Mailman-Developers December 1999

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Features requested...
by Rick Niess 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hi Everyone, I have a several ideas for features that may be of interest. Their implementation would certainly be to my benefit. I've listed them below. FYI, I'm testing out Mailman as a replacement for my campus' existing Majordomo setup. If I can just get a few issued resolved, I think the transition will go easily. 1) Please add an option so subscribers can elect to show only the username part of their e-mail address in the subscriber list instead of the whole thing (regardless of the @->" at " conversion). 2) In the section of the listinfo page where a user can subscribe to the list in question, please add another radio-button option for "Conceal yourself from subscriber list?" if the list's subscriber list can be seen by the list members or the public. I'm somewhat of an anti-spam nut so I don't like having my e-mail address publically visible in any form. 3) Allow the system-wide admin to disable the mail->news and news->mail gatewaying for the whole system and/or for selected lists. (I've got some list admins that want to use this, but I *really* don't want to see that kind of traffic on my server. Not to mention the liability issues...) 4) On the membership management admin page, please setup a mechanism for large lists to limit the display of user options to X number of users per page. It's a killer to try to admin large lists from slow machines with limited memory. (ex, took me a long time and a lot of swapping to load the page for a 3000 member list) 5) Please setup a means by which a user can specify what additional addresses he/she posts from other than their subscription address. (For example, my campus has a mail aliasing system so that all public addresses have the form "firstname.lastname(a)usm.edu" or similar. But the address they post from may be "username(a)host.usm.edu" or similar. This becomes a problem for lists that have member_posting_only turned on.) 6) Please setup a mechanism for a pre-made set of options to be used as defaults when creating new lists. For instance, on our campus, we have a form that prospective list owners fill out to request a new list. On this form, we have the following options for them to "check" that determine how their list is initially setup.: Archived list (Duh) Closed list (Subscriptions requests must be approved list list owner. Otherwise list is "Open" and anyone may subscribe.) Secured list (Only list members may post to the list) Moderated list (list owner must approve all posts to the list) Announcement (List will be used for outgoing announcements only. Implies moderated and secured.) I don't mind creating files with all of the configuration options and their default config values. I just need a snippet of code to read the values in and use those as defaults when creating the list. And then, perhaps if I combined that with #7 below, I could get it to automatically import the configuration of a previous majordomo list... (I don't know how either of these would work with the idea to create lists from a site admin page, tho. Perhaps the site admin could choose from a pull-down menu of option pre-sets or pre-existing majordomo lists when creating a mailman list?) 7) If anyone has written a withlist module that can read in the values in an existing Majordomo 1.94 config file and update the corrosponding values in a Mailman list's config db, I'd be ever so greatful to get a copy. This would make transitioning to mailman *so* much easier than having to do each list by hand through the web interface. 8) The <body> tag is not currently setup right for error pages. 9) Please build-in the option for individual list owners to filter binary attachments. (I think something like this is already in the works, but I'd like it to be a per-list option settable by the list owner.) 10) In the pipermail archives, please do the following: - move the archives to http://host/mailman/archives/listname or provide a redirect from there to http://host/pipermail/listname. - implelement a link for users to reply to posts in an archive by using a mailto: URL to open up a mailer window from their browser. Or perhaps make this optional on a per-list basis. (Note: this might break threading if a specific "In-Reply-to" header can't be added) - in threaded view: (a) add links at the bottom of each post to go back to the previous thread and forward to the next. (b) perhaps setup a mode where a user could see all the threads expanded on one page (as it is now) or see all the thread titles on one page and clicking them expands the thread into a new page. Lastly, I'd like to note that, while I understand most of what's going on in the code, I don't have time ATM to sit down and really learn Python. Hence, I don't have the expertise to go about making most of these modifications myself. I do, however, plan to sit down and learn Python as well as possible over the holiday break. So perhaps I can pitch in directly during the new year. Thank-you for your attention. I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help! ;-) ~ Rick Niess ~ -- .oooO "Man with closed Oooo. Rick C. Niess ( ) mouth gathers ( ) University of Southern Miss. \ ( no foot!" ) / guardian(a)bark.cc.usm.edu --\_)------------------(_/-------------------------------

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Bug in Mailman version 1.2 (experimental) (fwd)
by Phillip Porch 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:14:43 -0000 From: Phillip Porch <root(a)theporch.com> To: root(a)theporch.com Subject: Bug in Mailman version 1.2 (experimental) Bug in Mailman version 1.2 (experimental) Bug in Mailman version 1.2 (experimental) We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 165, in main FormatConfiguration(doc, mlist, category, category_suffix, cgi_data) File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 311, in FormatConfiguration form.AddItem(FormatOptionsSection(category, mlist, cgi_data)) File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 326, in FormatOptionsSection return FormatMembershipOptions(mlist, cgi_data) File "../Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 565, in FormatMembershipOptions mtext = '%s' % ( TypeError: unexpected keyword argument: obscured -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /home SERVER_ADDR 207.234.31.38 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate SERVER_PORT 8080 PATH_TRANSLATED /home/notam/members REMOTE_ADDR 207.234.31.43 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 SERVER_NAME sco.theporch.com TZ CST6CDT HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) QUERY_STRING HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* REQUEST_URI /mailman/admin/notam/members PATH /etc:/bin:/usr/bin REMOTE_PORT 1052 SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin PATH_INFO /notam/members HTTP_HOST www.theporch.com:8080 REQUEST_METHOD GET SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.9 Server at sco.theporch.com Port 8080 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admin SERVER_ADMIN root(a)sco.theporch.com SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) PYTHONPATH /home/mailman HTTP_COOKIE notam:admin="(lp1\012F946332841.40999997\012aI946343641\012aS'^g\\304\\245\\300Bop\\356\\261\\020\\332\\005\\324\\245\\026'\012p2\012a." SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_REFERER http://www.theporch.com:8080/mailman/admin/notam

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New mailing list for internationalization
by Barry A. Warsaw 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

Mailman Developers, I have created a new mailing list called mailman-i18n(a)python.org for discussions focused on internationalizing Mailman. This SIG has a very narrow mission: at first it will be to discuss design issues and patches to the source code to support multi-lingual mailing lists. Once that is integrated into the codebase, the SIG will primarily be a forum for translators. I urge any interested parties to subscribe by visiting http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-i18n I'd like to keep I18N discussions off of mailman-developers. Current status: I received a large patchset from Juan and Victoriano, which contained some stuff by Mads and others, which I started looking at over the Xmas break. I'd like to move all private discussions on this stuff to the SIG so everyone can contribute. I plan on posting a more detailed summary to the SIG within a couple of days (I'm too busy right now). That'll also give people a chance to subscribe to the new list. Cheers, -Barry

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Error encountered on the Mailman webpage (fwd)
by Greg Stein 26 Dec '99

26 Dec '99

-- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 11:32:01 -0500 From: Aaron La Mar <alamar(a)irex.org> To: "'webmaster(a)list.org '" <webmaster(a)list.org> Subject: Error encountered on the Mailman webpage I got the following error when I clicked on "Mailman-Users" on your index page. Bug in Mailman version 1.2 (experimental) We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 54, in main FormatListListinfo(mlist) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 163, in FormatListListinfo replacements = mlist.GetStandardReplacements() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 347, in GetStandardReplacements return { File "/home/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 50, in GetMailmanFooter Address( File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 209, in GetRelativeScriptURL return GetScriptURL(self, scriptname, relative=1) NameError: GetScriptURL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/local/apache/htdocs SERVER_ADDR 132.151.1.21 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate REMOTE_HOST parrot.python.org SERVER_PORT 80 PATH_TRANSLATED /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mailman-users REMOTE_ADDR 132.151.1.90 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 SERVER_NAME dinsdale.python.org TZ US/Eastern HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */* REQUEST_URI /mailman/listinfo/mailman-users PATH /usr/sbin:/usr/bin QUERY_STRING SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo PATH_INFO /mailman-users HTTP_HOST dinsdale.python.org REQUEST_METHOD GET SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.9 Server at dinsdale.python.org Port 80 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/listinfo SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)python.org SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) PYTHONPATH /home/mailman HTTP_REFERER http://www.list.org/ SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.0 REMOTE_PORT 58702

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UPDATE-2 - problem with cookies? Round 2
by Allen Bolderoff 24 Dec '99

