Mailman 3 December 2002 - Mailman-Developers

[ mailman-Bugs-649007 ] bin/arch crash: unknown encoding
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

Bugs item #649007, was opened at 2002-12-05 10:21 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649007&group_i… >Category: Pipermail Group: 2.1 beta >Status: Closed >Resolution: Accepted Priority: 5 Submitted By: Greg Ward (gward) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bin/arch crash: unknown encoding Initial Comment: bin/arch is crashing with the following traceback: Updating HTML for article 27 Pickling archive state into /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mems-talk/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/arch", line 186, in ? main() File "./bin/arch", line 174, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 557, in processUnixMailbox a = self._makeArticle(m, self.sequence) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 630, in _makeArticle mlist=self.maillist) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 261, in __init__ self.check_header_charsets(charset) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 354, in check_header_charsets author, a_charset = self.decode_charset(self.author) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 383, in decode_charset h = make_header(pairs, 99999) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 123, in make_header h.append(s, charset) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 230, in append ustr = unicode(s, incodec) LookupError: unknown encoding: gb2312 Oddly, it appears that the message causing the problem has no mention of gb2312 -- there are some bogus MIME headers in the body that mention big5, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Greg Ward (gward) Date: 2002-12-05 10:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=14422 Another easy fix, I think -- uploading patch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Greg Ward (gward) Date: 2002-12-05 10:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=14422 Ahh! Ignore my last paragraph: the offending message yesterday was one with "big5" mentioned in a MIME header. The one causing problems today has 1) gb2312 in the Subject and 2) binary junk in a footer supplied by yahoo.com.cn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649007&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-649011 ] arch crashes with custom mbox
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

Bugs item #649011, was opened at 2002-12-05 10:29 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649011&group_i… Category: None Group: 2.1 beta >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Greg Ward (gward) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: arch crashes with custom mbox Initial Comment: If I run bin/arch with a custom mbox file, it appears to still use the standard mbox file for something -- because it crashes if I have removed the standard mbox: $ rm archives/private/mems-talk.mbox/mems-talk.mbox $ ./bin/arch mems-talk archives/private/mems-talk.mbox/mems-talk.mbox.reduced [...] Computing threaded index Updating HTML for article 4 Updating HTML for article 15 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/arch", line 186, in ? main() File "./bin/arch", line 176, in main archiver.close() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 305, in close self.write_TOC() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1048, in write_TOC toc.write(self.html_TOC()) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 705, in html_TOC d = {"listname": mlist.real_name, File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 103, in sizeof size = os.path.getsize(filename) File "/www/plat/python2.2.2/lib/python2.2/posixpath.py", line 139, in getsize st = os.stat(filename) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mems-talk.mbox/mems-talk.mbox' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-12-07 02:36 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 Cheezy fix checked in. We just catch ENOENT around the getsize() call and return "size not available" in that case. It's too much of a pain to weave the explicit mbox fie name from bin/arch to html_TOC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649011&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-649158 ] unwanted space (cosmetic)
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

Bugs item #649158, was opened at 2002-12-05 16:15 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649158&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.1 beta >Status: Closed >Resolution: Accepted Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simone Piunno (pioppo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: unwanted space (cosmetic) Initial Comment: The attached patch removes a single space from a string. The space is between a word and a semi-colon, which is bad (at least in italian). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649158&group_i…

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Legal trouble in Germany
by Michael Kallas 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

