dumpsterdiver wrote: >I am unsure what went wrong, but 2 days ago Mailman unsubscribed almost 200 of >my 600 subscribers to my mailing list. While I am interested in how I can >prevent this from happening again, I am more interested currently in how to >restore my mailing list member list to what it was before the glitch. Can >anyone help?
To find out what happened, look at Mailman's bounce and subscribe logs. It is quite possible that the 200 addresses were all undeliverable and were removed by bounce processing. Also, depending on your Mailman version there was a bug that could unsubscribe members with 'stale' bounce scores if the bounce_score_threshold was lowered. This is fixed in recent versions but possibly not in yours. To get the unsubscribed members back, find a recent but before the event backup containing Mailman's lists/LISTNAME/config.pck, and restore that over the current one. This will have a few side effects like creating digest issue numbers that may have already been used and removing any members that have been added after the backup, but you can check Mailman's subscribe log to find any new members. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
