Configuration help typo / footer parsing (PR#209)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNU Mailman |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Barry Warsaw |
Bug Description
Jitterbug-Id: 209
Submitted-By: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:10:34 -0500 (EST)
Version: 1.1
OS: Redhat Linux 6.1
In the configuration help for "msg_footer", it says the
following:
web_page_url
The mailman root URL to which, eg, 'listinfo/
be appended to yield the listinfo page for the list.
check out the single quote. this caused someone on my machine to include
the single quote in their footer, like this:
%(real_name)s mailing list
%(real_
%(web_page_
Mailman stops delivering all messages to that list. It starts logging the
following:
Mar 15 08:26:38 2000 post: Traceback (innermost last):
post: File "/home/
post: mlist.Post(msg, approved=
post: File "/home/
Post
post: footer = self.msg_footer % d)
post: ValueError : unsupported format character ''' (0x27)
Sendmail logs "unknown mailer error 1".
Perhaps mailman should be a little more robust with respect to parsing
the footer?
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Audit trail:
None
[http://
The exception won't happen anymore; instead you'll get an [INVALID FOOTER]
in the postings.
I've fixed the typo in the attribute's details.