Mailman 3 May 2000 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] race condition in locking ?
by Harald Meland 03 May '00

03 May '00

[Thomas Wouters] > On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 09:31:44PM +0100, Ricardo Kustner wrote: > > > I wonder though what happens if some impatient moderator decides not to > > wait before the page finnishes loading, switches to a differen webpage and > > therefor breaks the python cgi process... will some approved posts stay in > > the queue instead? > > Try it out ! ;) It depends on the exact behaviour of both the > webbrowser and the webserver. Yup. This might produce a SIGPIPE, and/or the corresponding IOError EPIPE, and I've experienced that these didn't always get caught -- an attempt at a fix is near the end of run_main in <URL: http://www.uio.no/~hmeland/tmp/mailman-userdb/scripts/driver>, but I'm by no means positive that it's the Right fix. -- Harald

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list membership privacy
by britt 02 May '00

02 May '00

I've got a couple of patches to Mailman 2.0b2 that reduces the number of ways that someone can prob the membership of a list. It removes all errors from the options and subscribe pages that mention foo@bar is/is not on this list, and instead always say "bad password". You can still probe by trying to subscribe a person. Fixing this is more work, so I haven't done it yet... In short it improves member privacy to a level better than majordomo. B ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Britt Bolen britt(a)bolen.com britt.bolen.com

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] change the envelope sender with Sendmail.py?
by Nigel Metheringham 02 May '00

02 May '00

brian(a)gweep.bc.ca said: > I don't know if this is also a problem in the direct SMTP module. I'm > using Sendmail.py because my MTA is sendmail, but I'm using postfix in > outgoing only configuration for the list delivery since mailman was > getting sendmail to send each message as one huge batch of addresses. The Sendmail.py module has a number of other problems, and I would strongly suggest that it not be used at present - the name is a reference to the calling interface used rather than necessarily the MTA. DirectSMTP works fine with sendmail and all other MTAs I know of. The handing off of addresses in one blob is a simplification of the MTA handling logic for Mailman 2. A decent MTA should be able to handle having all the addresses in one chunk and make whatever efficiency saving are appropriate... however different MTAs will have different trade offs for this sort of operation - list handling is actually rather different in terms of message sizes, recipients etc than normal mail and also has slightly different requirements. 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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using real user names for list members
by Matthias Klose 02 May '00

02 May '00

Is it currently possible/or planned to use names like Real Name <email address> email address (Real name) as the name of a subscriber? For authentification the email address should be sufficeint.

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