On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:30 -0500, Brad Knowles wrote:

At 1:11 PM -0400 2006-08-01, Walt Dabell wrote:

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To do so, I modified /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py then did

$ python

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import py_compile py_compile.compile('Hold.py')

You don't need to re-compile it. Python will reload and recompile on the fly, as necessary. You might want to stop and restart Mailman, however.

Ah HA! I thought it was easier that the way I was doing it...

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Any helpful ideas please?

Have you seen anything in the logs? Maybe your edit messed up something else, and it's not obvious to you what happened?

Nothing in the logs...

I tried your suggestion, modifying the text in Hold.py and restarting Mailman. Still no messages making it to the "Tend to pending moderator requests"

I even changed it back and the moderator requests still aren't working. Sure saves a lot of work, but I'm wondering what's happening to the non-accepted email...

-- Walt Dabell - 302-831-1499 - walt@udel.edu Physics & Astronomy - University of Delaware

Walt Dabell wrote:

I was trying to change the default admin message sent to people who were trying to post to the list, who the list didn't think were subscribed. A _LOT_ of people these days are subscribing with one address, then trying to post from another. They get real bent when the only message (from a lazy admin) they get when they try to post from the wrong address is:

Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list.

I wanted to change the default to:

Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list. If you are already a member, PLEASE remember to post from your subscribed address.

If your Mailman is 2.1.6 or later, you do this with nonmember_rejection_notice in the admin/privacy GUI.

To do so, I modified /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py then did

$ python

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import py_compile py_compile.compile('Hold.py')

Now nothing gets held for approval... That I can tell. I tried copying back a same version Hold.pyc from another machine and it still doesn't work.

As Brad pointed out, you don't need to recompile. Python does this as needed, but you do need to do

bin/mailmanctl restart

after any mm_cfg.py or Handler module changes (and other changes that affect the queue runners) too.

Now, you may have a modified Hold.py that's newer than Hold.pyc, so Python will ignore the Hold.pyc and recompile Hold.py so the thing to do is restore the original Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py, remove Mailman/Handlers/Hold.pyc and then do the restart as above.

If this doesn't restore things to the way they were, you'll need to look at other things that might have changed.

-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan