Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Brad Knowles wrote: > There's no way we can possibly track down every single developer on > every single platform that is creating localized patches for Mailman > on their platform. The only way this process can possibly work is > if they use our mechanisms to send their patches to us. FWIW, I wa

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

On 8/26/07, Todd Zullinger wrote: > AFAICS, The Debian patches to Mailman are here: > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mailman/trunk/debian/patches/ And our development page on SourceForge is at , although internally all the new work is being maintaine

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

On 8/26/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > That's strange. > One of the Debian policicy is the strict contact between the package > maintainer and the upstream software authors. See my previous message on this thread. > The Debian maintainer(s) of Mailman can be easily found at: > http://packages.

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Brad Knowles ha scritto: > On 8/25/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > >> Do the debian maintainer of Mailman frequent this mailing list? > > Not so far as I know. > > Improved contact between our project and the other projects which take > our code and create binary packages is one thing that we woul

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

(Disclaimer: I'm not a Debian maintainer or user) Brad Knowles wrote: > On 8/25/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > >> Do the debian maintainer of Mailman frequent this mailing list? > > Not so far as I know. > > Improved contact between our project and the other projects which > take our code and cr

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

On 8/25/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > Do the debian maintainer of Mailman frequent this mailing list? Not so far as I know. Improved contact between our project and the other projects which take our code and create binary packages is one thing that we would like to work on, but of course the tw

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Barry Finkel ha scritto: > [...] >> Sorry for the late response. >> I think that the lack of documentation in the code can be considered a bug. > > Then I would have to file a bug report on almost all of the > Debian/Ubuntu patches to Mailman. I looked at them all, and I discarded > most. I kept

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Barry Finkel ha scritto: >> [...] > >> The patches were, for the most part, >>> undocumented, so I had no idea exactly what they did. Nor did I know >>> if they would fit into the 2.1.9 source, as some of the patches were >>> based on pre-2.1.5 code. >> >> Manlio Perillo replied: >>> This was une

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Barry Finkel ha scritto: > [...] > The patches were, for the most part, >> undocumented, so I had no idea exactly what they did. Nor did I know >> if they would fit into the 2.1.9 source, as some of the patches were >> based on pre-2.1.5 code. > > Manlio Perillo replied: >> This was unexpected!

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Manlio Perillo >Mark Sapiro ha scritto: >> >> Is Mailman's cron/gate_news being run every five minutes from Mailman's >> crontab? >> > >Thanks: the cron tab entry is still commented. >However I think that this should be documented in the admnistrative web >interface. The istallation of the c

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Mark Sapiro ha scritto: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Manlio Perillo wrote: >> 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. >> I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log > > > Is Mailman's cron/gate_news being run every five minutes fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manlio Perillo wrote: > > 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. > I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log Is Mailman's cron/gate_news being run every five minutes from Mailman's crontab? If so, it migh

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Barry Finkel ha scritto: > Brad Knowles wrote in reply to a posting: > >> And I'm not at all convinced that "security problems are not a >> problem, with Debian" or any other OS, for that matter. Especially >> not with an old binary package that is based on old code that is >> known to have se

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Barry Finkel ha scritto: > Brad Knowles wrote in reply to a posting: > >> And I'm not at all convinced that "security problems are not a >> problem, with Debian" or any other OS, for that matter. Especially >> not with an old binary package that is based on old code that is >> known to have se

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Brad Knowles wrote in reply to a posting: >And I'm not at all convinced that "security problems are not a >problem, with Debian" or any other OS, for that matter. Especially >not with an old binary package that is based on old code that is >known to have security flaws. When I was comparing t

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

On 8/7/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > Well, having a pre-built packages systems has also some benefits. True enough, and where it makes sense we do make wide use of binary packages for other things on the system. > The Debian Secutiry team still supports Debian Sarge. > And in theory, if a secu

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Brad Knowles ha scritto: > On 8/7/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > >> Mailman runs on a Debian Sarge server, so this can be a problem without >> an upgrade to Etch (but security problems are not a problem, with >> Debian). > > You could always install Mailman from source on that system, or you may

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

On 8/7/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > Mailman runs on a Debian Sarge server, so this can be a problem without > an upgrade to Etch (but security problems are not a problem, with Debian). You could always install Mailman from source on that system, or you may be able to find a pre-built package th

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Brad Knowles ha scritto: > On 8/6/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > >> I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. > > BTW, the most recent version of Mailman is 2.1.9, which has a number of > new features and some fixes for certain security holes. I'd strongly > encourage you to upgrade. > Mailman runs on a Debian

Re: [Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

On 8/6/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. BTW, the most recent version of Mailman is 2.1.9, which has a number of new features and some fixes for certain security holes. I'd strongly encourage you to upgrade. > I have enabled the NNTP Gateway but there are some problems. >

[Mailman-Users] a few questions about the NNTP gateway

Hi all. I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. I have enabled the NNTP Gateway but there are some problems. 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log 2) When sending a message to the newsgroup, Mailman does not obscure the