Mailman 3 March 2004 - Mailman-Developers

Please help me debug...
by Ricardo Kleemann March 8, 2004

March 8, 2004

Hi all, I've been trying to get this problem resolved for about 1 week now, in the mailman-users list. First I'd like to thank the couple of people there that have been able to shed some light on the issue, but the problem persists and I'm hoping the developers list can steer me in the right direction. I am not able to view private archives via a user logon. I provided some input on the users list and Jon Carnes kindly mentioned that 2.1.4 fixes a bug related to this issue. He also suggested that I clear out all cookies and restart the browser and try again. Problem is I have been running 2.1.4 and other than making slight changes to MailList.py, everything else in my system is stock 2.1.4, the tarball the one from Dec 31. My Python environment, on a SUSE 9.0 system is as follows: # rpm -qa|grep python python-mysql-0.9.2-52 python-devel-2.3-49 mod_python-2.7.8-427 python-japanese-1.4.9-206 python-curses-2.3-49 python-tk-2.3-49 python-2.3-52 python-korean-2.0.5-212 I even re-installed mailman-2.1.4 just to be sure. I basically re-ran configure, recompiled everything and re-installed. But when I try to access the private archives (via private.cgi/list) mailman dies on me. This is what I get: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py", line 120, in main password, username): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 226, in WebAuthenticate print self.MakeCookie(ac, user) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 233, in MakeCookie raise ValueError ValueError I have a client using mailman that is complaining about this problem, and I have not been able to fix it. Thanks for any input! Ricardo

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moderation trackback
by James O'Kane March 7, 2004

March 7, 2004

Please cc me, as I'm not subscribed. I've seen this error asked about by several people, but I've only seen 'Works for me' replies. I think I have another datapoint which should explain it. I get dozens of spam message caught by moderation per week and I leave them there and clear them all out every few weeks. I recently upgraded from 2.0.x to 2.1.4, and that when I got this error. I like to keep the spam messages around for possible training data. I did the upgrade while there were still message waiting for moderation. Those messages are in .txt format and the code section below assumes they are pickles. Two ways I can think of to fix this is during make install convert them to pickles, or add more processing to Mailman/ListAdmin.py to deal with .txt and .pck files. I don't know python, but I can test anything someone comes up with. thanks -james Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 163, in main process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 694, in process_form forward, forwardaddr) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 184, in HandleRequest forward, addr) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 264, in __handlepost msg = cPickle.load(fp) ValueError: could not convert string to float

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Customizing mailman user interface
by Giannasi Lucia March 4, 2004

March 4, 2004

I need to customize mailman user interface for mailing list administrators? Can you say me if it is possible and when I can find documentation about this? Than you very much Lucia

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Mailman filter
by Kory Wheatley March 4, 2004

March 4, 2004

How do I setup a global spam filter to discard any message, "sent to a mailman mailing list", that has the subject that contains the words: e-mail I what to discard them all, and not put them on hold. What would be the syntax in the "mm_cfg.py" file to do this. I'm using mailman 2.1.4 with Postfix. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Global filter
by Kory Wheatley March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

How do I setup a global spam filter to discard any message, "sent to a mailman mailing list", that has the subject that contains the words: e-mail I what to discard them all, and not put them on hold. What would be the syntax in the "mm_cfg.py" file to do this. I'm using mailman 2.1.4 with Postfix. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Smart Archvier
by Ron Ohmer March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

Has anyone ever ported this to use MySQL? I would love to use it, but am not a Python programmer.. Perl yes, C++ yes, python no.. Ron

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retaining format of posted messages in html
by Rob Cartier March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

I have a few folks who need to post messages in html. it is distributed ok in html but The problem is when it gets archived it gets scrubbed and losses it's html properties when the url link is displayed. such as <TD becomes &ltTD when viewing the source of the displayed page from the link provided from the archived message What if anything can be done in some setting to allow html to be saved in the archive. This normally not wanted or encourged but for this list it is necessary to handle a few html tables. Thanks in advance Rob Cartier

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Problem processing french messages from non-listmembers
by Maurice Snellen March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

Listmembers: The moderator of one of the lists running on my server reported that she is unable to process a number of messages that are pending as being sent from a non-subscriber address to a subscribers-only list. Meanwhile there are five of these messages in their queue and they are getting annoyed at the daily reminders about these as they are unable to get rid of them. The thing that these messages have in common is that they all originated from French servers. Other messages of the same kind can be processed fine; it's just these that they cannot get rid of. If they select to do anything with these messages and submit the form, they receive the error included below. Is this a bug that should be fixed in the code? Is there a setting that I can change to fix this? Or is there a way for me as site admin to remove these messages from the system manually? Thank you for your time and effort. Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 163, in main process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata) File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 694, in process_form forward, forwardaddr) File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 184, in HandleRequest forward, addr) File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 373, in __handlepost syslog('vette', note) File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 40, in write self.write_ex(kind, msg, args, kws) File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 58, in write_ex logf.write(msg + '\n') File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 73, in write Logger.write(self, "%s %s" % (prefix, msg)) File "/var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 91, in write f.write(msg) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 116: ordinal not in range(128) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.3.3 (#1, Jan 23 2004, 17:15:25) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP________________ ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ HTTP_COOKIE bvj-operators+admin=2802000000690d353940732800000035313635333439656563666564 306432636330623136376634653138666139366537323037626334 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.2 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.7b SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admindb SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.27 Server at nl-bdsm.org Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST PATH_INFO /bvj-operators SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING CONTENT_LENGTH 891 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive SERVER_NAME nl-bdsm.org REMOTE_ADDR 80.126.99.148 PATH_TRANSLATED /var/www/prod/nl-bdsm.org/bvj-operators SERVER_PORT 80 SERVER_ADDR 212.238.194.176 DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/prod/nl-bdsm.org PYTHONPATH /var/mailman/nlbdsmorg SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/mailman/nlbdsmorg/cgi-bin/admindb SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)nl-bdsm.org HTTP_HOST nl-bdsm.org HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache REQUEST_URI /mailman/admindb/bvj-operators HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */* HTTP________ ~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 1245 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE nl CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded -- Greetings, Maurice

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control via. PHP?
by Andrew Schmadel March 2, 2004

March 2, 2004

Hi, I'm trying to integrate mailman into my site's member database. This would be easy to do by simply setting up a flat file with all of the email addresses, and setting up a cron job to run the sync_members script Unfortunately, my webhost doesn't give me access to the directory containing the scripts, leaving me up a creek. Any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew orang fiftey five at a tee and tee dot net

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