Mailman 3 April 2003 - Mailman-Developers

Cron <mailman@svlug> /usr/bin/python -S /var/local/mailman/cron/disabled
by Marc MERLIN April 11, 2003

April 11, 2003

This is CVS as of a few days ago. Any ideas? ----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon <root(a)svlug.org> ----- From: root(a)svlug.org (Cron Daemon) To: mailman(a)svlug.org Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/local/mailman/cron/disabled", line 209, in ? main() File "/var/local/mailman/cron/disabled", line 201, in main mlist.sendNextNotification(member) File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py", line 212, in sendNextNotification Pending.confirm(info.cookie) File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 133, in confirm db = _load() File "/var/local/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 163, in _load return cPickle.load(fp) EOFError ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f(a)merlins.org for PGP key

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encrypted mailing list
by Thomas C. Meggs April 11, 2003

April 11, 2003

Hi, I've been playing around with the idea of making software for an encrypted mailing list that would be based around GPG. Each mailing list would have its own public key. All members of a list would have to submit a public key on subscription. When incoming mail is received, the mailing list software would decrypt the email and then re-encrypt with the public key for each of the members of the list. Has anyone played around with this idea? Has anyone already done a working concept? I was just curious, and I wanted to throw the idea out there. Thanks! Regards, Tom

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Strange Subject: handling
by mailman April 11, 2003

April 11, 2003

Good day! I've started to use Mailman in my production environment. I am impressed of its huge number of features ! Thank You for your job. But I have discovered a bug (or I missed something in mailman tuning). When a message with certain Subject: arrived to list from one of subscribers, the message silently dies and nobody receives any warnings. If I changed only Subject field of the message - then the message had passed happily. Moreover, if I've changed only encoding of a message (from windows-1251 to koi8-r) the message passed again! The Subject: is a Russian text encoded in the following styles: The 'Subject:' of the messages which had beed killed: Outlook Express: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Subject: =?windows-1251?B?IC0tIEVneXB0IC0tINHz8u737fvlIPbl7fsgIzE3IO7yIDEwLjA0Lg==?= =?windows-1251?B?MjAwMw==?= Mozilla: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ru-RU; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Subject: -- Egypt -- =?windows-1251?Q?=D1=F3=F2=EE=F7=ED=FB=E5_=F6=E5=ED?= =?windows-1251?Q?=FB_=2317_=EE=F2_10=2E04=2E2003?= The 'Subject:' of the messages which had beed happily posted: Mozilla: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ru-RU; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Subject: [Test2] -- Egypt -- =?koi8-r?b?89XUz97O2cUgw8XO2SAjMTcgz9QgMTAuMDQuMjAwMw==?= Outlook Express: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 Subject: [Test2] =?koi8-r?b?IC0tIEVneXB0IC0tIPPV1M/eztnFIA==?= =?koi8-r?b?w8XO2SAjMTcgz9QgMTAuMDQuMjAwMw==?= So the questions is: Is this a bug or there is some tuning options for this? Can I enable some additional debugging for the cases like this? Mailman 2.1.1 Python 2.1.3 Debian 3.0r1 Woody Best regards, Maxim Yakubenko

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patch verification
by Tokio Kikuchi April 11, 2003

April 11, 2003

Hi Developers, Can anyone verify this patch ? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=694902&group_i… Without this patch, MIME digest message will be delivered with links to the saved attachments. With this, the attached file is included in the delivered digest mail. I think MIME digest should be delivered latter way and this patch should be included in the next release. A person who applied this patch claims that this caused every message to be shunted. So, I want to know if this patch is useful or not. -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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blankety-blank AOL bounces (not accepting mail from...)
by Jeff Hahn April 10, 2003

