[Mailman-Users] "Bounce action notification" emails for subscribes/unsubscribes

[Mark Sapiro]

Sorry for the delayed reply. I've been away.

On 08/18/2017 08:11 PM, Terry . wrote:
> 
> But in recent months I’ve noticed that, as list owner, when I subscribe or unsubscribe someone, instead of just receiving an email with the subject:
>     “<listname> subscription notification”
> or:
>     “<listname> unsubscribe notification”
> I receive an email with the subject:
>     “Bounce action notification”
> Which contains:
> 
>     “This is a Mailman mailing list bounce action notice:
> 
>         List:       Bro   [for example]
> 
>         Member:     mylistadminaddress at mydomain.com   [for example]
> 
>         Action:     Subscription bounce score incremented.
> 
>         Reason:     Excessive or fatal bounces.
> 
>     The triggering bounce notice is attached below.
> 
>     Questions? Contact the Mailman site administrator at mailman at somedomain.com<mailto:mailman at somedomain.com>.”   [for example]
> 
> 
> 
> And that email contains an ATTACHMENT which has the subject:
>   “<listname> subscription notification”
> or:
>   “<listname> unsubscribe notification”


This is very strange. What seems to be happening is the (un)subscription
notification is bouncing, causing a bounce notification to be sent to
the list owner, but a bounce notification should only be sent if the
original (bounced) message was to a list member, not the owner.

Also the bounce notification should also have an attached DSN with
details of why the (un)subscription notification bounced. What does that
say?


> Notes:
> - This didn’t used to happen with these same lists, and I don’t know what’s triggered the change in behaviour.
> 
> - Even if I change the list “owner” address to another of my addresses, it still happens.
> 
> - I have admin_notify_mchanges set to “Yes”.
> 
> - I don’t have any moderators set up.


OK


> Questions:
> 
> Q1. Is this a known issue?


No


> Q2. What’s the likely cause of this problem suddenly starting to happen?


Post the full raw bounce action notice with all headers and MIME parts
and I might be able to say more.


> Q3. What’s the likely solution?


See Q2


> Q4. Do you need any more info to troubleshoot the cause of this?  If so, what, exactly?


See Q2

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