Mailman 3 May 2013 - Mailman-Developers

GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project
by Abhilash Raj 05 May '13

05 May '13

Hello all, In response to Richard's mail these are the rough bits of what I will be needing from my mentor if I am selected: 1) I need to discuss about the design of the idea that I want to implement. I know the rough bits but need help and comments on what I proposed. This would require views from the whole mailman-community. 2) Apart from the corner cases mentioned in the proposal there might be many other not caught in my eye. I would need them to be pointed out so that a solution of it can discussed and then implemented. 3) There is a lot of cryptography in this project, so I would need a more experienced view to find and remove the security loopholes. 4) Lastly since I am still a noob in programming I would need regular review on the code for the first 2-3 weeks so that I cam improve and write bug free production code. -- Abhilash Raj

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GSoC Applicants
by Richard Wackerbarth 04 May '13

04 May '13

Calling all GSoC applicants -- You have all looked at the current state of MM and made proposals to improve it. Now it is time to discuss what YOU need others to provide so that your contribution fits into the "whole" without your having to implement everything yourself. Let's discuss what you would like from the mentor-developers and, as a "class" how your contributions would complement each other. You can start up the discussion on IRC #mailman or on this mailing list. Let's hear from you. Richard "Wacky" Wackerbarth

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Email body customization for each recipient
by Barry Warsaw 03 May '13

03 May '13

On May 02, 2013, at 04:03 PM, Spamm Azz wrote: >I wrote a function in C language that customizes an email body. My target is >to integrate this function inside mailman 3 to customize the email for each >recipient. To manage an input email is possible inserting an handler, but I >don't know how to do the same for an outgoing message. You'll first have to expose your C function to Python. You can do this by writing an extension module or by providing shell access to your function. That's out of scope for this discussion. Once you've made your function callable from Python, you'll want to implement an IMailTransportAgentDelivery class that implements a deliver() method that calls your C function. Then in your mailman.cfg, set the [mta]output variale to point to your implementation of that interface. Take a look at src/mailman/mta/deliver.py for how VERP delivery is done. There may be opportunities to provide better extensibility of this basic functionality without having to rewrite it all. Please provide feedback. Cheers, -Barry

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Email body customization for each recipient
by Stephen J. Turnbull 02 May '13

02 May '13

Spamm Azz writes: > I wrote a function in C language that customizes an email body. > My target is to integrate this function inside mailman 3 to customize the > email for each recipient. > To manage an input email is possible inserting an handler, but I don't know > how to do the same for an outgoing message. Dunno off-hand (and my time has to be focused elsewhere for a couple weeks) but you can find what you need by looking for code and comments that mentions "personalization" or variations of that word. "Personalization" is the term used in Mailman 2 for messages that have different content for each recipient. I'm quite sure that it's used in Mailman 3, too. :-) Steve

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Email body customization for each recipient
by Spamm Azz 02 May '13

02 May '13

I wrote a function in C language that customizes an email body. My target is to integrate this function inside mailman 3 to customize the email for each recipient. To manage an input email is possible inserting an handler, but I don't know how to do the same for an outgoing message. Thanks in advance.

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