[Mailman-Users] many "Subscription disabled" messages after movinglist to new server

[Andrew Watson]

The old server had essentially the same bounce options as the new.
It was mailman 2.1.5, and I see many probe messages in the bounce log. Maybe you are right about the VERPed probe.


On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> On 1/12/2010 4:07 PM, Andrew Watson wrote:
>> 
>> Are the configuration data stored in a readable file? I could go back
>> to the old server and find out what bounce options I used there.
> 
> 
> If you still have the installation on the old server except for web
> access, you can do
> 
>  bin/config_list -o - LISTNAME
> 
> There are a couple of possibilities. If the old server was Mailman
> 2.1.5, that release had bounce probes enabled by default. Thus, when an
> address bounced, it wasn't disabled immediately, but a VERPed prob was
> sent and the address wasn't disabled until the probe bounced. It the MTA
> wasn't handling the VERPed return address properly, no-one would ever
> get disabled.
> 
> It's also possible that bounce_info_stale_after was too short.
> 
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