Changelog
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2.1.18-1 (06-May-2014)
Bug fixes and other patches
- A critical incompatibility between the DMARC Wrap Message action and
Python versions older than 2.6.x for some x <= 5 existed and caused
Wrapped message to be shunted. This is fixed. (LP: #1316682)
- Sender: headers are no longer removed in from_is_list Munge From
actions. (LP: #1315970)
2.1.18 (03-May-2014)
Acknowledgements
- Thanks to Jim Popovitch and Phil Pennock for the branch that formed the
basis of the dmarc_moderation_action feature.
- Thanks to Franck Martin et al for the branch that formed the basis of
the from_is_list feature.
Dependencies
- There is a new dependency associated with the new Privacy options ->
Sender filters -> dmarc_moderation_action feature discussed below.
This requires that the dnspython <http://www.dnspython.org/> package
be available in Python. This package can be downloaded from the above
site or from the CheeseShop <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dnspython/>
or installed with pip.
New Features
- The from_is_list feature introduced in 2.1.16 is now unconditionally
available to list owners. There is also, a new Privacy options ->
Sender filters -> dmarc_moderation_action feature which applies to list
messages where the From: address is in a domain which publishes a DMARC
policy of reject or possibly quarantine. This is a list setting with
values of Accept, Wrap Message, Munge From, Reject or Discard. There is
a new DEFAULT_DMARC_MODERATION_ACTION configuration setting to set the
default for this, and the list admin UI is not able to set an action
which is 'less' than the default. The prior ALLOW_FROM_IS_LIST setting
has been removed and is effectively always Yes. There is a new
dmarc_quarantine_moderation_action list setting with default set by a
new DEFAULT_DMARC_QUARANTINE_MODERATION_ACTION configuration setting
which in turn defaults to Yes. The list setting can be set to No to
exclude domains with DMARC policy of quarantine from
dmarc_moderation_action.
dmarc_moderation_action and from_is_list interact in the following way.
If the message is From: a domain to which dmarc_moderation_action applies
and if dmarc_moderation_action is other than Accept,
dmarc_moderation_action applies to that message. Otherwise the
from_is_list action applies.
Also associated with dmarc_moderation_action are configuration settings
DMARC_RESOLVER_TIMEOUT and DMARC_RESOLVER_LIFETIME. These are described
in more detail in Defaults.py. There are also new vette log entries
written when dmarc_moderation_action is found to apply to a post.
i18n
- Added missing <mm-digest-question-start> tag to French listinfo template.
(LP: #1275964)
Bug Fixes and other patches
- Removed HTML tags from the title of a couple of rmlist.py pages because
browsers don't render tags in the title. (LP: #265848)
- Most Mailman generated notices to list owners and moderators are now
sent as Precedence: list instead of bulk. (LP: #1313146)
- The Reply-To: munging options weren't honored if there was no
from_is_list action. (LP: #1313010)
- Changed from_is_list actions to insert the list address in Cc: if the
list is fully personalized. Otherwise, the list address is only in
From: and Reply-To: overrides it. (LP: #1312970)
- Fixed the Munge From action to only Munge the From: and/or Reply-To: in
the outgoing message and not in archives, digests and messages sent via
the usenet gateway. (LP: #1311431)
- Fixed a long standing issue in which a notice sent to a user whose
language is other than that of the list can cause subsequent things
which should be in the list's language to be in the user's language
instead. (LP: #1308655)
- Fixed the admin Membership List so a search string if any is not lost
when visiting subsequent fragments of a chunked list. (LP: #1307454)
- For from_is_list feature, use email address from original From: if
original From: has no display name and strip domain part from resultant
names that look like email addresses. (LP: #1304511)
- Added the list name to the vette log "held message approved" entry.
(LP: 1295875)
- Added the CGI module name to various "No such list" error log entries.
(LP: 1295875)
- Modified contrib/mmdsr to report module name if present in "No such list
error log entries.
- Fixed a NameError exception in cron/nightly_gzip when it tries to print
the usage message. (LP: #1291038)
- Fixed a bug in ListAdmin._handlepost that would crash when trying to
preserve a held message for the site admin if HOLD_MESSAGES_AS_PICKLES
is False. (LP: #1282365)
- The from_is_list header munging feature introduced in Mailman 2.1.16 is
no longer erroneously applied to Mailman generated notices.
(LP: #1279667)
- Changed the message from the confirm CGI to not indicate approval is
required for an acceptance of an invitation. (LP: #1277744)
- Fixed POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS to be case-insensitiive.
(LP: #1267003)
- Added recognition for another simple warning to bounce processing.
(LP: #1263247)
- Fixed a few failing tests in tests/test_handlers.py. (LP: #1262950)
- Fixed bin/arch to not create scrubbed attachments for messages skipped
when processing the --start= option. (LP: #1260883)
- Fixed email address validation to do a bit better in obscure cases.
(LP: #1258703)
- Fixed a bug which caused some authentication cookies to expire too soon
if AUTHENTICATION_COOKIE_LIFETIME is non-zero. (LP: #1257112)
- Fixed a possible TypeError in bin/sync_members introduced in 2.1.17.
(LP: #1243343)
Miscellaneous
- Added to the contrib directory, a script from Alain Williams to count
posts in a list's archive.
