Mailman 3 September 2004 - Mailman-Developers

RE: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for running Mailman?
by John.Airey＠rnib.org.uk 31 May '05

31 May '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: mailman-developers-bounces+john.airey=rnib.org.uk(a)python.org > [mailto:mailman-developers-bounces+john.airey=rnib.org.uk@pyth > on.org]On > Behalf Of Tollef Fog Heen > Sent: Monday, 06 September 2004 16:47 > To: mailman-developers(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Min requirements for > running Mailman? > > > * Nigel Metheringham > > | I'd tend to take this as:- > | * Mailman is a bitch to package > > Not really. It's fairly well-behaved in my experience. It's a > semi-large web application with some requirements, but nothing > unreasonable. > > | * RH have packaged it for a while > | * RH found a good few of the gotchas in packaging Mailman > | * RH have subsequently learnt from their mistakes and recently > | have produced good packages. > | * Other distros may do better, or may yet have to > learn from their > | mistakes :-) > > Mailman has been in Debian since June 1998 (1.0b4), so we've been > working on it for a while as well. I think our packages are of good > quality (far from perfect, but making perfect packages is _a lot_ of > work. ;) > Just to throw my tuppence worth in... I've used mailman since Red Hat 7.2. I found that the version that came with Red Hat 9.0 wouldn't work for me (ie I couldn't upgrade to it) so I stuck with the 7.2 version (2.0.13) till the end of Red Hat 9 support. We are now running the 2.1.5 version that comes with Fedora but running it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). I did however have to recreate all the lists by hand in an overnight shift (what fun that was...) a few days before leaving the country (hence the rush). At that time I didn't know I could export the configuration (Doh!). Red Hat have taken some packages out of RHEL eg arpwatch and mysql-server (although this is in the "extras" channel) even though these are in the source RPM. Mailman is currently not included but might be being put back in to RHEL 4.0. I would like to hope so, as I find 2.1.5 far superior to 2.0.13. -- John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the Blind, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey(a)rnib.org.uk To truly believe in Evolution requires complete faith that life has no meaning. Fortunately there are billions of people who aren't that stupid. -- DISCLAIMER: NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. RNIB endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RNIB. RNIB Registered Charity Number: 226227 Website: http://www.rnib.org.uk

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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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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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Limiting numbers of members per list.
by Gustavo Franco 01 Oct '04

01 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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Pickle-induced integration issues
by Rob Lanphier 01 Oct '04

01 Oct '04

Hi folks, I manage Helix Community, which makes pretty heavy use of Mailman as integrated into GForge. I'm moderately familiar with Mailman code, and pretty familiar with GForge. Of course, Perl is my native tongue, so I'm equally uncomfortable in both codebases ;-) Anyway, one thing that my users are constantly clamoring for is features that would come from tighter integration between GForge and Mailman. I've been mulling this over for a while, and it seems that deep integration is limited by the way that most Mailman data is stored in pickles. Since GForge is coded and pretty heavily bound to PHP. My options for integration between the two seem to be: 1. Implement alternate GForge authentication mechanism in Mailman 2. Implement alternate, PHP-compatible storage mechanism (e.g. SQL database) for everything currently stored in pickles 3. Implement pickle support in PHP 4. Implement IPC mechanism (e.g. SOAP, XML-RPC) as a Mailman control daemon, and call that from GForge I'm wondering if there are recommendations from this group. I'm also wondering if there have been any movements/efforts in any of these directions already. This is one of many problems that I plan to work on over time, and plan to contribute patches to the extent that they are useful to a larger community. If I'm lucky, I'll get budget to hire developers for this, but for now, I'll be doing this on the cheap. Thoughts? Rob -- Rob Lanphier, Development Support Manager - RealNetworks Helix Community: http://helixcommunity.org Development Support: http://www.realnetworks.com/products/support/devsupport

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Red Hat plans on moving an installation directory
by John Dennis 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

