On 10/29/20 11:33 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 10/29/20 5:23 AM, Brian Carpenter wrote:
I have a list owner who had his subscription policy set to confirm. Apparently that was too hard for his list members to handle so he changed it to moderate only. If someone sent a subscription request that needed to be confirm, did not respond to it, and then tried subscribing again after the member policy changed to moderate, their 2nd subscription attempt still shows up in the confirmation queue. Is that normal behavior. My understanding is it is. Please let me know if I am wrong here.
Are you certain that the request waiting confirmation is the second one and not the first?
Good point and I am not sure. I will try to note that if this pops up again.
The real mystery here is when someone tried subscribing again (listname-subscribe@listdomain) hours after the subscription policy was changed to moderate and they still showed up in the confirm queue. How is that possible? I tested the list with two of my addresses and both showed up in the moderation queue as expected. As far as I can tell from the mailman logs, this was the person's first attempt at subscribing.
I suspect it was not the first attempt and that the subscription waiting confirmation was requested when the policy was confirm.
The confirmation moderation notice had the date-time stamp that came a few hours AFTER the subscription policy was changed. Also I only saw one confirmation request sent out via Postfix' mail.log. I saw no other for this subscriber. Same thing with the smtp.log. I cannot duplicate this behavior when I try to subscribe. My subscription attempts went straight to moderation.
The real question is if a user has a subscription waiting confirmation and the policy is changed to moderate, is a second request rejected because of the request waiting confirmation. If so, I think this is a bug which should be fixed.
Do you think this is a bug with Mailman core or my system?
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