Hello
So I have done quite of (fairly random) toggling on preferences for the
settings, including deactivating and reactivating things, just to see if
that would somehow make a difference.
As you say, features added on a very old software... there might be
unexplained "bugs"... and maybe "re-initiating" might be helpful.
So I did some toggling at the global settings, at the email level
setting and at the list settings.
Nevertheless... I thought one solution that could help fix my "non
distribution" issue is that I could send emails from one address and
receive email to another address.
In my account, two emails addresses are registered (they were merged
when we moved to this system). Gmail is the primary, which is the one
usually allowed to send email. But I do have a secundary email,
sometimes allowed to post on some lists. And some lists still only use
the secundary address.
Some lists (not all of them) registered my two email addresses as
members. When it is the case, both have different distributions settings.
Now my question is... with the current system... I completely fail to
see how to registerer to a mailing list from a second email address (the
secundary listed in my account).
When I go to registration parameters on a specific list, it only
proposes one email address. How is that possible now... to register to a
list from two different addresses ?
Florence
Le 04/09/2025 à 01:33, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) a écrit :
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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