Random characters in "The results of your email commands" e-mail
Hi,
Today I sending an e-mail to "mylist-request@domain.tld" with the subject "help" and I received the expected e-mail with the following content;
confirm - Confirm a subscription request. echo - Echo back your arguments. end - Stop processing commands. help - Get help about available email commands. join - Join this mailing list. leave - Leave this mailing list. stop - An alias for 'end'. subscribe - An alias for 'join'. unsubscribe - An alias for 'leave'. No such command: -- No such command: vriendelijke
Only I think my mail signature broke something in Mailman (see the No such command). Because every e-mail with a subject like "help", "stop" or "join", gives a reply with random characters. The Mailman logs doesn't show any error, so I'm not sure what is wrong. Deleting the mailinglist and create a new one won't fix the issue, also restarting Mailman doesn't help.
An example of the random characters: Nz zf&ju[zZ0:v,jzkb^}nJyazZCj}{m5t5C x<{iysG5o[w}jgn+g[lrwf *mz rL k)rjwliazZZnjyW(fvrh{aXXWj+&j)b b-'jX+zwl &v {rx &~y6.r(fu4:'
Is this a bug in Mailman? Or something in my Mailman config...
On 2/17/20 3:00 AM, Jeffrey D wrote:
Hi,
Today I sending an e-mail to "mylist-request@domain.tld" with the subject "help" and I received the expected e-mail with the following content;
confirm - Confirm a subscription request. echo - Echo back your arguments. end - Stop processing commands. help - Get help about available email commands. join - Join this mailing list. leave - Leave this mailing list. stop - An alias for 'end'. subscribe - An alias for 'join'. unsubscribe - An alias for 'leave'. No such command: -- No such command: vriendelijke
Only I think my mail signature broke something in Mailman (see the No such command).
Something may be broken, but it was not your email command with signature that broke it.
Mail to the -request address processes the Subject: as a command if it appears to be one and then processes each of the first several (default 10) lines of the body as a command until it encounters a 'stop' or 'end' command or other command whos process says don't continue.
In this case your signature was reported as no such command. This is normal and expected.
Because every e-mail with a subject like "help", "stop" or "join", gives a reply with random characters. The Mailman logs doesn't show any error, so I'm not sure what is wrong. Deleting the mailinglist and create a new one won't fix the issue, also restarting Mailman doesn't help.
An example of the random characters: Nz zf&ju[zZ0:v,jzkb^}nJyazZCj}{m5t5C x<{iysG5o[w}jgn+g[lrwf *mz rL k)rjwliazZZnjyW(fvrh{aXXWj+&j)b b-'jX+zwl &v {rx &~y6.r(fu4:'
Is this a bug in Mailman? Or something in my Mailman config...
To understand what's going on, We would like to see the complete, raw response message. Also, the headers of the message sent to the -request address, in particular the Content-Type: header of the first text/plain part and its charset param.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
To understand what's going on, We would like to see the complete, raw response message. Also, the headers of the message sent to the -request address, in particular the Content-Type: header of the first text/plain part and its charset param.
I didn't check the source headers... Mailman isn't the issue, my mail client (Evolution) is the problem. Messages sent to the -request@ with Subject: help and message body with my mail signature are working fine. I received the expected response from Mailman.
Messages sent to the -request@ with Subject: help and empty message body, gives the random characters response. Instead of leaving the body empty, Evolution paste "Cgo=" into the message body. Mailman reply with the expected "No such command: cg0k" and Evolution couldn't decode the message. Long story short, don't use Evolution ;-)
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Mail headers: Sent message -request@ (with empty body)
Message-ID: <eaa8bc6bec172bf3e19700959d6f86f637a3d59c.camel@domain.tld> Subject: help From: Jeffrey <jeffrey@domain.tld> To: test-jeffrey-request@domain.tld Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:54:13 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.1-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 X-Evolution-Identity: 1f54715bb67ff0bd5b87ec47786956d762aec607 X-Evolution-Fcc: folder://f23e08ef4c9736554f0b631ce301539d32916444/Sent X-Evolution-Transport: 6fd443d2352de0b9c1126fe4334605581b1903c2 X-Evolution-Source:
Cgo=
Response message
Subject: The results of your email commands From: test-jeffrey-bounces@domain.tld To: jeffrey@domain.tld Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <158193325438.30764.17876047045035004661@domain.tld> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:54:14 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.1 X-Evolution-Source: f23e08ef4c9736554f0b631ce301539d32916444
The results of your email command are provided below.
Original message details: From: Jeffrey <jeffrey@domain.tld> Subject: help Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:54:13 +0100 Message-ID: <eaa8bc6bec172bf3e19700959d6f86f637a3d59c.camel@domain.tld>
Results: confirm - Confirm a subscription request. echo - Echo back your arguments. end - Stop processing commands. help - Get help about available email commands. join - Join this mailing list. leave - Leave this mailing list. stop - An alias for 'end'. subscribe - An alias for 'join'. unsubscribe - An alias for 'leave'. No such command: cg0k
Done.
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