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

Marja van Waes marja11 at xs4all.nl
Tue Jan 15 09:26:46 CET 2013


On 15/01/13 09:11, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> 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.

Did you change your e-mail address in identity.mageia.org at some point?

If so, then you could temporarily change it back there to the one you 
want to unsubscribe, then unsubscribe on Sympa and then go back to 
identity.mageia.org to undo the temporary change.



>>>
>>> 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...
>



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