Waarom krijg van iedereen mail ????? Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
> Op 26 feb. 2016 om 15:26 heeft Theo Zelders <tzeld...@gmail.com> het volgende > geschreven: > > Beste medegebruikers van dit email adres, > > Na een groot aantal problemen en het uiteindelijk instorten van de > mail server van Millennia, is men daar overgegaan op een nieuwe server > en een ander mailprogramma. Dat heeft even voor veel verwarring > gezorgd, maar het schijnt nu weer redelijk te werken. Hieronder vind > je het bericht dat ons werd gestuurd ter toelichting op de problemen. > > Je hoeft het niet te lezen, maar ik stuur het toch maar even ter > informatie, voor diegenen die het mocht interesseren. > > Theo Zelders > _____________________________________ > Our old mail server just died. We tried to get it fixed/restored. > After some attempt at that we ended up moving to a new server and list > server. We are using MailMan for our new list server. The SmarterMail > server we were using for lists was about 5 years old. A lot has > changed with mailing list servers during those years. > > Here is an explanation I have sent to a few really angry customers :) > =================================== > Several websites changed how they accept mail from list servers. > So, about 1/3 of all subscribers never saw any email even though > they subscribed to the LegacyUserGroup list. > > The new DMARC rules and the digital signature PKI encryption have > pretty much broken all mail servers. Mail Servers change email > messages by adding headers or maybe footers to a message. They may > change the subject line to add something like [LegacyUG]. Also the > headers in the message that contain the deliverable address gets > modified by list servers. All of this fiddling with an email is > similar to what s p a m m e r s use. So, about 30% of all email > providers won't allow emails form mailing lists through. The newer > version of MailMan software that we moved to works better but isn't > perfect. It handles things better by trying to figure out how an > email provider wants and tries to follow those rules. > > So, the problem isn't that we just took the liberty of adding a bunch > of people to a mailing list but rather over the last 3 or so years > people have subscribed and but never got a confirmation and never > received any email from the list. The list still had them. I had > backups of all the lists that were only about 2 days before the server > crashed. These exact lists were imported to the new mailing list > sever. So, they were all email addresses that a user had to give us > to be on that list at some point. Once we imported to the new list > people who had never got an email are not getting emails from the > list. And because of this there has been extremely high usage on the > list with everyone saying ME TOO. > > We discovered yesterday that MailMan software has an Emergency > Moderation feature so we turned that on so all of the ME TOO messages > can be handled directly and everyone on the LegacyUG doesn't have to > see all the unsubscribe me messages. > > It will probably take a while for the thousands who are now getting > email work through the process of getting unsubscribed. We know > people are saying they try to unsubscribe but when we try it the > process just works every time so we don't know why so many people need > help with that process. Hopefully we'll get that figured out soon so > we don't have to spend so much time manually assisting so many people. > > Thanks, > Ken McGinnis > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Legacy-Nederlands mailing list > Legacy-Nederlands@legacyusers.com > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacy-nederlands_legacyusers.com -- _______________________________________________ Legacy-Nederlands mailing list Legacy-Nederlands@legacyusers.com http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacy-nederlands_legacyusers.com
