Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Project Discussion - Web Posting Interface.

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Wackerbarth writes: However, we need to keep the level of integration issue open until someone (presumedly the student) completes an inventory of reasonable possibilities. I would like to leave that up to Peter. (We should avoid burdening the students with chores like inventorying

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Wackerbarth writes: Would it be easier if we just treated owners and moderators as a couple of additional mailing lists. That would require additional, complex attributes that aren't appropriate for most lists to be given to all lists. They'd have to have a .virtual_list_for

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Wackerbarth writes: I agree that it might be messier. But it still might be cleaner if you want the moderators, etc. to have all of the subscription options We don't. Some are meaningless (notMeToo, noDups), some should not be available (noMail -- at least not if a vacation

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSOC Project Discussion

2013-05-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
varun sharma writes: 1. The mail delivery will be stopped for moderators as well as list owners. So the moderators should also not receive any add request pending email during the vacation period. Moderators and owners need to have their vacations treated differently from other users,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] OpenPGP Mailman integration discussion [was: Re: GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project]

2013-05-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: Is implementing this option something that would be part of the first phase of the work, or should it be part of a later phase? He can implement it whenever he wants :-), but if I were his GSoC mentor, he'd be getting paid for something else (ie, the pure

Re: [Mailman-Developers] OpenPGP Mailman integration discussion [was: Re: GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project]

2013-05-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: This part is little difficult to ponder on. Suppose a user signs up for a list. He creates a user account and subscribes to a particular list which needs his pub-key and implements signing. In Mailman 3, users and subscriptions are separate concepts. We should assume

[Mailman-Developers] Python remote urllib.request - mailman subscription

2013-05-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kip Warner writes: Does anyone have any suggestions or other feedback they'd like to share or propose a better solution? The better solution is Mailman 3, which provides a REST API for programmatic administration, but it not going to be considered ready for production use (at least, not

Re: [Mailman-Developers] OpenPGP Mailman integration discussion [was: Re: GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project]

2013-05-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: The only way that a DKIM check would fail for the given attack, would be if the DKIM included the To: and Cc: headers and the list was configured to reject mail that either (a) failed or did not have a DKIM signature, or (b) did not include the list's address

[Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-06-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: This is a list of topics that probably needs to be discussed in detail again. I tried to mention in breif about the discussions in past personally with a someone or on mm-dev list. Please ignore the topics which you feel has already reached a inference. It is a long

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-06-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Not in GSoC scope, this is direct to Barry (and anybody else, including GSoC students of course, interested in core). Barry Warsaw writes: I know this is a little backwards, but it's probably the best match for the current rule/chain model. I have a smallish problem with this model.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-06-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Joost van Baal-Ilić writes: Indeed, that could work. Another way to deal with it could be: a key is considered valid if it is imported in the trusted keyring of the current list. And declare deciding wether to import out of the scope of the project. I think that we necessarily have to

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-06-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: It's a valid complaint. What I've suggested in the past is that a rule can do some *nondestructive* processing of a message before it makes its decision. The rule would either throw out the results of the processing (possibly leading to duplication of work) or would

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-06-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: I think Abhilash's question above is a really important question, It is. and one that really should be addressed by this GSoC project. Vetoed (I'm the mentor). Abhilash is welcome to work on key management if he wants to, but he will not be evaluated on it

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-06-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: Maybe we're not talking about the same thing. OpenPGP certification should be identity certification, and nothing else. trying to extend OpenPGP certification to mean something other than identity certification sounds like a bad idea to me -- it breaks all

Re: [Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-07-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: On 07/01/2013 01:58 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The way I think of it is that Users may have several roles (read, post, moderate, admin) for each list. Each of these roles may be certified by a different agent of the owner, where agents

[Mailman-Developers] Message Handling Workflow

2013-07-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
VuNghia Truong writes: Could any one please help me to answers these questions: - Is the handling workflow b.t version 2 and 3 the same or different? It's different. V2 has a single pipeline that both checks the mail for conformance to list regulations and also cleans up the post (removing

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Murray S. Kucherawy superu...@gmail.com writes: Hey, I've been trying to find the superuser at Gmail, and it turns out I've known him all along! Would you please fix the breakage where copies of one's posts aren't delivered to yourself, which is a real PITA when trying to diagnose Gmail

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: If the From: contains the posting email of the mailing list, one would think that the default becomes reply to the list, but this is where Reply-To: can be used. Most users do not display Reply-To; many cannot (at least not at their level of technical skill). This

