[ mailman-Bugs-1345599 ] Unsubscribed users continue to receive reminders

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Bugs item #1345599, was opened at 2005-11-01 21:15
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Category: (un)subscribing
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Joe Cooper (swelljoe)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Unsubscribed users continue to receive reminders

Initial Comment:
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...possibly forever, but
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-name/config.db file.

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Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Date: 2005-11-02 15:42

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1123998

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
Mailman 2.1, the list config/membership is in
lists/list-name/config.pck. If you have config.db files,
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
subscriber to 'list at domain' can receive a password reminder
for 'list at domain' from 'mailman-owner at domain'.

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