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and subject line Bug#369915: mailman: VERP bounce probes active where they
shouldn't
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Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-8sarge2
Severity: minor
I am running a Mailman from Debian stable (2.1.5-8sarge2), and I
experimented the following issue:
- even if disabled in Defaults.py and not enabled in mm_cfg.py,
VERP seems to be activated from time to time. I am guessing it is
activated only when something already bounced on a user (?).
Most mail sent out don't have the VERP (user=host+id) stuff at all
as Sender:, and when they have something it's a cookie:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark SAPIRO answered that in 2.1.5, VERP *bounce probes* cannot be
disabled.
Fixing the bug implies applying the patch:
Modify Mailman/Bouncer.py to either implement mm_cfg.VERP_PROBES or
just remove VERP probes all together. See
<http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/branches/Release_2_1-maint/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py?r1=7147&r2=7190>
The bug will only show itself if the local MDA is unable to send to
Mailman when the address contains a +. Most modern MDA will see a + as
a subaddress and thus the bug won't be seen.
In my config, + cannot be used for that purpose. My work-around was to
modify this in mm_cfg.py:
VERP_PROBE_FORMAT = '%(bounces)s=%(token)s'
VERP_PROBE_REGEXP = r'^(?P<bounces>[^+]+?)\=(?P<token>[EMAIL PROTECTED])@.*$'
and use = as subaddress separator
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.33-pre2shakotay+2.4.33pre2+patch+route+vserver+vs1.2.10
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii apache [httpd] 1.3.33-6sarge1 versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility
ii postfix [mail-transpo 2.1.5-9 A high-performance mail transport
ii pwgen 2.03-1 Automatic Password generation
ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv
-- debconf information:
* mailman/site_languages: fr, en
* mailman/used_languages: en fr
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
mailman/gate_news: false
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.1.7-1
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:01:24AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> I am running a Mailman from Debian stable (2.1.5-8sarge2), and I
> experimented the following issue:
> - even if disabled in Defaults.py and not enabled in mm_cfg.py,
> VERP seems to be activated from time to time.
> Fixing the bug implies applying the patch:
> Modify Mailman/Bouncer.py to either implement mm_cfg.VERP_PROBES or
> just remove VERP probes all together. See
>
> <http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/mailman/branches/Release_2_1-maint/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py?r1=7147&r2=7190>
So this is fixed in newer mailman versions. I'm marking it as fixed in
newer versions, but not in 2.1.5.
--
Lionel
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