Software Update: Mailman 2.1.8b1

Mailman is an open source system for maintaining mailing lists and newsletters. The built-in web interface provides quick and easy access for users and administrators. Archiving, automatic bounce handling, content filtering and spam filtering are also supported, as well as 26 different languages. Mailman is largely developed in the Python programming language and version 2.1.8b1 has recently been released with the following release notes:

Mailman 2.1.8b1 has been released for beta tests of the next bug-fix release of mailman-2.1-maint branch.

Bug fixes and other patches:

• Bouncers support added: ‘unknown user’, Microsoft SMTPSVC, Prodigy.net and several others.
• Updated email library to 2.5.7 which will encode payload into qp/base64 upon setting. This enabled backing out the scrubber related patches including ‘X-Mailman-Scrubbed’ header in 2.1.7.
• Fix SpamDetect.py potential hold/reject loop problem.
• A warning message from email package to the stderr can cause error in Logging because stderr may be detached from the process during the qrunner run. We chose not to output errors to stderr but to the logs/error if the process is running under mailmanctl subprocess.
• DKIM header cleansing was separated from Cleanse.py and added to-owner messages too.
• Fixes:
  • Lose Topics when go directly to topics URL (1194419).
  • UnicodeError running bin/arch (1395683).
  • edithtml.py missing import (1400128).
  • Bad escape in cleanarch. Wrong timezone in list archive index pages (1433673).
  • bin/arch fails with TypeError (1430236).
  • Subscription fails with some Language combinations (1435722).
  • Postfix delayed notification not recognized (863989).
  • 2.1.7 (VERP) mistakes delay notice for bounce (1421285).
  • show_qfiles: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘as_string’ (1444447).
  • Utils.get_domain() wrong if VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW off (1275856).

Miscellaneous:

• Brad Knowles’ mailman daily status report script updated to 0.0.16.