Mailman 3 June 2001 - Mailman-Developers

Missed _()
by Ousmane Wilane June 2, 2001

June 2, 2001

File: Mailman/Cgi/options.py Line: 450 String: "<em>Yes, I realy want to unsubscribe</em>" Cheers -- -- Ousmane Wilane -- "The best laid plans sometimes go awry..."

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Bug under link (Tend to pending administrative requests)
by Gerhard Mourani June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

OS = RH Linux 7.1 Python = 2.1 mailman = 2.0.5 clicking on the link (Tend to pending administrative requests) under the administration web interface will return the following error message into the mailman error log file: admin(18366): [----- Traceback ------] admin(18366): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(18366): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(18366): main() admin(18366): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 108, in main admin(18366): if len(cgidata.keys()): admin(18366): UnboundLocalError: local variable 'cgidata' referenced before assignment admin(18366): [----- Python Information -----] admin(18366): sys.version = 2.1 (#1, May 31 2001, 18:30:14) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)] admin(18366): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(18366): sys.prefix = /usr admin(18366): sys.exec_prefix= /usr admin(18366): sys.path = /usr admin(18366): sys.platform = linux-i386 Any suggestion?? -- Gerhard Mourani - gmourani(a)openna.com Operation & Development Manager OpenNA.com - http://www.openna.com/ --

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subscriber profiler patch for mailman-2.0.5
by Swee Heng June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

hi folks, i've written a patch to mailman-2.0.5 that lets it handle subscribers' profiles. (is this the "member profiles" feature on the wishlist?) the patch is available at: http://www.srikant.org/~sh/src/mmprofiler/mm-2.0.5-prof-0.7.gz a screenshot of it in action is at: http://www.srikant.org/~sh/src/mmprofiler/screenshot.jpg this is my first serious attempt at python. so please be warned. :) feel free to comment. swee heng ====================================================================== Brief Documentation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ how to install it: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1. "patch -p0 <" the patch to mailman-2.0.5 2. do the usual "./configure; make; make install" this will create Mailman/Cgi/profile.py, cgi-bin/profile and three templates files (prof_login.html, prof_list.html, prof_user.html) in templates/. it will also modify Mailman/Cgi/edithtml.py so that list admins can change the look of the templates. how to use it: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for currently existing lists, you need to copy the template files: cp templates/prof_* lists/the-existing-list/ for new lists, nothing needs to be done. finally, visit the URL: http://your.domain/mailman/profile/view/name-of-list notes: ^^^^^^ 1. profile information is made available to list members and admins when private_roster == 0 or 1. it is made available only to list admins when private_roster == 2. profile information is not available otherwise. 2. the database is really just a collection of pickles, one for each subscriber, stored in lists/name-of-list/profiles/. 3. i've used a whole slew of replacement MM tags, but they all look like <MM-P-foobar> or <MM-P--privatefoobar>. they won't pollute other tags.

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Skinning Mailman (how to add a customer UI in five minutes or less...)
by Chuq Von Rospach June 1, 2001

June 1, 2001

I've got this running now, so I figured I'd toss out a cookbook recipe on it while it's fresh. I've always hacked Mailman to install a custom interface on it so it matches the rest of my sites (for instance, see www.hockeyfanz.com/mailman/listinfo). The downside to this is that every time a new release comes out, you have to repatch all your changes. This makes it more work to upgrade than it should be, so I've been keeping an eye out for a better way to do this (and it gets worse -- on one of my sites, I also have a web board that needs custom patching, my mhonarc rcfiles that need patching, and the standard files that need tweaking every time the UI or graphics get revamped, and I'm not always in control of when they get redone...) I finally found a tool that takes care of this for me -- it's called mod_layout (www.tangent.org), and it's an apache module, so this is apache specific. If you run your apache with DSO (and if you don't, you're crazy...), installation is trivial. Download the thing, unpack it, then run "make" and "make install". It uses APXS to handle everything. To get it running, I added these lines to the httpd.conf. In my case, they're in the <virtualhost> declaration (it supports all fo the apache stuff, so it recognizes and honors virtual hosts, directories, etc... Very flexible beast) # stuff to wire in mod_layout LayoutMerge On LayoutFooter /home/httpd/html/footer.incl LayoutHeader /home/httpd/html/header.incl (I also have some lines causing it to NOT tweak files in directories I want left alone -- it can be configured on a file or directory basis, host basis, or systemwide) Then create the header and footer, and restart apache. What mod_layout does (as configured here) is put itself in the middle of everything, and when it sees the <BODY> declaration, it inserts the header. And when it sees </BODY> it inserts the footer before it. For the CGI or html page, it's completely transparent, and you don't have to worry about screwing up CSS or javascript, and it leaves cookies alone. It also doesn't affect your HTML, since it comes after the <BODY> so it can't interrupt tables or other location sensitive things. Very nice hack, IMHO, and allows you to wrap an interface around mailman quite nicely -- as well as most other CGI-based stuff that doesn't support templating. And even nicer, IMHO, is that if you need to change things, you change the included files -- and it magically propogates, no need to even restart apache. This gives me control over almost all of Mailman (and, hint hint) -- hopefully Barry will add the configuration for the rest down the road. One is that some of the text-box colors are hard-coded (see, for instance, /mailman/admin/listname/general/. It'd be nice (and it seems to be easy to do) to turn those into globals that can be set in mm_cfg.py instead of requiring someone to whack all of the source files they're sprinkled in. The other key one for me are some of the admin messages (Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py). I've modified some of the messages for various reasons, and it'd be nice if I could simply override their definitions in the mm_cfg.py file And the third place I've made custom changes are in some of the list templates (most radically templates/listinfo.html) -- but that's why they're template; you simply keep a copy somewhere and watch out for additions to the updated copy... It took me about three days and a couple of exchanges with the author of mod_layout to get it going the way I wanted (the documentation is still being fleshed out), but it's a nice improvement to the old way of doing things -- and since I know others build custom skins around their installations, I'd thought I'd pass this one along. If you want to see a version of mailman with mod_layout, see www.plaidworks.com. My mailman set up the old way is www.hockeyfanz.com (for now. I'll be working to move this to all my stuff over time...) Chuq

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