Mailman 3 March 1999 - Mailman-Developers

Bounce suggestion
by Brian Ryner 13 Mar '99

13 Mar '99

Hi- I recently manually unsubscribed several dead addresses from a list, and got a bounce message to the admin address for every single one, telling me that the "You have been unsubscribed..." notice couldn't be delivered. Any way this could be disabled? Thanks. -Brian Ryner bryner(a)uiuc.edu

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Inlining MIME attachments on Mailman web archives
by James Strickland 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

On 11 Mar 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Unfortunately, a discussion from a month back reveals that pipermail > doesn't have the capability, and no one has at present stepped up to > bat to implement it. There was some talk of making it easier to use > other archiving tools (like hypermail or mhonarc), but I don't know if > this is going to go forward. > > Which is unfortunate since as far as I can tell, it's the one wart on > an otherwise stunningly good program. I'd "step up to the bat" if only I had more time. I'm attaching something which reads a message on stdin, prints out the header and (for demo purposes) some decoded stuff from the header, then proceeds to decode the message, storing attachments (if any) as separate files. Note that it doesn't handle attachments recursively (it should - there are some mailers which send multipart/alternative parts, so the only text/plain part is buried two levels down). It also doesn't handle broken mailers like elm which send a Content-type of "text"! Anyways, the main message has the first plain text part, plus references to the attachments. btw: as a stopgap measure you can simply have a link to a script which would print out Content-type: message/rfc822 <email message verbatim> Netscape (and maybe other browsers) knows what to do with a Content-type: message/rfc822; it handles displaying attachments and parsing the header and everything. The downside, of course, is that you can't add anything else like links to the next message. Hopefully this should serve as a good starting point. One of the great things about Python is that it comes standard with all these wonderful libraries! -- James Strickland Perforce Software #!/usr/local/bin/python # Read message from stdin, decode MIME attachments (if any), write result # as n parts, n>=1 #***************yet to do: recognize uuencode in body of message. #*****simply recognize "^begin [0-7]{3} " and spit out to file until "^end" #*****then run uu.decode() import sys, os, mimetools, multifile dest_dir='/tmp' #***for testing def copy(input,output,prepend=''): '''Copy input to output using readline(), optionally prepending a string to each line. Note that multifile requires using readline()!''' while 1: line = input.readline() if not line: break output.write(prepend+line) def store_message(): # initialize input (stdin) and output (for now stdout) mainoutput = sys.stdout input = multifile.MultiFile(sys.stdin) main = mimetools.Message(input,0) # reads the mail header # # print out the original header lines verbatim # for line in main.headers: # print line # each line is already terminated with \n # print out header for field in main.keys(): print '%s: %s' % (field,main[field]) # - decoded name and email address name,email = main.getaddr('from') print 'Name: %s\n' % name print 'Email: %s\n' % email # - decoded timestamp -> timezone and UTC timestamp dateplustz = main.getdate_tz('date') if dateplustz: # valid date parsed tzoffset = dateplustz[-1] if not tzoffset: tzoffset=0 import time, rfc822 # just to do the conversion to UTC secssince1970utc = rfc822.mktime_tz(dateplustz) utc = time.gmtime(secssince1970utc) print 'tzoffset: %d\n' % tzoffset # add to UTC to get local for sender print 'utc: %04d/%02d/%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n' % utc[:6] else: print 'Invalid date format!' # Deal with MIME encoding, if applicable. # RFC2046 says 'The Content-Type field for multipart entities # requires one parameter, "boundary".' I don't bother to check # that the Content-Type matches, because the objective here is # to store the thing, not to complain about broken mailers. attachments = [] boundary = main.getparam('boundary') if not boundary: # single part message copy(input,mainoutput,'\t'); else: # multipart message # make a directory to store the parts message_number = 42 #****assign a unique identifier try: os.mkdir('%s/%d' % (dest_dir,message_number)) except: pass # we don't care if it's already there # skip to the start of the first part input.push(boundary) while input.readline(): pass # throw away lines before first boundary line input.next() # skip over boundary part = 1 foundplaintext=0 while 1: # read header for this part subm = mimetools.Message(input,0) type = subm.gettype() # If it's the first plain text part, store it as part of the default msg # (so that it's indexed and self-contained) # Otherwise decode the part and store it in an appropriately named file if (not foundplaintext) and type == 'text/plain': foundplaintext=1 copy(input,mainoutput,'\t') else: name = subm.getparam('name') if not name: name = "part"+repr(part) name = '%d/%s' % (message_number,name) attachments.append( (type,name) ) output = open(dest_dir+'/'+name,'w') encoding = subm.getencoding() if encoding == 'base64' or encoding == 'quoted-printable' or encoding == 'uuencode': mimetools.decode(input,output,encoding) else: # copy input to output using readline() -multifile requires readline()! copy(input,output) # go to the next part if not input.next(): break part = part + 1 # write out information gathered about the attachments if attachments: mainoutput.write('Attachments:\n') for type,name in attachments: mainoutput.write('\t%s:%s\n' % (type,name)) mainoutput.close() # Execution starts here try: store_message() except: #****need to improve this, obviously... print 'something went horribly wrong - send email to james bitching about it'

