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

Anssi Hannula anssi at mageia.org
Tue Jan 15 10:48:48 CET 2013


15.01.2013 10:26, Marja van Waes kirjoitti:
> 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?

I don't believe so.

> 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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