April 10, 2003

Mailman 2.1.1 Apparently AOL has a "feature" that you can use to bounce email from certain senders. See example below. Aoluser123 (email address aoluser123(a)aol.com) is not accepting mail from jkl(a)gryphongardens.com who has posted to list abc(a)gryphongardens.com in this example. On verped deliveries, this bounce is counted as a bounce for aoluser123(a)aol.com On non-verped deliveries, this bounce is returned to list-owner as unrecognized. While I like the idea of having the aol user bounce off, it's probably not the correct answer. Probably all of these bounces (verped and non-verped) should be silently discarded. I guess this is a feature request/bug report. Thanks for a great product! -Jeff example bounce------------------------------------------------------------ Received: from omr-d07.mx.aol.com ([205.188.159.13]) by abc.gryphongardens.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 193ep8-0006yg-00 for <abc-bounces(a)gryphongardens.com>; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:22:50 -0500 Received: from air-xb01.mail.aol.com (air-xb01.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.97])by omr-d07.mx.aol.com (v90_r2.6) with ESMTP id RELAYIN9-0410122200; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:22:00 -0500 from: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)aol.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:17:56 EDT To: <abc-bounces(a)gryphongardens.com> Subject: Mail Delivery Problem Mailer: AIRmail [v92.17] Message-ID: <200304101222.09MwPKKa18178(a)omr-d07.mx.aol.com> Your mail to the following recipients could not be delivered because they are not accepting mail from jkl(a)gryphongardens.com: Aoluser123

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman web interfaces and design
by mch＠cix.compulink.co.uk April 10, 2003

April 10, 2003

In-Reply-To: <E192e1F-0008E2-02(a)mail.python.org> CARTER Anthony <a.carter(a)cordis.lu> wrote: > > I am looking for a means of customizing the mailman we pages. I have > noticed that some pages can be edited via the interface, but I would > like to make more drastic changes (removing links to admin page for > example). > > My first thing that I would like to do is, if possible, to add our own > CSSs to the web pages. Does anyone know if this is possible, and if so, > where do I start? Yes. You can put any HTML at all in there, so long as you use the <MM-thing-name> tags correctly. Take a look at www.londonfreelance.org/indynet for an example - which not only uses a style sheet but also ECMA scripting - strongly encouraging people to introduce themselves to the list and proofreading their email before hitting the server for example. If cordis wants to licen{c|s}e the error-checking code I expect I'll discount it for the usefulness of your service :-) Now, to everyone else... where do I get to play with the templates for the archives? I know they're in there somewhere, because of internationali{s|z}ation discussions here. I'm using MM running on an ISP's machine, so I can't just grep for them... Mike Holderness

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notify disabled not working; bad subscribed address problem
by David Birnbaum April 9, 2003

April 9, 2003

Howdy, As near as I can tell, the bounce_notify_owner_on_disable option is not working. At the moment, even though it is set to "yes" for lists, no notifications are being sent. Unsubscribe notifications are being sent, however. I have double checked the list option, and switched the options around, to no avail. This was a conversion from 2.0 to 2.1.1 (what I'm currently running) in case that makes any difference. Problem No. 2, had to do with a e-mail address that somehow got subscribed with a non-ASCII character and it. I cannot delete the address, either on the web site or any other way, as best as I can tell. list_members breaks: prompt% list_members thebody [ names up to hm... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File "list_members", line 232, in ? main() File "list_members", line 207, in main s = formataddr((name, addr)).encode(enc, 'replace') UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) Any python gurus who can suggest a simple fix to at least get the entire list enumerated? I suppose I don't really need to unsubscribe the bad address as long as I can list everything. Otherwise, 2.1.1 has been functioning flawlessly. Bounce detection is much better, as well. Thanks in advance, David.

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Digest delivery scheduling
by Feng Jeffrey April 9, 2003

April 9, 2003

Hi Guys, How can I set the time that the digest will be sent on Mailman? For example, I'd like to have the digests for all lists to be delivered at 6:00 AM everyday. Any help will be appreciated. Jeffrey Feng Whittier College

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still having admin cookie problem
by Bill Bradford April 8, 2003

April 8, 2003

I'm running MM 2.1.1, and am *still* seeing the admin cookie problem - when I go to accept/discard posts that were held for moderation, select the option for each one, then hit submit - it then takes me *back* to the password entry screen, I have to enter the admin password *again*, and then do it all over and hit submit a second time before it will take effect. This has been tested and happens even with new installations of browsers that have *no* cookies stored. Suggestions? Bill -- bill bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net austin, texas

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Password reminder envelope source address strangeness
by Carson Gaspar April 8, 2003

April 8, 2003

It appears that my lists' password reminders are being sent from a now bogus (but previously valid) envelope from address. I can't seem to track down where it's getting the ancient address from. All the list traffic has the correct envelope from address, it's just the password reminders that are b0rked. This is with mailman from CVS on 2002-11-11, FYI (yes, I should upgrade, I know...) -- Carson

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