[Mailman-Users] A Known bug with confirmation string & excessive bounces

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 12:18, Martin Maechler wrote:

> But I've got quite a few user reports about non-working confirmation 
> strings --- and I've experienced it myself quite a bit.  E.g., just 
> today, I tried to change one of my e-mail addresses to another one,
> got the confirmation e-mail, but replying to it (or using the web 
> interface with the correct confirmation string) always gave errors about
> invalid strings.

I believe we have a working theory about why this happens, even though
we don't quite understand the root cause (perhaps a race condition in
the LockFile.py implementation?).

Thomas Wouters implemented a fix that will show up in Mailman 2.1.2, and
I expect to release that patch very soon now, depending on how soon I
can finish my taxes. :)

Adventurous folks can check out the cvs version.  Adventurous folk who
also happen to be tax accountants in the Washington DC area can donate
to the cause by helping me finish my taxes :).

-Barry