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  • From: "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Moderator changes not functioning
  • Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 12:03:28 +0200

On 05/22/2017 11:44 AM, Alex Meaden wrote:
> For the past two versions of Sympa (we currently have 6.2.16) we've had
> an issue when moderators are changed on some of our mailing lists.
>
> When a new moderator is added to a mailing list, they can see the
> "modindex" page on the web page for the list. They are also stored as a
> moderator in both the config file for that mailing list, and in the
> admin_table database table for the relevant list. However they do not
> receive moderation emails.
>
> The same thing happens when a moderator is removed - they disappear from
> the relevant config files etc but still receive moderation emails and
> can moderate messages. This persists for weeks after the change has been
> made. When we upgraded to 6.2.16 we thought the issue had been resolved
> but it is happening again now.
>
> I vaguely recall reading something about moderators being cached
> somewhere but I can't find where that might be or the email I read about
> it before. Does anyone have any suggestions please?
>
> Best wishes,
> Alex
>

Hello Alex,

you most likely hit a bug in Sympa 6.2, see:

https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/7
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/11

Regards
Racke

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