[Wien] my membership to the mailing list gets disabled every 3 weeks

Dr. K. C. Bhamu kcbhamu85 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 17:40:54 CET 2017


Yeah, I am also using gmail account and I got this notification many times.

Bhamu

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:

> Still it seems to happen mostly on gmail accounts ? (except Ludmilla).
>
> It is even more strange, since mailman "resets" your bounce index to zero,
> if there is no bounce for 7 days.
>
> At the moment I've doubled the bounce value, so it should happen less
> frequent and in addition there's more chance that your bounce-level gets
> reset. I also enabled mails from mailman to me, when a bounce is detected.
> However, I fear this will lead to too many mails and I will have to switch
> this off again.
>
>
> Am 30.01.2017 um 17:08 schrieb Fabiana Da Pieve:
>
>> Dear Prof. Blaha
>>
>> I have checked my spam inbox and no, none of the email that my gmail
>> account automatically archived as spam was coming from Wien2k, in THIS
>> last period.
>>
>> However, in the past sometimes it has happened , that's true, that I
>> have found some emails from Wien2k in the spam box (one, or two over
>> more than one hundred spam email).
>> But considering that I am lazy in empting my spam inbox, those one/two
>> emails over more than one hundred were corresponding to a period that
>> was spanning more than 3 weeks.
>>
>> So, strange that 5 or 10 bounces are generated in a period of 3 weeks
>> (which is the frequency with which I have to renew the membership).
>>
>> In any case, the problem is not only detected by those who have a gmail
>> account (lyudmila has mail.ru <http://mail.ru>)
>>
>> Thanks for your attention
>> Fabiana
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-01-30 16:49 GMT+01:00 Luis Ogando <lcodacal at gmail.com
>> <mailto:lcodacal at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>     Dear Prof. Blaha,
>>
>>        Unfortunately, I am facing the same problem described by Dr.
>>     Fabiana Da Pieve.
>>        Please, let me know if I can do anything to help.
>>        All the best,
>>                   Luis
>>
>>
>>     2017-01-30 13:34 GMT-02:00 Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>>     <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>>:
>>
>>         I've nothing changed recently in the mailing list configuration,
>>         so I don't know why this should now happen (except when your
>>         mail system has changed e.g spam-processing, ...)
>>
>>         It probably comes from   bounce processing, i.e. mailman cannot
>>         send to your email addresses and gets a bounce back. After 5 (or
>>         10 days if it is a soft bounce) it will disable your membership
>>         and just before, it will send you a warning.
>>
>>         It may have to do with your specific email accounts ? maybe they
>>         think it is spam ... ?
>>
>>         Of course, I can increase the bounce level from 5 (up to 10),
>>         but for sure I want to keep it, otherwise mailman will keep
>>         outdated addresses forever and continues to send mails to them.
>>
>>         Regards
>>
>>         Am 30.01.2017 um 09:26 schrieb Fabiana Da Pieve:
>>
>>             Dear Wien2k developers
>>
>>             I am a pretty silent user of Wien2k since many years and I
>>             always read
>>             with pleasure the emails of the different users, which
>>             sometimes are
>>             also useful for me.
>>
>>             However, in the last period I get very often (every 3 weeks)
>>             an email to
>>             confirm my membership to the mailing list, and if I do not
>>             do it soon my
>>             membership is cancelled the very same day.
>>
>>             I do not think this is normal. Or is it ?
>>             In any case, before it was not the case. Is there something
>>             I can do to
>>             avoid this ?
>>
>>             Thank you very much for your attention
>>             Fabiana Da Pieve
>>
>>
>>
>>
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