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: This is speculation, I said so myself. The fact that I'm paranoid just means I've read Bellovin and Cheswick. and broad fear of the future... No, it's an extrapolation of my own occasional experience, and the frequent pain of others that I see on this list, and the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
SM writes: Hi Stephen, At 18:39 08-07-2013, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: work better. Sometimes it's appropriate to take ownership of From. There is a case where the mailing list administrator configured the list to take ownership of the From. Telling people that it was not a good

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: We are not asking mailman to do the work of DMARC here. There is openDMARC for that. Of course you are, in feature #1. Unless you take it literally (reject all email that comes from such a domain, *including* email that would authenticate correctly in a full DMARC

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Jul 11, 2013, at 03:23 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: This is somewhat problematic. DMARC results are potentially trivalent. If action is reject and pct is less than 100, some hits are rejects and some are quarantine. Misses are misses. So I guess you do

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Adding DMARC support for Mailman 3

2013-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Jul 12, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Yep. There is some limited ability to do additional checking at LMTP time, but this isn't pluggable currently. Does LMTP provide the necessary ability to reject? Not reject in the Mailman sense

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3.0 todo list

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Geoff Shang writes: The reason why I'm asking is that I'm in need of some Mm3 features and was wondering if it was ready for limited deployment, and if so, what those limits currently are. The list server is in beta, when combined with Postfix as the MTA. Interfaces to other MTAs have not

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3.0 todo list

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Jul 15, 2013, at 01:21 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The only thing I can think of offhand for core is Exim support. (Sendmail support, I suppose, but nobody I know uses Sendmail, and I can't do it. Exim on the other hand is on my personal list.) I'd very

[Mailman-Developers] A list of discussion topics: GSoC OpenPGP Integration

2013-08-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
ehr...@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu writes: I am not an expert but the encryption discussion is extremely important. We are not currently discussing encryption, but rather signing. A similar approach might work for signing, but it's subject to a weaker form of the objection below.[1]

[Mailman-Developers] How to check whether the message is new thread!

2013-08-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
VuNghia Truong writes: Could any one please give me advices about how to check if a message is a new thread or just a reply to a thread? Check for a References: header or an In-Reply-To: header. These headers contain message ids from the thread. If they aren't present, the message starts a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3.0 todo list

2013-08-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
nkarageuz...@gmail.com writes: I'm looking forward mailman 3 to find efficient archive UI, with posting from web feature (just like in http://groupserver.org/) I don't see a reply, so even though I'm not the best person to answer this I'll take a hack at it. There were two or three

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Updates

2013-08-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Aug 14, 2013, at 05:35 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: [1] Has anybody else noticed that both gpg's UI and its documentation seem designed to make it as hard to use as possible? Sadly, I think this is one of the biggest reasons why we've never seen

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Updates

2013-08-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: I think the address should be $LIST-owner@fqdn. For other parameters, defaults are OK I think (size=2048, type=RSA IIRC). Here should not the address be the list's posting address? Like for mm-dev list should it not be mailman-developers@python.org? Maybe. But

[Mailman-Developers] Get message content by message ID

2013-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nghia Vu Truong writes: Is there any way to get message's content based on its Message ID? That depends on where the message is stored and what features that store implements, and where and how you want to fetch messages by message ID. If you're using a standard Mailman installation with the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Updates

2013-08-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: On 08/14/2013 04:35 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 1 2013, 23:58:20) from gnupg import GPG gpg = GPG(gnupghome='/Users/steve/.gnupg',keyring='test-pub',secret_keyring='test-sec') crypted = gpg.encrypt(u'A bit of random

[Mailman-Developers] virtualenv and nose2 replace zc.buildout and zope.testing

2013-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: A while ago I mentioned that I was trying to get rid of zc.buildout to build Mailman 3 and zope.testing to test it. This work is now complete and pushed to trunk. Yee-haw! (and giddyap, GSOC students! fix them tests!) ___

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Updates

2013-08-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: On 08/28/2013 09:37 PM, Abhilash Raj wrote: 1) There is a 'signature rule'[1] that can verify signature from the users whose public key is stored in 'var/gpg' directory insider 'pubring.gpg'. This rule also verifies that the email has only two parts one

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC Updates

2013-08-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: On 08/30/2013 12:56 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The last time I looked (~10 days ago), that was the implementation: look only at the message-level Content-Type, ensure it's multipart/signed, check that there are exactly two parts and that the second

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can we send message with attachment using UserNotification?

