[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#354763: mailman: User unsubscription fails

[Thue Janus Kristensen]

(resending because I forgot to CC the debian bug report)

After some experimentation, I found that the name doesn't matter. I
reproduced the bug with a user "test at kollegiegaarden.dk" and empty name or
name="test test test". What did matter was the language selected for the
user: it bugged when language was "Danish", and worked when the language was
English.

I had some trouble reproducing the bug, and found out that I needed to
restart the browser after each experiment to make the bug 100% reproducable,
so I guess it is influenced by some session variable.

Steps for reproducing:
1) Restart browser to reset any session
2) Go to overview page and enter email, name, language (=Danish)
3) Click on confirm link in email
4) Click on confirm link on webpage
5) Click on "You can now proceed to your membership login
page<http://mail.kollegiegaarden.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/options/nyheder/test%40kollegiegaarden.dk>"
(when you click it bugs with the trace from my original email)

If you want to you can use my mailing list for testing:
http://mail.kollegiegaarden.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nyheder

Regards
-Thue

p.s.: The Danish translation in Mailman is absolutely horrible. Do you
accept patches for that?

On 3/1/06, Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:43:04PM +0100, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>
> > One of my subscribers wanted to unsubscribe, using the unsubscribe
> > link in the bottom of an email. However, he got an error, and I got
> > the following in my error log:
>
> > admin(20982):   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/i18n.py", line 89, in _
> > admin(20982):     return tns % dict
> > admin(20982): ValueError: unsupported format character 'p' (0x70) at
> index 105
>
> What is the name ("Real Name" as entered into Mailman by him) and
> email of this user? I suspect a non-ASCII character in his name
> triggers a bug in mailman.
>
> If he has a Japanese name, did you install python2.3-japanese-codecs?
> If he has a Korean name, did you install python2.3-korean-codecs?
>
>
> You can email me the information privately if you prefer.
>
>
> --
> Lionel
>
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