Mailman 3 December 1998 - Mailman-Developers

patch to subscribeack.txt
by Greg Stein 17 Dec '98

17 Dec '98

I received a report that the welcome message is slightly misleading. I changed a couple lines in the middle to read: with the word "help" in the subject or body (don't add the quotes), and you will get back a message with instructions. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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Exactly 100 subscribers on mailman-users@python.org
by Ken Manheimer 11 Dec '98

11 Dec '98

I just happened to notice that there are exactly 100 subscribers to mailman-users. Besides admiring the nice, round number, it also occurred to me that it may be interesting to see how the number changes after john gives the presentation tomorrow at Usenix... Ken

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1.0b6 password cmd bug report
by Brian Lloyd 09 Dec '98

09 Dec '98

It seems that 1.0b6 doesnt correctly handle the password command via email: from MailCommandHandler.py: def ProcessPasswordCmd(self, args, cmd, mail): if len(args) <> 2: self.AddError("Usage: password <oldpw> <newpw>") return try: self.ChangeUserPassword(mail.GetSender(), args[0], args[1], args[1]) self.AddToResponse('Succeeded.') ProcessPasswordCmd is calling ChangeUserPassword with too many arguments, causing a TypeError: from SecurityManager.py: def ChangeUserPassword(self, user, newpw, confirm): self.IsListInitialized() Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Bug (?) report from Paul Everitt
by Andrew M. Kuchling 08 Dec '98

08 Dec '98

I don't know if anyone on this list is following the Zope mailing list, so just in case: Paul Everitt ran into the following problem. Can anyone offer a clue? -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ Good job, there, O'Grady. Always kick 'em when they're down. You might just make a detective yet. -- Lt. Burke, in SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE: "The Cannon", act IV

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[Fwd: FW: mailman problem?]
by Greg Stein 07 Dec '98

07 Dec '98

Mailman should not present the "Digest: on/off" button when the list is not digestable. Possibly better error handling in general for this. For example, what happens when somebody tries to enable digest via email? Dunno how that would be handled... -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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Hashing in private.py
by Andrew M. Kuchling 04 Dec '98

04 Dec '98

I just noticed that the token value used in private.py is just hash(list_name). A simple improvement is to change it to hash(SECRET + list_name) and then change the value of SECRET in private.py. An even better solution would be to do an MD5 hash of SECRET + list_name, but is it OK to assume that the md5 module is present?) (I haven't done a patch for md5 support; let me know if I should.) Also, since setting an archive to private doesn't seem to change the directory where it's archived, this means you have to configure the Web server accordingly. This should be documented somewhere; is it? -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ "All we know for sure is that we don't know anything for sure." "That is a particularly foolish thing to say, John Constantine. Light and darkness, life and death. These things are eternally certain." -- John Constantine and Dr Occult, in BOOKS OF MAGIC #1 *** private.py~ Mon Oct 19 16:14:54 1998 --- private.py Tue Dec 1 11:00:06 1998 *************** *** 98,102 **** c = Cookie.Cookie( os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'] ) if c.has_key(list_name): ! if c[list_name].value == `hash(list_name)`: return 1 # No corresponding cookie. OK, then check for username, password --- 98,102 ---- c = Cookie.Cookie( os.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'] ) if c.has_key(list_name): ! if c[list_name].value == `hash(SECRET + list_name)`: return 1 # No corresponding cookie. OK, then check for username, password *************** *** 129,133 **** return 0 ! token = `hash(list_name)` c = Cookie.Cookie() c[list_name] = token --- 129,133 ---- return 0 ! token = `hash(SECRET + list_name)` c = Cookie.Cookie() c[list_name] = token

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Patch to private.py
by Andrew M. Kuchling 04 Dec '98

04 Dec '98

Here's a patch to private.py which makes it 1) return text/plain as the content type if the file ends in .txt, and 2) look for <filename>.gz if <filename> doesn't exist, and uses the gzip module to read it. -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ How do you make sense of your life? Signal to noise: What's signal? What's noise? -- The dying film director in SIGNAL TO NOISE *** private.py 1998/12/04 16:26:29 1.1 --- private.py 1998/12/04 16:48:36 *************** *** 142,145 **** --- 142,149 ---- return path[1:] + def content_type(path): + if path[-3:] == '.gz': path = path[:-3] + if path[-4:] == '.txt': return 'text/plain' + return 'text/html' def main(): *************** *** 147,153 **** true_filename = os.path.join(ROOT, true_path(path) ) list_name = getListName(path) if os.path.isdir(true_filename): true_filename = true_filename + '/index.html' ! if not isAuthenticated(list_name): # Output the password form --- 151,164 ---- true_filename = os.path.join(ROOT, true_path(path) ) list_name = getListName(path) + + # If it's a directory, we have to append index.html in this script. + # We must also check for a gzipped file, because the text archives + # are usually stored in compressed form. if os.path.isdir(true_filename): true_filename = true_filename + '/index.html' ! if (not os.path.exists(true_filename) and ! os.path.exists(true_filename + '.gz') ): ! true_filename = true_filename + '.gz' ! if not isAuthenticated(list_name): # Output the password form *************** *** 167,180 **** print '\n\n', page % vars() sys.exit(0) ! print 'Content-type: text/html\n' ! ! print '\n\n' # Authorization confirmed... output the desired file try: ! f = open(true_filename, 'r') except IOError: print "<H3>Archive File Not Found</H3>" print "No file", path else: while (1): data = f.read(16384) --- 178,196 ---- print '\n\n', page % vars() sys.exit(0) ! # Authorization confirmed... output the desired file try: ! if true_filename[-3:] == '.gz': ! import gzip ! f = gzip.open(true_filename, 'r') ! else: ! f = open(true_filename, 'r') except IOError: + print 'Content-type: text/html\n' + print "<H3>Archive File Not Found</H3>" print "No file", path else: + print 'Content-type:', content_type(path), '\n' while (1): data = f.read(16384)

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[Fwd: Thread-SIG member |"nouser" bouncing - NOT disabled]
by Greg Stein 03 Dec '98

03 Dec '98

Note the erroneous "Content-Type:" in the first line of the message body. -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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mailmain + sendmail = "clones" ???
by Troy Morrison 03 Dec '98

03 Dec '98

Please forgive my lack of detailed understanding of Python and SendMail, but I'm wondering if anyone has run into this... I've just set up MailMan 1.0b6, and everything is working wonderfully, EXCEPT... after setting up the "test" list, I send a message to "test(a)host.com", I see the following in the mail logs: Dec 2 20:09:39 sendmail[26787]: UAA26787: from=<troy(a)akropolys.com>, size=287, class=0, pri=30287, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.03.981202200(a)enterprise.akropolys.com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=troy@localhost Dec 2 20:09:39 enterprise sendmail[26788]: UAA26788: clone UAA26787, owner=test-admin Dec 2 20:09:45 enterprise sendmail[26788]: UAA26788: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test", delay=00:00:06, xdelay=00:00:05, mailer=prog, stat=Sent And the message is never delivered to the subscribed parties. Is this something I can change in the sendmail configuration? Or should I punt sendmail in favor of smail/qmail/other MTA? Thanks, Troy

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