Thank you to everyone who responded. To avoid cluttering your inbox, I'll respond to all of your questions in this one email.
I originally had the drone list options set to the following: - When receiving digests, which format is default? MIME. - How big in Kb should a digest be before it gets sent out? 300. - Should a digest be dispatched daily when the size threshold isn't reached? Yes. - How often should a new digest volume be started? Daily. That seemed to work for a while, but all of a sudden this week all the digest subscribers started complaining that they were receiving 1 digest per message. So I went about changing the options. The first thing I thought was that the threshold was too low, so I increased it. Since I had read on the web that zero meant unlimited, I did that. I now realize that the documentation on those sites must be wrong, as it is correct on the "List Administration Manual," to which one of you drew my attention: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node19.html. In any case, this explains why when I would send a message that only said TEST in the subject, a new digest was created. Once the logical thing did not work, I wrote to ask for your help. But, as I had subscribers dropping out like flies, I played around with the options until I found a configuration that stopped the problem. This was achieved with the following: - When receiving digests, which format is default? Plain. - How big in Kb should a digest be before it gets sent out? 300. - Should a digest be dispatched daily when the size threshold isn't reached? No. - How often should a new digest volume be started? Weekly. Now I realize that what probably fixed the problem was the combination of "Plain" and "300." Given that, I will keep that threshold, change the options to the following, and cross my fingers: - When receiving digests, which format is default? Plain. - How big in Kb should a digest be before it gets sent out? 300. - Should a digest be dispatched daily when the size threshold isn't reached? Yes. - How often should a new digest volume be started? Monthly. I assume 300 is more than enough for plain text. Thanks all for your help! :) Yosem On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Yosem Companys writes: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm one of the moderators of the Stanford University Program on Liberation > > Technology at http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/. > > You've come to the right place. Mailman is a liberating technology! > > > I was wondering whether someone on this list could help me. I'm > > experiencing a problem with Mailman's digest option where, no matter what I > > do, Mailman is sending too many digests daily. > > > > I have configured the options Mailman gives me as follows: > > > > - Can list members choose to receive list traffic bunched in digests? > > Yes. > > - Which delivery mode is the default for new users? Regular. > > - When receiving digests, which format is default? MIME. > > - How big in Kb should a digest be before it gets sent out? 0. > > I don't have time to look at the code, but I think this is your > problem. I suspect that this needs to be positive (0 does mean > infinite in many contexts, but it's not documented to mean that here). > > If you really want the digest to get (almost) arbitrarily large before > being sent, you could set it to 1000000 (meaning 1GB). But I think > most users' mail programs will choke on that. I would say 1000 is > about as large as I'd want it to go. > > > - Should a digest be dispatched daily when the size threshold isn't > > reached? No. > > - How often should a new digest volume be started? Daily. > > The digest volume has nothing to do with the number of digests sent. > It's like the volume of a journal. If you only have one digest per > day, you're going to have 365 volumes per year, and one issue per > volume. I would guess that's not what you want. > > > - Should Mailman start a new digest volume? No. > > - Should Mailman send the next digest right now, if it is not empty? No. > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org