Mailman 3 December 2002 - Mailman-Developers

[ mailman-Patches-651406 ] MM 2.0.13 to 2.1b5 upgrade fails
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #651406, was opened at 2002-12-10 12:38 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=651406&group_i… Category: None Group: Mailman 2.1 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: MM 2.0.13 to 2.1b5 upgrade fails Initial Comment: make install when updating a MM 2.0.13 installation to 2.1b5 initally produced the following exception: Updating mailing list: mailman Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 569, in ? errors = main() File "bin/update", line 446, in main errors = errors + dolist(listname) File "bin/update", line 186, in dolist mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/mailman/run/Mailman/MailList.py", line 101, in __init__ self.Load() File "/mailman/run/Mailman/MailList.py", line 600, in Load self.CheckValues() File "/mailman/run/Mailman/MailList.py", line 650, in CheckValues for name, pattern, desc, emptyflag in self.topics: File "/mailman/run/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError, name AttributeError: topics make: *** [update] Error 1 Having corrected the cause of this first exception the following exception was then encountered: Upgrading from version 0x2000df0 to 0x20100b5 getting rid of old source files Updating mailing list: mailman Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 569, in ? errors = main() File "bin/update", line 446, in main errors = errors + dolist(listname) File "bin/update", line 200, in dolist for addr, (reason, when) in mlist.delivery_status.items (): File "/mailman/run/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError, name AttributeError: delivery_status make: *** [update] Error 1 These problems both seem to arise because of the following: 1. The MailList class is derived from the classes TopicMgr and Bouncer (amongst others). 2. The MailList __init__ function calls the __init__ functions of its superclasses if they have that function; which they do not in the case of the of TopicMgr and Bouncer classes 3. The MailList __init__ function calls its own InitTempVars function which in turn calls the InitTempVars functions of MailList's superclasses if they have that function; which they do not in the case of the of class TopicMgr and Bouncer classes 4. The MailList __init__ function does not call the InitVars functions of the TopicMgr and Bouncer classes which is why self.topics and self.delivery_status are undefined attributes of the MailList instance being created; these being instance variables introduced by MM 2.1b5 and missing from MM 2.0.13 instance of the MailList class which is what is being dealt with at the time the update is being done. Adding the following definition to the TopicMgr and Bouncer class definitions seem to clear the problem although whether this is the best log-tem solution is questionable: InitTempVars = InitVars ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 12:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 patch revised for MM 2.1b6 and better documented internally ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-10 14:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 The problem is a by product of the 413752 (coerce to plaintext) patch for MM 2.0.13 (mailman-2.0.13-plaintext- 0.17.patch) which had been applied to the existing system Patch 413752 for MM 2.0.13 changes Version.py as follows: # config.db schema version number -DATA_FILE_VERSION = 21 +DATA_FILE_VERSION = (21, 'plaintext_patch') In MM 2.1b5 Version.py DATA_FILE_VERSION = 88 In the CheckVersion member function of the MailList class the following comparison succeeds, i.e. the existing data structure is seen as being a later revision than MM 2.1b5, when patch 413752 has been applied: if self.data_version >= mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION: and the CheckVersion function returns without calling the InitVars function to preset the instance variables to the defaults before loading the pickled data values for an existing list. Changing the comparisom to this solves the problem: if (type(self.data_version) is type (mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION) and \ self.data_version >= mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION) or \ (type(self.data_version) is type(()) and \ self.data_version[0] >= mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-10 13:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 I was wrong about my hack working because on using the web admin GUI to update lists I got the error feedback given below. The problem seems to be more deep seated in that the InitVars function of the MailList class does not seem to get called to initialse the MailList instance variables when loading an existing list via the __init__ function but only through the Create member function called from newlist and cgi create.py. At first blush I would think that MailList InitVars function should be called from the class' __init__ function before loading an existing instance's data into the instance variables; but with three functions initialisation functions, __init__, InitTempVars and InitVars, I'm getting confused as to which are supposed to do what and when. Bug in Mailman version 2.1b5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/mailman/run/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/mailman/run/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 76, in main i18n.set_language(mlist.preferred_language) File "/mailman/run/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError, name AttributeError: preferred_language ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=651406&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-644810 ] Sendmail mailer in Python
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #644810, was opened at 2002-11-27 16:27 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=644810&group_i… Category: mail delivery Group: Mailman 2.1 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Sendmail mailer in Python Initial Comment: This patch provide a Python implementation (with C wrapper) of a Sendmail mailer, if Sendmail is your MTA of choice, which removes the necessity of maintining an aliases database on your Mailman server. All subject to a bunch of conditions most prominent of which is that the server has to be pretty much dedicated to MM. This patch draws on an original contribution by David Champion <dgc(a)uchicago.edu> which is included in the contrib directory of the Mailman 2.1b distribution as mm-handler. See the README.SENDMAIL.mailer installed by this patch for differences between this and David's Perl original and more information of what you are getting into if you use this patch. Versions of the patch for MM 2.0.13 and MM 2.1b5 are available. This patch requires patch 644797 to be installed before it. In the MM build directory say: patch -p1 < patch-filename ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 12:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 mailer-2.1b6-0.1.patch is MM 2.1b6 compatible. It also folds the case of listname and servername for compaiblity with MMs naive belief that listnames are case all lower case. case "(Email addresses are not case sensitive, but they are sensitive to almost everything else :-)" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-03 17:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 Fix for permissions related exceptions being generated by the subprocess spawned by mm_mailer script ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-03 17:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 Fix for permissions related exceptions being generated by the subprocess spawned by mm_mailer script. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 16:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 version for MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=644810&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-644797 ] Revised mailer exit status
