Mailman 3 August 2003 - Mailman-Developers

Editing the public Html Pages
by Philip Ponton 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Does anyone know how to add in a section in the public html pages with a question that ask's subscribers to fill in there graphical location or city code. Please Help.. Thanks

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Handling of private gzipped archives
by Matthew Galgoci 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hi Folks! I've been bit by a bug in mailman 2.0.1 where mailman assumes that there will always be an uncompressed version of a monthly private archive file hanging around, which for my setup isn't the case. Path truncation in the content_type routine wrongly chomps off .gz extension. Here is how I fixed the bug: --- mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py.orig Tue Aug 26 15:24:04 2003 +++ mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py Tue Aug 26 16:06:04 2003 @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ def content_type(path): if path[-3:] == '.gz': - path = path[:-3] + # path = path[:-3] + return 'application/x-gzip' if path[-4:] == '.txt': return 'text/plain' return 'text/html' @@ -186,9 +187,9 @@ f = open(os.path.join(mlist.archive_directory + '.mbox', mlist.internal_name() + '.mbox')) ctype = 'text/plain' - elif true_filename[-3:] == '.gz': - import gzip - f = gzip.open(true_filename, 'r') + #elif true_filename[-3:] == '.gz': + # import gzip + # f = gzip.open(true_filename, 'r') else: f = open(true_filename, 'r') except IOError: It also occured to me that mailman is bothering to decompress compressed archive files before sending them back to the web client. This is wrong in many ways: 1) extra load decompressing the file 2) clients getting a file back with a .gz extention that is really a text file 3) extra bandwidth consumed while sending the uncompressed file back to the client 4) many web browsers will silently decompress application/x-gzip mime data automatically I checked Mailman 2.1.2 to see if any of this is still done, and apparently the decompression issue still is, at least in the copy I have here. (haven't checked cvs head). Here's my version of a fix for this: --- mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Cgi/private.py.orig 2003-08-26 16:46:16.000000000 -0400 +++ mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Cgi/private.py 2003-08-26 16:47:21.000000000 -0400 @@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ mlist.internal_name() + '.mbox')) ctype = 'text/plain' elif true_filename.endswith('.gz'): - import gzip - f = gzip.open(true_filename, 'r') + ctype = 'application/x-gzip' + f = open(true_filename, 'r') else: f = open(true_filename, 'r') except IOError: Most folks on non-Linux-like operating systems have some kind of decompression software available that can handle gz format even if their browser does not. Kind Regards, Matthew Galgoci -- Matthew Galgoci "Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap" System Administrator Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155

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Python Book
by Kory Wheatley 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

What is the best book to learn Python, for a beginner and than another book for the advanced features? -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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HTML code setting ???
by Fabio Rossi 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Help me please. In MailMan mailing list... What is the setting to put HTML code in footer and header of the mailman list ??? I use MailMan Mailing List of CPanel and HTML CODE IS NOT RECOGNIZED. I read all in pure text. If i insert HTML code such as footer or header it result in a error. I read all messages in pure text. Not "GoodBye GoodBye GoodBye" but "<body> <p>GoodBye GoodBye GoodBye GoodBye</p> </body>". WHAT IS THE SETTING TO READ HTML CODE IN THE MAILING LIST MESSAGES (TO INSERT HEADER AND FOOTER IN HTML CODE) ???? Setting. ----- General Options ----- An introductory description - a few paragraphs - about the list. It will be included, as html, at the top of the listinfo page. Carriage returns will end a paragraph - see the details for more info. (Details for info) : <body> <p>GoodBye GoodBye GoodBye </p> </body> OTHER SETTING IN GENERAL OPTION ??? ----------- ---- Non-digest options ---- Header added to mail sent to regular list members (Details for msg_header) %(info)s %(description)s IS THIS AN ERROR ? ----------- ---- Content filtering ---- Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? (Edit filter_content) NO CORRECT ??? Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. (Details for pass_mime_types) multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain text/html CORRECT ??? Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped. (Edit convert_html_to_plaintext) NO Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules. (Details for filter_action) Preserve

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ASK-like anti-spam feature
by Robert Millan 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hello! Does GNU mailman support anti-spam whitelisting in the style of ASK [1]? If not, is anyone working/interested on it? I think it's really worth having such a feature. Thanks. (I'm so sick of spam...) [1] http://www.paganini.net/ask/ -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)

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qrunner infinite loop?
by Greg Ward 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