2.1.17 (23-Nov-2013)
New Features
- Handling of posts gated from usenet to a list via the Mail <-> News
gateway is changed. Formerly, no list membership, moderation or
*_these_nonmembers checks were done. Now, if the sender of the usenet
post is a moderated member or a nonmember matching a *_these_nonmembers
filter, those checks will be done and actions applied. Nonmember posts
from senders not matching a *_these_nonmembers filter are still accepted
as before. (LP: #1252575)
- There is a new mm_cfg.py setting ANONYMOUS_LIST_KEEP_HEADERS. Since it
is not possible to know which non-standard headers in a message might
reveal sender information, we now remove all headers from incoming posts
to anonymous lists except those which match regular expressions in this
list. The default setting keeps non X- headers except those known to
reveal sender information, Mailman added X- headers and x-Spam- headers.
See the description in Defaults.py for more information. (LP: #1246039)
i18n
- The Japanese message catalog has been updated by SATOH Fumiyasu.
(LP: #1248855)
Bug Fixes and other patches
- Added a reopen command to the sample init.d script in misc/mailman.in.
(LP: #1251917)
- Fixed a misspelling in Tagger.py causing an "unexpected keyword argument
'Delete'" exception. (LP: #1251495)
- Fixed contrib/qmail-to-mailman.py to work with a user other than
'mailman' and to recognize more listname-* addresses. (LP: #412293)
- Fixed a possible UnicodeDecodeError in bin/sync_members. (LP: #1243343)
- Fixed Makefile to not include $DESTDIR in paths compiled into .pyc
files for traceback purposes. (LP: #1241770)
2.1.16 (16-Oct-2013)
New Features
- There is a new list attribute from_is_list to either rewrite the From:
header of posts replacing the posters address with that of the list or
wrap the message in an outer message From: the list for compatability
with DMARC and or ADSP. There is a new mm_cfg.py setting
DEFAULT_FROM_IS_LIST to control the default for new lists, and the
existing REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS setting has been extended to allow removing
those headers only for certain from_is_list lists. This feature must
be enabled by setting ALLOW_FROM_IS_LIST to Yes in mm_cfg.py. See the
description of these settings in Defaults.py for more detail. This
feature is experimental in 2.1.16, and it is subject to change or to
become just one of the two methods in a subsequent release. People
interested in this feature are encouraged to try it and report their
experiences to the mailman-users@python.org list.
- There is a new DISPLAY_HELD_SUMMARY_SORT_BUTTONS setting which if set
in mm_cfg.py will display a set of radio buttons in the admindb held
message summary to select how the held messages are sorted and grouped
for display. The exact setting determines the default grouping and
sorting. See the description in Defaults.py for details.
- Setting digest_size_threshhold to zero now means no digests will be
sent based on size instead of a digest being sent with every post.
(LP: #558274)
- There is a new mm_cfg.py setting SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET which will put
a dynamically generated, hidden hash in the listinfo subscribe form and
check it upon submission. Setting this will prevent automated processes
(bots) from successfully POSTing web subscribes without first retrieving
and parsing the form from the listinfo page. The form must also be
submitted no later than FORM_LIFETIME nor no earlier than
SUBSCRIBE_FORM_MIN_TIME after retrieval. Note that enabling this will
break any static subscribe forms on your site. See the description in
Defaults.py for more info. (LP: #1082746)
- add_members now has an option to add members with mail delivery disabled
by admin. (LP: #1070574)
- IncomingRunner now logs rejected messages to the vette log.
(LP: #1068837)
- The name of the mailmanctl master lock file is now congigurable via the
mm_cfg.py setting MASTER_LOCK_FILE. (LP: #1082308)
- list_lists now has an option to list only lists with public archives.
(LP: #1082711)
Contributed programs
- A new import_majordomo_into_mailman.pl script has been contributed by
Geoff Mayes. (LP: #1129742)
- A new "sitemap" bash script has been contributed by Tomasz Chmielewski
<mangoo@wpkg.org> to generate a sitemap.xml file of an installation's
public archives for submission to search engines.
i18n
- The Danish translation has been updated thanks to Tom Christensen.
- Fixed a string in the Czech message catalog. (LP: #1234567)
- A Farsi (Persian) translation has been added thanks to Javad Hoseini and
Mahyar Moghimi.
- Fixed several misspelled or garbled string replacements in the Spanish
message catalog. (LP: #1160138)
- pt_BR message catalog has two new and an updated message per Hugo Koji
Kobayashi. (LP: #1138578)
- German message catalog has been updated per Ralf Hildebrandt.
- Corrected typo in templates/it/private.html.
Bug Fixes and other patches
- Fixed a crash in SpamDetect.py which caused messages with unparseable
RFC 2047 encoded headers to be shunted. (LP: #1235101)
- Fixed cron/disabled to send a fresh cookie when notifying disabled
members. (LP: #1203200)
- Added "message_id" to the interpolation dictionary for the Article.html
template. (LP: #725498)
- Changed the admin GUI to report only the bad entries in a list of email
addresses if any are bad. (LP: #558253)
- Added logging for template errors in HyperArch.py. (LP: #558254)
- Added more explanation to the bad owner address message from
bin/newlist. (LP: #1200763)
- Fixed a bug causing the admin web interface to fail CSRF checking if
the list name contains a '+' character. (LP: #1190802)
- Fixed bin/mailmanctl -s to not remove the master lock if it can't be
determined to be truly stale. (LP: #1189558)
- It is no longer possible to add 'invalid' addresses to the ban_list
and the *_these_nonmembers filters from the check boxes on the admindb
interface. (LP: #1187201)
- Backported recognition for mail.ru DSNs and minor bug fixes from
lp:flufl.bounce. (LP: #1074592, LP: #1079249 and #1079254)
- Defended against buggy web servers that don't include an empty
QUERY_STRING in the CGI environment. (LP: #1160647)
- The Switchboard.finish() method now logs the text of the exception when
it fails to unlink/preserve a .bak file. (LP: #1165589)
- The pending (un)subscriptions waiting approval are now sorted by email
address in the admindb interface as intended. (LP: #1164160)
- The subscribe log entry for a bin/add_members subscribe now identifies
bin/add_members as the source. (LP: #1161642)
- Fixed a bug where the Subject: of the user notification of a
bin/remove_members unsubscribe was not in the user's language.
