[Mailman-Users] Oddity with list_members

[Mark Sapiro]

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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