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more problems with Solaris/Fasttrack
by Werner Frank 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Hello, I get more and more desperate: When adding a user via the "Membership Management" the user is added however trannsmission of the web page runs into timeout and the site is closed with a bold "OK" and a message stating "An error has occured." Any idea/hint what's going wrong ? TIA, wfrank(a)syskonnect.de Solaris 2.5.1, mailman-1.0b9, Netscape Fasttrack v2.1, Sendmail 8.8.5/8.6.12

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change in admin.py for Solaris 2.5.1 and Netscape Fasttrack 2.1 Server
by Werner Frank 11 Mar '99

11 Mar '99

Hello, while trying to run mailman-1.0b9 on Solaris 2.5.1 together with a Netscape Fasttrack Server 2.1 I had to make the following change in $prefix/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py: I changed line 129 from "path" : os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi), to "path" : '/' + os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi), The result is that in the Web Page for the Administrative Authentication where you enter the password of the list administrator, the HTML code now reads: </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="/mailman/admin/mailmantest"> instead of </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailman/admin/mailmantest"> Obviously the Fasttrack Server must be told that this is an absolute path otherwise the following URL will be set to something like http://server/mailman/admin/mailman/admin/mailmantest which can't be treated correctly. May be it's not the best solution but now it works. werner frank wfrank(a)syskonnect.de

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"User 0 lacks a password"
by Brian Ryner 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Hi- Ok, I got this error from the list: Mailman noticed in .MailUserPassword() that: User: 0 List: mhs-alumni lacks a password. Please notify the Mailman system manager at this site! Now, there is no user with email address "0" (you probably guessed that). I don't know how to further track down what caused this. Ideas anyone? This is from CVS just after the update which fixed the capital letters/password issue (soon after the checkin at 1:55 CST on March 5). Thanks! -Brian Ryner bryner(a)uiuc.edu

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Cron <mailman@hodag> /usr/bin/python /home/m/mailman/cron/gate_news (fwd) (fwd)
by Steve Phillips 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Help! My mailbox is filling up with these error messages. I just upgraded from beta6 to beta9. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 21:20:02 -0600 From: root (Cron Daemon) To: mailman Subject: Cron <mailman@hodag> /usr/bin/python /home/m/mailman/cron/gate_news Exception NotLockedError in <method FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 8160d18> ignored

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Request for minor feature
by Christopher Lindsey 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Tonight I've been struggling with the "convert the URL used in mailman to something else" scenario. Specifically, I'm moving everything to https://secure.domain.com/ from http://www.domain.com/ I couldn't figure out why things weren't working until I finally stumbled across the web_page_url stuff in the code. Since I had commented it all out in the Web pages (I didn't want the list admins mucking with the URL), I had totally forgotten about them. :) Anyhow, I'm wondering if it would be considered acceptable behavior for mailman to leave web_page_url blank UNLESS overridden by a value. Looking at the code for GetAbsoluteScriptURL, it looks like a blank value will default to DEFAULT_URL, which seems like the right thing to do. So, when a new list is created can it just leave web_page_url blank? As far as I can tell, this should do the trick (against the current CVS tree): *** Mailman/MailList.py Tue Mar 9 21:31:20 1999 --- Mailman/MailList.py.bak Tue Mar 9 21:31:01 1999 *************** *** 224,230 **** self.advertised = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_LIST_ADVERTISED self.max_num_recipients = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS self.max_message_size = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE ! self.web_page_url = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_URL self.owner = [admin] self.reply_goes_to_list = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_REPLY_GOES_TO_LIST self.posters = [] --- 224,230 ---- self.advertised = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_LIST_ADVERTISED self.max_num_recipients = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS self.max_message_size = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE ! self.web_page_url = '' self.owner = [admin] self.reply_goes_to_list = mm_cfg.DEFAULT_REPLY_GOES_TO_LIST self.posters = [] Chris P.S. If this is changed, perhaps the same should be done for host_name? The other alternative that I see is creating a global list changing mechanism; it would change EVERY list's value of variable 'n' if the listname matched a certain regex. This would be very cool in the post-1.0 era... Comments?

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Error Message - Crontab
by J C Lawrence 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:06:11 -0500 Alex Yu<ayu1(a)nycap.rr.com> wrote: > Hello, Actually I tried to su as mailman, I got the following bad > message. > [/usr/local] # su - mailman shell-init: could not get current > directory: job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > job-working-directory: could not get current directory: > Any1 knows how to fix it? Your current directory, the one you issue the `su` command from, must be readable by the user ID you are changing to. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Internet: coder(a)kanga.nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...

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upgraded to b9, .../lists/* permission is faulty
by Peter Gervai 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Hello, After upgrading from b7 to b9 (make install, make upgrade) almost everything seemed to work. At the first admin move it turned out that somehow the list directories (.../lists/* dirs) lost their www-uid owner and got mailman owner somehow. This is bad, since cgi can't rename (/move) db files that way. Maybe ought to be fixed. (chown'ing back to www those dirs solved the problem.) regards, grin ps: disclaimer as always: could have been my fault. pps: it's still magic who should own what. :)

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MailList "base is not a class object" error
by Brad Clements 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

Hi, I'm porting Mailman 1.0b9 to Win32 (Python 1.5.2b2). When running newlist.py, I get an error on line 50 of MailList.py, base is not a class object on the definition of MailList. However if I "hand import", it seems to load ok. Anyone try mailman on 1.5.2b2 yet? Any suggestions? Thanks Brad Clements, bkc(a)murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com ICQ: 14856937

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