On 3/16/20 1:20 PM, keld@keldix.com wrote:

I have a problem with removing failing subscription requests eg from a bogus requester. I thought I could remove the request from a queue somewhere but cannot find it. the subscription requests keep recurring, over 1000 in my maillog -postfix

The requests waiting user confirmation are in the file lists/LIST_NAME/pending.pck. Requests waiting moderator action are in the file lists/LIST_NAME/requests.pck.

There are scripts at <https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/> (mirrored at <https://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/>) which can help with this. In particular, "erase" and "list_requests". Also, the withlist script "discard_subs.py".

More recent Mailman has defenses against robotic web subscribes, but none are in 2.1.9.

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