Debian Bug report logs - #298753
non-ascii passwords in montly password reminders html-encoded

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Erik Forsberg <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: mailman: non-ascii passwords cause montly password reminders to be shunted

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:56:53 +0100

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-7
Severity: important
Tags: l10n


If a user has entered a password containing non-ascii passwords, 
presumably when subscribing via the web, Mailman fails to send the 
montly password reminder. Instead, the password reminder goes into the 
shunted queue.

The traceback in /var/log/mailman/error is as follows:

Mar 09 19:46:54 2005 (10420) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec 
can't enco
de character u'\ufffd' in position 1015: ordinal not in range(128)
Mar 09 19:46:54 2005 (10420) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop
    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile
    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in 
_dispose
    more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in 
_dopipel
ine
    sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamDetect.py", line 108, in 
process
    g.flatten(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 102, in flatten
    self._write(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 130, in _write
    self._dispatch(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 156, in _dispatch
    meth(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 202, in 
_handle_text
    self._fp.write(payload)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in 
position 1
015: ordinal not in range(128)

Mar 09 19:46:54 2005 (10420) SHUNTING: 
1110393401.579381+8f6515820543f84bdc48736
a6a965b73d741cfcc



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.0.53-5     traditional model for Apache2
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-86    management of regular background p
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.11    Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  logrotate                   3.7-2        Log rotation utility
ii  postfix [mail-transport-age 2.1.5-6      A high-performance mail transport 
ii  pwgen                       2.03-1       Automatic Password generation
ii  python                      2.3.5-1      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  ucf                         1.14         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: nl, de, da, sv, en
* mailman/used_languages: da de en nl sv
* mailman/create_site_list:

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]>

To: [email protected], [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Debian mailman bug 298753: non-ascii passwords cause montly password reminders to be shunted

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:15:52 +0100

tags 298753 +unreproducible
Hi,

I tried this again with mailman 2.1.6-1 and the password reminder does
get out, "but" the password is HTML-escaped (with &#XXXX; "characters").
Copy-pasting the HTML-ized version of the password works, though. So
while not nice, it is not catastrophic.

Could you please confirm it behaves like that with the new version for you, too?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Lionel

Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]>

To: [email protected], [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Debian mailman bug 298753: non-ascii passwords cause montly password reminders to be shunted

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:03:37 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

severity 298753 minor
retitle non-ascii passwords in montly password reminders html-encoded
thanks

Hello Eric,

Lionel wrote:
> I tried this again with mailman 2.1.6-1 and the password reminder does
> get out, "but" the password is HTML-escaped (with &#XXXX; "characters").
> Copy-pasting the HTML-ized version of the password works, though. So
> while not nice, it is not catastrophic.
> 
> Could you please confirm it behaves like that with the new version for you, too?

Any news on this?

In the meanwhile, I'm downgrading this to a minor bug that the password
is displayed wrong.


Thijs

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