(LP: #1161445)
- Fixed a bug where BounceRunner could create and leave behind zero length
bounce-events files. (LP: #1161610)
- Added recognition for another Yahoo bounce format. (LP: #1157961)
- Changed configure's method for getting Python's include directory from
distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('CONFINCLUDEPY') to
distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc(). (LP: #1098162)
- Added an Auto-Generated: header to password reminders. (LP: #558240)
- Fixed a bug where non-ascii characters in the real name in a subscription
request could throw a UnicodeEncodeError upon subscription approval and
perhaps in other situations too. (LP: #1047100)
- The query fragments send_unsub_notifications_to_list_owner and
send_unsub_ack_to_this_batch will now assume default values if not set
in mass unsubscribe URLs. (LP: #1032378)
- Replaced utf-8 encoded characters in newly added German templates with
HTML entities. (LP: #1018208)
2.1.15 (13-Jun-2012)
Security
- Strengthened the validation of email addresses.
- An XSS vulnerability, CVE-2011-0707, has been fixed.
- The web admin interface has been hardened against CSRF attacks by adding
a hidden, encrypted token with a time stamp to form submissions and not
accepting authentication by cookie if the token is missing, invalid or
older than the new mm_cfg.py setting FORM_LIFETIME which defaults to one
hour. Posthumous thanks go to Tokio Kikuchi for this implementation
which is only one of his many contributions to Mailman prior to his
death from cancer on 14 January 2012.
New Features
- Added a password reminder button to the private archive login page.
Backported from the 2.2 branch.
- There is a new list attribute regular_exclude_ignore set from mm_cfg.py
DEFAULT_REGULAR_EXCLUDE_IGNORE. This defaults to True even though the
prior behavior is equivalent to False. A True setting will ignore an
exclude list if the poster is not a member of that list. The False
setting can result in list members not receiving posts if the nonmember
post is not accepted by the exclude list. Backported from 2.2 branch.
- Eliminated the list cache from the qrunners. Indirect self-references
caused lists to never be dropped from the cache which in turn caused
the qrunners to grow very large in installations with many lists or
multiple large lists. Bug #862683.
- The user options 'list my other subscriptions' page now indicates for
each list if the subscription is 'nomail' or 'digest'. Bug #793669.
- A new list poster password has been implemented. This password may only
be used in Approved: or X-Approved: headers for pre-approving posts.
Using this password for that purpose precludes compromise of a more
valuable password sent in plain text email. Bug #770581.
- A new mm_cfg.py setting AUTHENTICATION_COOKIE_LIFETIME has been added.
If this is set to a non-zero value, web authentication cookies will
expire that many seconds following their last use. Its default value is
zero to preserve current behavior.
- A new mm_cfg.py setting RESPONSE_INCLUDE_LEVEL has been added to control
how much of the original message is included in automatic responses to
email commands. The default is 2 to preserve the prior behavior of
including the full message. Setting this to 1 in mm_cfg.py will include
only the original headers, and 0 will include none of the original. It
is recommended to set this to 0 in mm_cfg.py to minimize the effects of
backscatter. Bug #265835.
- A new mm_cfg.py setting DEFAULT_RESPOND_TO_POST_REQUESTS has been added
to control the default for respond_to_post_requests for new lists. It is
set to Yes for backwards compatibility, but it is recommended that
serious consideration be given to setting it to No. Bug #266051.
- A new mm_cfg.py setting DISCARD_MESSAGE_WITH_NO_COMMAND has been added to
control whether a message to the -request address without any commands or
a message to -confirm whose To: address doesn't match VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP
is responded to or just logged. It defaults to Yes which is different
from prior behavior. Bug #410236.
- Two new mm_cfg.py settings, BROKEN_BROWSER_WORKAROUND and
BROKEN_BROWSER_REPLACEMENTS, have been added to control escaping of
additional characters beyond the standard <, >, &, and " in the web UI.
See the documentation of these settings in Defaults.py. The default
values for these settings result in no change from the prior release.
Bug #774588.
i18n
- Added some missing German templates from Egon Frerich.
- Added Greek translation from Antonis Limperis.
- A few errors in the Basque translation are fixed. Bug #836861.
- Fixed a misspelling in the German invite.txt template. Bug #815444.
- Fixed a missing format character in the Spanish translation.
Bug #670988.
- Thanks go to the following for updating translations for the changes in
this release.
Thijs Kinkhorst
Stefan Foerster
Fabian Wenk
Bug Fixes and other patches
- Fixed a bug that could send an admin notice of a held subscription with
the subject in the user's preferred language instead of the list's
preferred language and possibly not properly RFC 2047 encoded.
(LP: #998949)
- Fixed a possible CPU bound loop in OutgoingRunner if the attempt to
Connect to the SMTP server throws a socket.error. (LP: #966531)
- Fixed a potential crash in the web UI if a language is removed from the
LC_DESCRIPTIONS dictionary. (LP: #966565)
- Added an Auto-Submitted: header to invitations and (un)subscription
confirmation requests to reduce the possibility of an autoresponder
confirming the request. (LP: #265831)
- Added javascript to the private.html and admlogin.html templates to
focus the cursor on the entry field. (LP: #266054)
- Added CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to src/Makefile to support their use.