2013-09-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 08/21/2013 02:02 PM, Nghia Vu Truong wrote: Hi there, Could you please help me with this question! Is there anyway we can attach a document to message, sending by UserNotification method? No. Mailman.Message.UserNotification() creates a single part,

[Mailman-Developers] Testing different email structures with MUAs

2013-09-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: I have attached all 3 type of message, each in a different file. Please can you place it in your maildir and check how your MUAs respond to it and report here? The message signature will not be verified(the signature text is actually gibberish), this experiment is

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Testing different email structures with MUAs

2013-09-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: On 09/11/2013 08:44 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Abhilash Raj writes: I have attached all 3 type of message, each in a different file. Please can you place it in your maildir and check how your MUAs respond to it and report here? The message

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Testing different email structures with MUAs

2013-09-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: I'm just pointing out that mailman commonly produces what you've called invalid data, In the OpenPGP sense that the whole message cannot be considered to be validly signed, even though it may contain a multipart/signed part with a valid signature. and that its

[Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: In the upcoming mailman 2.1.16 there has been the introduction of the optional feature author_is_list Replace the sender Before you release, s/sender/author/, please. When discussing Internet email, sender != author. The name of the feature, author is list, is an

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Franck has assured me that this feature can be useful even in the absence of the DNS and MTA changes necessary to DKIM sign outgoing list mail, That's nonsense. There's no reason to do this in the absence of correct DKIM signatures by Mailman or its MTA, and every

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: we (the people using DMARC) have the opportunity to build adoption. Just trying to reduce adoption friction ;) The direction you're heading will *create* adoption friction. The only way you're going to be able to sell this to admins like me is to wait until our users

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: One may argue that since the list is modifying the message, it is now the new author of it, this proposal just make it more clearly. Nonsense. Here's what RFC 5322 says: The From: field specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: Unfortunately z= and especially l= are not used practically by senders because they create a risk. One could add an attachment containing malware to the message for instance. Indeed, we have to assume that the MUAs are broken in this respect. See Daniel Gillmor's

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: When a list goes bad, usually the members are not blamed but the list admin, therefore making the list the system responsible of the writing of the message. Please stop being evasive. The RFC's use of responsible is intended to point to the person who wanted the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: I'm not sure if DKIM was ever meant to be exposed to the end user, but the current trend is to try to protect the end user as much as possible and this is done best by MTAs than MUAs. I disagree fundamentally. It's best done by *both* MTAs and MUAs. Not all threats

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: I think, it is risky to code this encapsulation method directly and now, it requires a branch some testing and then merging back into the main branch. First, the risk is zero, except to volunteers, as long as it's not default. Second, it's been tested for decades. A

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: I have had another thought. I will look at provisionally making ALLOW_AUTHOR_IS_LIST a 3 way switch for 2.1.16 with 0 or False (No) meaning current (2.1.15) behavior, 1 or True (Yes) meaning the 2.1.16rc1 behavior and 2 meaning the encapsulated message behavior. If

[Mailman-Developers] GSoC Final report

2013-09-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: P.S.: There is a working version of my copy of mailman here[1] if you want to have a look. [1]: http://maxking.emoir.co.in A request: Abhilash is busy with exams for the next several days, so please post questions about the implementation to mailman-developers

[Mailman-Developers] Exim4 support for Mailman 3

2013-09-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hi all, I have successfully added Exim 4 support to Mailman 3. The branch is here: lp:~stephen-xemacs/mailman/exim4 There's an instance at maxking-t...@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp which also contains Abhilash's signed-list feature. Since it's very strict about checking signatures, it

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Author_is_list option in upcoming mailman 2.1.16

2013-09-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Murray S. Kucherawy writes: I wonder how long we can hold out before we start trying to drag [the MUA developers] into our conversations, which might be the only way to solve these pain points long term. It seems to me that Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Thunderbird, etc., must have either a team or

[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3 vs Groupserver vs Sympa

2013-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hi, Kẏra! Thank you for your interest in Mailman 3! I'm sure I speak for all the developers in saying that we are honored! That said, what follows is the well-informed (I believe ;-) but individual opinion of one developer, complicated by the fact that Mailman development is quite decentralized

