Mailman 3 November 2000 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman password and administrative reminders
by Dan Mick 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

? This very message came to me with the following header: Errors-To: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org All my bounces come to the list admin address, set in the admin webpage, in the second field of General Options. Do you have that set to something, and bounces still come to root? > 2. Bounces are sent to the poor postmaster instead of a -admin address. > I'm not entirely certain, but I think an Errors-To: header or something > like that in all Mailman messages might allow one to distribute that load > somewhat.

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offtopic: CVS checkout to `pwd`
by Dan Mick 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

This is a question about CVS. I'm constantly creating a directory that I want Mailman to go into, for example /local/src/mailman-pristine, and then realizing that I can't make CVS actually put Mailman *into* that directory. I have to use "checkout mailman" to get it, and that insists on creating a 'mailman' directory. If I move everything from mailman to ./, things work just fine from then on, but isn't there any way to make the checkout command use the current dir? The obvious option, "checkout -d <dir>", gives me an error if I use '.' or an absolute pathname: protocol error: is not absolute Can anyone else do this, or is this just part of Life with CVS?

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Possible cookie problem
by John A. Martin 29 Nov '00

29 Nov '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I ain't got no clue. I access <http://lists.essential.org/mailman/admin/hague-jur-commercial-law> with no problem, but I use a different "HTTP_USER_AGENT". :-) - - -------------- cut here ---->8 ---< head logs/error Nov 29 07:35:21 2000 admin(26929): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(26929): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0 -----] admin(26929): [----- Traceback ------] admin(26929): Traceback (innermost last): admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(26929): main() admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 82, in main admin(26929): Auth.authenticate(mlist, cgidata) admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/Auth.py", line 72, in authenticate admin(26929): isauthed = mlist.WebAuthenticate(password=adminpw, cookie='admin') admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 68, in WebAuthenticate admin(26929): return self.CheckCookie(key) admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 117, in CheckCookie admin(26929): c = Cookie.Cookie(cookiedata) admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cookie.py", line 509, in __init__ admin(26929): if input: self.load(input) admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cookie.py", line 546, in load admin(26929): self.__ParseString(rawdata) admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cookie.py", line 573, in __ParseString admin(26929): M.set(K, apply(self.net_setfunc, (V,)), V) admin(26929): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cookie.py", line 421, in set admin(26929): raise CookieError("Attempt to set a reserved key: %s" % key) admin(26929): CookieError: Attempt to set a reserved key: path admin(26929): [----- Python Information -----] admin(26929): sys.version = 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 1 2000, 16:32:16) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- admin(26929): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(26929): sys.prefix = /usr admin(26929): sys.exec_prefix= /usr admin(26929): sys.path = /usr admin(26929): sys.platform = linux-i386 admin(26929): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(26929): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/listproc/httpd/html/ admin(26929): SERVER_ADDR: 216.0.124.17 admin(26929): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(26929): PATH_TRANSLATED: /home/listproc/httpd/html/hague-jur-commercial-law/ admin(26929): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(26929): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Microsoft Internet Explorer/4.40.426 (Windows 95) admin(26929): REMOTE_ADDR: 24.19.174.74 admin(26929): SERVER_NAME: lists.essential.org admin(26929): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin admin(26929): HTTP_ACCEPT: www/source, text/html, video/mpeg, image/jpeg, image/x-tiff, image/x-rgb, image/x-xbm, image/gif, */*, application/postscript admin(26929): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/admin/hague-jur-commercial-law/ admin(26929): QUERY_STRING: admin(26929): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.0 admin(26929): PATH_INFO: /hague-jur-commercial-law/ admin(26929): HTTP_HOST: lists.essential.org admin(26929): REQUEST_METHOD: GET admin(26929): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.14 Server at lists.essential.org Port 80</ADDRESS> admin(26929): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin admin(26929): SERVER_ADMIN: root@localhost admin(26929): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.23 admin(26929): PYTHONPATH: /home/mailman admin(26929): HTTP_COOKIE: UID=7E6266E13A24F713; path=/; domain=.excite.com; expires=Wednesday, 31-Dec-2010 12:00:00 GMT admin(26929): REMOTE_PORT: 1791 - - ---- 8<------- cut here ----------> tail logs/error jam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: OpenPGP encrypted mail preferred. See <http://www.gnupg.org/> iEYEARECAAYFAjolJwsACgkQUEvv1b/iXy/rAgCgkqY4ep4vv6ViO6hjjZvOFqqU IeIAnRdzPPGUFha5TCY8r6PLm+y5JO5n =4QsZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Python embedded in Exim
by Jeffrey C. Ollie 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