(LP: #637652)
- Stopped removing the trailing slash from the List-Archive: header URL.
(LP: #964190)
- A configured version of contrib/courier-to-mailman.py is now created in
build/contrib/courier-to-mailman.py. (LP: #999250)
- Subscription disabled warnings are now sent without a Precedence:
header. Bug #808821.
- Backported 2.2 branch fix for a problem in SpamDetect.py that could
cause header_filter_rules to fail to match RFC 2047 encoded headers.
- Fix for bug #629738 could cause a crash in the admindb details display
if the decoded message body contained characters not in the character
set of the list's preferred language. Fixed. Bug #910440.
- Added recognition for another Qmail bounce format.
- Fixed an erroneous seek in the Mailman.Mailbox.Mailbox.AppendMessage
method that could cause a corrupt mailbox for files opened 'w+'.
Bug #901957.
- A held message with a null sender caused a crash in the admindb
interface. This is fixed by changing the sender to <missing>.
Bug #897103.
- Changed subject prefixing to allow for possible whitespace between an
'Re' and the following colon when determining how to add the prefix.
Bug #893290.
- Fixed a problem where topics regexps would not match RFC 2047 encoded
Keywords: and/or Subject: headers. Bug #891676.
- Fixed misleading response to an email approval of a held message.
Bug #889968.
- Added masthead.txt to the list of templates that can be edited via the
web admin interface. Bug #266805.
- Changed the way digest_footer is added to the RFC 1153 (plain) format
digest for RFC compliance. Bug #887610.
- Fixed cron/checkdbs to report unsubscriptions waiting approval.
Bug #873821.
- The fix for BUG #266220 (sf1181161) has been enhanced so that if there
is a pathological HTML part such that the Approved: password text isn't
found, but it is found after stripping out HTML tags, the post is
rejected with an informative message.
- A bug that would cause reset of any new_member_options bits other than
the four displayed as checkboxes on the list admin General Options page
whenever the page was updated or bin/config_list attempted to update
new_member_options has been fixed. Bug #865825.
- A problem with the logic avoiding unnecessarily reloading a current list
object from the config.pck arises if the list is updated by another
process within the same second that it was last read/written. That can
cause the reading of latest version of the list to be skipped. This has
been fixed. Bug #862675.
- Fixed bin/export.py to accept case insensitive password schemes.
Bug #833134.
- Added Tokio Kikuchi's icons to the misc/ and installed icons/
directories. Bug #782474.
- Fixed a problem which could result in raw, undecoded message bodies
appearing in plain digests and archives. Bug #787790.
- Fixed a problem in admindb.py where the character set for the display of
the message body excerpt was not correctly determined. Bug #779751.
- Prevented setting user passwords with leading/trailing whitespace.
Bug #778088.
- Mailman now sets the 'secure' flag in cookies set via https URLs.
Bug #770377.
- Added a logout link to the admindb interface and made both admin and
admindb logout effective for a site admin cookie if allowed.
Bug #769318.
- Replaced the old Mailman logos and icon that install to Mailman's icons
directory with the new ones. If you copy these elsewhere on your
server, please copy these new ones.
- Changed bin/genaliases to only call the POSTFIX_*_CMD commands once when
MTA = 'Postfix'. Bug #266408.
- Added a report of the affected members to the warnings issued when
setting a list with digest members digestable=No and when setting a list
with non-digest members nondigestable=no. Bug #761232.
- Fixed a problem where content filtering could remove the headers from
an attached message/rfc822 part if the message in that part is
multipart/alternative and collapse_alternatives is Yes. Bug #757062.
- Changed the subscribe CGI to strip leading and trailing whitespace from
the supplied email address. Bug #745432.
- Changed the maximum number of arguments for the who command to be
considered administrivia from 2 to 1 to help avoid false positives.
Bug #739524.
- Added the list name as 'display-name' in added Sender: headers to help
mitigate Outlook et al 'on behalf of' displays. Bug #736849.
- Fixed a typo in the usage() definition cron/gate_news. Bug #721015.
- Fixed an uncaught KeyError when poster tries to cancel a post which was
already handled. Bug #266224.
- Held message user notifications now come From: list-owner instead of
list-bounces. Bug #714424.
- Issue an HTTP 404 status for private archive file not found.
- @listname entries in *_these_nonmembers are no longer case sensitive.
Bug #705715.
- Changed bin/rmlist to also remove heldmsg files for the removed list and
fixed a problem with removal of stale locks for the list. Bug #700528.
- Fixed a bug where content filtering could leave a multipart message or
part with just one sub-part. These should be recast to just the sub-part.
Bug #701558.
- Fixed a bug that could erroneously handle posts from addresses in
*_these_nonmembers and send held/rejected notices to bogus addresses when
The From or other sender header is RFC 2047 encoded. Bug #702516.
- Updated contrib/mm-handler-2.1.10 to better handle lists with names that
look like admin addresses. Bug #697161.
- Added bounce recognition for a bogus Dovecot MDN. Bug #693134.
- Fixed a problem where an emailed command in the Subject: header with a
non-ascii l10n of an 'Re:' prefix is ignored. Bug #685261.
- Fixed a problem with approving a post by email when the body of the
approval mail is base64 encoded. Bug #677115.
- Fixed the host name in the From: address of the owner notification from
bin/add_members. Bug #666181.
Partly addresses pkg/25165.
