Mailman 3 March 2006 - Mailman-Users

Personalization in the original email
by fmpage＠free.fr March 28, 2006

March 28, 2006

Hi, I've been trying to get personalization working inside the body of the original email instead of using header and footer. I did manage to get it working in plain text and html format, by doing some tweaking in the Decorate.py file. However, the code I added to get it working for multipart/alternative does not seem to work. See below: sMsgToFormat="" msgtype = msg.get_content_type() if not msg.is_multipart(): sMsgToFormat=msg.get_payload() elif msgtype == 'multipart/alternative': sBoundary=msg.get_boundary() part=msg.get_payload() for val in part: sPart=sBoundary+'\n'+val.as_string() sMsgToFormat+=sPart sMsgToFormat+='\n' #now replace substitute var that are formmated as [[variable]] for key, val in d.iteritems(): sMsgToFormat=string.replace(sMsgToFormat,'[['+key+']]',val) #set the original message with the new content msg.set_payload(sMsgToFormat) The output generated seems ok when I look at the mail source on any client, but the message does not show up at all. Fred.

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Editing html
by jewel.brueggeman-makda＠washburn.edu March 28, 2006

March 28, 2006

I want to edit the html for the my listinfo page. I have searched online but have not found any information. Is the listinfo page generated on the fly? I can't locate in my directory exactly whre it is. I looked in /var/www/ and only saw my index.html page. Also, this question may seem impossible to answer but does anyone have a diagram or illustration which might help me understand how Mailman works better. I am an extreme newbie (2 months only) and was able to replace an existing mailman server but had to have instructions from my predecessor to do it. I am a visual person and wondered if something like this was floating around. If not, that's cool. Thanks, Jewel

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Fwd: list members not receiving mails but mails archiving
by Sola Sobanjo March 27, 2006

March 27, 2006

Hello, We have a little problem with our mailinglist using mailman2.1.5, and we would really appreciate it if you can help rectify this problem ASAP as we are in an online conference. As stated in the subject line, Mails refused to go out to members of the list a couple of hours ago (8 hours thereabout). After one of the moderators sent a couple of mails with various attachements. The list only got one of the mails but not the others. We have tried everything but it seems not to be working every other mails sent after that has not reached the list BUT is has been archived. We need to have this problem sorted out for us as soon as you can get to it. Thank you very much Sola

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No module named korean
by Bob Holden March 27, 2006

March 27, 2006

Not sure if you're still working on this, but it's still happening on a CentOS4.2 server with the latest tarball. Installing Python-Devel fixed the problem. Bob Holden EAWF

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Moderator not getting copy of emails
by BG Mahesh March 27, 2006

March 27, 2006

hi When the moderator of the list sends an email to the list he is not getting a single copy of his own email. I checked the settings of the moderator and it looks ok [I see "no dupes" checked for the moderator]. What could I be doing wrong? -- -- B.G. Mahesh

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Can't update FAQ Wizard - permission error
by Mark Sapiro March 26, 2006

March 26, 2006

I attempted to edit FAQ 6.9 to add a link to <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-March/050182.html>, and when I 'Commit', I get the following error: Can't write file faq06.009.htp ([Errno 13] Permission denied: 'faq06.009.htp'). Also, the edit I made on March 24 to FAQ 3.14 is not there. I don't know if I got the same error then and didn't notice, or if the FAQ was somehow rolled back (the edit is not in the log either). The addition (FAQ 6.18) I made on March 21, is OK. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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strange porblem with apache
by Manlio Perillo March 26, 2006