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #644797, was opened at 2002-11-27 15:56 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=644797&group_i… Category: mail delivery Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Revised mailer exit status Initial Comment: This patch modifies the Python scripts in $prefix/scripts/ that are used by the MTA to deliver incoming mail to Mailman. The exit statuses now returned are drawn from the mail related values defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h This allows the MTA to return more meaningful responses to the sender when rejecting mail. It also allows a more sympathetic treatment of mail in the event that the Python script suffers an unexpected exception when handling incoming email. Such exceptions are now logged to MM's $prefix/logs/erro in all but the most extreme error cases and the internal information about the Python exception is not passed into the response to the sender. There are two patch versions; one for MM 2.0.13 and the other for MM 2.1b5 in the MM build directory say: patch -p1 < patch-filename ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 exitstatus-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revision of the patch for MM 2.1b6 compatibility ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 15:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 version for MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=644797&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-444879 ] Archive indexer control to improve index
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #444879, was opened at 2001-07-26 18:01 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444879&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Archive indexer control to improve index Initial Comment: This patch is applicable to Mailman 2.0.6 release and supercedes ealier patches 401669 and 402422. This patch should improve the quality of search results returned by search engines such as htdig (http://www.htdig.org) where the seach engine's index builder responds to strings embedded in the html pages that are the subject of the indexing. The changes in this patch: 1. allow strings for enabling and disabling indexing to be defined in mm_cfg.py. 2. embeds those strings in the pages generated as the html version of a list's archive. By default nothing in the html changes. To get the desired effect, you must define ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE in mm_cfg.py You probably want to run this patch as follows: cd <mailman 2.0.6 untarred and unzipped directory> patch -p1 < <this patch file> See also the associated patch for integrating the htdig search software with mailman's internal archiver ouput. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 10:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b5-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-14 16:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-08 17:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 An additional file, README.NOINDEXtags is added to indexing-2.0.13-0.3.patch version that discusses the issue of what tags to use for controlling various search engine indexers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-08 17:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 An error when building the indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch meant that copies of the originals of two of the files modified by this version of the patch were added when the patch was run. indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch removes this error. However, the original error is benign and can be corrected by deleting the extra files HyperArch.py.orig and Defaults.py.in.orig. An additional file, README.NOINDEXtags is added that discusses the issue of what tags to use for controlling various search engine indexers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 14:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Another question: is there no standard (de-facto or otherwise) for generic markup that tells indexers not to index a particular section? IOW, for ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE, is there some generic value that would instruct most (all?) indexers to ignore that section? Or does it necessarily have to be indexer specific? I'm thinking of the situation where you might have ht://Dig installed locally, but your archives are still being spidered by external indexers. It would be good if something more generic could be added to Defaults.py.in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 14:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Looking at the 2.1b2 patch, why does it try to create HyperArch.py.orig and Defaults.py.in.orig? Are those included in the patch by mistake? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-05 10:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.13-0.2.patch just adds a GPL notice to the patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-01 16:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-30 11:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.13-0.1.patch is purely cosmetic to get no mumble application to MM 2.0.13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 14:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.11-0.1.patch should apply without problems to MM 2.0.12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-05-23 09:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.11-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-19 10:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.9-0.1.patch should apply without problems to MM 2.0.10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-08 17:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.9-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-03-06 16:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1cvs-20020306.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 12:30 GMT 6 Mar 2002. Corrects problem noted or 5 Mar 2002 by nobody ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-03-05 21:41 Message: Logged In: NO When applying this patch I get an error with Hunk 1 and Defaults.py is not updated. This happens with the a clean download of the latest cvs installation (5 Mar 2002). Any ideas what the problem is? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-17 16:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1cvs-20011217.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 11:50 GMT 17 Dec 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-13 16:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1a3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman-2.1a3.tgz on sourceforge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 11:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-27 12:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444879&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-444879 ] Archive indexer control to improve index
