[Mailman-Users] how do I delete a pending subsc request for the mailman list

[Steve Lindemann]

When I installed mailman a default list called mailman was created (as
I'm sure everyone here already knows) and I understood it was not used
for anything but management. I've pretty much ignored it since the
initial installation.

Anyway, a member of one of our other lists somehow got herself listed as
requesting a subscription to the mailman list. I keep getting this

http://email.marmot.org/mailman/admindb/mailman
Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of
pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily.

Following the provided link doesn't take me to the usual login page,
instead I end up on the generic listinfo page
(email.marmot.org/mailman/listinfo).

I can log into the list management interface for the mailman list, but
when I click on the link to "Tend to pending moderator requests" I end
up on the same general listinfo page instead.

I found the controlling file(s) in /var/mailman/lists/mailman...
leastwise the members name and address are in the request.pck file. Can
I simply delete request.pck (and/or request.db) to clear this? Is there
anything else I need to do to clear the pending subscription? Thanks!

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[Mark Sapiro]

Post by Steve Lindemann

http://email.marmot.org/mailman/admindb/mailman

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Post by Steve Lindemann
Following the provided link doesn't take me to the usual login page,
instead I end up on the generic listinfo page
(email.marmot.org/mailman/listinfo).
I can log into the list management interface for the mailman list, but
when I click on the link to "Tend to pending moderator requests" I end
up on the same general listinfo page instead.

The underlying problem is in your web server config. Assuming apache,
you probably have something like

RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo

This needs to be anchored as in

RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo

As a workaround, you can go to
http://email.marmot.org/mailman/admindb/mailman/x which will work
because the 'x' doesn't match in the redirect and it is igmored by the
admindb cgi. I don't recall for sure if the subsequent post will work
or have the same problem.

Post by Steve Lindemann
I found the controlling file(s) in /var/mailman/lists/mailman...
leastwise the members name and address are in the request.pck file. Can
I simply delete request.pck (and/or request.db) to clear this? Is there
anything else I need to do to clear the pending subscription? Thanks!

Yes, you can just delete request.pck (request.db is left over from
pre-2.1.5 and is not used).

There may also have been a pending subscription in pending.pck, but
it's probably expired by now.