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-10-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Patrick Ben Koetter writes: Maybe documentation that tells interested people how they can start using the beta? I'm not sure what you mean. None of the GSoC students had trouble with getting Mailman 3 itself up and running once they got it checked out and installed. From that point of

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-10-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Terri Oda writes: But yeah, I think packaging [the suite] well (and then documenting *that*) makes a lot more sense, +1 unless someone's feeling particularly inspired? -10 -- it's all gonna turn upside down when we package, anyway. [Aside: If you're feeling *that* inspired, volunteer

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-10-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ralf Hildebrandt writes: Absolutely. Topics of interest to me would include: * what has changed (GUI?) Already in the beta distribution. But briefly, everything's all-new, all-shiny. There will be mailman2-to-mailman3 migration scripts, of course, but the admin and archive websites are

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-10-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ralf Hildebrandt writes: Where else do you expect to find this information, so we can put it there? I must admin I haven't tried installing yet, mainly because I didn't know how to go back in case of problems. Repeating what I already wrote for completeness here: Migrating and then

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-10-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Aurélien Bompard writes: I don't recall, but I think finishing HyperKitty was one of them. AFAIK it doesn't work as advertised now (at least that's what Shanu told me in her work on a unified Messaging Interface for Systers). Oh, I'm interested by any bug reports. Please. I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-10-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Aurélien Bompard writes: Branch and pull request for what import script? The import21 command, which is meant to import an existing 2.1 pickle configuration file into Mailman 3 Ah, now I see. I thought you were still talking about importing archives. Thank you very much for this

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-11-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: So this feature in particular, if Postorius can do all the necessary confirmations, I can much more easily provide an API that Postorius can call to associate an email address with a given user. I'm getting that ol' sinking feeling. Either Postorius is *the* Mailman 3

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-11-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: Mailman2 router (I've already submitted the docs for that -- they're very generic -- don't know if Barry's merged them yet), and start adding Mailman3 lists. This branch? https://code.launchpad.net/~stephen-xemacs/mailman/exim4/+merge/187302j Yes, but don't

[Mailman-Developers] REST API call for creating archive view?

2013-11-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Colin Fleming writes: Is there a way to create an archive view (i.e. present a view of all messages in a list and allow reading particular mails) using the current API? No, and (sorry Barry, but I think you just added to the confusion -- IArchiver is really a write-only API) there won't be

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: As they say at IETF: Read the spec! :P I have (probably three times carefully by now), and I still can't understand why you think DMARC makes any sense at all for mailing lists. (I have no trouble at all understanding why Citibank thinks it's great. But that's a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-11-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Adam McGreggor writes: https://code.launchpad.net/~stephen-xemacs/mailman/exim4/+merge/187302j 404s for me; is http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stephen-xemacs/mailman/exim4/revision/7219 the same? Yes, that's the one. it might be worth adding a reminder that order of routers matters in

Re: [Mailman-Developers] REST API call for creating archive view?

2013-11-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Colin Fleming writes: Thanks for the comments, Steve - can you clarify what you mean by a write-only API? Mailman core has no way to retrieve those messages. For the rest, I think Barry's answer is clear and definitive. ___ Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman Suite beta: what's left?

2013-11-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ian Eiloart writes: On 30 Oct 2013, at 13:33, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Repeating what I already wrote for completeness here: Migrating and then going back all at once is not necessary. You can migrate bit by bit, although it may require a little bit of manual

Re: [Mailman-Developers] PGP-signed message verification using the email module (and in Mailman)

2014-01-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: so if python's email module really does mangle this part, it cannot be used within RFC-2480-compliant mail gateways. This is a bug in python's email module, and it needs to be fixed. Have you reported it to the python email module? I believe the problem is

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3: Problem with binding REST server to custom address

2014-02-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: the address 0.0.0.0 to access it from outside of the VirtualBox with Port Mapping. 0.0.0.0 is a reserved IPv4 address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses#Reserved_IPv4_addresses I don't think it's a very interesting idea to bind a listener to

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3: Problem with binding REST server to custom address

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Feb 04, 2014, at 02:49 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: (WSGI is not a webserver, it is an interface between Python and a real webserver) Right, but the wsgiref stdlib module does provide a WSGI-compliant HTTP server, which is what Mailman's REST runner uses

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 ideas list

2014-02-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hi, Máirín! Good to see you here! Máirín Duffy writes: Do you know if Summer of Code students can do interaction design / UX stuff? Because I'd be willing to mentor for that. I'm not sure what you mean by design. Something like graphic design via CSS alone doesn't fly. It has to come

