Mailman 3 February 2003 - Mailman-Developers

[Mailman-Developers] 'Charset "CHARSET"' warning when doing make catalogs
by Matthias Juchem 15 Feb '03

15 Feb '03

(Repost to mailman-developers(a)python.org because I got no answer on mailman-users(a)python.org) Hi there. I just wanted to do a upgrade to 2.1.1. The release notes tell me to do a 'make catalogs' in messages/. This step is repeated for each language: ---snip--- msgfmt -o lt/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo lt/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po Merging new template file with existing translations mv nl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po nl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po.old && msgmerge -o nl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po nl/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po.old mailman.pot mailman.pot: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name. Message conversion to user's charset might not work. ............................................................................ ................................................ done. ---snip--- Can I safely ignore the warning? Regards, Matthias

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Mailman Alternatives
by Cody Harris 15 Feb '03

15 Feb '03

Does anyone know of a site that would give out Mailman? I like the looks of mailman and how it works, but i have a win32 box. If not, are there any other Win32 compatible mailing list software like Mailman? Thanks alot! Check out http://vectec.net for all your hosting needs

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Cc: to cc: weirdness
by Tokio Kikuchi 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

Hi, I think this patch will work. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=685788&group_id=1… Cc-ing mailman-developers. Erik S.E. Walum wrote: > We've recently upgraded to Mailman2.1 and have noticed that Mailman is > now changing our Cc: headers and doing some RFC 2822 non-compliant > business with them. The original header might be: > > Cc: someuser(a)dom.ain, otheruser(a)dom.ain, lastuser(a)dom.ain > > when the message comes through to the list, the header has been altered > to: > > cc: someuser(a)dom.ain > cc: otheruser(a)dom.ain > cc: lastuser(a)dom.ain > > Can anyone help me out? -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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https vs. http
by Mentor Cana 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

With mailman 2.1, if I used https for secure access to access the admin site, example: https://www.alb-net.com/mailman/admin/ Clicking on one of the lists brings you do that list's login page, and the "https" stays "https" However, in 2.1.1, the "https" changes into "http". Was this an intentional modification of behavior between 2.1 and 2.1.1? How else can I ensure that all the sessions stay withing "https" if I access the admin page via "https". thanks, Mentor

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Re: CORRUPT ARCHIVE FOR LIST: Redux
by Harald Koch 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

I have the same problem :-) In message <5.1.1.6.0.20030212075718.03bf88d8(a)pop3.demon.co.uk>, Richard Barrett writes: > > The reported error is that the time.mktime function is being called with a > year value outside the range 1970 to 2038, that is outside the epoch known > by the C functions for date handling on the platform. > > The question of why this date has cropped up is more difficult to determine. Yup. This happens irregularly for me, but once a "corrupt" message is in the archive.mbox file it is repeatable. I've looked at the message causing the problem (both in the queue files and in the archive .mbox file) and *I* can't see a poorly formatted date. Granted, my eyes aren't what they used to be. My error log and shunted qfiles are available at <http://www.cfrq.net/~chk/mailman-error.tar>, if any developers want a test case for this bug (which is related to #610265). -- Harald Koch <chk(a)pobox.com> http://blog.cfrq.net/chk/ There is no problem, no matter how large or small, that cannot be solved by a suitable amount of high explosives. - Leo Graf, USS LaFarge, 2298

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CORRUPT ARCHIVE FOR LIST: Redux
by Bob Tanner 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Getting the following error from mailman: Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): Traceback (innermost last): Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 222, in ArchiveMail Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): h.close() Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 306, in close Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): self.write_TOC() Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 896, in write_TOC Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): self.sortarchives() Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 834, in sortarchives Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): self.archives.sort(sf) Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 825, in sf Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): al=s.volNameToDate(a) Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 820, in volNameToDate Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): return time.mktime((year,month,1,0,0,0,0,1,-1)) Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 qrunner(2157): OverflowError: mktime argument out of range Feb 11 21:50:35 2003 (2157) CORRUPT ARCHIVE FOR LIST: the-list mailman-2.0.13-1 python-1.5.2-38 Redhat-7.3 Linux Followed the thread here: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg13602.html Tried to rebuild the archives, but still get the error message. Any other ideas? -- Bob Tanner <tanner(a)real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 http://www.linuxjustworks.com | Linux Just Works! Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42 1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1 B288

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[Mailman-Developers] Odd message body "/root/8e8Ta4: Permission denied" (2.1b2)
by Nick Arnett 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

One of my list moderators accidentally approved a bit of spam to a list. The message that went to the subscribers contained nothing other than the line "/root/8e8Ta4: Permission denied" and the footer. In the Mailman error log, the entry for that message is "Feb 07 10:14:24 2003 (11930) HTML->text/plain error: 65280". So I'm assuming that conversion from HTML to text failed. And I suppose that this sort of thing just basically shouldn't go to the list. This happened with Mailman 2.1b2 on Redhat 7.0. I'm in the process of switching over to 2.1 on a new machine running RH 8.0, so I sent it to my test list there... which promptly kicked it back to me with a "Content filtered message notification." Thus, no real problem, I believe, but I offer this because it's slightly worrisome to see anything with "/root" showing up in a message that goes to the whole list. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 narnett(a)mccmedia.com

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Adding windows-1251 encoding
by Ognyan Kulev 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Hi, When a mail is sent with windows-1251 encoding something like the output of bug 649007[1] is written in the error log. After a short investigation I found that it should be possible to add windows-1251 encoding, because in Python 2.1 it is there (as 'cp1251'). I wasn't able to do it though. How can I add support for windows-1251 in Mailman 2.1.1 using python 2.1? [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=649007&group_id… Regards -- Ognyan Kulev <ogi(a)fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""

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Mailman 2.0.6
by Michael Zieger 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Hi there, just a short question to Mailman 2.0.6 (rpm from SuSE7.3): I installed everything and created a list. After adding members, I sent an e-mail via kmail to the list. But the arriving e-mail does not contain any "list-id" headers. According to documentation, it should be there, but no, it's not. Do you know what could be the problem? BTW, looks like a great piece of software. I try with just one list now and if it's good, I'll implement it for my customers. thanks, michael -- // Michael Zieger, BSc.Ing. --- Zieger Michael EDV-Lösungen // http://www.zmi.at Tel: 0676/4156531 Linux 2.4.21

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stylesheet support (patch)
by Magnus Stenman 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

I've patched my mailman 2.1.1 to accept an optional stylesheet config option. I modified the english templates with the stylesheet placeholder, and included a sample style sheet. Feel free to include it. patch attached below; in your mailman source dir, apply with patch -p1 < stylesheets.diff /magnus -- Magnus Stenman mailto:stone@hkust.se http://www.stenman.org Get it up, keep it up. Linux -- Viagra for your PC

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