Updates for 2.0rc2

author: bwarsaw 2000-11-10 18:02:53 +0000
committer: bwarsaw 2000-11-10 18:02:53 +0000
commit: 876f1f2b3c5eb94a4d9c29180d7e1e1cd75e7668 (patch)
tree: 7ae8bd4845a640451b116c00dac773d2ec4de735
parent: 84283836b8413745d39700139dcff72d426ff99b (diff)
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6 files changed, 51 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/admin/www/download.ht b/admin/www/download.ht
index ab2931869..c8acd0432 100644
--- a/admin/www/download.ht
+++ b/admin/www/download.ht
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ gcc 2.8.1 or later is known to work well.
 <h3>Downloading</h3>
 
 <p>Version
-(<!-VERSION--->2.0rc1<!-VERSION--->,
+(<!-VERSION--->2.0rc2<!-VERSION--->,
 released on
-<!-DATE--->Oct 23 2000<!-DATE--->)
+<!-DATE--->Nov 10 2000<!-DATE--->)
 is the current GNU release.  It is available from the following mirror sites:
 
 <ul>
diff --git a/admin/www/download.html b/admin/www/download.html
index a0d5798b0..cfd618196 100644
--- a/admin/www/download.html
+++ b/admin/www/download.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <HTML>
 <!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->
-<!-- Wed Nov  8 13:38:25 2000 -->
+<!-- Fri Nov 10 12:59:31 2000 -->
 <!-- USING HT2HTML 1.1 -->
 <!-- SEE http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html -->
 <!-- User-specified headers:
@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ gcc 2.8.1 or later is known to work well.
 <h3>Downloading</h3>
 
 <p>Version
-(<!-VERSION--->2.0rc1<!-VERSION--->,
+(<!-VERSION--->2.0rc2<!-VERSION--->,
 released on
-<!-DATE--->Oct 23 2000<!-DATE--->)
+<!-DATE--->Nov 10 2000<!-DATE--->)
 is the current GNU release.  It is available from the following mirror sites:
 
