[Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman.

2015-02-18 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Thanks everyone for your invaluable suggestions,I was also thinking about having features as plug-ins like 1.As discussed with @Rashi007-Timed delay or timed delivery of messages - Suppose I wish to post a message to list but instead of composing and sending I prefer to send it delayed like I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman.

2015-02-17 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
archives. 2.Timed vacations, allowing a user to postpone or discard email for a certain number of days or weeks. I find them interesting and am thinking of having them as plug-ins. Regards! *Aanand Shekhar Roy* ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman

[Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman.

2015-02-14 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi all, I am currently finding good plugin ideas that might make there way into mailman 3 system.I had discussed the same with @terri on irc.Some ideas i have already found good are: 1. DNS BlockList 2. Confirmation from user before posting phone nos in emails 3. SpamAsassin as it is I wish to ask

[Mailman-Developers] Getting error with the tests mailman3 core

2015-02-12 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi, I am working on bug #967951.Following is the diff file for my changes. http://pastebin.com/x7LMiTCR I am getting the following error on running the tests. http://pastebin.com/NFU3Gbrc Can someone please help as i unable to understand why i am getting these errors! Any help would be

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman.

2015-02-15 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Original Message Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Building plug-ins for mailman. From:Aanand Shekhar Roy 2013...@iiitdmj.ac.in Date:Mon, February 16, 2015 9:32 am To: 2013...@iiitdmj.ac.in

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding auto-reply mechanism

2015-03-16 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Please ignore the above mail, it was sent on 5th march, i dont know why it came today . ___ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ:

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for Post-Throttling

2015-03-09 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
I think you should provide an option to just throttle the user on a given list, too. Possibly with different default throttling parameters. Should I provide an option to combine both of these options into one ? Or an option to use any one of the two throttlings? I don't see why you would have

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for Post-Throttling

2015-03-12 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
database 1 will be required for counting post on threads, also, whether the threads are same or not will be decided according to the subject header. For a subject header abc we consider the following subjects as the same: Re: abc Fwd: abc abc We will strip the prefixes Re, Fwd off

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-03-06 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
I am extremely sorry for behaving stupidly. I in no means meant to insult you. You are far senior in all terms and I am ashamed to have dis-honoured you unwillingly. I got a bit excited over that without thinking rationally. I'll try my best not repeat such an illogical action in future. I'll

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-03-06 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Banned word plug-in, which was also then added to the wiki page of idea lists) As you know, I'm not a fan of this one. This feature as a plug-in is desired by many list admins. So that they can maintain a decency on the list and avoid usage of certain unwanted words. I personally talked to

[Mailman-Developers] Approach for Auto moderation system

2015-03-07 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi, Does the following approach for auto moderation sound fine or am I on the wrong path ? I think we neet to make changes in handler to_outgoing.py in method process. 1) We need to make two databases : Table1 Schema- [ user_id | Thread name | list_id | count | last_msg_posted_at ] user_id,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for Auto moderation system

2015-03-07 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
One concern here is that Thread is a fragile term in email. Unless you are planning on some form of message body analysis to group messages together, you are going to need to rely on the In-Reply-To and References headers of the incoming email, which can have its difficulties. If you are

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads

2015-03-11 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
There is also the problem of people just starting a new message with out using reply (or a digest user replying to the digest) which will place the message in a new thread. This is why I made the comment that per thread limits really need to be combined with some form of over-all limit or

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads

2015-03-10 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
After enough exchanges, the reference line will get too long, and then the proper (per the RFC) procedure is to drop the oldest reference. (For threading to work in the MUA, it only needs the last couple to find the latest message that has been received and thread under it) There is also the

[Mailman-Developers] Query regarding auto-reply mechanism

2015-03-11 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi , I have a doubt regarding auto-responding Suppose I have posted my confidential information on mailing list, and the list setting is neither accept nor discard any mails having confidential information.Whether it should be posted or not depends on the user .So I had to ask which one approach

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Doubt regarding threads

2015-03-11 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Most definitely, just as I hope the per thread limits are something the list-admin can control, as again, that is something very much list dependent. And again, those limits would be time rate based, not an absolute value. Okay, I will try to think about an appropriate way to handle this

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-03-03 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Thanks Steve for guiding me through. I am working on your advise. Aanand Shekhar Roy writes: I was wondering if this approach for creating the plug-in would work: When the plugin is installed, its .config file will check if required interfaces are present in the local machine and find

[Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-02-28 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Can someone tell me if the following way is suitable for implementing a plug in on mailman3 : A folder contains all the .py codes needed to implement the plugin feature aimed. In that folder we make an executable file i.e. .sh file, which runs the script that adds the code mentioned above in the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-03-02 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
implementing IHandler that modifies the text before forwarding it in the pipeline in which the whole process is running. Aanand Shekhar Roy writes: I was seeking was how to integrate it with the existing src of mailman in a user's computer. You don't integrate [a plugin] with source. The point

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for plugin ideas

2015-02-27 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Based on the discussion with @Abhilash, Below is the modified approach for plugin ideas: *Banned Words*: 1. We create a common set of words that are to be banned in a mail. How do you create such a list, who decides which words are banned? Would it be possible to add/remove words from

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-03-04 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi, I have a doubt regarding auto-responding Suppose I have posted my confidential information on mailing list, and the list setting is neither accept nor discard any mails having confidential information.Whether it should be posted or not depends on the user .So I had to ask which one approach is

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2015 aspirant: Github/development tools integration

2015-02-28 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi Karan, I would suggest setting up mailman would be a good start and from there your can to jump beginner friendly bugs on launchpad. To get a better insight into mailman system, you can also go through their documentation

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Query regarding plugin integration with mailman3

2015-03-01 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
I am a bit under confusion here, I thought Chain handlers and rules were to be used to create the modules that implement the plug-ins (which i had mentioned in my previous mail, subject:Approach for plugin ideas), what I was seeking was how to integrate it with the existing src of mailman in a

[Mailman-Developers] Approach for plugin ideas

2015-02-23 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi everyone, This is my approach for plug-in ideas : BANNED WORDS: 1. We create a common set of words that are to be banned in a mail. 2. In list settings we create an option for list admin to choose action taken if a mail has banned words. 3. We need to create a new rule in

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Approach for plugin ideas

2015-02-25 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi Abhilash, Thanks for guiding me through. I'll work on the details as suggested by you. :) Hi Aanand, On 23 February 2015 at 17:11, Aanand Shekhar Roy 2013...@iiitdmj.ac.in wrote: Hi everyone, This is my approach for plug-in ideas : BANNED WORDS: 1. We create a common set of words

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Prospective applicant for GSoC-2015

2015-02-21 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi, Welcome! You may start off by setting up your development environment. You may refer to http://wiki.list.org/DEV/A%205%20minute%20guide%20to%20get%20the%20Mailman%20web%20UI%20running .If you run into any problem, you can also contact on IRC channel #mailman. :) Hello! My name is Aditya,

[Mailman-Developers] Plug-in Ideas for Gsoc 2015

2015-02-20 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi everyone, We had discussed few plug-in ideas here among which following were found to be suitable: 1.Automoderation system for limiting post - Fexible automoderation system. Lot of moderators (and even more subscribers!) who would love to have long threads throttled (the first 10 messages

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC 2015: Willingness to contribute

2015-03-05 Thread Aanand Shekhar Roy
Hi Umang, I would suggest setting up mailman would be a good start http://gnu-mailman.readthedocs.org/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html and from there your can to jump beginner friendly bugs on launchpad. To get a better insight into mailman system, you can also go through their