Re: Netfilter List cross-subscription [Re: Test]

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Robbie Dinn wrote:
> /Lurk mode off/
> Replying off list because this might be stupid/irrelevant/off topic.


It was on-list but I prefer to keep the discussion open anyways :)

> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>The cross-subscription appears to work, unfortunately (due to the
>>subscriber-only posting settings of the old list) senders to the
>>new lists that are not subscribed to the old one will receive a
>>"held for moderator approval" mail for each post. Since this is
>>probably quite annoying for everyone, I'm not sure whether we
>>should really do the cross-subscription thing.
>>
>>Any better ideas or suggestions?
> 
> 
> You could bounce messages sent to netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
> If the bounce message contained a
> "mailing list has moved to netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org" message,
> then assuming that people bother to read their bounces or don't routinely
> discard them, then they would eventually get to send the message to the
> right list.
> 
> Postfix has a relocated table for these "user has moved  to new_location"
> messages. But you are using exim. I am not familiar with exim but perhaps
> it has something similar?


I don't know, but something like that should work. I think its not
too much asked of people to resubscribe, so my suggestion is to
simply disable the netfilter.org lists, generate a bounce message
and have people resubscribe. The amount of dead subscriptions seems
to be very high anyways, after only 10 hours of forwarding bounce
messages to my address I got around 6000 emails.

If there are no (reasonable) objections I'll try to reconfigure
mailman to do this tonight.