[Mailman-Developers] Bug in Mailman 2.1.4 {Subscription problem}

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:13, Martin Maechler wrote:
> Dear Mailman developers,
> 
> A user ("ADBONT at ...", cc'ed) who wanted to subscribe to one of
> our mailing lists received a 
> 
>   >> Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4
>   >> 
>   >> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
> 
> and sent me the full message, I've found the same message in
> mailman's  data/logs/error file, 
> and append it below.
> 
> Note that this is quite an active mailing list, 
> ---> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor/
> 
> and many people do subscribe and unsubscribe successfully both
> through the web and the email interface.
> 
> Though -- I've got reports more than once that subscription
> through the web interface produced a "you are subscribed ...."
> confirmation (web) and welcome email  and the person was *not*
> subscribed after all.
> That is really another problem, but maybe related...
> 
> Note that our setup is a bit non-standard maybe:
> Web  server ("hubble")  is Redhat9
> Mail server ("hypatia") is Solaris 8 -- mailman installed on both
> 
> Many thanks for mailman,
> and for your consideration of this report.

That's very strange.  It's almost as if the form data didn't get
through, or something else weird is happening in the CGI environment. 
I'm not sure I have much more of an idea than that though.

-Barry