[Mailman-Users] trouble with multipart and moderation

[Shea Alterio]

Thanks a bunch for your response, it was very helpful.

>‎Are you sure your script is generating the
multipart/alternative mail correctly? What happens if you sen such a
message from your MUA as opposed to your script? Is the problem with all
such mail or just mail generated by your script?

If I send it from a MUA, the text/plain+text/html is delivered without issue if sent directly to other accounts. It is properly formatted and looks as it should. If I send it into Mailman I get just a text/html+text/plain email, but all the html etc. Is shown as raw code, as if you were to paste html code into a word processor. This script to generate the text/plain+text/html email hasn't changed for over a decade, ‎but it was being used with Lyris Listmanager, so I'm not sure if there's some nonstandard formatting in the script mailman is getting caught up on.

Thanks for your help, again. I'll try the other list and IRC.

  Original Message
From: Mark Sapiro
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 7:55 PM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] trouble with multipart and moderation


On 02/12/2016 09:37 AM, Shea Alterio wrote:
> I used to run a (entirely plain text) Mailman 2 list, but I'm now setting up Mailman 3, built last month by the mailman-bundler package.
>
> Most things are working great! There are a couple problems I'm trying to work around, though.


We are working on setting up mailman3-users at mailman3.org (running on
MM 3 of course), but there are still infrastructure issues to work out
before that list will be operational.



In the mean time the best list for Mailman 3 and particularly
HyperKitty, Postorius and MailmanBundler issues is
mailman-developers at python.org or you can try the #mailman IRC channel on
freenode.



> 1. I can't seem to find a way to send multipart emails. I have a script which generates a multipart email. It only has a plain text and a text/HTML segment. No matter how I have tried to send it into Mailman, the message that gets posted to the list is the raw multipart email as I sent it in. How do I get mailman to realize it's a multipart email and should be formatted as such?


It seems you are saying that you send a multipart/alternative message
with text/plain and text/html alternative parts to the list and you
receive back from the list a text/plain message whose content is the raw
message body that you sent.  Are you sure your script is generating the
multipart/alternative mail correctly? What happens if you sen such a
message from your MUA as opposed to your script? Is the problem with all
such mail or just mail generated by your script?


> 2. I confirmed with the help of others that Mailman 3's behavior is the password you provide in making the django superuser is the password you can use to accept emails to be moderated by email. This always fails. You always get "Results: Confirmation token did not match" and "Unprocessed: Approved: <key>". However, Postorius still works for approving messages.
> Source: https://github.com/terencehonles/mailman/blob/master/src/mailman/rules/approved.py


Assuming MM 3.0, the code is
<https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/blob/release-3.0/src/mailman/rules/approved.py>.

In any case, that code is verifying the list's moderator_password which
is not the Django super password. In fact, this is the core engine which
knows nothing about Django or Postorius.

Now if you are talking about approving held mail via the Postorius Web
UI, that's a different issue, and I *think* the Django superuser PW
should work, but it has nothing to do with pre-approval via an Approved:
<password> header which is the only thing mailman/rules/approved.py is
doing. Other's, Particularly on mailman-developers or IRC will have more
insight on this.


> Lastly, it's already reported as a bug, but you can't open the Held Messages in Postorius unless you comment out the 443rd line in _client.py. Now it's working for us just fine.


OK.

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Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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