From the package's NEWS file:
2.1.14 (20-Sep-2010)
Security
- Two potential XSS vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed.
New Features
- A new feature for controlling the addition/replacement of the Sender:
header in outgoing mail has been implemented. This allows a list owner
to set include_sender_header on the list's General Options page in the
admin GUI. The default for this setting is Yes which preserves the prior
behavior of removing any pre-existing Sender: and setting it to the
list's -bounces address. Setting this to No stops Mailman from adding or
modifying the Sender: at all.
Additionally, there is a new Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting
ALLOW_SENDER_OVERRIDES which defaults to Yes but which can be set to No
to remove the include_sender_header setting from General Options, and
thus preserve the prior behavior completely.
- Bounce processing has been enhanced so that if a bounce is returned to a
list from a non-member who is a member of a regular_include_list, the
bounce will be processed as a bounce for the included list.
i18n
- Fixed a missing format character in the German bin/mailmanctl docstring.
- Updated Dutch translation from Jan Veuger.
- Updated Japanese Translation from Tokio Kikuchi.
- Updated Finnish translation from Joni Töyrylä.
- Made a few corrections to some Polish templates. Bug #566731.
- Made a minor change to the Chinese (China) message catalog. Bug #545772.
- Changed a few DOCTYPE directives in templates for compliance.
Bug #500952 and Bug #500955.
Bug Fixes and other patches
- Made minor wording improvements and typo corrections in some messages.
Bug #426979.
- Fixed i18n._() to catch exceptions due to bad formats. Bug #632660.
- Fixed admindb interface to decode base64 and quoted-printable encoded
message body excerpts for display. Bug #629738.
- Fixed web CGI tracebacks to properly report sys.path. Bug #615114.
- Changed the member options login page unsubscribe request to include the
requesters IP address in the confirmation request. Bug #610527.
- Changed fix_url to lock the list if not locked. Bug #610364.
- Made a minor change to the English subscribeack.txt (welcome message)
template to emphasize that a password is only required to unsubscribe
*without confirmation*.
- Fixed an issue in admindb that could result in a KeyError and "we hit a
bug" response when a moderator acts on a post that had been handled by
someone else after the first moderator had retrieved it. Bug #598671.
- Fixed a bug which would fail to show a list on the admin and listinfo
overview pages if its web_page_url contained a :port. Bug # 597741.
- Fixed bin/genaliases to not throw TypeError when MTA = None.
Bug #587657.
- Provided the ability to specify in mm_cfg.py a local domain (e.g.
'localhost') for the local addresses in the generated virtual-mailman
when MTA = 'Postfix'. See VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN in Defaults.py.
Bug #328907.
- Made a minor change to the removal of an Approved: pseudo-header from
a text/html alternative to allow for an inserted '\xA0' before the
password.
- Fixed Content Filtering collapse_alternatives to work on deeply nested
multipart/alternative parts. Bug #576675.
- We now accept/remove X-Approved: and X-Approve: headers in addition to
Approved: and Approve: for pre-approving posts. Bug #557750.
- Reordered the 'cancel' and 'subscribe' buttons on the subscription
confirmation web page so the default action upon 'enter' will be the
subscribe button in browsers that pick the first button. Bug #530654.
- Fixed a bug in the admindb interface that could apply a moderator
action to a message not displayed. Bug #533468.
- Added a traceback to the log message produced when processing the
digest.mbox throws an exception.
- Added a urlhost argument to the MailList.MailList.Create() method to
allow bin/newlist and the the create CGI to pass urlhost so the host
will be correct in the listinfo link on the emptyarchive page.
Bug #529100.
- Added the List-Post header to the default list of headers retained in
messages in the MIME digest. Bug #526143.
- When daemonizing mailmanctl, we now ensure terminal files are closed.
- Fixed a bug in pipermail archiving that caused fallback threading by
subject to fail. Bug #266572.
- We now give an HTTP 401 status for authentication failures from admin,
admindb, private, options and roster CGIs, and an HTTP 404 status from
all the CGIs for an invalid list name.
- Backported the listinfo template change from the 2.2 branch to fix
Bug #514050.
- Fixed a bug where going to an archives/private/list.mbox/list.mbox URL
would result in a munged URL if authentication was required. Bug #266164.
- Fixed a bug where check_perms would throw an OSError if an entry in
Mailman's lists/ directory was not a directory. Bug #265613.
- Fixed a bug where a message with an Approved: header held by a handler
that precedes Approve (SpamDetect by default) would not have the
Approved: header removed if the held message was approved. Bug #501739.
2.1.13 (22-Dec-2009)
i18n
- Updated Dutch message catalog from Jan Veuger.
- Added Asturian translation from Marcos Costales and the Asturian
Language Team.
Bug Fixes and other patches
- Added "white-space: pre-wrap" style for <pre> tag in archives.
Bug #266467.
- Added vette logging for rejected and discarded (un)subscribe requests.
- Fixed a bug in admindb.py that could erroneously discard an unsubscribe
request as a duplicate.
- Decoded RFC 2047 encoded message subjects for a few reports.
Bug #266428.
- Fixed the French, Spanish and Hebrew translations which improperly
translated the 'coding:' line in bin/config_list output.
- Fixed the auto-responder to treat messages to -confirm, -join, -leave,
-subscribe and -unsubscribe as requests rather than posts. Bug #427962.
- Configure/make no longer builds Japanese and Korean codecs in
pythonlib if Python already has them.
- Inadvertently setting a null site or list password allowed access
to a list's web admin interface without authentication. Fixed by
not accepting null passwords.
