Mark,

Thanks, I get Mailman posts as a digest so I hadn't yet received the other 
reply. 

I tried quitting the browser and restarting several times, and also deleted 
cookies manually, but the problem persists. I will do some more digging and let 
you know what I come up with.

Thanks again.

-Rob McLear

On Apr 1, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Rob wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks. I have not recently upgraded or changed Mailman, though there was a 
>> recent Apple security update, and I'm not sure if it could have included a 
>> Mailman upgrade within it. The apparently huge number of expired addresses 
>> which bounced to the -owner address today suggests (based on my 
>> understanding of the wiki article you referenced) that there must have been 
>> an upgrade included. 
> 
> 
> According to the reply at
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-April/069199.html>,
> there was.
> 
> 
>> I added ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES = Yes to mm_cfg.py and restarted mailman, 
>> but the behavior persists, or else I am not understanding the new behavior 
>> of the site admin password. Essentially I use the site admin password to 
>> quickly traverse multiple list config options without having to enter the 
>> list password for each list, delete users from multiple lists, or change 
>> their passwords for them. 
> 
> 
> Did you stop and restart your browser or clear the relevant cookies
> from the browser? (an admin logout should suffice).
> 
> If ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES = No (the default), when you authenticate
> with the site password, you get a cookie that says you are
> authenticated as the list admin, not as the site admin. Thus, you
> can't do global actions on the user options page and you can't go to
> another list's admin pages without logging in there.
> 
> If ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES = Yes and you are authenticated as the site
> admin and you still can't list a users other subscriptions, I think
> this must be an Apple specific feature/bug.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
> 

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