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 ideas list

2014-02-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Máirín Duffy writes: By UX design I don't mean simply surface aesthetics, but designing the interactions and workflows for new features and cleaning up what's there, scoping out new features (e.g., right now Karen and I are working out whether or not users should be able to follow

[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2014 FAQs

2014-02-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Zeel Shah writes: I want to request any mentor out there please throw some light about these two projects. We're still in the application process. You're probably not going to get a lot of love from mentors until after the 24th, when Google announces the accepted orgs, or perhaps later if

[Mailman-Developers] Implemented Mass Subscription via file upload

2014-02-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rajeev S writes: I have implemented a mass subscription via file upload feature for Postorious which can be found here. https://code.launchpad.net/~rajeevs1992/mailman-rajeevs1992/trunk How am I to submit a merge request to the Postorious repository?I tried to propose a merge via

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On Feb 24, 2014, at 09:54 PM, Florian Fuchs wrote: The good news: The Python Software Foundation was more successful (congrats to Terri!), so we'll be able to participate under their umbrella again. \o/ Much thanks to Terri and all involved. Looking forward to

[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] MM3 Test Hangs

2014-02-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tom Browder writes: We really appreciate your efforts to test the betas of Mailman 3. But please do be aware that although there are sites already successfully using Mailman 3 in production, the development team doesn't recommend use of any of the components (core, Postorius, HyperKitty) in

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM3 Test Hangs

2014-02-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nicolas Karageuzian writes: I encountered db lock using sqlite with mailman3 and tools. Switching to postgres avoid the db locking states. Maybe you should explore that way. Hyperkitty moved to github so the lp ref is quite out of date for this resource. Thanks for the advice!

[Mailman-Developers] [GSOC 2014]Approach towards the Full anonymization project

2014-02-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rajeev S writes: As mentioned, here is my approach towards the full anonymization project. AFAICS as far as described it will provide the outcomes you describe. However, I don't understand the use case here. Most approaches use a single secret ID for each user. This is not just a matter

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Gsoc idea discussions : Continuous integration tool

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
varun sharma writes: Why would you use Django to build the tool as opposed to just a python package? I was thinking of expanding it like buildbot to include django based GUI and detailed reports. So i thought we can use django, but if we just want a command line tool, then python

[Mailman-Developers] Wiki edits for GSoC 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
hi guys, I just added a link from Sprints to the GSoC 2014 page. I have found it frustrating to see queries from interested students about projects where I have no clue who the appropriate mentor might be, and haven't seen any responses on-list. So ... I took the liberty of adding a Potential

[Mailman-Developers] Mentor list on project page

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hi, I added a Mentor List (ie, roster) at the end of the project page, and added (besides myself) Florian, Barry and Terri. I don't mind having my address there (so added it) but didn't take liberties with anybody else's mailbox. Regards ___

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Command line Client

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rajeev S writes: The deliverables of the project would be, at the least, - Command line tools to perform tasks in the mailman client docs I think there should be one tool with multiple commands. These can be implemented by separate commands in a directory off the normal PATH if you

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mentor list on project page

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Abhilash Raj writes: Hi,I have a pretty good understand of the mailman core, I would love to co-mentor any project if I am allowed? You're allowed. Lots of former students (and the occasional current student as well!) are mentors. Some of the following my sound harsh, and it is my private

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Command line Client

2014-03-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Florian Fuchs writes: One is the one-off command (with options) that outputs a result, either on stdout or saved to a file. This could make for an interesting project, but I think then it would really make more sense (like Steve said) to extend the existing `mailman` command instead of

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM 3 and Postfix + Apache

2014-03-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: BTW Tom, are you trying to run MM2 and MM3 concurrently? I'd like that to be a supported deployment use case, but haven't had much time to try it myself. I do this already, but with Exim4 as MTA. It's not hard. Of course if both installations have lists of the same

Re: [Mailman-Developers] MM 3 and Postfix + Apache

2014-03-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tom Browder writes: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Barry Warsaw writes: BTW Tom, are you trying to run MM2 and MM3 concurrently? I'd like I do this already, but with Exim4 as MTA. It's not hard. Of course if both installations

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Gsoc idea discussions : Continuous integration tool

2014-03-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
varun sharma writes: Can i use buildbot for the server part and integrate it with frontend suite ? This is way too compact to understand what you're proposing. If you mean configure a buildbot to build and test Mailman 3, and that's it, no. This is Google Summer of *Code*, and you have to

