Hi,

> On 29 Sep 2024, at 21:31, Hans Åberg via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 29 Sep 2024, at 20:56, Henning Hraban Ramm <te...@fiee.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Am 29.09.24 um 17:57 schrieb Hans Åberg via ntg-context:
>>> Nothing seems to be working on the NTG ConTeXt server login page below, so 
>>> I can't change my email address.
>>> https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl/

The situation with the mailing list server: mailman3 is confused about all the 
accounts that have been imported from the old mailman2 installation: the front 
end assumes these accounts have a postorius login attached to it because that 
is how it works for new subscribers, but those imported accounts do not have 
such an account. There is no easy fix for that that I can apply as an 
administrator, unfortunately. The most straightforward solution would be to 
create a new subscriber account using the web interface, and then use the 
old-fashioned email method to unsubscribe the old account (or send me a message 
personally).

However, a secondary problem is that the mailman web forms are used by spammers 
so often that I have registration/signup turned off. The continuous barrage of 
invalid password reset requests was negatively affecting the reputation of the 
mail server so much that even delivery of proper emails became a problem. This 
is another issue that cannot be easily fixed as administrator, because there is 
not a lot of detailed control possible on what messages mailman does and does 
not send out. Either it sends out no messages to unknown email addresses, or it 
always sends out such messages. 

I will try turning signs ups on again for a while, but I probably cannot keep 
it open. This situation will likely endure until some future update to mailman3 
gives administrators more control, or until someone knowledgeable in python can 
help me patch mailman so that it blocks only the “password reset” 
functionality, but not the “sign up” (help?).

TL;DR: if you have a problem, email me personally with old and new addresses, 
and I will fix your account. 


>> Try https://lists.contextgarden.net/mailman3/ the footer is apparently wrong.

FWIW the footer is actually correct. It just does not help that much.


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Taco Hoekwater              E: t...@bittext.nl
genderfluid (all pronouns)


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