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #444879, was opened at 2001-07-26 18:01 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444879&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Archive indexer control to improve index Initial Comment: This patch is applicable to Mailman 2.0.6 release and supercedes ealier patches 401669 and 402422. This patch should improve the quality of search results returned by search engines such as htdig (http://www.htdig.org) where the seach engine's index builder responds to strings embedded in the html pages that are the subject of the indexing. The changes in this patch: 1. allow strings for enabling and disabling indexing to be defined in mm_cfg.py. 2. embeds those strings in the pages generated as the html version of a list's archive. By default nothing in the html changes. To get the desired effect, you must define ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE in mm_cfg.py You probably want to run this patch as follows: cd <mailman 2.0.6 untarred and unzipped directory> patch -p1 < <this patch file> See also the associated patch for integrating the htdig search software with mailman's internal archiver ouput. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 10:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b5-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-14 16:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-08 17:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 An additional file, README.NOINDEXtags is added to indexing-2.0.13-0.3.patch version that discusses the issue of what tags to use for controlling various search engine indexers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-08 17:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 An error when building the indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch meant that copies of the originals of two of the files modified by this version of the patch were added when the patch was run. indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch removes this error. However, the original error is benign and can be corrected by deleting the extra files HyperArch.py.orig and Defaults.py.in.orig. An additional file, README.NOINDEXtags is added that discusses the issue of what tags to use for controlling various search engine indexers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 14:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Another question: is there no standard (de-facto or otherwise) for generic markup that tells indexers not to index a particular section? IOW, for ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE, is there some generic value that would instruct most (all?) indexers to ignore that section? Or does it necessarily have to be indexer specific? I'm thinking of the situation where you might have ht://Dig installed locally, but your archives are still being spidered by external indexers. It would be good if something more generic could be added to Defaults.py.in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 14:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Looking at the 2.1b2 patch, why does it try to create HyperArch.py.orig and Defaults.py.in.orig? Are those included in the patch by mistake? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-05 10:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.13-0.2.patch just adds a GPL notice to the patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-01 16:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-30 11:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.13-0.1.patch is purely cosmetic to get no mumble application to MM 2.0.13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 14:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.11-0.1.patch should apply without problems to MM 2.0.12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-05-23 09:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.11-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-19 10:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.9-0.1.patch should apply without problems to MM 2.0.10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-08 17:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.9-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-03-06 16:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1cvs-20020306.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 12:30 GMT 6 Mar 2002. Corrects problem noted or 5 Mar 2002 by nobody ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-03-05 21:41 Message: Logged In: NO When applying this patch I get an error with Hunk 1 and Defaults.py is not updated. This happens with the a clean download of the latest cvs installation (5 Mar 2002). Any ideas what the problem is? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-17 16:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1cvs-20011217.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 11:50 GMT 17 Dec 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-13 16:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1a3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman-2.1a3.tgz on sourceforge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 11:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-27 12:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444879&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-444879 ] Archive indexer control to improve index
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #444879, was opened at 2001-07-26 18:01 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444879&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Archive indexer control to improve index Initial Comment: This patch is applicable to Mailman 2.0.6 release and supercedes ealier patches 401669 and 402422. This patch should improve the quality of search results returned by search engines such as htdig (http://www.htdig.org) where the seach engine's index builder responds to strings embedded in the html pages that are the subject of the indexing. The changes in this patch: 1. allow strings for enabling and disabling indexing to be defined in mm_cfg.py. 2. embeds those strings in the pages generated as the html version of a list's archive. By default nothing in the html changes. To get the desired effect, you must define ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE in mm_cfg.py You probably want to run this patch as follows: cd <mailman 2.0.6 untarred and unzipped directory> patch -p1 < <this patch file> See also the associated patch for integrating the htdig search software with mailman's internal archiver ouput. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 10:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b5-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-14 16:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-08 17:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 An additional file, README.NOINDEXtags is added to indexing-2.0.13-0.3.patch version that discusses the issue of what tags to use for controlling various search engine indexers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-08 17:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 An error when building the indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch meant that copies of the originals of two of the files modified by this version of the patch were added when the patch was run. indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch removes this error. However, the original error is benign and can be corrected by deleting the extra files HyperArch.py.orig and Defaults.py.in.orig. An additional file, README.NOINDEXtags is added that discusses the issue of what tags to use for controlling various search engine indexers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 14:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Another question: is there no standard (de-facto or otherwise) for generic markup that tells indexers not to index a particular section? IOW, for ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE, is there some generic value that would instruct most (all?) indexers to ignore that section? Or does it necessarily have to be indexer specific? I'm thinking of the situation where you might have ht://Dig installed locally, but your archives are still being spidered by external indexers. It would be good if something more generic could be added to Defaults.py.in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 14:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Looking at the 2.1b2 patch, why does it try to create HyperArch.py.orig and Defaults.py.in.orig? Are those included in the patch by mistake? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-05 10:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.13-0.2.patch just adds a GPL notice to the patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-01 16:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1b2-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-30 11:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.13-0.1.patch is purely cosmetic to get no mumble application to MM 2.0.13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 14:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.11-0.1.patch should apply without problems to MM 2.0.12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-05-23 09:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.11-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-19 10:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.9-0.1.patch should apply without problems to MM 2.0.10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-08 17:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.0.9-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-03-06 16:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1cvs-20020306.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 12:30 GMT 6 Mar 2002. Corrects problem noted or 5 Mar 2002 by nobody ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-03-05 21:41 Message: Logged In: NO When applying this patch I get an error with Hunk 1 and Defaults.py is not updated. This happens with the a clean download of the latest cvs installation (5 Mar 2002). Any ideas what the problem is? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-17 16:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1cvs-20011217.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 11:50 GMT 17 Dec 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-13 16:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 indexing-2.1a3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman-2.1a3.tgz on sourceforge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 11:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-27 12:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444879&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-444884 ] Integration of Mailman & htdig for archi
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 11, 2002

Dec. 11, 2002

Patches item #444884, was opened at 2001-07-26 18:27 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444884&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Integration of Mailman & htdig for archi Initial Comment: This patch is applicable to Mailman 2.0.6 release that has had search enhancement patch 444879 patch installed - if your Defaults.py has the ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE in it then you've got that patch. It replaces earlier patches 401670 and 402423 and is mainly to correct some problems arising from fixes introduced into Mailman by bug fix releases since the 402423 patch. This patch integrates htdig with Mailman and provides: 1. per list search facility with a search form on the list's TOC page. 2. maintenance of privacy of private archives which requires the user to establish their credentials via the normal private archive access before any access via htdig is allowed. 3. a common base URL for both public and private archive access via htsearch results so that htdig indices are unaffected by changingan archive from private to public and vice versa. All access to archives via htdig is controlled by a new wrapped cgi- bin script called htdig.py. 4. a new cron activated script and extra crontab entry which runs htdig regularly to maintain the per list search indices. 5. automatic creation, deletion and maintenance of htdig configuration files and such. Beyond installing htdig and telling Mailman where it is via mm_cfg you do not have to do any other setup. Well not quite you do have to set up a single per installation symlink to allow htdig to find the automatically generated per list htdig configuration files. You probably want to run this patch as follows: cd <mailman 2.0.6 untarred and unzipped directory> patch -p1 < <this patch file> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-04 10:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.13-0.3.patch corrects a minor typo in text appearing in the list TOC after the patch is applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 10:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b5-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-14 11:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b3-0.3.patch removes use of the file() function, used instead of the open() function, in three cron scripts added by the patch. Use of the file() function created an unnecessary dependency on Python 2.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Colin Mackinlay (cmackinlay) Date: 2002-10-12 16:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=624179 Got a workaround! The line referred to in the traceback: file(rundig_run_file, 'w').close() is used to create a 'rundig_last_run' file of lenght 0 bytes Creating this manually (or copying it) means the line isn't called and everything seems to work. Either file() is not a valid function call or my python is broken - I'm not literate enough in python to know the answer though! