[Mailman-Users] Codes

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

> I have noticed that in the section which deals with members' anonymity 
> (hide/show) there are three figure codes appended to the email addresses 
> of my members.  I had written my PHP script to recognise that the code 
> "280" meant "HIDE" and "264" meant "SHOW". Everything was working well 
> until I have just noticed a code appearing which I hadn't seen before 
> ("314") which is another code meaning "HIDE" as well. This was obviously 
> not being recognised by my PHP code and this member's anonymity was 
> being compromised (or it would have been if I had 'gone live' and wasn't 
> just at the testing stage).

You should have first read Defaults.py in mailman source code:

# Bitfield for user options.  See DEFAULT_NEW_MEMBER_OPTIONS above to set
# defaults for all new lists.
Digests             = 0 # handled by other mechanism, doesn't need a flag.
DisableDelivery     = 1 # Obsolete; use set/getDeliveryStatus()
DontReceiveOwnPosts = 2 # Non-digesters only
AcknowledgePosts    = 4
DisableMime         = 8 # Digesters only
ConcealSubscription = 16
SuppressPasswordReminder = 32
ReceiveNonmatchingTopics = 64
Moderate = 128
DontReceiveDuplicates = 256

You can get 'HIDE' status by taking bit-by-bit AND operation like:

 >>> 280 & 16
16
 >>> 264 & 16
0
 >>> 314 & 16
16


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Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp
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