[Mailman-Users] Question about the configure script.

[Ryan Steele]

All,

Solved my problem by putting the following in mm_cfg.py:

OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING = No

Thanks,
Ryan

Ryan Steele wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users mailing list
> Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
> Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/steele%40agora-net.com
>
> Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&amp;file=faq01.027.htp
>