Mailman 3 February 2004 - Mailman-Developers

Duplicate footers
by S. Backman 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

I've seen this posted several times, but have not found the answer. Is there any way to avoid duplicate (or more) copies of a footer showing up on a post as a result of multiple replies? Is there a type of delimiter (star or dash) that can be identified by mailman as the start of a footer, which will indicate a point where mailman would strip the following text until the next delimiter, before adding the footer. This would affectively remove all previous footers before adding a new one. S. Backman

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remove some messages from archive for several lists
by Richard D. Dover 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

I have SSH access to my virtual server that has Mailman on it. I need to remove several messages from archives of several mail lists. Can anyone give me the step by step means of doing this? Or is there somewhere that gives me the step-by-step instructions. I have never used SSH before and I don't want to mess anything up.

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VERP subscription confirmations
by Gordon Rowell 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

If I enable VERP_CONFIRMATIONS and "Invite" someone from the admin page, I get a VERP invite and a "nice" Subject line: From: info-confirm-3f4ccbbd8f891afd9fdb167e397a527e57db546c(a)lists.xxx To: gordonr(a)gormand.com.au Subject: You have been invited to join the Info mailing list Which is good. However, if I send mail to info-subscribe, I get a non-VERP invite and an "ugly" Subject line (so sayeth the users): From: info-request(a)lists.xxx To: gordonr(a)gormand.com.au Subject: confirm 33921aa138c41a218e6f76b3b3d866fcb411e1f7 It appears that the VERP confirmations are only partially implemented, but maybe I've missed something. I was thinking of doing something like this in MailList.py (be gentle - Python newbie): def GetRequestEmail(self, cookie=''): if (mm_cfg.VERP_CONFIRMATIONS == 'No') or (cookie == ''): return self.getListAddress('request') else: return self.GetConfirmEmail(cookie) and then replacing GetRequestEmail() calls with GetRequestEmail(cookie). In some places the call to GetRequestEmail() needs to be moved after the cookie generation. Before I go down that path, is there a simpler path, or am I going to break something else by VERPing all of the GetRequestEmail() calls? Thanks, Gordon -- Gordon Rowell Gordon.Rowell(a)gormand.com.au http://www.gormand.com.au Gormand Pty Ltd PO Box 239 St Pauls NSW 2031 Australia

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edited archive folder-edits lost when message posts
by Richard D. Dover 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

I edited the archive index.html folder for my mailing list. I also edited the date.html and subject.html to have the appearance I wanted. Everything looked good until there was a post. When a post is made to the list all my data is erased and the archive index.html, date.html, and subject.html went back to default. Why is this? How can I change the archive files to look the way I want?

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Virtual domain support
by Jamie Penman-Smithson 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

I'm currently using Mailman 2.1.4, and currently, there are several problems with Mailman's implementation of virtual hosting: (a) List names aren't unique across virtual domains, domain1.com cannot have a list called 'test' if domain2.com has a list called 'test' On a large installation this is a real problem, and the only real way around it is to run multiple installations of Mailman - one for each site. This is pretty impractical if there are many, many virtual domains. (b) Linked to the above, the problem I've been having is that Mailman has one site password and one list administrators password for *all* virtual domains, (there are no 'domain administrators' who have add/delete privileges for lists *only* for their own domain). If someone knows the list admin password, they can create and delete lists not only for their own site, but on all the other virtual domains as well. Currently, I'm having to hack Mailman in order to have a separate password for each virtual domain, which still doesn't solve the problem of unique list names. I love Mailman a whole lot, but I'm having to look at other solutions, mainly because I'm heavily limited on time right now. Are there any plans to improve on the current support for virtual domains anytime soon? Thanks in advance, -j -- -jamie <jamie(a)silverdream.org> w: http://silverdream.org | p: sms(a)silverdream.org pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key 20:30:01 up 23:57, 5 users, load average: 0.44, 0.21, 0.12

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edit design of archive page
by Richard D. Dover 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

What path/file do I go to edit the design of the archive page?

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scrubbed html messages
by Richard D. Dover 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

I want html messages to appear in the public archive. In other words I want a person to click on the link for a message (that is listed in the public archive) and when it opens up it is in the original html format it was sent. What do I need to do so that it is not 'scrubbed'?

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searchable archives
by Richard D. Dover 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

How do I set up searchable archives on my list like you have on your list?

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3.1.4 upgrade problem
by Joel Ebel 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

After upgrading to 3.1.4 from 3.1.3 I now have a problem when any post is attempted. Perhaps someone can help me with this. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/post", line 69, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/post", line 64, in main tolist=1, _plaintext=1) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 133, in enqueue os.fsync(msgfp.fileno()) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fsync' 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 Thanks, Joel

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Fwd: supporting all ``available_languages''?
by Graham Guttocks 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

After no response in the users list, I assume this is not possible. Can I upgrade it to a feature request? -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- From: Graham Guttocks <graham_guttocks(a)yahoo.co.nz> Subject: supporting all ``available_languages''? Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:37:55 +1300 (NZDT) To: mailman-users(a)python.org Greetings, I'm running MM 2.1.x. Every time a new point release is made, it seems a few more languages are added. I then have to go into the web interface for each list, and click those new checkboxes under the ``available_languages'' section. Is there some mm_cfg.py variable I've missed which says essentially ``support all available languages'' so that when new languages are added, they just automatically are picked up? Regards, Graham ===== Regards, Graham http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with Yahoo! Greetings - FREE!

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