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[Menkens Olaf <address@concealed>]

Hi,

I just realized, that similar patches than those, that I proposed, already
exist in sympa 6.2a.4. So you can ignore my email.

Is there somewhere a roadmap, which tells me, when to expect Version 6.2 to
be released ?

Thanks, 
Olaf Menkens. 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Menkens Olaf
> Gesendet: Freitag, 16. Dezember 2011 14:30
> An: 'address@concealed'
> Betreff: encrypted mailing list feature broken in 6.1.7 - patch
> proposal
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> since a long time sympa offers the feature to send encrypted mails to
> mailing lists and decrypt / reencrypt them for each recipient.
> We realized, that this feature is broken in the current official
> release 6.1.7.
> 
> As far as I understand the code, it might have happened, when some bulk
> mailing feature had been added / improved. In the function
> mail_message() (in mail.pm) the rcpt parameter is now constructed as a
> reference to a list containing references to lists of email addresses.
> But in the function sendto() this new structure is disregarded, when it
> comes to sending encrypted mails to each unique recipient.
> 
> Two other problems I encountered during my tests: When the rcpt list in
> mail_message() is empty (in my case when sending with "verp" enabled),
> an error message is produced and error mails are sent to the sender and
> the listmaster. This could be solved by a simple check, whether there
> are any recipients.
> 
> The last less important, but annoying problem I found, is about error
> logging: in main::DoFile() (sympa.pl, lines 1359ff) the log_level is
> obviously set to a list specific log_level, which is undocumented and I
> could not find it in List.pm. Effectively it switches off debug
> logging.
> Thus I commented out these few lines.
> 
> It would be great, if some sympa expert could review my patch proposals
> and integrate them into the next sympa release.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Olaf Menkens, Fraunhofer IAIS.
>

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