Mailman 3 October 2003 - Mailman-Developers

HTML Emails
by Wendt, Trevor 02 Oct '03

02 Oct '03

I'm looking at using Mailman to distribute a multipart Text / HTML email message. The Text message is displayed for Text only email viewers and the HTML message is displayed for HTML capable email viewers. I'm using a separate CGI script to create the multipart email message which is then sent to my distribution list. This process works great. My question is this; When using the setup outlined above, are there any tokens (such as %(users)s) that I can use in the HTML email message content so when it is passed through Mailman, Mailman would then replace the token with a user's name, email address, or append the full url for the customer's options page? This functionality exists in Mailman because all the email templates work on this method. I guess what I need to know is if and how one can tap into this functionality with pass through emails. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Trevor

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Bug priorities (for 2.1.3)?
by Bernhard Reiter 02 Oct '03

02 Oct '03

Congratulation for getting 2.1.3 out of the door! I have a question and a remark regarding the handling of bugs: * What attributes do bugs need to get into the next release when a fix is available. As announced on the 14th of August to this list I fixed a priority 7 bug and did not receive feedback on it. Is there a special reason why it wasn't included in the 2.1.3 release? [ 665732 ] List-Id should be one line. * There is a very annoying bug (reproduced with 2.1.2, 2.1.3 test scheduled) in environments where people sign their emails, because Mailman breaks the signature. [ 815297 ] Breaking signatures in message/rfc822 attachement! http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=815297&group_id=103&atid=10… I suggest raising the priority of this bug, because it might give Mailman a bad reputation with security aware people. And once established such an image is hard to loose again. Cheers, Bernhard -- Professional Service for Free Software (intevation.net) The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) FSF Europe (fsfeurope.org)

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MailMan Archives and more cPanel Control
by Gregory A. Clark 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

I can only create and maintain my mailing list options via cPanel. The actual mailman files are not in a user accessible area for me. I have private archival set on. When I look at the generated archive page there is: 1. a link to download the full raw archive 2. a link "Downloadable version [ Gzip'd Text xx KB ]" Is there any development initiative to allow more control of the MailMail archiving via cPanel? Is there any current way I can suppress these, given my obvious lack of system privileges? I don't want these archive download links to appear. I have the following at my current web hosting account: MailMan Version 2.1.2 Pipermail 0.09 cPanel Version 7.4.2 MySQL Version 4.0.15 PHP Version 4.3.3 Regards, Greg

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