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Colin Mackinlay (cmackinlay) Date: 2002-10-06 14:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=624179 Just rebuilt MM as 2.1b3 with htdig. Upgraded lists which had htdig before work fine New lists give the obvious error: Unable to read word database file Did you run htmerge? Running the cronjob doesn't fix as it used to, message is: Output from command /usr/bin/python - S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig .. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig", line 153, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig", line 118, in main file(rundig_run_file, 'w').close() NameError: global name 'file' is not defined The archive/htdig folder only contains the xx.conf file, but no db.xx files If I copy in db.xx files from another list then the problem goes away (except I've now got an invalid set of references!) Is this my elementary error or is it more sinister?! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-15 11:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b3-0.2.patch corrects a dumb syntax error in htdig- 2.1b3-0.1.patch which will typically show up as logged errors in the operation of the ArchRunner qrunner at line 721 of HyperArch.py ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-14 16:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 16:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 I've sent Richard some comments off-line about this patch. Meta comments: the 2.0.x patches can't be officially supported, but I'm going to create an unofficial patches page off the wiki for where the 2.0 patches can be migrated. I think this patch set is too big for MM2.1, but if it's cleaned up as per my private message, let's re-evaluate it for MM2.2 (or 3.0). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-05 10:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.13-0.2.patch just adds a GPL notice to the patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-01 16:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b2-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-30 11:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.13-0.1.patch is purely cosmetic to get no mumble application to MM 2.0.13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 15:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 Do not use htdig-2.0.12-0.1.patch there is an error in it. Use htdig-2.0.12-0.2.patch instead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 14:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.12-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that applies without complaint to MM 2.0.12. It also add a facility for adding site wide htdig configuration attributes to all list specific htdig configuration files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-05-23 09:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.11-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.11 This version removes an incompatibility with Python 2.2 which caused warning messages to be generated when any of the family cron/nightly_htdig scripts were run. Some guidance on file access permissions for some htdig database files needed by rundig have been added to installation notes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-19 10:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.10-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-08 17:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.9-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-03-06 16:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1cvs-20020306.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 12:30 GMT 6 Mar 2002 Known deficiency is that the non-English versions of files under $build/templates still contain text in English and need translations I cannot do. Also the necessary pygettext activity and subsequent translations in files under $build/messages remain to be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-17 16:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1cvs-20011217.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 11:50 GMT 17 Dec 2001 The only known deficiency is that the non-English versions of files under $build/templates still contain text in English and need translations I cannot do. Also the necessary pygettext activity and subsequent translations in files under $build/messages remain to be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-13 16:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1a3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman-2.1a3.tgz on sourceforge. The only known deficiency is that the non-English versions of files under $build/templates still contain text in English and need translations I cannot do. Also the necessary pygettext activity and subsequent translations in files under $build/messages remain to be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 17:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 The htdig-2.0.8-0.1.patch version of the patch resolves a problem that can arise with htdig indexing if the web_page_url for a list uses other than the http addressing (some folks want to use https). While specified as for MM 2.0.8 the revised patch should work OK with 2.0.7, 2.0.6 and probably back as far as 2.0.3. If you do not have the requirement for using other than http addressing in you lists web_page_urls it probably isn't worth the trouble of upgrading to this patch level. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-27 12:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to Mm 2.0.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-09 11:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 The htdig-2.0.6-03.patch version of the patch makes some previously hard-coded things configurable and enhances the capability to run the htdig searches and indexing on a different machine to the one delivering Mailman and Mailman's web UI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444884&group_i…

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unsubscribing an email address from all lists using the UI
by NOW Website Coordinator Dec. 10, 2002

Dec. 10, 2002

Is there a way to unsubscribe someone from all lists from a web page? (I'm using 2.1b5).I've found remove_members which works fine for the command line, and I've even set up a "find" page for myself for one list because the computer slows down horribly to load the UI members page. Any ideas as to how to add a "remove from all" form? Thanks in advance. FYI, this code does the trick for others who are interested: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <body> <FORM action="http://YOUR-DOMAIN/mailman/admin/YOUR-LIST/members" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <table WIDTH="100%"> <tr> <td><div align="right">Find member <a href="http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/re-syntax.html">(help)</a>:</div></td> <td><INPUT name="findmember" type="TEXT" value="" size="40" ></td> <td><INPUT name="findmember_btn" type="SUBMIT" value="Search..." ></td> </tr> </table> </FORM> </body> </html> Sarah Stapleton-Gray -------------------------------------------- Web Site Coordinator National Organization for Women http://www.now.org

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Reply to munging not using correct host?
