On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:45:28PM -0400, Karl wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 9:03 PM Greg Newby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:35:31PM -0400, Karl wrote: > > > Cpunks, > > > > > > Many accounts were recently disabled from this list. I just discovered > > the > > > situation myself and re-enabled my account. Is the list administrator > > able > > > to bulk re-enable the accounts of everybody else affected, to undo this > > > accidental censorship? > > > > Accidental indeed! You are right, Karl, that many had mail messages > > disabled. > > > > No doubt due to my misconfiguration a week ago... > > > > I've now reset ALL the mailman "bounce scores," so hopefully people are > > getting this message even if they were temporarily held. Sorry I didn't see > > this problem earlier - I don't have mailman set to send notifications when > > a bouncing address' email is temporarily disabled. > > > > Greg, thank you. > > I'm afraid I've never administered mailman myself before: could you confirm > that resetting the bounce scores also re-enables the accounts?
Yes, that's what it does. Or is supposed to do. > The list sent me a notification that I was required to manually re-enable > my account for me to receive email from it again, and I don't know whether > you've experienced or dealt with this before yourself. Do you mean, AFTER I sent my note above? Or before? The fix I applied was supposed to reset everyone, so nobody needs to manually reset. Perhaps I didn't do what I thought, but it looked like all subscribers were set to again receive mail, and any previous bounces were forgotten. - Greg
