[Mailman-Developers] Patches in mandriva package

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 6:38 AM, ???? wrote:

> Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
>
>>    ToDigest.send_digests() can block regular delivery.  We put the
>>    send_digests() calling part in a try/except clause and leave a  
>> message
>>    in the error log if something happened in send_digests().   
>> Daily call of
>>    cron/senddigests will provide more detail to the site  
>> administrator.
>
> I noticed this may lead to yet another DoS for digest delivery.  The
> malicious (non-compliant MIME) message may cause other digest  
> deliveries
> to stop as long as the malicious message remains in the digest.mbox
> file.  I created a patch for this situation and uploaded in the patch
> area of SF:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=1556858&group_id=103&atid=300103
>
> I think I will commit in the Release-2.1-maint branch and include  
> in the
> 2.1.9 final release.  I appreciate anyone can review the patch.

Let's wait for 2.1.10, because otherwise we're really going to need  
another release candidate and another week or so of testing.

-Barry