Bugs item #563336, was opened at 2002-06-01 12:48 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=563336&group_id=103

Category: (un)subscribing Group: 2.0.x

Status: Closed Resolution: Wont Fix Priority: 1 Submitted By: Federico Sevilla III (jijo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Unexpected MMBadUserError with MM-2.0.11

Initial Comment: Just upgraded to Mailman 2.0.11. The upgrade itself worked fine, and basic tests after the upgrade seem to have worked okay, and mail has been getting delivered.

However I got an email (as administrator) about an unexpected Mailman error. I have yet to get a complaint from our users so I do not know exactly what caused the problem. All I can deduce from the logs is that at around the same time, someone was subscribing/unsubscribing via email.

The error message I got by email was:

-----[ START ]----- An unexpected Mailman error has occurred in MailCommandHandler.ParseMailCommands(). Here is the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py", line 223, in ParseMailCommands self.__dispatch[cmd](args, line, msg) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py", line 364, in ProcessSetCmd self.ConfirmUserPassword(sender, args[2]) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 144, in ConfirmUserPassword raise Errors.MMBadUserError MMBadUserError -----[ END ]-----

Some more miscellaneous information:

• system is Debian GNU/Linux
• mailman package is mailman-2.0.11-1
• python package is python-2.1.3-3

If anyone has tips as to where to dig for more information on the cause of this unexpected error, please do let me know and I will be more than happy to supply the missing details. It would also help calm my nerves if I knew whether this was fatal or not. :)

Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2003-01-04 02:15

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800

I lowered the priority in a ham-handed approach to concentrating on MM2.1 bugs. I simply don't have the time to continue to support the 2.0 branch for anything other than critical security problems (which this isn't). Plus, you should at least upgrade to 2.0.13, the latest stable release of the 2.0 branch! :)

This is very likely fixed in 2.1 as the entire mail command handler (and so much else :) has been rewritten.

I'm closing this as won't fix. I recommend upgrading to 2.1.

Comment By: Uche Ogbuji (uche) Date: 2003-01-03 09:56

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=38966

Hmm. Looks as if Barry lowered the priority for this with no comment. I think that's unfortunate. I just ran into this as well.

If this is truly just some user getting their password wrong, why isn't the exception trapped, and the user allowed to try again? This is the reason this puzzles me so: putting in the wrong password is a common thing to do. I myself sometimes trip up the password to my list admin areas. So when mailman goes out of its way to send me an e-mail with such a traceback, it makes me wonder whether something especially nasty is going on.

A better message would help a lot. I'd be grateful for some note on this open issue from the developers, at least.

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