[Mailman-Users] can't display list config

[Mark Sapiro]

Frank Van Damme wrote:
>
>I'm getting errors while trying to dump the config of a mailing list to
>a text file.
>
>
>/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o listname listname
>
>[...]
>
[...]
>acceptable_aliases =
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list", line 362, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list", line 355, in main
>    do_output(listname, outfile)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list", line 131, in do_output
>    do_list_categories(mlist, k, subcat, outfp)
>  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list", line 183, in
>do_list_categories
>    lines = value.splitlines()
>AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'splitlines'


It appears that this list's acceptable_aliases attribute is a Python
list of aliases - ['alias1 at domain1', 'alias2 at domain2', ...] - instead
of a string of aliases separated by newlines -
'alias1 at domain1\r\nalias2 at domain2\r\n...'.

I don't know how this came about, but you may be able to fix it via the
web if you can access this list's Privacy options... -> Recipient
filters page or via config_list -i or via withlist.


>I must add to this that we have a very large number (24000+) of mailing
>lists.  I'm not sure if that matters, but we've had problems with the
>webinterface, which doesn't display the full list of mailing lists.


This may be related to the above issue or it may be a different
corruption of some lists' attributes.


>list_lists works fine though, and it also doesn't seem to matter if I
>try this with a list from the top or from the bottom of the "list of lists".
>
>I'd try to fix this myself but unfortunately I don't speak Python...


We can help, but we'd need details such as the actual output and maybe
Mailman error log output, although the 'partial' overview listing
could be due to timeout or other limits in the web server so check the
web server logs too.

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