[SAC] mailman not sending confirms for geodata list?

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dear SAC,

We had a bug report from a user that they were not getting
confirmation mail after subscribing to the geodata list.

I tried with a couple of test addresses and didn't get a confirm mail
either. Yet it works almost immediately with another list (i picked to
standards one). I do see the email address for the user who had
problems subscribed in the membership list. But i don't see either of
the test addresses i just tried. I checked the settings, the list
definitely requires a confirmation stage. I am puzzled.

Any advice apprec,

jo
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jo@frot.org wrote:

dear SAC,

We had a bug report from a user that they were not getting
confirmation mail after subscribing to the geodata list.

I tried with a couple of test addresses and didn't get a confirm mail
either. Yet it works almost immediately with another list (i picked to
standards one). I do see the email address for the user who had
problems subscribed in the membership list. But i don't see either of
the test addresses i just tried. I checked the settings, the list
definitely requires a confirmation stage. I am puzzled.

Any advice apprec,

Jo,

I reviewed the settings for the geodata list, and I don't see any obvious
reason there would be problems.

I'm not too sure what to say.

Best regards,
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Frank Warmerdam wrote:

jo@frot.org wrote:

dear SAC,

We had a bug report from a user that they were not getting
confirmation mail after subscribing to the geodata list.

I tried with a couple of test addresses and didn't get a confirm mail
either. Yet it works almost immediately with another list (i picked to
standards one). I do see the email address for the user who had
problems subscribed in the membership list. But i don't see either of
the test addresses i just tried. I checked the settings, the list
definitely requires a confirmation stage. I am puzzled.

Any advice apprec,

Jo,

I reviewed the settings for the geodata list, and I don't see any obvious
reason there would be problems.

I'm not too sure what to say.

Jo, Frank,

Perhaps it is related to the mailman problem we were
experiencing yesterday.

Greetings
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:04:29PM +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> jo@frot.org wrote:
>> dear SAC,
>>
>> We had a bug report from a user that they were not getting
>> confirmation mail after subscribing to the geodata list.
>>
>> I tried with a couple of test addresses and didn't get a confirm mail
>> either. Yet it works almost immediately with another list (i picked to
>> standards one). I do see the email address for the user who had
>> problems subscribed in the membership list. But i don't see either of
>> the test addresses i just tried. I checked the settings, the list
>> definitely requires a confirmation stage. I am puzzled.
>>
>> Any advice apprec,
>
> Jo,
>
> I reviewed the settings for the geodata list, and I don't see any obvious
> reason there would be problems.
>
> I'm not too sure what to say.

Jo, Frank,

Perhaps it is related to the mailman problem we were
experiencing yesterday.

Unlikely... all that mail should be delivered now, and shouldn't have
gotten lost.

Regards,
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Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:25:41AM -0700, jo@frot.org wrote:

dear SAC,

We had a bug report from a user that they were not getting
confirmation mail after subscribing to the geodata list.

I tried with a couple of test addresses and didn't get a confirm mail
either. Yet it works almost immediately with another list (i picked to
standards one). I do see the email address for the user who had
problems subscribed in the membership list. But i don't see either of
the test addresses i just tried. I checked the settings, the list
definitely requires a confirmation stage. I am puzzled.

Jo,

Can you tell me what two addresses you tried with? (Private response to
me instead of the list is fine if you prefer.) I can then check the mail
logs and see if there is anything obvious that is a problem in this
case.

I just attempted to subscribe with no problems: It is possible that the
email server in question is rejecting mails from OSGeo for some reason?
Maybe they are being marked as spam?

I often simply subscribe people to the mailing list if they are having
prolbems subscribing: often, confirmation emails are more difficult to
receive due to having limited content than actual emails.

Regards,
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Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta