On 14 Jul 98, at 0:21, Ken Manheimer wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Dan Ohnesorg, admin on power wrote: Hi Ken,
Hi everybody,
Hi, dan. Sorry it's taken so long to respond - i for one haven't had much time to do a lot of pending mailman stuff, including looking at your patches, until now. No problemo.
I'm reluctant to do any administrivia filtering that catches anything but the most mechanical administrivia - i do not want to try to catch messages like "How do i subscribe to the list?", only those that were strictly formatted and intended for the -request address.
Yes it is that, what my patch mades, it looks on first word on first 10 lines in message and when it founds command for listserv, it redirects the message. I think it will work fine, but I have following problem..
Jul 03 13:29:51 1998 post: Traceback (innermost last): post: File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 102, in ? post: current_list.ParseMailCommands() post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/mm_mailcmd.py", line 80, in ParseMailCommands post: sender = string.lower(mail.GetSender()) post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/mm_message.py", line 115, in GetSender post: return string.lower(mail_address) post: TypeError : read-only buffer, None
I think there is nothing bad, return modifies nothing.
I also wouldn't recommend doing translation of stuff to ascii, or other surgery on messages. Minimum intrusion is the rule - granted, stuff like winmail.dat attachments are a nuisance, but it seems like the problem is with the origin, and not something a relatively transparent maillist should be trying to fix.
Yes it is problem in origin. Problem in origin is also that smail many years corupts messages consisting CRLF.CRLF in body and mailman includes fix for that. I have list with 500 subscribers and 50 mesages per day, when I shall distribute unwanted parts of this messages, I am worried. It takes many MB, winmail.dat is many times bigger than mail itself. It makes archive big and slowes searching or at least indexing. And it slowes delivery. Many peoples cannot read correctly mesages with ms-tnef and html part and I will give them posibility to become readable messages. My vision is, that there should be posibility to send command like set ascii to become pure ascii messages.
I hope You will also include that part, which removes some headers, like confirm-delivery-to:, I will send more patterns soon. Yesterday I have shown RFC for delivery confirmation messages and there are some headers, which are not intended for public redistribute over maillists.
cheers dan
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