Someone has asked me about some adjustments mailman 2 related to what they think
they have to do for GDPR compliance.
One is to add some checkbox stuff to agree at subscription time that
you understand what info you're providing. I expect this could be
spliced in the same way CAPTCHAs are.
Another is to provide different views of what lists exist depending on
what IP address you're connecting from, so internal lists are only
visible on the internal network.
Has anyone done stuff like this? I think they're running 2.15,
probably possible to update to more recent versions of 2.x but 3.x is
not in the cards.
Tnx.
R's,
John
PS: I am definitely not looking for arguments about whether the GDPR
needs this. It's their money, they get to say what they want.
Hi,
A couple of points after upgrading to the Mailman 3.2 suite this morning:
* Links start with spaces to make it difficult for screen readers to use links list with first key letter navigation. For example on the home page it is not possible to use the links list feature in the screen reader then choose the log in option because that link has spaces before the Log In text;
* Since 3.2 it is no longer possible to navigate between the tabs on the administration screen using a screen reader. The only way I was able to switch tabs to different sections of the interface was by using a simulated mouse click on the text. In the prior version I was able to do this by just pressing enter on the relevant option (for example Held Messages).
Anyone else seeing this?
Thanks,
Andrew.
Hi All,
I have updated and pushed releases for Container Images with 3.2 release of the suite.
They are available at:
docker.io/maxking/mailman-web:0.2
docker.io/maxking/mailman-core:0.2
A similar copy of both is also available at quay:
quay.io/maxking/mailman-web:0.2
quay.io/maxking/mailman-core:0.2
The releases contain the following versions of components:
mailman-core:
- Mailman Core 3.2.0
- Mailman-hyperkitty 1.1.0
mailman-web:
- Postorius 1.2.1
- Hyperkitty 1.2.0
- Django-mailman3 1.2.0
- MailmanClient 3.2.0
The upgrade process from 0.1 release should be relative painless, except for the full-text index, which needs to be rebuilt due to the migration from Python 2 to 3 of the full-text indexing library whoosh. You can run the following commands to do so, after the upgrade:
$ docker exec -it mailman-web bash
bash # python manage.py rebuild_index
If you are not using the default docker-compose.yaml file provided in the repo, you need to add an extra environment variable for mailman-web container, POSTORIUS_TEMPLATE_BASE_URL, which defaults to `http://mailman-web:8000`. It should be the URL where your mailman-web container is listening on with HTTP (port 8000 by default).
The rolling releases are not being rolled out right everyday now, because of broken build scripts. I'd recommend everyone use the new stable releases that I mentioned above. Going forward, I'll try to release stable versions more often, so that there isn't any need for rolling version, but fixing the rolling releases is on my TODO.
Documentation for these images is available at:
https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman
--
thanks,
Abhilash Raj (maxking)
Hi,
Recently I’ve started seeing some weird exceptions when trying to send emails to a list with mailman 3 running in docker:
From mailman core logs:
sqlalchemy.exc.DataError: (pymysql.err.DataError) (1406, "Data too long for column 'value' at row 1") [SQL: 'INSERT INTO pendedkeyvalue (`key`, value, pended_id) VALUES (%(key)s, %(value)s, %(pended_id)s)'] [parameters: {'key': '_pck_rule_misses', 'value': '"\\u0080\\u0003]q\\u0000(X\\u0010\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000dmarc-mitigationq\\u0001X\\n\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000no-sendersq\\u0002X\\b\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000app ... (382 characters truncated) ... \\u000bX\\b\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000max-sizeq\\fX\\u000f\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000news-moderationq\\rX\\u0011\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000suspicious-headerq\\u000ee."', 'pended_id': 12}] (Background on this error at: http://sqlalche.me/e/9h9h)
Jul 25 07:33:28 2018 (32) SHUNTING: 1532504008.7233553+2ca45fec09fa01b9dd31ed584a06b04302ea155b
From mailman web logs:
TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found
ERROR 2018-07-25 07:42:41,098 22515 hyperkitty.lib.utils Failed to update the fulltext index: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyperkitty/lib/utils.py", line 186, in run_with_lock
fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hyperkitty/search_indexes.py", line 87, in update_index
update_cmd.update_backend("hyperkitty", "default")
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/haystack/management/commands/update_index.py", line 257, in update_backend
commit=self.commit, max_retries=self.max_retries)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/haystack/management/commands/update_index.py", line 84, in do_update
backend.update(index, current_qs, commit=commit)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/haystack/backends/whoosh_backend.py", line 178, in update
self.setup()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/haystack/backends/whoosh_backend.py", line 126, in setup
self.index = self.storage.open_index(schema=self.schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/whoosh/filedb/filestore.py", line 176, in open_index
return indexclass(self, schema=schema, indexname=indexname)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/whoosh/index.py", line 421, in __init__
TOC.read(self.storage, self.indexname, schema=self._schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/whoosh/index.py", line 632, in read
check_size("int", _INT_SIZE)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/whoosh/index.py", line 626, in check_size
sz = stream.read_varint()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/whoosh/filedb/structfile.py", line 191, in read_varint
return read_varint(self.read)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/whoosh/util/varints.py", line 102, in read_varint
b = ord(readfn(1))
TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found
Could anybody guide me as to what’s wrong?
