GetSender bug (PR#56)

Bug #265219 reported by Bug Importer
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNU Mailman
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Jitterbug-Id: 56
Submitted-By: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:39:41 -0400 (EDT)
Version: 1.0rc1
OS: Solaris 2.6

User sending mail to a list with Eudora's redirect option doesn't deliver.
Here is the error message. List was set up as restricted to members and
then open to all senders and I got the same error message both times.
The user <email address hidden> is a member of the list.

>Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:25 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1
>Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
>
>The original message was received at Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:24 -0400
(EDT)
>from mailer.fsu.edu [128.186.6.122]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>"|/export/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post ad_hoc_com"
> (expanded from: <email address hidden>)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/export/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ?
> mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet)
> File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1113,
in Post
> sender = msg.GetSender()
> File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 122,
in GetSender
> return string.lower(mail_address)
>TypeError: read-only character buffer, None
>554 "|/export/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post ad_hoc_com"...
unknown mailer
>error 1
>Reporting-MTA: dns; lists.fsu.edu
>Received-From-MTA: DNS; mailer.fsu.edu
>Arrival-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:24 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Final-Recipient: RFC822; <email address hidden>
>X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |/export/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post
><email address hidden>
>Action: failed
>Status: 5.0.0
>Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:25 -0400 (EDT)
>Return-Path: <email address hidden>
>Received: from mailer.fsu.edu (mailer.fsu.edu [128.186.6.122])
> by lists.fsu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA00699
> for <email address hidden>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:24 -0400
(EDT)
>Received: from dvause.coss.fsu.edu (bel130a.coss.fsu.edu
[128.186.39.239])
> by mailer.fsu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA20884
> for <email address hidden>; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:47:24 -0400
(EDT)
>Message-Id: <email address hidden>
>X-Sender: <email address hidden>
>X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32)
>Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:38:10 -0400
>To: <email address hidden>
>From: (by way of Danita Vause <email address hidden>)
>Subject: Minutes
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>

====================================================================
Audit trail:
Mon Jun 14 09:22:21 1999 hmeland changed notes
Mon Jun 14 09:22:21 1999 hmeland moved from incoming to open

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=214096&group_id=103&atid=100103]

Revision history for this message
Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

The From: header of the Eudora-generated message is syntactically invalid
--
the only thing it contains, is an address _comment_. I'm not quite
convinced
that it is a good thing if Mailman tries catering to such brokenness.

I'll experiment a bit with a change to use the From_ line in such cases --
however, that neither is a failsafe solution.

Revision history for this message
Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote :

Not relevant for Mailman 2.0

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