- Changed VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP in Defaults.py to work if the replying
MUA folds the To: header and in cases where the list name includes '+'.
- Fixed some paths in contrib/check_perms_grsecurity.py. Bug #411192.
- Replies to commands sent to list-request now come From: list-owner
instead of list-bounces.
- Mailman no longer folds long sub-part headers in multipart messages.
In addition, Mailman no longer escapes From_ lines in the body of
messages sent to regular list members, although MTA's may do it anyway.
This is to avoid breaking signatures per Bug #265967.
- XSS protection in the web interface went too far in escaping HTML
entities. Fixed.
- Removed or anonymized additional headers in posts to anonymous lists.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect threading of replies to archived
messages that arrive with timestamps in the same second.
- Scrubbed HTML attachments containing tab characters would get the tabs
replaced by a string of ' ' without a semicolon. Fixed.
- Caught a TypeError in content filtering, collapse alternatives that
occurred with a malformed message if a multipart/alternative part
wasn't multi-part. Reported in comments to bug #266230.
- Fixed a few things in bin/update:
- Changed some old messages for more current meaning.
- Fixed qfiles update to not lose metadata from 2.1.5+ format entries.
- Fixed 2.0.x template migration to not die if the templates/ tree
contains subdirectories from a version control system.
- Fixed a bug that would show a list on the admin and listinfo overview
pages if its web_page_url host contained the current host as a
substring. Bug #342162.
- Fixed a bug in Utils.canonstr() that would throw a UnicodeDecodeError
if the string contained an HTML entity > 255 and also characters in the
128-255 range. Bug #341594.
- Added recognition for more bounces.
- Updated contrib/mmdsr to report preserved messages and to use mktemp to
create temp files.
* Fix compatibility with Python 2.6.
* Fixed a bug in admin.py which would result in chunked pages of the
membership list for members whose address begins with a non-alphanumeric
character to not be visible or retrievable.
* Changed ListAdmin.py to make rejected post messages From: the -owner
address instead of the -bounces address.
* With MTA = 'Postfix', if the STANZA END for a list being removed is
missing or munged, the remainder of the aliases and/or virtual-mailman
file is lost. Fixed.
* Since Mailman 2.1.1, 2.0.x outstanding subscription and held message
requests have not been migrated properly. This is fixed.
* Changed cron/gate_news to continue processing the remaining lists on
certain errors that can be caused by configuration of a particular list.
* Fixed a bug in AvoidDuplicates.py that caused it to fail if the address
in the To: or Cc: header differed in case from the case-preserved member
address.
* Fixed a problem in SecurityManager that caused it to not find the
cookie when CheckCookie was not given a user and the user in the cookie
had a %xx encoded character.
* Fixed a minor fromusenet reporting issue in the contributed mmdsr
script.
* Fixed a minor issue in cron/gate_news that could cause a list's
watermark to not be completely updated.
* Fixed an issue that prevented editing the options.html template from
the web admin interface.
* Fixed a problem in Decorate which could throw a TypeError on conversion
to unicode of a header/footer that was already unicode because of
interpolating a unicode value.
* Fixed an issue where list creation would report bad owner email
instead of bad listname when the list name had non-ascii characters.
* Updated Dutch, Catalan and Polish translations.
* Fix compatibility with Python 2.6.
* Fixed a bug in admin.py which would result in chunked pages of the
membership list for members whose address begins with a non-alphanumeric
character to not be visible or retrievable.
* Changed ListAdmin.py to make rejected post messages From: the -owner
address instead of the -bounces address.
* With MTA = 'Postfix', if the STANZA END for a list being removed is
missing or munged, the remainder of the aliases and/or virtual-mailman
file is lost. Fixed.
* Since Mailman 2.1.1, 2.0.x outstanding subscription and held message
requests have not been migrated properly. This is fixed.
* Changed cron/gate_news to continue processing the remaining lists on
certain errors that can be caused by configuration of a particular list.
* Fixed a bug in AvoidDuplicates.py that caused it to fail if the address
in the To: or Cc: header differed in case from the case-preserved member
address.
* Fixed a problem in SecurityManager that caused it to not find the
cookie when CheckCookie was not given a user and the user in the cookie
had a %xx encoded character.
* Fixed a minor fromusenet reporting issue in the contributed mmdsr
script.
* Fixed a minor issue in cron/gate_news that could cause a list's
watermark to not be completely updated.
* Fixed an issue that prevented editing the options.html template from
the web admin interface.
* Fixed a problem in Decorate which could throw a TypeError on conversion
to unicode of a header/footer that was already unicode because of
interpolating a unicode value.
* Fixed an issue where list creation would report bad owner email
instead of bad listname when the list name had non-ascii characters.
* Updated Dutch, Catalan and Polish translations.
pkgsrc changes:
- install the admin/www/mailman-*.{pdf,ps,txt} documentation file, and
change MESSAGES to point to mailman-install.txt
changes between 2.1.7 and 2.1.8rc1:
- A cross-site scripting hole in the private archive script of 2.1.7
has been closed. Thanks to Moritz Naumann for its discovery.
- Bouncers support added: 'unknown user', Microsoft SMTPSVC, Prodigy.net
and several others.
- Updated email library to 2.5.7 which will encode payload into qp/base64
upon setting. This enabled backing out the scrubber related patches
including 'X-Mailman-Scrubbed' header in 2.1.7.
- Fix SpamDetect.py potential hold/reject loop problem.
- A warning message from email package to the stderr can cause error
in Logging because stderr may be detached from the process during
the qrunner run. We chose not to output errors to stderr but to
the logs/error if the process is running under mailmanctl subprocess.
