June 2019 - Mailman-users - lists.mailman3.org

Rich Text support in Hyperkitty
by Abhilash Raj July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Hi All, I have been recently working on adding rich text support through markdown in Hyperkitty so that emails can be made easier to read. The core design idea in my mind when working on this was building something that doesn't bother writers of plain text emails too much, but allows people to write emails in markdown. The supported syntax is limited Markdown, for example: Hyperkitty's Markdown Syntax ============================ - List items are supported - Even nested ones - Headers with `#` aren't supported, mostly due to their widespread use as comments in code shared on mailing lists. - You can **emphasize** text and _itcalize_ them too - Block code and `inline code` works. - URLs work like they usually do. - Images _do work_, but are disabled by default because of their potential for tracking users. They need to be enabled by administrators through a configuration flag. ``` def sample(): return "yay" ``` While text intentionally written for Markdown rending looks pretty good, plain text sometimes isn't as good. I have applied my branch[1] on both the Mailman installations for these two lists (mail.python.org & lists.mailman3.org). Any feedback or bug reports on weird looking stuff is welcome here or directly [on my PR][1] [1]: https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/merge_requests/160 -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

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Mandatory First and Last Name
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Is there a way to make the profile require users to fill out their name? Andrew

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Images and rich content in hyperkitty
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

I see discussion about this topic here in July. My immediate interest is that I had hoped to move from an antique plain-text only list to modern list software that will support content such as inline images (partly to staunch the flow of subscribers to facebook, simply to be able to post pictures.) Does hyperkitty support this, and where can one read about that? Andrew

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Show number of subscribers
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

Would there be a way to show the number of subscribers to a list in the web UI? The number of participants per message is great, but this would be good too. My users seem very interested in this number. I guess they want to know how big the audience is that is reading their posts. Andrew

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Documentation for users for Mailman 3
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

There exists this: https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%202.1%20Members%20Manual I cant find a version for Mailman 3. Does it exist? If not, i will volunteer to write/update it. Let me know. Andrew

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Waht are all these messages
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 30, 2019

June 30, 2019

My log is flooded with messages like this, with apparent IP address in them: [pid: 1014|app: 0|req: 228/228] 148.251.78.18 () {38 vars in 865 bytes} [Sun Jun 30 13:26:10 2019] GET /accounts/login/?next=/archives/list/jackrail(a)jackrail.org/thread/E5WNO25XQV74CIV4QS7MQ32EZ5EWKLQ7/ => generated 7658 bytes in 9 msecs (HTTP/1.1 200) 6 headers in 331 bytes (1 switches on core 1) What are these? The flow is continuous, many different IP addresses? Andrew

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Reset digest number and volume
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 29, 2019

June 29, 2019

How to do this? After lots of testing on my pre-release beta testing list, I want the first production digest to be reset toVolume 1, Number 1. Andrew

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Monthly job failure
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 26, 2019

June 26, 2019

I see this error oin startup: 3:22:11 [Q] INFO Process-1:1 processing [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month] 13:22:11 [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month] - MailingList matching query does not exist. : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django_q-1.0.1-py3.7.egg/django_q/cluster.py", line 377, in worker res = f(*task['args'], **task['kwargs']) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/HyperKitty-1.2.3-py3.7.egg/hyperkitty/tasks.py", line 79, in _rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month mlist = MailingList.objects.get(name=mlist_name) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.1.9-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/manager.py", line 82, in manager_method return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.1.9-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/query.py", line 399, in get self.model._meta.object_name hyperkitty.models.mailinglist.MailingList.DoesNotExist: MailingList matching query does not exist. Latest build versions of everything. Any pointers? Andrew

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SECRET_KEY is not defined. Aborting.
by Steven Jones June 26, 2019

June 26, 2019

8><--- root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# docker run maxking/mailman-web:0.2 SECRET_KEY is not defined. Aborting. root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# 8><--- I keep getting this, I have attempted to set a SECRET_KEY in /opt/mailman/web/settings_local.py and, docker-compose.yaml No joy, can you tell me how I set this variable? or where I get it from? is it pre-generated somewhere? your documentation just does not explain this that I can find, despite even a lot of time googling. PS I have assumed the hyprekitty key is something I set myself, just like a manual password sort of thing, again there is no explanation I can find that explains how to do this properly either. Can this documentation be improved please. To get anywhere at all I finally found this, https://xiaoxing.us/2018/01/01/deploy-mailman-3-on-aws-using-docker/ So I have core running OK I think, ====== root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 99f434ef3664 maxking/mailman-core:0.2 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 hours ago Up About an hour 8001/tcp, 8024/tcp mailman-core 4c0e165d3a90 postgres:9.6-alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 hours ago Up About an hour 5432/tcp dockermailman_database_1 root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# ====== regards Steven

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Confirmation for subscriptions
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019

Suddenly stopped working. For all the lists I have created, suddenly the confirm setting is ignored for subscriptions and users are subscribed right away. This only happened after I added another domain - surely that can't be the cause? Where to look to troubleshoot this? Andrew

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