Developers of Sympa

[Daniel Pittman <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Aumont wrote:
>>Package: sympa
>>Version: 3.2.1-4
>>Severity: serious
> 
> The patch proposed to make a better command recognition seems good and
> we include in into next version. 

Thanks. That's good to hear. Jérôme, it would be /really/ nice if you
could push the patch into your next release of the Debian package too.

> We can't reproduce the second problem described (ie a loop because
> sympa could not remove the message from it's spool). I imagine that
> the problem comes because the message file as been move into sympa
> spool with unapropriate uid.gid. Could you confirm it ?

I don't believe this to be the case. I had not touched the file by hand
and, after disabling the misaddressed command routine[1], it was
processed in a perfectly acceptable fashion.

I presume that you did trigger the note through the misaddressed command
routine?

Anyway, I have not seen a repeat of the problem but am closely
monitoring it for the moment. Hopefully I can try to reproduce it in the
next few days on a test list on the local machine.

> Sympa 3.3 allow to disable misadressed commanddetection by
> configuration  (parameter 'misaddressed_commands' in sympa.conf)

Cool. Thank you.

> Thanks for your report.

That's fine. I am happy to do what I can to improve the reliability of
the software. It's not like I don't get a heck of a lot from y'all when
I use your software.

        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  I make the first line of 'checkcommand' 'return 0'.

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