Bugs item #876255, was opened at 2004-01-13 18:19 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=876255&group_id=103 Category: (un)subscribing Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Fred Stutzman (chimprawk) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Unsubscribe fails with buffer exception Initial Comment: A user subscribed themselves with a trailing space (%00), and now all efforts to unsubscribe the user fail:

From the web interface, you can select the user and "unsubscribe" them, but they remain on the list (mailman returns no confirmation message)

With the remove_members utility, it tells me "No such member", even though find_members "finds" the member. I've munged the address every way possible (using python and shell regexps, adding Unicode, etc) and still can't get the member to unsubscribe. I googled for an answer to this problem, and this seems to be the only solution: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ msg21153.html I'd say since the solution requires editing a binary, this qualifies as a bug. I've also searched the bug archive and couldn't really come up with an answer; I do realize that my searches might not have been correct, so if the answer is in the bug database, I apologize. Thank you very much, Fred Included is the traceback: Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 169, in main change_options(mlist, category, subcat, cgidata, doc) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 1376, in change_options newname = Utils.canonstr(newname, mlist.preferred_language) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 722, in canonstr parts = re.split(r'&(?P[^;]+);', s) File "/usr/src/build/215241-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/ sre.py", line 156, in split return _compile(pattern, 0).split(string, maxsplit) TypeError: expected string or buffer -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Jan 30 2003, 21:26:22) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-112)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python2 sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Environment variables: Variable Value PATH_INFO /contemporaries/members HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */* CONTENT_TYPE multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7d4ae20610182 HTTP_REFERER http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/admin/contemporaries/ members?letter=a&chunk=0 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.3.3 mod_perl/1.29 PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin SERVER_ADMIN admin@ibiblio.org SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admin SCRIPT_URI http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/admin/ contemporaries/members SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.29 Server at lists.ibiblio.org Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST HTTP_HOST lists.ibiblio.org SCRIPT_URL /mailman/admin/contemporaries/members SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache REQUEST_URI /mailman/admin/contemporaries/members CONTENT_LENGTH 2873 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; (R1 1.3)) HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_COOKIE contemporaries+admin=28020000006934c9fd3f73280000006 234353264653936346633613065306334626530633439356263 6437636238376261613131643430 SERVER_NAME lists.ibiblio.org REMOTE_ADDR 12.107.204.12 REMOTE_PORT 14877 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us PATH_TRANSLATED /home/www/contemporaries/members SERVER_PORT 80 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate SERVER_ADDR 152.2.210.119 DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/www ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=876255&group_id=103