[UCIMC-Tech] Mailman is sending out reminders frequently

[Phil Graff]

Hi Josh,

Thanks so much for resolving this in a quick manner!  Much harder to
troubleshoot a server when the problem is a different server!

-Phil


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Josh King <jking at chambana.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I apologize for the issue with mailman subscription notifications and
> how long it took me to track it down. It turns out that they were
> coming from the old chambana.net mailserver, which was taken offline
> months ago. Over the weekend, the servers at the IMC were taken offline
> in order to install a new powerstrip, and when they were brought back
> up the old mailserver came up with them, and started sending what, from
> its perspective, was backlogged mailman admin traffic. This was why I
> had such difficulty pinning down how the new mailserver was sending it;
> it was not sending it at all. Mailman and all other mail services on
> that box have now been permanently disabled. Please let me know if you
> continue to receive any backlogged notifications, though I doubt it
> will happen.
>
> On Mon 10 Dec 2012 01:45:27 PM EST, Stuart Levy wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether they're erroneous, duplicates of very old
> > messages, or just old messages that have finally been released from
> > their queues.
> >
> > This morning I received "lists.chambana.net mailing list memberships
> > reminder" announcements for each month from 4/1/12 through 11/1/12.
> > Also one pair of OccupyCU unsubscribe notifications (sent to me as a
> > list admin) dated 3/24/2012.
> >
> > Here are the bottom couple of Received: lines from one of them:
> >
> > Received: from mccoy.chambana.net (mail.albanychamber.com[75.145.177.73] (may
> >  be forged))  by new.math.uiuc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id
> qBAG0IDv029334
> >       for <slevy at new.math.uiuc.edu>; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:00:18 -0600
> > Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1])    by
> >  mccoy.chambana.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2FC86736        for
> >  <slevy at new.math.uiuc.edu>; Sun,  9 Dec 2012 18:25:35 -0600 (CST)
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > Subject: lists.chambana.net mailing list memberships reminder
> > From: <mailman-owner at lists.chambana.net>
> > To: <slevy at new.math.uiuc.edu>
> > X-No-Archive: yes
> > Message-ID: <mailman.2429.1349085621.89417.mailman at lists.chambana.net>
> > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 05:00:21 -0500
> >
> >
> > On 12/10/12 11:30 AM, Josh King wrote:
> >> Hi Phil,
> >>
> >> I did just get a couple of other reports that mailman is sending out
> >> erroneous admin messages. I'm not sure yet what the issue is, but I'm
> >> working on it and will let you know as soon as I have it figured out.
> >>
> >> On Mon 10 Dec 2012 12:11:44 PM EST, Phil Graff wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Seems like the mailman/listserv is sending out subscription reminders
> >>> several times per day (or my Gmail is just on the fritz?)
> >>>
> >>> Since we've seen a spike in unsubscriptions, I'm assuming I'm not the
> >>> only one receiving these notices.
> >>>
> >>> Any idea why I'm receiving six "monthly" reminders per day?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Phil
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/imc-tech
> >> --
> >> Josh King
> >>
> >> "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,
> >> but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/imc-tech
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Josh King
>
> "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,
> but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker
>
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