–Kamran
I am not so pleased to announce the release of Mailman 2.1.29.
It turned out there was a bug in the security fix in 2.1.28 that broke
the web admin and listinfo overview pages. This is fixed in Mailman
2.1.29. The patch referred to below has been corrected to fix this bug.
There is also a patch attached to
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1783417> which applies to
2.1.28 to fix this issue.
Python 2.6 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is strongly recommended.
Mailman 2.1.28 was a minor security fix release. It also has some i18n
updates and a couple of bug fixes and adds the ability to edit list
specific templates through the web admin UI in a supported language
other than the list's default. See the attached README.txt for details.
For details of the security issue, see the report at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1780874> which also includes a
patch for those who want to fix this issue without upgrading.
Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and
e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and
SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites.
For more information, please see our web site at one of:
http://www.list.orghttps://www.gnu.org/software/mailmanhttp://mailman.sourceforge.net/https://mirror.list.org/
Mailman 2.1.29 can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/
--
Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
This list is now on Mailman 3.
The HyperKitty archive is still a work in progress. The old pipermail
archive is still available, but won't be updated going forward.
--
Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
I am pleased to announce the release of Mailman 2.1.28.
Python 2.6 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is strongly recommended.
This is a minor security fix release. It also has some i18n updates and
a couple of bug fixes and adds the ability to edit list specific
templates through the web admin UI in a supported language other than
the list's default. See the attached README.txt for details.
For details of the security issue, see the report at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1780874> which also includes a
patch for those who want to fix this issue without upgrading.
Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and
e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and
SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites.
For more information, please see our web site at one of:
http://www.list.orghttps://www.gnu.org/software/mailmanhttp://mailman.sourceforge.net/https://mirror.list.org/
Mailman 2.1.28 can be downloaded from
https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/
--
Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Dear mailman devs, autocrypters,
just heart back from Mehan from the Mozilla Mission partners programme
that they declined the autocrypt/mailman proposal. Here is the quote:
"At this stage, the committee is not convinced that your project is
positioned to advance the Mozilla mission in a significant manner in the
near-term. Specifically, it is not clear to the committee if Autocrypt +
Mailman 3 is on track to encourage wider adoption or a broader set of use
cases in the future."
thanks everybody who helped with the application.
Let's see if we can anyway advance the ideas of
easy-to-use encrypted mailing lists ...
holger
On 7/10/18 11:50 PM, Abhilash Raj wrote:
> I am very pleased to announce the release of Mailman Suite 3.2.
>
> This includes Mailman Core 3.2.0, MailmanClient 3.2.0, Postorius 1.2.0, Django-Mailman3 1.2.0, Hyperkitty 1.2.0.
We need to tag these releases in the gitlab branches. Do you want to do
that?
--
Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Jul 10, 2018, at 23:50, Abhilash Raj <maxking(a)asynchronous.in> wrote:
>
> I am very pleased to announce the release of Mailman Suite 3.2.
Congratulations! This was a release long in the making, and I’m so happy that Abhilash was able to take it over the finish line. Thanks to all the community members who also helped, and continue to make Mailman 3 a great project.
Cheers,
-Barry
