[Mailman-Users] bug error when subscribing through web afterMailman 2.1.12 upgrade

[Christopher Adams]

Mark,

The modification to MailList.py is something that you suggested awhile
back and I had carried it through as Mailman was upgraded. Here is the
thread from 2005.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/042116.html

This time, it didn't seem to work and broke it.The problem was the
email sent to new list owners had the list address, but didn't
complete the actual address. Instead, it results in this:

Send list messages to:

   %(emailaddr)s

What is the actual solutilon to the template being populated with the
actual list address. This seems like something that would be assumed
to exist in an out of the box installation.

Thanks again for your help. I have removed the modifications and it is
working correctly again.

Christopher Adams

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Mark Sapiro<mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> Christopher Adams wrote:
>
>>Since upgrading to version 2.1.12, I have experienced a number of
>>errors that have resulted in a "You've Hit a Bug". So far, I have been
>>able to patch things up. The latest occurs when a user attempts to
>>subscribe from the web. Here is the error log information:
>>
>>admin(9559): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.12 -----]
>>admin(9559): [----- Traceback ------]
>>admin(9559): Traceback (most recent call last):
>>admin(9559):   File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
>>admin(9559):     main()
>>admin(9559):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py",
>>line 97, in main
>>admin(9559):     process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language)
>>admin(9559):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py",
>>line 177, in process_form
>>admin(9559):     mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
>
>
> Here in the traceback, the subscribe CGI is calling the list object's
> AddMember method to add the member
>
>>admin(9559):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
>>894, in AddMember
>>admin(9559):     listinfo_url = self.getScriptUrl('listinfo', absolute=1)
>
> Then within the AddMember method in
> /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py, the above line calls the
> list's getScriptUrl method which triggers the exception below saying
> the list object has no getScriptUrl method.
>
> There are two things seriously wrong here:
>
> 1) In the 2.1.12 released MailList.py, there is no line containing the
> name 'listinfo_url' anywhere in the module
>
> 2) the 'getScriptUrl' list method doesn't exist, thus the exception.
> The method's name is 'GetScriptURL'.
>
>
>>admin(9559):   File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
>>146, in __getattr__
>>admin(9559):     raise AttributeError, name
>>admin(9559): AttributeError: getScriptUrl
>
>
> So, the question here is where did this MailList.py module come from?
> Is this a source install or a package? Did you modify it in any way?
> It is clearly not an unmodified source distribution, and it is clearly
> broken.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>



-- 
Christopher Adams
adamsca at gmail.com