Mailman 3 May 2002 - Mailman-Developers

Customization of mailman HTML pages...
by ntmatador＠netscape.net May 16, 2002

May 16, 2002

I just recently setup a mailman mailing list server (FreeBSD) for a college but I am interested in changing the way that the auto-generated HTML pages look, especially for the archives part. Does anyone have any idea how I can go about in doing this or if it is possible? If it is already customizable, what files do I need to edit to do this? Thank you for the help in advance... Eduardo __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

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[ mailman-Feature Requests-224744 ] disable List-Post for broadcast list
by noreply＠sourceforge.net May 16, 2002

May 16, 2002

Feature Requests item #224744, was opened at 2000-12-06 10:43 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=224744&group_id… Category: configuring/installing Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Don Porter (dgp) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: disable List-Post for broadcast list Initial Comment: There are problems using Mailman for "broadcast lists" -- those lists where only a few people are authorized to post messages to the list. For those lists, it is desirable to remove all references to posting messages in the instructions seen by list subscribers. The general list information page can be rewritten to achieve this, but the welcome message also includes these instructions and cannot be customized. With more recent releases of Mailman, the problem is made worse with the addition of a List-Post: header, which indicates to subscribers that their posts are welcome. They are not. Mailman needs additional configurability to suppress these invitations to post to the list to better support broadcast lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bob Weissman (bweissman) Date: 2002-05-16 09:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=546505 I have a working patch for this for Mailman 2.0.10. It adds a new attribute "add_extra_list_headers" to each mailing list, with default 1 (Yes). The toggle for this appears on the main admin page for each list. This controls 5 of the 6 List-* headers: Id, Help, Unsubscribe, Subscribe, and Post. It does not control List- Archive, on the assumption that is still useful for archived lists. I wrote it this way because I have lists which I do not want subscribers self-administering (they are sync-ed with a master membership database for my organization). It would be a simple matter to change this to add one parameter per header, but I didn't need that. Anybody want this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2001-10-11 11:59 Message: Logged In: NO I fully agree with this, and have the same difficulties. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Thomas Wouters (twouters) Date: 2001-03-02 16:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=34209 I think the addition of a 'read-only list' would be a good idea, myself. Moved to feature request. Patches welcome, of course (forgive me if there is already a patch for this, I'm trying to catch up ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dustin Mitchell (djmitche) Date: 2001-02-01 11:52 Message: This is a much-needed feature for our installation as well. Perhaps the addition of a 'Read-Only List?' configuration option? I'm willing to draw up and submit a patch for this, but I'll wait until I hear desire from a developer before I do this. Dustin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Don Porter (dgp) Date: 2000-12-07 08:53 Message: See also http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2000-September/006431.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=224744&group_id…

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] MimeDel.py: after filtering, munge text/plain's back together
by Dan Mick May 16, 2002

May 16, 2002

> 2) at the end of filtering, there needs to be a check to see if > all the remaining parts can profitably be recombined into > one part, at least for text/plain. a) obviously this is wrong for multiple real text attachments b) maybe a better answer is "don't add headers and footers until MimeDel runs (i.e. maybe MimeDel should come earlier in the pipeline) Hmm.

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Message Pipeline
by Donal Hunt May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

Hey there... I'm doing some modifications to the Mailman pipeline at the moment - adding a module that I want that does some modifications to messages as they get processed. I'm pretty happy with my code so far but wanted to check do I return the modified message or just make the changes and return? eg at the end do: return msg Regards Donal DCU

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a translation checker
by Simone Piunno May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a translation checker, a script that walks all files of a given Mailman translation, searching for inconsistencies such as wrong variable references, missing tags and so on. I'm doing this because I'm lazy and periodically reviewing and validating a translation is a boring process :) In attach you can find an early prototype, feel free to mail me complaints, suggestions and requests. If you think it's worth, I could try to generalize and do better exception handling. At the moment I have 2 problems and I need your advice: 1. What is the best regexp to use instead of /%\(([^)]+)\)[0-9]*[sd]/ to search for any Python %(variable)s? 2. Do you know of any existing parser I can use to read mailman.po? Cheers, Simone -- Simone Piunno, FerraraLUG - http://members.ferrara.linux.it/pioppo

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[ mailman-Patches-534577 ] Add SpamAssassin filter to mail pipeline
by noreply＠sourceforge.net May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