I've just installed the mailman 2.1.2-7 package on a Debian sarge (testing) system, and qrunner goes into an apparent infinite loop as soon as it starts. Here's a snapshot from "top" shortly after running "/etc/init.d/mailman start": PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ Command 4498 list 19 0 4656 4656 1844 R 99.7 0.5 0:48.36 python 4484 gward 9 0 940 940 748 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.17 top Memory use is stable, hence my assumption that this is a garden-variety infinite loop. And "ps -fu list" reports this: UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD list 4492 1 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 [mailmanctl] list 4493 4492 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s list 4494 4492 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s list 4495 4492 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s list 4496 4492 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s list 4497 4492 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s list 4498 4492 97 02:42 ? 00:01:01 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s list 4499 4492 0 02:42 ? 00:00:00 qrunner /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s ... so it's just one qrunner (OutgoingRunner) that's responsible for all the CPU sucking. Hmmm: there *are* files in the queue, but I'm not sure what they're doing there or how they got there (this is a new, fairly inactive system with no lists and no incoming traffic, apart from me testing things): # cd /var/lib/mailman/ # find qfiles/ -type f qfiles/out/1061532001.524745+03e15ef2a9a7d27904406a659cdb4922a204431b.pck qfiles/out/1061497885.874818+cf5f7e2e03cbca8bb84a23a60f055679c16e81fa.pck qfiles/out/1061704802.107101+4617d8731ecb303dd756e475b5362bd5a64b1fcf.pck qfiles/out/1061497885.871999+3453d7caa05a1aad6b230da61b39d4937405fcc8.pck qfiles/out/1061497885.871999+3453d7caa05a1aad6b230da61b39d4937405fcc8.db qfiles/out/1061497885.874818+cf5f7e2e03cbca8bb84a23a60f055679c16e81fa.db qfiles/out/1061704802.107101+4617d8731ecb303dd756e475b5362bd5a64b1fcf.db qfiles/out/1061532001.524745+03e15ef2a9a7d27904406a659cdb4922a204431b.db Any clues? I'll try to investigate more tomorrow evening. Greg -- Greg Ward <gward(a)python.net> http://www.gerg.ca/ We have always been at war with Oceania.

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Held messages for approval
by Kory Wheatley 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hi Everyone, I have a question about the removal of held messages, is there a way to automatically remove held messages that have been in a mailing list for a certain number of days ( I have been going in to /home/mailman/data and using the "rm" command on messages that I know are spam, or a worm virus like SOBIG). The reason I ask is, it creates quite a bit of disk space when moderators have not gone in and either "approved" or "discarded" the held messages, so I would like to have something go in and check how long a message has been out there and if it's out there past a certain number of days I would like it removed. I know I could write something in perl to do this, but if something is already in the mailman configuration that has adopted this, than I don't want to spend time doing so. Also what is the syntax for creating a spam filter on the SUBECT header. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Mailing List Held Messages
by Kory Wheatley 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Hi Everyone, I have a question about the removal of held messages, is there a way to automatically remove held messages that have been in a mailing list for a certain number of days ( I have been going in to /home/mailman/data and using the "rm" command on messages that I know are spam, or a worm virus like SOBIG). The reason I ask is, it creates quite a bit of disk space when moderators have not gone in and either "approved" or "discarded" the held messages, so I would like to have something go in and check how long a message has been out there and if it's out there past a certain number of days I would like it removed. I know I could write something in perl to do this, but if something is already in the mailman configuration that has adopted this, than I don't want to spend time doing so. Also what is the syntax for creating a spam filter on the SUBECT header. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Fw: further empty module name woes
by sumeet 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

I have a list that i created ages ago, then suddenly at 9:51am w/ no prompting from me I started getting the error below. Previously it was related to localization issues, now even when i send a test message w or w/o text and/or subject from the mailman host it gets shunted immediately. I'm sending this to developers as well, b/c Tokio was able to solve my problem -- it just may be too much of an issue for the users list. Please reply to me. thx. I've compiled my own version of Python 2.2.2: [root@mailman qfiles]# /usr/local/bin/python -V Python 2.2.2 On the following OS: [root@mailman qfiles]# uname -a Linux mailman.vmware.com 2.4.20-8 #2 SMP Fri Jul 11 14:46:57 PDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux The error log says:Aug 19 14:12:14 2003 (23553) Uncaught runner exception: Empty module name Aug 19 14:12:14 2003 (23553) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 308, in process t = t.encode(charset, 'replace') File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/encodings/__init__.py", line 51, in search_function mod = __import__(modname,globals(),locals(),'*') ValueError: Empty module name

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Could not acquire qrunner lock
by Paul Bui 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Any idea how to fix this? Aug 21 15:49:02 2003 (15208) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:50:01 2003 (15278) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:51:01 2003 (15339) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:52:01 2003 (15395) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:53:02 2003 (15449) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:54:03 2003 (15499) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:55:03 2003 (15556) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:56:01 2003 (15616) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:57:02 2003 (15676) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:58:02 2003 (15738) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 15:59:02 2003 (15786) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 16:00:03 2003 (15847) Could not acquire qrunner lock EOF read where object expected Aug 21 10:49:02 2003 (27407) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 10:50:01 2003 (27461) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 10:51:02 2003 (27518) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 10:52:02 2003 (27559) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 21 10:53:00 2003 (27618) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/ 7e895325570c0d5071856ffc66c4b587736614cf

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