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Gsoc idea discussions : Continuous integration tool

2014-03-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
varun sharma writes: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.orgwrote: [ long irrelevant quote snipped -- please trim! If you really can't trim because you're using a handheld in a crowded bus on a very bumpy road, please *top* post, but make sure your text

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Gsoc idea discussions : Continuous integration tool

2014-03-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
varun sharma writes: Actually my idea is to import all the unit tests from the projects involved in the suite and write new tests as well if required, so that we can check both integration of new code and integration of components with each other. Selectively combining unit tests of

[Mailman-Developers] Getting mentor attention [was: Mailman SNMP support]

2014-03-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nitin Agarwal writes: Here its Nitin Agarwal, an open source Software developer and enthusiast. Hi, pleased to meet you. I'm belatedly replying to the list, and at length, as there are other students in your situation. I hope it helps. First off, I saw you talked to Terri on IRC. Much as

Re: [Mailman-Developers] URLs in notification messages

2014-03-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: The basic problem is this: with the separation of web ui and core, the core can't actually know a priori what those links will be, or even if there *are* links. So in my branch I actually remove all those links from the default templates and rewrite as necessary to

[Mailman-Developers] Moderation rules priority

2014-03-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Aurelien Bompard writes: I'd like to discuss what happens when an email is sent by both a member and a nonmember in Mailman3. How is that possible? Very easy, here's my use case : I have my own domain, say example.com, and for convenience and portability I choose to use Gmail as a

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Cordova/Android App for GNU Mailman Admin Interface

2014-03-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bhargav Golla writes: I hope my mail hasn't missed your attention. I would be very much obliged if someone could answer this question so that I can go ahead and write proposal. First, it's impolite to send mail to specific people just because they're answered you before, unless they are

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Moderation rules priority

2014-03-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: I'm having a hard time right now seeing how we could continue to support these types of operations with a combined member and non-member rule. I expressed myself poorly. The parameters of the decision logic given the list of senders are different for the two rules so

Re: [Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Cordova/Android App for GNU Mailman Admin Interface

2014-03-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bhargav Golla writes: guess the culture varies from organization to organization Thank you for pointing this out. Indeed it does. ASF (and the PSF for that matter) have a lot more applicants, and at least the PSF is using a generic channel -- core-mentorship -- for GSoC and OPW interns. In

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Moderation rules priority

2014-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: I feel quite strongly that rules should be self-contained and unordered, with ordering imposed by the chain of links that rules are associated with. I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that rules should not have a

[Mailman-Developers] [GSoC 2014] Proposal for Cordova App for GNU Mailman Admin Interface

2014-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bhargav Golla writes: Also, I have observed on the PSF GSoC page that it requires students to submit a patch to the sub-organization. I like this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/881320 Requires knowledge of gettext and the Python facilities for dealing with it (IIRC xgettext

[Mailman-Developers] Testing MM3

2014-03-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kẏra writes: Is there a page documenting how to start testing MM3 with postorius+hyperkitty and how to upgrade from MM2? The relevant and up-to-date documentation is mostly in the docs in the source trees of the various projects. Some effort has been made to update the wiki, but I doubt

[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: DMARC and Mail Lists open space at Pycon

2014-04-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: I have tentatively scheduled an open space for Friday, 11 April at 18:00 in room 523B at Pycon to talk about DMARC and mail lists. All available interested parties are invited. If the time doesn't work, we can reschedule. Is that EST or EDT? I'll try to be around on

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 : Proposal for the Mailman CLI project

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Just to follow up quickly (I've got problems I need to deal with elsewhere over the next couple days). Abhilash Raj writes: Hey, thanks for jumping in, maxking! Hi Rajeev, Congratulations! We look forward to a great summer with you. Definitely! I would like to thank the Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 : Proposal for the Mailman CLI project

2014-04-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rajeev S writes: You do a *heroku login *from your shell and you can run commands on the remote server of your application from your shell.This would be an interesting project and would hugely benefit usability of the current project. Sure, under the hood this is just an ssh login, most

Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 : Proposal for the Mailman CLI project

2014-04-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tanstaafl writes: On 4/27/2014 11:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: When you get ~250 wanted mails (many of them list, of course) and ~1000 spams (that get past the 6-sigma if this filter thinks it's spam, throw it away! filter) a day, automatic processing

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