Hi everyone,
I'm releasing Mailman 1.0b10 today; hopefully we'll have more luck with this than b9. I need to concentrate on other things for a while, now that python.org seems to be smoothly running this version. Unless there are showstopper bugs, I would like this version to be 1.0 final, so please do bang on it a lot.
If you do find bugs, it would be great if you can enter them into the Jitterbug database. See
http://www.python.org/mailman-bugsI know there's a lot y'all would like to see done. Weighed against the slippage in when I thought 1.0 final would be out, I think we have to just be happy with what we've got for now, get it out the door, and then begin working on improvements. Like John said at LISA: "all mailing list managers suck, ours just sucks less" ... hopefully :-)
Go to www.list.org to pick up the current tarball. Note that the old ftp URL won't work anymore. BE SURE TO READ THE `UPGRADING' FILE FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
There's still time to vote on the logo. Voting is closed whenever I do the first release candidate (no date set, but SOON).
My priority for the next release will be to craft the Web pages for gnu.org, clean up documentation, and get things ready for the mass of new adopters (yeah!). I can't guarantee that I'll be hacking any code unless there's severe breakage in this tarball.
Enjoy, and thanks everyone, -Barry
Oops, here's the NEWS file entries for 1.0b10.
1.0b10
New script bin/sync_members which can be used to synchronize a list's membership against a flat (e.g. sendmail :include: style) file.
bin/add_members and bin/remove_members now accept addresses on the command line with `-' as the value for the -d and -n options.
Added variable USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER to Defaults.py for site-wide configuration of address matching scheme. With this variable set to true, the envelope sender (e.g. Unix "From_" header) is used to match addresses, otherwise the From: header is used. Envelope sender matching seems not to work on many systems. This variable is currently defaulted to 1, but may change to 0 for the final release.
Reorganization of the membership management admin page. Also member addresses are linked to their options page. Only the `General' category has the admin password change form.
Major reorganization of email command handling and responses.
notmetoo' is the preferred email command instead ofnorcv', although the latter is still accepted as an argument. If more than 5 errors are found in the message, command processing is halted.User options page now shows the user their case-preserved subscribed address as well.
The usual assortment of bug fixes.
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Barry A. Warsaw