.invalid Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=configure.in.pre-pkgconfig.patch -Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=configure.in.pre-pkgconfig.patch; charset=UTF-8 +Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=configure.in.pre-pkgconfig.patch; + charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 And this was _inside_ gpg-signed block. Mailman should not alter that section at all, right? X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Yours, Toni Willberg <toniw(a)iki.fi> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Date: 2004-12-30 05:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=15365 Any update? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1085651&group_…

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[ mailman-Feature Requests-786326 ] Rotation through moderators
by SourceForge.net March 20, 2005

March 20, 2005

Feature Requests item #786326, was opened at 2003-08-10 12:47 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by magicfab You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=786326&group_i… Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Milos Popovic (milos_popovic) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Rotation through moderators Initial Comment: A useful moderation feature in LISTSERV, when multiple moderators are listed, is that it can deliver moderation requests to moderators in *rotation* (only one moderator at a time), thus reducing the individual workload. I've found this a useful feature to share the workload of verifying mostly filtered spam that's held for moderation on lists that need to accept outside posts and need to have a quick moderator approval turnaround time on posts. The quick turn-around time means moderation requests are sent immediately for each post, rather than just being bundled at the end of each day. It would be very useful to have such a feature (option to rotate through moderators, for the individual post moderation requests only) in MailMan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Fabián A. Rodríguez S. (magicfab) Date: 2005-03-20 08:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=92045 I would add to this request a way to list rotation groups for moderation. Sometimes in rotation there may be occasions when an individual moderator is not available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=786326&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-1085651 ] Broken PGP/MIME signature of messages with attachments
by SourceForge.net March 19, 2005

March 19, 2005

Bugs item #1085651, was opened at 2004-12-15 10:54 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by xkr47 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1085651&group_… Category: mail delivery Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Broken PGP/MIME signature of messages with attachments Initial Comment: Hi, When I send a PGP/MIME signed message *with* attachments (in addition to the PGP signature) to a Mailman-based mailing list, Firefox/Enigmail fails to verify the signature of the message forwarded by mailman. I have uploaded an example message with a broken signature as attachment to this bug. You can also see how Mailman's automatic archives don't even handle such messages correctly by looking at how it archived that message at: http://sablecc.org/lists/sablecc-user/2004-December/000159.html I've looked in the bugs database and found that a somewhat related problem was reported a while ago, but note that the current bug is different. The original bug was about PGP/MIME signed messages without attachments that were handled incorrectly by Enigmail. This one is about messages with attachments, and it is likely that the bug is Mailman's, at least accroding to the reply I got in: http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8466 Thanks for your help (and for the magnificient software)! Etienne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jonas Berlin (xkr47) Date: 2005-03-19 14:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=66259 from python's Message.py: def _get_params_preserve(self, failobj, header): # Like get_params() but preserves the quoting of values. BAW: # should this be part of the public interface? According to my analysis of the comment, the function in question does _not_ guarantee to preserve the header as-is, it only preserves _quoting_. Thus, I don't think we can call this a bug in python. If there's more official documentation elsewhere that states that it should preserve everything as-is, then ignore this comment altogether :). I didn't have time to grasp how mailman actually uses that Message class, but I think mailman should be changed to use functions that don't alter the message, and/or re-implement that work according to the requirements of mailman (or, users of mailman :). Anyway, an alternative could be to continue to use the Message.py functions to parse the values while analyzing the contents of the message, and then copypaste the original headers as-is after checking. - xkr47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Date: 2005-01-29 19:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=15365 Dear Bas, Thanks a lot for identifying the source of this bug and flagging an upstream bug on Python. Etienne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bas Wijnen (shevek) Date: 2005-01-24 13:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=42389 I checked the source, and this appears to be a bug in Python. It can read and write e-mails, including headers, and they are interpreted. However, it doesn't preserve their whitespace, which is of course fatal for pgp signatures. The bug is filed for python here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=968430&group_id=54… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Date: 2005-01-18 19:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=15365 I am attaching a screen shot of the content filtering settings (see the options.png attachment I have added to this bug report). In short, content filtering is disabled, so I don't think it is the cause of the problem. :-/ Etienne ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brad Knowles (shub) Date: 2005-01-17 02:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18417 Look at your content filter settings. What MIME-types are you configured to pass? At the very least, you should be configured to pass the following: multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain application/pgp-signature multipart/signed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Toni Willberg (toniw) Date: 2005-01-08 03:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=190645 I can reproduce this bug also. Here's a diff what happened to me: diff -u mail.valid mail.invalid Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=configure.in.pre-pkgconfig.patch -Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=configure.in.pre-pkgconfig.patch; charset=UTF-8 +Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=configure.in.pre-pkgconfig.patch; + charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 And this was _inside_ gpg-signed block. Mailman should not alter that section at all, right? X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Yours, Toni Willberg <toniw(a)iki.fi> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Etienne M. Gagnon (egagnon) Date: 2004-12-30 06:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=15365 Any update? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1085651&group_…

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[ mailman-Bugs-1166277 ] Want clone_member from web interface
by SourceForge.net March 18, 2005

March 18, 2005

Bugs item #1166277, was opened at 2005-03-18 14:22 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=1166277&group_… Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tim Roberts (timroberts) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Want clone_member from web interface Initial Comment: The single most common administrative task I have to do is changing a user's email address. People change ISPs today like they change their minds. There is no good way to change an e-mail address from the admin web interface. Unsub followed by mass subscribe loses the settings and the real name. I can ssh in and use clone_member, but that's tacky. The equivalent of "clone_member -r" is missing from the web interface. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1166277&group_…

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[ mailman-Bugs-1166155 ] Edit options doesnt work in translated page
by SourceForge.net March 18, 2005

March 18, 2005

Bugs item #1166155, was opened at 2005-03-18 19:45 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=1166155&group_… Category: None Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Morten Brix Pedersen (mbrix) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Edit options doesnt work in translated page Initial Comment: Hello, When the language is set to Danish (havn't tested other languages) and I click the button on the web interface "Unsubscribe or edit options", I get this: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. The backtrace from the error log looks like this: admin(1039): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.5 -----]admin(1039): [----- Traceback ------]admin(1039): Traceback (most recent call last):admin(1039): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 110, in run_mainadmin(1039): main()admin(1039): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py", line 239, in mainadmin(1039): loginpage(mlist, doc, user, language)admin(1039): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py", line 813, in loginpage admin(1039): table.AddRow([_("""In order to change your membership option, you must admin(1039): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 89, in _ admin(1039): return tns % dict admin(1039): ValueError: unsupported format character 'p' (0x70) at index 105 The problem can be reproduced on the following URL: http://soeborggruppe.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bestyrelsen Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1166155&group_…

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[ mailman-Feature Requests-1163610 ] monthly archives as YYYY-MM
by SourceForge.net March 18, 2005

March 18, 2005

Feature Requests item #1163610, was opened at 2005-03-15 11:28 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by zmoelnig You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=1163610&group_… Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: monthly archives as YYYY-MM Initial Comment: when setting the archive_volume_frequency to "monthly" directories like "2003-July" are generated. as i am running some international lists (and because of backwards compatibility issues to pre-Mailman times), i'd prefer "2003-07". this could be done by just adding another archive_volume_frequency. attached is a patch to the 2.1.5-release (since i am using debian/testing) that provides a "month00" frequency. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig) Date: 2005-03-18 14:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=564396 based on the suggestions made on mailman-usersATpythonDOTorg i have fixed the patch and committed it via the patch-tracker (1165916) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=1163610&group_…

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