I searched the archives for this issue and did not find any relevant messages, so I was hoping someone could help me.
We've been running mailman 2.1.4 on Solaris for about 2 years and in the last week the subscription confirmations have seemingly stopped being sent to users. In looking at the subscription log, it's only been able to process 11 new subscriptions today, vs. 5000 pending ones.
Now, the 5000+ subscription requests seems odd, since that would match the total number of subscribers to all lists, so I assume those are attempts by spam-subscribers. Do we need to dump out the confirmation queue? Does mailman eventually get full of bad (spam) sign-up attempts?
Thanks, Derek
-- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
Derek Cicero wrote:
We've been running mailman 2.1.4 on Solaris for about 2 years and in the last week the subscription confirmations have seemingly stopped being sent to users.
What is the setting for Privacy options...->Subscription rules->subscribe_policy>?
Is VirginRunner running? See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp> section 1)b).
In looking at the subscription log, it's only been able to process 11 new subscriptions today, vs. 5000 pending ones.
Now, the 5000+ subscription requests seems odd, since that would match the total number of subscribers to all lists, so I assume those are attempts by spam-subscribers.
What do the log entries say?
Do we need to dump out the confirmation queue? Does mailman eventually get full of bad (spam) sign-up attempts?
The confirmation cookies expire after mm_cfg.PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE (default 3 days) and are removed.
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