Unsubscribed users continue to receive reminders
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNU Mailman |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have two machines, one running 2.1.6 (with no
patches, as provided by list.org) and another running
2.1.5 (as provided by Fedora Core 4), and both exhibit
a very annoying problem when password reminders are
enabled. Users who have successfully unsubscribed
continue to receive reminders.
at least two monthly reminder cycles is confirmed. I
don't know if it always happens, but on a system with
about 1000 subscribers across all lists, I get about
two or three complaints about this every month, so it
seems likely.
A search for the user in the membership management list
confirms they do not exist as a subscriber. grepping
for the address in the Mailman directories turns up the
address twice in the lists/list-
[http://
I know your experience seems to contradict this, but
cron/mailpasswds only mails to current subscribers.
Did you really mean lists/list- name/config. db file? Since name/config. pck. If you have config.db files,
Mailman 2.1, the list config/membership is in
lists/list-
they shouldn't be coming into play at all in Mailman 2.1.x
(except in initial upgrade when they are used to create the
config.pck).
Are the users possibly subscribed to some old, inactive
version of the list?
In any case, I don't think that a user who is not a current owner@domain' .
subscriber to 'list@domain' can receive a password reminder
for 'list@domain' from 'mailman-