Yosem Companys wrote: > > - 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.
This is all good. > - How often should a new digest volume be started? Daily. This is probably not what you want. >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. If the settings were unchanged, there was some other issue. Were the same messages repeated in the subsequent digests? What was logged in Mailman's error log? >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. Actually, the manual you cite is wrong too. I'll fix it. >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. This only affects the default for new subscribers and has no bearing on digest frequency anyway. > - 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. This may make a difference if the issue is that cron/senddigests is being run many times a day instead of just once. > - 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." As I said, plain has nothing to do with it. The issue is either cron/senddigests run too frequently in which case "Should a digest be dispatched daily" will make the difference, or it is some other underlying problem which has bee fixed by the site admins in the mean time. >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. If this starts the problem again, the issue is someone changed the frequency with which cron/senddigests is run by Mailman's crontab. If not, the problem was something else outside your list settyings, and someone else fixed it. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
