[Mailman-Users] Confirmation by reply doesn't work

[Till Kleisli]

Hi Mark

Thank you for the hint.

I informed my hosting provider about this and hope, he will update 
mailman, at the moment he's still running 2.1.5...

Unfortunately I can't do it by myself.

About the registration to this list, everything went fine, the mail just 
had some delay.. :)

Till

On 09.05.2010 23:58, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Till Kleisli wrote:
>>
>> When a user wants to subscribe to my mailinglist, the user gets the
>> confirmation mail, to confirm the subscription.
>>
>> Then, when the user just replies to the mail (using thunderbird), the
>> list administrator (me) gets a mail that says, a new user subscribed to
>> the mailing list, but when I go to the backend (administration), the
>> user is not in the list of recipients!
>
>
> Prior to Mailman 2.1.10, there was a bug in cmd_confirm.py that could
> throw a UnicodeError exception in processing a confirmation email. It
> would confirm the subscription which sends the admin notice and then
> throw the exception in scanning the message body. This would cause
> CommandRunner to not save the updated list.
>
> You should find errors and tracebacks in Mailman's error log.
>
> If this is the problem, this patch (or upgrading Mailman) will fix it.
>
> --- Mailman/Commands/cmd_confirm.py     2005-12-30 18:50:08 +0000
> +++ Mailman/Commands/cmd_confirm.py     2008-02-18 18:48:16 +0000
> @@ -90,8 +90,11 @@
>               match = 'confirm ' + cookie
>               unprocessed = []
>               for line in res.commands:
> -                if line.lstrip() == match:
> -                    continue
> +                try:
> +                    if line.lstrip() == match:
> +                        continue
> +                except UnicodeError:
> +                    pass
>                   unprocessed.append(line)
>               res.commands = unprocessed
>       # Process just one confirmation string per message
>
>
>
>> PS: I had the same problem subscribing to this mailing list, may be it's
>> me.. :-/ when I replied to the message nothing happened, and when I
>> confirmed on the webpage, I got the confirmation back immediately..
>
>
> I just successfully subscribed and confirmed a subscription to this
> list by email, so I don't see a problem there.
>