My experience is that this is more than just subscribtion requests - any moderator request at all will maintain like this. I now have three domains worth of the daily nags hitting me - two of them were subscription requests, two moderated posts (the posts went through, but the daily nag doesn't get cleared). I posted a bug report on sourceforge for this one...
Brett Delmage wrote: > > Problem: I can't clear pending subscription requests by processing them. > I applied the patch to 2.1a4 below but it doesn't work for me. > > The steps to duplicate the problem are listed below and are very simple. > > I created a new list. > > I subscribed to the list using email, not the web form, using the list > defaults. The subscription was activated without incident. > > Using Konquerer (2.2.1) as my browser, I modified the subcribe_policy to > "Require approval" then subscribed to it using a different email address. > > I received the "Your subscription request has been forwarded to the list > administrator" message as expected, as well as the list-owner > notification. > > I went to the Administrative requests for mailing list: form > and confirmed that the pending subscribe request was shown. > > I selected the Discard radio button end entered a reason, then the submit > button. > > I confirmed that the rejection notice was mailed to the subscriber. > > However the subscriber was still shown as a subscription request. > > I tried resubmitting the form with the Approve radio button selected. The > subscriber was sent a welcome message, but still appeared on the form as a > pending subscription request. > > I selected the Reject radio button end entered a reason, then the submit > button. The subscriber (supposedly already subscribed!) was mailed a > rejection notice. And still appeared on the form as a pending request. > Some users just won't go away ;-) > > If left in this state, the daily oustanding moderations nag is mailed to > the list owner. > > I've looked at the code but am just learning python (part of my reason for > using mailman, I figured it was a great 'real world' project to help me > learn python.) But I couldn't see the problem. Maybe in a month or two... > > I hope the steps to reproduce the problem are helpful. Really, you can't > help but encounter it. > > Thanks to all those working on Mailman. It's a really impressive list > manager despite this bug, which doesn't affect the actual list operation > in any way. > -- Joel Lord Systems Architect Information Management Group _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
