[Mailman-Users] Private Lists and mailpasswds

[Justin Alcorn]

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Private lists on my server didn't get the monthly password mailing, even though
I set them to do so.  I'm not a member of any private lists on any other server,
so I wasn't sure if this was expected behavior.

Looking through cron/mailpasswds I found:

~    a_public_list = None

~    (for all lists....)

~        if not a_public_list and mlist.advertised:
~            a_public_list = mlist


~    if a_public_list:
~        a_public_list.Lock()
~        try:
~            mail_passwords(a_public_list, hosts)
~        finally:
~            a_public_list.Save()
~            a_public_list.Unlock()


OK, I'm a perl, C and php coder, not python, but it appears to me that we aren't
going to process any lists unless at least one is advertised.  Why?  There's no
indication of that in any documentation.  I have no public lists on my server,
so I go through all the processing and end up with a_public_list being false,
and I simply fall through to the bottom.  I can't see any security risk
associated with sending out the passwords.  Is this a bug?

if I take off the 'and mlist.advertised' it seems to me that I'd send out
passwords.  But I still don't quite understand the logic, it seems that the
first public list found will be Lock()ed, Save()ed and Unlock()ed.  HUH?
someone please explain.
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Justin Alcorn
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