Hi Florence! On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] I am facing an issue with > > * My emails to various lists NOT reaching home. For example, I post to > WREN mailing list but my messages are not getting there > > * Or sometimes they reach home (according to others) but I never receive > them myself (before you ask, yes I activated in my preferences the fact of > receiving them) > Someone told me my message was noted as "silent". No idea what it means > Note that there are both "Global settings" https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/accounts/mailmansettings/ and "list-based preferences" which might be overriding your Global setting? https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/accounts/per-subscription-preferences/ I believe things get complicated here, because as new features have been slowly added to this very old software (started in 1999!), those of us who have really old accounts on this installation (especially anyone that was a former-list-owner) have a lot of ancient-settings that can sometimes conflict with newer features, or the settings just don't default to what we might expect. TLDR: It's worth checking *every* setting in your preferences. > * AND some lists do not seem to have archives (for example, > African-wikimedians is not showing any archives after july 2025). I wanted > to check if the message actually reached the list... but there is no > archives for August and September > As a mailman admin, I can see that that list is currently set to "Do not archive this list". You'll have to ask the list-admins ( [email protected]) if and why they changed it. [I'd guess it might've been a reaction to some spam they were getting many months ago? Or a mis-click accident?] [...] I read "A public mailing list was made to assist administrators who > need to read instructions on how to create a mailing list, deal with spam, > moderate troubled users and assist users who make a decision to communicate > with people on other networks." > > OK, where is this public mailing list though ? > This list we're writing on is public: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/latest Hope that helps, Quiddity
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