Mailman-Developers June 2010

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24 participants
10 discussions

by Malte S. Stretz

Hi folks, every now and then the Sender header added by Mailman is discussed on this list. Patches float through the net. The old FAQ is gone but for some reason I remember that it was point 2.3. Guess I read it too often. Because every now and then I get bitten by the header breaking somebody's beloved Outlook. Well, breaking as in "Hey, I got this mail inline forwarded from a list and don't have the original sender's address because all Outlook adds is 'From: Full Name (on behalf of list- owner(a)example.com'". Today I got pissed enough to actually tackle the issue. Instead of the old just-get-rid-of-it patches arriving here, I implemented yet another option on the General page, just below the RFC 2369 options. It defaults to On to keep backwards compatibility. You can find the patch against the 2.1 codebase in this [1] branch. It also applies with a little fuzz against 2.2. The patch is quite simple but I'm not an expert of the codebase and couldn't really test it because I currently don't have the time to set up a local mailman. But the test suite doesn't throw any errors... well, it does throw a bunch of errors and fails but did this already before I applied my patch. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a patch for 3.0 as well. I just wanted to make sure (and start the old discussion again :) if it should default to On or Off. If I interpret this [2] post from 2006 it isn't really needed. (Hm, almost forgot: I took some of the comments from James Ralston's patch from 2006 and added it to mine.) Cheers, Malte [1]https://code.launchpad.net/~mss/mailman/2.1-sender-header [2]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2006- July/019040.html

10 years, 8 months

small suggestion

by Kent Mein

Hi I just have a small suggestion/patch. In Mailman/Utils.py in the function get_site_email I think it makes more sense to change these two lines: return '%s@%s' % (mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST, hostname) return '%s-%s@%s' % (mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST, extra, hostname) to this: return '%s@%s' % (mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST, mm_cfg.DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) return '%s-%s@%s' % (mm_cfg.MAILMAN_SITE_LIST, extra, mm_cfg.DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) chances are more likely you have the MAILMAN_SITE_LIST setup on your emailserver not on your webhost. (We've had to tweak it here so things work) Anyway thanks for the great work you all do. We have been using mailman here at the University of Minnesota for quite awhile and its great. Kent Mein -- mein(a)cs.umn.edu http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein

10 years, 8 months

Mailman user interface: draft of a mega drop-down navigation

by Claudia Fleiner

Hi, I´m Claudia Fleiner and I work together with Patrick Koetter and Florian Fuchs. Here I will present you our idea of a mega drop-down navigation panel for the new Mailman user interface: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+UI+Mockups As the draft shows, a mega drop-down has the following characteristics: 1. The big panel is divided into groups of navigation options 2. Navigation choices is structured through layout, typography and icons 3. Eliminate scrolling: everything is visible at once As shown in the draft, I put as navigation structure an example of the "admin navigation options". This structure will be revised into the right form later. The icons I used in the draft are just placeholders. Nice Icons well adapted for the new navigation structure will be designed in the next steps. I hope you´ll like our idea of using drop-down navigations for the new user interface. Please don´t hesitate to send us your feedback. Kind regards, Claudia ----- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Am Südhang 3 Telefon +49 6131 6223149 55127 Mainz Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563e

10 years, 8 months

UI for Mailman 3.0 update

by Anna Granudd

Hi, my name is Anna and I'm participating in GSoC for Systers where my project this summer is to develop a new UI for Mailman 3.0 as well as a UI extension for Systers who are running a customized version of Mailman. The UI will be written as an app in Django. Together with my mentor Florian we've discussed some general matters regarding the UI and the most recent concern adding a database for it. We figured it might be good to use the core db only for the "standard" UI with which we'll communicate through the rest-client and for organizations wishing to customize the UI, such as Systers, we'll let them add a UI db. Other things we've discussed was the number of apps for the UI, if we should use only one or if we should separate it into, for instance, one app for the user UI's and one for the admin UI, or possibly split it up even more. We've gathered all our thoughts on http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+Interface+Status and now we'd like to get some feedback from you people as well as to find out if you have other opinions or ideas for us. I/we would really appreciate your help on this. Thanks, Anna

10 years, 8 months

REST API docs?

