Mailman 3 May 2007 - Mailman-Users

Dates grouped by date while going through an archive of mailing list
by shirish agarwal May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Hi all, When clicking on mailing list archive even with dates the resulting list is a flat list & one never comes to know when a particular discussion started or ended right there. Other lists system make this pretty much easy. For e.g. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-04/index.htmlshould be easy to know what I mean. We have been using GNU Mailman 2.1.8 . Please lemme know if something like this is there in 2.1.9 or something similar is in works at the HEAD. Cheers ! -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/

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global email address blocklist?
by Ron Brogden May 1, 2007

May 1, 2007

Hello. Like a good portion of the Internet, I am running into issues with AOL users hitting the "spam" button in their AOL email client for legitimate list traffic. I am wanting to stop these users from re-subscribing to any lists but as far as I can tell, Mailman does not currently have a global blocklist. Looking at the source, I see the following on line 394 of "MailList.py": self.ban_list = [] I am wondering if a possible solution here would be to initialize this value to include a list of banned email address, either via an included value from Defaults.py or by hardcoding the values into to the above array? self.ban_list = [ 'clueless(a)aol.com', 'bad_gui_design(a)aol.com' ] What I am unclear of is whether this means that every message has to be scanned through this list or whether it would only apply to subscribe requests. Another potential spot would be in "AddMember()". Perhaps just adding a new function to MailList.py which checks if the address is in a global array and raises an error if this is the case? If anyone has already cracked this or if there is already an existing function to support this please point me at the FAQ or docs. Cheers, Ron -- islandnet.com http://www.islandnet.com support(a)islandnet.com ph: (250) 383-0096 fax: (250) 383-6698

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Sorry for the link not getting right
by shirish agarwal May 1, 2007

May 1, 2007

Hi all, When clicking on mailing list archive even with dates the resulting list is a flat list & one never comes to know when a particular discussion started or ended right there. Other lists system make this pretty much easy. For e.g. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-04/index.html<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-04/index.htmlshould>should <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-04/index.htmlshould> be easy to know what I mean. They use something called MHonArc We have been using GNU Mailman 2.1.8 . Please lemme know if something like this is there in 2.1.9 or something similar is in works at the HEAD. Cheers ! -- -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/

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Pipermail --> MHonArc error
by Karl Zander May 1, 2007

May 1, 2007

I am trying to convert a list from the Pipermail archiver to MhonArc. I can run /bin/arch --wipe listname successfully. I get this error when generating the MhonArc archive with /bin/arch listname Pickling archive state into /data/mailman/archives/private/listname/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "./arch", line 202, in ? main() File "./arch", line 190, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/data/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 576, in processUnixMailbox self.mhonarcProcessUnixMailbox(input, start, end) File "/data/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 706, in mhonarcProcessUnixMailbox status = mhonarch_process.close() IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe If I switch back to Pipermail it will run successfully. It looks too that I miss March and April 2007 archives when trying to convert to MHonArc, but Pipermail generates them. Would this point to an problem in the .mbox file? --Karl

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Duplicate Emails - but only if first email has HTML or stationary
by Lisa Phillips April 30, 2007

April 30, 2007

I have an issue where user send out an email, that usually has html formatting in it, or as stationary background, it is sent out twice. The second time it is sent out the formatting is gone, the background is gone, and the name on the email is usually the "real" name, vs. the display name that usually shows. On top of that there are attachments that were not on the first email. If there was stationary the .gif that was the stationary is there. Here is an example of the other names of files that are attached: GWAVADAT.TXT 4#Part.003 3#Part.002 GWAVA_2#Text.htm If anyone can tell me what I need to do to keep the second email going out to users I would really appreciate it. Another FYI, not all user receive these duplicate emails, but it seems like the majority do. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Lisa

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