Well, I had an epiphany over the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend (or maybe it was a brain aneurism) so I've spent some late nights and some time stolen from work and come up with a first pass at embedding Python in Exim. I imagine that embedding Python in Exim will be interesting to those folks writing virus scanners or for VERY tight integration of Mailman with Exim. You can also do all of those things that you can do with the Perl string expansions. Note: this code is VERY lightly tested. It compiles on my home hacked-up RedHat Linux system and works on a couple of simple tests that I've done, but no real e-mails have passed through this code yet. I'm tossing this out for public comment on the design and implementation... It's been a while since I've done a lot of C coding. Unfortunately, you must embed Python 2.0. This is because previous versions of Python used a hacked copy of PCRE as it's regular expression engine that conflicts with the copy of PCRE in Exim. Starting in Python 2.0 the default regular expression is a completely new one called SRE that supports Unicode. The PCRE-based regular expression engine is still included in Python 2.0 but I get around that by creating a private copy of the Python library and delete the offending object modules. You could do that in versions of Python prior to 2.0 but a lot of the standard library depends on regular expressions I didn't think that there was much point in trying to make the embedding work with 1.5.2 or 1.6. Well, on to the patch itself. The patch is made against Exim v3.20. After you've patched the source code, you need to set four variables in the Local/Makefile: EXIM_PYTHON=python.o PYTHON_INC=-I/usr/local/include/python2.0 PYTHON_LIB=/usr/local/lib/python2.0/config/libpython2.0.a PYTHON_EXTRA_LIBS=-lpthread -ldl -lutil Then build Exim as usual. There are three runtime directives that control the embedding, all of which are optional: python_at_start boolean - force startup of Python interpreter python_module_paths colon separated list of paths to append to sys.path python_initial_import colon separated list of modules to import at interpreter initialization time There are also two new command line switches -ys and -yd that will force an immediate startup of Python or delay startup, overriding python_at_start. Then you use it: ${python{<module>.<function>}{<arg1>}...} You must specify the module name and the function name. The named module will be imported automatically. And currently you must specify a function that returns a string (I'll look into adding accessing attributes, methods of classes, and converting non-strings into strings). There can be up to eight arguments. Each argument will be expanded by Exim before it's passed to the Python interpreter. Your python code has access to a module called "exim", which currently defines two things: exim.expand_string(s) which calls back to Exim to expand a string and exim.error which is an exception object used by expand_string One simple example: ${python{string.upper}{$local_part}} Error reporting isn't the best right now, I'm going to look into formatting exceptions and tracebacks for more meaningful error messages. Well, I think that's the gist of it. I'll work on patches to the documentation when this thing becomes more stable. As I said before I've only lightly tested this... beware! Comments, criticisms, suggestions, flames welcome... Jeff

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] pipermail: subjects with "Re[2]:" are not recognized as reply
by J C Lawrence 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:26:44 +0100 Heinrich Langos <heinrich(a)wh9.tu-dresden.de> wrote: > seems like the "The Bat" mailer inserts a counter into the "Re:" > subject line so that "Re[2]:blah blah" or "Re[3]: more blah blah" > show up. these are not cought by Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py > and therefore are not sorted into the thread that they belong to. LotusNotes does (or did, or can do, I'm not sure which) the same thing. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) : http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] pipermail: subjects with "Re[2]:" are not recognized as reply
by Nigel Metheringham 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

