Mailman 3 October 2003 - Mailman-Developers

please, help with mm bugs (fwd)
by J C Lawrence Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Archiver
by J C Lawrence Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:06:34 +0000 Iain Bapty <i.bapty(a)student.umist.ac.uk> wrote: > I'm quite desperate, Barry suggested that I ask here if anyone can > suggest any other work I could do for my project? A project that is near and dear to my heart, and which I have on my TODO list for that rainy day is to extend TMDA into being a sample implementation of Yakov Shafranovich's consent system as defined here: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-irtf-asrg-cri-00.txt It would be an excellent thing... -- 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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LOCK files craziness
by Juan Enrique Gómez Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

Hi! I have realized that when someone tries to use the admin html interface, the python script generates a lock file, but sometimes due to the very big database for somelists, the script is killed by apache due a timeout, and the lock file is on the locks directory till i come and manually delete it, the people tries to reload the page, generating additional locks, and the lists stops working at all. Is there any way i can fix this?, our could mailman daemon check for stale lock files and delete them when the process is not running? Thanks in advance. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Juan Enrique Gomez Perez |Metropoli2000 Networks, S.L. | Phone: +34 914250023 Fax: +34 914250136 | email: juan.enrique.gomez(a)metropoli2000.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Fingerprint: 6B39 3A2B A17B 1E8E CFFD FC14 678E 0A22 BD80 C486 Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBD80C486 If this message hasn't a correct signature please notify it to juanen(a)metropoli2000.com. To get the public key please use the above url. Thanks for your help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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== No Subject ==
by mch＠cix.compulink.co.uk Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:15:56 -0500 (EST) Dale Newfield <Dale(a)Newfield.org> wrote: > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Iain Bapty wrote: > > 6. allow for full-text searching of the archives. > > 7. allow for filtering by date, author, and/or topic. > > I find any archiver without at least 6 and likely 7 to be unusable, and > an incredible waste of the user's time. But don't let that put you off doing what you can inside the 200-hour limit :-) A thread-only archive is better than nothing, at least for a small list... That said, I have my must-have for an archiver: > > 9. allow archives to be set as public or private. and my want-a-lot: > > 3. provide a web-based interface to those email-discussions. This will be based on HTML templates with variables in the same style as MailMan? Please? Mike

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Archiver
by Iain Bapty Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

Hi, As you will probably know by my few posts. I had been intending on producing an archiver for my project. Unfortunately, yesterday I learned about a project (SMART Archiver) that pretty much does everything I was intending to do, which makes me pretty redundant. I'm quite desperate, Barry suggested that I ask here if anyone can suggest any other work I could do for my project? My project has to be a substantial piece of individual work that actually produces some kind of software artifact. It should be produced independently, I shouldn't be reliant on anyone else in order to complete the project. It also has to be challenging, in order to get good marks I have to solve problems, it cannot just be something like bug fixing an existing program. I am meant to spend 200 hours on my project, including report writing and presentation writing. Thanks for any advice. Iain

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: Requirements for a new archiver
by J C Lawrence Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:16:35 -0500 Barry Warsaw <barry(a)python.org> wrote: > Which does point to an alternative direction -- maybe we don't need > any direct connection to an html archive. Maybe the archiver should > just be a separate process that reads messages from the NNTP interface > a MM3 might export. Just blue-skying here. +1 -- 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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two bugs in Mailman 2.1.3, one is critical for private maillists
by Pablo Chamorro C. Oct. 28, 2003

Oct. 28, 2003

Dear developers, I found two bugs, the first one is critical for private maillists: 1. When a user changes its password, the web authentication against the private archives or the membership options pages fails!. You can reproduce this bug even with this list like I did. I tried only with 2.1.3, not with 2.1.2 nor others. 2. The email delivery on/off commands don't work!. To try with 'set delivery on' I had to set delivery off using the web interface but neither it works by email. In both cases Mailman shows: "delivery option set", but the changes are not done. This bug ocurrs also with the Mailman versions included with RH 9 (2.1-8 and 2.1.1-4). I used: set authenticate <password> and as a second line: set delivery off/on as I wrote, but set show returns the same. Please tell me if I'm wrong, and help me please that I'm implementing some private mailing lists for my institution. If there is no an easy (early) solution, could you please inform me, if the fixed bug reported in the release notes for Mailman 2.1.3 related to Postfix is valid for Mailman 2.1.1 or only for Mailman 2.1.2? For the first one: ------ begin ------ Bug in Mailman version 2.1.3 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 "/usr/local/mailman-2.1/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1/Mailman/Cgi/options.py", line 206, in main password, user): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 219, in WebAuthenticate print self.MakeCookie(ac, user) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 228, in MakeCookie raise ValueError ValueError ... ---- end ---- Thank you very much in advance. Pablo Chamorro C. http://www.ingeominas.gov.co --

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Re: Requirements for a new archiver
by Mauro Cicognini Oct. 27, 2003

Oct. 27, 2003

Iain wrote: > 5. provide an interface that threads discussions by e-mail replies. We might already have some Python code that does this (albeit in a format quite different from Unix mailbox), based on message-IDs. Do you think you may be interested in it? > 8. be MIME aware. I would strongly suggest that not being MIME-aware would strictly confine your work to proof-of-concept status. I.e., it would scarcely be useful in today's world. Even a simple HTML message would break it... and we know there's pleny of those. BR, Mauro

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Customize the Layout of Archives
by Gregory Clark Oct. 27, 2003

Oct. 27, 2003

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 What do I need to do to control the look and feel of the Archives? Specifically, I have private archival set on. I want to remove or suppress the link to download the full raw archive. What do I need to to? Regards, Greg ______________________________________________________________ Gregory A. Clark Email: gaclark(a)attglobal.net ______________________________________________________________ The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Gregory A. Clark is neither liable for the proper/complete transmission of the information contained in this communication nor for any delay in its receipt.

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serious web authentication problem
by Pablo Chamorro C. Oct. 25, 2003

Oct. 25, 2003

I just created a new list and I suscribed some users, but when a user changes his password Mailman shows this message: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.3 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 "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py", line 120, in main password, username): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 219, in WebAuthenticate print self.MakeCookie(ac, user) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 228, in MakeCookie raise ValueError ValueError I could reproduce this error in other server and with others lists, users and with any browser including lynx. I was trying under RH 9.0. Please help me or give me some idea... I've has been setting up and tunning Mailman (mhonarc, namazu, translating templates and messages) but this bug makes me very sad. Pablo Chamorro C. --

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