Bugs item #1913963, was opened at 2008-03-13 17:38
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.1 beta
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: James E. Blair (corvus_at_gnu)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Better error checking for MM list in accept_these_nonmembers

Initial Comment:
As of the 2.1.10 beta series, accept_these_nonmembers and other related fields 
accept the name of another mailing list in the form "@listname", or "@[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]".

Currently a user can specify a list's own name in its accept_these_nonmembers 
fields.  This should not be allowed for two reasons:

1) It's confusing for users -- it would be better to simply use a list's own 
moderation feature rather than specifying that members of a list can post by 
listing the name of the list in a field where you specify non-members that can 
post.

2) It causes a new MailList object for a list to be created inside of a section 
of code that already has a locked MailList object for the same list.  This is a 
source of potential lock problems that does not occur elsewhere in the Mailman 
source.

I'm attaching a patch that handles this condition as well as improving the 
error reporting for the case where the user specifies a list that doesn't exist.

Additionally, the patch adds protection in the GUI so that users are not 
permitted to enter either the name of the list they are editing, or a list that 
does not exist (the latter was already a suggestion in the comments).




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