Bernie Cosell wrote:

I'm having some trouble with list_members. I do a list and I see several entries that don't show up in the GUI "Membership List" listings. And the other way around:

Are you absolutely certain that you aren't looking at two different lists?

I got a complaint from a former list member that they were still receiving messages, but list_members did *NOT* list them... but going into the GUI the member was there [and I unsubbed him from the gui]. That got me to checking and I discovered thatAnother odd anomaly: the list_members list is almost entirely in alphabetical order by email addr... *except* for one address that ought to have been with the <s...> addrs and came at the very end of the list.

The output from bin/list_members is in two groups: first the regular members in alpha order followed by the digest members in alpha order. Possibly the <s...> addrs is the only digest member or possibly there is a transparent character preceeding the 's'.

Also, the gui claims there are 326 members on the list, but list_members gives me 328.

What MM version is this? Prior to 2.1.12rc1 there was a bug that would not list members in the admin Membership List if their address began with a non letter/digit.

The member that didn't show up on the list_members list (but was actually subscribed) showed up as just an ordinary list member on the GUI membership list [no "nomail" or anything like that]. And I can't tell anything about members that show up on list_mem but not on the gui -- I'm not exactly sure if they're on the list or not. [I'll have to dig through the sendmail logs to see if they're actually receiving mailings or not].

Is this kind of thing indicative of something wrong in one of mailman's DBs or something like that? Should I be taking some kind of repair/fix steps? Thanks...

If there are addresses that appear on bin/list_members and not on the list admin Membership List (not explained by the above bug) and vice versa, I think there must be two lists. E.g., perhaps a test, demo, backup or prior version of the list on a different server or in a different path on the same server, and you are accessing one via the web and another via bin/list_members.

Check your web server configuration and ensure that Mailman's ScriptAlias points to the same prefix directory that contains the bin/ directory you're using.

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