[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#369171: mailman: can't activate spamassassin patch

[Bernhard Kuemel]

Jim Tittsler wrote:
>> /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Debian.gz suggests to add
>>
>> GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin')
>>
>> to mm_cfg.py to activate the spamassassin plugin. On my system this
>> breaks mailman:
>>
>> s:/etc/mailman# /etc/init.d/mailman start
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 46, in ?
>>     from Mailman import mm_cfg
>>   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 20, in ?
>>     GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin')
>> NameError: name 'GLOBAL_PIPELINE' is not defined
>
> Line 20 is probably too early.  You must put that line after the 'from 
> Defaults import *' line.  Put the line at the end of your mm_cfg.py
Yep, this was it. I had not read the comments for the other options 
where it says something about fiddling below that line. It's not clear 
IMHO that this applies to tho spamassassin activation line. If you 
clarify this e.g. in /usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Debian.gz I suggest 
to close this bug.
>> Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing
>> Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start
>>
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> You need to create a site list called 'mailman'.
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