Mailman 3 August 2002 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman password and administrative reminders
by Dan Mick Aug. 13, 2003

Aug. 13, 2003

? This very message came to me with the following header: Errors-To: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org All my bounces come to the list admin address, set in the admin webpage, in the second field of General Options. Do you have that set to something, and bounces still come to root? > 2. Bounces are sent to the poor postmaster instead of a -admin address. > I'm not entirely certain, but I think an Errors-To: header or something > like that in all Mailman messages might allow one to distribute that load > somewhat.

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(More) pristine archives
by barry＠zope.com Oct. 6, 2002

Oct. 6, 2002

An interesting issue came up today while we were playing with a Bayesian spam classifier. Mailman's archives aren't very clean. Messages are sent to the archiver after various headering munging steps, including the adding of the List-* headers and the Subject prefix. We still want to do some munging, e.g. for anonymous lists. This tells me that we may want to move ToArchive up before CookHeaders in the global pipeline. I don't think we want to move ToDigest or ToUsenet because I think we /want/ those headers munged before the message is sent to the digests or news server. What do you think? -Barry

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Forget password form and unsubscribe without password
by Kory Wheatley Sept. 4, 2002

Sept. 4, 2002

In mailman 2.0.13 is there a way for users to unsubscribe without remembering their password. I know you can send a message to listname-request(a)domain.com, and in the body put unsubscribe, but this requires a password. Has anyone developed a web forget password form, where the user can type in their email address and it will send them their mailman subscribers password. I would appreciate it if anyone would share their code. I'm trying to learn python. Kory Wheatley

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: i18n support for Archiver
by J C Lawrence Sept. 3, 2002

Sept. 3, 2002

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:58:26 -0400 bob <Puff@NLE" <bob(a)nleaudio.com>> wrote: > A note / plea for those working on Pipermail archives. It would be > really nice if Mailman would store the archives in a 8.3 > dos-compatible filename. This makes the storing of archives on CDROM > much easier, and cross-platform friendly. Easier to use one of the extended CDROM formats which supports long filenames. -- 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-Patches-413752 ] Coerce posts to plain text.
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Aug. 30, 2002

Aug. 30, 2002

Patches item #413752, was opened at 2001-04-04 10:23 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: 5 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: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2002-08-30 10:16 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 09:07 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 08:02 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: 2002-08-27 21:40 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: 2002-08-27 20:44 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: 2002-08-27 17:22 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 12:00 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 08:43 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 08:29 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 08:20 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 10:15 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 13:08 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 12:34 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 11:33 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 16:49 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 12:27 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: 2001-05-07 21:38 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: 2001-05-07 21:33 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: 2001-05-07 21:16 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: 2001-05-07 20:30 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 09:25 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 08:37 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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[ mailman-Patches-413752 ] Coerce posts to plain text.
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Aug. 30, 2002

Aug. 30, 2002

Patches item #413752, was opened at 2001-04-04 10:23 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: 5 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: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) Date: 2002-08-30 09:07 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 08:02 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: 2002-08-27 21:40 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: 2002-08-27 20:44 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: 2002-08-27 17:22 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 12:00 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 08:43 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 08:29 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 08:20 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 10:15 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 13:08 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 12:34 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 11:33 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 16:49 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 12:27 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: 2001-05-07 21:38 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: 2001-05-07 21:33 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: 2001-05-07 21:16 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: 2001-05-07 20:30 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 09:25 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 08:37 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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[ mailman-Patches-413752 ] Coerce posts to plain text.
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Aug. 30, 2002

Aug. 30, 2002

Patches item #413752, was opened at 2001-04-04 10:23 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: 5 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: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-08-30 08:02 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: 2002-08-27 21:40 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: 2002-08-27 20:44 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: 2002-08-27 17:22 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 12:00 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 08:43 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 08:29 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 08:20 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 10:15 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 13:08 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 12:34 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 11:33 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 16:49 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 12:27 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: 2001-05-07 21:38 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: 2001-05-07 21:33 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: 2001-05-07 21:16 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: 2001-05-07 20:30 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 09:25 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 08:37 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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[ mailman-Patches-602087 ] observe configure srcdir
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Aug. 29, 2002

Aug. 29, 2002

Patches item #602087, was opened at 2002-08-29 20:44 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=602087&group_i… Category: None Group: Mailman 2.1 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Donn Cave (donnc) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: observe configure srcdir Initial Comment: (2nd try, hopefully with attached file this time.) These patches to Makefile.in in several directories make the --srcdir configure option work. Which can be very useful if you have a multi-platform build system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=602087&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-602056 ] observing srcdir configure option
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Aug. 29, 2002

Aug. 29, 2002

Patches item #602056, was opened at 2002-08-29 19:49 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=602056&group_i… Category: None Group: Mailman 2.1 >Status: Deleted Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Donn Cave (donnc) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: observing srcdir configure option Initial Comment: See attached (I hope) diffs for most Makefile.ins. The configure --srcdir option is very useful here. These minor changes allow it to work, mostly affecting the install phase. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=602056&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-602082 ] lists_of_member optimization
by noreply＠sourceforge.net Aug. 29, 2002

Aug. 29, 2002

Patches item #602082, was opened at 2002-08-29 20:34 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=602082&group_i… Category: Web UI Group: Mailman 2.1 >Status: Deleted Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Donn Cave (donnc) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: lists_of_member optimization Initial Comment: Well, really just avoiding it during application of user options. We ran the list count up to 5K, and found that the options form was very slow. It will still be slow if you ask for your options to be applied across the site, but this patch will alleviate the problem if you don't ask for that. It just tests whether globalopts actually has had any attributes applied to it, and only then calls lists_of_member. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=602082&group_i…

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