by David Gibbs Dec. 10, 2002

Dec. 10, 2002

I'm not sure if this is a configuration problem or code problem. I've got my list server to virtual host. ... the two domains are 'midrange.com' and 'lists.fallingrock.net' ... I'm using Mailman 2.1b5 on lists.fallingrock.net. I sent a message to a test list and it got sent out properly ... but the reply-to munging isn't set to the correct host. All the 'List-*' headers have the correct host, and I do have the 'host_name' config variable for the list set to 'lists.fallingrock.net', but the reply-to, sender, and errors-to headers are set to 'midrange.com'. I have the reply_goes_to_list set to "this list", first_strip_reply_to set to yes, and reply_to_address set to blank. I did run the fix_url script against the beta testers list. Any ideas? david >Return-Path: <beta-testers-bounces(a)lists.fallingrock.net> >Received: from linux.midrange.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by linux.midrange.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB8FtTa02925; > Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:55:29 -0600 >Received: from GRYFFINDOR.midrange.com (gryffindor.midrange.com > [192.168.1.100]) > by linux.midrange.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB8FtLi02900 > for <beta-testers(a)lists.fallingrock.net>; > Sun, 8 Dec 2002 09:55:21 -0600 >Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021208095147.02ccf150(a)linux.midrange.com> >X-Sender: david(a)linux.midrange.com (Unverified) >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 >Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 09:55:17 -0600 >To: beta-testers(a)lists.fallingrock.net >From: David Gibbs <david(a)midrange.com> >Subject: Re: [beta-testers] Up for another round? >In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20021208094537.02c70330(a)linux.midrange.com> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >X-MailScanner: Found to be clean >X-BeenThere: beta-testers(a)lists.fallingrock.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 >Precedence: list >Reply-To: New Feature Beta Testers <beta-testers(a)midrange.com> >List-Id: New Feature Beta Testers <beta-testers.lists.fallingrock.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://lists.fallingrock.net/mailman2/listinfo/beta-testers>, > ><mailto:beta-testers-request@lists.fallingrock.net?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://lists.fallingrock.net/mailman2/private/beta-testers> >List-Post: <mailto:beta-testers@lists.fallingrock.net> >List-Help: <mailto:beta-testers-request@lists.fallingrock.net?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: <http://lists.fallingrock.net/mailman2/listinfo/beta-testers>, > <mailto:beta-testers-request@lists.fallingrock.net?subject=subscribe> >Sender: beta-testers-bounces(a)midrange.com >Errors-To: beta-testers-bounces(a)midrange.com -- | Internet: david(a)midrange.com | WWW: http://david.fallingrock.net | AIM: MidrangeMan | | We're not in the middle of nowhere... | we're on the outskirts of everywhere! | - DMRoth (adapted)

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[ mailman-Patches-413752 ] Coerce posts to plain text.
