[Mailman-Users] Re: possible bug with mail confirmation

[Will Yardley]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:27:00PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:39, Will Yardley wrote:

> > I wrote earlier about some suggested improvements with the confirmation
> > by mail function.
> > 
> > Here's another thing - if you insert an 'Approved: ' string that's
> > incorrect, the message is deleted (in a way that's unrecoverable,
> > AFAICT). My suggestion is that you get an error message back instead,
> > stating that the password is incorrect.
 
> I must not quite understand this bug.  Can you submit a bug report,
> including the full recipe to reproduce it?

Will do. I don't know how to explain it much better than that - only
that if you type:

Approved: passwrd

in the headers of a response to the confirmation message, when the
actual password is 'password', the message you're trying to approve is
discarded; I think that no action (and an "incorrect password" error
message in response) would be more appropriate.

Also, as I've mentioned before, it would be very nice if the exact
action being performed were listed, rather than the generic
"confirmation succeeded" message.

Bug report here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=717110&group_id=103&atid=100103

Full recipe to reproduce it is to type in the wrong password when
approving a message via email (I suppose "don't type the wrong password"
is one possible answer to this, but it's not really a realistic or
constructive one).

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