[Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Wed Jan 17 18:08:04 CET 2007


David Lee wrote:
>
>If the inbound email contains not only the plain text message but also its
>      equivalent in HTML
>and if the "Approved:" is specified as the first line of the body rather
>      than as a header
>then
>   the password is in danger of leaking outbound, being stripped only from
>   the plain version but not from the HTML version where it could persist.
>endif


This was bug 1181161 which was fixed in Mailman 2.1.7, but there can
still be problems if 'Approved: password' gets split across lines in
quoted printable encoded alternative parts or gets base64 encoded.

It's on my list to fix these issues.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



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