[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Need a patch written for 2.1 for post-only access.

[Jon Carnes]

The functionality was moved from the Hold.py module over to the
Moderate.py module.  From there it is almost identical.

I applied the old patch by hand to that module and I'm testing it now.

Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 09:27, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm not a Python programmer but I need a patch written to add a feature that 
> someone had written a patch for in version 2.0.
> 
> The patch called a "post-only" patch allowed me to create a list called 
> "post-only" and members of this list were allowed to post to all other lists.
> 
> I am the systems administration for the Electronic Frontier Foundation 
> (http://www.eff.org). We are currently running 2.0 with this patch. The reason 
> we need it is because we are running about 65 internal lists and several of our 
> members have multiple email addresses they post from. The burden of adding 
> several hundred alieases and maintaining them across this many lists would be 
> too much to deal with. I have upgraded to 2.1 on my own personal server and I 
> feel that it would greatly benefit EFF to upgrade to 2.1. But - I can not do it 
> until I have this patch.
> 
> I am therefore asking that someone out there write this patch. If you write it - 
> I will publicly thank you in our newsletter that goes out to about 30,000 of our 
> members. I offer 15 minutes of fame, and - you'll be helping us get important 
> work done. EFF relies heavilly on Mailman.
> 
> Below is the code for the current patch for 2.0. It looks to me that doing this 
> for 2.1 would be trivial for someone who knew what they were doing. I would 
> REALLY appreciate it if someone were to volunteer to do this. Alternatively - I 
> would be willing to pay someone out of my own pocket - and donate the code back 
> to the public - if I can't find someone to do it for free.
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> Marc Perkel
> /root
> EFF
> 
> Here's the current 2.0 patch
> 
> --- mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py.postonly	Tue Aug  1 19:02:28 2000
> +++ mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py	Sat Aug  5 18:31:50 2000
> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
>   from Mailman import Message
>   from Mailman import mm_cfg
>   from Mailman import Utils
> +from Mailman import MailList
> +from Mailman import Errors
>   from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
> 
> 
> @@ -104,6 +106,13 @@
> 
> 
> 
> +def CheckPostOnly (sender):
> +    try:
> +        m = MailList.MailList('post-only', lock=0)
> +	return m.IsMember (sender)
> +    except Errors.MMListError:
> +        return 0
> +
>   def process(mlist, msg, msgdata):
>       if msgdata.get('approved'):
>           return
> @@ -141,7 +150,8 @@
>       if mlist.member_posting_only:
>           posters = Utils.List2Dict(map(string.lower, mlist.posters))
>           if not mlist.IsMember(sender) and \
> -           not Utils.FindMatchingAddresses(sender, posters):
> +           not Utils.FindMatchingAddresses(sender, posters) and \
> +	   not CheckPostOnly(sender):
>               # the sender is neither a member of the list, nor in the list of
>               # explicitly approved posters
>               hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NonMemberPost)
> 
>