 <ul>
diff --git a/admin/www/faq.ht b/admin/www/faq.ht
index 058b20f10..808c6d446 100644
--- a/admin/www/faq.ht
+++ b/admin/www/faq.ht
@@ -7,6 +7,19 @@ Title: Mailman Frequently Asked Questions
 </b><br> A. You spell it "Mailman", with a leading capital "M" and a lowercase
    second "m".  It is incorrect to spell it "MailMan" (i.e. you should
    not use StudlyCaps).
+<p> <b> Q. I'm getting really terrible performance for outgoing messages.  It
+   seems that if the MTA has trouble resolving DNS for any recipients,
+   qrunner just gets really slow clearing the queue.  Any ideas?
+
+</b><br> A. What's likely happening is that your MTA is doing DNS resolution on
+   recipients for messages delivered locally (i.e. from Mailman to
+   your MTA via SMTPDirect.py).  This is a Bad Thing.  You need to
+   turn off synchronous DNS resolution for messages originating from
+   the local host.
+<p>    In Exim, the value to edit is receiver_verify_hosts.  See
+   README.EXIM for details.  Other MTAs have (of course) different
+   parameters and defaults that control this.  First check the README
+   file for your MTA and then consult your MTA's own documentation.
 <p> <b> Q. What if I get "document contains no data" from the web server, or
    mail isn't getting delivered, or I see "Premature end of script
    headers" or "Mailman CGI error!!!"
diff --git a/admin/www/faq.html b/admin/www/faq.html
index 83d423a22..9cbd9f5a2 100644
--- a/admin/www/faq.html
+++ b/admin/www/faq.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <HTML>
 <!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->
-<!-- Wed Nov  8 13:38:33 2000 -->
+<!-- Fri Nov 10 12:59:32 2000 -->
 <!-- USING HT2HTML 1.1 -->
 <!-- SEE http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html -->
 <!-- User-specified headers:
@@ -153,6 +153,19 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 </b><br> A. You spell it "Mailman", with a leading capital "M" and a lowercase
    second "m".  It is incorrect to spell it "MailMan" (i.e. you should
    not use StudlyCaps).
+<p> <b> Q. I'm getting really terrible performance for outgoing messages.  It
+   seems that if the MTA has trouble resolving DNS for any recipients,
+   qrunner just gets really slow clearing the queue.  Any ideas?
+
+</b><br> A. What's likely happening is that your MTA is doing DNS resolution on
+   recipients for messages delivered locally (i.e. from Mailman to
+   your MTA via SMTPDirect.py).  This is a Bad Thing.  You need to
+   turn off synchronous DNS resolution for messages originating from
+   the local host.
+<p>    In Exim, the value to edit is receiver_verify_hosts.  See
+   README.EXIM for details.  Other MTAs have (of course) different
+   parameters and defaults that control this.  First check the README
+   file for your MTA and then consult your MTA's own documentation.
 <p> <b> Q. What if I get "document contains no data" from the web server, or
    mail isn't getting delivered, or I see "Premature end of script
    headers" or "Mailman CGI error!!!"
diff --git a/admin/www/todo.ht b/admin/www/todo.ht
index 44d69c667..d62a2e311 100644
--- a/admin/www/todo.ht
+++ b/admin/www/todo.ht
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Title: The Mailman Wishlist
 <ul>
     <li> Use VERP or DSN for address tracing, perhaps tied to the monthly password reminders, or VERPing the occasional regular message.
     <li> Re-implement bulk mailer the Right Way: an asynchat/asyncore server to do DNS lookups and remote MTA delivery directly (optional).
-    <li> Plain text digests should conform to RFC 1153. 
+    <li> Plain text digests should conform to RFC 1153.
+    <li> If a message has MIME parts and the header/footer is going to be added, the message should be transformed into a mulitpart/mixed with the header and footer added as text/plain parts. 
 </ul>
 <h3> Documentation
 </h3>
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@ Title: The Mailman Wishlist
     <li> A list-admin's guide
     <li> More on-line documentation and UI help
     <li> A developer's guide w/ architecture and API information
-    <li> manpages for the scripts in bin and cron 
+    <li> manpages for the scripts in bin and cron
+    <li> Integrate Christopher Kolar's documentation 
 </ul>
 <h3> General Web UI
 </h3>
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ Title: The Mailman Wishlist
     <li> A heirarchy of page designs and information: e.g. the most specialized of the following wins: site, virtual host, list, language, user.
     <li> Web pages should never mention turned-off features. 
 </ul>
-<h3> List Admin UI
+<h3> List Administration
 </h3>
 <ul>
     <li> Separate list admin role from list moderator role
@@ -49,9 +51,10 @@ Title: The Mailman Wishlist
     <li> Make it easier for an admin who manages multiple lists to handling pending requests sitting on all those lists.
     <li> Ability to ban specific troublesome users (from posting, subscribing, etc).  Posts from banned users would be discarded.
     <li> Better integration with moderated newsgroups (and allow some addresses to bypass even that moderation and be delivered to a secondary channel, like moderators@isc.org).
-    <li> Ability to set the next digest volume and issue number from the web 
+    <li> Ability to set the next digest volume and issue number from the web
+    <li> Add an option to include Reply-To: header in the membership test for a members-only list posting 
 </ul>
-<h3> List Member UI
+<h3> List Membership
 </h3>
 <ul>
     <li> Editing your user options should put you back to the edit-options page
@@ -62,7 +65,7 @@ Title: The Mailman Wishlist
     <li> Allow users to subscribe without selecting a password and have Mailman create a password for them.
     <li> Timed vacations, allowing a user to postpone or discard email for a certain number of days or weeks. 
 </ul>
-<h3> Site Administrator's UI
+<h3> Site Administration
 </h3>
 <ul>
     <li> Allow the site admin to define list styles or themes, and list admins to choose one of the canned styles to apply to their list.
diff --git a/admin/www/todo.html b/admin/www/todo.html
index 87332243a..53f9be387 100644
--- a/admin/www/todo.html
+++ b/admin/www/todo.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <HTML>
 <!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->
-<!-- Wed Nov  8 13:38:33 2000 -->
+<!-- Fri Nov 10 12:59:33 2000 -->
 <!-- USING HT2HTML 1.1 -->
 <!-- SEE http://www.python.org/~bwarsaw/software/pyware.html -->
 <!-- User-specified headers:
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 <ul>
     <li> Use VERP or DSN for address tracing, perhaps tied to the monthly password reminders, or VERPing the occasional regular message.
     <li> Re-implement bulk mailer the Right Way: an asynchat/asyncore server to do DNS lookups and remote MTA delivery directly (optional).
-    <li> Plain text digests should conform to RFC 1153. 
+    <li> Plain text digests should conform to RFC 1153.
+    <li> If a message has MIME parts and the header/footer is going to be added, the message should be transformed into a mulitpart/mixed with the header and footer added as text/plain parts. 
 </ul>
 <h3> Documentation
 </h3>
@@ -165,7 +166,8 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     <li> A list-admin's guide
     <li> More on-line documentation and UI help
     <li> A developer's guide w/ architecture and API information
-    <li> manpages for the scripts in bin and cron 
+    <li> manpages for the scripts in bin and cron
+    <li> Integrate Christopher Kolar's documentation 
 </ul>
 <h3> General Web UI
 </h3>
@@ -176,7 +178,7 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     <li> A heirarchy of page designs and information: e.g. the most specialized of the following wins: site, virtual host, list, language, user.
     <li> Web pages should never mention turned-off features. 
 </ul>
-<h3> List Admin UI
+<h3> List Administration
 </h3>
 <ul>
     <li> Separate list admin role from list moderator role
@@ -195,9 +197,10 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     <li> Make it easier for an admin who manages multiple lists to handling pending requests sitting on all those lists.
     <li> Ability to ban specific troublesome users (from posting, subscribing, etc).  Posts from banned users would be discarded.
     <li> Better integration with moderated newsgroups (and allow some addresses to bypass even that moderation and be delivered to a secondary channel, like moderators@isc.org).
-    <li> Ability to set the next digest volume and issue number from the web 
+    <li> Ability to set the next digest volume and issue number from the web
+    <li> Add an option to include Reply-To: header in the membership test for a members-only list posting 
 </ul>
-<h3> List Member UI
+<h3> List Membership
 </h3>
 <ul>
     <li> Editing your user options should put you back to the edit-options page
@@ -208,7 +211,7 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     <li> Allow users to subscribe without selecting a password and have Mailman create a password for them.
     <li> Timed vacations, allowing a user to postpone or discard email for a certain number of days or weeks. 
 </ul>
-<h3> Site Administrator's UI
+<h3> Site Administration
 </h3>
 <ul>
     <li> Allow the site admin to define list styles or themes, and list admins to choose one of the canned styles to apply to their list.
author	bwarsaw	2000-11-10 18:02:53 +0000
committer	bwarsaw	2000-11-10 18:02:53 +0000
commit	876f1f2b3c5eb94a4d9c29180d7e1e1cd75e7668 (patch)
tree	7ae8bd4845a640451b116c00dac773d2ec4de735
parent	84283836b8413745d39700139dcff72d426ff99b (diff)
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