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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]