Adam Nielsen wrote:
Did the old installation have patches that increased it's DATA_FILE_VERSION?
Ah, of course, I completely forgot about that! Yes, I had applied this patch as you recommended when I installed the old version back in 2007:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=403066&group_id=103&atid=350103
You mentioned at the time that the functionality provided by the patch (to auto-allow subscribers from certain domains, while everyone else still requires approval) will be provided in a future release:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg45982.html
However I can't find the option in the current Mailman release. Do you know if it has been added or can I apply this patch again?
It has been implemented on the 2.2 branch which is not yet released, so yes, you need to apply the patch to 2.1.12 if you need the functionality.
Also, rather than incrementing Version.DATA_FILE_VERSION further and setting yourself up for this kind of problem again, you could leave it at 97 and run the following (after applying the auto approval patch) to make sure all lists get updated
#!/bin/sh
f=mktemp
echo "mlist.data_version = 96" >$f
for list in /path/to/bin/list_lists --bare; do
/path/to/bin/config_list -i $f $list
done
rm $f
I don't intend to apply the patch to the 2.1 (stable) branch because of i18n considerations.
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