24 Dec '99

OK. let me clarify myself. it appears, that if mailman has not set a cookie, but a sitewide cookie exists in the browser, mailman will try to use the sitewide cookie, without checking if it is in fact the correct cookie (which at this point is not created). so, instead of creating a new cookie, as it should, it is dying in the process of parsing the wrong cookie. Hope this helps the developers. Allen -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Allen Bolderoff <allen(a)gist.net.au> LNC - Redhat and Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Return-Path: <owner-mailman-developers(a)python.org> Delivered-To: mailman-developers(a)dinsdale.python.org Received: from python.org (parrot.python.org [132.151.1.90]) by dinsdale.python.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A809B1CD21; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:50:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from ns1.gist.net.au (IDENT:root@main.gist.net.au [203.20.102.2]) by python.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA21724; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:50:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from harper.gist.net.au (root(a)harper.gist.net.au [203.20.102.68]) by ns1.gist.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03331; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 12:18:59 +1030 Received: from harper.gist.net.au (IDENT:allen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harper.gist.net.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA13571; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:21:14 +1030 Resent-Message-Id: <199912240251.NAA13571(a)harper.gist.net.au> Message-Id: <199912240251.NAA13571(a)harper.gist.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 To: blurr(a)txraves.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:10:01 MDT." <014701bf4d68$8e7011b0$ea17a8c0@jordan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:14:17 +1030 From: Allen Bolderoff <allen(a)gist.net.au> Resent-To: mailman-users(a)python.org Resent-Cc: mailman-developers(a)python.org Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:21:14 +1030 Resent-From: Allen Bolderoff <allen(a)gist.net.au> Resent-Sender: allen(a)harper.gist.net.au Subject: [Mailman-Developers] UPDATE - problem with cookies? Round 2 Sender: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org Errors-To: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org X-BeenThere: mailman-developers(a)python.org X-Mailman-Version: 1.2 (experimental) Precedence: bulk List-Id: Mailman mailing list developers <mailman-developers.python.org> > > What would you like us to do? Yes, it looks like a bug. Have you tried > > either examining the cookie or deleting it?... since the error message > > pretty > > clearly points to the file of code, and the code is pretty clearly > > examining > > the cookie data itself and finding something wrong.... > > > > You might add something like > > > > if len(cookiedata) < len(key): return 0 > > > > before > > > > if cookiedata[keylen+1] <> '"' and cookiedata[-1].... > > > > in SecurityManager.py. > > > > I haven't tested the fix, because I don't know if that's what's going > > wrong. This does not work, however, what I can tell you is that if there is another cookie set by the webserver, it appears to confuse mailman. Mailman then tries to use the other cookie. ie - I use roxen - http://www.roxen.com roxen sets a unique cookie for every user that comes to the site. when I turn on the debug messages by removing the commented debug code, and access a bad page, I get the cookie, which is called RoxenUserID showing in the debug file, not the one we would expect. In fact, this seems to happen when the cookie does not exist (the authentication cookie that mailman makesm that is) Hope this helps -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Allen Bolderoff <allen(a)gist.net.au> LNC - Redhat and Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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1.2 bug
by Ricardo Kustner 20 Dec '99

20 Dec '99

Hi, i'm getting the following error often when approving posts on the admindb page... there were 12 posts and about 3 of them were marked as "Discard", the rest was approved... i had this earlier... and when i reloaded the admindb page, some posts showed up again, even though they were send out to the list anyway... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "../Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 123, in main mlist.Save() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 814, in Save self.SaveRequestsDb() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 89, in SaveRequestsDb self.__closedb() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 73, in __closedb assert self.Locked() AssertionError: -- Ricardo. -- International Janet Jackson fanclub called MISS JANET. For more information write to: Miss Janet. P.O.Box 10016, 1001 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fax/phone: +31-(0)20-7764493 Email: fanclub(a)miss-janet.com Or check out our website: http://miss-janet.com

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Bad/Invalid email address
by Marco Budde 19 Dec '99

19 Dec '99

Hi! When subscribing a local user address like "mbudde" or even "mbudde@local" I get this error message: "Bad/Invalid email address". Why? This is a normal email address. I´m using version 1.0b8. cu, Marco -- -- Linux HOWTOs: Die besten Lösungen der Linuxgemeinde -- ISBN 3-8266-0498-9 Uni: Budde(a)tu-harburg.de Fido: 2:240/6298.5 Mailbox: mbudde(a)sms.antar.com http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/