Hi, This has been considered illegal by the Landgericht Berlin: > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list > Mailman-Users > > We have received a request from [IP address] for subscription of your > email address, "michael.kallas(a)web.de", to the > mailman-users(a)python.org mailing list. [...] This court decided (search Google for "16 O 515/02") that it is considered to be "unwanted advertisement" (UCE, SPAM) if a businessman gets a mail in which he is asked whether he wants to be subscribed to a newsletter. It would be the task of the newsletter administrator to prove that the other person really _wanted_ to subscribe. Similar rights could be used for private persons, so this affects indeed all mailing lists / newsletters. Should this judgement be shared by other german courts, newsletter admins using mailman or any similar software would have to fear a wave of dissuasions. Best regards Michael Kallas -- All thoughts are free, Who can ever guess them? Die Gedanken sind frei, Wer kann sie erraten? ______________________________________________________________________________ Angst vor Viren? Nicht bei WEB.DE FreeMail. Hier können Sie jeden Dateianhang auf Viren prüfen. http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021157

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[mailman@async.com.br: cron: /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/senddigests]
by Christian Reis 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

A set of bugs bit me today. Basically, the steps to get to this point were: - I created a mailing list. - I did *not* add the aliases. - I subscribed myself using the mail interface (digest off) - I received the confirmation email. When using the HTML link to confirm (since the aliases were not added yet, and I realized it), I got the error below. - When confirming it via reply (just after adding the aliases) I now always get the the invalid confirmation string message. The HTML error: 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 "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 110, in main subscription_confirm(mlist, doc, cookie, cgidata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 326, in subscription_confirm op, addr, pw, digest, lang = mlist.ProcessConfirmation( File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1080, in ProcessConfirmation self.ApprovedAddMember(userdesc) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 889, in ApprovedAddMember digest, text) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py", line 69, in SendSubscribeAck text, pluser) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 203, in __init__ self['Subject'] = Header(subject, charset, header_name='Subject') File "/home/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 164, in __init__ self.append(s, charset) File "/home/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 230, in append ustr = unicode(s, incodec) UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.1.1 (#6, Jun 26 2002, 10:03:21) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] sys.executable /usr/local/bin/python sys.prefix /usr/local sys.exec_prefix /usr/local sys.path /usr/local sys.platform linux2 Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /mondo/htdocs/async SERVER_ADDR 200.206.134.238 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 REMOTE_HOST 200-158-184-99.dsl.telesp.net.br CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded PATH_TRANSLATED /mondo/htdocs/async/consave-d REMOTE_ADDR 200.158.184.99 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_filter/1.1 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.2.2 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_COOKIE SITESERVER=ID=e58326c5509211ccd3008d3f52cc9967; spam+admin=2802000000691053ef3d732800000063663562336334316435363833663662353233613665646233393932343462363338333333313735 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us, en;q=0.50 REMOTE_PORT 36399 SERVER_PORT 80 HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 HTTP_ACCEPT text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 REQUEST_URI /mailman/confirm/consave-d QUERY_STRING SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 HTTP_HOST www.async.com.br REQUEST_METHOD POST SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.async.com.br Port 80 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/confirm SERVER_ADMIN kiko(a)async.com.br SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm CONTENT_LENGTH 128 PYTHONPATH /home/mailman PATH_INFO /consave-d HTTP_REFERER http://www.async.com.br/mailman/confirm/consave-d/988bb60b8d7b00155f487b645… SERVER_NAME www.async.com.br This one came in through email to me right now: ----- Forwarded message from GNU Mailman user <mailman(a)async.com.br> ----- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:00:06 -0200 From: GNU Mailman user <mailman(a)async.com.br> To: mailman(a)async.com.br Subject: cron: /usr/local/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/senddigests Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main mlist.send_digest_now() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in send_digest_now ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 128, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 141, in send_i18n_digests digestid = _('%(realname)s Digest, Vol %(volume)d, Issue %(issue)d') File "/home/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 78, in _ return _translation.gettext(s) % dict ValueError: unsupported format character ',' (0x2c) at index 18 ----- End forwarded message ----- Take care, -- Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil. http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL

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[ mailman-Bugs-621689 ] Subscribe requests dropped from admin db
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Bugs item #621689, was opened at 2002-10-10 20:10 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=621689&group_i… Category: (un)subscribing Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Submitted By: Mark Dadgar (mdadgar) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Subscribe requests dropped from admin db Initial Comment: Occasionally, subscribe requests (via the web page) to a list that requires moderator approval for subscriptions never make it to the admin db for that list. They are listed in the subscribe log file, but never show up on the admin db page. Log file entries look like this: Oct 10 18:43:43 2002 (31168) eventmasters: pending XXXXXX.swfla.rr.com But the admin db page for the list shows no outstanding issues. I have verified that there was an actual subscription request behind this log entry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Mark Dadgar (mdadgar) Date: 2002-12-05 23:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=598228 Ok, I verified that it's still a problem under 2.1b5 with the htdig and indexing patches. It's a real drag, too. :( Please let me know if you need more debug info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Dadgar (mdadgar) Date: 2002-11-21 22:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=598228 Unfortunately, it's still occurring under 2.1b4. I'll check it under 2.1b5 as soon as the patches for htdig integration are released, as I need those to implement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-10-22 07:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 I'm going to defer this one until 2.1b4 goes out. I've fixed some related bugs in cvs, so hopefully this will be fixed in the new version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Dadgar (mdadgar) Date: 2002-10-20 10:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=598228 Sorry - I'm running 2.1b3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-10-20 08:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 What version of Mailman are you using. It's import to know the exact version, i.e. 2.1beta3, or if you're running from cvs. A lot of these problems have been fixed in cvs, which will soon be released as 2.1 beta 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Dadgar (mdadgar) Date: 2002-10-10 21:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=598228 I just verified, by cat'ing pending.pck, that the appropriate changes seem to be in there. But the web interface never picks them up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=621689&group_i…

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] not quite about mailman -- AOL data losses.
by J C Lawrence 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:12:10 -0800 (PST) satyap <Satya> wrote: > Hmm, you could throw in YA X-header, call it X-MailmanSN, and have it > contain yyyymmdd or the output from time(). Given either Postfix or Exim, this would be fairly easy to add at a system level filter. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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[ mailman-Bugs-649158 ] unwanted space (cosmetic)
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Bugs item #649158, was opened at 2002-12-05 22:15 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649158&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simone Piunno (pioppo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: unwanted space (cosmetic) Initial Comment: The attached patch removes a single space from a string. The space is between a word and a semi-colon, which is bad (at least in italian). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649158&group_i…

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not quite about mailman -- AOL data losses.
by Chuq Von Rospach 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

not quite on topic, but for list managers.... I finally have some real numbers on AOL silently eating email. A list member just came back from 2 weeks of vacation to find 1/3 of the digests sent during that time missing, never delivered. And all were accepted from my site by AOL, and I never saw any bounces. More data here, but I've noticed the aol problems have gotten worse in the last couple of weeks. Six or seven of my list members have complained about missing messages, where before, I was getting one here, one there. ugh. AOL seems to be imploding, or something. But this isn't good. <http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/000118.html#000118> a semi RFE for mailman: one of my AOL users asked if we could number messages going out. I think under some circumstances, that might not be a bad idea. Not just for unreliable feeds, but for things like seed lists or other lists where reliablility is crucial... But not for 2.1.... -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui(a)plaidworks.com -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ But I can hear the sound Of slamming doors and folding chairs And that's a sound they'll never know

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[ mailman-Bugs-649112 ] "#" in mail address confuses mailman
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Bugs item #649112, was opened at 2002-12-05 19:59 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649112&group_i… Category: Web/CGI Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: "#" in mail address confuses mailman Initial Comment: someone recently managed to subscribe himself to the python.org image-sig mailing list, using an add- ress looking a bit like this one: prefix#user(a)some.com unfortunately, the web interface doesn't escape the "#" character, so the web pages for this user cannot be accessed: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/image- sig/prefix#user--at--some.com (the browser strips off the "#" and everything after it before sending the URL to mailman...). I'm not sure what version python.org is running, but I suspect that the Barry person might be able to figure that out. cheers /F ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649112&group_i…

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