Mailman 3 October 2004 - Mailman-Developers

incorrect MIME?
by Dallas Bethune 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I'm getting a report of some Mailman messages seemingly not having correct MIME encoding and the footer and sometimes the message itself appears as an attachment to the user. The originating messages may be coming primarily from AOL users. Has anyone else heard of this problem? Dallas

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make finish?
by John Dennis 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

As part of our effort to make our mailman installation FHS compliant I've been going through the "make install" and check_perms process with a fine tooth comb looking for any discrepancies and discovered some installation anomalies in the virgin 2.1.5 tarball, but more on that later... In the meantime I wanted to ask a specific question. In the mailman-2.1.5/src/Makefile.in are commands to change the owner & permissions on $prefix/cgi-bin/private. The owner is changed to MAILMAN_USER with setuid permission. The problem is this part of the install never executes. Why? Its part of the "finish" make target and finish is not a dependency of anything. Most all the Makefiles have a finish target which are empty, only src/Makefile.in actually does something for the finish target. Is this Makefile cruft or should this be executed? Note that mailman-2.1.5/Makefile.in removes the "other" read permission on $prefix/archives/private, but it leaves group read/write. This suggests to me that $prefix/cgi-bin/private with setgid and arbitrary owner (e.g. without running the "finish") is fine and thus leads me to the conclusion the finish target is cruft. Is this right? -- John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com>

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bug in danish translation - which line?
by Klavs Klavsen 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, There's a bug in the danish translation somewhere :( I get an error when trying to unsubscribe at this address (only when page is shown in danish): http://www.linuxpusher.dk/mailman/listinfo/linuxpusher-nyhedsbrev The error is: Traceback (most recent call last): ~ File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main ~ main() ~ File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py", line 239, in main ~ loginpage(mlist, doc, user, language) ~ File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py", line 813, in loginpage ~ table.AddRow([_("""In order to change your membership option, you must ~ File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 89, in _ ~ return tns % dict ValueError: unsupported format character 'p' (0x70) at index 105 how do I figure out the place in the mailman.po file where the problem is (which is where I suppose the problem must be?)? - -- Regards, Klavs Klavsen, GSEC - kl(a)vsen.dk - http://www.vsen.dk PGP: 7E063C62/2873 188C 968E 600D D8F8 B8DA 3D3A 0B79 7E06 3C62 "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." ~ --Henry Spencer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBY8gHPToLeX4GPGIRAn7OAJ4hN9Y5OqU2cqFN+0VvTSHWEg2CAQCgg0Qx RWyNyAWyy/fhxMnBW7Xe/3s= =Zt41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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in-reply-to problem
by Karthikeyan 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

hello all, I am new to python and mailman. i have a problem, need to find a solution asap. when getting mails to the mailman from Lotus Domino client 5.0.10, the mail's does not have In-Reply-To header. Because of this the mail does not get threaded properly. pls tell me how i can solve this isue. Thanks Karthikeyan.S

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Attachments directory
by Kory Wheatley 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Question for all of you, I added the addition below code into the Scrubber.py script, and the filename extensions are used has specified and not changed, so that works. But when I go and view a Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel scrubbed document in the archives it will not bring up the right plugins and displays garbled characters and lines in the browser window. I know for a fact that I have the correct mime types specified on the Apache Web server. Now, here's where it gets strange, I can move that attachment word file out of the "/archives/private/mlist/attachments" directory and put it in another Mailman directory on the web server, and it will bring up the Microsoft Word or Excel plugin and display the document fine. The mime types I thought should be global on the web server, unless you have .htaccess file where you want to change the content type for that extension, which I don't see in the "attachments" directory. Any idea whats going on? + # i18n file name is encoded + lcset = Utils.GetCharSet(mlist.preferred_language) + filename = Utils.oneline(msg.get_filename(''), lcset) + fnext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1] + # For safety, we should confirm this is valid ext for content-type + # but we can use fnext if we introduce fnext filtering + if mm_cfg.SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION: + ext = fnext + else: + ext = guess_extension(ctype, fnext) if not ext: # We don't know what it is, so assume it's just a shapeless # application/octet-stream, unless the Content-Type: is With this patch, site manager can set SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION = True in mm_cfg.py to use attachment filename extension as is specified by the original attachment. I also want to merge patch id 1027882 so that really dangerous files can be trapped by MimeDel.py. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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SCRUBBER Question
by Kory Wheatley 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

I have Scrubber enabled on my Mailman 2.1.5 configuration. It works fine stripping the attachments, except, why does it change a Microsoft Word extension ".doc" to a ".bin"? This makes it difficult to open the attachment, because you have to either save it to your hard drive and associate the file to open in the correct program, or choose which program to open it with. Why doesn't Scrubber just leave it at .doc and then when you click on the stripped attachment link, wouldn't it know to bring up the correct application and display the file? Or would it thing the content type is HTML? Any solutions or work around. Please respond this is critical that I know if there is something I can do. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Rewrite the email header to hide the "To" address
by Patrick Lam 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Dear Experts, Is there any option (or change a small part of code) in Mailman that allow us to rewrite the "To" field, say "Undisclosed-recipients" so that the name of the mailing list will not be exposed to the recipients??? Actually, I am using Mailman for email distribution and receive a lot of virus emails as some of the recipients' machine is infected. I knew BCC can help, however, just afraid the users will forget . Million thanks!! Regards, Patrick ----------------------------------------------------- Patrick Lam Sze Fan Computer Officer II Medical Information Technology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Tel:21455213 Fax:26375470 -----------------------------------------------------

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Limiting numbers of members per list.
by Gustavo Franco 02 Oct '04

02 Oct '04

Hi list, I'm new here and i've tried to start sending a patch[0] to control the number of members per list.Can anyone check that? I keep it small as possible to see if the "engine" is right.I need your feedback, because i'm interested in contribute with more related features as described/requested on RFE #403310. [0] - #1029275 at sf.net Hope that helps, Gustavo Franco Information Network for the Third Sector http://www.rits.org.br

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Content-filtering - is filtering of content-description possible?
by Andrzej Kasperowicz 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Is in the Content filtering section possible to define only content-type? I suggest that it should be also possible to define Content-description. Because Pegasus Mail for example when is sending an attachment it adds content-descriprion, and mailman filter although removes the attachment itself, it does not remove the content-describtion causing to send to the list a message with the following text content:

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How to change comment sent by Mailman with rejected posts?
by Andrzej Kasperowicz 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

When in Content filtering Section I set Reject as Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules, then the sender of the message, which was rejected, receives the following e-mail from Mailman: "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed" How could I change that message? Is there any form where I could put new text of the message, and if there is no form, could you please add it in future version of Mailman? ak

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