Re: [Evolution] the multiple messages thing

[Michael MacDonald <mjmac ximian com>]

Aw, crap.  I thought I was clever by remembering the -r and -d switches
to list_members.  I didn't realize that it happily dumped unsubscribed
members along with the people who actually want the mail.

Eh.  I'll remove people as they complain.  Sorry about that.

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:06, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
> It blow more NOT to be on a mailing list when it goes nuts. I unsubscribed
> from this list YEARS ago? :)
>
> I think you may have used a very old backup. Which would mean you now have a
> lot of people who don't want to be on your list, and fewer of the people who
> do since before the backup.
>
> Might want to check it anyway ;)
>
> -mike
>
> On 22/1/03 11:29 PM, "Michael MacDonald" (mjmac ximian com) penned the
> words:
>
> > Well, I've been at it all night, and since everything was horked, took
> > the opportunity to hork things even more with the aim to improve
> > everything in the end.
> >
> > I upgraded our Mailman installation (which was woefully out of date and
> > pretty badly installed) to whatever's in Debian Woody, after migrating
> > the actual list data to a beefier machine.
> >
> > I still don't know what exactly the problem was, but after seeing that
> > dupes were still flooding the list even after the upgrade, I dumped the
> > list config and memberships, killed the list, and recreated it.  We'll
> > see if that has done the trick.
> >
> > Sorry about this mess.  I know it blows to be on a mailing list when it
> > goes nuts.
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Michael MacDonald <mjmac ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.