[Mailman-Developers] Regarding issue #553 in mailman-core

The mentioned issue: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues/553

So, the line 65 in eml_confirm.py in /src/mailman/commands/ which raises the error is assert member is None, member

Basically what this line is doing is checking if the member is None or not and if it ISN'T, it raises an Assertion Error with member details printed. According to the comments (line 57-60) in the same file, member would be None when there's an unsubscription, but here it is NOT None (idk why).

2 pretty simple ways of dealing with this will be:

• commenting the line
• adding an except AssertionError line

But these won't solve the root problem, i.e why is the member NOT None.

I'm currently looking a bit more into it but, How should I proceed with this??

Also, couple of doubts:

• How can a moderator confirm the unsubscription request??
• For the tables user and member in mailman.db file in mailman/var/data/, when a person unsubscribes from a list, the entry of that member is deleted from the member table but not from user table. Is it due to the fact that even if the person is not a member, they can still be user??

Thank You