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Dec. 10, 2002

Dec. 10, 2002

Patches item #413752, was opened at 2001-04-04 17:23 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=413752&group_i… Category: mail delivery Group: Mailman 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 1 Submitted By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Coerce posts to plain text. Initial Comment: This patch adds the ability to have all posts to a mailing list forced into a MIME text/plain format. Many mailing lists have a charter which forbids binary and HTML posts to the list. This patch allows such a charter to be enforced is a maximally transparent manner. The feature is configurable on a per-list basis. If enabled, all posts to the list are run through a filter which: Squashes multipart messages into a single flat message (it picks the most plain-text-like alternative from multipart/alternative entities.) Converts 'text/html', 'text/enriched', and 'text/richtext' entities to 'text/plain'. Deletes cruft headers from content of type 'message/rfc822'. Deletes any uuencoded files from 'text/plain' entities. Entities of any other types are assumed to be binary attachements are are deleted. This patch is on mailman-2.0.3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-10 14:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 I encountered some problems with upgrading from MM 2.0.13 to MM 2.1b5 as a consequence of having installed this patch on our existing system. See: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=651406&group_id=103&atid=300103 for details of the symptoms and the solution that worked for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jozeph Brasil (jozeph) Date: 2002-09-12 17:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=17693 Hey dairiki, please... look at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=608524&group_id=1… I don't know if the problem is plaintext bug! :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2002-08-30 17:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Note also that the recent patch sets also incorporate patch #415448 [1]: a minor patch so that Mailman recognizes bounce messages from swbell.net ("Sun Internet Mail Server"). This patch inadvertently slipped in, but it does no harm. If you don't like it just delete the patches to Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleMatch.py. Reference: [1] http://sf.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=415448&group_id=103&atid=300103 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2002-08-30 16:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Enh? The current version of Mailman is 2.0.13. That said, the latest patch set (named mailman-2.0.13-plaintext-0.17.patch, and attached below) will work fine, I think, for Mailmain versions 2.0.x back to at least 2.0.8, and probably earlier. Feel free to e-mail me privately for more help. <dairiki(a)dairiki.org> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-08-30 15:02 Message: Logged In: NO I'm new to Mailman. I don't understand why you don't have a patch for the current version of Mailman, 2.0.10. Can I apply an earlier patch safely? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-28 04:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 BTW, I've finally added that link from the wiki to this patch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2002-08-28 03:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 It seems the patches continue to work (basically unchanged) for Mailman-2.0.13. Updated patches are attached below. The patches as well as a pre-patched Mailman-2.0.13 tarball are at ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-08-28 00:22 Message: Logged In: NO Hi Dairiki, It's me... I added your patch in my latest version and it's running OK... you can post the patch here! :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jozeph Brasil (jozeph) Date: 2002-08-27 19:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=17693 Hello dairiki... do you have this patch for Mailman-2.0.13 ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2002-08-13 15:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 I don't have strong feelings, but my druthers would be to wait until 2.1 is officially designated "stable". A link from the wiki would be great! (There is/was already a link from the FAQ.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-13 15:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Since this patch is against 2.0.x and since MM2.1 provides support for stuff like this, I'm inclined to close this patch. I'd be willing to add a link to this from the unofficial patches wiki. What do you think? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Seb Wills (sebwills) Date: 2002-02-23 16:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=467580 This patch seems to leave any preamble above the first part of a multipart message intact. Many mailers put blurb such as "This is a MIME-encoded message; you will need a MIME- aware mail client to see all of this message." here, which it makes no sense to reproduce after the mail has be coerced into plaintext. Looks like it's easy enough to change this behaviour by commenting out the line mimetools.copybinary(infp, outfp) # copy preamble from Mailman/FilteringMimeWriter.py ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-12-15 18:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Another bug fix. Lines which contain nothing but the word 'end' mysteriously dissapear. (Reported by David Gibbs.) The only changed file in Mailman/FilteringMimeWriter.py, I've attached the latest version of that file to this page. As usual, patches on mailman 2.0.8 are also attached. Diffs and a patched Mailman-2.0.8 tarball are at ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-09-08 20:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 More fixes. * Mailman/FilteringMimeWriter.py: Fixes for bugs in python 1.5.2's quopri library module. The plaintext patches are at version 0.14. Look for the patches on Mailman 2.0.6, as well as a complete tarball of patched Mailman 2.0.6 code at ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/ Patches on 2.0.6 are also attached to this page. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-08-25 19:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 More fixes: * Mailman/PlaintextMimeWriter.py: Change Message-ID: of filtered messages. * Mailman/pythonlib/multifile.py: Fix obscure but occasionally fatal bug. The first fix is very minor. The second fix fixes a bug which caused the plaintext filter to fail occasionally. Diffs from mailman-2.0.6 are available from this page and are also at: ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0.6-plaintext-0.13.patch.gz Pre-patched mailman-2.0.6 source code is at: ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0.6-plaintext-0.13.tgz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2001-06-16 18:33 Message: Logged In: NO After applying this patch to 2.0.5, I found that I had to add this line manually to my existing config file $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py... DEFAULT_FORCE_PLAIN_TEXT = 0 If this line is not added, any web requests and any messages posted will produce an error "AttributeError : DEFAULT_FORCE_PLAIN_TEXT". Not sure if I did something wrong or if this is normal, but I wanted to advise others just in case ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-05-19 23:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 More fixes: * Mailman/FilteringMimeWriter.py: Handle 'content-type: multipart' (no subtype) gracefully. * Mailman/Handlers/PlainText.py: Catch exceptions (fatal errors) from plaintext filter. When exception is caught, an error is logged, but the message is passed on unfiltered. (A diagnostic message is added to the message headers.) This should make it so little piddly bugs in the filter will get noticed, but at the same time will not cause messages to get stuck in the queue. Patches from mailman-2.0.5 are available from this page and are also at: ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0.5-plaintext-0.10.patch.gz Pre-patched mailman-2.0.5 source code is at: ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0.5-plaintext-0.10.tgz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-05-17 19:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Another minor bugfix: it turns out pythons mimetools doesn't treat the content-transfer-encoding is a case insensitive fashion --- so now we smash the case ourself. A new patch set on mailman-2.0.5 is available on this page. Pre-patched mailman source code can be found at: ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0.5-plaintext-0.9.tgz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-05-08 04:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Disregard last. (Apparently one can't attache files bigger than 256 kb.) Mailman-2.0.5 with plaintext patches applied can be found (for a limited time) at: ftp://www.dairiki.org/pub/mailman/mailman-2.0.5-plaintext-0.8.tgz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-05-08 04:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 If you don't want to mess with patching the source, I've also attached (below) a tarball of the mailman-2.0.5 source with my patches already applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-05-08 04:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Here's a rough outline of how to proceed: 1. Start by unpacking a fresh copy of mailman-2.0.5.tgz 2. Change into the top source directory (which was created in the previous step. 3. Try applying my patches with: patch -p1 < [where.ever]/mailman-2.0.5-plaintext-0.8.patch (that's "dash pee one") That should work --- you should not get any warnings or prompts from patch. If you do, something is fishy. 4. Run ./configure and 'make install' as usual (read mailman's INSTALL for instructions on this.) Feel free to write me at <dairiki(a)dairiki.org>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2001-05-08 03:30 Message: Logged In: NO For *some* reason when I apply the patch (the newest one) to my freshly downloaded version of Mailman 2.0.5 and compile and install mail never reaches the list. I've tried without the patch and everything works fine... perhaps I'm patching wrong? I'm just saying: patch < name_of_patch It makes me fix a few paths to some of the files, but that's it... :-/ Any help would be appriciated! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-05-07 16:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 Fixed bug (reported by Pug Bainter <pug(a)pug.net> -- thanks!) New patches, on mailman-2.0.5 uploaded (below). The only real change is: --- 0.5/Mailman/FilteringMimeWriter.py Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:04:36 -0700 dairiki (mailman/k/4_FilteringM 1.2 664) +++ 0.8(w)/Mailman/FilteringMimeWriter.py Mon, 07 May 2001 09:05:18 -0700 dairiki (mailman/k/4_FilteringM 1.3 664) @@ -185,8 +185,12 @@ pname, pval = string.split(param, '=', 1) return (string.lower(pname), rfc822.unquote(pval)) - return map(split_param, message.getplist()) - + def valid_param(param): + return '=' in param + + # Trailing ;'s in content-type yield empty strings from getplist(). + return map(split_param, + filter(valid_param, message.getplist())) def discards_data(fp): """Determine whether file object ignores data written to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2001-04-05 15:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45814 I've just made a minor change: HTML converted to plain-text now includes a list of links at the end of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=413752&group_i…

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