lists.macosforge.org is processing macports mail rather than forwarding it to lists.macports.org

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It appears that our efforts to migrate the mailing lists from lists.macosforge.org to lists.macports.org have been partially undone. lists.macosforge.org appears to be accepting and delivering mail on its own again. At least, that's what it looks like to me. We received a report from a user who could not unsubscribe from macports-users, and I found that he was subscribed on lists.macosforge.org, and unsubscribed him there.

Also, if we look at:

​http://mac-os-forge.2317878.n4.nabble.com/Error-installing-bash-on-Sierra-td337895.html

we see a message written to the list today, with the lists.macosforge.org footer appended, which means it was processed by lists.macosforge.org rather than being forwarded to lists.macports.org for processing. The replies don't have the footer so they went through lists.macports.org. If we look at:

​https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2017-May/thread.html#43372

we see the replies but not the original message.

I guess I need to write to my contact at Apple to investigate this problem.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Shouldn't we just remove all subscribers from the old macOS forge lists? They are not supposed to be functional any more.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Yes that occurred to me too... I've asked my Apple contact about that too.

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Ping? I received an excessive bounces mail and a membership reminder today.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

I also got membership reminders from lists.macosforge.org and the disabled delivery due to "excessive bounces" today.

I confirmed I still have access to the administrative interface and with some tedious clicking in the web interface, I just removed all subscribers from the following lists at lists.macosforge.org:

• macports-dev
• macports-users
• macports-announce
• macports-changes
• macports-tickets

I don't know if our forwards of the old addressses are still intact and it has been a while, so I will not make any effort to restore them. Everyone has to use the new list addresses at lists.macports.org.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Me too.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

This seems to have been fixed as mails for macports-*@lists.macosforge.org are now forwarded by lists.apple.com.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I received a message with a macports-mgr@… footer as recently as yesterday. It's impossible to unsubscribe from that version of the list via the web as it redirects to lists.macports.org. I'm not sure what would happen if I sent the command via email.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

I did not yet clear the macports-mgr list. Should I do that now?

Only the normal /listinfo URLs are redirects, you should still be able to access the ​administrative interface with the direct URL.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

We only seem to be getting spam via the old address. We could set up an auto-responder that says to use the new address just in case anyone legitimate uses the old one, but with spam that might just result in backscatter to innocent third parties.