[Mailman-Users] admin subscribe hold notifications never arrive

[Jerry Stratton]

I've got *one* list on our system for which the administrator does 
not receive notification that someone wants to subscribe. We have a 
number of lists requiring admin approval for subscriptions--at least 
one of which has the same administrator as the list which doesn't 
successfully provide notifications.

The subscription requests are available on the "pending requests" 
page; when the administrator approves those requests, the 
administrator *does* receive notifications of the successful 
subscriptions. The administrator also receives notifications of 
unsubscriptions.

If the subscription requests are left to stand in the pending area, 
the daily notices are also not received by the list admin. This 
applies to both held messages and held subscription requests.

I have added myself as an administrator for that list, and have 
verified this behavior. I don't receive any notifications 
either--except for notifications of successful subscribes and 
unsubscribes.

The 'vette' file in the logs directory shows the subscription 
requests as "held"; the smtp file seems to indicate that 'a' message 
was sent out on the five-minute mark, but it could be for any list as 
the logfile does not indicate who the message was sent for, or why it 
was sent. (And I would sort of expect it to be for 2 recips, as there 
are two admins). Note that garden at hoboes.com also does not receive 
anything about the subscription being held.

vette:
Mar 11 11:19:12 2002 (3201) RISA-L: held subscription request from 
garden at hoboes.com

smtp:
Mar 11 11:20:02 2002 (8891) smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.358 seconds

smtp-failure does not appear to have anything relevant in it.

Does anyone have any idea what could cause this behavior? (Currently, 
the last item in there was from February 13, and probably 
corresponded to mailserver downtime.)

We have other lists where this feature works fine, including one with 
the same admin.

Jerry
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