Mailman 3 February 2006 - Mailman-Developers

PHP Wrappers?
by Adrian Wells 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hello. How might one configure Mailman (version 2.1.6) list settings using PHP scripts? The goal is to configure Mailman list settings such as domain name of list, non-digest footer, set welcome/goodbye messages, etc. An approach that comes to mind is to use bin/config_list. This would require writing/reading files and using bin/config_list to process them. Is there another recommended or preferred way to accomplish this? There was a post about "PHP Wrappers" which suggested, "...just use a setuid mailman wrapper script that does caller-checking to see if it's called correctly, by the right user, and with 'safe' values" <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2001-March/008421.html>. This was recommended over simply adding the www user to the mailman group. I do not completely understand how one creates a setuid mailman wrapper script. Is this a matter of creating something similar to mail-wrapper.c? If someone has written a wrapper script or has some good resources further explaining this to share and is willing to do so, I would appreciate it. Thank you, -Adrian

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incorrect generated HTML
by Giuliano Gavazzi 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hello, I have recently installed mailman. As a result of customising the user interface, I have noticed that the HTML of both the administrative and user interface is quite incorrect. In particular the user interface, which shows many layers of intervention (tags appear with too many case changes!). I am attempting to clean up the code (as HTML 4.01 Transitional), but I wonder if there is already an ongoing tidying up or redesign that would make my work a waste of time. One change in Mailman that would make correction and editing of HTML templates easier would be to have all Mailman inner tags written without using <> or other strange characters. For instance <MM-Form- End> could be simply MMFormEnd. This way a template could validate as valid HTML without being parsed first, as long as these Mailman tags are not required in strange places. Clearly the documents could loose its validity once parsed, but this too can be avoided with careful design of the tags. For instance the footer tag (I think <MM-Mailman-Footer>) generates at the moment incorrect HTML all by itself and so cannot be corrected by a list administrator. I see now that there is a General Web UI item in the TODO. Let me add a plea: please do not use php for the future UI! Thanks Giuliano

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Mix of 8-bit ascii and unicode in Archive marshals
by Mads Kiilerich 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi, I just upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.1.7, using a Fedora beta rpm. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1405790&group_id=1… has been applied. Now I see crashes in Archiver like shown below. My problem is similar to but different from http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20060116.022354.167a1fae.en.html It turns out to be because both 8-bit ascii and unicode strings appears as first element in key tuples in the 2006-February-author marshal. When sort tries to compare these unrelated encodings python don't know what to do. Neither do I... How should the problem be solved? Should keys be stored as 8-bit ascii or as unicode? If anybody can give a hint I'll try to come up with a solution ;-) /Mads Feb 18 17:57:44 2006 (29051) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) Feb 18 17:57:44 2006 (29051) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ArchRunner.py", line 73, in _dispose mlist.ArchiveMail(msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 217, in ArchiveMail h.close() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 327, in close self.update_dirty_archives() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 543, in update_dirty_archives self.update_archive(i) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1125, in update_archive self.__super_update_archive(archive) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 447, in update_archive self._update_simple_index(hdr, archive, arcdir) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 460, in _update_simple_index msgid = self.database.first(archive, hdr) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 296, in first key, msgid = index.first() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 113, in first self.__sort() # guarantee that the list is sorted File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 73, in __sort self.sorted.sort() UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) Feb 18 17:57:44 2006 (29051) SHUNTING: 1140281864.286916+117720f8b561f5c15f1f799c2dd1fce5881078cb

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XMLRPC Patch
by Joshua Ginsberg 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

I'm developing a patch to add an XMLRPC-based management interface to Mailman. Would this be something that you would be interested in trying to incorporate in the 2.1.x branch? Thanks! -jag -- Joshua Ginsberg <jag(a)fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] Permission of data/bounce-events-?????.pck
by Mark Sapiro 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

imacat wrote: > > I noted that in the source of mailman 2.1.7 there are 2 lines in >bin/mailmanctl: > >line 421-422 > # Clear our file mode creation umask > os.umask(0) > > Is this intended? Is it the reason why data/bounce-events-?????.pck >are world-writable? It looks like you're right. I don't know if there is/was a good reason or not. I'm cross posting this reply to Mailman-Developers. Maybe someone there knows the reason for this. Note that many places in the Mailman code, umask is saved and set for a particular purpose and then restored, but BounceRunner doesn't do this when creating the bounce-events-*.pck. I don't know why. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] any info on this reported exploit?
by Tokio Kikuchi 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Tokio Kikuchi wrote: >> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16248/discuss >> GNU Mailman Large Date Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability >> GNU Mailman is prone to a denial of service attack. This issue affects >> the >> email date parsing functionality of Mailman. (snip) >> 06.3.18 CVE: CVE-2005-4153 (snip) > > Mailman-2.1.7 is not vulnerable to this issue. > We may have to patch against this email package parsedate bug. I've just uploaded a patch on SF tracker. Please someone review this before I commit in the CVS (this weekend, maybe). https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=103&atid=300103 Cheers, -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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