[Mailman-Users] 64 bit encoding

[Ruben Safir]

On 11/05/2015 12:31 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 11/05/2015 08:41 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>>
>> Which file am I patching?  Is this a normal setup?  I pulled it from
>> opensuse.
>>
>>
>> ruben at www:~> locate Mailman/Message.py
>> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py
>> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.pyc
> 
> The above two are probably what you want.
> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py is the source to patch. After you
> apply the patch and restart Mailman, Python will automatically detect
> that the .py is newer and recompile it into the .pyc.
> 
> 
>> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Message.py
>> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Message.pyc
> 
> This is very strange. I've never seen anything like it. My best guess is
> that for some  reason, the openSUSE package installs a separate Mailman/
> directory for use by the web server. If that is the case, this one
> doesn't need to be patched because the patch doesn't affect anything in
> the web UI.
> 
> To be sure, I'd need to see the apache configuration, the MTA
> configuration and the contents of the directories.
> 
> I did quickly look at
> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Leap:42.1/mailman/mailman-apache2.conf?expand=1>,
> <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/server:mail/mailman/mailman-apache2.conf?expand=1>,
> etc. and they all refer to /usr/lib/mailman so I have no idea what
> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/ is about.
> 
> The bottom line is the Message.py you need to patch is the one that's
> imported by the qrunners, IncomingRunner and OutgoingRunner in
> particular.  Is there even a
> /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ directory at all?
> 
> If the two Message.py files are the same, it wouldn't hurt to patch both.
> 
www:/etc/postfix # grep mailman main.cf
#alias_maps = "hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases"
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

www:/etc/postfix # grep  mailman ./*
./main.cf:#alias_maps = "hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases"
./main.cf:alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
./master.cf:#mailman   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
./master.cf:#  flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
./master.cf.rpmnew:#mailman   unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
./master.cf.rpmnew:#  flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py


evidently it is under /usr/lib/mailman/bin/ ?