[Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 14:14 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 11:43 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> > See <http://wiki.list.org/x/KYCB> and the Mailman-Developers post linked
> > therefrom. It's probably out of date and does not directly address the
> > issue of making this information available as part of the 3rd party
> > package, but it is probably still useful to someone trying to upgrade
> > RedHat Mailman from source.
> 
> Yes, this article is very informative, and at present may be the best
> thing available for an old-package to new-source upgrade.  And yes, it
> does not address the issue of making this information available as a
> default part of the 3rd party package.

Adding this feature would involve only about 6 lines of code :)

in configure.in:

        --- configure.in.orig	2012-10-29 14:37:31.000000000 -0500
        +++ configure.in	2012-10-29 14:59:13.000000000 -0500
        @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
         AC_REVISION($Revision: 8122 $)
         AC_PREREQ(2.0)
         AC_INIT(src/common.h)
        -
        +CONFIGURE_CLI="$0 $@"
        +AC_SUBST(CONFIGURE_CLI)
         
         # /usr/local/mailman is the default installation directory
         AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr/local/mailman)
        @@ -683,6 +684,7 @@
         contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py \
         contrib/courier-to-mailman.py \
         contrib/rotatelogs.py \
        +contrib/mm-config \
         cron/bumpdigests \
         cron/checkdbs \
         cron/cull_bad_shunt \
        
And in the contrib directory, a short script, mm-config, to display this
information:

        #!/usr/bin/python
        print """Mailman was built with the following configuration invocation:
        %s""" % ("@CONFIGURE_CLI@",)

This properly belongs on the mailman-developers list, so please excuse
my posting it on the thread here, but I though the discussion might be
useful.  I also posted it to the developers list.

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