Mailman 3 July 2019 - Mailman-coders

[Bug 1785854] [NEW] TypeError from confirm CGI.
by Mark Sapiro 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Public bug reported: We have seen some massive, robotic subscribes and confirmations. In rare cases a TypeError can be thrown. This occurs because in processing, the CGI script retrieves the pending entry more than once. If the initial retrieval returns None, an appropriate message is returned, but if two clients confirm the same token at the same time, both initial retrievals may succeed, but then subsequent processing locks the list and retrieves the data again. The first client to get there processes the confirmation which removes the token. Then when the list is unlocked, the second client gets None for the pending data and throws TypeError when retrieving things from None. ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1785854 Title: TypeError from confirm CGI. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1785854/+subscriptions

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[Bug 1805137] [NEW] Bounces sent from opensmtpd not parsed
by Cristiano de Paula Costa 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Public bug reported: Hi, We have updated our external MTA to use OpenBSD(6.4) and opensmptd. After we updated, mailman started to send "bounce message w/no discernable addresses" messages to us (list admins). It seems that mailman is not able to parse bounce messages sent from opensmtpd. Please check an example of a bounce message from opensmtpd: Hi! This is the MAILER-DAEMON, please DO NOT REPLY to this email. An error has occurred while attempting to deliver a message for the following list of recipients: XXXXXXXXX(a)live.com: 550 5.5.0 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable. [VE1EUR02FT047.eop-EUR02.prod.protection.outlook.com] Below is a copy of the original message: We are using mailman 2.1.11 and I could not test the issue on version 2.1.17. But, reading the code, it seem that the problem is still there. We managed to fix the problem by editing the file 'mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/SimpleMatch.py' and including the following lines: 191,194d190 < # opensmtpd < (_c('An error has occurred while attempting to deliver a message for'), < _c('Below is a copy of the original message'), < _c('^\s*(?P<addr>[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+)')), patch follows attached Regards, Cristiano ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Patch added: "SimpleMatch.py.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805137/+attachment/5216458/+files/SimpleMa… -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805137 Title: Bounces sent from opensmtpd not parsed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1805137/+subscriptions

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[Bug 1818872] [NEW] Trailing spaces in the email address cause login failures.
by Mark Sapiro 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Public bug reported: Login to the user options page and private archives authentication fails if the email address has trailing spaces. ** Affects: mailman Importance: Low Assignee: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Status: In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818872 Title: Trailing spaces in the email address cause login failures. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1818872/+subscriptions

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[Bug 1831321] [NEW] the List-Id field is filled without < and > around the list-id if the description contains unsupported characters
by Florian Schlegel 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Public bug reported: According to rfc2919 the List-Id field should be formated like this: list-id-header = "List-ID:" [phrase] "<" list-id ">" CRLF This works as long as description is left blank or contains supported characters. In my case the description was as follows: �ffentliche Supportliste As you can see the umlaut "Ö" got broken while importing the list from an old server. Unfortunately I don't know how the import was done. The field is still present but < and > around the list-id are missing. This is problematic with procmail and other mail filters. ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1831321 Title: the List-Id field is filled without < and > around the list-id if the description contains unsupported characters To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1831321/+subscriptions

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[Bug 1832740] [NEW] init script / mailmanctl fails to stop mailman 2, reports success
by Ian Kelling 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

Public bug reported: # systemctl restart mailman Jun 13 11:43:27 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner... Jun 13 11:43:27 lists.gnu.org mailman[31096]: * Stopping Mailman master qrunner mailmanctl Jun 13 11:43:27 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner. Jun 13 11:43:28 lists.gnu.org mailman[31096]: ...done. Jun 13 11:43:27 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner... Jun 13 11:43:31 lists.gnu.org mailman[31153]: * Starting Mailman master qrunner mailmanctl Jun 13 11:43:31 lists.gnu.org mailman[31153]: The master qrunner lock could not be acquired because it appears as if another Jun 13 11:43:31 lists.gnu.org mailman[31153]: master qrunner is already running. Jun 13 11:43:31 lists.gnu.org mailman[31153]: ...done. At this point, ps -ef | grep mailman shows 4 mailman processes remain: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s -q start and 3 qrunners, like this /usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:1:4 -s The qrunner log does show all the pids getting the TERM signal from mailmanctl: Jun 13 11:43:27 2019 (21946) OutgoingRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM. Stopping. But only 1 actually stopped. I manually send the qrunners kill signals over and over and wait until 5 minutes later, they finally terminate and mailmanctl with them. Then I run systemctl restart mailman again, and it really starts this time: Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner... Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org mailman[10762]: * Stopping Mailman master qrunner mailmanctl Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org mailman[10762]: PID unreadable in: /var/run/mailman/mailman.pid Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org mailman[10762]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid' Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org mailman[10762]: Is qrunner even running? Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org mailman[10762]: ...done. Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner. Jun 13 11:48:51 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner... Jun 13 11:48:55 lists.gnu.org mailman[10775]: * Starting Mailman master qrunner mailmanctl Jun 13 11:48:55 lists.gnu.org mailman[10775]: ...done. Jun 13 11:48:55 lists.gnu.org systemd[1]: Started LSB: Mailman Master Queue Runner I'm using mailman 2.1.23-1+deb9u4+8.0trisquel1 on trisquel 8, which has Python 2.7.12. I really need to figure out a fix or workaround to this bug, waiting 5 minutes to restart mailman is no good, I run a lot of very active lists on lists.gnu.org. Can I kill -9? Can I start the mailman while the old qrunners are still exiting? How can I help debug this to find a fix? ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1832740 Title: init script / mailmanctl fails to stop mailman 2, reports success To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1832740/+subscriptions

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[Bug 1835339] [NEW] Variables in "On demand password reminder" message do not work
by eHWS Team 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Public bug reported: Dear MailMen, The "On demand password reminder" message is configurable in the "Edit the public HTML pages and text files" menu item, as is the "Welcome email text file" message. However, while the variables/parameters %(listname)s, %(user)s and %(password)s can be used in the "On demand password reminder" message, the variables/parameters %(welcome)s, %(real_name)s, %(host_name)s, %(optionsurl)s do NOT work. When we send out a password reminder to our many users, we would like to include more information, e.g.: - A link to where they can change their list options, which needs %(optionsurl)s - A link to where the list archive is, which needs %(host_name)s and %(real_name)s - The e-mail address of the list, which also needs %(host_name)s and %(real_name)s - etc. Can you enable these variables/parameters so that we can easily customise and configure these messages? PS: It would be great to have a list of all the variables/parameters that can be used in mailman messages! Many thanks, eHWS Team ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835339 Title: Variables in "On demand password reminder" message do not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1835339/+subscriptions

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