- DKIM header cleansing was separated from Cleanse.py and added to
-owner messages too.
- Fixes: Lose Topics when go directly to topics URL (1194419).
UnicodeError running bin/arch (1395683). edithtml.py missing import
(1400128). Bad escape in cleanarch. Wrong timezone in list archive
index pages (1433673). bin/arch fails with TypeError (1430236).
Subscription fails with some Language combinations (1435722).
Postfix delayed notification not recognized (863989). 2.1.7 (VERP)
mistakes delay notice for bounce (1421285). show_qfiles: 'str'
object has no attribute 'as_string' (1444447). Utils.get_domain()
wrong if VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW off (1275856).
Local change (which is why we have PKGREVISION=1)
Fix http://secunia.com/advisories/18449/ (CVE-2005-4153) based on debian
patches.
Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.1.7:
Security
- The fix for CAN-2005-0202 has been enhanced to issue an appropriate
message instead of just quietly dropping ./ and ../ from URLs.
- A note on CVE-2005-3573: Although the RFC2231 bug example in the CVE has
been solved in Mailman 2.1.6, there may be more cases where
ToDigest.send_digests() can block regular delivery. We put the
send_digests() calling part in a try/except clause and leave a message
in the error log if something happened in send_digests(). Daily call of
cron/senddigests will provide more detail to the site administrator.
- List administrators can no longer change the user's option/subscription
globally. Site admin can change these only if
mm_cfg.ALLOW_SITE_ADMIN_COOKIES is set to Yes.
- <script> tags are HTML-escaped in the edithtml CGI script.
- Since the probe message for disabled users may reach unintended
recipients, the password is excluded from sendProbe() and probe.txt.
Note that the default value of VERP_PROBE has been set to `No' from
2.1.6., thus this change doesn't affect the default behavior.
New Features
- Always remove DomainKey (and similar) headers from messages sent to the
list. (1287546)
- List owners can control the content filter behavior when collapsing
multipart/alternative parts to its first subpart. This allows the
option of letting the HTML part pass through after other content
filtering is done.
Internationalization
- New language: Interlingua.
Bug fixes and other patches
- Defaults.py.in: SCRUBBER_DONT_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME is set to True for
safer operation.
- Fixed the bug where Scrubber.py munges quoted-printable by introducing
the 'X-Mailman-Scrubbed' header which marks that the payload is
scrubber-munged. The flag is referenced in ToDigest.py, ToArchive.py,
Decorate.py and Archiver. A similar problem in ToDigest.py where the
plain digest is generated is also fixed.
- Fixed Syslog.py to write quopri encoded messages when it fail to write
8-bit characters.
- Fixed MTA/Postfix.py to check aliases group permission in check_perms
and fixed mailman-install document on this matter (1378270).
- Fixed private.py to go to the original URL after authorization
(1080943).
- Fixed bounce log score messages to be more consistent.
- Fixed bin/remove_members to accept no arguments when both --fromall and
--file= options are specified.
- Changed cgi-bin and mail wrapper "group not found" error message to be
more descriptive of the actual problem.
- The list's ban_list now applies to address changes, admin mass
subscribes and invites, and to confirmations/approvals of address
changes, subscriptions and invitations.
- quoted-printable and base64 encoded parts are decoded before passing to
HTML_TO_PLAIN_TEXT_COMMAND (1367783).
- Approve: header is removed from posts, and treated the same as the
Approved: header. (1355707)
- Fixed the removal of the line following Approve[d]: line in body of
post. (1318883)
- The Approve[d]: <password> header is removed from all text/* parts in
addition the initial text/plain part. It must still be the first
non-blank line in the first text/plain part or it won't be found or
removed at all. (1181161)
- Posts are now logged in post log file with the true sender, not
listname-bounces. (1287921)
- Correctly initialize and remember the list's default_member_moderation
attribute in the web list creation page. (1263213)
- PEP263 charset is added to the config_list output. (1343100)
- Fixed header_filter_rules getting lost if accessed directly and
authentication was needed by login page. (1230865)
- Obscure email when the poster doesn't set full name in 'From:' header.
- Preambles and epilogues are taken into account when calculating message
sizes for holding purposes. (Mark Sapiro)
- Logging/Logger.py unicode transform option. (1235567)
- bin/update crashes with bogus files. (949117)
- Bugs and patches: 1212066/1301983 (Date header in create/remove notice)
pkgsrc as patches/patch-ai):
Security
- Added the ability for Mailman generated passwords (both member and list
admin) to be more cryptographically secure. See new configuration
variables USER_FRIENDLY_PASSWORDS, MEMBER_PASSWORD_LENGTH, and
ADMIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH. Also added a new bin/withlist script called
reset_pw.py which can be used to reset all member passwords. Passwords
generated by Mailman are now 8 characters by default for members, and 10
characters for list administrators.
- A potential cross-site scripting hole in the driver script has been
closed. Thanks to Florian Weimer for its discovery. Also, turn
STEALTH_MODE on by default.
Internationalization
- Chinese languages are now supported. They have been moved from 'big5'
and 'gb' to 'zh_TW' and 'zh_CN' respectively for compliance to the IANA
spec. Note, however, that the character sets were changed from 'Big5'
or 'GB2312' to 'UTF-8' to cope with the insufficient codecs support in
Python 2.3 and earlier. You may have to install Chinese capable codecs
(like CJKCodecs) separately to handle the incoming messages which are in
local charsets, or upgrade your Python to 2.4 or newer.
