At Sun, 20 May 2018 08:26:38 -0700 Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 05/20/2018 07:32 AM, Rubén Fernández Asensio wrote:
> > Is this by design, or is this a bug in my Mailman installation? Is there
> > any way of making the roster visible to subscribers without giving
> > access to personal option pages through it?
> 
> 
> One user does not have access to another user's options unless
> authenticated with a list admin password. If an ordinary user clicks
> another user's link, she only gets the options login page which can be
> gotten for any address just by knowing the address no matter how you get
> there.
> 
> By making the roster visible to members you are exposing the addresses.
> Anyone can go to a url like
> http://example.com/mailman/options/listname/[email protected] to get to
> the options login page for [email protected].

And yes the "options login page" also contains an "unsubscribe" button.  But 
as Mark says, you need the user's list password for anything to actually 
happen.

> 
> That's how mailman works. There's nothing magic about coming from the
> roster. You can't get past the login page without proper authentication.
> 

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