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

Larry Hansford lhansfor at lch-assoc.com
Mon Feb 17 20:31:41 CET 2003


At 02:03 PM 2/17/2003, Tspeight at rockygorge.com wrote:
>I have sent this in before but I guess the powers that be are NOT interested.
>   There is definitely something wrong with the bounce process with 
> regards to the Confirmation string.
>
>The first time I reported this the problem occurred on the Mailman-users 
>list.  The other times it is occurring on a list that I host.  This is not 
>a random problem.
>
>On 14 January 2003, I received the following message:
>"Your membership in the mailing list Mailman-Users has been disabled due 
>to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 14-Jan-2003."
>
>On 13 February 2003, I received the following message: "Your membership in 
>the mailing list Mailman-Users has been disabled due to excessive bounces 
>The last bounce received from you was dated 14-Jan-2003."
>
>The confirmation sting that was sent on both times follows.
>37037b7a051f71a816e27e8e0b9ba82aaf107f7b
>
>The confirmation string has been invalid each time!  Further on one of my 
>lists a member received a confirmation string but his account was 
>okay.  Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

No, I've not seen it on any of the lists I manage -- about 120 of them -- 
and I've not had any problem with mailman-users list.  I'm running Mailman 
2.1.1 on all of our list servers.

Larry



>Thomas




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