Behavior or defaults changes
- VERP_PROBES is disabled by default.
- bin/withlist can be run without a list name, but only if -i is given.
Also, withlist puts the directory it's found in at the end of sys.path,
making it easier to run withlist scripts that live in $prefix/bin.
- bin/newlist grew two new options: -u/--urlhost and -e/--emailhost which
lets the user provide the web and email hostnames for the new mailing
list. This is a better way to specify the domain for the list, rather
than the old 'mylist@hostname' syntax (which is still supported for
backward compatibility, but deprecated).
Compatibility
- Python 2.4 compatibility issue: time.strftime() became strict about the
'day of year' range. (1078482)
New Features
- New feature: automatic discards of held messages. List owners can now
set how many days to hold the messages in the moderator request queue.
cron/checkdb will automatically discard old messages. See the
max_days_to_hold variable in the General Options and
DEFAULT_MAX_DAYS_TO_HOLD in Defaults.py. This defaults to 0
(i.e. disabled). (790494)
- New feature: subject_prefix can be configured to include a sequence
number which is taken from the post_id variable. Also, the prefix is
always put at the start of the subject, i.e. "[list-name] Re: original
subject", if mm_cfg.OLD_STYLE_PREFIXING is set No. The default style
is "Re: [list-name]" if numbering is not set, for backward compatibility.
If the list owner is using numbering feature by "%d" directive, the new
style, "[list-name 123] Re:", is always used.
- List owners can now cusomize the non-member rejection notice from
admin/<listname>/privacy/sender page. (1107169)
- Allow editing of the welcome message from the admin page (1085501).
- List owners can now use Scrubber to get the attachments scrubbed (held
in the web archive), if the site admin permits it in mm_cfg.py. New
variables introduced are SCRUBBER_DONT_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME and
SCRUBBER_USE_ATTACHMENT_FILENAME_EXTENSION in Defaults.py for scrubber
behavior. (904850)
Documentation
- Most of the installation instructions have been moved to a latex
document. See admin/www/mailman-install/index.html for details.
Bug fixes and other patches
- Mail-to-news gateway now strips subject prefix off from a response
by a mail user if news_prefix_subject_too is not set.
- Date and Message-Id headers are added for digests. (1116952)
- Improved mail address sanity check. (1030228)
- SpamDetect.py now checks attachment header. (1026977)
- Filter attachments by filename extensions. (1027882)
- Bugs and patches: 955381 (older Python compatibility), 1020102/1013079/
1020013 (fix spam filter removed), 665569 (newer Postfix bounce
detection), 970383 (moderator -1 admin requests pending), 873035
(subject handling in -request mail), 799166/946554 (makefile
compatibility), 872068 (add header/footer via unicode), 1032434
(KNOWN_SPAMMERS check for multi-header), 1025372 (empty Cc:), 789015
(fix pipermail URL), 948152 (Out of date link on Docs), 1099138
(Scrubber.py breaks on None part), 1099840/1099840 (deprecated %
insertion), 880073/933762 (List-ID RFC compliance), 1090439 (passwd
reminder shunted), 1112349 (case insensitivity in acceptable_aliases),
1117618 (Don't Cc for personalized anonymous list), 1190404 (wrong
permission after editing html)
Changes:
- Close some cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the admin pages
(CAN-2003-0965).
- New languages: Catalan, Croatian, Romanian, Slovenian.
- New mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py variable PUBLIC_MBOX which allows the site
administrator to disable public access to all the raw list mbox files
(this is not a per-list configuration).
- Expanded header filter rules under Privacy -> Spam Filters. Now you can
specify regular expression matches against any header, with specific
actions tied to those matches.
- Rework the SMTP error handling in SMTPDirect.py to avoid scoring bounces
for all recipients when a permanent error code is returned by the mail
server (e.g. because of content restrictions).
- Promoted SYNC_AFTER_WRITE to a Default.py/mm_cfg.py variable and
make it control syncing on the config.pck file. Also, we always flush
and sync message files.
- Reduce archive bloat by not storing the HTML body of Article objects in
the Pipermail database. A new script bin/rb-archfix was added to clean
up older archives.
- Proper RFC quoting for List-ID descriptions.
- PKGDIR can be passed to the make command in order to specify a different
directory to unpack the distutils packages in misc. (SF bug 784700).
- Improved logging of the origin of subscription requests.
- Misc bugfixes.
PR pkg/22820.
Changes:
- Closed a cross-site scripting exploit in the create cgi script.
- Improvements in the performance of the bounce processor.
Now, instead of processing each bounce immediately (which
can cause severe lock contention), bounce events are queued.
Every 15 minutes by default, the queued bounce events are
processed en masse, on a list-per-list basis, so that each
list only needs to be locked once.
- When some or all of a message's recipients have temporary
delivery failures, the message is moved to a "retry" queue.
This queue wakes up occasionally and moves the file back to
the outgoing queue for attempted redelivery. This should
fix most observed OutgoingRunner 100% cpu consumption,
especially for bounces to local recipients when using the
Postfix MTA.
- Optional support for fsync()'ing qfile data after writing.
Under some catastrophic system failures (e.g. power lose),
it would be possible to lose messages because the data
wasn't sync'd to disk. By setting SYNC_AFTER_WRITE to True
in Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py, you can force Mailman to
fsync() queue files after flushing them. The benefits are
debatable for most operating environments, and you must
ensure that your Python has the os.fsync() function defined
before enabling this feature (it isn't, even on all
Unix-like operating systems).
And more... please review Changelog to see a complete list of changes.
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