Patches item #534577, was opened at 2002-03-25 16:17 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=534577&group_id… Category: list administration Group: Mailman 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: James Henstridge (jhenstridge) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Add SpamAssassin filter to mail pipeline Initial Comment: This filter adds support for discarding or holding spam sent to the mailing list. It contacts a spamd daemon (from SpamAssassin -- http://spamassassin.taint.org) to score the message. If the score is above a certain threshold (default 10), the message is discarded and an entry is written to the vette log. If the score is above another lower threshold (default 5), the message is held for moderation. The SpamAssassin.py file should be installed in Mailman/Handlers/. The LIST_PIPELINE variable in Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py should be modified to include a 'SpamAssassin' item (I put it just after the existing 'SpamDetect' item). To change the defaults, the following can be added to the mm_cfg.py file: SPAMASSASSIN_HOST = 'host:port' # how to contact SA SPAMASSASSIN_DISCARD_SCORE = 10 SPAMASSASSIN_HOLD_SCORE = 5 If you don't want to discard messages, then DISCARD_SCORE can be set to something very high (1000 should do it). It looks the MM2.1 filter APIs have changed a bit, so this filter will need some modifications to work with that version. When I get round to upgrading, I might look into updating it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: James Henstridge (jhenstridge) Date: 2002-05-14 14:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=146903 This version is essentially the same as the previous version, but adds compatibility with python > 1.5.2, which doesn't like you passing two arguments to socket.connect(). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: James Henstridge (jhenstridge) Date: 2002-04-27 14:17 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=146903 Just attached my updated version of the patch. This version requires SpamAssassin 2.20 (for the extra commands that the spamd daemon understands). It now displays a list of which rules were triggered for held messages, and can give messages from list members a bonus (defaults to 2), so that they are less likely to get held as spam. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: James Henstridge (jhenstridge) Date: 2002-03-26 09:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=146903 There is a fairly easy optimisation for this filter that I missed when writing it. It calls str() on the message object twice. It would be quicker to call str() on the message once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=534577&group_id…

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[ mailman-Bugs-556260 ] err in INSTALL for qrunner autostarting
by noreply＠sourceforge.net May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

Bugs item #556260, was opened at 2002-05-15 11:07 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=556260&group_id… Category: documentation Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Dario Lopez-Kästen (dlkita) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: err in INSTALL for qrunner autostarting Initial Comment: There is what seems to be an error in the INSTALL document, the section that starts on line 327, about starting mailman automatically on reboot: around line 348, the document states: "For Unixes that don't support chkconfig, simply copy misc/mailman as above, then set up the following symbolic links, again as root: % cp misc/mailman /etc/init.d % cd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d ..... " The following is in error: - there is no misc/ directory in the installa location - if there where, following the instructions would undo the copying of scripts/mailman to /etc/init.d - the wording is somewhat ambiguous and may lead to misunderstanding. I propose the following change to the documentation: "For Unixes that don't support chkconfig, simply copy scripts/mailman as above: % cp scripts/mailman /etc/init.d/mailman then set up the following symbolic links, again as root: % cd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d ..... " ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=556260&group_id…

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[ mailman-Bugs-556250 ] Icons not copied properly on new install
by noreply＠sourceforge.net May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

Bugs item #556250, was opened at 2002-05-15 10:35 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=556250&group_id… Category: configuring/installing Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Dario Lopez-Kästen (dlkita) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Icons not copied properly on new install Initial Comment: Using 2.1b2 on a minimal Solaris 8 installation, the install script fails to properly copy the icons from the misc dir in the source to the icons dir in the mailman install location. This is reproduceable (I installed 4 times). Looking in the Makefile gave no clues, mostly due to ignorance of makeifiles on my part. Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, so I am not sure if this is my particular setup or if it is a general problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=556250&group_id…

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Plussed addresses
by Kenneth Porter May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

I'd like to use a "plussed" address in mailing lists (eg. shiva+mailmain-developers(a)sewingwitch.com) and I'm wondering if anyone has proposed changing the mailman filtering to match a plussed member name with the unplussed equivalent? In other words, I'd like to subscribe to a list using the plussed address, but post with the unplussed address. This sorta fits under the List Membership items in the wishlist (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/todo.html).

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] admindb.py question ( or a bug/faillure ?)
by J C Lawrence May 14, 2002

May 14, 2002

On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:48:28 +0200 Danny Terweij <danny(a)terweij.nl> wrote: > Logged in and looked at the source code of the webpage : <FORM > action="http://lnx.poema.yi.org/mailman/admindb/poema-test" > method="POST" > Where does this lnx.poema.yi.org is comming from? >From ~mailman/lists/<listname>/config.db. The value in Defaults.py (which you should never edit, change mm_cfg.py as instructed), is only used in creating new lists, not extant lists. You'll need to use the web UI or withlist to edit. -- 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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