[Mageia-sysadm] Packages-commits sending too many emails, cannot unsubscribe

[Anssi Hannula]

14.01.2013 04:40, Anssi Hannula kirjoitti:
> 14.01.2013 04:24, Anssi Hannula kirjoitti:
>> Hi!
>>
>> It seems gmail has started throttling my incoming email and sending back
>> bounces due to too many incoming emails.
>>
>> I figured this must be due to the huge amount of markreleases on
>> packages-commits lately due to the mass rebuild, each of the
>> markreleases generating 4 emails.
>>
>> So I tried to unsubscribe temporarily and possibly resubscribe with a
>> different email address. Unfortunately, https://ml.mageia.org/l/lists
>> said that I'm not subscribed on packages-commits@ (among others) with my
>> identity account.
>>
>> So I went directly to the list page, and tried to unsubscribe
>> "anssi.hannula at iki.fi", and it said that no such subscriber exists.
>> After that I tried to unsubscribe "anssi at mageia.org", but got HTTP 500
>> Internal Server Error, and it seems I can no longer access even
>> "https://ml.mageia.org/l/lists", I just get HTTP 500 every time.
>>
>> According to the email headers it is indeed "anssi.hannula at iki.fi" that
>> is subscribed to the list, though.
>>
>> I also tried sending the unsubscribe email command, but it seemingly had
>> no effect.
> 
> OK, it actually had an effect (slight delay with outgoing SMTP), but it
> was not successful:
> 
> Command has been rejected:
>> unsubscribe packages-commits
>   you are not allowed to perform this action.
> 
>> Can someone with admin access please unsubscribe me from
>> packages-commits@, or alternatively add a filter for the markrelease
>> messages?
>>

Ping? Seems I am still subscribed.


Thankfully the mass rebuild is now over, though, and I've now mostly
received the emails that weren't accepted by gmail during the rebuild...

-- 
Anssi Hannula