[Mailman-Users] Question about the configure script.

[Ryan Steele]

Thanks for the tips guys, that helped me figure out which values to give 
those fields in configure.  The upgrade seemed to go smoothly, however I 
can no longer send mail.  Here's the error I get in Mailman's logs:

Jun 21 10:50:10 2006 (1861) Uncaught runner exception: 'module' object 
has no attribute 'OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING'
Jun 21 10:50:10 2006 (1861) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in 
_dispose
    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in 
_dopipeline
    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 83, in process
    prefix_subject(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 274, in 
prefix_subject
    old_style = mm_cfg.OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING'

Jun 21 10:50:10 2006 (1861) SHUNTING: 
1150901409.174751+3b3acb6a64ae7c962b5567a5bc6c9111dc8b213e


I'm not sure if i specified but I was going from 2.1.5 to 2.1.8.

Best,
Ryan

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Ryan Steele wrote:
>   
>> I have a question about the options for the configure script.  I'm 
>> upgrading an installation of Mailman to 2.1.8, but I'm not sure what the 
>> previous sysadmin configured for the --with-mail-gid option.  He has 
>> apparently deleted the mailman-<version> directory, leaving only the 
>> target installation directory in his wake.  Is there any other place 
>> besides the config.log that would yield the options fed to configure?  
>> If not explicitly, is there a way to extrapolate this simply from the 
>> installation directory?  Thanks in advance for your help.
>>     
>
>
> Patrick gave a good hint, but with respect to the CGI wrappers and
> --with-cgi-gid.
>
> For the mail wrapper, run the command
>
> path/to/mail/mailman post
>
> The wrapper will check the invoking GID before the list so the absence
> of the list in the command is OK. The output should tell you what
> group(s) is/are expected. If it complains about the missing list arg,
> you ran it as one of the expected groups.
>
>