March 26, 2006

Hi. I have installed Mailman on my test machine (Debian Sarge on VMWare) but I have hit a strange problem. Here is my configuration: # mm_cfg.py MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http:/%s/mailman/' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/images/mailman/' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.python.mydebian' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.python.mydebian' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['lists.python.mydebian'] # apache2 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName lists.python.mydebian ServerAdmin webmaster(a)python.mydebian Alias /images/mailman/ /var/lib/mailman/icons/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory "/var/lib/mailman/archives/public"> AddDefaultCharset Off </Directory> ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ RedirectMatch ^/$ /mailman/listinfo CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_python_lists.log combined </VirtualHost> The problem is with the web interfaces. On http://lists.python.mydebian/mailman/listinfo I get links of type: http://lists.python.mydebian/lists.python.mydebian/mailman/admin instead of http://lists.python.mydebian/mailman/admin Why? The strange thing is the the *source* page has the correct links; the same if I read the page with python httplib... Thanks and regards Manlio Perillo

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Keep getting empty bounces
by Mark Sapiro March 26, 2006

March 26, 2006

Chris Mason wrote: >> >I followed your instructions, thi sis the session: >[root@server7 root]# python >Python 2.2.3 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:20:51) >[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)] on linux2 >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import smtplib > >>> msg = """Subject: Test Message >... Message-Id: some-id at nowhere.example.com >... From: masonc(a)masonc.com >... To: You >... >... This is a test >... """ > >>> rcpts = ['lists(a)masonc.com', 'netconcepts_anguilla(a)yahoo.com'] Are these the actual recipients that were "bouncing" on your test list? > >>> env = 'mailman-bounces(a)picadoo.com' I suggested that you put your own address here so the "bounces" would come directly to you. > >>> SMTPHOST = 'localhost' > >>> SMTPPORT = 0 > >>> x = smtplib.SMTP() > >>> x.connect(SMTPHOST, SMTPPORT) >(220, 'server7.picadoo.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Sat, 25 Mar >2006 12:20:49 -0400') > >>> x.sendmail(env, rcpts, msg) >{} > >>> > > >And the emails arrived as planned with no bounces. In any case, this is just the way Mailman sends mail, so if there are no "bounces" returned from this, I have no idea why there would be bounces from list posts sent to the same addresses. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Keep getting empty bounces
by Mark Sapiro March 25, 2006

March 25, 2006

Chris Mason wrote: > >Another strange thing, when I post from a moderator account by sending a >message, I get five replies. I get three bounces and two "TheOO post >from requires approval", but with no subject and no sender. I'm guessing that these too are bounces being returned to the list address instead of or in addition to the list-bounces address. >The only thing different I did was to recompile mailman to add vuser as >a group, to allow for my hosting software. I think there may be some issue with the configuration of your outgoing MTA. What happens if you send a message directly to one of these addresses from the Mailman server using 'localhost' port 25 as the smtp server? See the post at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-May/044742.html> for a way to do this. If you try the script in that post with your own address as both the From: and the value of 'env', you should receive back exactly what Mailman receives when it sends. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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How to automate single-sign-on across multiple apps?
by Matt England March 25, 2006

March 25, 2006

Summary: How to automate single-sign-on across multiple apps...on the Mailman-side of things? Details: My project is making a collaboration web server that includes MediaWiki, Bugzilla, phpBB forums, Mailman lists, and other web-base applications. We are trying to make our own single-login mechanism for all these apps. We appear to have an LDAP-based "back end" account database working for the above apps, and we think we can make our own "one-stop" registration page form where a user can register once and instantly get accounts on all the above apps. The trickier part: How can we make a one-stop *login* page (different from registration page) that can automatically login said user to all the above apps, so they don't have to login manually to each one separately? We presume we have to provide some sort of automation to make the above apps auto-download cookies to the client browser for each app. A coworker of mine suggested some sort or "front end" form that passes login/password parameters to the "back end" forms to do this, automatically. I think he referred to this as "screen scraping" (although I'm not sure of the nature or the meaning of that term). Further, I'm not sure I'm thrilled about having the password flying inside my server via a URL, but alas it's a SSL-wrapped session, so maybe it doesn't matter. In any case, I'm looking for suggestion on how to do this for Mailman. Thanks for any help, -Matt

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