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I'm in the process of moving a number of mailing lists from a server
running Mailman 2.0.5 to 2.1.1 and have run into a minor problem. Any
HTML entered in the list info field such as anchor tags does not display
correctly on 2.1.1. Instead of showing up as HTML, the pointy brackets
are escaped as < and > and visible as raw HTML markup on the web
page. In otherwords, where we used to see an clickable link on the 2.0.5
list info page, on 2.1.1, we see the raw HTML: <a
href="blah.com">link</a>

I've looked in the FAQ and searched Google but didn't find any fix
(though I did run across other folks experiencing the problem). Any
ideas?

-Steve

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  • R. Steven Rainwater at Jun 10, 2004 at 10:50 pm
    If it helps to see an example, here is a list info page from both
    versions of one our lists. This one has only one anchor tag, so it's
    easy to see the problem:

    The old 2.0.5 version (works):
    http://nimon.ncc.com/mailman/listinfo/dprglist

    The new 2.1.1 version (busted):
    http://mail.ncc.com/mailman/listinfo/dprglist

    -Steve
    On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:35, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
    I'm in the process of moving a number of mailing lists from a server
    running Mailman 2.0.5 to 2.1.1 and have run into a minor problem. Any
    HTML entered in the list info field such as anchor tags does not display
    correctly on 2.1.1. Instead of showing up as HTML, the pointy brackets
    are escaped as &lt; and &gt; and visible as raw HTML markup on the web
    page. In otherwords, where we used to see an clickable link on the 2.0.5
    list info page, on 2.1.1, we see the raw HTML: <a
    href="blah.com">link</a>

    I've looked in the FAQ and searched Google but didn't find any fix
    (though I did run across other folks experiencing the problem). Any
    ideas?

    -Steve


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  • R. Steven Rainwater at Jun 11, 2004 at 5:08 pm
    Update... It appears this is a known bug. Well, it was known to somebody
    anyway. ;-)

    [ 940106 ] Characters incorrectly replaced with HTML entities
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?funcÞtail&aid”0106&group_id3&atid0103

    Looks like my only options are to go back to 2.0.5 or something else
    prior to 2.1.1 (which I really don't want to do) or stop using HTML in
    the list info field (which is annoying because I can't provide links to
    relevant information on the list info page).

    Does anyone know when this bug might be fixed? I'm not a Python
    programmer but in Perl changing the code to stop converting two
    characters to HTML entities would be a matter of changing a regex. I
    take it such a simple solution isn't available in this case for some
    reason?

    -Steve
    On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:35, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
    I'm in the process of moving a number of mailing lists from a server
    running Mailman 2.0.5 to 2.1.1 and have run into a minor problem. Any
    HTML entered in the list info field such as anchor tags does not display
    correctly on 2.1.1. Instead of showing up as HTML, the pointy brackets
    are escaped as &lt; and &gt; and visible as raw HTML markup on the web
    page. In otherwords, where we used to see an clickable link on the 2.0.5
    list info page, on 2.1.1, we see the raw HTML: <a
    href="blah.com">link</a>

    I've looked in the FAQ and searched Google but didn't find any fix
    (though I did run across other folks experiencing the problem). Any
    ideas?

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