Hi All: I thought it would be valuable to communicate this to this group and if it does not provoke any major outcry's then to the mail-users group a bit later. For a long time our mailman RPM's have installed all of mailman under /var/mailman (specifically both the prefix and with-var-prefix parameters to configure were set to /var/mailman). This was a packaging decision made before my tenure here and the rational for the decision seems to be lost. My personal belief is once a decision is made for where files live in a distribution there is much value in keeping that consistent as users develop expectations on where to find files. However, we are in the process of trying to make Linux much more secure and a major component of that strategy is the introduction of a technology called SELinux (Secure Linux). SELinux has at its heart the "labeling" of files which give fine grained control over what actions specific processes operating in certain "roles" can do. To make this viable there is a tremendous advantage to having files installed in canonical locations (at a minimum conforming to the FHS, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard). The previous choice of installing all of mailman, including the scripts, libraries, executables, and cgi-bin which need to be locked down and restricted for process execution into a filesystem root (/var) which is designated to contain variable application data which is not executed was creating security policy problems. We have made a choice to move the non-data components of mailman to /usr/lib/mailman by changing the prefix configure parameter (the with-var-prefix remains set to /var/mailman). This is closer to what some of the other distributions do. We intend to introduce this change in the Fedora Core 3 release and the RHEL 4 release. Since there are a number of files that admins modify (config and templates) and which the rpm installation process normally preserves on upgrade they may get "burned" because the installer is not smart enough to preserve those modified files across a new installation directory, or may simply be confused on where to find files. The installation directory change will appear in release notes and the installation documentation (/usr/share/doc/mailman-*) however we all know how much people read these things :-). So I thought this was a valuable group to draw attention to this as its certain to come up as an issue at some point. Also, if you see some fundamentally flawed reason why this is a bad change now is the time to raise your concerns before we advance out of the beta period. When the release goes live I will send mail to mailman-users and the Red Hat portion of the FAQ should be amended. Thanks! -- John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com>

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] in-reply-to problem
by J C Lawrence 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:06:55 +0200 Brad Knowles <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote: > At 11:01 AM +0530 2004-09-29, Karthikeyan wrote: >> but i need to give a solution in the mailman, as the other party >> would not want o fine tune theie lotus notes. > It is not physically possible to solve this problem from within > Mailman. Good reading on the background: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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Usiing the withlist command
by Kory Wheatley 29 Sep '04

29 Sep '04

I'm trying to write a script where I can change the default_member_moderation and accept-these_nonmembers objects, after a new Mailman list is created automatically by a cron process. I've been able to change the "default_member_moderation" as planned, but the "accept_these_nonmembers" object I'm having troubles with. When I try to add an email address, it shows up in the configuration like this: w e b @ i s u . e d u How can I get the whole thing on one line. There's my python code import sys #Run this script with #withlist -l -r change_values mylist # def change_values(mlist): print 'LIST ', mlist.internal_name() print ' Default Member Moderation Before: ', mlist.default_member_moderation print ' Accepted Non Members Before: ', mlist.accept_these_nonmembers mlist.default_member_moderation = 1 mlist.accept_these_nonmembers = "root(a)mm.isu.edu' print ' Default Member Moderation After: ', mlist.default_member_moderation print ' Accepted Non Members After: ', mlist.accept_these_nonmembers mlist.Save() The reason why I'm doing this is these lists have a different configuration setup than what's in a default list that's setup with the standard configuration in mm_cfg.py -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Problems with arch
by Ricardo Lemus 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

Hi, I have problems with parsing a mail with mailman-2.1.4-1 in fedora core 1. This is the header and a few lines of body's mail: From xxxx(a)xxxxx.org Thu Sep 23 17:16:30 2004 -0400 Return-Path: <xxxx(a)xxx.org> Received: from axxwxa.org ([208.22.32.226]) by dddddd.org with SMTP (List Manager SOLARIS/SPARC version 4.2.1); Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:50:45 -0400 Received: from exchange.dddd.org ([208.11.253.27]) by firewall.dddd.org with ESM TP id <119042>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:51:42 -0400 Received: by exchange.d.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <RVWSCHY7>; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:46:01 -0400 Message-ID: <0B5CB7E77F3CD6119E10006097C5505506E92F(a)exchange.addddf.org> From: Joel Anne Sweithelm <jdelm(a)afff.org> To: "'dddd.ddd.(a)dcasd.cl'" <d(a)ldists.org> Subject: A&WMA's 4th International Urban Forum Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:45:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: From June 23-25, the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) held its 4th International Urban Environmental Infrastructure Forum in Baltimore, ----------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is, that the body's mail start with a 'From ...' then arch suppossed that is a new message and then strip in 2 files. Can anyone help me, please. Ricardo Lemus Santiago, Chile.

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Foreign Lang Posts
by Marci Abraham O'Daffer 26 Sep '04

26 Sep '04

We have a user who experiences intermittent problems with MM -- sometimes it sends, sometimes it does not. She has multiple lists, and all the same problem. The only consistent issue I can see is that she sends a lot of messages in French. Are there known issues with MM dealing with non-US characters? Or could her ISP be messing with the formatting somehow? I can't think of anything else. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks, Marci :) -- Marci O'Daffer, Managing Director HostingNorthwest.net

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