mailman 2.1.14: action for held message cannot be submitted

[Gernot Salzer]

A mail to a mailman mailing list is being held back ('Post by non-member to a members-only list'), but I as the administrator can neither accept nor reject nor discard it. As soon as I press "Submit All Data" the page refreshes with the same held mail and "Defer" preselected. I think that this worked for other mails for this version in the past, but it may well be that that there was an unnoticed update inbetween.

The mail address DOES NOT contain an underscore as hypothesized as possible cause in bug report #529550

Here is the mail header as mailman shows it (x replaces letters, 9 replaces digits):

Return-Path: <email address hidden>
X-Original-To: <email address hidden>
Delivered-To: <email address hidden>
Received: from xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx (xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx [999.99.999.99])
 by xxxx.xxxxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D679DBB
 for <email address hidden>; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:58:01 +0100 (CET)
Received: from xxxxxx.xx.xx (xxxxxx.xx.xx [999.99.999.99])
 by xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0MLvtYm008750
 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK)
 for <email address hidden>; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:57:58 +0100
X-Connecting-Host: xxxxxx.xx.xx [999.99.999.99]
X-Connecting-Addr: 999.99.999.99
X-Sent-To: <email address hidden>
X-Sent-From: <email address hidden>
Received: from PEXHB011A.vu.local (999.99.999.99) by xxxxxx.xx.xx
 (999.99.999.99) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.158.1; Wed, 22 Jan
 2014 22:57:54 +0100
Received: from PEXMB001A.vu.local ([999.999.9.999]) by PEXHB011A.vu.local
 ([999.99.999.99]) with mapi id 14.03.0158.001; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:57:54
 +0100
From: "Xxxxxxxxx, X. xxx" <email address hidden>
To: "<email address hidden>" <email address hidden>
CC: "Xxxxxxxxx, X. xxx" <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [XX XXX/XXXX 9999] XXXXXXX-9999: xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
 xxxxxx
Thread-Topic: [XX XXX/XXXX 9999] XXXXXXX-9999: xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
 xxxxxx
Thread-Index: AQHPFCybjeiURju1cUmY9WDxORuFLpqRQOEA
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:57:53 +0000
Message-ID: <email address hidden>
References: <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
 <email address hidden>
 <email address hidden>
 <email address hidden> <20140114130809.GA3845@xxxxxxx>
 <email address hidden>
 <email address hidden>
 <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
 <email address hidden> <email address hidden>
In-Reply-To: <email address hidden>
Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
x-originating-ip: [999.99.999.9]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-ID: <email address hidden>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Greylist: Sender succeeded STARTTLS authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx [999.99.999.99]); Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:57:58 +0100 (CET)
X-Spam-Status: LOW ; -26
X-Spam-Level: -
X-Spam-TU-Processing-Host: xxxxxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new on xxx.xxx.xxxxxx.xx.xx

[Mark Sapiro (msapiro)]

I do not think this is a Mailman bug. I think that somehow your web server is losing the post data from the form submission. Possibly there is a redirect in the server from http to https or similar. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/ioA9>.