On 3/14/22 06:00, IEM Network Operation Center (IOhannes m zmölnig) wrote:
we are now getting feedback from people, who say that they are unable to sign up, with mailman3 telling them:
Subscription request already pending
this is somewhat bad as:
- at least some of the users (who reported the problem) tried to subscribe 2 months ago (2022-01-04) - if they did not confirm their email back then, i'm pretty sure that this email has been lost by now
- my /etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg has "pending_request_life: 3d"
This is https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/729 fixed in Mailman 3.3.5.
- i (as administrator) do not see any "pending subscriptions" (the list is setup with a simple "Confirm" subscription policy
The count badge only counts subscriptions waiting moderator approval. If you pull down the Subscription requests tab and click Pending Confirmation you should see them and be able to discard them.
i wonder:
- why are the pending subscriptions not expired? (i guess they should have expired after 3 days)
It's a bug fixed in Mailman core 3.3.5
- why can't people re-subscribe while there's a subscription pending (e.g. if the confirmation mail got lost)?
Because that's the way it was implemented.
- how can i list all pending subscriptions (for a given mailinglist)?
Pull down the Subscription requests tab and click Pending Confirmation.
- how can i resolve the situtation (e.g. send out another reminder; manually expire the pendings; manually confirm the pendings,...)
If the above doesn't answer that. provide more detail.
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