[Mailman-Users] Mailman archive messages(not rm, but install!)

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Fri Dec 8 02:48:43 CET 2006


Paul Tomblin wrote:

>Quoting Barry Warsaw (barry at python.org):
>> 
>> It already does escape From lines in the body of the message.  It  
>> does this by way of the email package's Generator class, which is  
>> instantiated with mangle_from_=True.
>
>Must be a newer version than the one in Debian stable.   I grepped for
>"mangle" in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/*, and didn't find it.  The parameter
>does appear in /usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py, but since I don't
>know python I don't know how to pass it to it.  I'm guessing it has
>something to do with changing the "g = Generator(fp)" and "g =
>Generator(outfp)" lines in Mailman/ListAdmin.py or more likely the "g =
>Generator(self.fp)" line in Mailman/Mailbox.py?  Is it as simple as
>changing that last one to "g = Generator(self.fp,mangle_from_=True)"?


Yes it is.

And I think Barry may have misspoken as I don't think that change is in
the SVN trunk or Release_2_1-maint branch.

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