[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Feature Requests-573394 ] separate auto-disable and "nomail" flags

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Feature Requests item #573394, was opened at 2002-06-25 01:47
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Greg Stein (gstein)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: separate auto-disable and "nomail" flags

Initial Comment:
Currently, Mailman will disable email to accounts (say,
because they bounced too many times) by setting the
"nomail" option. *However*, that option is also used by
users. As a result, I have no way to determine which
subscriptions are old/invalid, and which correspond to
actual users.

It would be nice to record disabling as a separate
field... say, as the date the account was disabled.
Then, I could periodically find all accounts which were
disabled more than a year ago and simply delete them.

Thus, users who temporarily disable mail delivery will
not accidentally have their subscriptions purged :-)

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Comment By: Jesús Cea Avión (jcea)
Date: 2002-06-25 12:32

Message:
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user_id=97460

Good. You've read my mind :-). This feature is a "must have"
:-).

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Comment By: Greg Stein (gstein)
Date: 2002-06-25 03:50

Message:
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user_id=6501

Yes, that is a definite improvement.

Note that logs get rotated, so you might not know "when" a
particular transition occurred.

For my particular problem, I'd be happy with the current 2.1
behavior, and would be even happier with the change date
added, too.

thx!

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Comment By: Dan Mick (dmick)
Date: 2002-06-25 01:52

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=10725

MM 2.1 adds a "reason" enumeration to the disabled flag, so at
least the 'bounce' vs. 'user' or 'administrator' distinction is
obvious.

The date of the event is also available in the log files.
Not that that's as useful as what you suggest, but it's
partway there.

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