Mailman 3 January 2003 - Mailman-Developers

[ mailman-Patches-670167 ] fix i18n attachment description in archive
by SourceForge.net 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Patches item #670167, was opened at 2003-01-18 05:58 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=670167&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.1 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: fix i18n attachment description in archive Initial Comment: Bug-ID 669081 (Major attachment handling bug!) is caused inaccurate handling of charset in Scrubber.py. This is caused by misuse of email functions (or by bug in email package). In Scrubber.py, attempt is made to get message charset by part.get_charset() but it returns only None, as far as I experimented. In this patch, message charset is extracted from regular expression pattern in content-type header. This also set the charset of internally crafted message part. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi) Date: 2003-01-19 00:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=67709 Update of patch. Please backout the first one if you have already applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=670167&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-670475 ] Pipermail archives and attachments
by SourceForge.net 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Bugs item #670475, was opened at 2003-01-18 23:22 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=670475&group_i… Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jan Siml (janjules) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Pipermail archives and attachments Initial Comment: I have a problem with the archives produced by pipermail version 0.09. If the default language for the list is english, everything works fine and pipermail produces an archive with correct ../attachments/.. urls. Like this: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative

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GetScriptURL and "absolute=1"
by Fabricio Chalub 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Hi, I still find that mailman's administrative interface behaves incorrectly on HTTPDs running on non-standard ports. It simply discards the port information out of the URL, despite DEFAULT_URL* settings. On some pages, the URL to the FORM ACTION is relative (eg, the "General Options" form) while others, it is absolute (eg, the "Membership list"). Looking around the source, I've found lines like this adminurl = mlist.GetScriptURL('admin', absolute=1) Changing the value of ABSOLUTE to 0 solved the problem, and I've found it pretty harmless. Any specific reason for the ABSOLUTE=1 setting? If this is okay, I can provide a patch (although there are very few lines that need changing). Thanks, Fabricio Chalub

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bug report : nntp connect failure does not specify host nameZ
by dhesi＠rahul.net 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Hi, I'm sorry, I tried to submit a bug report via the SourceForge project page, but could not find any buttons or links on the 'bugs' and 'tracker' pages that would let me submit a new bug report. I am using Mailman 2.0.13 as included RedHat Linux 7.2. When mailman is unable to make an nntp connection to a News host, it returns an error of the form shown below. In this error message it does not specify to which host it was trying to connect. This seems like a minor thing. But in fact, due to this omission, I spent a lot of time debugging a connection failure problem. I did not realize that due to a DNS and /etc/hosts inconsistency, mailman was trying to connect to the wrong host. Rahul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:05:36 -0800 (PST) From: Cron Daemon <root(a)pink.rahul.net> To: mailman(a)rahul.net Subject: Cron <mailman@pink> /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/gate_news Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) File "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in __init__ self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) socket.error: (113, 'No route to host') == END ==

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Hello folks, I just joined the list
by Erik 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

I'm in serious need.... I'm on a mailinglist run on (X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8). This list is desperately in need of the "limit posts per day" feature. I see it on the wishlist at (http://www.list.org/todo.html): Add a limit on the number of posts from any one individual within a period of time (1 post per day, 10 per week, etc). Do you have an idea of how hard this would be to add? I've been around computers and programming for 30 years, starting with Fortran in high school on a CDC 3300, including assembler (Motorola 68K), C (Unix 4.1 BSD - 4.3 BSD, Solaris), C++, C# (NT, XP, etc), some scripting with sh and csh, perl, etc., but no Python (yet). I'm sure I could eventually figure it out. I'd like to volunteer to do the work, but I'd like to know what I'm up against first. I've downloaded the 2.0.8 sources but haven't had time to look through them carefully. Any words of wisdom (sure, it's easy ... forget it, it's hopeless)? Thanks, Erik

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subscribing via email...
by Jonah Crawford 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

what parameter can I include in the email to override the default 'plain' so that MIMEs are included for the subscriber when receiving their daily newsletter? Many thanks! -j

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preventing double messages
by Ruud Steltenpool 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Hello, I'm on a few lists of 1 and the same mailman. It occurs that someone sends 1 e-mail to multiple of those lists. Then i get the same message more than once. This could be prevented: For every incoming mail: Not start sending to all members of all receiving lists right away, but hold a temp-list in memory of all receiving members for this particular message. Then when all lists are processed, remove doubles from the temp-list and THEN send. cheers.

