Mailman 3 December 2001 - Mailman-Developers

How to make mods to config.db?
by Peter C. Norton 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

Is there a simple way to modify config.db for an update? I've created a custom config variable and some actions based on it. To work properly it seems to need to be added to config.db for existing lists (it seems to work fine for new lists), and I'm having some trouble finding the "right" way to do this. I have added the following to versions.py: # Add the option to not have to admin bouncing messages if not hasattr(l, "auto_reject_nonmembers"): setattr(l, "auto_reject_nonmembers", mm_cfg.DEFAULT_AUTO_REJECT_NONMEMBERS) But this doesn't seem to update the list after a "make install" of an updgrade. Any help is appreciated, -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.

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Email Dispatches
by Joshua Eichen 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

Hi, I've been looking around the mailman code for a couple of weeks now and I haven't been able to find the function that dispatches the email to each member of the mailing list. I want to modify the message body before each message goes out to the individual mailing list members. I'm not on the list so if anyone knows will the reply to me directly. Thank you, Joshua

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Internal server error when accessing admin pages
by Marc MERLIN 04 Dec '01

04 Dec '01

I've gotten several bug reports on SF for people who can't get to the admin pages The only error apache gives me is: [Thu Jul 12 15:47:17 2001] [error] [client 171.71.41.31] Premature end of script headers: /var/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin I never had the problem myself and it seems to come and go Is there any debugging I can in mailman to at least give me some error in my apache error log? (or do you think it's an apache problem?) Attached is one of the tickets I've gotten Thanks, Marc ----- Forwarded message from noreply(a)sourceforge.net ----- To: noreply(a)sourceforge.net From: noreply(a)sourceforge.net Subject: [ alexandria-Support Requests-438992 ] Administration interface to mail lists Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:43:44 -0700 Support Requests item #438992, was opened at 2001-07-06 00:49 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=438992&group_id… Category: Mailing Lists Group: Second Level Support >Status: Open Priority: 9 Submitted By: Richard Leyton (rleyton) Assigned to: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin) Summary: Administration interface to mail lists Initial Comment: A post to a mailing list needs admin attention (it's a moderated list). The URL: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/admindb/leap-announce results in: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, staff(a)sourceforge.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Could you look into it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Leyton (rleyton) Date: 2001-07-26 02:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=7704 In a nutshell, this ceased to be a problem the next day, i'd forgotten about this ticket until the status changed. I had given a detailed response to your queries, but mozilla crashed on me before i clicked on the submit, and i was in a hurry, so i didn't get around to reposting it. in a nutshell: - all browsers tried (opera, netscape & mozilla) - had a URL via e-mail to attend to pending admin requests. - yes it gave the same error with netscape - it was the message received on going to the URL contained in the e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin) Date: 2001-07-25 11:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=6500 We need the information if you want us to help you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marc Merlin (marcmerlin) Date: 2001-07-17 08:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=6500 What browser? Does it fail repeatetly from different places? Does it fail with plain netscape? Does it fail when you access the page, or when you post back a form? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=438992&group_id… ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f(a)merlins.org for PGP key

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Re: [ python-Patches-486375 ] Use charset in email.Utils.encode
by Mikhail Zabaluev 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hello, Sorry for replying in the Mailman list, but I'm not subscribed elsewhere, and I think the email package is crucial for Mailman, so... On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:26:41AM -0800, noreply(a)sourceforge.net wrote: > > Patches item #486375, was opened at 2001-11-27 22:45 > You can respond by visiting: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=486375&group_id… > > Category: Library (Lib) > Group: None > >Status: Closed > >Resolution: Rejected > Priority: 7 > Submitted By: Mikhail Zabaluev (mzabaluev) > Assigned to: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) > Summary: Use charset in email.Utils.encode > > Initial Comment: > Here's a patch that makes email.Utils.encode actually > _use_ its charset parameter. Note: a string is encoded > into the specified character set using the 'replace' > mode in order to provide high tolerance for missing > characters, typical for email applications. > The patch also slightly optimizes the code around > (cough cough). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >Comment By: Barry Warsaw (bwarsaw) > Date: 2001-12-03 11:26 > > Message: > Logged In: YES > user_id=12800 > > Sorry, but this isn't correct. email.Utils.encode() states > that the argument "s" must already be encoded in the given > character set. The charset argument is required because > Python can't guess what charset s is encoded in. I just thought it would be nicer to specify charset once: email.Utils.encode(s, 'cp1251', 'b') , not like this: email.Utils.encode(s.encode('cp1251'), 'cp1251', 'b') The argument "s" could be reconsidered as a Unicode string. This would constitute a better symmetry with email.Utils.decode, no? -- Stay tuned, MhZ JID: mookid(a)jabber.org ___________ Conformity is the refuge of the unimaginative.

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OldStyleMembership.py error
by Rodolfo Pilas 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

I am updating Mailman 2.1a2 to 2.1a3. I have Python 2.0 and I have just installed email-0.93 manually. But the 'make install' shows the following error: File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 231, in setMemberOption assert self.__mlist.Locked() AssertionError make: *** [update] Error 1 Can you help me? -- Rodolfo Pilas Quien los puso a estos tipos donde estan, rodolfo(a)linux.org.uy Quien los deja seguir en su lugar, http://rodolfo.pilas.net Quien los baja ahora de su altar, ICQ #17461636 Quien les paga para que hagan lo que haran http://xtralinux.org -=# Apocalipsis Now % Cuarteto de Nos #=- Public GnuPG key: http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/57153363 2001-06-02 key fingerprint = DAAE 3246 3F7D A420 B7A0 48A5 D120 C773 5715 3363

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alternative policy for postings to subscribers-only lists
by Peter C. Norton 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Hi, At nylug (the NY linux users group) we've implemented a strict no-posting policy for all non-subscribed email addresses. To make this easier on us, I made a slight change to mailman to make that the only policy on our lists. I think this would be useful to mailman in general, and save time on the part of mailing list admins. If this hasn't been implemented in mailman releases > 2.0.6 yet, I have 2 questions: 1) Would this make it into mainline mailman? 2) What do I need to do to change the UI to make this option selectable? -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.

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