by Fil

Hi all, I've been looking around for a description of the REST API in Mailman3. Fact is I couldn't wait more and started a REST API for Mailman2. So, I would like it to be as close as possible to the final stuff. -- Fil

10 years, 8 months

Wiki Editing?

by Adam McGreggor

I've forgotten who it is who can grant write-access to the wiki, but I don't appear to have an edit button anywhere (apart from labels). Can I have write-perms, please (same email address)? (Or would someone put a link to <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg11808.html> (and the second parag of that mail) in <http://wiki.list.org/x/BIGj>, please?) a -- "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world" -- J. R. R. Tolkien

10 years, 8 months

Mailman 3.0 UI Test Server

by Florian Fuchs

Hi all, we have set up a test server for the development of the Mailman 3.0 UI. As coding on the UI progresses we will update it regularly so everybody can see what's being done. For now it contains a simple, experimental Django app I've written to test list creation and subscription through Mailman's new REST API. You can add mailing lists and subscribe to them. Mails sent to those lists will not be delivered to subscribers but be kept in a separate IMAP folder so nobody gets spammed (thanks Patrick!). This app will be replaced as soon as there's a working code base for the "real" UI. The server's address is http://mailman.state-of-mind.de Cheers Florian -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Heckmannufer 2 Telefon +49 30 3013 6756 10997 Berlin Mobil +49 176 2064 0812 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563e

10 years, 8 months

spammers harvesting email'ids [was] UI for Mailman 3.0 update

by स्वक्ष

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 22:43, Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >>Well, maybe, but I've had to switch on approval for various lists because >>of subscribing spammers. > > > As Barry suggests, setting moderation of new members as the default can > also thwart the subscribing spammers. A smart spammer would hardly post to the mailing list --atleast on linux lists its asking to be moderated or kicked out, depending on the admins. I've checked out spammers who mass subscribe to the lists at Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and RH, to access the email id's of all the subscribers (if this is set as available only to the list members). If the settings are "membership list is available only to the *-owner", the spammer can still subscribe, and lurk on the list to silently harvest the email id's of all the folks who post mails to any list they lurk on. The latter can be identified by checking their TLD when they sub to the list but if they use *-free-email-provider like a gmail or yahoo address to sub and lurk, its hard to tell. -- thanks and regards, vid || http://svaksha.com

10 years, 9 months

Re: [Mailman-Developers] UI for Mailman 3.0 update

by Anna Granudd

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <mailman-developers-request(a)python.org>wrote: > ... >That would be perfect. Should we all meet before we start working on the > new >WUI so we can take the input into consideration right from the start? > IMHO it is easier to talk / discuss about real things than about things > that should be done theoreticaly :). So I'd suggest to meet if a early > draft of the new WUI is available. > Please keep the rest of us, or at least myself and Florian, posted about your discussions when meeting IRL. I believe you Patrick work together with Florian so I guess that should be easy enough. :) In German or English doesn't really matter unless you want to post it to this list... Thanks, Anna

10 years, 9 months

Re: [Mailman-Developers] UI for Mailman 3.0 update

by David Andrews

At 07:29 AM 6/3/2010, Anna Granudd wrote: >Hi, >my name is Anna and I'm participating in GSoC for Systers where my project >this summer is to develop a new UI for Mailman 3.0 as well as a UI extension >for Systers who are running a customized version of Mailman. The UI will be >written as an app in Django. Together with my mentor Florian we've discussed >some general matters regarding the UI and the most recent concern adding a >database for it. We figured it might be good to use the core db only for the >"standard" UI with which we'll communicate through the rest-client and for >organizations wishing to customize the UI, such as Systers, we'll let them >add a UI db. >Other things we've discussed was the number of apps for the UI, if we should >use only one or if we should separate it into, for instance, one app for the >user UI's and one for the admin UI, or possibly split it up even more. >We've gathered all our thoughts on >http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Web+Interface+Status and now we'd like to >get some feedback from you people as well as to find out if you have other >opinions or ideas for us. I/we would really appreciate your help on this. I hope that you plan on following WCAG 2.0 standards! There are plenty of moderators and Admins who are blind or have other disabilities and still want to keep using the software! Dave

10 years, 9 months

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Mailman-Developers June 2010