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

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Jan 12 22:23:59 CET 2010


Andrew Watson wrote:
>I recently moved a list to a new host, but retained the domain name.
>After many travails, and help from this list, I got my list working.
>After about a week of function, I am suddenly getting many "Subscription disabled" messages (about 10% of the 4411 subscribers, so far, but still growing as I write).
>It is possible that these are legitimate, and these really are bad addresses, and that in the move of the list my bounce processing options changed to be more stringent. Current they are:
>
>bounce_processing=Yes
>bounce_score_threshold= 5.0
>bounce_info_stale_after=7
>bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings=5
>bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval=7
>bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner=no
>bounce_notify_owner_on_disable=yes
>bounce_notify_owner_on_removal=yes
>
>But it seems likely that this is bogus, and good addresses are being disabled (especially if this grows to 100% of subscribers!)
>Has anyone experienced a similar problem?


bounce_notify_owner_on_disable=yes so you should get a notice for each
disable containing a copy of the triggering DSN. What does it say?
Does it look legitimate?

Also, what if anything do you see in Mailman's smtp-failure log?

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