On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 11:20 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
When I was only on a couple Mailman-run lists I didn't bother. Now I get twenty or password reminder messages a month.
A good reason, by the way, to be able to set things up so these messages are spread out across the month, not everyone sending them out from every installation on the same day for every list. (I realize people can tweak the crontab. nobody does).
I'd really prefer these things be per-list, not per-site. And customizable, so I can, for instance, include pointers to the FAQ, archives, list rules, or whatever. And then be able to configure when they go out for each list.
I also really wish mailpasswd had checkpoints, so if it dies, it'd restart where it left off -- my big mailman box has been mailing out password notices since friday night, for instance, and while I expect it to finish sometime today, this is a situation just fraught with potential problems. What I'd *really* like, if we must do this on a site-wide basis is to run mailpasswd every night, and tell it, say, to send out 5,000 per night, and keep track of where it left off. Having to run it manually because on a site as big as this one it has to happen on a weekend kinda bites.
Oh, and one more thing (thanks for reminding me). the password reminders aren't really hooked into the bounce-processed setup, since they get sent back to a list admin address, and not necessarily one the user is actually subscribed to. We're losing a major opportunity to clean up the mail lists here, especially when it comes to non-standard mailers and forwarded addresses. These really ought to be sent from a special address with a special envelope, so returns can be processed for site-wide removal (IMHO, if the password reminder bounces for any reason, that qualifies as removal. I'm going to have to pull the data out of bounce files monday and manually hack something up...
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