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sending mail
by Ricardo Kustner 17 Dec '99

17 Dec '99

Hi, i'd like to add a "send copy of email to..." function inside admindb.py (to optionally allow posts on the approval page to be send to a certain email address)... what i need to do i guess is pipe it to the MTA and only change the "To:" line ... can anybody advise me on which is the best python or MM function to use for this? Thanks, Ricardo. --

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Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py
by Ricardo Kustner 17 Dec '99

17 Dec '99

Hi, I've added to following lines of code to seperate the message body from the header in PrintPostRequest() around line 197 ... fp = open(os.path.join(mm_cfg.DATA_DIR, filename)) # text = fp.read(mm_cfg.ADMINDB_PAGE_TEXT_LIMIT) msg_header = "" msg_body = "" for line in fp.readlines(): if msg_body == "": if line != "\n": msg_header = msg_header + line else: msg_body = line else: msg_body = msg_body + line fp.close() in my copy of admindb.py i don't need the mail headers, so I just output msg_body in the textarea... but maybe it could be made as an option "Include message headers on approval page Y/N" in the mailinglist configuration... Ricardo. --

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Secure admin pages
by Dan Mick 17 Dec '99

17 Dec '99

We set up an SSL arrangement so our admin password isn't traversing the net in clear text, but were temporarily thwarted by the fact that the admin CGI scripts sometimes use Absolute paths, which didn't include the https://. I made some hacks; comments? (Does this look right, Barry et. al.?) (This is to v1.1; if it looks good, I'll put it in CVS and put it back) How does the putback process usually work? Does someone review code, or do we have a "holding area" that's protected somehow, or?... Anyway, here are context diffs: =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/admin.py,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -c -r1.1 admin.py *** admin.py 1999/12/15 05:29:10 1.1 --- admin.py 1999/12/15 05:29:50 *************** *** 534,540 **** buttons = [] for ci in chunk_indices: start, end = chunks[ci][0], chunks[ci][-1] ! url = lst.GetAbsoluteScriptURL('admin') buttons.append("<a href=%s/members?chunk=%d> from %s to %s </a>" % ( url, ci, start, end)) buttons = apply(UnorderedList, tuple(buttons)) --- 534,540 ---- buttons = [] for ci in chunk_indices: start, end = chunks[ci][0], chunks[ci][-1] ! url = lst.GetRelativeScriptURL('admin') buttons.append("<a href=%s/members?chunk=%d> from %s to %s </a>" % ( url, ci, start, end)) buttons = apply(UnorderedList, tuple(buttons)) *************** *** 544,550 **** footer = "<p>" for member in all: mtext = '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % ( ! lst.GetAbsoluteOptionsURL(member, obscured=1), lst.GetUserSubscribedAddress(member)) cells = [mtext + "<input type=hidden name=user value=%s>" % (member), Center(CheckBox(member + "_subscribed", "on", 1).Format())] --- 544,550 ---- footer = "<p>" for member in all: mtext = '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % ( ! lst.GetRelativeOptionsURL(member, obscured=1), lst.GetUserSubscribedAddress(member)) cells = [mtext + "<input type=hidden name=user value=%s>" % (member), Center(CheckBox(member + "_subscribed", "on", 1).Format())] =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/MailList.py,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -c -r1.1 MailList.py *** MailList.py 1999/12/15 05:30:09 1.1 --- MailList.py 1999/12/15 05:31:01 *************** *** 194,199 **** --- 194,209 ---- treated = addr return "%s/%s" % (options, treated) + def GetRelativeOptionsURL(self, addr, obscured=0): + # address could come in case-preserved + addr = string.lower(addr) + options = self.GetRelativeScriptURL('options') + if obscured: + treated = Utils.ObscureEmail(addr, for_text=0) + else: + treated = addr + return "%s/%s" % (options, treated) + def GetUserOption(self, user, option): """Return user's setting for option, defaulting to 0 if no settings.""" user = self.GetUserCanonicalAddress(user)

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Mailman-Developers December 1999