[Mailman-Users] Mailing List subscriptions are 'frozen'

[Mark Sapiro]

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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