[Mailman-Users] Delete all members with nomail[B]

2012-11-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Howdy, I have a mailman list with 3200 members, about 900 of which are now nomail[B] from bounces. I'd like to know how to purge all the nomail[B] members from the list -- without spending an entire day doing it through the GUI. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com

[Mailman-Users] Mailman archive - archive date does not match the date the message was posted

2012-11-04 Thread Anthony Wilson (Jaf)
There is an existing Mailman list with an archive which needs to be moved to a different server, however it seems that the archive is a bit messed up. I assume that the list was set up in 2006, but for some reason there is a 2002 archive, and all of the posts in there seem to have been posted in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete all members with nomail[B]

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Josh Berkus wrote: I have a mailman list with 3200 members, about 900 of which are now nomail[B] from bounces. I'd like to know how to purge all the nomail[B] members from the list -- without spending an entire day doing it through the GUI. If Mailman's cron/disabled script is being run daily

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete all members with nomail[B]

2012-11-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, If Mailman's cron/disabled script is being run daily by cron as it should be, a nomail[B] member will receive a total of N warnings at intervals of D days and then will be automatically removed. Hmmm. N is set to zero, so it seems like they should have already been removed. No? --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete all members with nomail[B]

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Josh Berkus quoted me and wrote: If Mailman's cron/disabled script is being run daily by cron as it should be, a nomail[B] member will receive a total of N warnings at intervals of D days and then will be automatically removed. Hmmm. N is set to zero, so it seems like they should have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete all members with nomail[B]

2012-11-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Mark, That depends. If bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings was set to zero at the time of the user's first bounce, then the user should have been removed when her bounce score reached bounce_score_threshold rather than setting her delivery nomail[B]. However, if it was non-zero at the time of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete all members with nomail[B]

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 11/4/2012 6:22 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: However, if it was non-zero at the time of the first recorded bounce, that is the value that was saved for that user at that time and subsequent changes to bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings have no effect for that user. Ok, that's probably what

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman archive - archive date does not match thedate the message was posted

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Sapiro
Anthony Wilson (Jaf) wrote: There is an existing Mailman list with an archive which needs to be moved to a different server, however it seems that the archive is a bit messed up. I assume that the list was set up in 2006, but for some reason there is a 2002 archive, and all of the posts in there