heinrich(a)wh9.tu-dresden.de said: > seems like the "The Bat" mailer inserts a counter into the "Re:" > subject line so that "Re[2]:blah blah" or "Re[3]: more blah blah" show > up. these are not cought by Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py and > therefore are not sorted into the thread that they belong to. What goes around, comes around. This came up in 94/95 or so with the nn newsreader. After an outcry and much quoting of RFCs nn backed down and stopped doing it. I suggest someone deal with the author of "The bat" in the same way. Nigel. -- [ - Opinions expressed are personal and may not be shared by VData - ] [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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pipermail: subjects with "Re[2]:" are not recognized as reply
by Heinrich Langos 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

hi there. seems like the "The Bat" mailer inserts a counter into the "Re:" subject line so that "Re[2]:blah blah" or "Re[3]: more blah blah" show up. these are not cought by Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py and therefore are not sorted into the thread that they belong to. this is the line in Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py that seems to be responsible for it. -------------------- # Subject lines preceded with 'Re:' REpat = re.compile( r"\s*RE\s*:\s*", re.IGNORECASE) -------------------- i don't know python but if the regex is like perl a change like this should do the job: ----------------- REpat = re.compile( r"\s*RE\s*(\[\d*\])??\s*:\s*", re.IGNORECASE) ----------------- as i said i don't have a clue about python and i don't want to test it right now since i have an active list and i don't want to miss any mails in the archive ... i would appreciate if somebody could check it out and tell me if it works. and tell me if i have to recompile those HyperArch.pyc and HyperArch.pyo files. cheers and thanx for that nice program. -heinrich ps: i run mailman 1.1 but i checked the CVS archive and the regex used for REpat seems to be the same. pps: i submitted this as a bug in sourceforge as well .. so if you fix it you can close it there too. ppps: i am not subscribed to mailman-developers(a)python.org so please include me in CC:'s -- Heinrich Langos <heinrich(a)null.net> pgp: http://wh9.tu-dresden.de/~heinrich/pub_pgp_key.asc _________________________________________________________________ |o| The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. |o| |o| It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new |o| |o| version I ever heard. -- Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation |o| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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[ANNOUNCE] Mailman 2.0
by barry＠digicool.com 28 Nov '00

28 Nov '00

I'm please to announce the 2.0 final release of Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager. Mailman is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Mailman is software to help manage electronic mail discussion lists, much like Majordomo or Smartmail. Mailman gives each mailing list a unique web page and allows users to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change their account options over the web. Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely via the web. Mailman has most of the features that people want in a mailing list management system, including built-in archiving, mail-to-news gateways, spam filters, bounce detection, digest delivery, and so on. Mailman is compatible with most web servers, web browsers, and mail servers. It should run on any Unix-like operating system. Mailman requires Python 1.5.2 or better. To install Mailman from source, you will need a C compiler. For more information on Mailman, please see the following mirrors: http://www.list.org http://mailman.sourceforge.net http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html (the latter is not yet up to date) There are email lists (managed by Mailman, of course!) for both Mailman users and developers. See the web sites above for details. My thanks to everybody who has helped with this release, especially those named in the ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file. My thanks also to the SourceForge crew for their open source project management site. Couldn't have done it without them. Enjoy, -Barry

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fyi -- Ted Montgomery
by Chuq Von Rospach 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Ted Montgomery's lists of over and under-rated players on each team. Note his leaf's picks. Not that I'm making an editorial jab at anyone on THIS list. nope. Nope me. <http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/columns/ted.htm> -- Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com) Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq@apple.com) The vet said it was behavioral, but I prefer to think of it as genetic. It cuts down on the liability -- Get Fuzzy

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Re: MIME "digests" vs. real Digests
by Tom Neff 27 Nov '00

27 Nov '00

Generating proper 1153 Digests is very important. MIME "Digests" are not true digests in the original sense of providing a readable daily omnibus of list traffic, they are a hack concocted by people who were thrilled with MIME and thought digests were just another way of concatenating messages and files. They don't save much space and they don't provide the same service; most modern mailers capable of "dealing" with them are equally capable of routing individual messages to folders based on headers, which is arguably the better solution for people who don't care about bandwidth or disk space to begin with.

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