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 Förster
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.
