[Mailman-Users] password reminders and unsubscribed users

[Jim Miller]

Thanks for the reply Mark.  I do have a ticket opened with cpanel.  I was
hoping that I might get some insight on this issue here as well, since I did
see some old inquiries about this same problem in the archives, and it was
not related to cpanel installs.  I did not see resolution to any of those
older archive issues.  I have no idea how the password reminder script is
coming up with these old/deleted users to send them reminders, they simply
do not seem to even exist anywhere!  For now, I have just removed the
reminder script from being called by cron, seems brute force may be the only
solution!

jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: miller5 at host.miller5.org [mailto:miller5 at host.miller5.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Sapiro
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:35 PM
To: Jim Miller; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] password reminders and unsubscribed users

Jim Miller wrote:

>I am running mailman 2.1.9.cp2 and have an ongoing issue I can't find 
>an solution for.  There are a number of people who have unsubscribed to 
>my list, yet they continue to receive monthly password reminders.  A 
>few months ago I even disabled the password reminder for the list as a 
>whole, and that works for all the subscribed users, yet the old 
>unsubscribed users still continue to receive reminders!  I verified 
>once again today that these users are not subscribed.  They themselves 
>have no access to the user admin stuff, even with the password mailman 
>just sent them and they receive no other email traffic from the list, just
the password reminders.
> 
>Any idea what is causing this, and how to fix the problem?  I am about 
>to just remove the password reminder cron entry, which I know disables 
>reminders for all list, unless someone has a clue what is going on 
>here.  An archive search shows no help for this issue, though it has 
>been mentioned before.


There have been past reports of this, and the ones that haven't been
resolved are from cPanel installations.

See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.011.htp>.

It's even worse than just unsubscribed members still getting reminders.
See
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-February/055638.html>
for a report of users receiving reminders from a deleted list.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan