Jesper Dybdal wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 08:51:10 -0800, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Mailman 2.1.11 is not compatible with Python 2.6. Most of the errors are deprecation warnings similar to those above and also involving hashlib. You'll probably find lots more in Mailman's error log.
Now I'm confused. Why do you think I am using Python 2.6?
I am actually using Python 2.4.5 (installed using the Slackware 11.0 Python package):
jesper@nuser:~$ python -V Python 2.4.5
And yes, there are quite a few of those warnings in the error log. Mailman seems to work in general, but I haven't tried digests - which probably do not work, given the error message.
I'm not sure about the digests problem. You could try 'bin/withlist -i' and then at the >>> prompt type
unicode('abcde', 'iso-8859-15')
if this prints
u'abcde'
Mailman is able to access the iso-8859-15 codecs and there should be no problem with iso-8859-15. If it prints
LookupError: unknown encoding: iso-8859-15
There is an issue, and you could try the same test with 'python' instead of 'bin/withlist -i' to see if it's Mailman specific or a Python problem.
(In either case, type control-D to the next >>> prompt to exit.)
But everything I've read seems to indicate that Python 2.4.5 should be fine for Mailman.
Yes. That's correct.
I've installed Mailman straight from the 2.1.11 distribution, except for a Postfix VERP patch and some file rights changes to make it run with suexec.
It runs on a Slackware 11.0 Linux with some packages upgraded from source or from Slackware upgrades. The kernel is Linux 2.6.26.2.
Sorry. I jumped to an unwarranted assumption. I thought the deprecation warnings were from Python 2.6. Actually they probably come from the Python 2.4.5 email package which would indicate that for some reason, either the email 2.5.8 package that comes with Mailman 2.1.11 did not get installed in Mailman's pythonlib directory or for some reason, the paths.py module in Mailman's bin, cron and scripts directories is not inserting the correct path to pythonlib in sys.path.
Is there a pythonlib directory in Mailman's "prefix" directory and does it contain an 'email' subdirectory?
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