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[ mailman-Bugs-669081 ] Major attachment handling bug!
by SourceForge.net 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Bugs item #669081, was opened at 2003-01-16 15:46 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=669081&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 9 Submitted By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Major attachment handling bug! Initial Comment: Attachments are not handled correctly. Attached to this bug report is an example email in a mbox file. How to reproduce: 1. create a list called "clasohlson" 2. copy this mbox file to the archive mbox file 3. run bin/arch for the list 4. look at the resulting archive I will post a followup which will contain the resulting html file I got when doing this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-18 17:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Sorry, forget my last comment, the attachment was just fine. My mistake. But attachment naming is still a problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-18 17:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Check also the attached "attachment_error.mbox". It contains a single message, with a MS Word document that becomes completely scrambled after going through pipermail... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-18 17:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Applied without problems, but gave me the following error when running bin/arch (not on the mbox I submitted, though): Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 187, in ? main() File "bin/arch", line 175, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in processUnixMailbox m = mbox.next() File "/usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 33, in next return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop)) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 79, in scrubber return mailbox.scrub(msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 99, in scrub return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 145, in process cs = csre.search(part['content-type']) TypeError: expected string or buffer The offending message had no "Content-Type:" field in its header. (It was, of course, produced by a Microsoft product... ;) Some issues from my earlier subimtted example that still needs to be fixed: 1. The attachment file name still becomes ".dot", not ".doc" as it should have been. Also, the reported size is wrong (larger) than the actual file. 2. "The attachment was scrubbed" part in the archive web page is still sort of "attached" to the message itself, e.g. to the email signature of the user that posted the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi) Date: 2003-01-18 07:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=67709 Please try this patch. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=670167&group_i… (Patch ID 670167) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 17:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 -changing priority and assignment- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 And here is the html file in english. Notice the difference. Lots of garbage (also called mojibake?) ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:28 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Here is the generated html page for the email, if list language is set to norwegian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Sorry, my web browser hung after submitting the bug, and I had to go offfline in a hurry. Trying again.... :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2003-01-16 16:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 There was no attachment, are you sure you clicked the checkbox? :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=669081&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-669081 ] Major attachment handling bug!
by SourceForge.net 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Bugs item #669081, was opened at 2003-01-16 15:46 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=669081&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 9 Submitted By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Major attachment handling bug! Initial Comment: Attachments are not handled correctly. Attached to this bug report is an example email in a mbox file. How to reproduce: 1. create a list called "clasohlson" 2. copy this mbox file to the archive mbox file 3. run bin/arch for the list 4. look at the resulting archive I will post a followup which will contain the resulting html file I got when doing this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-18 17:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Check also the attached "attachment_error.mbox". It contains a single message, with a MS Word document that becomes completely scrambled after going through pipermail... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-18 17:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Applied without problems, but gave me the following error when running bin/arch (not on the mbox I submitted, though): Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 187, in ? main() File "bin/arch", line 175, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in processUnixMailbox m = mbox.next() File "/usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 33, in next return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop)) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 79, in scrubber return mailbox.scrub(msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 99, in scrub return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 145, in process cs = csre.search(part['content-type']) TypeError: expected string or buffer The offending message had no "Content-Type:" field in its header. (It was, of course, produced by a Microsoft product... ;) Some issues from my earlier subimtted example that still needs to be fixed: 1. The attachment file name still becomes ".dot", not ".doc" as it should have been. Also, the reported size is wrong (larger) than the actual file. 2. "The attachment was scrubbed" part in the archive web page is still sort of "attached" to the message itself, e.g. to the email signature of the user that posted the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi) Date: 2003-01-18 07:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=67709 Please try this patch. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=670167&group_i… (Patch ID 670167) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 17:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 -changing priority and assignment- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 And here is the html file in english. Notice the difference. Lots of garbage (also called mojibake?) ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:28 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Here is the generated html page for the email, if list language is set to norwegian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Sorry, my web browser hung after submitting the bug, and I had to go offfline in a hurry. Trying again.... :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2003-01-16 16:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 There was no attachment, are you sure you clicked the checkbox? :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=669081&group_i…

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[ mailman-Bugs-669081 ] Major attachment handling bug!
by SourceForge.net 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

Bugs item #669081, was opened at 2003-01-16 15:46 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=669081&group_i… Category: Pipermail Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 9 Submitted By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Major attachment handling bug! Initial Comment: Attachments are not handled correctly. Attached to this bug report is an example email in a mbox file. How to reproduce: 1. create a list called "clasohlson" 2. copy this mbox file to the archive mbox file 3. run bin/arch for the list 4. look at the resulting archive I will post a followup which will contain the resulting html file I got when doing this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-18 17:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Applied without problems, but gave me the following error when running bin/arch (not on the mbox I submitted, though): Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 187, in ? main() File "bin/arch", line 175, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in processUnixMailbox m = mbox.next() File "/usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 33, in next return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop)) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 79, in scrubber return mailbox.scrub(msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 99, in scrub return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 145, in process cs = csre.search(part['content-type']) TypeError: expected string or buffer The offending message had no "Content-Type:" field in its header. (It was, of course, produced by a Microsoft product... ;) Some issues from my earlier subimtted example that still needs to be fixed: 1. The attachment file name still becomes ".dot", not ".doc" as it should have been. Also, the reported size is wrong (larger) than the actual file. 2. "The attachment was scrubbed" part in the archive web page is still sort of "attached" to the message itself, e.g. to the email signature of the user that posted the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi) Date: 2003-01-18 07:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=67709 Please try this patch. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=670167&group_i… (Patch ID 670167) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 17:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 -changing priority and assignment- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 And here is the html file in english. Notice the difference. Lots of garbage (also called mojibake?) ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:28 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Here is the generated html page for the email, if list language is set to norwegian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Daniel Buchmann (avalon) Date: 2003-01-16 16:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=184577 Sorry, my web browser hung after submitting the bug, and I had to go offfline in a hurry. Trying again.... :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2003-01-16 16:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 There was no attachment, are you sure you clicked the checkbox? :( ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=669081&group_i…

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